I fully admit that I’m a picky movie person; I try not to be though. I often make myself watch things out of my comfort zone to try and broaden my horizons, but it rarely yields any reward. Case in point, Robin Hood Men in Tights - a slapstick, spoof comedy. It’s not a horrible movie; it’s just not my cup of tea (which is kind of odd for a person who likes 3 Stooges - yeah I’m complicated like that). So I guess I’ll go on a tangent, about something somewhat related to the movie instead…
Oddly enough, I saw this movie in the theatre as a pre-teen. I went with a childhood friend and her father, who barrel laughed through the whole film, so loudly that my friend and I sunk in our seats out of embarrassment. We saw it at Clarkson 6 during the Summer flood of ’93 and after the show we drove to the “bottoms” (now known as Chesterfield Valley or the shopping mecca off Long road). We rode down Baxter rd. - to what in those days was a river bottom (where mainly landscapers went to get supplies or you got salami from the Smokehouse), and parked in the middle of the road a 1/2 block before the train tracks cross over the road. From there forward was nothing but murky brown water, with just tree tops and rooves sticking out. A lot has changed since then, yet we are still fighting flooding today (just hopefully not in the “bottoms” again). I’d like to think Mother Nature has a sense of humor, so she’d probably laugh at Robin Hood Men in Tights, and then strike it down with lightning (while singing opera style).
2 air pumps out of 5
Photo about 1 mile from Clarkson 6 Cinema (now PetCo) - on Clarkson/Olive road near Interstate 40/64 in 1993:
Love that your review was less a review and more of a nostalgic trip down memory lane. And hey, I am currently sitting in a building that was almost fully submerged in the flood down in the "bottoms".
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