The League of Extraordinary Bloggers, the Pop Culture Pundits, The Knights of the Pop Culture Roundtable… whatever we choose to call this great experiment, we’re going to have a good time!
Your first mission, should you choose to accept it:
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What movie is, or was, your “go to” Saturday matinee — the comfort movie you always popped into the VCR on a rainy Saturday afternoon, the movie you watched over and over again, driving your parents crazy while you recited the lines along with the characters on the screen?
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Once you put up a post on your site, drop me an email or DM, or add a comment below with the URL. Next Monday, I will put up a post here on Cool & Collected with a list of all the contributing blogs. Once that list is posted, try to incorporate at least three of those links (but more would be great!) into the article you wrote on your site.
By cross-pollinating like this, we should all see a nice bump in our readership. Have fun everyone!
(Wondering what the heck this is all about? We’re recruiting for this loose-knit, rag tag crew! Here are the details for joining The League.)
I begins and ends with ‘The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad’. I can recite it from memory. John Phillip Law and Caroline Munro are fantastic as are all the memorable Harryhausan effects.. I still watch it at least once a month. And remember – “Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel”.
Good one! I remember many Saturday afternoons being spent watching the skeletons fight in Jason and the Argonauts. Love those Harryhausen flicks.
what if your childhood didn’t have a Vcr in it?
I actually have an idea inspite of being Vcr deprived as a child.
Hope to have mine written and posted by tomorrow night.
Hey Charles, feel free to interpret this week’s topic and all future topics with as much leeway and creativity that you can muster. Some topics will be a perfect match for your site and others might not even be close. Just have fun with it!
I didn’t have a lot of VHS tapes as I was growing up, I aquired more and more but in my early years my go to movies were “Star Wars” and “The Goonies” Anyone who has seen my flickr page knows I love to do fanart from the 80s, especially these two movies! Anyways, my post is about “The Goonies” and I just put it up:
http://ctupa.com/blog/?p=1059
Hey Chris, this is the first official entry and a great one to start us off!
Ah man I wanted to be first!
That will teach me for sleeping in!!!
Going to go read it now.
Thank you! Funny thing, I just now thought of it, I actually had “The Goonies” playing on the TV last night
I may want to be in on these assignments, but I’m a bit backlogged right now. So i”m going to have to pass on this first one. But 2 of my go to movies are Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure and The Goonies(I can recite both movies word for word. Been able to do that since ’85-’86). I was out of work sick(with the flu) for 3 days a week and a half ago, and I watched both of these movies. Encino Man was on one of those days as well, but it was on cable. Still a good movie though.
Excellent choices, Jason. Make sure to check out Chris’ memories of Goonies. Something tells me that one might get a few more nods.
Color war is declared!!!
http://mattandtimfunny.blogspot.com/2012/02/color-war-is-declared.html
(Love this “League” idea, by the way.)
Oh wow, I had totally forgotten about this flick. Everyone, go read this now if you like your Michael J. Fox fix!
Oh man- I haven’t thought about that movie since I saw it on TV!!!! Nice choice! I need to track a copy down, I really liked it when I saw it!
Never even heard of this one.
Wonder if it is on Netflix…
It’s a good one. Definitely worth checking out if you get a chance.
Mine is a work in progress, I have some more I want to add to it. The problem being that I just realized that I have a project due this week and really should be working on it…
here is what I have so far.
http://geekshowink.com/?p=150
I have also started a Blog Link List on the side of my page. I will be adding anyone who takes part in the project to the list.
A true classic, Charles! I am having a blast seeing these entries flowing in.
Over the weekend, I’ll either send out an email or put up a post with a list of all the blogs that will be participating. Thanks for helping to spread the word–the more of us that do that, the better it will be for us all.
Brian,
I’ve posted a post on my blog about my favorite Saturday afternoon matinee flick! I’ll update my blog to reflect other bloggers mentions too.
Fantastic — our first horror movie entry!I’ll send out an email on Monday with all the participating blogs and then you can add the links to your post. Thanks!
Cool, my movie has to be Red Dawn, hands down. I’ve written a short piece about it here, and started a list of other folks who have also participated in this first topic.
http://brandedinthe80s.com/boys-avenge-me-avenge-me-
An excellent choice! I was “THIS” close to picking Red Dawn for mine, but another 80′s gem barely nudged it aside. Great article Shawn!
Thank you kindly man!
Great movies choices so far
Here is mine hope you all enjoy.
http://myeideticmemory.blogspot.com/
Mine’s up! Albeit earlier than I wanted so I may be adding to it soon.
Warning: Do not try to update a post while talking on the phone. You WILL accidentally hit the Publish button.
http://www.geekchunks.com/movies-and-tv/good-ol-saturday-matinee-weirdness/
Weird Science, another 80′s classic! Thanks Jeremy!
Glad to be aboard, Captain! Can’t wait to read everyone’s posts!
I finished my post: http://ifartonline.blogspot.com/2012/02/my-favorite-movie-of-all-time.html
I’m a little rusty, but after a few assignments, I’ll hopefully be back to blogging status again…hopefully (some of you write really well!).
Another great choice Jason! All these posts are making me want to hold a movie marathon this weekend!
I guess I missed the deadline.
Here’s the blog anyway in case you’d like to read it:
http://yankeesjetsfan.blogspot.com/2012/02/back-to-future-ultimate-popcorn-movie.html
That’s alright Mike, we’ll still give you credit!
Yey!!!