30th Anniversary

This movie came out in theaters on Friday, August 1, 1986, and this past Monday was its 30th anniversary. I saw it at The PIX, a big single screen theater in Rock Hill, SC on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 12, 1986, and it has two big distinctions for me. The first is that it was the last movie I ever saw at that theater, as it closed two months later, in October, 1986. It was a very old theater, built and opened in the 1940s, and did well to stay opened as long as it did, as single screen theaters were on the way out by the early/mid eighties (also see my post on the A Fine Mess board). I had seen a good deal of movies at it since the mid seventies, including Friday the 13th The Final Chapter on Friday night, April 13, 1984, which was and still is to this day the biggest crowd I have ever been in a movie theater with. But I knew then this movie theater would be closing soon and wanted to go to it one last time, so went that day to see this movie.

Also, I drove myself in our family car, about 20 miles from where we lived, and this was the first movie I had ever driven myself to. Unlike most people I did not learn how to drive in high school, but took a two week course at a Rock Hill driving school in late July/early August, 1986 about a month and a half after graduating from high school, and then got my lisence on August 6, 1986.

But this movies does and always will have those two distinctions for me, and I rented it out from netflix last week and watched it on my dvd player last Friday night because of this anniversary.



"I happen to be a vegetarian". Lex, from Jurrasic Park