applemud

we called the old video rental store my mom and my uncle used to own, "beta" (short for betamax). it was just beside our drugstore and nandun na yun even before i was born. one of the entrances to that place was a small secret doorway, 3 and a half feet high. i believed then that they made that door especially for me since i was the only one who could fit through it without stooping.

i believed that "beta" was a magical place. i would sit down on the tall table closest to the tv, remove my slippers and watch movies from morning till they close the shop.

i went there everyday.

one of the movies na alam ko pinapanood ko doon was the attack of the killer tomatoes. i know i've seen it so many times before in "beta"... kaso mga 5 or 6 pa lang ako at that time kaya i don't remember much of the story. i remember what the cover looked like. i remember staring at the cover whenever i see it displayed on the shelf.

it was 20 years since i last saw it.
i just got a copy of it kanina.
and watching it now is like watching it for the first time.


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it made me think about the other movies i've seen when i was a kid. i will try to recall them now, let see:

i know i watched a lot of cartoons:

thundercats, karatecat, pink panther(1963), looneytunes, disney's sleeping beauty, cinderella, etc., an american tail (1986), ducktales (1987), the chipmunk adventure (1987), how the grinch who stole christmas (1966), land before time (1988)

and some of the classics:

earthquake(1974), the new adventures of pippi longstocking (1988), parent trap (1961), freaky friday (1972), the love bug (1969), goonies (1985), mac and me (1988), time machine (1960), the witches (1990), chitty chitty bang bang: the magical car (1968), song of the south (1946). gremlins (1984), who framed roger rabbit (1988), return to oz (1985), neverending story (1984), bill and ted's excellent adventure (1989), speilberg's amazing stories (season 1 and 2), beetlejuice (1988), fudge-a-mania, death becomes her, people under the stairs, rookie of the year, the secret garden, the langoliers, etc...




what other movies you watched and loved as a kid?