Do these movies make you feel old?

[True Dough]

They all turn 30 this year!

Lethal Weapon
Dirty Dancing
The Witches of Eastwick
The Princess Bride
Predator
Wall Street
Moonstruck
Broadcast News
Fatal Attraction
Robocop
Full Metal Jacket
Good Morning, Vietnam
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Spaceballs
The Secret of My Success
Three Men and a Baby
Throw Momma From the Train


1987 wasn't such a bad year for movies.

[Docreed2003]

1. I'm actually more shocked in retrospect how many of those movies

My parents let me watch 30 years go (I was 9)

[SamKnause]

2. No, looking in the mirror makes me feel old.

My brain does not accept that my body has gotten old.

I no longer see myself when I look in the mirror.

There is a stranger starring back at me.

My friends are young, my mindset is young, I still believe in the

same things that I believed in when I was young.

The dirty fucking hippies were right. (Reference to YouTube video)

I am glad to be one of them !!!

War is wrong, weed is right !!!!

Hate is wrong, love is right !!!!

[retread]

12. "Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

[In_The_Wind]

49. my profile.

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieve it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. ~~~~~~~~~ For, it ends in the blink of an eye. Carpe Diem (Seize the day)!

[pressbox69]

3. No they don't make me feel old.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Full Metal Jacket and Good Morning Vietnam were my favorites that year. Strange you left out the Oscar winning The Last Emperor. I feel old when I remember that I carried a long time grudge against Lambchop and Charlie Horse because they replaced my beloved Howdy Doody.

[NBachers]

36. Our own Beulah Witch, carrying the Kookla, Fran, & Ollie torch here, is a 2016 Memoriam member now.

That's when the "starting to maybe feel old" vibe sets in.

[MFM008]

4. now they do............

but whats amazing is I have not seen 10 of them.............

[uriel1972]

5. Inconceivable...

[hibbing]

6. Yes, I was young and hopeful instead of old and cyncial like today n/t

[canetoad]

7. Nothing makes me feel old

Except forgetting to turn the kitchen tap off yesterday.

[True Dough]

8. As long as you didn't wind up doing some swimming!

[sakabatou]

9. Well, that was the year I was born in...

[Freddie]

10. I was 30 (sigh...)

Working FT and my daughter was an infant. Saw most of the movies as VCR rentals (remember those?)

[OriginalGeek]

17. Yep, vhs or maybe HBO

But I did see Princess Bride at a drive-in.

We got married the year before so not much theater money back then but the drive in was always a good bargain.


I'd still go if we had one.

[TexasProgresive]

11. No, but I know, "I've Had The Time of My Life"

[FrankfurtCat]

13. Most of those movies make me smile...

...and are now favorites of my kids, all born between 1982-2000.

[Ron Obvious]

14. I saw four of them in the theatre

These days it's a rare year that tempts me into the theatre even once.

So I suppose the answer to your question is yes.

[NightWatcher]

15. Those aren't pillows!!!

[TexasBushwhacker]

26. One of the best lines ever! n/t

[trc]

28. I laugh through almost every scene of this movie, usually to the point of tears.

I still do the Chatty Cathy string pull on occasion...now just kinda get odd looks, but it makes me smile...like a Whopper, well done

[pressbox69]

43. I watched them film it where I worked.

54th st between Madison and Park ave. but I actually got to see John Candy put his trunk in the cab.

[sarge43]

16. If you want to feel old,

think of the first movie you remember seeing, then check its release date. Mine was Christopher Columbus with Fredric March, 1949. I may be the only person left who remembers it.

[OriginalGeek]

18. True Grit

I remember being mad it wasn't a Batman movie. My kid brain confused John Wayne for Bruce Wayne.

[FrankfurtCat]

19. First movie in a theater was Disney's "The Jungle Book"-1967

Still can't shake the vivid pictures in my mind and "Yoo hoo hoo, I wanna be like you-oo-oo..."

[True Dough]

20. At least you weren't aboard the original voyage, sarge!

P.S. The first movie I remember seeing at the theater was the original Star Wars. It was released in '77, but I think my dad took my sister and I in '78. I was 5 and transfixed by what I saw on the big screen.

[sarge43]

22. Nope, but did steerage on the Mayflower :) n/t

[True Dough]

23. Damn impressive credentials, pilgrim!

[trc]

29. I saw the first Star Wars in a theater as well...

was really stoned and totally transfixed by the flying scenes

[whathehell]

35. I thought I'd be the oldest, with "Demetrius and the Gladiators' 1955

but I believe you got me beat.

[NBachers]

37. Well then, we can both talk about The Camel Caravan, and pre-Timex John Cameron Swayze.

[sarge43]

38. Ah, TV and radio

OK, Gunsmoke on radio, William Conrad voicing Marshall Dillon

[NBachers]

40. Well, I can remember my older brothers getting permission to listen to Dick Tracy up in their room.

a bit before my time. Their Crystal Sets were interesting to play with though.

[pressbox69]

44. and

The second mayor of Mayberry played Chester and Floyd the barber played Doc.

[Archae]

39. "The Bible." I was 6 years old.

1966.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060164/

[sl8]

21. I watched "Silver Streak" 2 days ago

The last time I saw it was in the theater, first release.

I felt old when I watched it.

When it was released, I remember that is was a big deal,

I don't think it quite holds up as the blockbuster it was in1976, but, if you add in a big dose of nostalgia, and abit of remembrance of Gene Wilder, it's worth one more viewing.

[Kimchijeon]

24. Spaceballs

is one of my all time favorites!

[PufPuf23]

25. Raising Arizona also came out in 1987.

I had just missed 2 plus weeks of school with a bad case of chicken pox.

My first trip out of the house was to go to see Raising Arizona at the Grand Lake Theatre in Oakland and for ice cream at Fenton's.

I love that movie but the feeling was somewhat other worldly.

Problem with the chicken pox was I was a 34 year old grad student at Cal.

[sl8]

27. No way!

That's a stupid subject line ( it's totally "way&quot .

One of my all time favorites.

Largely, but not completely, because Holly Hunter is the ideal woman.

[TexasBushwhacker]

30. One thing that's striking watching movies from the 80s

No cell phones!

[longship]

31. What does it say about me that I remember 50's movies?

I currently have Harvey from 1950 from NetFlix, with James Stewart, Josephine Hull (Oscar!), and a great supporting cast, including inimitable Harvey as himself. In glorious black and white, of course.

Love The Princess Bride. It would be inconceivable to not love it.

[whathehell]

34. That you're old?

Not as old as me, I suspect.

[longship]

46. Well, to be honest, I was born in 1948.

But I love old movies and do not like rock and roll very much. I confess to be a bit of a old fashion kind of guy, culturally.

My best to you.

[whathehell]

50. Just one year older than me...

We're all entitled to our own tastes. Back at ya.

[pressbox69]

45. 50's movies are great.

James Stewart did Harvey again with Helen Hayes on Hallmark TV and Art Carney played it in 1958.

[rzemanfl]

32. I was forty that year. So, no. n/t

[whathehell]

33. No, these do..

The Graduate
But h Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Putney Swope
Bonnie and Clyde
The Sting
All the President's Men
Goodbye Columbus
Kramer vs Kramer

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

41. No. Here's a movie from the '80s

Raging Bull: it made me feel bored when I watched it and cheated when I remembered I paid for it.

[steve2470]

42. Sound of Music, 1965

Before that, my mother took me to a mother where some dolphins died and I cried ? No clue what it was.

[pressbox69]

47. My first movie

was First Man In Space, a horror film.

[betsuni]

48. No, not at all!

I love these movies:

84 Charing Cross Road
Baby Boom
Broadcast News
Dancers
Empire of the Sun
Fatal Attraction
Moonstruck
Roxanne
Wall Street
September
Planes, Trains and Automobiles

On the other hand, I saw Beverly Hills Cop II last week and it nauseated me. Lower class women were strippers, prostitutes, waitresses, criminals and were referred to as the b-word: "That big-titty b---- isn't happy" and "That's a big b----" . The only "good" women were relatives or wives. Gross. But I really love Eddie Murphy's movie "Boomerang" so all is forgiven.