Christmas tv has changed since my day. No more Mary Poppins or the Wizard of Oz, new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, no My Fair Lady.
Much as I love Johnny Depp, I miss Gene Wider on Stephen's Day, and the kids were unimpressed too. We didn't make it into the factory. I might persevere another day, but it wasn't worth it at Christmas.
No more Aardman offerings either, though the repeat of last year's remarkable The Gruffalo was just as magical, despite the fact that we have the dvd and have watched it multiple times back to back.
Today Axel took Bodhi out and Olivia professed boredom. She was over arts and crafts and Donkey Kong for the moment. My brain stayed blank til I remembered - Indiana Jones! She'd been unimpressed by The Mummy last week but when I turned on the tv, the film was at the scene where they're at the table being served crispy giant beetles and boa constricters filled with live young, and monkey brains served in their heads!! Gleeful heaven for my unflappable girl. It got better from there, though her friend next door came to steal her away for a jelly and popcorn filled Indy marathon.
She even liked the Crystal Skull, and insisted the only difference between Indy's was that his hair was grey in the last one. Bless her!
True classics (well, I don't know about the last one, it sounds truly awful and I've avoided it, but not according to her). A nice little Christmas film experience to share as well. Good to see some things never change.
6 comments:
I love it when my daughters and I agree on the sexiness of certain actors.
It is a mother-daughter bonding thing.
Who knew?
i loved indiana jones when i was a kid.....
But they showed a Muppet Christmas Carol! One of my favourite movies of all time - I could watch it on loop, honestly.
Did Oliva catch The Nightmare Before Christmas? It could be her sort of thing. :-)
Oh - and Gremlins for her, definitely. Especially the microwave scene.
True, Ms Moon, very true. I too had that experience.
D, we all loved it. Some of us still do :)
Janine, Gremlins, yes! Sadly our video is broken so we can't watch all our old tapes. See loves the Nightmare before Christmas, yes, but it's also on tape :(
loved gremlins!
and watched the temple of doom, too, the other day! chilled monkey brains, and eye soup!
Oh my word. I saw Indiana Jones when I was about fourteen and had nightmares. I still think it's all a bit too scary.
Mary Poppins was on yesterday.
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