A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, before cable was invented (or satellite, or DVR, or heck, even HBO), a local TV station (and by local, I mean Detroit), used to show one or more movies late at night, after the 11 o'clock news.
Whenever my next-door best friend and I would have a sleepover, we'd be allowed to sleep on the sofabed, and watch TV as long as we wanted. So, of course, there being no such thing as Nick at Nite, we'd end up watching the movie.
I saw a lot of movies that way. Sometimes, they were movies fit for an 8 year old, and someitmes they scared the crap out of us. Think it's weird that I won't stay higher than the tenth floor in a hotel? Try letting your 7 year-old watch The Towering Inferno, and see how they react.
Cheaper by the Dozen, Yours, Mine and Ours, The Poseidon Adventure - and steadily, over the past few years, they're remaking them all.
Yours, Mine and Ours is coming out soon, and I'm looking forward to it. I can only hope they don't muck it up the way they did the Made-for-TV remake of The Poseidon Adventure, which I watched tonight.
Tonight's new version was an attempt at "new and improved" for the new millenium, and they failed miserably. I'm not saying the 1972 version was a movie masterpiece, but this one was bloody awful.
First of all, Steve Guttenburg is aging badly. And although the added modern touch of a distress email was expected, one wonders why the stranded passengers didn't just immediately whip out their Palm Pilots and cell phones, instead of waiting until they got to the "Internet lounge."
Here's hoping Yours, Mine and Ours is done much, much better.
This weekend we saw Harry Potter and one of the trailers was for Tim Allen in "The Shaggy Dog", which looks like a remake of Disney's "The Shaggy D.A."
Posted by: Kim | November 21, 2005 at 04:34 AM
I hear ya. We kind of felt the same way here. And Guttenberg? Half the time appeared like a confused monkey. No good, no good!
Posted by: AGK | November 25, 2005 at 05:46 AM
Just in case you didn't realize it, it's December and um, you haven't blogged.
Posted by: Linda Sherwood | December 02, 2005 at 04:35 AM
Where are you?? You haven't posted in a while.
Posted by: Jenn PB | December 03, 2005 at 02:34 PM
You have GOT to be kidding! Still no blog? Not even a comment? I may have to do something drastic here....
Posted by: Linda Sherwood | December 06, 2005 at 06:33 AM
Soon -I promise. Soon.
Posted by: Shelley | December 06, 2005 at 09:57 PM