Showing posts with label special effects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label special effects. Show all posts

Monday, April 6, 2009

The Decade we are Embarrassed of...

Last week when I went to the library with Brayden to check out our weekly selection of Thomas videos, I scanned the video rack as I always do looking for something fun the whole family can enjoy. This trip I stumbled across an old favorite from my childhood (not Eric's)....

Big Trouble in Little China!





Did you ever see this movie? Did you like it? I remember liking it... enough that I thought my kids would enjoy it.

So, we're on the couch and I'm remembering a scene that might scare the younger kids... so I tell Ian to close his eyes and as he's peeking through his fingers, he says to me,

"Mom, this is soooo 80's...." (with that exasperated tone in his voice...)

And so for the rest of the movie, whenever a fake monster would jump out, we'd all say, "it's so 80's, huh, Ian?!?" and laugh and laugh and laugh at how bad the special effects were. And they were BAD!!!!

But it was entertaining to watch and I wondered how we grew up in the 80's... it seemed cool then, but I look back on most of the 80's and wonder...

How did we ever survive before CGI?

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