Monday, January 21, 2008
Movies
Over the last couple of days, I shared a couple of my favorite movies with Pierce and Anna: Ghostbusters and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn.
Ever since I started building the proton pack, Pierce and Anna have been very interested in all things “Ghostbusters”. Last week, VH1 ran a “family-friendly” version which I taped. So Saturday night was movie night with the Ghostbusters. Both kids seemed to enjoy it, though they both were a little bothered by the scene where arms come out of a chair and grab Sigourney Weaver’s character. There favorite part: Pierce – the Ghostbuster car, Anna – all the scenes with Slimer. They’ve asked if they can watch Ghostbusters II another day.
The Wrath of Kahn was a mixed bag. Over Sunday’s lunch we were talking about something (I can’t remember what it was), and the subject of Spock came up. When I mentioned there was a Star Trek movie where Spock died, both Pierce and Anna asked if we could watch it. Anna was very excited about the prospect, but Pierce, one he’d had a chance to think about Spock dying, wasn’t so sure. He chose to watch and read a book at the same time.
While the movie’s not too graphic by today’s standards, there was a lot in there that sparked questions from Anna. The scenes where the “worms” were put in the characters ears (yuck), and the scene where the worm comes back out of Chekov’s ear, accompanied by a little blood (double yuck), the scene on the space station where Captain Kirk is lowering the bodies of the slain station’s personnel down from the ceiling, and the final scene, where Spock died in the radiation-flooded engine chamber were all topics of conversation while we watched. No nightmares resulted, so I guess we’re ok. There is an Anna-submitted request to watch The Search for Spock, where Spock is returned to the land of the living.
The funniest was while we were watching, a Mom/Daughter team came by to drop off Girl Scout cookies (made from real Girl Scouts), Anna invited them in to come and watch the movie with us. She went on to describe the movie’s plot to them, as well as Spock’s pivotal role as an alien and science officer. The look on the Mom’s face was priceless.
We had snow on Thursday and Friday, so Pierce and I got a little sledding in on Saturday morning. I piled up some snow on our “sledding trail” and built up a little ramp. It sent Pierce flying almost every time (I thought it was fun too). Nora and Anna added a new curtain rod and curtains to one of the rooms in Anna’s doll house. A beaded, straightened paperclip, some Anna-cut fabric, and a clue gun and, voila! curtains. I think the process exhausted Nora, but Anna’s ready for more.
Closing out the weekend, Nora and I watched a sci-fi classic: They Live, a John Carpenter film starring the wrestler Roddy Pipper. It fell under the category of “It’s so bad, its bad.” but it was nice as couple time.
-Eric (Dad)
Ever since I started building the proton pack, Pierce and Anna have been very interested in all things “Ghostbusters”. Last week, VH1 ran a “family-friendly” version which I taped. So Saturday night was movie night with the Ghostbusters. Both kids seemed to enjoy it, though they both were a little bothered by the scene where arms come out of a chair and grab Sigourney Weaver’s character. There favorite part: Pierce – the Ghostbuster car, Anna – all the scenes with Slimer. They’ve asked if they can watch Ghostbusters II another day.
The Wrath of Kahn was a mixed bag. Over Sunday’s lunch we were talking about something (I can’t remember what it was), and the subject of Spock came up. When I mentioned there was a Star Trek movie where Spock died, both Pierce and Anna asked if we could watch it. Anna was very excited about the prospect, but Pierce, one he’d had a chance to think about Spock dying, wasn’t so sure. He chose to watch and read a book at the same time.
While the movie’s not too graphic by today’s standards, there was a lot in there that sparked questions from Anna. The scenes where the “worms” were put in the characters ears (yuck), and the scene where the worm comes back out of Chekov’s ear, accompanied by a little blood (double yuck), the scene on the space station where Captain Kirk is lowering the bodies of the slain station’s personnel down from the ceiling, and the final scene, where Spock died in the radiation-flooded engine chamber were all topics of conversation while we watched. No nightmares resulted, so I guess we’re ok. There is an Anna-submitted request to watch The Search for Spock, where Spock is returned to the land of the living.
The funniest was while we were watching, a Mom/Daughter team came by to drop off Girl Scout cookies (made from real Girl Scouts), Anna invited them in to come and watch the movie with us. She went on to describe the movie’s plot to them, as well as Spock’s pivotal role as an alien and science officer. The look on the Mom’s face was priceless.
We had snow on Thursday and Friday, so Pierce and I got a little sledding in on Saturday morning. I piled up some snow on our “sledding trail” and built up a little ramp. It sent Pierce flying almost every time (I thought it was fun too). Nora and Anna added a new curtain rod and curtains to one of the rooms in Anna’s doll house. A beaded, straightened paperclip, some Anna-cut fabric, and a clue gun and, voila! curtains. I think the process exhausted Nora, but Anna’s ready for more.
Closing out the weekend, Nora and I watched a sci-fi classic: They Live, a John Carpenter film starring the wrestler Roddy Pipper. It fell under the category of “It’s so bad, its bad.” but it was nice as couple time.
-Eric (Dad)
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