10/4/21 October Is Spooky Movie Time?

     I do not like scary movies, never really have, but since we are introducing Baby A to movies from our time and I don't want him to be a dunce when it comes to catchphrases and things people say, I am willing to sit through some personally uncomfortable movies so he gets his "education."  We did our usual grilling on the weekend thing and after taking him to his Saturday game review at 10am-noon, we just stayed home and took it real easy.  So easy in fact that we napped a good part of the day, but that's ok, for once in a while, we didn't have anything to do.

    I fired up the grill around 5:00pm, Wife wanted to try something different, so we grilled two whole chickens split in half and kind of smoked them for 2.5 hours or so.  We also added some steaks and sausages, so dinner was good.  While we ate, we watched the Goldbergs, a show in its ninth season which we do enjoy but the episodes are always sappy and leave you crying at the end.  This episode was about the passing of the grandfather, actor George Segal passed in real life, so they added the storyline into the show, man was it a tearjerker.

    Afterwards, I wanted something totally different, so I suggested a movie since it was still early.  Because it is October, the movie lists on most of the apps are loaded with scary movies so we had talked about seeing something from that genre.  Mijo had not seen any of the classics and as much as I didn't want to, we sat through and watched Nightmare on Elm Street.  Of the scary movies, this is the more campy one to me.  Freddie does kill a few teens, but he is almost goofy and comical, even in the first one, which I didn't think the movie meant to do it.  Robert Englund then spent the rest of his life in the role, enjoying the campiness, so it is not a movie that "scares" me afterwards.  The acting is bad all around, but it does show a very young Johnny Depp, probably as a teenager in real life.  The premise is of course a murderer that kills you in your dreams.  The murders do happen on Elm Street which is maybe how Freddie chose his victims, but he kills all over eventually, even in the local jail downtown, so I am not sure how or why that works.  Everyone does need to sleep eventually, so the idea is that everyone can meet the same fate, as Freddie can come find you in your dreams.

    Again, I love watching the movies with our son because he is so pragmatic, he sits there yelling at the screen when the teens start going down the stairs into basements in the dark, or finding stupid ways to make themselves easier victims.  He did jump in his seat once or twice, so it did at least startle him a little bit.  He said the movie was good, but it was the only one we watched.  I am thinking we will work our way up to Friday the 13th next time.  This did bring out Boy who brought us his collection of DVDs, he ordered a Blue Ray set that has about ten of these classic teen slashers, so I guess we did an okay job with him in that he appreciates the older movies.  It was funny that the younger child actually said "I don't want to watch a movie from a disk, they are all online."  How things have changed in such a short time.