I guess there's a live-action
Transformers movie coming out. (As you can probably tell from my enthusiasm, I'll be camping out at the first showing to get tickets.) A little Wikipedia-ing told me Transformers have been around in one incarnation or another since 1984, but I think I was a little old for the original show, or just not that into cars that could become robots or what-have-you. However,
at least one child of the 80's has a whole list of nostalgia shows she'd like to see made into movies (although I have to correct and say
Ghostbusters was a movie before it was a show, oh 80's child.) On the list are
G.I. Joe (if it hasn't been explicitly done, I think we've come pretty close with about a bajillion war movies),
Jem (yup, truly, truly, TRULY outrageous), and the
Smurfs (everyone inserts the Smurfette porn joke here). Also mentioned are
Rainbow Brite (god help us) and
Thundercats. Uh, thundercats, ho?
This list made me realize first and foremost that my child watches waaaaay better T.V. than I ever did, tricked out with Tivo as we are, but I'm sure it's just a matter of time before she's all into some poorly drawn, badly written program designed to sell merchandise. I'm not really heavy on the nostalgia-fix myself, but maybe there are one or two programs I wouldn't mind seeing as films. 1. Sigmund and the Seamonsters, which was 70's, not 80's, and is already live-action, but I watched it in the 80's and I wanna see a movie of it so get off my back, will ya? 2. Um, did we have any good T.V. back then? Mr. Rogers? Help me out here, people!
