8/31/2023 0 Comments Platypus cartoon 80sI can’t make out the whole sentence, but I heard one word clearly: “Perry”. It’s a complete mystery to me until I hear one murmured comment about halfway through the movie that answers everything. Does it have huge teeth? Does it have some kind of crazy biting mouth? I didn’t know! But my kids seem pretty comfortable with the Predator, like he’s some old friend of theirs. You can only see a rough outline through the ‘cloak distortion’ and I remember my imagination going wild. ‘What does it look like?!’ I remember thinking. Actually, I’m a little scared of it right now and I’m just sitting here in front of a computer typing. So anyway, this is really confusing me because I remember being pretty scared of this critter. (For the record, I DID say this was a ‘little joke’, so you have nobody to be disappointed in but yourself if you feel a little let down. This is a little joke because while mainly meaning ‘optimistic in a bad situation’, it can also mean ‘blood red’. In fact, you might say they’re sanguine about it. We’re watching it and each time the monster clicks, I peek out from my blanket to see how the kids are doing and they seem… ok with it. It’s inhuman, it’s menacing, and you hear it every time something terrifying happens to anyone. It makes this terrifying clicking noise that echoes through the jungle. So here’s where my kids start to see a very different movie while you don’t SEE the Predator until the last few minutes of the movie, you HEAR it. It’s kinda like those Harry Potter books where Harry does mischief with the Cloak of Invisibility, except instead of sneaking his wand past Argus Filch to get a good Hufflepuffing, the Predator uses HIS invisibility to sneak his SPACE KNIFE into a bunch of PEOPLE. The creature variously stabs, disembowels, and decapitates the cast but you don’t actually SEE it until near the very end because it’s wearing a ‘cloaking suit’. It’s an awesome gun-gore-fest where all the real action movie heroes of the 80s curse their way through a jungle in a knock-down drag-out fight against a super duper alien hunter. If you haven’t seen this, it’s a heart-warming story of some buddies out on a ‘camping trip gone wrong’ that’s a metaphor for the struggles of reaching middle-age and our sense of mortali-no, I’m just kidding. It’s a film that had me terrified and thrilled in equal measure because of the mystery and casual brutality of a hidden foe. Basic 80s family stuff, and our best bet at getting shared experiences.īut then… there’s the one film they saw VERY differently than we did. Maybe if we really want to turn them into little clones of ourselves, it’s not 100% effective, but it’s a start, right? It’s a plan, and it’s a plan that involves watching movies instead of having to go out and really effort, and it’s working kinda! They cheer and clap at Back to the Future, we watch The Goonies then go to Astoria,OR to find landmarks, maybe we watch Die Hard then sit down as a family and discuss mistakes hero Hans Gruber made and how he took his eye off the prize. The main way we’ll indoctrinate them into the magic of The Greatest Decade, though, is to show them all the movies WE watched. No, they’ll LOVE them because that’s when WE were kids. So what’s our plan? ’80s All Day, Every Day’!Ĩ0s Music, describe Hypercolor shirts, try to make them jealous of our sweet Garbage Pail Kid cards collections… We’ve got a plan. Why? Maybe we know we’re messed up but figure at least it’s a “Known level of messed up”. Like all parents, my wife and I are trying to clone our kids to be just like us.
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