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Post by Fading Fast on May 27, 2023 13:57:28 GMT
I've always been much more upset by films about abuse, imprisonment and torture than films about straight-up gore.
I remember as a teen going to see MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR. LAWRENCE with a few friends, and during the scene in which David Bowie gets buried up to his neck and is left to bake to death in the hot sun made me feel like I was suffocating. I actually had dreams for months about suffocating to death.
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Post by sepiatone on May 27, 2023 15:44:37 GMT
Ha ha, yeah, I recently said in another thread I was pretty sheltered, and I absolutely was. I watched zero horror movies until we got HBO not long after I saw Foul Play, and I definitely didn't find gore cool, mostly disturbing and traumatic. Though my friends loved it, so I was the oddball. You know, thinking back, I remember a period when my best friend and I were kind of obsessed with methods of torture that was seen in some movies(usually what's called the "Sun and Sandals" type movies). And we'd work at thinking up some other type of "cool" tortures. Wow. I'd forgotten all about that until this topic came up. That was over 60 years ago. And actually, at the time, we were pretty much easy going and outgoing friendly type of guys who avoided fights as much as possible. But I think it had much to do with we referred to stuff seen in movies and we well knew everything in movies was phony and nobody really got hurt is why it all seemed harmless to us. I mean... Why get so upset over something that didn't really happen? Sepiatone |
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Post by BunnyWhit on May 27, 2023 19:49:01 GMT
Why get so upset over something that didn't really happen? Sepiatone |
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Post by NoShear on May 27, 2023 23:07:07 GMT
I think this was why drive-ins were so popular for families; if the kids are getting restless, send them to the playground outside the snack bar!
Speaking of drive-ins, my parents took my sisters and I to one to see STAR WARS. I couldn't have cared less about the film, and kept wandering around trying to watch the films on the other screens. Soon, one of my sisters joined me, and from the swing set in the playground, we watched a screening of WHAT'S NEW, PUSSYCAT? We couldn't hear anything and most of the adult humor went right over our heads, but we sure got a kick out of all those chase scenes.
As I was a young teen when I saw STAR WARS, I've put my lack of enthusiasm for the 1977 movie down to being a bit too old for its presumed demographic - the toy set, so it was interesting reading of someone younger than me who didn't allow the force to be with them... My family was walk-in, sagebrush, so I envy you getting to experience those drive-in playgrounds. |
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Post by sagebrush on May 28, 2023 13:36:47 GMT
I think this was why drive-ins were so popular for families; if the kids are getting restless, send them to the playground outside the snack bar!
Speaking of drive-ins, my parents took my sisters and I to one to see STAR WARS. I couldn't have cared less about the film, and kept wandering around trying to watch the films on the other screens. Soon, one of my sisters joined me, and from the swing set in the playground, we watched a screening of WHAT'S NEW, PUSSYCAT? We couldn't hear anything and most of the adult humor went right over our heads, but we sure got a kick out of all those chase scenes.
As I was a young teen when I saw STAR WARS, I've put my lack of enthusiasm for the 1977 movie down to being a bit too old for its presumed demographic - the toy set, so it was interesting reading of someone younger than me who didn't allow the force to be with them... My family was walk-in, sagebrush, so I envy you getting to experience those drive-in playgrounds.
Yes, they were a blast for us, and our parents were able to get rid of us for a while without worrying about where we were. We were essentially being watched by the concession stand employees. I can't imagine that happening today...
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