Yet Another Movie

Maybe should write something again while I got the time between watching the news and playing some video games... or watched some movies. I just this week got a huge craving for some movies to watch. And I don't think a rerun of the Mysterious Cities of Gold would stop it. Not because its bad, but I can only take a few couple of hours when people are shouting ZIA!!! or ESTEBAN!!! with an occasional TAO!!! thrown in there per year. So suddenly I've ordered up a lot of movies I remember or have heard good of. The nostalgic one would be Krull, Willow, The Phantom, The Secret of N.I.M.H. and the Indiana Jones-series (especially after playing games like the Flight of the Amazon Queen). The other category being Ralph Bakshi's Fire and Ice and Wizards and another film Heavy Metal.

A lot of fantasy movies that is. I got Krull, The Secret of N.I.M.H. and The Phantom today at 10... which woke me up. One of the better wake ups I have had. N.I.M.H and The Phantom we actually have on VHS at my parents house so that's not a problem and I watched them a couple of times, but Krull is a different story. I remember watching it on TV once around the millennium. Being a fantasy geek (which I still somewhat is) I liked the movie. You had seers, huge spiders, magic, sword fights and cyclops. Today I would probably call it a hybrid between science fiction and fantasy with the space traveling aliens and blaster technology. Most awesome thing about the movie was a glaive, and actors like Liam Neeson (The Phantom Menace, Batman Begins and the voice of Aslan in the movies among others) and Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid among others).

Secret of N.I.M.H a Don Bluth movie that, when I was younger, scared me for its darker colors and settings. Today I appreciate it more. And then we have The Phantom. Got it as a VHS tape back in 1997 and also began a subscription on the comics that lasted until some of the early years after the millennium. The only problem is that he is supposed to be blue (at least in all the swedish version), not this purple. I ended the subscription when I had to diminish my spending and for some reason chose Donald Duck-comics instead (I had both up until that moment). Guess it was my childish mind, the stories that I wanted to follow and (sadly) the toys you got (which ironically was the reason I finally gave it up as I didn't wanted to pay for plastic junk and there was no alternative to just get the stories for a cheaper sum, yeah, I'm a cheapskate).

On the video game front I switched from the Monkey Island-series to Super Mario Galaxy. And I must say that it's a pretty easy game. Of course you might have opinion that the game is 3 years old and I still haven't finished it. To my defense I bought it in the summer 2008 and played it for a while before leaving for the United States. Maybe a week playing before giving it up. And then it was on the shelf until yesterday. And I really run thru the game. Maybe because I played a lot more since Super Mario 64 that took forever to finish. Why did I start playing again? I bought the sequel so I wanted to see the end.