Dream a Little Dream
Yet another movie rewatch? Well, it's what I've been doing a lot lately, so sure. Why not? ;)
This time, it was Dream a Little Dream. I remember seeing this one a few times shortly after it came out, and while I enjoyed it I found it a bit on the weird side. It wasn't the type of movie I particularly liked back then, but something drew me to it.
This is the first time I've rewatched it in nearly 40 years, and it hits a lot differently when you're older instead of recently graduated from high school. I actually like it even more now that I can relate to Coleman as much as I related to Bobby back when it came out.
If you didn't like it when you were young, watch it again with an open mind. You may find you like it now.
Tags: movies, rewatch, dream-a-little-dream
Battlestar Galactica
Just finished my first rewatch of the original Battlestar Galactica series from 1978 for the first time in forever. Galactica 1980 was horrible aside from "The Return of Starbuck," so I skipped that series and just stuck to the single season of the original.
I'll address the uneven acting first to get it out of the way. If it seems like the actors were reading their lines for the very first time in some of the episodes, it's because they were. The scripts were sometimes completed just before shooting, so the actors had to read them for the first time off of cue cards while shooting the scene. As a kid, I never caught on to this. As an adult, it's glaringly obvious.
Some of the episodes were a bit silly, also for the aforementioned reason. This was meant to be a three-episode miniseries but suddenly became a weekly series, without an adequate budget or time to prepare the scripts. The episode which weren't just plain silly were allegories, many of them for the Mormon church. The "Ships of Light" episode were always my least favorite, even as a kid. The "Eastern Alliance" was a bit on-the-nose with fairly recent Earth history, too. I started laughing during my rewatch when one of the Easter Alliance members spoke with a poorly-faked German accent.
I realize after this most recent re-watch that my fondness for the series is mostly nostalgia, because it reminds me of my childhood. I'll always have a fondness for it, even though it was never great to begin with.
Tags: tv, rewatch, battlestar-galactica, nostalgia
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