The Journey Begins
I got a lot of cool stuff for Christmas 2007, including one unexpected gift from Dad. It's a set of DVDs called 50 Movie Pack: Drive-In Movie Classics , and as the title suggests, it contains 50 movies one might expect to see at a drive-in theater in days of old -- "classic" b-movies from decades past, such as Day of the Panther, TNT Jackson, and of course that favorite I Wonder Who’s Killing Her Now? As unusual as this is, it’s not without precedent. Last Christmas, Dad gave me another 50 Movie Pack, this one containing 50 Horror Classics on 12 discs (which sounds like something from the “greatest hits” game on Whose Line Is It Anyway? – “Order now and we’ll send you 73 lumberjack songs on 58 CDs!”). But the truth is, I never got around to watching the horror movies. If I don’t finish them, I’ll never get around to watching the drive-in movies, and what kind of display of gratitude would that be for my father’s thoughtful gift? So I’m going to watch all 5...