Movie nostalgia

Netflix is a wonderful thing. SO many movies to choose from. I recently checked out a couple I haven't seen in YEARS...since I was like eight.

The Last Flight of Noah's Ark-Elliot Gould is a tough talking pilot who is flying a missionary, two orphans, and a load of animals when he crash lands on an island inhabited by two Japanese soldiers who don't realize WWII is over. They rebuild the plane into a boat and make it home. With little Ricky Schroeder!!

Hello Down There-A scientist builds an underwater home and lives there with his family for a month to prove it can be done. With a young Richard Dreyfuss (before American Graffiti, even!) as a wigged-out guitar player, head of "Harold and His Hang-ups". I remember watching that one on channel 56 on Saturday afternoons.

Free to Be You and Me-Marlo Thomas and myriad random friends tell stories and sing funny songs. Heavy 70s goofiness.

And old TV shows!

The Electric Company-Easy Read-ah, that's mah name, uh huh-Morgan Freeman
Land of the Lost-did the Sleestaks scare the crap outta anyone else?
Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew mysteries
Afterschool Specials-oh, the cheese, the cheese

How extremely entertaining. But I have to finish a post like this with a funny story.

When we were kids, and VCRs were just getting big, every Saturday Mom would take us to a video place next to the supermarket, Home Video Village. We could each rent a movie and keep it a week. While we both tended towards Disney movies, I preferred Hayley Mills and 70s and 80s stuff. My brother, at some point, ended up on a rotating basis of three movies-TRON, The Great Locomotive Chase, and The 12 Tasks of Asterix. He would rent one, then rent it again the next week, again the next week, and so on. After two or three months of renting the SAME MOVIE week after week after week, he'd switch to one of the other two...and so it went on...for YEARS. We used to beg him to rent something else, ANYTHING else...but he would not be moved. My whole family had those three movies memorized. Anyway, so one day, Mom leaves us in the store to go food shopping. She used to do this all the time, we were in there so often the guy who ran the place befriended us and used to set us up in the corner at this little kiddie table with any movie we felt like watching and we'd sit and amuse ourselves while mom got groceries. So one day, we're watching something, and there's a big commotion, but my brother and I are so into the movie we don't pay attention to what's going on. After a while, a cop comes over, and asks us about THE THREE GUYS WHO CAME IN AND ROBBED THE STORE. We looked at him and were all, "whuh?" It turns out that while we were engrossed, three guys came into the store and ripped off a ton of video equipment, cameras, VCRs, that was on display at the front of the store. I honestly don't remember because I wasn't paying attention in the first place. And then mom comes back and finds her babies surrounded by the police who can't understand how the stupid kids who are complete soup brains and couch potatoes don't notice a store robbery going on fifteen feet away. The guy who ran the place was actually laughing his head off despite the fact he'd probably lost about a few thousand dollars worth of merchandise. If I remember correctly, the guy told and re-told the story many many times to various customers who wanted to know about the kids sitting in the back of the store glues to the big TV set. Mom was exceedingly embarrassed. We were clueless. "Robbery? What robbery? What guy? What did he look like? There was a guy in here? What's a guy?" Yeah. And before you think, oh, they were probably little kids, kids don't pay attention anyway...I was at LEAST 8, probably closer to 10 years old.

Yes, that's a very embarrassing story. It is hilarious to me and at the same time frightening. Like much of life. But, like I always say, you may as well laugh than cry.

Yay! Movie Quotes!!

This is freakin' HILARIOUS.

http://www.thesurrealist.co.uk/movie.php

Check out this website and enter your name...it will give you a movie quote with your name in it. For instance, I got-

"I find your lack of Sarah disturbing."

As should you all, heh heh.