Mention of Sark and the MCP too [goats.com] just gave me a flashback to the early 1980s when i watched a film projected on a wall in the Junior High School auditorium. At that time i'd had very few other science fiction movie experiences. The audio was crappy compared to an actual movie theater, but it was cool to see the worlds of Red and Blue on a twenty-foot screen. The plot and characters were mostly trivial; the visual experience was the thrill.

	0% (0)	"Alien" (Ridley Scott was still interesting?)
	12% (4)	"Aliens" (was James Cameron already trite but still able to produce fast-paced adventure movies?)
	43% (14)	"Star Wars" episodes IV + V (the coolest job could have been as a bartender in Cloud City)
	9% (3)	"Tron" (were we still young enough to be under the influence of Disney's wicked spells and enchantments?)
	25% (8)	I'm too young to have seen any of those releases on a big screen during their first run.
	9% (3)	I'm old enough to appreciate fine sausages.

My god. You left off Indiana Jones. How remiss.

In Response to tynic (#34341):

5 or 6 will work for you, then.

This is a bit of a tangent, but a friend of mine informs me that they stuck Tron is Kingdom Hearts 2, which makes me want to bother playing the game just a bit more than I did before (which wasn't too much).

In Response to themysticalone (#34345):

I played versions of the Tron motorcycle-death-match video games on a black and white TRS-80, on a Commodore-64, on a monochrome IBM PC, and on a PC-Jr. I don't think i had a version of the game for any of my AT&T PC6300's. Holy Flarking Schnit, is thirty-five when we notice that our silly conversations have started to sound an awful lot like our grandparents'?

If Ridley Scott had directed Tron i bet Sark would have smoked, and the discus death-matches would have been splattered with electro-blood. But Scott was busy working on BladeRunner or something else at the time (The Celts?), and i can't imagine he'd ever do "light" Disney fare-- well, unless you could bizarrely interject Depardieu into the leading role of a farce thinly disguised as a biopic.

Yikes. From Alien, BladeRunner, Someone to Watch Over Me, and Thelma And Louise he managed to careen downhill into 1492, Black Hawk Down, and Gladiator. Somewhere along the way was Dead Again, so i say we should blame Robin Williams and Kenneth Brannagh. To paraphrase another critic: any film starring Williams as a character in a human~services profession and/or Brannagh as a confused wreck (i.e., himself) is guaranteed to cause copious sucking... and not in a good 'Las Vegas' way.

Emma Thompson, however, was charming as always. So we can't blame Scott's trajectory on her. My favorite Emma moment of all time was when she, Stephen Fry, and Hugh Laurie guest starred on the episode of The Young Ones known as "Bambi". I saw that on MTV during the 1980s, and it made me fall in love with British comedies.

What tangent? Grandpa Simpson shot whom in the what now?

I believe you meant Star Wars Episodes V [imdb.com] and VI [imdb.com].

Episode IV [imdb.com] dates back to 1977. I am just old enough to remember seeing Episode VI in the theaters during its first run. I still have my first watch [ebay.com].

In Response to Dynedain (#34351):

So you are too young to remember that Lucas perfected the 'sell it again' technique before the VCR revolution.

In Response to Dynedain (#34351):

I meant IV and V because i personally saw those at the cinema when originally released. VI didn't premier until i was already at least thirteen and in High School.

But you can interpret "early 1980s" however you please. For me, Junior High School was 1980-1983, and i didn't have a VCR until the mid-1980s so my impressions of science fiction films were all on big screens up until that time. I don't think i saw BladeRunner until it came out on Betamax.

In Response to Teledildonix (#34348):

My favorite Emma moment of all time was when she, Stephen Fry, and Hugh Laurie guest starred on the episode of The Young Ones known as "Bambi".

"Ohhhh ... I'm going to have to wee on Lord Snot's head!"

Heh -- my favorite Young Ones moment was of Lenny Henry as a fascist mailman. Or possibly, "Yeah, Ric, I don't mind you borrowing my cross without asking, right, but there's a problem, 'cos there's no way to hammer in that last nail yourself."

In Response to gtyrrell (#34354):

YES, WE HAVE A VIDEO!

Man, I barely remember Tron - I probably haven't watched it since I was 10. Probably time to go find a copy somewhere. and I didn't watch the Alien movies because they scared the piss out of me as a kid.

Oh, and for your viewing displeasure, have a gander at TronGuy [tronguy.net].

In Response to zamphir (#34361):

"Mum, Dad, this is a friend of mine called Mike, and this is a friend of mine called Neil, and this is a complete bastard I know called Zamphir."

Errr, "Ric."

In Response to gtyrrell (#34354):

Young Ones had the Best Series Ending Evar:

"Look out! CLIFF!"

In Response to Robonun (#34373):

Well, what would you expect from a pack of bachelor boys, crazy, mad, wild-eyed, big-bottomed anarchists?

In Response to gtyrrell (#34368):

Now, Now.

You *know* that being a complete bastard would make things much too easy for y'all.

I'm only mostly a complete bastard.

In Response to Robonun (#34373):

"Phew. That was close!"

BTW I just heard that George Lucas is going to re-re-release episodes IV-VI on dvd with the original movies as bonus material. He finally gets it (or he finally gets it that people might want to spend money on the originals).

In Response to danav (#34470):

'it' being even more blood from the same stone?

In Response to deerboy (#34475):

Yeah, but if I.. er, I mean, some random geek already owns two VHS sets and a DVD set accumulated over the years, why wouldn't i - THEY, dammit, THEY! - shell out for the good versions on DVD?

In Response to gtyrrell (#34368):

It was Ric's parents, not Vivien's, who visited the house.

Vivien's Mum appears when they go to the pub (Motorhead perform 'Ace of Spades' during the walk), but I think the introductions were similar, Then Ric asks Vivien's Mum,
"Tell me Mrs. Vivien, why did you give your son a girl's name?"

She lumps him.

For a double bonus, why did Vivien cry when he crashed his car?

In Response to Nagy_Vilmos (#34484):

Ah, yes, Vyv's mum in the pub. I believe that Mike informed Rik that his parents died that morning. Neil's parents showed up though, in time for a Vyvyan-tastic rant about Felicity bloody Kendall.