So as a kid, I can remember a friend and I getting together to watch the Son of Svengoolie 3-D movie.
Dateline: July 29, 1982. The movie is The Revenge of the Creature. With Clint Eastwood in a cameo as a lab tech!
Anyway, this buddy of mine, his siblings, and I gathered around the television to watch the movie after getting the sunglasses from a local convenience store.
All he could do was complain.
He really literally thought that things were going to be flying out of the television during the entire two hour running time of the movie. As young as I was, I understood how it worked.
I did even try to tell him “it’s only gonna be something that is going to be an element of addition to the movie.” It’s wasn’t going to be the main focus in the thing. Also, the movie is fucking 30 years old! Don’t expect magic!
There was no getting through to him.
To this day people complain about the great 3-D disaster. Like a political scandal, which is bullshit. If you would follow instructions and listen to what Sven was saying at the beginning of the program, you would not have had any problems.
He told you exactly what you needed to do with the technical picture settings on your television to make the 3-D work with the glasses; and the damn 3-D did work with the glasses!!
Apparently I was the only one that showed up for that five minute intro to the movie. Regardless, I grew up watching son of svengoolie on the weekends, got a kick out of those classic horror movies that he shared, and his corny jokes that he is still doing to this day.
God bless Rich Koz, the man himself .
God bless Svengoolie.
Happy birthday, Sven!
