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Wkd Box Office 1218-2015 - Force Awakens does good... gOOOood, opens w/ $248m
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thenight11
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Wow exact same experience here..We had awesome parents . I took them to see TFA on Saturday and they loved it .
Colonel Nasty
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86, saw phantom menace with a friend for his second time. Thought it was fine at the time. I remember going to see South Park a few weeks later with him and almost dying of laughter.
It makes sense though. We've been on GAF for over a decade. Between bannings. countless batches of new juniors, and people moving on, I'd be willing to bet the average active member has been here for 2-4 years. Most of those members are going to find the forums in their late teens to mid 20s.
EDIT: In general, I don't really feel like a 10 year+ age gap means much in threads where we are talking about entertainment. I steer clear of relationship GAF though.
Future Foundation
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That's pretty much the beef with most IMAX theaters, correct? Huge prices for average/above average sized screens. We've got three (?) here in NYC, and two are basically digital theaters.
Jack The Nipper
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To me the best age to be born was near the early 80's for gamers (seeing the nes, snes, and 3d (plus arcade scene was great) even though a lot of our parents had it great with the earlier arcade times and first home consoles but those games can't hold a candle to what nes created.
Movies is a different beast, but we will always lean to what we liked when we were younger.
Future Foundation
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PhoncipleBone
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Over 10 years here and only one ban that lasted a month. Not bad I think.
BronsonLee
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So tonight I've learned the following:
All of you are old
Some of you are Canadian
I can't tell which is the more offensive trait
All of you are old
Some of you are Canadian
I can't tell which is the more offensive trait
Calm waterfall
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$40 million on Monday is really unprecedented.
Jack The Nipper
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I never feel old but is being between 30 and 35 old? i still draw a lot of 18 to 25 girls if that counts
be nice to us old folk...Our shitty dollar kept The Force Awakens from hitting $250M this past weekend. It would have if the exchange rate was the same as it was back in May/June.
The old people.
BronsonLee
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I never feel old but is being between 30 and 35 old? i still draw a lot of 18 to 25 girls if that counts
The second someone hits 18, they are the oldest person in the world to me
And I will never discount someone for their dating preferences.
I WILL discount someone for being from America's Hat
Jack The Nipper
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cant wait til im older and you guys are the old people too
PhoncipleBone
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I never feel old but is being between 30 and 35 old? i still draw a lot of 18 to 25 girls if that counts
What is your medium of choice for drawing those girls? Pen and ink? Pencil? Pastel? Crayon?
And 30-40 is not old at all, even if I joke about it on here. If anything, things just get better. We are just old compared to many on this bored. The elder statesmen that no one really listens to.
I remember seeing Jedi in theaters. During the original run.
The emperor scared the hell out of me.
Bobby Roberts
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I would have responded to this earlier but I had to get up from the couch and walk aaaaaalllllllll the way across the living room to get here.
PhoncipleBone
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Another old man!
I have some weird memories associated with ROTJ and the couple of years after it.
I remember seeing it while living in PA. It was also in that house in PA that my family and I discovered that I needed glasses at that young age, because not only was I sitting closer to the TV, but I had trouble seeing that really sweet ROTJ poster that we did through the toys or whatever. I also remember finding Ewok Village under the christmas tree that year.
The next year we had moved to Maryland, and the mail order Emperor figure I had sent off for in PA had arrived finally. I had totally forgotten about it until it showed up.
Pfft. I just had to exert the energy to lean forward for my laptop or my phone. Man, it made me winded.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
Good one Bobby 😅
AOL also takes a while to connect to the intertubes.
PhoncipleBone
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Mindspring for life!
Should have used your walker, would have cut the time in half.
Bobby Roberts
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I DID.
Had to use the fetching stick to scare up one of the tennisballs that had gotten under the la-z-boy somehow.
ratcliffja
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Seriously. (83 here) And Titanic is bad, but it's nowhere near as bad as Avatar, so it has that going for it at least.
Jack The Nipper
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Tons of my chinese friends refuse to watch anything old.. Had to be new which sort of hurts my viewing experiences for deeper more thoughtful films. Definitely something that could hurt sw in china where I think the prequels would stand a better chance today.
I'm curious to see how it plays out here in china.
So, there are definitely many variables like your case as well. The fight scenes alone like Yoda makes me uncomfortable when watching those moments today though. I may have found them much cooler in first viewimg.
Ka, just ban all these 20 and lower kids, they gotta learn
For one brief moment I read that as you being 83 years old.
Jack The Nipper
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I wish. We need to find the oldest member and celebrate and give them gifts.
BTW her age fits great for a hardcore ff fan as well. Lol
Jack The Nipper
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Bobby Roberts
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x Power Pad Death Stomp x
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Empire was the first movie I saw in the theaters when I was 4 during its original run in 1980. Was really emotional taking my kids to see this lol.
PhoncipleBone
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The Wednesday record isn't going anywhere for now, nor is Thursday. Although technically it did beat the Thursday record if you use just the preview showings.
TheKaeptain
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A bunch of babies in here.
The mid week comparisons - and Tuesday actually as well - are going up against opening days for other films, so yeah, those won't fall. Should be largest non-opening for each of them.
I didn't realize just how much TFA was clowning Jurassic World's records.
In four days it's already topped the 6 day JW record, and almost beaten its 7 day.
PhoncipleBone
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So, regular non-opening day Tuesday record was beaten by 50%? Noice.
Calm waterfall
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I am curios about how long will SW continue to break records.
I knew that you didn´t just sound like an old man
I knew that you didn´t just sound like an old man
this is applicable in so many ways. lol
Bobby Roberts
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I knew that you didn´t just sound like an old man
I'm wearing a powder-blue cardigan sweater RIGHT NOW.
Old Canadian. You described James Cameron.
Vampirolol
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1990. Saw Phantom Menace on VHS and as soon as the written intro started I was confused, actually all the movie left me confused, I didn't know what it was supposed to be. Then I rewatched IV - V - VI because I could recall only a few things but remembered loving C3PO, that second vision was a fantastic experience, I learned that old didn't necessarily mean bad.
The first SW I saw at the theatre is Episode III and I loved it back then, it's a little too edgy for me today, but still the best of the prequels. I rank TFA under V and IV, a little higher than ROTJ after my second viewing yesterday.
The first SW I saw at the theatre is Episode III and I loved it back then, it's a little too edgy for me today, but still the best of the prequels. I rank TFA under V and IV, a little higher than ROTJ after my second viewing yesterday.
Wait, Canada is included in domestic box office results?
Jeffolation
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They count North America as a single source for the domestic box office results.
TheKaeptain
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They are just boys. Obi-Wan can no longer help them.
Us old guys have to stick together.
The real question is what color are the elbow batches?
So Mexico too?
CorporateClown
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'82 here.
First experience was a TV marathon sometime over Christmas back in the 80's. Then saw the special editions in theatres. I was so hyped for the prequel...at least revenge was kinda ok.
First experience was a TV marathon sometime over Christmas back in the 80's. Then saw the special editions in theatres. I was so hyped for the prequel...at least revenge was kinda ok.
also canadian
Damn, and I thought I was getting up there at 38.
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