Advanced Social Event Notice for May 09

[silverai]

NOSTALGIC 80'S CHILDREN'S MOVIES WEEKEND!


Yup, knew you'd all like that. So I'm planning it for a weekend sometime May, because that fits in with various schedules and allows more time for ordered DVDs to arrive. It will start at about 5pm Saturday afternoon and end Sunday night, with movies stopping at midnight and starting at 10am the next day to allow for people who may not want to sleepover. I will post a schedule closer to the event of when movies will be shown, so those who may not wish to do the full stint can pick which ones they will come to.

Lists of movies so far includes:
The Princess Bride
Tron
Ladyhawke
The Dark Crystal
Labyrinth
The Goonies
The Neverending Story (possibly all three of them)
Legend

There will be allowances for about 30 minutes of leeway between movies in the schedule in case unexpected stuff happens. If there is time in these gaps, then things like The Muppet Show and Jim Henson's The Storyteller will be shown.

Everyone invited, and people can and should bring friends. I have plenty of stools, beanbags and cushions.

Comment if there's anything not on the list that you think should be, and I will track it down so it can be shown. If the list gets too big for everything to be shown, I will make some tough choices about what will have to missed.

Comments

[lizbyrd.livejournal.com]

I think this is a brilliant idea!

Don't go for the weekend of the 31st, though. XD

[silverai.livejournal.com]

Noted. It also won't be the first weekend either, from memory.

[silverai.livejournal.com]

Note to self: also Willow and Flash Gordon.

Really, I thought someone else would have pointed out the omission of Willow by now.

[silverai.livejournal.com]

More for the list:
Short Circuit
Transformers
Time Bandits
The Secret of Nihm (cannot source, would need to be borrowed)
ET
Krull (oh so definitely will be shown)
Masters of the Universe (He-Man)


Maybe, but not quite in the same vein (tell me if it must be shown anyway):
Back to the Future
Ghostbusters
StarWars (V & VI)
War Games
Brewster's Millions
Revenge of the Nerds
The Lost Boys
HIghlander
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Dreamscape
BIll and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Beetlejuice
Weird Science
Not Quite Human
Stand By Me
The Karate Kid
The Wizard

[paperishcup.livejournal.com]

Heh, just to make the impossibly long list longer, can I add Gremlins (Gremlins! I can't believe we all forgot Gremlins!), Flight of the Navigator, The Black Cauldron, the Last Unicorn to the list of suggestions? If it could ever be found I LOVED The Peanut Butter Solution, which we had taped off television for a while but since we taped over it I've never seen hide nor hair of it...so not on the official list because I don't know how we'd find it!

So I realise everyone will have different things that they love and have nostalgia about (and it being your movie day they need to be ones you want to see!), just out of interest my ideal 12 (in a very rough order of importance) would be:

Labyrinth
The Dark Crystal
The Goonies
Stand By Me
Gremlins
The Princess Bride
Ladyhawke
The Neverending Story (just the first one)
Willow
ET
The Last Unicorn
Flight of the Navigator

With The Secret of Nimh, the Black Cauldron, Short Circuit, Ghostbusters, The Karate Kid, Back to the Future running close on their heels...

Mon it's hard to pick, there are so many good 80's kids movies...

Oh My God I'm so excited, it's going to be AWESOME!!! Yay :)

[paperishcup.livejournal.com]

Ahem. I mean 'man, it's hard to pick', not mon. But you can just imagine me typing with a Jamaican accent..