80's Rewind

Flight of Navigator Review (no video)

Written by:
Mark H. Baker writer
Michael Burton writer
Matt MacManus writer

A young boy chases his dog into the woods, falls in a ravine. He loses consciousness for a few seconds. When we comes to and runs back to his home, he finds that his parents are not there. He is 8 years in the future. He is still 12, but his family and the world are 8 year in the future (1986). How did he get 8 years into the future? And can he return?

This is one of my favorite movies of the 80’s. It plays on the fantasies of a 12 year old boy having control of a highly advanced space craft. The boy is Joey Cramer. Cramer played in a few other 80s movies. Flight of the Navigator has a group of very familiar faces: Cliff De Young, Veronica Cartwright, Howard Hesse, and Sarah Jessica Parker. Paul Rueben actually did a voice over in the film. One thing I noticed is that of the 40 or so credited actors only about 6 have still active and doing movies and TV regularly, so only 15%. I wonder if this means there is only about a 15% chance of the serious actors making it.

Aside from the story, Alan Silvestri’s music to Flight of the Navigator is my favorite thing about the movie. Looking through is extensive body of work, I can see hes done a lot of my favorite movie music: Polar Express, Forest Gump, The Bodyguard, Back to the Future II, Predator, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the Abyss and many others (he’s done over 100 movies).

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The 10 Most Insane, Child-Warping Moments of ’80s Cartoons

Toplessrobot.com created an awesome list of the terrible 80’s Cartoon images that should not have been shown to children. Sadly, neither animators or Ronald Reagan gave a shit about us 80’s kids. The topless list missed one of the greatest and most trouble enigma’s of hideously inappropiate cartoon history. Ladies and gentlemen I submit to you.. Tranzor Z:

(in spanish - but you’ll get the idea.. its screwed up)

The ‘80s were supposed to be a harmless time for toys and the cartoons that sold them. In spite of this, cartoons sometimes snuck in certain moments that were clearly designed to break impressionable minds and pervert the youth of America. Here are the 10 worst.

Dainese Ducati 80s Jacket

Much like its world famous racing bikes, the 80s Dainese Ducati motor cycle jacket has stood the test of time. The cut of the jacket is still very popular among bike riders. It was created by Dainese specifically for riding. You can find the Ducati jacket online for anywhere between $100 to $400 US dollar (include leather pants). The jacket is leather with a slim, high torso and full length sleeves.
There is a womans 80s Ducati too its an 1980s style leather jacket was designed by Giugaro. It features larger letters on the front than on the back.
The tapered cut of the Women’s 80s Jacket and adjustable waist fastening gives the women’s version a feminine feel.

Its hard to feel “80s” in the Dainese ducati jacket, because it doesn’t really look “80s”. It just looks cool.

For some reason, when I think of the style of the jacket I think of the cover of Cool as Ice… I keep thinking he is wearing an 80s Dainese Ducati jacket, but I am mistaken.