Post #259544 by Tipsy McStagger on Sat, Oct 7, 2006 8:15 AM

welcome aboard!!!

..i had a similiar experience.....when i was kid, i loved to watch "Kolchak: night stalker", which basiclly was the predessesor to the x-files which came years later.....i remembered how cool it was at the time and how scary it was for a kid.......so i bought the first season on dvd, not to relive anything,but to see these episodes as an adult now.....It's not that it was a total dissapointment...looking at this series through the eyes of an adult with 25 some odd more years experience on me, i could appreciate things about it that as a child i never would have understood or cared about...but the special effects were horrific...at the time they seemed like the height of hollywood sci-fi but now they are outright laughable.......the plots too, were often far fetched. but as a child, i never would have known they were so outrageous.....i was just groovin on being entertained.....I have had similiar experiences with the caradine kung-fu series and that old 70's flick, the gargoyles, which i found on ebay on dvd.....these monsters scared the crap out of me as a kid......i gotta admit, the costumes are still really creepy in this one, even now, but the acting and story are ridiculous......we've all grown up. In another 20 years, the films we thought were so cool today may well fall into the same situation.....who knows.