Showing posts with label classic movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label classic movies. Show all posts

Friday, July 11, 2014

Ghostbusters!

Yesterday after work (and after our power came back on after a brief outage), Emily and I sat down to watch the classic movie, Ghostbusters.

She really enjoyed it. She loved the Staypuft Marshmellow Man at the end - she described him as cute and smiling and evil. She wasn't scared at all by the ghosts in the movie. Immediately, she wanted to watch Ghostbusters 2 once we were done.

She liked Ghostbusters 2 even more - because of the baby. She danced and sang with the Ghostbusters theme song and once Ghostbusters 2 was over, she wanted to watch it again.

I'm really glad that she liked it!

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Classic Geeky Movies

I tweeted the above tweet last night. I was kind of joking about Ghostbusters being a classic when I first tweeted, but the more I thought about it, it really is.

I'm 37 years old and my youth is behind me. I don't feel that much different than I did when I was in my twenties, so it's hard to believe that it's nearly been 20 years since I graduated from high school. I'm firmly in my middle aged years and I want to share my favorite things from my younger days with Emily.

Emily is five now so she's old enough to see some of the classics. We've already watched The Dark Crystal, and she really liked it. Her favorite parts were the ones with Fizzgig. She's not scared by much so it didn't scare her at all.

Today we will watch Ghostbusters, which is one of my all-time favorite movies. Other classics on the list are Star Wars, Labyrinth, Goonies, and The Last Starfighter. All geek staples from the 70's and the 80's.

I hope that she'll like the movies that I love. I've been holding back from showing her Star Wars because I may feel a bit crushed if she doesn't like it. Plus I can't find my DVD of A New Hope. But since it's suppose to be stormy this week, it's a good time to start watching some classics.