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    653 points thunderbong | 11 comments | 28 Jul 23 12:46 UTC | HN request time: 2.882s | source | bottom
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    overthemoon ◴[28 Jul 23 15:27 UTC] No.36908300[source]▶
    Nostalgia is so powerful. I'm fully conscious of it and yet I still couldn't resist losing 30 minutes to this without even realizing it. Spent some time channel surfing 1997, which was a fairly pivotal year for me.
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    1. codetrotter ◴[28 Jul 23 15:49 UTC] No.36908654[source]▶
    What’s your favourite memory from 1997?
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    2. iknowSFR ◴[28 Jul 23 16:47 UTC] No.36909637[source]▶
    Men in Black and Tomorrow Never Dies in theaters.
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    3. supportengineer ◴[28 Jul 23 16:47 UTC] No.36909638[source]▶
    It was also my favorite year! It felt like everything was getting better across the board.
    4. supertofu ◴[28 Jul 23 17:12 UTC] No.36910037[source]▶
    I remember going to see Men In Black in 1997. I had a meltdown because I found the aliens scary, and my Mom had to leave the film early. My dad took my sister and he got to see the whole movie, which my mom resented.

    I was 5.

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    5. olddustytrail ◴[28 Jul 23 18:43 UTC] No.36911334{3}[source]▶
    Men In Black is PG-13, isn't it? Serves your parents right for taking a 5 year old to watch it!
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    6. ta1243 ◴[28 Jul 23 20:27 UTC] No.36912834{4}[source]▶
    In the UK, Men in Black was a PG when released. We had a "12" rating at the time, but that meant 11 year olds couldn't go to the cinema to see it, even with an adult present.

    Independence day which came out a year earlier (also with Will Smith) was a 12.

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    7. Arrath ◴[28 Jul 23 23:09 UTC] No.36914611[source]▶
    Hauling ass home from the school bus drop off to catch the last half of Magic School Bus, if I hustled.
    8. wishfish ◴[28 Jul 23 23:45 UTC] No.36914935[source]▶
    Going to New Orleans. Seeing Crash Worship. Met a girl there. With her best friend, all 3 of us climbed a huge, ancient tree. Watched the moon rise over the city.
    9. nocoiner ◴[29 Jul 23 06:33 UTC] No.36917522[source]▶
    Buying GoldenEye for the N64 on release day. For the first couple of weeks, being the only one of my friends to own it, but telling all of them how great it was. A week or two after that, one of my friends buying the game (and an N64 to play it on) and rapidly becoming better than me.

    We and our other friends played almost every week for the next couple of years.

    10. jamiek88 ◴[29 Jul 23 19:54 UTC] No.36923917{5}[source]▶
    The first ‘12’ general release was I believe for Batman.

    I went to see that with my older, cool as fuck aunty who went to university, shaved her head and had a CAR.

    All of that was cool as fuck to me.

    I felt so grown up going to see that! I was not sure if adults ate sweets (candy) at the pictures so I declined her offer only to see everyone get a stuff!

    Ah the pressures of growing up. Spend half your life desperate to be grown and the other half wishing you weren’t!

    Sally later confided to me that no adult would go with her to see Batman. Comic book movies except Superman were very much not for ‘adults’ in late eighties Liverpool !

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    11. supertofu ◴[31 Jul 23 17:09 UTC] No.36945702{6}[source]▶
    Your aunt really was cool!!