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G) Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School - traumatised you early


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Yes, which is why I instead switched to reading Legion comics. Of course, one of the first I read was the death of Lightning Lad.. D'oh!

But no, not the first.


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K) Robin Hood - setting you up to rob people at arrow point under the pretense of...no, wait what's the message of Robin Hood again?



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Nope. I watched the Disney version where Robin Hood was a fox. I think the human version acts like a fox too.

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C) The Care Bears in Wonderland - I can't express enough sympathy if it was this one...


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Thanks, but no news for sympathy. It wasn't bad at all. None o that cheesy touchy-feely shooting rainbows out the ass stuff. It was, in fact, fairly epic. I did not have the full movie when I first watched out. I got the second half, finally, almost a decade later

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For me an epic Care Bears in Wonderland would have them being bumped off by a psychotic Mad Hatter. smile

Wow! It wasn't quite the last guess. It was the second or third last smile

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See, practice makes you improve tongue

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Getting to know you,
Getting to know all about you.
Getting to like you,
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Geez. I was just needing to ask someone about the next question. There was no need to sing at me. I didn't deserve that wink

New question, yet oddly familiar, later today.


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Which of the below is the first film I have a memory of watching in a cinema. I asked my folks, but the past is a foreign country to us all for this sort of thing. So, I can only pin it down to the memory.


A) It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
B) 2001: A Space Odyssey
C) The Life of Brian
D) Alien
E) The Rescuers
F) Doctor Zhivago
G) The Black Hole
H) The Empire Strikes Back
I) Superman
J) Gone with the Wind
K) Dracula
L) Frankenstein


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E) The Rescuers

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I asked my folks, but the past is a foreign country to us all for this sort of thing. So, I can only pin it down to the memory.


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Why thank you Ibby.

When I was young, the family had a toy called a View Master

I don't remember ever having a whole rescuers set as in the one below.

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When I saw the picture, I thought I'd found Lardy's own view master, before I realised it said Lara. smile

However, I do recall a few cells of The Rescuers with what remained of of whatever sets had been bought before. I had a wonders of the world one too, although some of the modern ones were a bit dubious my memory cell tells me.


So, no on the Rescuers, which I never ended up seeing.



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H) The Empire Strikes Back

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Generally considered to be the best of the first trilogy (and automatically better than and of the next trilogy), li'l thothkins didn't think it was quite as good at the time. While it's better crafted in a lot of places, it didn't quite have the same momentum. As a kid, that made a difference.

I was given a lot of movie related Star Wars stuff and it was a real introduction to the work of Ralph McQuarrie in gorgeous glossy books.

Another thing about going to see The Empire Strikes Back was the short second film you would see before the main feature. The one I saw here was an unsettling surrealist silent short. Its bleakness probably permanently scarred much of the audience.

Not the Empire Strikes Back.



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Perhaps the movie that made little thothkins a comics fan is

Superman

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Superman was one of those movies where you would walk out feeling a little bit taller and better about everything. It wasn't until I saw Christopher Reeve in other roles later, I really appreciated what he put into Superman . He just made it look so effortless.

So, seconds after that elated feeling, I'm leaving the cinema and run into 2 older kids on the way home. Quite a bit older. There was a moment of sizing each other up, and then we had a chat about the movie. Who could fall out after watching that?


Not Superman.



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Loving the memories attached to each movie, thoth!

a) It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

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Although I didn't see this film at the cinema, it's one I must have seen on TV at a very early age.

Wacky Races cartoons always seemed to be like something I'd seen before, and biplanes and Terry Thomas appearances also seemed strangely familiar. The big giveaway was that in my childhood dreams, parks would every now and then come with densely foliaged giant letters.

When I was older and saw the film again, I was actually a bit disappointed it was only palm trees. It still looks wrong to me.


Not It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World


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The Life of Brian?

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So, here's the scene. A grown up with time on their hands. The Life of Brian is on at the local cinema. It's a comedy. A Monty Python comedy. The grown up wants to see it. But what to do with the child?

Not to worry! Thanks to the AA (Adult Accompaniment) rating the film got, you can just take little junior into see it too!

A google search brings me a site that "We rate, educate, and advocate for kids, families, and schools" Despite opposing everything the site stands for, it does remind me that the Life of Brian had full frontal nudity of men and women*, torture, crucification, swearing, mass suicide and body parts. That's leaving aside all of the religious connotations presented in the film.

While may sound a bit much, what you actually get is a film all about tolerance, optimism, having a laugh at everything and what's really important once all the power/greed inspired ideas/practices are put to one side. Not a bad lesson for a kid to pick up early.

They give a recommended rating that I was a fraction of when I saw it.

So AA rating's. For great movies and for those Saturday afternoons when you don't want to pay for a babysitter. smile


*equality! And not portrayed in the way practically every other film objectifies one gender or another.



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Oh yeah, Not the Life of Brian


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F) Doctor Zhivago

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People moan about the slightest bit of complexity as if it were a terrible thing. More and more I associate with people who, not only haven't read the work, but are parroting someone else's opinion of it.

"Oh, there's too much going on in those foreign movies."
"Oh, the Legion has too many characters, but I'll read X-Men."

If you got the Legion and the X-Men together for one epic crossover, it would be like getting past the first couple of chapters in Doctor Zhivago. At least, that's how it seemed to a younger me. "Who are all these people? Oh, they have three names...right. What's this one's other names again?"

The film is mercifully a bit easier going. It's actually a favorite of my mother. It would always get watched whenever it was on. With there being one TV, that was quite something.

I spent most of the time wondering how anyone could have survived the cold, never mind anything else. Every time I'd see Luke Skywalker struggle on Hoth in the Empire Strikes Back, I'd think "Well, at least his poor family isn't out there with him. Just think of all those poor folk struggling in Zhivago.*"

It's an epic film not only for it's scope, direction, acting and gorgeous setting, but for all the things it teaches along the way. Everyone is flawed, and those flaws are always magnified in any controlling regime.



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Not Doctor Zhivago...


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