Gary Whitta has not seen The Gooines.

[rhinohelix]

When I was 10, my father took me to see a couple of movies back to back in the 2 screen cinema in my home town. The movies? The Road Warrior and Conan the Barbarian, both first run.

We also saw Raiders of the Lost Ark by walking in at the opening of Ark and sitting through the whole movie again, back when the phrase "This is where I came in" meant something at the movies. Jaws was the first movie we watched on VHS, after recording it off cable around the same time period.

I think I saw every Arnold flick in the 80's at the theater with my father, including The Terminator and Predator.

It was my Grandfather who sat with me through 25 of the 57 times I saw ANH in theaters back when it was just "Star Wars" though. The first time I wanted to see it, they made me go see "Herbie goes Bananas" instead. I ran across the street in a fit of petulance and slipped down in front of a car which ran completely over me. I escaped with only cuts and bruises. The next 24 times there was no questions asked. :)

[Demon G Sides]

So I did an informal, non-scientific study of the current crop of student contract workers at my office. These are all kids who are enrolled in masters programs at either Laurier or the University of Waterloo. There's eight of them.

- None of them have seen any of The Godfather movies.
- None of them have seen Jaws.
- None of them have seen the original (or the remake) of Psycho, although one girl recently discovered Hitchcock so she'll be getting to it soon.
- None of them have seen The Road Warrior.
- One guy saw the first Terminator movie.
- A couple of them have seen Eyes Wide Shut, but have not seen any other Kubrick movie.

Of course, these are kids that, unlike me, have chosen to work and study hard at school instead of blowing the flower of their youth watching movies, reading comics and playing games, BUT STILL.

I'm 19 and I've seen all of these cept Eyes Wide Shut, which I may, I just might not remember.

But I'm a movie buff.

[Harkonis]

I didn't see Godfather until a few years ago and never watched all of Eyes Wide Shut. I've seen the others on the list though.

I love movies. Thankfully my parents made/let me watch a large selection.

Love me some Prince of Darkness as a little kid, scary shit.

[Brad Grenz]

So I did an informal, non-scientific study of the current crop of student contract workers at my office. These are all kids who are enrolled in masters programs at either Laurier or the University of Waterloo. There's eight of them.

- None of them have seen any of The Godfather movies.
- None of them have seen Jaws.
- None of them have seen the original (or the remake) of Psycho, although one girl recently discovered Hitchcock so she'll be getting to it soon.
- None of them have seen The Road Warrior.
- One guy saw the first Terminator movie.
- A couple of them have seen Eyes Wide Shut, but have not seen any other Kubrick movie.

Of course, these are kids that, unlike me, have chosen to work and study hard at school instead of blowing the flower of their youth watching movies, reading comics and playing games, BUT STILL.

But Jaws and the Road Warrior? Did they grow up somewhere tragically bereft of cable?

[Rob_Merritt]

Most of my current co-workers are a good 10 to 18 years younder than me and none of them saw a movie made before 1990. :(

Nothing will make you feel oder than talking to a co-worker about seeing Star Wars as a kid and realizing that the Star Wars they saw as a kid was Episode one and they've never seen the first trilogy.

[skedastic]

I'm 27. Of these, I've only seen Psycho, because a film nut friend made me. It was good.

That's so sad. I would suggest calling in sick and immediately watching: A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Full Metal Jacket, Godfather I and II, and T1 and T2.

For what it's worth, my partner's 21 year old son has seen all of those movies and, for that matter, owns most of them, some on Blu-ray. (This is only partially due to my bad influence.)

[walTer]

Or pay 12 bucks a month for Cinemax...they play all those movies.

...Prince of Darkness...ugh that last shot...OMG still freaks the hell out of me.

[Pogue Mahone]

...Prince of Darkness...ugh that last shot...OMG still freaks the hell out of me.

Are you talking about that last sting shot? Because I always thought it was a little cheap. I much preferred the gradual reveal of what was happening over the course of the film. It was definitely a more effective creepy flick than it's usually given credit for.

Man, remembering how well Carpenter did creepy movies (The Thing, Prince of Darkness, Halloween for god's sake) just makes his more recent movies more depressing.

[nixon66]

http://www.empireonline.com/20/goonies-reunion-video/

Since this was pretty much the only thread that actually had Goonies in the title that I could find.

[Demon G Sides]

Still haven't seen it.

[crazy jane]

Goonies: I had mad crushes on Mouth and Stef when I was nine.

Mad Max movies: the only one I ever saw was Thunderdome. It was the same year that Goonies came out. I had no idea what was going on, didn't care, and was bored silly. But my father took my to a lot of SF movies like that. I still want to kick him for taking me to see Star Trek II, which gave me nightmares for ages about people putting live things in my ears. (Watching the earwig episode of Twilight Zone with him two years later didn't help matters much...)

[Hans Lauring]

http://www.empireonline.com/20/goonies-reunion-video/

Since this was pretty much the only thread that actually had Goonies in the title that I could find.

And it doesn't even have Goonies in the title...

[Bahimiron]

Still haven't seen it.

The Goonies is a cultural touchstone for the childhood of people who're much older than you. It is to us like, oh, that Hannah Montana concert movie is to you!

[Jasper Phillips]

Wait, is Ron Jeremy in that?

[nixon66]

And it doesn't even have Goonies in the title...

But it does, it does! "Gary Whitta has not seen The Goonies"

[Bahimiron]

But it does, it does! "Gary Whitta has not seen The Goonies"

The Gooines is good enough. Well, it's good enough for me.

[ElGuapo]

The thing is, the seminal movie changed the films or genres they represent, but they've been imitated so much even if you haven't seen them, you feel like you have. So if you go back and watch them, you'll get a feeling of discovering a trend in filmmaking.

The Godfather changed gangster films. Actually looking at the personal lives of the bad guys and empathizing with their difficult decisions and personal loss of family? Its style has been imitated many times.

Jaws changed monster movies. Not showing the monster until the last part of the film? Unheard of, now it's commonplace.

Citizen Kane changed films in that it showed you could do a serious, epic film that was artistic and had meaning. The lighting in that film, in my opinion, has STILL not been equaled. I mean, half the time Wells has a shadow on his face. How many films would do that today?

Star Wars made people feel like kids again. A formula that has made been imitated many times now.

[madkevin]

Jaws changed monster movies. Not showing the monster until the last part of the film? Unheard of, now it's commonplace.

Actually, it was commonplace for years. Watch any old monster picture from the 50s, and you'll find that they hardly ever reveal the monster until the last reel. (Mostly for practical reasons - most monster makeup looked pretty bad, even by the standards at the time.)

Citizen Kane changed films in that it showed you could do a serious, epic film that was artistic and had meaning. The lighting in that film, in my opinion, has STILL not been equaled. I mean, half the time Wells has a shadow on his face. How many films would do that today?

Not to knock Citizen Kane or anything, which really is one of the greatest movies ever made, but it was hardly the first serious, epic film. The lighting and general noirish quality was borrowed heavily from German expressionism; Gregg Toland, the cinematographer, worked on such movies as The Grapes Of Wrath and the wild, insane Mad Love with Peter Lorre before Citizen Kane.

Citizen Kane has this weird reputation that it was the first movie to do anything technical, but really it was a refinement of many different strands of film-making. That's not a knock against the movie, because Kane is one of the magical movies (like Casablanca, or Singin' In The Rain) that does everything exactly right.

[Houngan]

Off-topic: After clicking to neogaf, Tom Chick should know that I love him for not having pictures, tags, etc. on his forum. Thank you for letting me pretend I'm a grown-up.

H.