Tribute Art for the 1980s Movie Classic EXPLORERS

Here's another great piece of movie inspired art by Jeff Victor paying tribute to Explorers, which was one of my favorite films as a kid. If you haven't heard of or seen this movie, put it on your list of movies to watch. It's insanely cheesy, but as a kid I thought it was awesome.

The movie was made in 1985. It was directed by Joe Dante and starred a young Ethan Hawke and River Pheonix. The story follows "an alien-obsessed kid [who] dreams one night of a circuit board. Drawing out the circuit, he and his friends Wolfgang and Darren set it up, and discover they have been given the basis for a starship. Setting off in the ThunderRoad, as they name their ship, they find the aliens Ben hopes they would find... but are they what they seem?"

The art is part of New York's Bottleneck Gallery art show this weekend called  "I Love You Man", celebrating cinema's greatest "bromances". Here's a note from the artist:

Explorers was one of my favorite movies of the 80's. Well, the first 1/2 anyway. The second half I enjoyed for the crazy makeup and alien effects, but the human characters kind of got lost in the mayhem. The early scenes where they discover this amazing force field technology is by far the most interesting part of the film, so I chose to depict that in my illustration.

Here's the original trailer for the film: