Sunday, December 20, 2020

Guys, I got HBO Max

The household has HBO Max for a month so my mission is to watch and assload of content in these 30 days. 

Kicked off with Action Park by watching it with the wife.

"Oh, there is like a whole reddit on this," she said.

"I first heard of it on a YouTube channel called Defunct Land that talks about the history of amusement parks and children's television," I replied.

I know...I'm super cool. Her blank stare tells me.

In brief, this movie is quite funny if anything with just how unhinged the park was. Imagine all those one up stories from teenage years except they are backed up but newspaper clippings. The producers drop these cartoons animations to visualize the narratives and the "Man in a Ball" one nails it. A real bottom of your balls sharp inhale of WTF feeling. And, I like water parks so an extra curl of the toes when you see the folks nearly tumbled over the sides. 

It starts to sort of veer into a Gen X Forrest Gump for NJ kids when folks wax philosophical of how much fun it was. This was being a part of NJ, man! If you didn't have friction burns from the Alpine Slide then don't call yourself a true NJ kid! Which is too bad considering people died including a harrowing one on one with the mother of the parks first fatality. She even says after 39 years I still feel that pain and it does, man. Pour right through the screen.

Worth a view save. Its that same Tiger King feeling without the guilt that you were suped into some false dichotomy. Look, I love me some "That bitch Carole Baskins" memes but she is not a villain. Watch it again! But only after Action Park. And wear a helmet 



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