EARTHBOUND (1981) - BURL IVES - FULL MOVIE, GOOD QUALITY

[@cowart73]

This movie had such an impact on me. I have loved space alien movies since forever. I remember how much I loved the kids in the film. This is my first time watching it in 41 years. Thank you!

[@schlockmeisters618]

Glad you enjoyed it! I actually saw this in the theater.

[@briangressett902]

@@schlockmeisters618 same haven't seen it since then.

[@cyclops214]

Saw the preview for this movie back in 81 when I was a kid and wanted to see it in the theater so bad but never got a chance to and now I finally found it at age 49 and I was nine when I first saw the preview and man this was bad. Thank you for uploading this movie I finally get a chance to see it after all these years.

[@schlockmeisters618]

I actually saw this in the theater back in 1981. Lucky me!

[@cyclops214]

@@schlockmeisters618 I could never remember the name of the movie so I looked for the synopsis every couple years on the Internet and finally found it last night thanks.

[@schlockmeisters618]

@@cyclops214 Enjoy!

[@cowart73]

@@cyclops214 Same!

[@YoungKirbyBound]

The Earthbound Movie Looks Good!

[@bgerry9]

Thanks for uploading, had this movie in the back of my brain for years. Someone needs to drop this on the MST3K gangs radar.

[@schlockmeisters618]

Glad you enjoyed it! I actually saw this thing in the theater.

[@phillupo2021]

RIP Marc Gilpin. Loved this movie as a kid.

[@scottmiller6495]

He and Adam Rich both gone now two of the most adorable kids in the world at the time !!!!!

[@tvmasterc]

Wow, I thought this was some kind of fever dream from my memory! I can't believe this was a real movie! I saw it twice; once in the theater in Lubbock Texas (at the Cinema West) and on NBC in 1984. Whoever put this on KZbin, THANK YOU!

[@scottmiller6495]

What a fantastic movie and a great time in the world 1981 WoW!!!!!

[@MiniLemmy]

Been looking for this movie for ages! Last saw it when I was just a kid (I’m 52 now) As soon as I found and looked up the title, I couldn’t find it on my usual movie streaming site, so I was very surprised to find it here on KZbin!

[@schlockmeisters618]

I saw this little gem in the theater. ENJOY!

[@Alexandrashepiro]

First movie I can remember ever seeing in the theaters!

[@boynextdoorman]

10:33 EarthBound - The War Against Giygas!

[@3373-g8z]

If there was ever an alien influence on Earth, Burl Ives would know. He was privy to the information.

[@schlockmeisters618]

I knew there was something off about that man! 😀

[@deanva]

I enjoy this movie. The reason they use the telephone is to appear to human since they are stranded on Earth. This version has better quality than some on the internet.

[@schlockmeisters618]

Thanks! I actually saw this film in the theater when I was a kid.

[@TheMediaHoarder]

This was advertised on TV a lot when it was out and was "The" movie for kids to see then, but it never got any type of home media release in the US. One of the cult labels should put out a Blu-Ray!

[@schlockmeisters618]

I would definitely buy it. I saw this thing in the theater!

[@tvmasterc]

@@schlockmeisters618 Me too! Where ever did you get this?

[@schlockmeisters618]

@@tvmasterc A very rare Canadian VHS release.

[@schlockmeisters618]

@Philyutuber2022 Yep, sure was. I have the only copy I've ever seen.

[@Windrider6]

"A green monkey ate my light bulb!" In my memory from when I first saw this, that lament was more pronounced, and I remember seeing the "green monkey" actually eating a light bulb. Maybe my young self imagined these things, and those imaginations replaced the memories. On second thought, my memory of the "green monkey" biting into a light bulb is so vivid that I think/wonder if that was originally in the movie when I first saw it, and the scene has since been removed. Perhaps more scenes with the chimpanzee have been removed. I cannot think of any safe way that the chimp could have the green coloration that we see.

[@jazzbollywood]

As a kid who watched this on tv in the 80s, i actually really liked this film. 😊

[@oome4323]

I like the scene where they fight a red mass named giygas that kinda resamble a fetus

[@WCircuit7224]

Hey it's the Mother movie

[@charlie0_o542]

Ayo where's is ness?

[@a1b2c3589]

ZOOM!

[@V-trixcom]

Wrong earthbound.

[@donb7113]

I’m in this movie for about 3 seconds.

[@schlockmeisters618]

I thought you looked familiar!

[@fredfungalspore]

Three seconds did you get an Oscar..😂

[@randomgibberish]

Can somebody tell me when Ness shows up?

[@thomasgregory1854]

wrong earthbound

[@Pedro-vj7ss]

​@@thomasgregory1854Damn it!

[@annehornby592]

I love this move better than the rubbish they put on today remake and remake who ever says is crap are kidding them self

[@graemesmith6721]

This was a TV movie that was supposed to be a pilot for a series that never materialized, which explains why it takes place in 1979 (the boy says his parents died a year ago, and according to their gravestone they died in 1978), but was released theatrically in 1981 so the producers could recoup some of their money, and OMG do its TV movie origins show! Everything about it absolutely screams TV movie, from the generic music to the flat cinematography to the incredibly inane script to the bargain basement special effects. Seriously, I don't think I've ever seen anything so sappy, sophomoric, hackneyed, and devoid of understanding as to how the world actually works. We have not one, not two, but THREE comic relief characters (that's the legendary Doodles Weaver--who was in Hitchcock's "The Birds"--in an uncredited role as the assistant coach whose lightbulb gets eaten by a green space monkey at the end. I can't make this stuff up). The plot goes off the rails from the very start, as the government notifies local sheriff John Schuck (who was in the movie version of MASH) that a UFO has crashed near his town, so he can bring 300 yokels with guns in to search for the aliens. Yeah, there's some real tight security! Is this a Don Dohler movie? (The sheriff's idiot deputy is played by Stuart Pankin of HBO's Not Necessarily The News, who was also in Hangar 18, where he played a yokel who witnesses a flying saucer landing, so apparently he was pigeonholed for these kinds of roles). Why the government didn't just bring in their own people and cut the local sheriff out of the loop is anybody's guess. The aliens turn out to be a typical white American nuclear family, led by Chris Connelly, with a hot wife, a horny teenage daughter, and precocious adolescent son, making them every TV sitcom family ever, only with superpowers (who said this was written by talentless hacks?). Naturally, these powers include telekinesis, invisibility, mind control, healing, and anything else the script requires them to be able to do. Oh, and they also have a pet green chimpanzee which does nothing of any importance. They befriend the singing snowman from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and his grandson, who looks so much like the alien boy I could never tell them apart. Lots of tedious, pointless shenanigans ensue, which I won't elaborate on, and they're pursued by mean government guy Conrad, played by veteran character actor Joe Campanella, who never removes his hat and sunglasses, as if he's ashamed at being seen in this dreck. Conrad ruthlessly pursues the aliens, but for some reason never connects them to the owner of the RV in which he found the green space monkey (which was explained away as a pet chimp who spilled green paint on himself--seriously!), even after he finds a tuft of the green monkey's fur next to the blue jumpsuits that the super-intelligent aliens cleverly left behind in grandpa's house. As I suspect you can tell by now, this movie is extremely badly written. All the characters are idiots, and the plot is painfully predictable, contrived and mawkish. The sole clever moment is a joke involving the mascot of an insurance company. I won't give away the ending, since the title does that for me. I can't imagine why this didn't get picked up for a series. I guess TV executives actually do have some sense after all.

[@fredfungalspore]

What do you really think ?

[@tadashi369]

Lol, the outfits left in the closet.😂 who's here in 2024!

[@acrovader]

Feels like a made-for-tv movie.

[@schlockmeisters618]

Very much so!

[@johhny303]

first movie i watched on VHS.

[@schlockmeisters618]

Did you tape it off television?

[@johhny303]

@@schlockmeisters618 no it was also the first tape we rented :)

[@schlockmeisters618]

@@johhny303 From Canada perhaps?

[@TheMediaHoarder]

@@schlockmeisters618 It was never released on tape in the US.

[@3373-g8z]

11:12 they killed the BluesMobile!!!

[@Autumn-Mist]

If they are able to communicate telepathically, then why do they use telephones

[@schlockmeisters618]

That's a question that can't be answered!

[@리주민]

Telepathic humanoids? Must be from Betazed.

[@noneofyoubusiness4895]

Doesn't say anywhere that they can communicate telepathically. The women can sense emotions, the boy communicates with animals that are nearby, and the man only gets an insight into Tommy's mind when he's healing him (i.e. in direct contact). The film never claims that they can communicate over distances with their minds, and we never see them doing it.

[@vulcan2882]

@@리주민 .. Valcan's are also telepathic via a mind meld.

[@ChrisCooling]

Todd Porter from Whiz Kids!

[@nicholassassatelli1359]

Was this chick on Petticoat Junction?

[@schlockmeisters618]

She was indeed!

[@gordoperodeculto2967]

EARTHBOUND

[@dave1474]

Yes script was a bit poor they were like kind of superman family here on earthbut couldnt fly but the tennage daughter and dad jumped over top of football stadium proably 100ft high with ease luv more of melissa leeds as teva (the supergirl kind of in the filn)

[@jarrodmiller6816]

Christopher Plummer's real name was Adolf Hitler and Ava Braun was Julie Andrews

[@Flabble.MP4]

What is this

[@Flabble.MP4]

@Philyutuber2022 amazing, just, amazing.

[@KT-hx2ul]

Taking the Name of the Lord in vain is not a good move.

[@nobodybutme2]

This is the worst movie ever made.

[@tvmasterc]

Then you haven't seen 'Plan Nine From Outer Space'. 😁

[@noneofyoubusiness4895]

It has heart. For all it's faults, it has heart ...

[@vulcan2882]

@@tvmasterc .. Plan Nine is a cult classic.

[@vulcan2882]

worst movie ever made was .. Santa Claus Conquers The Martians.

[@tvmasterc]

@@vulcan2882 Pretty decent contender, but I think that honor would have to go to 'Manos...The Hands of Fate'