I shouldn't have let you go into the summer alone

Alright, fuckos, let's set the record straight:

math is absolute garbage.

Moving on, I had the genius idea to introduce Gabriel to movies I loved when I was a kid. I grew up on some great movies, and while some of them have not aged well (Mel Brooks' oeuvre, while still side splitting to me, is exceptionally problematic circa 2019 and I will have to revisit them myself to determine if they're appropriate for Gabriel), most of them hold up. I'm not sure if it's nostalgia or truly well crafted films (it's probably a mix of both), but I kinda wanted to find out. All of this happened after Derek and I inhaled Dark Crystal, Age of Resistance on Netflix. An absolutely masterful series, I am fucking stoked to see more. I watched The Dark Crystal last year, it's still great, and I want to watch it again now that I'm done with the first of the prequel series. It made me want to have Gabriel watch all of the fantasy films I would watch over and over and over as a kid.

Labyrinth is tops on the list, but for some reason, I didn't rush to that one first. I jumped immediately to Willow.

Now.

I fucking LOVED Willow when I was a kid. It scared the fuck out of me (the trolls were utterly terrifying, Queen Bavmorda was dressed like a mummy under her robes and I didn't understand that so it frightened me more) while still entertaining me with the adventure and showcasing of magic. I haven't watched Willow in literally like, 20 years. It's been several hot minutes. Derek was making fun of the movie preemptively, laughing and saying it was going to be awful, I told him it probably would be but we still had to give it a chance because it might hold up as I've always held it in high regard. You guys....I didn't fucking realize Willow was a god damn comedy. In my child brain, it was an adventure movie that was very serious. I remember my mom quoting the brownies a lot when I was younger (I always thought Kevin Pollak had the same birthday as me, but that is simply not true, as my two second google search just informed me), but I don't personally remember laughing at Willow as a kid, because it just seemed so scary and fraught with tense danger.

I laughed my ass off watching Willow this go around. Derek did, too. We were both stunned to discover that Willow was a comedy, and an absolutely delightful one at that. It 100000% held up. We did a lot of back and forth about the look of the movie, but ultimately determined that it would have been tops for special effects in its day, and even today, the effects weren't AWFUL. Some of them were a little silly and sloppy looking, but given their initial era? They were great. And I can't say enough that I was greatly amused by the script. It was touching and earnest and not too serious and just an all around delight.

At the end of the movie, Derek and I were trying to think of other movies from our childhood that we could revisit to see if there were secret comedies lurking among them. We also tried to engage Gabriel in Monty Python's Holy Grail, but he was bored out of his mind after fifteen minutes, and I was suddenly acutely aware of the possibility he was switched at birth.

I'm going to have to look around and see what movies I watched as a kid, hundreds of which I'm SURE I've forgotten, so we can check them out.

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