Buffy ,'Chosen'
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I think that's around the time the MPAA started sending spies to theatres to make sure they were enforcing the ratings system.
All of us were the same age. I was the only female. And the only one who got carded.
We all gave a funny look to the kid behind the ticket window. Who couldn't have been older than 16 from the look of him.
Hee!
I think it helped for me that the Librarian movies never really pretended to be anything but goofy and stupid. Had they been trying to be serious, I think I wouldn't have liked them either.
but... but
Bob Newhart kicking ass!
You do realize you just said that about a movie with a hot librarian protagonist amid the densest concentration of Giles lovers on earth?
And yet here I stand, unafraid. For my conviction gives me the strength of a hundred nerds! A thousand! I shall ne'er bow before the hordes of those with opinions different from mine, nay, I shall stride forth, stoic and sure, for I have my unbending and unswerving view of the world as my staff and Godwin's Law at the ready!
I'm all in agreeance with MM on Indiana Jones and the Plexiglas Skull. The whole aliens'n'spaceship plot didn't really work for me, although I hear what you all are saying about it being very apropos for the 50s. The refrigerator scene was funny, sort of? but pretty pointless, and WAY over my suspension-of-disbelief threshhold.
I think for me, part of what I loved about Raiders of the Lost Ark and Last Crusade was the sense of awe and wonder that they made me feel. Finding the Ark of the Covenant, becoming part of the legend of the Holy Grail -- that's good stuff! I'd guess that most of us who make up the target audience for the Indy movies have a basic familiarity with Judeo-Christian stories & symbols and their meanings. This one was mostly about either made-up or very obscure mythology, none of which made a great deal of sense, and so it was much harder for me to connect with the story or feel that same awe.
I have no idea what my first R movie was! Huh. My parents weren't very strict about what my brother and I watched, and it was really easy to get into R-rated movies anyway, so I guess my first one didn't make much of an impression.
I dunno what my first R-rated movie was. I grew up on HBO and have a very early memory (pre-6) of going into the kitchen to ask my mother, who had a friend visiting, why the man and the woman on TV went into a room and took their clothes off. I saw that movie again a couple of years ago and recognized that very same scene and I guess I was lucky that I left the room when I did. Elsewise I would have had some much harder questions for my mother.
I think my first R rated movie was Little Darlings. Or maybe Saturday Night Fever. Blah, don't remember and am too lazy to look up dates.
The first R rated movie I saw in the theater was Rain Man, I think.
My father took me to see Barbarella when I was 9. Yeah. He was a freak.
I guess technically, mine was the Bo Derek Tarzan when I was like 7. But it was at a drive-in with my parents, so I'm pretty sure I fell asleep. I do remember her boobs sticking straight up, though!