{"id":5201,"date":"2010-07-18T14:53:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T19:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=5201"},"modified":"2010-07-18T14:53:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T19:53:12","slug":"on-movies-when-i-was-twelve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5201","title":{"rendered":"On Movies When I Was Twelve"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy of Dayton Ward<\/a>, “The ‘When I was 12’ movie meme thing.”<\/p>\n

Here’s how it works: go to Wikipedia (as the most convenient resource), and copy the list of movies that were released in the year when you were 12 years old. Mark in italics<\/i> the movies that you’ve seen. (Not necessarily that year.) Mark in bold<\/b> the movies that you own on video, DVD, Blu-Ray or whatever. If you’re not sure if you’ve seen a movie, you haven’t.<\/p>\n

So, 1985…<\/p>\n

The Adventures of a Two-Minute Werewolf
\nThe Adventures of Mark Twain<\/i> (I’ve seen this one many<\/i> times)
\nAfter Hours
\nAgnes of God<\/i>
\nAmerican Ninja
\nThe Annihilators
\nAvenging Angel
\nBaby: Secret of the Lost Legend<\/i>
\nBack to the Future<\/i> (No, I don’t own this on DVD)
\nBad Medicine
\nBetter Off Dead<\/b>
\nThe Black Cauldron<\/i>
\nThe Boys Next Door
\nBrazil
\nThe Breakfast Club (No, I’ve never seen this. Honest!)
\nBreakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo
\nCat’s Eye
\nThe Care Bears Movie<\/i>
\nCertain Fury
\nA Chorus Line
\nClue<\/b>
\nThe Coca-Cola Kid
\nCocaine Wars
\nCocoon<\/i>
\nCode of Silence
\nCode of Vengeance
\nThe Color Purple
\nCome and See
\nCommando<\/i> (This movie is tres<\/i> awesome!)
\nCrazy Construction
\nCreature
\nCrimewave
\nDance with a Stranger
\nDay of the Dead
\nDeath Wish 3
\nDesperately Seeking Susan
\nThe Devastator
\nDim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart
\nThe Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
\nEnemy Mine<\/i>
\nEwoks: The Battle for Endor<\/i> (I suppose it was released theatrically outside the United States…)
\nExplorers<\/i>
\nFandango
\nFinal Justice
\nFletch<\/i>
\nFollow That Bird<\/i>
\nFran
\nFriday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning
\nFright Night
\nThe Malibu Bikini Shop
\nGirls Just Want to Have Fun
\nThe Goonies<\/i>
\nGymkata
\nHeaven Help Us
\nHere Come the Littles
\nInsignificance
\nInto the Night – starring Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Pfeiffer
\nInvasion U.S.A.
\nJagged Edge
\nThe Jewel of the Nile<\/i>
\nJoshua Then and Now
\nKing David
\nKing Solomon’s Mines
\nKiss of the Spider Woman
\nLadyhawke
\nThe Last Dragon
\nLegend<\/i>
\nThe Legend of Billie Jean
\nLost In America
\nMad Max Beyond Thunderdome
\nMan Hunt
\nThe Man with One Red Shoe
\nMask Elliott
\nThe Mean Season
\nMissing In Action 2: The Beginning
\nMurphy’s Romance<\/i>
\nMy Beautiful Laundrette
\nMy Life as a Dog (Mitt liv som hund)
\nMy Science Project<\/i>
\nNaked Vengeance
\nNational Lampoon’s European Vacation<\/i>
\nA Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
\nNine Deaths Of The Ninja
\nThe Official Story (La historia oficial)
\nOnce Bitten
\nOne Magic Christmas
\nOut of Africa
\nOut of Control
\nPale Rider
\nThe Peanut Butter Solution
\nPee-wee’s Big Adventure<\/b>
\nPhenomena
\nPolice Academy 2: Their First Assignment<\/i>
\nPorky’s Revenge
\nPrivate Resort
\nPrizzi’s Honor
\nThe Protector
\nThe Purple Rose of Cairo
\nRadioactive Dreams
\nRainbow Brite and the Star Stealer
\nRambo: First Blood Part II<\/i>
\nRan
\nReal Genius
\nRed Sonja
\nRemo Williams: The Adventure Begins
\nReturn of the Living Dead
\nReturn to Oz<\/i>
\nRevolution
\nRocky IV (Would you believe I’ve seen none<\/i> of the Rocky<\/i> movies?)
\nRunaway Train
\nSanta Claus: The Movie<\/i>
\nSecret Admirer
\nThe Secret of the Sword<\/i> (Yes! The He-Man<\/i>She-Ra<\/i> animated movie!)
\nSilver Bullet
\nSilverado<\/i>
\nThe Slugger’s Wife
\nSmooth Talk
\nSt. Elmo’s Fire (Another movie everyone of my generation is supposed to have seen, but I haven’t…)
\nStarchaser: The Legend of Orin
\nStick
\nSubway
\nThe Sure Thing<\/i>
\nSweet Dreams
\nTarget
\nTeen Wolf<\/i> (I may have this on DVD with Teen Wolf Too<\/i>, but I can’t be arsed to check.)
\nThat Was Then… This Is Now
\nThat’s Dancing!
\nTo Live and Die in L.A.
\nTransylvania 6-5000<\/i>
\nThe Trip to Bountiful
\nTuff Turf
\nTwice in a Lifetime
\n28 Up
\nVagabond (Sans toit ni loi)
\nVampire Hunter D
\nA View to a Kill<\/b>
\nVision Quest<\/i>
\nWater
\nWetherby
\nWeird Science<\/i>
\nWild Geese II
\nWhen Father Was Away on Business (Otac na slu\u009ebenom putu)
\nWitness<\/i>
\nThe Woman And The Stranger (Die Frau und der Fremde)
\nYoung Sherlock Holmes<\/b><\/p>\n

So, if I have this counted correctly, I’ve seen thirty-five of the films released the year I was twelve, including the five that I physically own. All in all, that’s not bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy of Dayton Ward, “The ‘When I was 12’ movie meme thing.” Here’s how it works: go to Wikipedia (as the most convenient resource), and copy the list of movies that were released in the year when you were 12 years old. Mark in italics the movies that you’ve seen. (Not necessarily that year.) MarkContinue reading “On Movies When I Was Twelve”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[4106,4107],"class_list":["post-5201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-film","tag-memes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}