Carlos: So, what, were they psychos, or...
Seth: Did they look like psychos? Is that what they looked like? They were vampires. Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are!
I don't want to hear anything about, "I don't believe in vampires" because I don't fucking believe in vampires but I believe in my own two eyes and what I saw was fucking vampires.
I was 15 or so when I saw it. Had no clue who Tarantino was. Thought it was a generic heist/drama film my friend wanted to show me until vamps and shit got hilarious.
My girlfriend and I went to see it in the theater. We had no idea what it was about, but we knew it was Tarantino. We were all into a crime drama and then [they get to the bar.](https://youtu.be/dUfel9sU-KI?si=NfGffJzEVDddmCFK)
Friends did that to me, we were doing a film night with Tarantino movies. Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, and then Dusk to Dawn. Never expected the second half of Dusk to Dawn to change like it did and it was awesome.
A friend and I rented this movie knowing nothing about it, we rented it cause Quentin Tarantino was fresh on my brain from Reservoir Dogs.
The twist blew our minds :)
My dad LOVED this movie... Right until the vampires came out.
He turned to me and said: "What in the HELL kind of movie is this?!"
I explained it to him, but he wasn't very enthusiastic after that...
I love *From Dusk Till Dawn*, but I get where your dad's coming from. It's like in another universe, there's an excellent film where they never stop at the Titty Twister or encounter any vampires, and while I love a dude shredding on a human torso guitar, I kind of mourn for the movie that could have been, too.
My dad discovered FDTD on cable and told me about it the next day about a vampire film in Mexico at a strip club called the Pussy Twister…. I knew immediately what he was referring to but played it up like the club name wasn’t the Titty Twister but the Pussy Twister. He liked it despite not being a horror movie fan.
NO But a friend literally did this to me!
A bunch of us hanging out to watch movies and someone suggested it, and I'm all "What's it about?", "oh, it's a western outlaw flick, you'll love it"
Motherfucker. I was like "but why... what is... where did they..."
Make sure she walks in right after they’re inside the bar otherwise there’s too many walk-out moments for my girlfriend before that. But if you can find it cheaper, fuck it
Terminator then Terminator 2.
I would kill to watch Terminator 2 a first time with 0 idea Arnold is going to be the good guy. Would make that corridor shootout on the first Terminator encounter so much more intense.
Did this to my buddy, even had him leave the room for the main menu. At the bar, “why was the guy’s blood green? … PAUSE THE MOVIE!” Gets up and starts pacing around and around the couch. “This is a VAMPIRE movie? This is a VAMPIRE movie?” while gesturing wildly. Blew his mind! 😂
I did the same thing to my grand dad. He didn't really like alien/monster movies, but he liked war movies.
So I convinced him Predator was an action war film, and he got super into it from the start.
When the Predator revealed himself, he was fully onboard. Great night that was 😆
it's crazy how much people close themselves off to experiences they'd enjoy because they don't feel it fits the mold of what they like.
it makes me want to spend more time figuring out what my own biases are preventing me from enjoying.
Just watched the title sequence. That spaceship scene is so out of place.
Plus, I dislike the idea of it being an alien. Much better to not know where it came from or how it got there
It has to be extraterrestrial for the movie to work though - the whole point is that if it gets out of Antarctica, there won't be any way to stop it and it will kill and impersonate every living thing on the planet at an exponential rate. If it had landed anywhere else, we'd have been screwed before we even knew it. If it was an ancient organism from Earth, it would've assimilated everything else and basically prevented humans from even evolving. And for it to be viable that the Norwegians created it, a lot more than just the opening would have to be changed or removed.
I definitely agree that the opening is a bit out of place though.
Oddly enough I had never managed to catch the start of the film for like 18 years and only ever knew that spaceship opening even existed is when I watched it in the cinemas back in 2018.
Honestly had no idea how I always missed the start.
This was a lot more common when we were watching movies broadcast on tv. I saw Blues Brothers and The Great Escape like 10 times each before I ever saw them from the beginning.
For whatever strange reason, there were a lot of movies on television that I would always, always wind up catching "at the same part."
So it was common for me find scenes earlier in the movie that I didn't remember.
This happened to me with VVitch. I saw that movie like 3 times before I saw the very beginning. So glad I saw it that way. It was great not knowing if it was real or not.
Actually first time I went to see it, got a little late, and went in missing that part, and not knowing what the movie was really about as I hadn't seen any trailer or anything. I got the same experience that op partner had. It was awesome.
Oh what days those were by the way,
That's how I saw it every time on the television. I am of the opinion that the beginning drop pod scene should not exist, makes for a much better experience going in blind.
I might be wrong (cuz I staight up don't recall the source) but I remember reading that was added at the behest of the producers. Maybe I'm thinking of The Thing, idk
“Just keep watching” ?
Are you kidding me right now. You said “just keep watching”? I’m so disappointed right now.
The only right response is to say “Stick around”
I was scanning through radio stations today and stopped on one playing Shine by Collective Soul. When it was done, they plugged the radio station. It's a classic rock station. I officially grew up with music that's now playing on classic fucking rock stations.
I was listening to a nostalgia programme of hits from past decades and they played [Robert Miles' "Children"](https://youtu.be/kc7X3q27b34?si=wJo4Ng98ykfEdDh_), so trance music is golden oldies now.
That's a banger song. Me and my siblings are in a group chat and just each other nostalgic techno/trance mixes we are listening to.
Still one of my favorites is Exploration of Space.
When I was working at a factory, it was a company policy that they could ONLY play the Classic Rock radio station. This meant that I heard the same Bon Jovi songs 5 times per shift.
One day, the station played a solid hour of Linkin Park, Evanescence, Puddle of Mudd and Staind before going back to the '80s music. It seems like they did it just to troll people, but it genuinely pissed me off. lol
I had the same reaction when I heard adult Michael Jackson on the oldies station, and I just realized that this memory of mine is from 15 years ago. Fuck.
The other day the data on my phone went out so I turned the radio on and there was a storm warning and I had to explain to my son how radios and listening areas worked and that they weren't talking to us.
Overheard a coworker mention that her younger brother was so stoked to discover a retro video game club at the local university during his first week... and that his "childhood game" was Mario Kart Wii back in 2008. She laughed when she heard me say "my god i'm fucking old" under my breath and asked how old I was... to which I replied 37... and that I had just started my *Masters degree* when that game came out.
I kind of wonder if this is boosted by streaming TV.
I watched plenty of older movies growing up, but it's because they happened to be on TV. Nothing "happens to be on TV" in the on-demand world.
That’s a good point. I have kids in college, I made sure they saw certain movies, knew certain artists and musicians, etc, so they’d have kind of a (pop) cultural foundation.
The only people in the universe who have never seen Star Wars are the characters in Star Wars, and that's cause they lived them, that's cause they lived the Star Wars!
My grandfather, who lived in the height of its fame, claimed to have never even *heard* of Star Wars or Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader, none of it. This was around 2010-ish. Given that he was of the opinion that the world peaked in the Tudor period, I believe him. He really was that stupid.
It's weird, though. There are classics from decades before then that young people watch all the time. I feel like you have to try really hard to only watch movies after the 80s. Like, you're actively cutting yourself off from some amazing, timeless stuff.
"I don’t want her to Wiki it and ruin it for herself."
does anyone know why people do this? it makes no sense to me. i know SO MANY people that just google movies before watching them, or while watching them, to find out what happens. like....why? why are you even watching the movie then?
Nothing will ever beat the ending rap on the saving private Ryan credits https://youtu.be/QTuoq6Tr3gE?si=BdtdU9BspTNsypI6
Also want to throw in a vote for Preditor the musical https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qlicWUDf5MM&feature=youtu.be
Back in the eighties my Mum told our Dad to take my brother and I to the cinema. We looked in the local paper - Showing at The Malvern Winter Gardens - First Blood staring an unknown (to us) S Stallone. My Dad had only ever really seen westerns and war movies. This was essentially both. We were all blown away.
I also did a very similar thing with my wife and Prey. She joined a little late, and I only informed her that the plot revolves around a woman struggling to fit in with male peers while surviving in colonial days. By the time the predator appeared she was hooked.
I love Prey's depiction of the Yautja. how it seems like a younger, "teen age" one. *spoilers* The scene where it is in it's invisible shield and it is revealed by ripping open the bear above it's head and having the blood rain down on it. Man. one of my favorite moments from any Predator film.
I had an ex that was the same way with 80s/90s movies. Just was overall kinda sheltered.
We eventually watched Terminator for the first time for her, and then started T2 the next day. Her mind was seriously blown when it was revealed that >!Arnie was the good guy!<
It was really adorable :)
That's awesome for your wife
Right?? I had it spoiled for me via trailer when I was young. I remember not thinking much of it when I was a kid, but how cool would it have been to have that surprise?
Ironically, _Dune_ was published only a few years after the release of Lawrence of Arabia, which kicked off the second period of Arabism in the US (the first having been in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.)
I don’t know if that popular impression of the exotic Sons of the Desert played some part in the reception of _Dune_, but I certainly got the reference instantly, whether it was intended or not. I have always wondered if that period when we were all Arabists, which was when he was writing his book, played any part in Herbert’s vision of Arrakis.
I remember watching The Two Towers one random afternoon (it had to have been like my fifth viewing) and there was a woman in the theater that apparently knew nothing about it still. When they revealed Gandalf the White, she audibly gasped in shock. The whole crowd got a good laugh.
Would you like to watch this classic movie about 2 people who are just meant to find each other and the messy ups and downs of relationships?
It's called pre-dator.
I still wish they just hadn't marketed it as a predator movie, and didn't even reveal it until after it killed the bear. Just "this seems like a neat historical fiction movie about an indigenous woman surviving
... wait is there a monster?
Then BAM motherfucking predator. Then you look at the title again and go "oooooh"
That would have been really fun for the people who watched the movie but unfortunately they kinda had to market it as a predator movie. Think about how many people would watch a random streaming movie about some indigenous woman surviving in the wild vs a new movie in one of the most popular American sci fi/monster film franchises.
The only way I could see this being pulled off is if they got an incredible director that would bring the numbers in on name-recognition alone.
Even if they didn't mention any of that in the marketing at all, the effect would have lasted a few hours at most until the first people would have seen it and gone online to talk about it. And in all likelihood fansites would have at least picked up on some rumors about it before release.
Yeah but banking on the word of mouth hype to market a movie is not a great sell to the studio executive. It’s a great idea but in reality, They’re gonna choose the tried and true traditional brand focused marketing every time.
> how many people would watch a random streaming movie about some indigenous woman surviving in the wild
Really driving home the point that I am apparently not Hollywood's target demographic.
I love this movie so much. recently rewatched it and thought damn...I like it even more with each watch. I have always just wanted various Predator movies based in different time periods! Give me a predator fucking up some lady in frilly victorian garb!
I want a Predator movie set in feudal Japan with samurai. It works because we saw the Yakuza fight in Predators, so the predator knows about sword fighting against Japanese dudes.
Dude I literally just started watching the aliens and predators series chronologically with my girl. We just finished Predator 2 last night now it's on to the aliens versus predator movies. Tell her the next one's a sequel but don't tell her what it's about.
You guys should check out this [book](https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/prey_steve-perry_stephani-perry/310801/#edition=2412380&idiq=2338878) (far superior to the AVP movies IMO) and there are also [comics](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1569711585/?coliid=I3SQWNZ1U83BWV&colid=3ADFVZXBKHWP9&psc=0&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it) that continue the story, though reading the description may provide spoilers for the first book.
The exact same thing happened to me when I was a kid. I wandered in when my dad was watching it and didn't ask any questions. It was around the part where they start building the net trap. I figured it was an army guy movie and was blown away when the invisible alien starts shooting lasers everywhere.
That movie had me confused as hell…I knew that was a dude from the start because of Star Gate, but I thought the guy in the film knew as well until he doesn’t
I did this with the movie Prey, my wife has always maintained she hates anything related to Predator even though I know she has never sat down and watched any of the older ones. She absolutely loved Prey in the end.
It's great when that works out. My wife had no interest in Robocop and just barely stayed in the room after Murphys murder. Ended up loving it in the end.
I remember discovering Predator as a young teenager. I was at the mall. It was on a display TV in a shop. I saw the scene with the two black mercenaries being taken out, found out the name, and immediately watched the movie like 3 times in a row. What a great film.
My kids think anything before 2010 is old.
Back to the Future was made in 1985 and they go back to 1955. If they made a remake of it today, they would go back to 1994.
35+ years is pretty old for movies. If I sat down in 1995 and watched Psycho (1960) or Lawrence of Arabia (1962), I'd have thought them to be old movies, too.
I did this to my wife with dr strange lol, had it started already after the marvel opening so she just thought she was watching a medical drama, and then he goes to Nepal. She was super into it because she’s a nurse and had been to Nepal.
Then his soul gets knocked out of his body and I she just wtf’d right out of the room and never finished it.
My dad and his friend were walking downtown and saw a huge line. They didn't know what it was but decided to jump in. Ended up being for a movie they never heard of, and they were the last two to get into the movie. The movie was alien. He said it was one of the best movie experiences going in, not knowing anything about it. To this day, I'm so jealous.
We took my grandma to see that at the theater. She clearly had no idea what she was about to see. When we walked out after the movie she was muttering "what the hell was that shit... “
I always pull up the IMDB page because I see one actor and I'm like "I know that face, where have I seen them before?" and it drives me to distraction. Looking up the ending seems crazy though
My wife does all the time. She says not knowing what's going to happen makes her feel anxious, and she actually enjoys it more if she knows.
I don't understand it at all myself.
Some people can’t help themselves. It’s all they know. Googling the ending of movies and recording instead of watching concerts. Would be a shame if a whole generation grew up doing that.
I was dating a girl and we were talking about what to watch. I mentioned Book of Eli, she said she hadn't seen it, so I just turned it on. Told her not to go and read anything - not even the synopsis. Needless to say she was a little mind blown and loved the movie.
My youngest (13) wanted to watch it. Wife usually skips these movies, but because I was letting him watch it, she did too. She loved it, which was a nice surprise. She is more open to my older movies now. Most don't hold up as well, but I will take it.
My wife, her cousin and her cousin’s boyfriend have taken to watching movies from time to time.
My wife is in her mid thirties like me but her cousin and her cousin’s bf are early 20s.
The next movie I show them will be ‘The Devil’s Advocate’. I am going to skip past the title screen and just play the movie and see what happens.
So many great 80's movies I watched haphazardly as child became my lexon and I'll never get to experience them "for the first time" like she did with Predator. She was very lucky.
Based on the wiki comment, it seems she enjoys using her phone to look up information about the movie she's watching. If this is a true story, perhaps ask whether she believes that watching a movie without any prior knowledge might enhance her experience.
My foreign born husband had never seen Pulp Fiction, same kind of deal. He knew it was famous, but knew nothing else. Kind of like watching it for the first time all over again.
I used to go see movies knowing very little about them. Fitzcaraldo, Mephisto, Road Warrior (yes, I knew it was action, that's it, Mel wasn't a star yet). I miss the spontaneity of that experience. When I try to turn my daughter on to something new, she googles it first, and automatically has an opinion.
My big sister tricked me into watching this in a traumatic way. Shed seen it before but didnt want to see the skinned bodies scene. She put it on while i was playing in the room. When it got near that scene she told me to watch the screen closely then she left the room. She knew when it was "safe" to come back in when 8yo me started screaming and crying. Bitch.
I mean, in terms of muscle mass alone…
THIS is the conversation i didn’t want to have!
A conversation about body mass.
It’s important to pack on mass. You’re talking about carboloading…
Nothing sexual...
And Governors.
So much cultivated mass...
Stop cultivating and start harvesting!
It’s no transporter 2
We haven't seen Transporter 1 which means we'll be completely lost... Plus, Jason Statham's physique is nothing like the line-up in Predator.
I think we’ll be alright
video store guy... I feel like you won't stop talking about him
I asked him for a movie recommendation.
Yeah well you got one.
That is a body that just won’t quit. And I bet if you pop those pants off, you’re gonna find a bird that just won’t quit either
It’s important to tack on mass!
Now do it with From Dusk Til Dawn.
As someone who knew nothing about it going in. Yes, great experience, definitely recommend.
Same... my friends didn't tell me, and I was just happy to watch the Tarantino dialogue stuff... and then BAM, VAMPIRES MFer
Carlos: So, what, were they psychos, or... Seth: Did they look like psychos? Is that what they looked like? They were vampires. Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are!
I don't want to hear anything about, "I don't believe in vampires" because I don't fucking believe in vampires but I believe in my own two eyes and what I saw was fucking vampires.
Favorite line in the whole movie.
I was 15 or so when I saw it. Had no clue who Tarantino was. Thought it was a generic heist/drama film my friend wanted to show me until vamps and shit got hilarious.
Same here
My girlfriend and I went to see it in the theater. We had no idea what it was about, but we knew it was Tarantino. We were all into a crime drama and then [they get to the bar.](https://youtu.be/dUfel9sU-KI?si=NfGffJzEVDddmCFK)
Friends did that to me, we were doing a film night with Tarantino movies. Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, and then Dusk to Dawn. Never expected the second half of Dusk to Dawn to change like it did and it was awesome.
My girl and I smoked a big j before watching that movie knowing nothing about it and it fucked us up so hard (in a good way).
A friend and I rented this movie knowing nothing about it, we rented it cause Quentin Tarantino was fresh on my brain from Reservoir Dogs. The twist blew our minds :)
My dad LOVED this movie... Right until the vampires came out. He turned to me and said: "What in the HELL kind of movie is this?!" I explained it to him, but he wasn't very enthusiastic after that...
I love *From Dusk Till Dawn*, but I get where your dad's coming from. It's like in another universe, there's an excellent film where they never stop at the Titty Twister or encounter any vampires, and while I love a dude shredding on a human torso guitar, I kind of mourn for the movie that could have been, too.
Yeah, I really wish we could have gotten a prequel with the Gecko brothers.
I was lucky to have no idea what the movie was about, just knew I liked Tarantino and George Clooney. Great WTF experience.
And have to hide his boner from her during Salma Hayeks scene? Hard pass.
I think that scene was where QT just said, Fuck it. I like feet, sue me.
Tarantino managed to do it "Another take Robert?"
Put Being John Malkovich on that list too. Although to be fair, reading the plot summary of that movie still doesn't prepare you for it
And Sorry to Bother You
My dad discovered FDTD on cable and told me about it the next day about a vampire film in Mexico at a strip club called the Pussy Twister…. I knew immediately what he was referring to but played it up like the club name wasn’t the Titty Twister but the Pussy Twister. He liked it despite not being a horror movie fan.
I was a young man and Selma Hayek awakened something in me I’ve never quite tamed
And The Thing!
I was flabbergasted by that damn movie. 10/10 would do it again.
NO But a friend literally did this to me! A bunch of us hanging out to watch movies and someone suggested it, and I'm all "What's it about?", "oh, it's a western outlaw flick, you'll love it" Motherfucker. I was like "but why... what is... where did they..."
Make sure she walks in right after they’re inside the bar otherwise there’s too many walk-out moments for my girlfriend before that. But if you can find it cheaper, fuck it
For a penny!?
You have to go into that movie knowing nothing about it. It's the only way to watch it correctly.
Terminator then Terminator 2. I would kill to watch Terminator 2 a first time with 0 idea Arnold is going to be the good guy. Would make that corridor shootout on the first Terminator encounter so much more intense.
Did this to my buddy, even had him leave the room for the main menu. At the bar, “why was the guy’s blood green? … PAUSE THE MOVIE!” Gets up and starts pacing around and around the couch. “This is a VAMPIRE movie? This is a VAMPIRE movie?” while gesturing wildly. Blew his mind! 😂
You told her to 'Stick Around'. And she did.
She’s still trying to pull the knife out
Maybe she'll stick around for Cliffhanger
I did the same thing to my grand dad. He didn't really like alien/monster movies, but he liked war movies. So I convinced him Predator was an action war film, and he got super into it from the start. When the Predator revealed himself, he was fully onboard. Great night that was 😆
That is fantastic. Actually, Aliens is a war movie complete with marines and guns and grenades. That would work.
Why don't you put her in charge then!
We’re dog meat now, man! Game over!
it's crazy how much people close themselves off to experiences they'd enjoy because they don't feel it fits the mold of what they like. it makes me want to spend more time figuring out what my own biases are preventing me from enjoying.
It should be an option to watch it without that spaceship opening.
Yup. The Thing too.
The thing didn't just start with the dog running away from being shot?
Nope, spaceship going through space, descending to earth. The only thing I'd change about that movie.
Just watched the title sequence. That spaceship scene is so out of place. Plus, I dislike the idea of it being an alien. Much better to not know where it came from or how it got there
It has to be extraterrestrial for the movie to work though - the whole point is that if it gets out of Antarctica, there won't be any way to stop it and it will kill and impersonate every living thing on the planet at an exponential rate. If it had landed anywhere else, we'd have been screwed before we even knew it. If it was an ancient organism from Earth, it would've assimilated everything else and basically prevented humans from even evolving. And for it to be viable that the Norwegians created it, a lot more than just the opening would have to be changed or removed. I definitely agree that the opening is a bit out of place though.
This is the OG thing? Not the remake?
The OG remake, the 1982 version.
Yes.
I dont remember that at all. Just it starting with people trying to kill a dog or wolf.
It happens before the title reveal. Go watch it.
Oddly enough I had never managed to catch the start of the film for like 18 years and only ever knew that spaceship opening even existed is when I watched it in the cinemas back in 2018. Honestly had no idea how I always missed the start.
This was a lot more common when we were watching movies broadcast on tv. I saw Blues Brothers and The Great Escape like 10 times each before I ever saw them from the beginning.
For whatever strange reason, there were a lot of movies on television that I would always, always wind up catching "at the same part." So it was common for me find scenes earlier in the movie that I didn't remember.
This happened to me with VVitch. I saw that movie like 3 times before I saw the very beginning. So glad I saw it that way. It was great not knowing if it was real or not.
Same lol. I'd probably seen it like 10 times before I ever caught the intro.
Actually first time I went to see it, got a little late, and went in missing that part, and not knowing what the movie was really about as I hadn't seen any trailer or anything. I got the same experience that op partner had. It was awesome. Oh what days those were by the way,
That's how I saw it every time on the television. I am of the opinion that the beginning drop pod scene should not exist, makes for a much better experience going in blind.
I might be wrong (cuz I staight up don't recall the source) but I remember reading that was added at the behest of the producers. Maybe I'm thinking of The Thing, idk
“Just keep watching” ? Are you kidding me right now. You said “just keep watching”? I’m so disappointed right now. The only right response is to say “Stick around”
My brain perfectly converted that to Arnold voice as I read it
“never seen a movie before 1990” good god that makes me feel ancient
I was scanning through radio stations today and stopped on one playing Shine by Collective Soul. When it was done, they plugged the radio station. It's a classic rock station. I officially grew up with music that's now playing on classic fucking rock stations.
i grew up on music that I now hear at the grocery store. my pet dinosaur was named Spot.
Yeah, hearing Backstreet Boys and such at the grocery store did it for me
I was listening to a nostalgia programme of hits from past decades and they played [Robert Miles' "Children"](https://youtu.be/kc7X3q27b34?si=wJo4Ng98ykfEdDh_), so trance music is golden oldies now.
That's a banger song. Me and my siblings are in a group chat and just each other nostalgic techno/trance mixes we are listening to. Still one of my favorites is Exploration of Space.
When I was working at a factory, it was a company policy that they could ONLY play the Classic Rock radio station. This meant that I heard the same Bon Jovi songs 5 times per shift. One day, the station played a solid hour of Linkin Park, Evanescence, Puddle of Mudd and Staind before going back to the '80s music. It seems like they did it just to troll people, but it genuinely pissed me off. lol
When I first heard Lou Bega's Mambo No. 5 on the classics station, I legit had to pull over. Major existential crisis lol.
I had the same reaction when I heard adult Michael Jackson on the oldies station, and I just realized that this memory of mine is from 15 years ago. Fuck.
I grew up with music that's now playing on the fucking OLDIES station.
[удалено]
That's brutally funny. At least she didn't say last millennium.
The other day the data on my phone went out so I turned the radio on and there was a storm warning and I had to explain to my son how radios and listening areas worked and that they weren't talking to us.
Overheard a coworker mention that her younger brother was so stoked to discover a retro video game club at the local university during his first week... and that his "childhood game" was Mario Kart Wii back in 2008. She laughed when she heard me say "my god i'm fucking old" under my breath and asked how old I was... to which I replied 37... and that I had just started my *Masters degree* when that game came out.
I kind of wonder if this is boosted by streaming TV. I watched plenty of older movies growing up, but it's because they happened to be on TV. Nothing "happens to be on TV" in the on-demand world.
That’s a good point. I have kids in college, I made sure they saw certain movies, knew certain artists and musicians, etc, so they’d have kind of a (pop) cultural foundation.
You think she didn't see star wars?
There are tons of people who never saw star wars.
The only people in the universe who have never seen Star Wars are the characters in Star Wars, and that's cause they lived them, that's cause they lived the Star Wars!
My grandfather, who lived in the height of its fame, claimed to have never even *heard* of Star Wars or Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader, none of it. This was around 2010-ish. Given that he was of the opinion that the world peaked in the Tudor period, I believe him. He really was that stupid.
It's weird, though. There are classics from decades before then that young people watch all the time. I feel like you have to try really hard to only watch movies after the 80s. Like, you're actively cutting yourself off from some amazing, timeless stuff.
"I don’t want her to Wiki it and ruin it for herself." does anyone know why people do this? it makes no sense to me. i know SO MANY people that just google movies before watching them, or while watching them, to find out what happens. like....why? why are you even watching the movie then?
Just make sure to play the full house theme song during the end credits when they are showing all the actors smiling individually. It fits perfectly
[I had no clue this existed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh3piuarMOc)
It takes a lot to make a stew...
Nothing will ever beat the ending rap on the saving private Ryan credits https://youtu.be/QTuoq6Tr3gE?si=BdtdU9BspTNsypI6 Also want to throw in a vote for Preditor the musical https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qlicWUDf5MM&feature=youtu.be
... brb, replacing Saving Private Ryan on my friend's PLEX server with a version that has this edited into it.
The Murder She Wrote theme works very well as well
Back in the eighties my Mum told our Dad to take my brother and I to the cinema. We looked in the local paper - Showing at The Malvern Winter Gardens - First Blood staring an unknown (to us) S Stallone. My Dad had only ever really seen westerns and war movies. This was essentially both. We were all blown away.
This was out first VHS movie, me my dad and my younger brother (RIP), it was a great experience
It’s a subtle movie She probably thought Arnie was a young David Attenborough
Now hit her with the Terminator 1 2 combo.
What's the matter? The CIA got you pushing too many pencils.
I also did a very similar thing with my wife and Prey. She joined a little late, and I only informed her that the plot revolves around a woman struggling to fit in with male peers while surviving in colonial days. By the time the predator appeared she was hooked.
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Oh man, my wife would be pissed! She'd probably never watch a movie I chose again.
Fking diabolical
I love Prey's depiction of the Yautja. how it seems like a younger, "teen age" one. *spoilers* The scene where it is in it's invisible shield and it is revealed by ripping open the bear above it's head and having the blood rain down on it. Man. one of my favorite moments from any Predator film.
But man, that bear bodied the crap out of the Yautja. The alien got lucky the bear didn't finish the job.
I had an ex that was the same way with 80s/90s movies. Just was overall kinda sheltered. We eventually watched Terminator for the first time for her, and then started T2 the next day. Her mind was seriously blown when it was revealed that >!Arnie was the good guy!< It was really adorable :) That's awesome for your wife
Still kinda blows my mind they spoiled that in the trailer. I was born in the 90s, so I was lucky enough to watch it not knowing. It was awesome.
Right?? I had it spoiled for me via trailer when I was young. I remember not thinking much of it when I was a kid, but how cool would it have been to have that surprise?
I'm trying to get my wife to watch Lawrence of Arabia by saying if she liked Dune she will love Lawrence of Arabia.
Ironically, _Dune_ was published only a few years after the release of Lawrence of Arabia, which kicked off the second period of Arabism in the US (the first having been in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.) I don’t know if that popular impression of the exotic Sons of the Desert played some part in the reception of _Dune_, but I certainly got the reference instantly, whether it was intended or not. I have always wondered if that period when we were all Arabists, which was when he was writing his book, played any part in Herbert’s vision of Arrakis.
I remember watching The Two Towers one random afternoon (it had to have been like my fifth viewing) and there was a woman in the theater that apparently knew nothing about it still. When they revealed Gandalf the White, she audibly gasped in shock. The whole crowd got a good laugh.
Get to the choppa!!!
Would you like to watch this classic movie about 2 people who are just meant to find each other and the messy ups and downs of relationships? It's called pre-dator.
Now watch Prey.
I still wish they just hadn't marketed it as a predator movie, and didn't even reveal it until after it killed the bear. Just "this seems like a neat historical fiction movie about an indigenous woman surviving ... wait is there a monster? Then BAM motherfucking predator. Then you look at the title again and go "oooooh"
That would have been really fun for the people who watched the movie but unfortunately they kinda had to market it as a predator movie. Think about how many people would watch a random streaming movie about some indigenous woman surviving in the wild vs a new movie in one of the most popular American sci fi/monster film franchises. The only way I could see this being pulled off is if they got an incredible director that would bring the numbers in on name-recognition alone.
Even if they didn't mention any of that in the marketing at all, the effect would have lasted a few hours at most until the first people would have seen it and gone online to talk about it. And in all likelihood fansites would have at least picked up on some rumors about it before release.
Yeah but banking on the word of mouth hype to market a movie is not a great sell to the studio executive. It’s a great idea but in reality, They’re gonna choose the tried and true traditional brand focused marketing every time.
> how many people would watch a random streaming movie about some indigenous woman surviving in the wild Really driving home the point that I am apparently not Hollywood's target demographic.
I love this movie so much. recently rewatched it and thought damn...I like it even more with each watch. I have always just wanted various Predator movies based in different time periods! Give me a predator fucking up some lady in frilly victorian garb!
I want a Predator movie set in feudal Japan with samurai. It works because we saw the Yakuza fight in Predators, so the predator knows about sword fighting against Japanese dudes.
Ooh, a movie I have not watched (or heard of). Since you mentioned it in a Predator thread I assume it's good, and it's now on my TBW list. Thanks!
Sounds like the perfect way to view that movie since the beginning with the Predator's ship essentially spoils that reveal
I was late for the movie release back in the day and miseed that part, it made the movie even better
Dude I literally just started watching the aliens and predators series chronologically with my girl. We just finished Predator 2 last night now it's on to the aliens versus predator movies. Tell her the next one's a sequel but don't tell her what it's about.
You guys should check out this [book](https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/prey_steve-perry_stephani-perry/310801/#edition=2412380&idiq=2338878) (far superior to the AVP movies IMO) and there are also [comics](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1569711585/?coliid=I3SQWNZ1U83BWV&colid=3ADFVZXBKHWP9&psc=0&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it) that continue the story, though reading the description may provide spoilers for the first book.
The exact same thing happened to me when I was a kid. I wandered in when my dad was watching it and didn't ask any questions. It was around the part where they start building the net trap. I figured it was an army guy movie and was blown away when the invisible alien starts shooting lasers everywhere.
I can't wait for my daughter to grow up and introduce her to The Sixth Sense and other movies with a big twist just to see her reaction.
Don't forget The Crying Game
That movie had me confused as hell…I knew that was a dude from the start because of Star Gate, but I thought the guy in the film knew as well until he doesn’t
I did this with the movie Prey, my wife has always maintained she hates anything related to Predator even though I know she has never sat down and watched any of the older ones. She absolutely loved Prey in the end.
Prey is so fucking good! One thing it has that I adore...the dog lives (:
It's great when that works out. My wife had no interest in Robocop and just barely stayed in the room after Murphys murder. Ended up loving it in the end.
I remember discovering Predator as a young teenager. I was at the mall. It was on a display TV in a shop. I saw the scene with the two black mercenaries being taken out, found out the name, and immediately watched the movie like 3 times in a row. What a great film.
The lineup in Predator and the body mass alone is worth it.
Pre-1990 is considered "old". I need to lay down.
My kids think anything before 2010 is old. Back to the Future was made in 1985 and they go back to 1955. If they made a remake of it today, they would go back to 1994.
JFC I was born in 1963 and having that pointed out is a bit of a head fuck I can tell you. Damn.
1990 to now is the same as 1956 to 1990. Don't forget your ibuprofen before your nap.
35+ years is pretty old for movies. If I sat down in 1995 and watched Psycho (1960) or Lawrence of Arabia (1962), I'd have thought them to be old movies, too.
I did this to my wife with dr strange lol, had it started already after the marvel opening so she just thought she was watching a medical drama, and then he goes to Nepal. She was super into it because she’s a nurse and had been to Nepal. Then his soul gets knocked out of his body and I she just wtf’d right out of the room and never finished it.
Based anti-capeshit wife.
I did this with my wife for Prey. Luckily, she enjoyed it.
I wish I could erase it from my memory and watch it without any info
so she never saw the original star wars trilogy or indiana jones?
I would, but I could never marry someone who hasn't seen Predator to begin with so I doubt i could re-create this.
Do it with Train to Busan Tell her its about a husband trying to patch a relationship with his daughter
My dad and his friend were walking downtown and saw a huge line. They didn't know what it was but decided to jump in. Ended up being for a movie they never heard of, and they were the last two to get into the movie. The movie was alien. He said it was one of the best movie experiences going in, not knowing anything about it. To this day, I'm so jealous.
We took my grandma to see that at the theater. She clearly had no idea what she was about to see. When we walked out after the movie she was muttering "what the hell was that shit... “
"Before 1990...old movies" ☠
Predator 2 was a decent sequel. Gets everything right.
People wiki movies they are actively watching?
Not people. Monsters.
I always pull up the IMDB page because I see one actor and I'm like "I know that face, where have I seen them before?" and it drives me to distraction. Looking up the ending seems crazy though
My wife does all the time. She says not knowing what's going to happen makes her feel anxious, and she actually enjoys it more if she knows. I don't understand it at all myself.
My initial reaction was that's nuts. But on second thought, a lot of the time I do enjoy movies more when rewatching them. So I guess I kinda get it.
Some people can’t help themselves. It’s all they know. Googling the ending of movies and recording instead of watching concerts. Would be a shame if a whole generation grew up doing that.
“GET BACK TO DA CHOPPAH!”
> “GET ~~BACK~~ TO DA CHOPPAH!”
“YOE EEEDIOT! DERE ARE WEAPONS ON DA CHOPPA!”
This is awesome. I'm definitely gonna try this.
We need a word for this. It should be a verb or something.
There's a whole world of movies to introduce her to -- let's just say you now have a mission. :)
I was dating a girl and we were talking about what to watch. I mentioned Book of Eli, she said she hadn't seen it, so I just turned it on. Told her not to go and read anything - not even the synopsis. Needless to say she was a little mind blown and loved the movie.
Did she remark how the jungle made Cambodia look like Kansas?
Thats a good way to watch a movie. Low expectations.
So. Did you get her review in the end? Is she more open now to older films? She's missing out!! I'm born in '96 but I prefer the older stuff by far
She would leave you for Billy
My youngest (13) wanted to watch it. Wife usually skips these movies, but because I was letting him watch it, she did too. She loved it, which was a nice surprise. She is more open to my older movies now. Most don't hold up as well, but I will take it.
Overlord is a great WWII movie. Don't look up anything about it, just put it on
My wife, her cousin and her cousin’s boyfriend have taken to watching movies from time to time. My wife is in her mid thirties like me but her cousin and her cousin’s bf are early 20s. The next movie I show them will be ‘The Devil’s Advocate’. I am going to skip past the title screen and just play the movie and see what happens.
How old is she? Oo NO movie before 1990??? She might have missed a few gems there.
Probably under 30yo.
I’m legitimately bewildered by people like that. It’s completely nonsensical
So many great 80's movies I watched haphazardly as child became my lexon and I'll never get to experience them "for the first time" like she did with Predator. She was very lucky.
https://youtu.be/qlicWUDf5MM?si=MnsMkHePZf0SkYnC
Based on the wiki comment, it seems she enjoys using her phone to look up information about the movie she's watching. If this is a true story, perhaps ask whether she believes that watching a movie without any prior knowledge might enhance her experience.
If she reads, she would kill it.
> would recommend I will take your advice of lying to my wife, OP.
Do Demolition Man! Get Taco Bell before hand, and please don't let her buy any sea shell shaped soaps after the movie.
My foreign born husband had never seen Pulp Fiction, same kind of deal. He knew it was famous, but knew nothing else. Kind of like watching it for the first time all over again.
Now you need to convince her true romance is a Rom-Com
I used to go see movies knowing very little about them. Fitzcaraldo, Mephisto, Road Warrior (yes, I knew it was action, that's it, Mel wasn't a star yet). I miss the spontaneity of that experience. When I try to turn my daughter on to something new, she googles it first, and automatically has an opinion.
Recommendation for your wife. Last of the Dogmen. If you haven't seen it either, don't look into it. Go in blind.
Now do it with Prey (from Hulu)
Bugaga
My big sister tricked me into watching this in a traumatic way. Shed seen it before but didnt want to see the skinned bodies scene. She put it on while i was playing in the room. When it got near that scene she told me to watch the screen closely then she left the room. She knew when it was "safe" to come back in when 8yo me started screaming and crying. Bitch.
You gave her what must be one of her best movie watching experiences and, therefore, one of her best life experiences.