I don't remember my first R rated movie, but I do remember Poltergeist (another PG-13 precursor) scaring the beJesus out of me.
Heh: the steak, the fall-apart face, and, worst of all, the CLOWN!!!
You know, I've saved lives. Dozens. Maybe hundreds. I reattached a girl's leg. Her whole leg. She named her hamster after me. I got a hamster. He drops a box of money, he gets a town.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
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Frankenbuddha - Jun 02, 2008 9:43:28 am PDT #6130 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Laga - Jun 02, 2008 9:46:58 am PDT #6131 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Mom wouldn't go see ET with us because she was sure the little alien would die at the end (just like any movie with a cute creature in it, according to Mom) and she hates to cry at movies.
So sister Meg and I went by ourselves and loved it so much we assured Mom ET lives and that she should come see it with us again.
But weepy Gertie is a powerful thing and even though Meg and I knew ET would be OK we started crying again too. Mom leaned over and angrily hissed, "I can't believe you girls lied to me!" We had to sobbingly assure her there was a happy ending coming.
megan walker - Jun 02, 2008 9:47:08 am PDT #6132 of 10000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I remember being scared sh*tless by It's Alive, which I sincerely hope was not R because according to IMDB it came out when I was 7. I saw Jaws not much later (I snuck into the student union and watched it with the big kids on movie night) and still think about sharks in the water to this day (even in freshwater lakes).
Ailleann - Jun 02, 2008 9:56:35 am PDT #6133 of 10000
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MM, it is a commonly accepted theory (um, in a manner of speaking) that the Nazca lines are for signaling fucking space aliens, which I always thought was vaguely awesome.
Miracleman - Jun 02, 2008 10:07:29 am PDT #6134 of 10000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
MM, it is a commonly accepted theory (um, in a manner of speaking)
Yes, I suppose. And yet it seems more plausible, to me at least, that the lines were built for pleasing or appeasing the gods which may or may not have been fucking space aliens.
There's also an interesting theory that the lines were built to please the "Eye of God", i.e. a total solar eclipse. A series of total solar eclipses occured over Nazca approximately the same time that the lines were built.
There's also the possibility that they were for "labyrinth walking" a form of spiritual meditation practiced by Egyptians, Indians (from India) and other early pagans. Christianity later adopted it.
Glamcookie - Jun 02, 2008 10:08:40 am PDT #6135 of 10000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
It's Alive
Was this the mutant beasty baby? Hahahahaha!
Glamcookie - Jun 02, 2008 10:09:47 am PDT #6136 of 10000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
megan walker - Jun 02, 2008 10:11:44 am PDT #6137 of 10000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Was this the mutant beasty baby? Hahahahaha!
Yes!
P.M. Marc - Jun 02, 2008 11:00:26 am PDT #6138 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I think the first R rated movie I saw in a theatre was RHPS.
The first time I got CARDED for a movie was Jerky Boys.
Which, WTF? I was 20. I hadn't looked 17 since I was 14. And anyhow, my team of three were half the freaking audience for it.
Laga - Jun 02, 2008 11:04:20 am PDT #6139 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Which, WTF? I was 20
I think that's around the time the MPAA started sending spies to theatres to make sure they were enforcing the ratings system.