The Blob!
My life is not going well at all, but I had a respite from my worries and depression tonight at a Classic Sci-Fi Movie Night that was donated to my UU church's service auction. They offered four Classic Sci-Fi Movie Nights in the fixed price section of the silent auction, each for a $10 donation: The Blob, Invasion from Mars, Them and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Tonight was The Blob.
The C family really did it up big -- when we came in, their 11-year-old daughter was behind a card table in the lobby hawking refreshments. She had set it up like a real movie theater counter, with boxes of popcorn and traditional movie candy on display, and if you wanted one she got you one from a stack hidden on the side.
They had completely rearranged the family room with sofas and comfy chairs arranged in rows so it looked like a movie theater. They had a computer projector and a big screen, and in the dining room was an assortment of delectable homemade desserts -- truffles, chocolate cups with Grand Marnier filling, muffins filled with some kind of gooey chocolate and pecan filling, almond biscotti dipped in chocolate ... and those were just the ones I had! There was more!
The movie was great fun to watch with a bunch of people ready to laugh at it. I was too young when it first came out, and too old by the time it came around again, so somehow I never got around to seeing it before. What a big missing piece of pop culture! We had a ball laughing at the horrendous acting, the continuity errors, the ludicrous special effects, and all the things that make The Blob known as one of the worst movies ever made!
The C family really did it up big -- when we came in, their 11-year-old daughter was behind a card table in the lobby hawking refreshments. She had set it up like a real movie theater counter, with boxes of popcorn and traditional movie candy on display, and if you wanted one she got you one from a stack hidden on the side.
They had completely rearranged the family room with sofas and comfy chairs arranged in rows so it looked like a movie theater. They had a computer projector and a big screen, and in the dining room was an assortment of delectable homemade desserts -- truffles, chocolate cups with Grand Marnier filling, muffins filled with some kind of gooey chocolate and pecan filling, almond biscotti dipped in chocolate ... and those were just the ones I had! There was more!
The movie was great fun to watch with a bunch of people ready to laugh at it. I was too young when it first came out, and too old by the time it came around again, so somehow I never got around to seeing it before. What a big missing piece of pop culture! We had a ball laughing at the horrendous acting, the continuity errors, the ludicrous special effects, and all the things that make The Blob known as one of the worst movies ever made!