'Serenity'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
le nubian, I'm so glad that I'm not the only one peeved to see the abundance of prairie dogs (especially since they were fake!).
Did I mention yet that the next day after seeing Indy I went for a hike through some giant anthills? Yes? It bears repeating. They bit me. I was wearing sandals. My ankle still itches.
I was about to post that I had little recollection of any movies I saw between Cinderella and Wayne's World, but I actially saw Tess... on a friends HBO Which actually inspired a lifelong love of Hardy!
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.
He was getting your name and address. Seriously, what else could it be?
I think mine was Tess. If that wasn't R rated, it should have been, coz no kid should be forced to sit through a Hardy adaptation without fair warning.
Raq for the win. Though I know TESS was PG, and I think JUDE would totally obliterate it in the misery (and R-rated) category.
The Honeymoon Killers tonight. Man, that movie was such a realistic form of noir that the murders made me feel sick to my stomach.
My first R-in-a-theater was Beverly Hills Cop. My friends and I bought tickets to Amadeus, which was what we told my parents we were going to see, and then snuck into the other theater. My parents busted me by asking, in detail, about the plot points. I didn't even know who Salieri was. No idea what my first R-rated movie was, but I suspect it was Blazing Saddles at my friend's house when I was 9 or so.
First R-rated movie in a theater was A Fish Called Wanda. But we had cable and my parents never cared much about that sort of thing, so I'm sure I'd seen R-rated movies before that.
Last weekend I saw Screaming Mimi on TCM. It's not very good, but it is completely nuts. Gothic noir, with Anita Ekberg doing a crazy "dance routine" (TWICE!) that largely consists of her rolling around on the floor in shackles and not much else. To xylophone jazz. Oh, but it did have this winning bit of dialogue:
"How tall are you?"
"With heels?"
"With anyone."
And then, because I needed more crazy, I watched Black Snake Moan. Which also has an half-naked woman writhing around in chains. It had some problems too; the set-up is a lot more interesting than the resolution. But it was surprisingly sweet and funny. And had a most excellent soundtrack.
My first R-rated movie at a house was The Shining.
First one in a theater... not sure. Maybe Varsity Blues or I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. Because high schoolers have winning taste.
To xylophone jazz.
Vibraphone, darling.
The novel that Screaming Mimi was based on was one of THE primary touchstones for the giallo genre (among others, Bava's The Girl Who Knew too Much and Argento's Bird with the Crystal Plummage steal various chunks of the story).
t /Euro-horror geek
Aliens is the first R-rated movie I can definitely remember seeing at the theater rather than on cable, but I've been a serious horror movie fan since middle school. I'm sure saw A Nightmare on Elm Street and other similar feel-good movies long before it was legal for me to do so.
ETA: Nope, I remembered going to see Silver Bullet with my mom in '85. Of course she, as the adult, was the one all jittery and nervous afterwards.
Vibraphone, darling.
See, that makes the whole thing even dirtier!