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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on October 21, 2020, 05:18:26 pm ---I'm not hugely into it either, but I was thinking of recent films like A Quiet Place that are sort of sci-fi aliens and sort of horror. I thought that one was OK. And I liked ET and War of the Worlds. I don't read sci-fi books or go out of my way to see sci-fi movies, but if I hear they're especially good I may check them out.
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I still have my "I Saw E.T." button. ;D
--- Quote ---As for intense sci-fi, I watched only the first incarnation of Star Trek with William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, plus a few of the movies. I saw a handful of Star Wars movies but never especially liked any of them.
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In the summer of 1977, everybody was talking about this movie called Star Wars. My best buddy from high school and I didn't want to see it because we don't like sci-fi. Finally, at the end of the summer, shortly before we had to return to our respective colleges, we broke down and went to see it. At that first blast of music from the London Symphony Orchestra, we looked at each other, and you could tell we were both thinking, "OK, this isn't what we expected." :laugh:
It sort of pissed me off that the home video copy that I got had "Episode IV: A New Hope" added to the opening roll-up. I just wanted it as a stand-alone movie. I think I got turned off the series when we learned Luke and Leia were siblings, and Darth Vader was their father--or maybe just Luke's father?
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on October 21, 2020, 08:56:14 pm ---I didn't like scary TV shows. Somehow something put me off even on The Addams Family until one Halloween when my mother sat me down and more or less forced me to watch it with her.
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:laugh: Child abuse! And on Halloween, yet. But seriously, not liking The Addams Family because it seems like a scary show is really not liking scary shows! Don't even think of trying The Munsters!
It would be kind of fun to watch TAF on Halloween. I haven't seen it in many, many decades.
Often on Halloween I like to watch something in the Halloween spirit, so a year or two ago I rewatched Rocky Horror Picture Show.The first hour or so is great, through Let's Do the Time Warp Again and Sweet Transvestite. And Tim Curry is excellent in that role.
But pretty much everything after that is boring and dumb. Which, come to think of it, is approximately what I thought when I saw it in the theater. But it had sort of blurred in my memory.
southendmd:
I always try to watch Rocky Horror on Halloween. I agree: the first half is fun, and the second act is a hot mess. (Though I kinda like "Rose Tint My World".) The dvd extras are fun.
Jeff Wrangler:
Back in VCR days, my Halloween go-to was the 1979 Dracula. It wasn't scary, but I liked Frank Langella as Dracula. Laurence Olivier was Van Helsing.
I never got around to buying it on DVD.
brianr:
Showing my age. Australia did not get TV until my last year of Primary (Elementary) school 1956 and my family did not get it until I was few years into Secondary school. I use to go into my neighbours on Friday night and all I remember was it included Alfred Hitchcock. To go home I had to walk down their tree covered driveway which was always scary.
When we did get it, my parents only allowed me to watch one week night and I chose Tuesday which was 'I Love Lucy' and 'Our Miss Brooks'.
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