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   your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Sep-2025 06:55:36 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

   OMG was reminded that a lot of y’all have never seen the OG Alien, Star Wars, Blade Runner or Close Encounters on the big screen and i’ve suddenly felt more than ancient. i feel pre-historic.

   #movies #millennials #zoomers #alphas #getOffMyLawn

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     Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co)'s status on Saturday, 06-Sep-2025 06:55:36 JST Steve's Place

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     @blogdiva Darling dearest, I saw first-run Disney classics in theaters, along with eternal favs like "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," and "A Hard Day's Night." I saw the giant ads for Cleopatra with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. My inclination is to put closing double quotes outside of the sentence-ending punctuation. When I saw Mary Poppins, she hadn't learned how to fly, and thought kids were all brats to best avoid at all costs. I am dust.

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     Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co)'s status on Saturday, 06-Sep-2025 08:29:15 JST Steve's Place

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     @old_hippie @khleedril @blogdiva I think you've got me beat! I saw nothing with Rodan or Godzilla in theaters that I can recall.

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     Old Hippie Ⓥ Resistance! (old_hippie@veganism.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Sep-2025 08:29:16 JST Old Hippie Ⓥ Resistance!

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     @khleedril @steter @blogdiva The first ones I remember were Rodan and Godzilla. I think it was 1956. Man, I'm really getting old

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     Khleedril (khleedril@cyberplace.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Sep-2025 08:29:17 JST Khleedril

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     @steter @blogdiva The first thing I ever saw was The Jungle Book, and the second was The Love Bug.

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     Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co)'s status on Saturday, 06-Sep-2025 08:38:56 JST Steve's Place

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     @old_hippie @khleedril @blogdiva I saw The Blob, but was it in a theater? Maaaaybe.

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     Old Hippie Ⓥ Resistance! (old_hippie@veganism.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Sep-2025 08:38:57 JST Old Hippie Ⓥ Resistance!

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     @steter @khleedril @blogdiva My older brothers brought me to movies back then. I probably saw some earlier ones but don't remember. Oh yeah, I think The Blob was around then also.

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     Space Catitude 🚀 (terryhancock@realsocial.life)'s status on Saturday, 06-Sep-2025 09:57:01 JST Space Catitude 🚀

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     The earliest movie I remember was a drive-in showing of "The Andromeda Strain". It took me years to figure this out, but I had a very vivid memory of a sequence near the end, with the nuclear-disable key. I guess it really freaked me out -- I would've been about 3-4 yrs old.

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     sollat (sollat@masto.ai)'s status on Saturday, 06-Sep-2025 09:57:02 JST sollat

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     Same, though I never saw any of them in a theater (even to sleep through). I would’ve had nightmares from most of them and we mostly just didn’t go in that era. I remember earlier movies in a drive-thru though.

     Steve's Place repeated this.
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     Space Catitude 🚀 (terryhancock@realsocial.life)'s status on Saturday, 06-Sep-2025 09:57:03 JST Space Catitude 🚀

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     I'm old enough I could've seen them all on the big screen, but I think I only saw "Star Wars"? I was a little young for R rated films, and my parents were strict about that (also poor). 🙄

     I may have caught indy or university theater showings later. I saw "Alien" first on my uncle's laserdisc player.

     I definitely saw "Aliens" on the big screen, though.

     Later I had a season pass at UT that was about to expire, so I watched "Aliens" 20X in a row.

     I had the coolest nightmares after that.🤭

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 06-Sep-2025 10:12:36 JST Paul Cantrell

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     I already really •liked• 2001: A Space Odyssey, but it was when I finally saw it on the big screen that I •loved• it. All those trippy near-wordless scenes in the final act of the film? Sort of baffling on our little 80s TV; absolutely breath-taking on the big screen. The abstract oozing oils art? “WTF” on TV; totally worked on the big screen. The movie is supposed to be overwhelming — the humans are out of their depth, and so is the viewer — and in a theater it’s exactly that.

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     Flatbush Gardener 🌈 (xris@ecoevo.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Sep-2025 10:12:37 JST Flatbush Gardener 🌈

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     @blogdiva
     Every.
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     Church of Jeff (jeffowski@mastodon.world)'s status on Saturday, 06-Sep-2025 10:52:01 JST Church of Jeff

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     @blogdiva -- I remember seeing Star Wars in the theatre in 1977. I LOVE movies.

     One of my friends was a movie reviewer and I learned a lot about cinematography, sound engineering, and editing.

     Totally fucking ruined me for when I watch anything "moving picture" medium.

     Everyone GUSHED for "The Holdovers" but it is an example of a movie that had no solid script and was created in the editing room. Complete trash that I can't believe got nominated for an Oscar.

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     Flatbush Gardener 🌈 (xris@ecoevo.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Sep-2025 11:14:09 JST Flatbush Gardener 🌈

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     Okay, WORST cinema experiences?

     As a young boy, I was already a nature lover. My father took me to a movie theater to see a new documentary ... 1/2

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Sep-2025 13:15:24 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @TerryHancock @xris @blogdiva

     The two of them fought bitterly over this divergence: Clarke wanted to walk the reader through all fascinating hypotheticals of how the aliens would make contact; Kubrick thought that this was a story about humans encountering the unknown, and they never understand what happened so you shouldn’t either.

     I’m thoroughly of Kubrick’s party on this. I think the explanation makes the story boring; I’d rather savor the mystery.

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     Space Catitude 🚀 (terryhancock@realsocial.life)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Sep-2025 13:15:25 JST Space Catitude 🚀

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     @inthehands @xris @blogdiva

     Watching the stargate sequence after having read the book 2001, it's surprisingly comprehensible what's supposed to be going on.

     Of course, the movie is really based on the short story "The Sentinel", but Clarke wrote the novel more or less in parallel with producing the movie, so it's neither exactly source text nor novelization.

     Which makes it all the more weird that he stuck with putting the monolith on Saturn's moon Iapetus in the book.