Every once in a while, when I’m browsing the DVDs at Wal-Mart, I’ll come across one of my childhood favorites… and it’s usually in the $4.88 bin. Being compulsive, sentimental, and bad with money, I of course buy them. Every time. My kids have now come to love these movies as well. As I type this, my kids are lying on my bedroom floor watching “The Dark Crystal”. A classic. Zoe is a little scared of it, though. She closes her eyes during the part when Chamberlain has his clothes ripped from his boney puppet body, and then also the part when Augra’s planetarium/house is ravaged by the big Goliath-beetle looking guys. I have to tell her when those parts are over. I remember being scared of the same parts when I was 5 or 6. (I was also scared of the part where the little podling gets her essence sucked out by the essence-sucker-machine, and her little puppet face goes all gaunt and her eyes kind of pop out. Disturbingly, that part doesn’t seem to bother either of my kids.) I also wanted to be Kira when I was little. She was a beautiful, even if she was only a puppet.
I’m glad I have kids so I have an excuse to watch these movies all the time again. Kids make it okay to sit here and laugh and giggle and be amazed and a little scared all over again.
Visit my list blog for a list of movies from my childhood. Did we watch the same ones??
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Oh, I loved The Dark Crystal! Oh, that essence sucking part scared me, too. I watched the same movies. Labrynth was probably about the most watched at my house. Oooh, David Bowie. He gave me feelings I just didn’t understand.
Comment by Leslie — July 29, 2007 @ 11:03 pm
I’m with you Leslie…Oooh David Bowie. It helped that my Mom had it bad for him too. She took me to the movies to see Labrynth. Even though he was the goblin king, it was my first real, long look at Ziggy Stardust. I was in love and have been ever since. (He’s actually my favorite musician, I love his 70s albums even more than I like to look at him) The Neverending Story was the first movie we rented when we got our first VCR, and Princess Bride is the best! What about Indiana Jones or Star Wars? We watched those all the time. Anybody’s parents get them hooked on musicals, like Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret or The Wall? We still sing all that stuff around the house.
Comment by kerri — July 30, 2007 @ 8:00 am
Oh yeah. On Sunday my husband brought home the Three Amigos DVD, and where did he find it? In the $5.00 bin at Walmart. It’s one of his favorites too.
Comment by kerri — July 30, 2007 @ 8:05 am
We got the Dark Crystal out of the wal-mart bin too. We have found so many great movies in those bins!
Comment by Sam — July 31, 2007 @ 6:55 am