QotD: Never Seen It
What's the most famous movie you've never seen?
Submitted by Mike.
I'd have to say E.T. is the biggest movie from my childhood that I never got to see. My mom thought it'd be too violent/troubling and barred me from seeing it. I think I was 10 or 11 and it was a weird decision because I had seen Rambo movies around that time as well (thanks to my cool uncle and the Rambo flicks did kind of scare me a bit). She also kept the TV off the night that nuclear war thing The Day After played. It was two weird things she really wanted to protect me from, even though I was old enough to handle both of them. E.T. didn't come out on VHS for years afterwards and by then I was a pissed off teenager that didn't care anymore.
In the past ten years I'd say Titanic was the biggest thing I missed. I just never had any desire to see it and then when it got really huge I definitely didn't want to see it. By 2007, it's a badge of honor.
My mom pulled the same thing with me. I was seven or so at the time, and the family all went to the twin(!) cinema in downtown Hot Springs. The two movies playing were ET and Annie. My dad was going to see ET, but we didn't really know anything about it and the poster with the glowing alien finger convinced my mom I would find it scary. So I saw Annie instead, against my protestations.
I ended up liking Annie okay, but I don't think I've ever seen ET the whole way through.
Posted by: daveadams | 02/06/2007 at 09:00 PM
Warning: after you watch E.T., you will immediately want to buy a Speak 'n' Spell off ebay for hacking purposes.
Posted by: mikepop | 02/07/2007 at 06:55 AM
E.T. is really disturbing. It's up there with The Rats of Nimh amongst the top childhood movies that scarred me.
Posted by: The Ez | 02/07/2007 at 10:43 AM
Never saw E.T. either.
Posted by: Dinah | 02/07/2007 at 12:48 PM