Watched Labyrinth on the weekend at The Embassy in Welly with my mum, as it was having 40th anniversary screenings around the place and she was already in town for other reasons.
Pretty sure I hadn't seen it at the cinema back in the day (my earliest memory of going to cinema was Masters of the Universe the year after in 1987), though mum seems to think we had, regardless was still a fun old time all around.
She was having a good old laugh, especially at Sir Didymus the overly-brave fox dude and his valiant steed Ambrosius the cowardly sheepdog.
Each time Bowie broke out into song it did feel a lot cheesier in my old age compared to when I watched over and
over again as a youngster, and Sarah's moody teen petulance was both a lot more funny (and equal amounts annoying) to me in retrospect, but was absolutely loving all the puppetry and practical effects. I remember we had the behind the scenes feature recorded from TV as well that we rewatched almost as much as the movie, and specifically remember trying to recreate the Helping Hands with our own versions of hand-faces back in the day
Like a lot of retro movies I never saw at cinema but did a million times on VHS recorded from TV, my brain was constantly thinking "oh there's a commercial break" hah
Speaking of MOTU, just saw the new trailer for that, looks like it'll be a bit of fun.
Already looks a lot more colourful and action packed than the 80s movie, and seemingly a lot more based in Eternia, even though I'm sure a large chunk of the film will still be set on Earth. Skeletor looks pretty badass, hoping Jared Leto gets the voice right hah! They better have Skeletor doing a "TILL WE MEET AGAIN *run away*" moment
Between this, Street Fighter & Mortal Kombat II - gonna be a lot of reliving my childhood this year!
