It's true of “Jaws,” it's true of “Sugarland Express,” it's true of “Poltergeist,” and in its best moments, it is true of “Earth To Echo.”ĭirected by Dave Green and written by Henry Gayden and Andrew Panay, “Earth To Echo” tells the story of three friends who are basically holding each other afloat as they make their way through those awkward years. Instead, it's like Spielberg set up a camera in a real house and just captured the sort of chaos that defines family life. When you watch the scenes in “Close Encounters” where it's just Roy Neary and his kids at home, there is nothing about those scenes that feels conventionally written. That was one of the huge appeals of Spielberg's early work, that rowdy sense of reality spilling out of the edges of the frame. Not just Elliott and Gertie and Michael, but all the kids in that film felt like actual kids who I knew at the time, my friends or the brothers and sisters of my friends, both older and younger.
When I look at “E.T.”, the first thing that strikes me as remarkable is just how right Spielberg got all of the kids in the film.
But the thing that “Earth To Echo” most accurately reflects from the best of the '80s movies that continue to linger with viewers, even 30 years after many of them first hit theaters, is that sense of something genuine about the kids.
“Earth To Echo” could accurately be described as a “found-footage” riff on “Explorers” and “E.T.”, and that description would certainly impart something of the film to someone.
One of the hardest things about the way this generation of filmmakers has internalized the movies that inspired them is that watching their movies can sometimes feel like you're reading a laundry list of the things that they saw when they were younger, rather than watching something where all of those influences have crystallized into something new.
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