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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDo these movies make you feel old?
They all turn 30 this year!
Lethal Weapon
Dirty Dancing
The Witches of Eastwick
The Princess Bride
Predator
Wall Street
Moonstruck
Broadcast News
Fatal Attraction
Robocop
Full Metal Jacket
Good Morning, Vietnam
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Spaceballs
The Secret of My Success
Three Men and a Baby
Throw Momma From the Train
1987 wasn't such a bad year for movies.
Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)My parents let me watch 30 years go (I was 9)
SamKnause
(13,101 posts)My brain does not accept that my body has gotten old.
I no longer see myself when I look in the mirror.
There is a stranger starring back at me.
My friends are young, my mindset is young, I still believe in the
same things that I believed in when I was young.
The dirty fucking hippies were right. (Reference to YouTube video)
I am glad to be one of them !!!
War is wrong, weed is right !!!!
Hate is wrong, love is right !!!!
retread
(3,762 posts)Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)pressbox69
(2,252 posts)Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Full Metal Jacket and Good Morning Vietnam were my favorites that year. Strange you left out the Oscar winning The Last Emperor. I feel old when I remember that I carried a long time grudge against Lambchop and Charlie Horse because they replaced my beloved Howdy Doody.
NBachers
(17,108 posts)That's when the "starting to maybe feel old" vibe sets in.
MFM008
(19,808 posts)but whats amazing is I have not seen 10 of them.............
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)hibbing
(10,098 posts)canetoad
(17,153 posts)Except forgetting to turn the kitchen tap off yesterday.
True Dough
(17,303 posts)sakabatou
(42,152 posts)Freddie
(9,265 posts)Working FT and my daughter was an infant. Saw most of the movies as VCR rentals (remember those?)
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)But I did see Princess Bride at a drive-in.
We got married the year before so not much theater money back then but the drive in was always a good bargain.
I'd still go if we had one.
TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)FrankfurtCat
(1,213 posts)...and are now favorites of my kids, all born between 1982-2000.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)These days it's a rare year that tempts me into the theatre even once.
So I suppose the answer to your question is yes.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,185 posts)trc
(823 posts)I still do the Chatty Cathy string pull on occasion...now just kinda get odd looks, but it makes me smile...like a Whopper, well done
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)54th st between Madison and Park ave. but I actually got to see John Candy put his trunk in the cab.
sarge43
(28,941 posts)think of the first movie you remember seeing, then check its release date. Mine was Christopher Columbus with Fredric March, 1949. I may be the only person left who remembers it.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)I remember being mad it wasn't a Batman movie. My kid brain confused John Wayne for Bruce Wayne.
FrankfurtCat
(1,213 posts)Still can't shake the vivid pictures in my mind and "Yoo hoo hoo, I wanna be like you-oo-oo..."
True Dough
(17,303 posts)P.S. The first movie I remember seeing at the theater was the original Star Wars. It was released in '77, but I think my dad took my sister and I in '78. I was 5 and transfixed by what I saw on the big screen.
sarge43
(28,941 posts)True Dough
(17,303 posts)trc
(823 posts)was really stoned and totally transfixed by the flying scenes
whathehell
(29,067 posts)but I believe you got me beat.
NBachers
(17,108 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)OK, Gunsmoke on radio, William Conrad voicing Marshall Dillon
NBachers
(17,108 posts)a bit before my time. Their Crystal Sets were interesting to play with though.
The second mayor of Mayberry played Chester and Floyd the barber played Doc.
Archae
(46,327 posts)sl8
(13,749 posts)The last time I saw it was in the theater, first release.
I felt old when I watched it.
When it was released, I remember that is was a big deal,
I don't think it quite holds up as the blockbuster it was in1976, but, if you add in a big dose of nostalgia, and abit of remembrance of Gene Wilder, it's worth one more viewing.
Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)is one of my all time favorites!
PufPuf23
(8,773 posts)I had just missed 2 plus weeks of school with a bad case of chicken pox.
My first trip out of the house was to go to see Raising Arizona at the Grand Lake Theatre in Oakland and for ice cream at Fenton's.
I love that movie but the feeling was somewhat other worldly.
Problem with the chicken pox was I was a 34 year old grad student at Cal.
That's a stupid subject line ( it's totally "way" .
One of my all time favorites.
Largely, but not completely, because Holly Hunter is the ideal woman.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,185 posts)No cell phones!
longship
(40,416 posts)I currently have Harvey from 1950 from NetFlix, with James Stewart, Josephine Hull (Oscar!), and a great supporting cast, including inimitable Harvey as himself. In glorious black and white, of course.
Love The Princess Bride. It would be inconceivable to not love it.
whathehell
(29,067 posts)Not as old as me, I suspect.
longship
(40,416 posts)But I love old movies and do not like rock and roll very much. I confess to be a bit of a old fashion kind of guy, culturally.
My best to you.
whathehell
(29,067 posts)We're all entitled to our own tastes. Back at ya.
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)James Stewart did Harvey again with Helen Hayes on Hallmark TV and Art Carney played it in 1958.
rzemanfl
(29,557 posts)whathehell
(29,067 posts)The Graduate
But h Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Putney Swope
Bonnie and Clyde
The Sting
All the President's Men
Goodbye Columbus
Kramer vs Kramer
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)Raging Bull: it made me feel bored when I watched it and cheated when I remembered I paid for it.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Before that, my mother took me to a mother where some dolphins died and I cried ? No clue what it was.
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)was First Man In Space, a horror film.
betsuni
(25,481 posts)I love these movies:
84 Charing Cross Road
Baby Boom
Broadcast News
Dancers
Empire of the Sun
Fatal Attraction
Moonstruck
Roxanne
Wall Street
September
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
On the other hand, I saw Beverly Hills Cop II last week and it nauseated me. Lower class women were strippers, prostitutes, waitresses, criminals and were referred to as the b-word: "That big-titty b---- isn't happy" and "That's a big b----" . The only "good" women were relatives or wives. Gross. But I really love Eddie Murphy's movie "Boomerang" so all is forgiven.