I close my eyes, if only for a second.
Sitting here with a rare opportunity to put away a part of my childhood, 14 years ago, I was 11 years old sitting in our apartment on Kenneth ave., glued to the tv watching a TV Movie called The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earquake.
It's a disaster movie, a massive earthquake, lots of people die... basically when at the time it was the scariest thing I've ever seen, it freaked me out for months mostly due to the final moments of the film and several in between where people you thought would surive... would, but don't the final moments of the film are chilling, and at 11 years old I hadn't seen a lot of things like that.
See at the time, violence and death wasn't present everywhere in the tv like it is now, some of the imagery was the first of it's kind, it was REALLY graphic for a TV movie, like it's not nowadays where in the night you can flip to most channels and odds are there were be some form of violence and death.
It's about half way into the movie and the nostalgia trip I'm on is just... scary, everything is coming back to me.
Part of me is also wondering what I ever found so scary about this, cause it is... cheesey as hell, the acting is terrible, the quake scene seems to go on forever...
Now if only By Dawn's Early Light came on tv, I'd be good to go.
Nostalgia is a funny thing.
It's a disaster movie, a massive earthquake, lots of people die... basically when at the time it was the scariest thing I've ever seen, it freaked me out for months mostly due to the final moments of the film and several in between where people you thought would surive... would, but don't the final moments of the film are chilling, and at 11 years old I hadn't seen a lot of things like that.
See at the time, violence and death wasn't present everywhere in the tv like it is now, some of the imagery was the first of it's kind, it was REALLY graphic for a TV movie, like it's not nowadays where in the night you can flip to most channels and odds are there were be some form of violence and death.
It's about half way into the movie and the nostalgia trip I'm on is just... scary, everything is coming back to me.
Part of me is also wondering what I ever found so scary about this, cause it is... cheesey as hell, the acting is terrible, the quake scene seems to go on forever...
Now if only By Dawn's Early Light came on tv, I'd be good to go.
Nostalgia is a funny thing.