Wednesday, March 31, 2010

42) The Neverending Story

I am happy to say I received The Neverending Story from Blockbuster.com this week. I am going to watch it keeping in mind how much I loved it when I was younger. However, I am fully expecting the special effects to look terrible.






For Instance, I am pretty sure Falkor: The Luck Dragon is going to look like a giant robotic dog with Showbiz Pizza quality of movement.







And I remember G'Mork freaking me out when I was a kid.










But if I am being honest, I must admit that my favorite character in this film is Morla: The Ancient One. If you do not remember her, she is basically the giant turtle who lives in the Swamp of Sadness. She is irritable and sneezes a lot.





Here is my problem. I worry that kids are going to miss out on this classic film because the technology used does not compare to fantasy movies of today. I feel like the old man telling his grandchildren how great movies were back in the day. But here is what I want to do. I want to come up with a list of movies, books, bands, TV shows that come from our childhood that today's kids are going to miss out on unless parent's take action now. If I miss important things be sure to let me know.

Forgotten Art:

* The Neverending Story
* Flight of the Navigator
* Robinhood (The Disney Version)
* Knightrider
* Alf
* Pee Wee's Playhouse (even though I heard they are making this into a movie to come out within the next year. Not sure it has a chance of being as good as the show was, though)
* Q-Bert
* No Retreat No Surrender
* Steven Wright's comedy specials
* Space Camp
* Fraggle Rock

2 comments:

Tess said...

SPACE CAMP! Oh, good one.

I loved Labyrinth as a kid, but I guess you could always remake that or fall back on the trendy 3D crutch.

Also, Muppets Take Manhattan.

Tess said...

Also, Goonies.