Showing posts with label big screen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label big screen. Show all posts

Friday, June 25, 1999

The Omega Code (film)

The Omega Code (film).

In 1999, when I was 14 years old, me and my family saw the film The Omega Code in the big screen, and I have seen it more than once. It is about the future. It is about a man attempting to take over the world. It is also about this young father who tries to stop him. It is scary.

I also saw Bicentennial Man that year on a Sunday evening. After it was over, I caught the rest of our adult Bible study at our Community Baptist Church in Cornelius, Oregon USA and one at my church told that I should not have seen it and I understand how he feels but I still wanted to see it as the scientist and historian and observer and philosopher that I am.




Possibly during the summer: 1999
14 years old
The big screen in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal

Friday, July 10, 1998

Armageddon

Armageddon.

In 1998 when I was 13 years old, I saw Armageddon in the big screen, but I cannot remember which big screen at the moment.


1998
13 years old
Somewhere in Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal

Friday, January 31, 1997

Star Wars: Special Edition

Star Wars: Special Edition.

In 1997, for my 12th birthday, I saw the three films from the Original Trilogy (OT) of the Star Wars Saga (1976 - 1983) in the big screen. My birthday was on Tuesday: the 11th of February 1997 (for that year). The three films were playing in the big screens, one film per month: January, February, and March of 1997.

I may have saw several seconds of Star Wars before while others were watching it before 1997, and I may have seen bits and pieces of the parody version Space Balls, but I first became a fan in 1997 and I may have seen some of these more than once and I went on to see the Sequel Trilogy of Star Wars in the big screen, multiple times for the Phantom Menace and once for the next two I think, and I liked the Prequels as well.


January - March, 1997
12 years old
At the big screen near Safeway: Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal

Friday, November 15, 1996

Space Jam

Space Jam.

I started trying to dribble when I was 7 years old in the year 1992. I started playing on organized children tri-city basketball teams when I was 8 years old in 1993 until 2000 (technically speaking) when I was 15 years old, and I still play when I can but not really on organized tournaments, except for a few times.

My dad and brother would watch the NBA on TV. I started rooting for Michael Jordan in the year 1993 or so when I was 8, I think, or something like that. The younger I was, the less I cared about the wellness and chemistry and teamwork of the whole entire team as a whole, and the more I would just care about my so-called role-model idol god, who just so happened to be Michael Jordan, and later it included Clyde Drexler, Damon Stoudamire, and others were added as I got older, like Kobe.

I like Bugs Bunny.

I like Michael Jordan.

Those were my two reasons for seeing Space Jam in the big screen in the year 1996 when I was 11 years old.

This is the one film that inspires me to play basketball and to go after my dreams. I this very inspirational. I got scared at the end. I did not want Jordan to lose and get stuck in the cartoon world forever.

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I still sing that song:

I believe I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky.

I think about it every night and day. I spread my wings and fly away.

I believe I soar, I see it coming in an open door.

I believe I can fly.........




November 1996
11 years old
At a big screen in Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal


Friday, July 7, 1995

Apollo 13

Apollo 13.

Almost every year, our aunt and uncle, Karen and Jim Williams, would drive around two hours from Warrenton, Oregon USA to Forest Grove to pick one or more of us Arnold family members, and they would usually drive us in their luxury car back to their house. That is four hours for them, there and back. They would usually come sometimes for the Independence Day holiday, which is the 4th of July each year.

They would also come sometimes for Christmas each year, which is the 25th of December of each year. I actually think they did come twice a year to see us.

In the year 1995, in July, when I was ten years old, they picked up just me, Joey Arnold, and I was so excited since this was always the highlight of my year.

They asked me what film I wanted to see in the big screen and I demanded for the Power Rangers; The Movie. Instead, i was like figuratively dragged into a big screen in I think Astoria, Oregon USA, and we saw the film Apollo 13, which stars actor Tom Hanks, and I was not sure what to think then, but now, and as I got older, I began to appreciate Tom Hanks and other things in life.


I almost drown at the beach one night. I am usually with them for a weekend each year, except for one year it was like 9 or so days.

I was not actually drowning.

I was full of sand. The waves were high.

I was with just Jim.

When we got back to their house, I showed Karen how high the waves are with my hands and she gave her scared to death face.

Sometimes, I would pick up golf balls with Jim at golf courses.


4th of July, 1995
10 years oldWarrenton & Astoria, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal