kpowers said:

EmmaMcG said:

kpowers said:

You are more advanced than the average child

Yeah but it's not just me though. I don't know anyone who didn't see The Snapper or The Commitments or The Van as children. And like I said, most kids I went to school with had seen the likes of RoboCop, Terminator and other action movies like that.

So what age range are we talking about? Yes I believe a lot kids roughly around 12 and up have a seen Robocop and the Terminator (not sure what the Van and The snapper movies are about)

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kpowers said:

Car Wash

It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Smokey And The Bandit
Cannonball Run 1 & 2
Cannonball! (1976)
Eat My Dust!
Grand Theft Auto (1977)
Duel
High Ballin'
The Great Race

Moonrunners
The Gumball Rally
The Love Bug (1968)
Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
Blues Brothers (I guess car chase movies were my favorite kind to watch. Probably why Dukes Of Hazzard is my all time favorite TV show. I don't have any interest in the newer stuff though like Fast & Furious. Never seen any of those.)
Follow That Bird
Apple Dumpling Gang
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
The Incredible Mr. Limpet
Race For Your Life Charlie Brown

Benji
Old Yeller
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Weird Science
Lassie, Godzilla, Tarzan, Jerry Lewis, Elvis Presley, & John Wayne movies (they were on TV all the time. I saw a lot of old western movies too because of them being shown often on TV.)
whatever was on Kung Fu Theater that came on Saturday afternoons (ig. Five Fingers Of Death, lots of Shaw Brothers & Golden Harvest)
Superman 1, 2, 3
Uptown Saturday Night
Let's Do It Again
A Piece Of The Action

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Batman (1966)
The Wiz
Moonwalker
The Valley Of Gwangi
Every Which Way But Loose
Any Which Way You Can
DC Cab

EmmaMcG said:

kpowers said:

So what age range are we talking about? Yes I believe a lot kids roughly around 12 and up have a seen Robocop and the Terminator (not sure what the Van and The snapper movies are about)

[Edited 8/31/20 3:17am]

I was about 8 or 9 when I went on that school trip and talked to that boy about RoboCop etc. But it wasn't a movie he'd just seen it or anything. He had probably seen it a few times over the previous 2 years or so so he would have been about 6 when he seen it first. I was a bit younger than that when I first seen it but speaking to a lot of people in my age group, they all watched those kinds of movies when they were really young too. Even my husband, who is a few years older than me, grew up watching those movies. He seen Terminator 2 in the cinema when he was 11 but had seen the first movie loads of times when he was much younger. The Van and The Snapper are sequels to The Commitments. Very funny movies. I don't know anyone from Dublin who hasn't seen them multiple times. Colm Meaney is hilarious.

Love the Commitments but never knew about these sequels...thanks Emma!

Wizard of Oz, fuck cgi. Makes you daydream, even with the painted backdrops.

S2DG said:

EmmaMcG said:

S2DG said:

Love the Commitments but never knew about these sequels...thanks Emma!

No problem. The Snapper is part 2 and then The Van was the third in the trilogy. They are based off "The Barrytown" trilogy of novels by Roddy Doyle. Unfortunately, when it came time to make the movie of The Snapper, another company owned the movie rights to the Commitments characters so even though it IS still a sequel, they changed the characters surnames. And then the same thing happened with The Van. So in each of the 3 movies, the family have different names and Colm Meaney is the only actor who actually reprises his role across all 3 movies. So don't be confused that all of a sudden the characters have different names or are portrayed by different actors, all the movies are still canon with each other. The changes were made because the movies couldn't have been made without them. When you're watching it you don't even think about it.

Gotcha! Thanks again!

I watched Caligula at the age of 11 because of my sister's friend and it was a shock.

slyjackson said:

I watched Caligula at the age of 11 because of my sister's friend and it was a shock.

Bloody hell...

"Caligula"...that's a helluva film....I think P's "Gett Off" video was inspired by that movie....as far as it goes with childhood, influential films..."Purple Rain" and The Beatles docu "Let It Be". Seeing those films at a young age really inspired me to become a musician.

purplethunder3121 said:

slyjackson said:

I watched Caligula at the age of 11 because of my sister's friend and it was a shock.

Bloody hell...

Yes, he was like 22 and I think he did have some other intentions with me, but I'm not sure just saw him like three times in my life. Very handsome and great body.

All of the adult-oriented films listed here were unknown to me as a child because I wasn't allowed to see restricted-rated movies until I was a teenager. I think my first one was Stir Crazy at age 13. Before then the films that made the biggest impact on me were definitely Star Wars and Grease.

Mannequin

The Boy Who Could Fly - one of the most incredible "early teen" movies of all time!

Innerspace

Matilda would be one of them, what a marvellous film, so enjoyable and heartwarming love it til this day.

Aristocats
The Jungle Book
Born Free
Saturday Night Fever

Grease
Tommy
Annie Hall
Ordinary People
Star Wars
Halloween
Jaws
The Shining
Love Story
2001 A Space Odyssey
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
American Grafitti
The Three Muskateers
Superman The Movie

purplethunder3121 said:

Star Wars
Alien
(I saw Alien by mistake after seeing Star Wars, back when parents could drop their kids off at a theater, and movies came out back to back) I was terrified

Superman

the Wiz

Halloween

Saturday Night Fever

DiminutiveRocker said:

Aristocats
The Jungle Book
Born Free
Saturday Night Fever

Grease
Tommy
Annie Hall
Ordinary People
Star Wars
Halloween
Jaws
The Shining
Love Story
2001 A Space Odyssey
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
American Grafitti
The Three Muskateers
Superman The Movie

I forgot about Saturday Night Fever!! I had to sneak around to see that one at the movies. My parents were none to happy when they found out I seen it.

PennyPurple said:

DiminutiveRocker said:

Aristocats
The Jungle Book
Born Free
Saturday Night Fever

Grease
Tommy
Annie Hall
Ordinary People
Star Wars
Halloween
Jaws
The Shining
Love Story
2001 A Space Odyssey
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
American Grafitti
The Three Muskateers
Superman The Movie

I forgot about Saturday Night Fever!! I had to sneak around to see that one at the movies. My parents were none to happy when they found out I seen it.

hahaha! Yes! we used to get older "kids" to buy our tickets and then walk in the theater behind them or other adults so it would look like we were with them

hey - how come y'all are forgetting one of the greatest movies of all time - Back to the Future?

domainator2010 said:

hey - how come y'all are forgetting one of the greatest movies of all time - Back to the Future?

YOU'RE RIGHT!

PennyPurple said:

DiminutiveRocker said:

Aristocats
The Jungle Book
Born Free
Saturday Night Fever

Grease
Tommy
Annie Hall
Ordinary People
Star Wars
Halloween
Jaws
The Shining
Love Story
2001 A Space Odyssey
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
American Grafitti
The Three Muskateers
Superman The Movie

I forgot about Saturday Night Fever!! I had to sneak around to see that one at the movies. My parents were none to happy when they found out I seen it.

Yeah, my religious Dad wouldn't let us go... But when I visited my Grandparents they let my friend and I go to see it. We couldn't understand what the big deal was; still don't to this day.

purplethunder3121 said:

PennyPurple said:

I forgot about Saturday Night Fever!! I had to sneak around to see that one at the movies. My parents were none to happy when they found out I seen it.

Yeah, my religious Dad wouldn't let us go... But when I visited my Grandparents they let my friend and I go to see it. We couldn't understand what the big deal was; still don't to this day.

cursing, sexual stuff.... all pretty minor to the story.

DiminutiveRocker said:

purplethunder3121 said:

Yeah, my religious Dad wouldn't let us go... But when I visited my Grandparents they let my friend and I go to see it. We couldn't understand what the big deal was; still don't to this day.

cursing, sexual stuff.... all pretty minor to the story.

That movie would rate a PG13 nowadays, not a R rating...

purplethunder3121 said:

DiminutiveRocker said:

cursing, sexual stuff.... all pretty minor to the story.

That movie would rate a PG13 nowadays, not a R rating...

For sure

DiminutiveRocker said:

purplethunder3121 said:

That movie would rate a PG13 nowadays, not a R rating...

For sure

It would still be rated "R" today because of the swearing alone. From IMDB:

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sexton said:

DiminutiveRocker said:

It would still be rated "R" today because of the swearing alone. From IMDB:

Profanity:

Severe

80 uses of "fuck", 6 uses of "cunt", 3 uses of "pussy", 14 uses of "ass." 1 use of "tits", 4 uses of "goddamn" and other religious profanities, 3 uses of "dick", 3 uses of "cock", 2 uses of "nigger", 12 uses of "spic." 4 uses of "fag." 35 uses of "shit", 4 uses of "cock", 3 uses of "bastard", 5 uses of "bitch", 9 uses of "hell", 4 uses of "damn", 1 use of "prick", 1 use of "whore" and 2 uses of "piss."

"PG-13" movies don't have that kind of language.

And one of the characters gets gang-raped in the back seat of a car. So yeah, I think it deserves its "R" rating. Great movie though.

Edit: I just noticed "cock" is in there twice with 3 uses and then again at 4 uses. So does that mean it's said 7 times total in the movie?

[Edited 9/3/20 10:24am]

Oops - gues I have not seen the unedited version in a while - you're right, still an R

domainator2010 said: