"I love the Power Glove... It's So... Bad..."
Does anyone remeber the movie "The Wizard?" It was the Fred Savage movie from the late eighties/early ninties. I netflixed it and watched it last night.
It is funny to watch a movie that you absolutly loved as a child and then realized how bad it really is, and in that badness, realize that it was truly great.
Apart from the fact that Jenny Lewis was in it, it also introduced the power glove, and Super Mario Three. It also gave us the coveted look into the profession that we all wanted as children: The Nintendo Power Game Counselors. They were the reason I became a counselor. I thought I was going to school to help people through tough parts of video games, but by the time I realized I was helping people with their mental and emotional issues it was too late to change.
So, you might ask yourself: "who is Jenny Lewis?" Well she is the lead singer of Rilo Kiely and had one of the best solo cd's of the year this year... Oh yeah, and she was the smart and witty love interest of Fred Savage in the movie...
Finally, the greatest part of "The Wizard" is the moral to the story: Super Mario Three can cure a mentally and emotionally disturbed child, while simultaniously cure a very broken family system and an evil bounty hunter's heart to the love the children he is paid to hunt...
"The Wizard" may be the most important movie of all time.
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haha this made me laugh :-)
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