Through some meme on another blogging site, I’ve managed to dive deep in to my memory banks and pull out some movie gems from my past. Some, I’ve since re-watched and had mixed results with. I come to the conclusion that as one gets older, one forgets all the bad things associated with being a child and one focuses purely on the good. This can be damaging. Imagine if Bruce Wayne did that.

I have yet to re-watch this, but randomly throughout my adult life scenes from ‘The Wizard’ will pop in to my head. It also made me want to spend an insane amount of money to buy a Nintendo Power Glove through eBay, and a (working) SNES to play it with (Mike Tyson’s Punch Out, has to come in that bundle as well). This, I think, is where my general dislike for the Wii stems from. I spent most of my videogame playing as a child trying to figure out the movements for that damn Power Glove, that it has ruined me forever when it comes to other controllers that involve movement. 

And I re-watched this, and still love it, ‘Flight of the Navigator’. It’s story line and overall variation on the theory of time travel is mind-boggling. It is well written, and as a child, fascinated me. The thought of going in to the future, and having your family react to you returning unsuspectingly, un-aged, was completely underrated at that time (though it was nice to see ‘The 4400’ kinda touch on it). I also wanted one of those bat/alien-things as a pet too. That snarky eyeball, I could do without.

I remember really, really loving ‘Drop Dead Fred’. Though I re-watched it a few years ago when I was 18, and didn’t like it as much. I cried during it, but to be fair, I cry at a lot of movies (‘Superbad’ and ‘Knocked Up’ are prime examples). I thought Phoebe Cates’ mother was a little over the top and verged on ‘Mommy Dearest’-territory. Also Carrie Fisher confused me. When I was little, I didn’t connect her as Princess Leia, but then as I was wiser in my age, I expected more out of her character in ‘Drop Dead Fred’ (a shot of her running out of a elevator and pausing towards the camera all serious-like would’ve sufficed). Poor Ms. Fisher, she can never leave that whole Star Wars thing behind her.