Okay, not quite. It's a PPPPA of one. But what is this PPPPA you may be asking? It's a little club my friends and I created back in High School, and it stood for the Poor Pathetic People of Porterville Association. It's as awesome as it sounds...
So what did we do? Well, while other teens were driving the 30+ minutes to the nearest mall, going on fantastic dates, and other really cool stuff, my friends and I would go to Hollywood Video and rent a movie. (Did we ever go to Blockbuster?!?! Guess Hollywood Vid was more convenient? Was Blockbuster already gone? Why can't I remember? Dang empty crevices of my mind.) But we didn't rent just any video, we rented classics and old movies, and in some cases the stranger the better.
Old campy sci-fi. Once we watched a fantastic random musical that I wish I remembered the name of. It was great. Hitchcock's Vertigo. We rented a silent movie this one time, determined to read every slide with words. It was fun for the first 30 minutes, until it got old, and I swear that movie was like 3 hours.
So for my PPPPA nostalgia, instead of having a group of people over to watch movies, which sounds fantastic right now, I'm going to seek out to watch old movies and then talk about them. For "reasons" I've decided not to review new movie releases anymore, and instead write about the old stuff. It will be fun watching and exploring the classics, and silly campy stuff as well. Old movies that are new to me, as there's so much I haven't seen, and old favorites I would like to revisit.
Sarah
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