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Cineplex has a program called “Most Wanted Mondays” where older movies are voted on and screened on monthly Monday nights for only $5 (April 30 is Gladiator, May is all about James Bond). On Monday, Dave, our friend Keegan and I went to see Labyrinth at Colossus in Langley. It was awesome. We didn’t have the best seats because we arrived a bit late, but it was still amazing.
I’ve probably seen Labyrinth at least fifty times. I used to rent it and watch it two or three times for every sleepover I had from when I was ten until I was about thirteen when I got my own *cough*totallylegal*cough* copy, then wore that VHS copy out. I still have about 90% of the movie memorized. One of the things I like about Labyrinth is that the sets and costumes and goblins are so richly detailed that I still notice different things that I’ve never seen before. That was magnified by about thirty on the big screen.
Watching Labyrinth with a large group of people (probably around 200) who had mostly seen it already was a crazy experience. Cheering during the opening credits when the TriStar pegasus galloped across the screen, David Bowie’s name, the title…then when David Bowie appeared on screen for the first time, and the anticipatory giggling every time David Bowie’s tight pants came on screen…it was pretty awesome. Most of the special effects held up as well…not so much the green screen stuff, but since most of the shooting was with puppets, it was just as good today as it was in 1986.
It’s got me looking for a few things to augment my enjoyment of it. I used to have the second comic in a series of three that were based on the movie (Marvel Super Special #40) and would love to have a copy of that. I also want to get a copy of the four manga titles “Return to the Labyrinth” that are the sequel to the movie, fifteen or so years after the movie ended (even though there are some very bad reviews of it. 
). There’s also a book on all the goblins, appropriately titled “The Goblins of Labyrinth”. Finally, there’s a title coming out in late 2012 which is the prequel to the movie.
My birthday is in October. Just sayin’. 
