How many of you were actually around in 1986?
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sonofbeach-sheet — 9 years ago(May 12, 2016 07:57 PM)
ACTUALLY around? 32 is the median age in America and this came out almost 30 years ago. Late summer to be exact that I remember. I was 18. I liked it, but disappointed that Richard Dreyfuss and John Cusack barely appeared and almost everyone else was an unknown at the time.
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Burning_Sosobra — 9 years ago(May 25, 2016 06:22 PM)
32 is the median age eh? That's something, I'm 32 myself. Yeah I was only about 3 when this film came out. Suffice it to say I didn't see it until a few years after it came out.
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TheArtfulDetective — 9 years ago(August 22, 2016 03:53 PM)
Well said. My friends and I were about their age too and we also watched it at a sleep over while hearting over River - and probably fighting over which one of us would be his girlfriend if given the opportunity. This movie brings nostalgia in many ways.
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TwoThousandOneMark — 9 years ago(June 15, 2016 07:03 PM)
I was probably around 8yrs old when I first saw it. It was hilarious, to see boys curse so much for kicks.
It wasn't until about 10yrs later when I truly lost myself in its greatness.
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doug1967_1 — 9 years ago(July 11, 2016 04:52 PM)
I was nineteen when the film hit theaters and saw it when it went into wide release. Big Stephen King fan and the reviews of the film were all stellar. It was a matinee show and, unfortunately, some idiot kid in the back of the theater kept "mock crying" whenever someone wept on screen. Just making fun of the film for no other reason than for being a creep.
This little jerk, who has undoubtedly forgotten all about his boorish behavior, totally spoiled the experience of what was (and still is) an exceptional movie.
Sadly after all these years I still remember this wanker kid and his immature conduct affecting the experience of seeing this.
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restlessminds — 9 years ago(July 28, 2016 05:00 AM)
I was 7 at the time and at some point, my parents stopped carrying about me watching rated R movies. Although in retrospect, it's funny how bad movies like Robocop looked. Nevertheless, The 80's are a nostalgic decade for me, especially the music. I just hated big hair rock bands. I mostly listened to Pop and R&B. The Cure was to weird for me at the time, but I eventually grew out of that closed mindset that I had. New Order was good, but I never had any of their albums on cassette tape, or vinyl. My Bloody Valentine, The Pixies, now those are bands that I didn't appreciate until I learned that my favorite bands in the 90's looked up to them. As for VHS, my family preferred Betamax. We didn't switchover until we had to. You know, as convenient as things have become, I miss renting movies, & going to the record store. Searching through the endless shelves of cassette tapes. Those were the good old days.
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DaxTony — 9 years ago(July 29, 2016 06:48 AM)
Not me. I came around slightly afterwards. I saw this movie on TV and instantly fell in love with it. My aunt actually bought me the movie on DVD several years after I saw it, and it remains to this day as my favorite film of all time.
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starvb083 — 9 years ago(August 01, 2016 11:31 AM)
I was 25 in 1986 but didn't watch SBM until early 1988 when I rented it on vhs.
Due to the selfishness of a minority of cinema-goers I rarely if ever go to watch a new movie in public because I cannot bear the murmuring, food packet rustling or general presence of others around me while 'sharing' a movie experience.
I almost always wait until the dvd is available and watch it at home to avoid things such as earlier poster Doug1967 had with a kid mock crying in the cinema and spoiling the showing for him.
I own the dvd of SBM and watch it around once per year, it's still among my top few movies of all time and I doubt if anything newer will ever out-exceed it. -
rek16803 — 9 years ago(August 09, 2016 06:54 PM)
I own the dvd of SBM and watch it around once per year, it's still among my top few movies of all time and I doubt if anything newer will ever out-exceed it.
I felt the same way. Saw SBM dozens of times over 30 years. Still is my Favorite. I even made a trip to Oregon and California just to see some of the filming locations, including the train trestle bridge in Burney Ca.
Now I just saw another amazing film this summer, " Sing Street". See it on DVD now or streaming. Its now my second favorite film of all time just under SBM.