Childhood Movies

Last night Greg and I were watching Glee...if you haven't seen it, watch it online. It's awesome. We ended up talking about how that show must seem really cool for little kids because it's like a tv series of High School Musical. But then did anyone catch the line between Emma, the guidance counselor, and Rachel, the girl trying to be bulimic???...Rachel: "I guess I just don't have a gag reflex." Emma, the counselor: "One day, when you're older, that'll turn out to be a gift."

Um, hello. It was almost like watching Shrek 3, where there's all sorts of crazy adult innuendos in there, but it totally goes over kids' heads. So we started reminiscing about movies from our childhood. Since we were born only two months apart, we pretty much grew up on the same movies, tv shows, and music.

I specifically remember being absolutely terrified watching the movie Lady in White. And I remember loving the Halloween movie The Canterville Ghost. So we rented The Canterville Ghost from Netflix, and let me tell you, it was the worst movie ever...it made me question my brain as a child. The Lady in White came on tv over the summer, that movie is still scary as shit. Then I remember watching Grease 2 with my sister. Robyn was seriously obsessed with this movie, no joke. Robyn wrote a letter to Michelle Pfeiffer whenever the movie came out and she actually got a letter back with a signed photo.

Now that's a movie I totally don't understand why my mom let us watch it. They sing a song about reproduction and the whole movie is about getting lucky. Really, we were like 6 and 9 years old when we watched that. Didn't we run around singing "where does the pollen go"??

There is one childhood movie that is just as good now as we remembered it: Monster Squad.

The movie was just as funny and the monsters were pretty entertaining. I mean, who doesn't like a character named Fat Kid and who wouldn't love seeing a little 5 year old girl tell her older brother that he's a chicken shit?