The hubby and I are big movie fans. Before we had the ball of fire, going to the movies was a mainstay for entertainment. Since having the kid, we content ourselves with taking him to see movies, such as Arthur and the Incredibles. We checked that one out this weekend and really enjoyed it.
As it turns out, the ball of fire is also a fan of the movies. Watching a movie is a favorite pasttime when we either need to settle down for a nap, or he's just woken up from one.
Yesterday, we were flipping around and he caught a 10-second glimpse of the Golden Voyage of Sinbad. He insisted we go back and watch all of the "pirate" movie.
It was G rated, plus I had seen it before and knew there wasn't much by way of gore, so we watched it.
I remember loving these movies as a kid. Ray Harryhausen was the animator who did all the cool mythical beasts like the centaur, Medusa in Clash of the Titans or the skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts. A lot of animators today claim him as the father of animation.
As a side note, if you've ever seen Monsters Inc., when Mike takes his girlfriend Celia to the very expensive and hard-to-get-into restaurant Harryhausens, it's a nod from the animators to the original animator himself.
So we watched Sinbad and I kinda smirked at some of the cheesy dialogue and "action" scenes. But one line in particular stood out from the rest.
When a merchant offered a slave girl to Sinbad, he noted that she was very curvaceous. "Not as fat and delicious as I like them, but still very attractive."
I actually laughed out loud at that one. But then I had to wonder, where are all the men who like the fat and delicious women? Today It seems like skinny and nearly anorexic is the preferred body type, whereas fat and delicious is the norm.
I think it's good to be reminded that fat and delicious is a lot more fun on cold winter nights when what you really want is a giant batch of cookies and a nice long cuddle.
Anyone for a snickerdoodle?
1 comment:
I totally agree with you. I was just asking the hubby last night while shopping if he ate all the chocolate that we had. I think that I have had the munchies more by sitting around the house with nothing to do than I ever did from past endeavors (*snickers*).
Just Saturday, Mike was flipping through channels and I made him go back to Jason and the Argonauts. He thought I was silly, until he saw the scene where they were fighting the dragon so Jason could get the golden fleece. Although I realize it is pretty cheesy animation, it amazed him at how lifelike it all was. He watched it until the scene changed and went back to his normal animal science shows that he likes to watch. The older that boy gets, the less I understand him. I guess that's just what I'm going to have to get used to, considering he is a teenager now....
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