THE VHS SHELF

Year: 1995  Director: Alfonso Cuarón Nostalgia Meter: 1.75/5 Most recent watch: Very long ago.  A Little Princess is a movie that I remember, but just barely. I happened to stumble across it on Netflix, and thought it'd be fun to rewatch something that I don't have much nostalgia for at all. So, what did I remember about A Little Princess ? Not much besides the plot being about a little girl and her dad and India (for some reason). While she's at a horrible boarding school, he goes to war and ends up blind. He forgets she exists, but somehow ends up remembering her and then they're reunited and happy.  At the time when I last saw A Little Princess , my knowledge of WWI probably went as far as knowing that it was the one without Nazis. It is no longer so mysterious that Sara's father goes blind and forgets her. I guess as a kid I thought he just went blind from stress or something. I didn't understand that it was from being exposed to mustard gas. I al...

Year: 1995, Director: Simon Wells, Nostalgia Score: 3.5/5, Most Recent Watch: Probably sometime in the early 2000's. Fun Fact: According to Wikipedia , director Simon Wells is the great-grandson of H. G. Wells. Unlike the first three movies I watched for this project, I hadn't seen Balto since I was a kid. I did like the movie, and I watched it pretty often. I just haven't watched it since for whatever reason. Between Balto and the live-action movie Iron Will , I did have a brief interest in dog sledding which looked to me like a really badass adventure where you also got to hang out with dogs. Anyway, Balto still holds up as a children's film, but it didn't keep my attention the same way it did when I was younger. The animation is good and the plot is perfectly okay, but the story and characters seemed sort of flat. First off, there are a couple distinct things I remember about watching Balto as a kid. I was under the very firm impression that the ...