I love this picture. I wish I was a teenager during those great cinema years. Must have been really great to go to the movies as a kid during this time, when blockbuster were born.
I really love the movies of the seventies...IMHO, the last really great decade to be a moviegoer in the USA.
Where were you in the 80s, 90s, and the 00s? I haven't had any trouble whatsoever being a very happy moviegoer. Of course, I get off my ass and actively find the good and great stuff, instead of complaining on the internet about how much better it was in a different decade.
I love this picture. I wish I was a teenager during those great cinema years. Must have been really great to go to the movies as a kid during this time, when blockbuster were born.
Cool photo. I was 19 when Star Wars premiered. I saw it the night of it's third day. It opened in Cincy on a Wednesday; I saw it Friday night. We lined up for the first show, but it was sold out. So they sold tickets for the second show. In those days, movies opened on one screen per multiplex...in the case of Star Wars, it opened on one screen in the entirety of Cincinnati, way up on the very north side of town. Two weeks later, it opened in a second theater.
I'd buy a ticket but only at discount price to sit in screening room 1, I´d except an invitiation to enjoy the soundtrack in room nr. 2 and no money in the world could get me in room nr. 3.
You know, it's funny you should mention "being a kid," because I was just talking with someone day and remarked about how few GOOD teen/kid movies there are. Movies like The Goonies, Stand By Me, Radio Flyer, Explorers, White Water Summer, The Sand Lot, Toy Soldiers, The Last Starfighter... It seems there's a serious lack of "real" young adult films out there. What little "kids" stuff actually comes out is usually either animated or very stupid and farfetched, and with no heart. The 80's and early 90's were a great time to be a kid at the movies. The motion picture industry is obviously targetting older people who have more money to spend, and really ignoring the kids, I think. Too bad.
But on a polar spectrum, your Goonies might be some modern kid's High School Musical 3. It's all very relative. The problem is, modern movies for kids don't rightly appeal to older generations like us, similar to how the movies we grew up watching might have not appealed to our parents or grandparents. The movies that are released today will grow some fondness over the years, but not from us. They weren't created for us. It's as simple as that. And modern children's cinema that might appeal to us is clearly created by those who became active film buffs during their own childhood; those are the ones to seek out. Films like Monster House, Up, Spy Kids, Speed Racer, etc. are films that are created by very young filmmakers, and they still have an intentional fondness for the child-like appreciation of movies like this.
I remember seeing STAR WARS the Sunday evening before Labor Day, May 1977 with friends- we sat on the lawn outside the Northpark I and II with hundreds of others as sitting through a show was the only way you could get in to the next feature. 1977 was a great summer- I was 20 years old, about to turn 21 in the the fall. I saw THE SPY WHO LOVED ME about a month later in the same theater, long gone now, but the Northpark shopping center is still there.
But on a polar spectrum, your Goonies might be some modern kid's High School Musical 3. It's all very relative. The problem is, modern movies for kids don't rightly appeal to older generations like us, similar to how the movies we grew up watching might have not appealed to our parents or grandparents. The movies that are released today will grow some fondness over the years, but not from us. They weren't created for us. It's as simple as that. And modern children's cinema that might appeal to us is clearly created by those who became active film buffs during their own childhood; those are the ones to seek out. Films like Monster House, Up, Spy Kids, Speed Racer, etc. are films that are created by very young filmmakers, and they still have an intentional fondness for the child-like appreciation of movies like this.
If you look at the titles I've listed, they all have a common thread..."male bonding." I don't see any thoughtful or real bonding taking place in today's kid-like movies. But you've proven my point. Speed Racer and High School Musical are not the same kinds of movies as the ones I've mentioned. They're in totally different catagories and classes. If a movie like The Goonies were to come up now, when I'm an adult, I know I'd have the same love for it because it reminds me of my curious, carefree days as a youth. That feeling and desire to reflect never changes, no matter what era the world's in. Today's movies simply don't provide me with that great escape to my youth. I should add that I never saw The Goonies, Camp Nowhere, Mean Creek, Radio Flyer and The Sandlot until I was about 25, so it's not simply a feeling of fondness due to a childhood viewing of those films. Those types of films and the way they were made make you remember the fun times you had as a kid.
I love this picture. I wish I was a teenager during those great cinema years. Must have been really great to go to the movies as a kid during this time, when blockbuster were born.
And there I thought it was the new Universal France release.
All of the titles I listed include male bonding as well.
Then I guess that speaks to the fleeting, superficiality of today's friendships. Realize, though, that I can't stand musicals. They annoy the crap out of me. I can stand Grease 2, but that's about it - and it's mainly because Michelle is slinking around in tight clothes.
