"old" movies

[low_delta]

I remember liking American Werewolf in London, but I couldn't remember much about it. I was rather discouraged about that until I relized it'd been over twenty years since I'd seen it. Now I'm discouraged about getting so old.

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[serendipity.livejournal.com]

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[the-99th-aisle.livejournal.com]

I offhandedly quoted Beavis and Butthead in my lab the other day, which got a laugh from several of my students. One of them then commented on how she thought the show was really funny, but that it was on "way back when; in the early 90s."

I'm 24, and my students still find ways to make me feel old every day.

So to cheer you and I up, here are some things that we weren't around for (as you read them, imagine a couple of crotchety old-timers a la Statler and Waldorf mumbling about how things would be a lot better if we had nuked those Ruskie scumbags back in the 60s):

The national Medicare system was implemented.
The first episode of Star Trek aired.
Truman Capote wrote his defining piece, In Cold Blood.
The first synthetic production of insulin was completed, in China.
"The Pill" was declared safe for human use.
Malcolm X was shot to death in Harlem.
The Sound of Music premiered.
Bill Cosby starred in I Spy, making him the first black man to headline a TV show.
The Beatles first appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show.
The US Surgeon General first confirmed that cigarette smoking causes cancer.
The first artificial heart was implanted into a patient in Houston.
President Kennedy was shot.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.
Charles Schulz published Happiness Is a Warm Puppy, a collection of Peanuts comics.

If that doesn't make you feel better, you can always go to this site (http://www.infoplease.com/yearbyyear.html) for year-by-year breakdowns of things you don't remember.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

It's funny that many of my friends are younger than me, but I never really find a big disconnect over things that were or weren't around. I guess because we don't share very many pop culture references.

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

Oh, there are so many of those moments: people who don't remember the Berlin Wall, don't remember Nelson Mandela being in jail, didn't have remote controls on their tvs (which only had the Big 3 networks), don't remember the Challenger exploding, always lived in the age of AIDS; there were even less elements on the periodic table when I was in high school! [also 20 years ago]. etc., etc.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I remembered it (sort of), I just didn't realize it was *that* long ago.

[ravengirl.livejournal.com]

*lol* i totally hear you, esp. on that particular movie.
i loved jack..was it jack? no, his friend who is dead..
he was a crack up, griffin dunne. but, yeah, it's not a "classic"
in the way i thought it would be after my first viewing.

"we're walking on the moors...."

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Jack. He was pretty good. There were a couple of things about the movie that were really good. Like the premise, and the transformation scene. But the acting and dialogue were not so hot. One funny thing was that the characters were so stiffly, stereotypically British. But they had to be that way to support the cheesy story. So the movie couldn't really have been made if it were set anywhere else (or it would have been that much worse, if you want to look at it that way). I still enjoyed it.