It's kind of weird to think of a movie as having a noticeable impact on my upbringing, but I can't deny that I see bits of me all over this movie. So I don't think it is an overstatement to say that, for me, Small Soldiers transcends cinema.
A big part of my love for this is how creative it has always felt to me (my childhood imagination basically plagiarized this movie) but the scene that I have thought about…