16 April 2006
move over siskel or ebert
I never remember which of them is still with us, and I never could tell them apart.
Anyway.
One of the ways to get through a day of sick Mom is to break every Child Expert rule that gets in your way. So yesterday the kids got a lot of video, Gamecube, and--gasp! TV.
Shoot me now, I don't even care--I have another day with the Big Ick and the angry kids to get through. Yes, kids get mad when mom gets sick, whether you (or they) know it or not. They hate it that you're mortal.
Anyway.
We watched the 1933 King Kong, which I like better than the remake (Jackson's Kong leaps too much like a tarantula, for one thing). Also, since it's a visibly OLD movie, the blatant racism is less "real" for the kids (unlike Jackson's hideous "hip" racism--black people as evil zombie killers, oh yeah, that's enlightened) and the big ape is less scary (scary enough in 1933, sure, but just kind of silly now--the kids laughed, in fact, when he made his first appearance).
So they are dragging Fay Wray out to the Kong-delivery-system thingie, and Four leans over and asks:
"Do they do that to every woman?"
That's my boy!
Anyway.
One of the ways to get through a day of sick Mom is to break every Child Expert rule that gets in your way. So yesterday the kids got a lot of video, Gamecube, and--gasp! TV.
Shoot me now, I don't even care--I have another day with the Big Ick and the angry kids to get through. Yes, kids get mad when mom gets sick, whether you (or they) know it or not. They hate it that you're mortal.
Anyway.
We watched the 1933 King Kong, which I like better than the remake (Jackson's Kong leaps too much like a tarantula, for one thing). Also, since it's a visibly OLD movie, the blatant racism is less "real" for the kids (unlike Jackson's hideous "hip" racism--black people as evil zombie killers, oh yeah, that's enlightened) and the big ape is less scary (scary enough in 1933, sure, but just kind of silly now--the kids laughed, in fact, when he made his first appearance).
So they are dragging Fay Wray out to the Kong-delivery-system thingie, and Four leans over and asks:
"Do they do that to every woman?"
That's my boy!
