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Willets Point May 24 2007 10:05 PM

The movie that redefined our childhood came out 30 freakin' years ago today!

Nymr83 May 25 2007 12:27 AM

you guys had a lucky childhood, i think [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100758/] this[/url] was the most hyped movie of my childhood (that was age appropriate at least)

Benjamin Grimm May 25 2007 04:33 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on May 25 2007 07:15 AM

Neither Star Wars nor Star Trek ever did much for me.

Farmer Ted May 25 2007 06:43 AM

Fast Times at Ridgemont High defined my teenage years.

sharpie May 25 2007 06:59 AM

I was outta the country working on ships when Star Wars came out. When I returned I saw it in a near-empty theater in Tacoma, Washington. The movies never did much for me, though Lenny was really into them for a while. Later, I did a bunch of work with the Lucasfilm people and made a trip out to the Skywalker Ranch. They were nice to me but were so steeped in their new-age greed that I was happy to stop working with them.

Frayed Knot May 25 2007 07:28 AM

Never seen it

soupcan May 25 2007 07:40 AM

Jaws is the movie that still resonates with me. To this day I can't get in the ocean, or lake for that matter, without thinking about it. I won't let my kids watch it but that's probably stupid because the special effects are so dated that they'd probably think it was a comedy. "Dad, that was hilarious! How could you think a giant styrofoam shark would scare us?"

Iubitul May 25 2007 08:37 AM

="soupcan"]Jaws is the movie that still resonates with me. Same here - I guess that makes us at least one year older than everybody else... On a slightly different note, I always crack up at the title card for Bad Hat Harry productions....

metirish May 25 2007 08:55 AM

Never watched any of the Star wars movies,I'm thinking but I really can't say any one movies defined my youth,if anything maybe "The Wonder Yeaes" would,love that show.

sharpie May 25 2007 09:17 AM

The Sgt. Pepper 40 year anniversary of next week is what makes me feel old. That was what defined my youth, not any movie or TV show.

Willets Point May 25 2007 09:23 AM

I feel old just because I can remember all the hype back in 1987 when it was Sgt. Pepper's 20th anniversary. All the headlines said "It was 20 years ago today..." and I remember thinking that was a long time ago.

Edgy DC May 25 2007 09:27 AM

It was twenty years ago today! That it was twenty years ago today!

RealityChuck May 25 2007 11:14 AM

The movie that redefined my childhood was Dr. Strangelove. I did see Star Wars when it first came out, but I was already an avid SF reader (and in my late 20s) at that point.

G-Fafif May 25 2007 12:35 PM

I was 14 when "Star Wars" came out, but my childhood had been squarely defined when I was 9 by "The Candidate," the perfectly cynical movie for that perfectly cynical decade. That and "Network," which I saw on my 14th birthday. "Star Wars" was mysteriously a ninth-grade class trip about six months after it was released. I liked it and its two relatively immediate sequels well enough in their time. When I attempted to watch the original on VHS in the early '90s, I was bored to tears. When it was rereleased in theaters in 1997, I tagged along with some younger co-workers who were all excited about it (another class trip, as it were). We pooled some cash and stocked up on a flask of Bacardi at a nearby liquor store and then snuck the rum in to our fountain soft drinks. That was clearly the best part of the experience. The movie had grown excruciatingly boring but I was nice and buzzed.

metsmarathon May 25 2007 12:48 PM

ugh... don't remind me... i was born 4 months after star wars came out. this is truly a very very unhappy anniversary for me...

metirish May 25 2007 12:56 PM

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/system/topicRoot/Star_Wars__30_years_on/?OTC-HPtoppuff&ATTR=starwars

Benjamin Grimm May 25 2007 01:26 PM

="G-Fafif"]I was 14 when "Star Wars" came out, but my childhood had been squarely defined when I was 9 by "The Candidate," the perfectly cynical movie for that perfectly cynical decade. That and "Network," which I saw on my 14th birthday. I too was 14 when Star Wars premiered. I liked it well enough, I guess, but it didn't define or inspire me or anything like that. I did see the first two sequels, but I still haven't seen any of the three recent prequels. And I really have no interest in seeing them, so unless I'm in the room when one of my kids is watching, I probably never will. I'm trying to think what movie did "define my childhood." King Kong, maybe? But THAT movie was released 30 years before I was born! (And THAT, if anything makes me feel old. When I was born, King Kong was as old as Star Wars is today.)

Willets Point May 25 2007 01:31 PM

All right, enough already. Forget I mentioned it. <sulks> Bunch of old fogeys!

Centerfield May 25 2007 01:35 PM

Star Wars was pretty much the most important thing to me until I was about nine.

metirish May 25 2007 01:37 PM

Centerfield wrote: Star Wars was pretty much the most important thing to me until I was about nine. Then you noticed you had a hard on?...

Kid Carsey May 25 2007 03:19 PM

I didn't see Star Wars until the early 90's. The whole way it exploded into merchandising and bbbyyy was a total turn off to me. It's funny, but I know a lot of people who have never watched it out of apathy. Truth is, all three of the trilogy movies are really quite good and the characters are quite lov- able and enjoyable. I'm watching the first on tape right now (I have the box set of VCR tapes) .... and they're in the infamous "Star Wars Bar" right now. To people who haven't seen them, if you can forget that the characters and the whole Star Wars thing was jammed down your throat so many year ago ... I think watching the first one first ... you'll want to watch the second.

DocTee May 25 2007 03:21 PM

Irish: you'll be getting a bill for the keyboard that I just ruined with Coke and the pants I just soiled with urine. That was a hilarious line

Willets Point May 25 2007 03:59 PM

I'm starting to wonder if there's a correlation between people who don't like Star Wars and people who are really into Queen. I've never seen such a concentration of each group as there are in the Crane Pool.

sharpie May 25 2007 04:01 PM

I don't like Star Wars or Queen very much. Though I tolerate both in moderation.

Benjamin Grimm May 25 2007 04:07 PM

I don't have strong feelings for either either.

MFS62 May 25 2007 04:12 PM

sharpie wrote: I don't like Star Wars or Queen very much. Though I tolerate both in moderation. I like both. A lot. Later

TheOldMole May 29 2007 07:10 AM