How many of you were actually around in 1986?
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giamatt02 — 9 years ago(August 22, 2016 01:00 PM)
I had just turned 15 a few days before this came out, but I didn't see it in the theater. A friend of mine rented it a few months later and we watched it there.
The line about having friends like you did when you were 12 (or in my case, 15) rings so true to me today now that I'm 45. I spent the better part of 4 years with my crew, literally almost every day hanging out with them, playing every sport, going to the movies, or just sitting around shooting the breeze.
Eventually, I met the girl who ended up being my wife and I just sort of started to drift apart from them, but some of them went down the wrong road in life. 2 of my good friends passed away, including the one whose house I saw this and many other rented movies in, and others just started doing drugs, while some of the others just went down a better path.
I have since reconnected with most of them via Facebook and I am happy to see that some have families of their own and even the ones who had some struggles seem to have overcome them and that makes me feel good but nothing can ever replace the times we had back during the carefree days of being kids. Funny how people you spend almost every waking hour with for several years can just no longer be in your life. -
zavijer — 9 years ago(August 23, 2016 01:31 PM)
I was 9 when the movie hit the theatres, but for some reason (I really can't explain it) have never seen it until today - finished it half an hour ago to be exact.
I've seen the Ben E. King's video with Wheaton and Phoenix (and scenes from the movie) thousands of times in the late 80's, perhaps I've seen a couple of scenes when it ran on TV (I do vividly remember the scene with leaches on balls and when they run from the train, but nothing else), but have never seen the film from the beginning to the end until today. Weird. Perhaps I missed it at that time as a kid, and always mistakenly thought of it as a 'kids' movie when I was a teenager and later on, I knew of its cult status as one of the best movies of the 80's, but for some reason I never had had the wish to see it.
Great movie. Really loved it. I gave it 9 stars here at IMDB, the highest mark I've given so far. -
britman55 — 9 years ago(September 20, 2016 09:15 PM)
I knew two people who walked out of the theater during the vomiting scene. I didn't see the film until it came out on VHS. Glad I did because it was one of the best films of the year. Wil Weaten lived around the corner from me at the time (Sunland). Didn't know him well but knew he was into science fiction stuff.
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alzanden-1 — 9 years ago(September 20, 2016 10:56 PM)
I was 7 when it came out, but I doubt I saw it in the theater, so I was probably a few years older when I saw it for the first time.
I can remember watching it over and over after I taped it off TV. I had the biggest crush on Keifer Sutherland, so some days when I didn't feel like watching the whole thing, I'd fast forward to just his parts. Gotta love VCRs -
ferris209 — 9 years ago(October 09, 2016 11:48 PM)
Also one of my favorites. In 1986, I was around 7 or so. We went to a movie theater in Waco, Texas to see it during a midnight show. My Dad never cared much for ratings and used a little known thing known as "parental experience" and knew I was old enough to understand, comprehend, and enjoy the story with no adverse affects.
True enough, watching this movie and even sitting through the end credits because we loved the music, is one of my best memories. I remember it being one the very first times I watched any movie all the way through from the first preview of another movie to the last credit screen, this was long before Marvel movies made sitting through credits a thing.
I was really into 50's cars and music, even at age 7, and I still am. So, this movie was a boon to me at that age.
Great memories, great times, great film. -
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SpaceMountainMike — 9 years ago(November 30, 2016 12:09 PM)
It was the summer after I was liberated (graduated) from high school. I was going to buy a poster and bring it to my reuinion (along with other movies that were released that summer.
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Geeky Randy — 9 years ago(January 08, 2017 01:57 PM)
I was one.
Book:
http://geeksteronmovies.blogspot.com/p/the-geekster-guide.html
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