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First Summer You Went To See ALL the Tentpoles.

post #1 of 21
5/7/08 at 3:22pm
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You know when you're younger it's only a few films you're able to go see. What was the first summer where you were there every weekend watching all (if not most of) the tentpoles and what not?

For me, it was the summer of 1998. I remember the film I was the most pumped about was The Mask of Zorro because the trailer played in front of damn near every film that summer.
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post #2 of 21
5/7/08 at 3:51pm
Probably the summer of 1982, the first summer I lived within biking distance of a multiplex and didn't have to rely on my parents' transportation any longer. And that was a hell of a summer, too. I saw nearly everything, even bullshit like Megaforce.
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post #3 of 21
5/7/08 at 4:04pm
I've never done this. By the time I was able to drive myself to the movies, I no longer cared about a majority of big summer movies.
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post #4 of 21
5/7/08 at 4:06pm
I cant say if I saw every big summer movie but I remember the summer of '96 where I saw every damn piece of crap there was that wasn't an R.
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post #5 of 21
5/7/08 at 4:08pm
I'm with Ratty on this, 1982 was a very good year.
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post #6 of 21
5/7/08 at 4:13pm
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I'll always remember summer of '99 fondly myself. I can still recall the huge-ness of The Phantom Menace.
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post #7 of 21
5/7/08 at 6:04pm
I think I saw the most summer blockbusters in 1999, though it was the summer that I graduated from high school and a lot of them were movies I wasn't even that really interested in seeing. For example, I saw The Haunting twice and I didn't even really want to see it once.

1998 and 2000 were years that I got to see the most summer films at the theater that were actually on my list of stuff I had a desire to see. I think the fact that around early 2000, we began to frequent a $5 budget theater in my area that showed a lot of films as they were leaving the bigger places helped a lot.
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post #8 of 21
5/7/08 at 6:17pm
The summer of 1989. With Indiana Jones, Batman, Ghostbusters 2, Lethal Weapon 2, Star Trek 5, 007, Freddy, Jason, The Abyss and more. It was enough to make my 13-year-old head spin.
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post #9 of 21
5/7/08 at 8:25pm
Never.

edit: yeah, what Patrick said.
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post #10 of 21
5/16/08 at 11:05pm
Just so you guys know, no one will be able to claim this for 2008 unless you see "Sex and the City." The gauntlet, she has been thrown down.
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post #11 of 21
5/17/08 at 2:33am
The summer of 1993

Jurassic Park
Army of Darkness
Fire in the Sky
Coneheads
The Fugitive
In the Line of Fire
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
Mrs. Doubtfire
Rising Sun


It was like going to the movies and finding out that the studios took the summer off and left TBS on.
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post #12 of 21
5/17/08 at 9:43am
1996: (got my license this year, so I practically lived in a theater)

Twister
ID4
Mission Impossible
The Rock
Jerry Maguire
Nutty Professor

But yeah, to mirror what some of you are talking about, the summer of '99 (starting with The Matrix) through the winter was the year I saw the most movies. And what a year that was.
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post #13 of 21
5/17/08 at 9:49am
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Originally Posted by FilmNerdJamie View Post
I'll always remember summer of '99 fondly myself. I can still recall the huge-ness of The Phantom Menace.
Yeah, I camped out for tickets for that one, and that overnight experience eclipsed anything the film could have actually offered. Before May 19th, it was a glorious time of speculation, even if the end result was a deafening blow. And then of course, you have all the films post-summer. Great fucking year.
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post #14 of 21
5/17/08 at 7:28pm
Probably '95, the year my friends and I started making the half-hour bike ride to the movie theater a couple towns over and could almost pass for 17:

"Crimson Tide"
"Batman Forever"
"Judge Dredd"
"Species"
"Clueless"
"WaterWorld"
"Mortal Kombat" (and got hit a car on my ill-fated bike ride home!)
"Desperado"
"Lord of Illusions"

Looking back, that summer was a fucking pile.
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post #15 of 21
6/7/08 at 7:29pm
I starting going to the cinema regularly in 2000 but I guess 2001 was the first summer I saw all the tentpoles.

THE MUMMY RETURNS (I remember a massive queue for this, the cinema was jam packed and unbelievably hot)
PEARL HARBOR
SHREK
TOMB RAIDER
EVOLUTION
JURASSIC PARK III
SWORDFISH
RUSH HOUR 2
CATS & DOGS (My word)
PLANET OF THE APES

I didn't see CROCODILE DUNDEE IN LOS ANGELES though. And in doing IMDB research for this I discovered I had totally forgotten there was a RECESS movie.

Gotta be honest I look at some other lists in this thread and I'm envious.
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post #16 of 21
6/12/08 at 4:25pm
I've never seen all the tentpoles and probably never will, because all of them do not appeal to me.
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post #17 of 21
6/13/08 at 12:20pm
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The summer of 1993

Jurassic Park
Army of Darkness
Fire in the Sky
Coneheads
The Fugitive
In the Line of Fire
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
Mrs. Doubtfire
Rising Sun
Ditto. Save for Army of Darkness, Fire in the Sky, Coneheads and Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday. But you can replace these for Cliffhanger, Sleepless in Seattle, The Firm, True Romance, Hard Target and fucking Striking Distance. Oh, and Mrs.Doubtfire was a Holidays movie if I'm not mistaken.

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Originally Posted by Damimegood View Post
1996: (got my license this year, so I practically lived in a theater)

Twister
ID4
Mission Impossible
The Rock
Jerry Maguire
Nutty Professor
Jerry Maguire was released in December. Remember the soul-challenging decision we had to take between watching that or Mars Attacks first on their opening weekend. Or go back for a second helping of The Nutty Adventures of Kit Latura.
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post #18 of 21
6/13/08 at 12:29pm
Summer of '96.

Although I guess it doesn't qualify since I didn't actually see every blockbuster, it was the first summer where I discovered how cool going to the movies actually was. I saw Twister,ID4,Mission: Impossible,The Rock and thought that they were all masterpieces. I was officially a geek after that summer.
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post #19 of 21
6/13/08 at 12:39pm
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Originally Posted by PsycheOut00 View Post
Ditto. Save for Army of Darkness, Fire in the Sky, Coneheads and Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday. But you can replace these for Cliffhanger, Sleepless in Seattle, The Firm, True Romance, Hard Target and fucking Striking Distance. Oh, and Mrs.Doubtfire was a Holidays movie if I'm not mistaken.



Jerry Maguire was released in December. Remember the soul-challenging decision we had to take between watching that or Mars Attacks first on their opening weekend. Or go back for a second helping of The Nutty Adventures of Kit Latura.
I couldn't remember when I saw Mrs. Doubtfire, but I feel like I saw it around that late June/Early July period.
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post #20 of 21
6/13/08 at 12:50pm
No doubt, 1982. You could actually find a few (then) multiplex marquees that boasted some combination of the following titles:

CONAN THE BARBARIAN
STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN
THE ROAD WARRIOR
TRON
POLTERGEIST
ROCKY III
JOHN CARPENTER'S THE THING
FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH
E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL
FIREFOX
BLADE RUNNER

Along with re-releases of both RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and STAR WARS, featuring the very first REVENGE OF THE JEDI teaser trailer.

What a magical fucking summer. No summer has come close. Not one.
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post #21 of 21
6/13/08 at 12:55pm
I agree with Litmus. I saw all those movies as well. Fun times.
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