WW: Back in Time {Linky}

I made a quick decision to head to Werner Park in Omaha, Nebraska. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is on a mission to save 35MM film. They want the younger generation to love classic films. I do to. :)

What did they show? Back to the Future. Did you realize that, that movie is 30 years old? It makes me feel ancient.

The film was show in the parking lot. I rained that morning, and they wanted to show it in the ball fields, but were afraid it would be too muddy. It was cold! It was the first fall like evening I was outside.

They had people dressed up like movie characters running around with Save the Clock Tower fliers. The main guy introducing everything had a Marty vest or life jacket on.

In the back there was a full sized DeLorean.

They served cake. I've seen the movie so many times, and that part never clicked. Joey is Marty's Uncle. He's supposed to get out of jail, so they have a cake for him. He never gets out. When Marty goes back in time he sees his Uncle Joey for the first time as a baby in a play pin. Marty leans into him and says, "So you're my uncle Joey. Better get used to these bars kid."

They also gave out glow sticks, plastic guitars, threw t-shirts out into the audience (my husband and nephew both caught one). 

The projector worked for the pre-show stuff. They had a contest between 4 people to see who could play the air guitar the best during Johnny B. Goode.

Then when they were about to put the movie on, there was a few technical difficulties. They actually had to switch out projectors. I felt for them. All this was free. Tons of people were waiting to see the movie. I've had my fair share of technical difficulties in the past. They were dealing with it in the dark. They did get it up and working. YAY!

They had key lyrics pop up during the movie, so the audience could read them, and sing to them. I heard a lot of shhhing when it came to the word sh*t being on the screen. LOL I kept looking over and Mica was cracking up when he was saying the lyrics. He played his air guitar every time Marty played.

Michael J. Fox rocking out! 

My boys didn't know that this is what they were watching. They figured it out with all the pre-show stuff. They were super excited. Mica in particular is a huge fan of the series. 

If you could choose would you go back in time, or forward into the future?

 

Some One is Addicted to Legos!

Mica flies his Advengers Quinjet and his Chima Raven all over the house. He's loaded with sound effects!

Now he wants Lone Ranger sets. He's never seen any movies old or new on the Lone Ranger. He knows every character and facts about Lone Ranger from his Lego magazine. One day he talked for 10 minutes straight on the phone to Grandma and Grandpa about the Lone Ranger.

The other day I was looking at things on Amazon. It stores your previous views. Of course I viewed a few Lego sets for Christmas time. Slap me silly, Mica was staring at my screen and saw my previous viewed things.

I'm hardly on the blog around him in fear he'd see a post like this that says what he's getting. It's for him to read when he gets older.

He was like, "I want to see the Lone Ranger sets!" Push the over button Mom, "WOW they make the Back to the Future Delorean?! I want that!" Well I wanted that to be a complete surprise. Dam you Amazon!

Later in the car Mica said, "When we get home can we go back to look at Am I iss n?"

I was like, "What?"

He said, "You know the thing on your computer, where we looked at the Lego sets. Am I iss n."

I said, "Oh you mean Amazon."

He said, "Ya! I want to see all the Lone Ranger things and the Delorean! I want all that stuff!"

Sing Sing a Song Saturday

I started doing what I call Sing, Sing a Song Saturday.  I'm going to post one song on Saturdays that the boys or I like. 

The song may be part of a movie, a kid's video or just a song we like. It may or may not include words. I'll try and include why we like it and/or the history of the song/singer.


The boys recently just watched Back to the Future. 

Since they watched it Mica built what he calls a Back to the Future Airplane out of Legos. It looks nothing like the DeLorean time machine, but that's ok. 

Guess what he sings when he flies his plane around? Power of Love by Huey Lewis and the News.

It still has the Power of Love!

Power of Love

Just for fun, here's the Back to the Future cast when they reunited on the Today Show:

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