Passing it on to the next generation

Always been one of my favorites and my little secret cult classic I felt was all my own (well and you people and QT of course)....

I've loved it since I first saw it in 1985 - I was a sophomore in college and it really grabbed me emotionally and has always been one of my favorites. Inspired me and my college buddies to not be weenies and we went skydiving as a result.....anyway...

I just finally shared this movie with my son last night. He is almost 18 and about to go off to college after this summer. Felt it was time to have him see it. I've had him watch every great movie and series of movies from my youth and he has loved many of them, the ones he should anyway, and has a real appreciation for great movies from back in the day. He is a writer himself and writes many stories of fiction about him and his buddies on similar roadtrips and such...

I was hoping he would like this the way I do but I tried not to oversell it either....well he LOVED it, every single bit of it, he thinks it is the perfect road trip movie. Bright kid too...he immediately picked up on Gardner and the girl saying early on "she's the one that is supposed to marry Waggener isn't she?"...but even that did not spoil it for him...he knew DOM was not going to be a person, though it might have been their pet or mascot or some token or something but he loved that it was just a bottle that meant something to them (which we never knew why exactly) and was just the reason for the trip really.

Just thought I'd share - I'm thrilled that he seems to love it as much as me. and it proves how timeless this movie is. I felt that myself in 1985 when I couldn't really relate to 1971 and Viet Nam, but it didn't matter. Likewise none of that mattered to my son - it's a buddy movie and road trip movie and the time and place don't really matter.

So to all the Fandango devoted fans...share it with your kids and their friends, I think you'll be glad you did.