The Death of Childhood(Memories)

“She said I was wasting my youth… so she took it.”-Buffy The Vampire Slayer(TV)

Now, I’m not an old man. Seriously. No matter what some of my so-called friends try to say about my “advanced” age, I’m only 28 years old(at least until March), but I find myself more and more saying things that being with something along the lines of “These kids today…” and end with me decrying the lack of cultural touchstones that my classmates in college and I share. I mean, hell, some of my co-workers have never even seen The Goonies, and I believe that to be a crime punishable by death in most civilized nations. So, it should come as no shock to me that these very same co-workers couldn’t understand my trepidation when I heard about the proposed A-Team movie. However, thanks to the fine people at the Movie Blog, I now have less fear about that particular bit of nostalgia from my younger days. Still, the mere thought of an A-Team movie that may, indeed, not suck and a very fine live-action Transformers has got me thinking about what other staples of my childhood could use an updating. So, I present to you the 3 creative properties from my youth that I would like to see updated into modern versions, along with my prediction of how Hollywood would fuck them up.