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Jul 11, 2016 - 9:44 AM
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RoryR
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Earth. 
Paranoid, eh? Well, I hope you're happy wherever you are. Me? I always wish I live someplace else, and better.
I actually saw POTA in the theater on first run. While I was too young at the time to appreciate the social/political commentary I loved it all the same.
How old were you? I was just over two months shy of my ninth birthday when I saw it in early April 1968. I'd been seeing the commercials for it on TV for the two months prior to that, so I was pretty hyped for it, and already was crazy about KING KONG and gorillas in general.
I saw it in a packed single-screen neighborhood theatre (remember those?) on the first weekend after it opened nationally on April 3, 1968. It was a Sunday matinee. Ironically, when I go to it this time, it'll also be at a Sunday matinee.
I've only seen the original theatrically ten times in my entire life. Before a 2008 40th anniversary showing I was able to go to in NYC (where a badly duped print was shown), I hadn't seen it in a theater since June 1974 as part of one of those "Go Ape" marathons they had for a few years back then, and by that time the print I saw of the '68 original was in bad shape.
This will be digitally projected, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed it looks good.
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I like PotA, but not enough to pay to see it in a theater now.
I wanted to see "Ghostbusters" and "Jaws" in recent years when they were being shown in limited theaters across the country, but they never played close enough to me. We've got four or five theaters here but we can never get any of these.
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All these people seeing pota in the cinema before they went to infants school!!
I was about 10 when it was postered all over London's tube platforms.
No, said my mum on a trip to the tower of london in school holidays, You cant see that, youre far too young. Youve got to be much older.
I cant even remember what cert it got in the uk then. Might as well have been xxx.
Never mind the forbidden zone, that made it forbidden fruit.
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What was A back then, under 12 accompanied by an ape?!!
And in 1968, what was G?
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So the equivalent of the UK U certificate.
Thats a big difference. Equiv U in USA and an A in the Uk.
Some frightening stuff in that film - espec the gorillas in the cane field and jerrys horns.
Mustve scared the shit out of a few 6 year old americans!!
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