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It sort of blows my mind that The Mighty Ducks came out the same year as Reservoir Dogs. The Mighty Ducks is so purely a film of my youth, and Reservoir Dogs is so purely a film of my early adulthood - produced from the same fertile ground of the 1990s. Thankfully, they cut the ear-ripping torture scene from The Mighty Ducks.
(I can’t help but wonder if some kid in 2020 is going to marvel about how The Princess and the Frog came out the same year as Inglourious Basterds. The circle of life?)
[Cool submission! Thanks, Herm10ne, for bringing the GIRL POWER to this blog!]
I have to admit I was a nerdy kid…While I too played pokemon while sipping mondos, being a girl, there are a few 90’s moments that I felt I must share. Take what you want and leave the rest.
1. Polly pocket. Inevtiably ended up in the vacuum cleaner. I held a grudge every time my mother refused to dig through the vacuum cleaner bag to find them.
2. Babysitters Club Books (and movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112435/) I hid many of them under my mattress because I wasn’t allowed to read the ones that discussed “boys and crushes and things like that”
So, under the mattress they went. I think I went as far as tearing up a section of carpet to hide them Under the carpet, Under my laundry hamper…
And - naturally - Harry Potter. Parents either thought Harry Potter was fine or thought it was from the devil.
I just read every one of those books - in four months time. Decided not to take the risk of my parents finding “devil-books” in my room when I was a child. Too bad I realized I loved them so late.
Should have just hid them under the mattress…
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Where have I been!?
Well, that long vacation from the blog is over. Rest assured, I spent the entirety of it coming up with new posts and watching my Goosebumps VHS tapes.
She’s Alex Mack. She was just an average kid until an accident changed her life, and since then, nothing’s been the same. Her best friend Ray thinks it’s cool. Her sister Annie thinks she’s a science project. She can’t let anyone else know. Not even her parents. She knows the chemical plant wants to find her and turn her into some experiment. But you know something? She guesses she’s not so average anymore.
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In the 1990s, it was alright to terrify children. How old was I when I saw Jurassic Park on VHS - maybe six? Yeah, it was definitely scary, dinosaurs ate people alive, etc. But a little mortal peril is healthy at an early age.
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