Movie Theater How's this for being old...

[sirhrmechanic]

Watched "First Blood" in the theater almost 42 years ago.

Now in 1982, when it came out... if we dial back another 42 years...

42 years earlier...

Gone with The Wind had been in theaters for more than a year.

Pearl Harbor was more than a year away.

The Battle of Britain was happening.

Operation Barbarossa (invasion of the Soviet Union by Hitler) was a year away.

Dunkirk is evacuated.

Auschwitz is opened.

The Blitz of London occurs.

Want to feel old?

Think about that...

Sirhr

 

[mosin46]

don't need to think-know

 

[lonegunman762x51]

42 years before First Blood, only a few people ever flew anywhere. People used trains to cross the nation because cars took forever and people used ships to cross oceans. Long distance phone calls were almost non existent, people wrote or sent telegrams if it was urgent. Shipping was via Railroad Express. TV was a novelty from Popular Science, people read books and listened to the radio. Children left school with an education, they could read, right, do arithmetic and learned civics. They had two genders back then and men did not get pregnant. Planes had just begun to be made of metal and the moon landing was 30 years in the future.

The really, really sad part? Sylvester Stallone was only four years from being born, dodging the draft, making his first porn movie and then moving from being a cowardly, draft dodging piece of shit to a pretend war hero in movies.

 

[LuvDog]

You want to talk about being old. I just sent a fax yesterday

 

[Gunfighter14e2]

You want to talk about being old. I just sent a fax yesterday

I remember seeing a fax machine for the first time in 1974. Young Sex'y thing had to put paper on a cylinder, then place the dial phone receiver into the machines holder and hit a button to tell the sender, everything was ready on her end.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

I remember seeing a fax machine for the first time in 1974. Young Sex'y thing had to put paper on a cylinder, then place the dial phone receiver into the machines holder and hit a button to tell the sender, everything was ready on her end.

My first boss in 1988 (not making this shit up) would not let us use the fax machine because “he wanted his original document back.”

On the bright side, a few years later, he was about 4 levels below me on the ziggurat.

Sirhr

 

[375fan]

I can still remember going to see First Blood in theater when it came out and the girl who was my date that night. Damn, that was a long time ago. I was 20, the girl wasn't around long.

 

[Gunfighter14e2]

I can still remember going to see First Blood in theater when it came out and the girl who was my date that night. Damn, that was a long time ago. I was 20, the girl wasn't around long.

Never seen any of John J's bloods on the big screen, but did see Apocalypse Now, in a theater. What a waste of time & money.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

Never seen any of John J's bloods on the big screen, but did see Apocalypse Now, in a theater. What a waste of time & money.

The redux is much better.

I saw it in the theater, too.

About the same time as “Alien!” Now that was wicked good!

Sirhr

 

[Ronws]

I think the cast of "First Blood" really helped. Those shine for me were David Caruso in one of his first roles. Richard Crenna, of course.

And Brian Dennehy. Nailed that role dead on the nail head perfect.

The first one was also the most believable. From people I knew who had returned from the Big Asian Vacation, life was tough to get back to for some. Of course, the movie is more dramatic.

One of my mother's friends had PTSD but this resulted in missing time more than going SF on a sheriff's department.

And my friend, Lee, served 3 active tours of combat and came back to a real job. He got off the ship in the naval Port of Los Angeles and went to the employment commission office out there."

So, Lee, what kind of work experience do you have?"

"Three years of killing gooks."

So, he got a ref to Yellow Cab Company. That still cracks me up.

42 years. That was the year I graduated high school. I went to our 40 year high school reunion in 2022. There were a lot of old people there.

 

[375fan]

The redux is much better.

I saw it in the theater, too.

About the same time as “Alien!” Now that was wicked good!

Sirhr

Alien, probably still one of the best horror sci-fi ever!

 

[Gunfighter14e2]

The redux is much better.

I saw it in the theater, too.

About the same time as “Alien!” Now that was wicked good!

Sirhr

There was so much hooky shit in that so called movie, it was not even funny. Course to me none of the first movies about the S/E conference back then were worth the time. Talked to R. Lee Ermey about the filming of Fire Base Gloria & Full metal Jacket when he was at Knob Creek one year. His comments about the film industry getting shit right, was interesting.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

There was so much hooky shit in that so called movie, it was not even funny. Course to me none of the first movies about the S/E conference back then were worth the time. Talked to R. Lee Ermey about the filming of Fire Base Gloria & Full metal Jacket when he was at Knob Creek one year. His comments about the film industry getting shit right, was interesting.

Firebase Gloria was an underrated movie.

And they are all entertainment, not documentary.

Apocalypse Now was just Heart of Darkness in Cambodia… and Coppola’s indulgence. Entertainment. And some iconic scenes.

Also revived The Doors as a ‘60’s/early ‘70’s icon!

Sirhr

 

[wvfarrier]

I was 6 years old

 

[sirhrmechanic]

I was 6 years old

When the Arizona was Sunk? Or when First Blood was on the big screen…

Sirhr

 

[Gunfighter14e2]

Also revived The Doors as a ‘60’s/early ‘70’s icon!

Still remember the music. The Stones while skiing behind a PBR was some funny shit.

 

[Maser]

I was born in 1989 you buncha boomers! Anyways, the most recent Rambo movie was fucking awesome! Classic 80s style action movie with over the top violence!

 

[Snipe260]

I was born in 1989 you buncha boomers! Anyways, the most recent Rambo movie was fucking awesome! Classic 80s style action movie with over the top violence!

I thouroghly enjoyed where the guy fell into the spike pit. Then Rambo threw an axe that turned his head into a banana split!

 

[JoshPutman]

I was born in 1989 you buncha boomers! Anyways, the most recent Rambo movie was fucking awesome! Classic 80s style action movie with over the top violence!

I graduated from high school in '89.

Now I DO feel old.

 

[Ronws]

I graduated from high school in '89.

Now I DO feel old.

I feel older than you by a few years.