Films

it scared me shitless

I was 13 when it came out and remember kids crying and running up the corridors away from the screen. There was definitely popcorn throwing to add to the drama and i may have thought to myself "watch an honest hardworking man slowly slip down the stern of a ship into a sharks mouth and then give me a call".

Was given these bitd and they’ve always been kept in various drawers and moved with me.

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Still one of the best blockbusters ever made. It gets rewatched periodically, never lets me down.

At the time I found it a bit too Disney, even though I realised that was part of the point. But it had Jeff Goldblum, Bob Peck and Wayne Knight (Dennis).

I've been informed by my mum that they may have watched Casper next door, no chance I could've dealt with a scary ghost film.

Arachnophobia was 1 of my first that i remember (at Wycombe 6), was very traumatic. Everyone with their feet up on seats.
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"OMG they got the professor"

Arachnophobia was 1 of my first that i remember (at Wycombe 6)

I never watched that because I dislike spiders and it was meant to be scary, maybe now is the time.

Bit late to the Death of Stalin chat.
This guy wasn't too happy with it, either:

https://www.new-east-archive.org/articles/show/9122/the-death-of-stalin-review-iannucci-buscemi-russell-beale

I remember going to see Jurassic Park when it came out.

Took the day off work, went to the Virgin Megastore on Oxford Street first to pick up a copy of Jungle Strike for the Mega Drive, then off to the Empire Leicester Square. Laser show to start, THX: The Audience is Listening, then on with the dinosaurs! Great stuff, proper 'event cinema'.

The first film I remember seeing at a cinema was proper scary. I was about 6 years old at the time, and was so afraid I ran out of the cinema. Scarred for life by The Wizard of Oz.

Lol I watched Arachnophobia at home with a friend on rental video. Must have been about 8 or 9 at the time. By the end of the film we were standing on the windowsill as we were too freaked out by the prospect of spider attack to trust any other space in the room. It was probably about a year before I could have a shower or sit down on a toilet without doing a comprehensive spider check first.

I'm always amazed at how many things people remember from their childhood, that Jurassic Park one covers most of my memories from preteen and I think I got part of it wrong. My mother-in-law was on about boring stuff that she remembered as a 6 year old the other day and I've got nothing like that. There are certainly a few films that punctuate that misty memory haze though, I often need a prompt to bring one to mine though.

This is why I didn't watch it at the time, I've only recently got into horror and am generally fine with it, I think the idea is worse than the film in general, although I avoid torture porn stuff. Scariest ones growing up were the shining and event horizon, shining was fine, I still don't want to rewatch event horizon but think it would be a great film for our local film club thing.

That guy should script the box set remake. Jesuit Armando always has been entirely lacking in self awareness.

Trashy horror...

Why has Society been forgotten in the annals of 80s b movie horror?

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Do a Sam Neill double bill. Event Horizon followed by Jurassic Park as a palate cleanser. Follow it up with Possession if you want to freak yourself out again.

Robin hood prince of thieves was a big one for me.

I remember being at a mate's flat in my early 30s and it being on. We all knew so much of the script off by heart. His girlfriend was cooking, then with perfect timing stuck her head round the door and did a perfect rendition of Alan Rickman's spoon explanation.

I have memories of watching RHPOT in the cinema twice while on holiday. It came out in 1991 which would make me 5. That can't be right. Which means it must have been a repeat screening a year or two later for some reason? Or my parents were more carefree than I realised.

To this day I greet all my cousins with a Rickman-esque, "Couu-sin!"

Master of the Universe for me. I remember very little from the early days but film stuff sticks with me. In retrospect that was a tough ask to drag my mum through.

Remember watching Robin Hood PoT when it came out at the ABC in Streatham. Also remember Little Mermaid at that one, and is probably where we went to watch Jurassic Park, but I don’t specifically remember, will have to ask my brother and little sis.

Have good memories of 12 Monkeys and Heat at the ABC in Croydon, when IIRC we were a couple of years underage.

Earliest memory is from a tiny cinema in Fishguard. A re-run of Bambi with my big sister. I also saw Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade there with my mum when it came out. We sat upstairs where she could smoke! 🤦‍♂️

Convoy was the first film I can remember seeing at the cinema (quite a few years ago!).

Ooh, I think The Little Mermaid with my grannie in Southampton might have been my first. I must have been young though as she died before I started school.

Jurassic Park I don't remember where - must have been a more appropriate age.

I remember seeing Babe at a friends birthday. He was called Bahram, so when the fucking sheep started blurting out 'bah ram ewe' his mum lost it.

Godzilla with a couple of older cousins from another country I barely knew. Got very into Jamiroquai for at least 3 days after that.

A little later on I remember my dad taking me to see Gladiator and, on another day, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon - both mid-week, so was feeling billy big bollocks at school the next day.

In Brighton we used to go to various cinemas and screenings multiple times a week. In Devon and as a parent I've been to the cinema once in the past 5 years (Dune when a friend visited and even then I felt guilty despite literally being forced out of the door by mrs cyoa). Can't wait til age appropriateness of films starts to align with kiddos age/ability to cope. Modern releases aimed at very young kids seem so much more chaotic and stressful than ones I remember growing up with.

Modern releases aimed at very young kids seem so much more chaotic and stressful than ones I remember growing up with.

No way, modern kids films fuck with your emotions by making you think about them, old ones just killed a parent at the start and had the kid character deal with the fallout.

I'd probably take The Land Before Time and years of therapy over Paw Patrol: Mighty Movie.
But there are of course some great modern films for children - just aimed at slightly older ones than ours.