Movie Madness!

 

This next blog entry is brought to you by a friend of mine from C-Tran. Matthew Cannon, this one's for you.

Hey there, hi there, ho there! Welcome to my monthly blog. Today I wanna discuss about something that I’ve been thinking about doing daily in my spare time.

I call it “Monday Movie Madness”.

It’s a special kind of event idea that I came up with on my own. So when the time comes and I’m back in Lawrence, I can plan a special movie madness event with my friends. And maybe do one with Matthew Cannon too. Why? Cause I think maybe we’d thought about this for a very long long time ever since I’ve been going to the movies and whatnot. So I have some ideas starting with a little list on a chart I came up with. I’ll write this down on paper later on in case I can remember.

Here’s what it’s all about.

Introducing my ‘movie madness month list’. It features a list of classic movies past and present in any genre and title. Please note that this list contains five movie titles or more including special events which can appear or happen daily. So here goes.

January:

Howard the Duck, Cats Don’t Dance, Happy Gilmore, Chicken Little, Ella Enchanted, An American Tail, Rover Dangerfield, Pebble And The Penguin, The Emperor's New Groove, Osmosis Jones, Vivo, The Mitchells vs. The Machines

February:

Napoleon Dynamite, Monty Python’s The Holy Grail, The Three Musketeers, Rent, Shrek, Pretty In Pink, The King And I, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Annie, Kazaam!, The Neverending Story, Woody Woodpecker, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

March:

Luck Of The Irish, Riverdance, Kids In America, Are We There Yet?, Muppets From Space, Bee Movie, Madagascar, Doogal, Luck, The Commitments, Rock-A-Doodle, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, A Night at the Roxbury, Coneheads, A Hard Day's Night, Earth Girls Are Easy, Sing 2, Under The Boardwalk, Dot and the Kangaroo

April:

Kangaroo Jack, Space Jam, The Muppet Movie, The Adventures of Elmo In Grouchland, Follow That Bird, Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Finding Nemo, Forrest Gump, Overboard, Clueless, Gumby: The Movie, Kermit’s Swamp Years, Dot and the Koala Bear, The Bad Guys, The Road To El Dorado, Felix The Cat: The Movie

May:

National Lampoon’s Vacation, Billy Madison, Daddy Day Care, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, Chicken Run, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, The Rugrats Movie, Blue’s Big Musical Movie, Blue’s Big City Adventure, Billy Madison, Groundhog Day, The Big Lebowski, Rookie Of The Year, Zootopia, The Blues Brothers

June:

Wet Hot American Summer, The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle, Rugrats In Paris, Teen Beach Movie, Max Keeble’s Big Move, A Goofy Movie, Accepted, Road Trip, Dude Where’s My Car, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Toy Story, In The Heights, Rad, A League Of Their Own, Soul, The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert

July:

Spaceballs, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, Wayne’s World, UHF, Sonic The Hedgehog, Back To The Future Part II, Adventureland, Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer, The Sandlot, It Takes Two, Dog Man, Captain Underpants: The Movie, The Loud House Movie, Hey Arnold! The Movie, The Wild Thornberrys Movie, The Great Muppet Caper, American Graffiti, America's Heart and Soul, Beavis And Butthead Do America

August:

Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life, Clueless, Dazed And Confused, Getting Even With Dad, Good Burger, That Thing You Do!, The Adventures of Pluto Nash, Wonder Park, Superstar, Sister Act, The Sound of Music, The Ladies Man, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, Sky High, An Extremely Goofy Movie, School of Rock, Encanto, Airplane!, Harriet the Spy, A Cinderella Story

September:

The Wizard of Oz, Antz, Honey I Shrunk The Kids, The Powerpuff Girls Movie, Horton Hears a Who, Grease, The Muppets Take Manhattan, Ernest Goes To School, Animal House, Teen Titans Go To The Movies, Leo, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Sing, Aladdin, The Return To Jafar, Pocahontas, Ernest Goes To School, Ernest Goes To Camp, Daddy Day Camp, Men In Black, Muppet Treasure Island, Big Fat Liar, Quest For Camelot

October:

Beetlejuice, Scooby Doo, Monsters Inc., Corpse Bride, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Addams Family, Casper, Scooby Doo Movies, James And The Giant Peach, The Little Vampire, The Haunted Mansion, Don’t Look Under The Bed!, Spookley the Square Pumpkin, Halloweentown, Kung Fu Panda, Flubber, Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves, The Birdcage, Ernest Scared Stupid, Ghostbusters

November:

Talladega Nights, Mean Girls, Freaky Friday, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Brave Little Toaster, The Simpsons Movie, Matilda, Wicked, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, Free Birds, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Wallace & Gromit Movies, Tweedy's High Flying Adventure, Flushed Away, The Lizzie McGuire Movie, Dumb and Dumber, The Princess And The Frog, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Ratatouille, Home Alone

December:

Elf, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, The Muppets Christmas Carol, The Polar Express, The Grinch, Unaccompanied Minors, The Santa Clause, Bah HumDuck: A Looney Tunes Christmas, Eight Crazy Nights, Anastasia, Frozen, It's a Wonderful Life, Jingle All The Way, A Flintstones Christmas Carol, Snow Dogs, Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas, The Simpsons Christmas Special, The Nuttiest Nutcracker

All these and many more as they get updated every Monday when I'm back in Lawrence.

Anyway during Monday Movie Madness, there will be snacks and soda. And also including popcorn. We can plan on that indoors whenever it's raining outside or for special evenings or maybe outdoors in the backyard, or for special outdoor occasions and parties. If I'm showing family-friendly documentary films, maybe we can do that especially in special Earth Day events.

So here's some Earth Day movie choices I've come up with for the time being. (My own home movies also included):

Movies for Earth Day:

Sing Along Earth Songs: A Journey To a Cleaner Earth, Disneynature Earth, Dr. Seuss's The Lorax, Oceans, Wings of Life, African Cats, Chimpanzee, March of the Penguins, Dolphin Reef, Monkey Kingdom, Bears, Open Season, WALL-E, Hoot, Sacred Planet, FernGully: The Last Rainforest

Now here’s what we’re thinking about this special idea. When I’m back, we’ll get this event set up. And to do that, we gotta find some place here in downtown Lawrence to make this all happen, and not just at home. So if you like these classic movies and seen them in the theaters, then Monday Movie Madness is the one you'd like. I'll contact Matthew Cannon on Facebook and see what's up. Maybe I can bring in some snacks, some soda, and some popcorn. Then after that, we can hang out and grab ourselves some dinner or maybe a bite to eat somewhere. And who knows, maybe I can even come to his house and do 'Movie Madness' with him and his family. Won't that be really fun? It'll be just like MST3K but better.

In the meantime, if you like my special idea for Mondays on my blog, feel free to send me more info about Monday Movie Madness. Even if it's on a beautiful day or a rainy day, sorta speak. Any day you could think of. Well, anyway...

That's it for now. Check back next time for another story on my next Lawrence Kansas blog. Hey, say hi to Matthew Cannon for me. This one's for you, bud.

For Matthew Cannon.