Who else saw this in theaters?

I did. My father took me on my tenth birthday. Loved it then, love it now.

I saw it when it first came into the theaters, but I was in my mid-20s. I just saw it on cable with the darker ending, and it's just not the same.

I did. I remember my dad taking me. He hated it and he would always use it as a gauge to compare other movies. Even in my adult years, if I asked him to go to a movie, he'd say "well as long as it's not as bad as that movie with the singing plant." That's probably why it's one of my most remembered childhood memories of him. May he R.I.P.

We ain't hunting him, he's hunting us.

My cousin and I saw it 4 times in one week and memorized it to the point that I just saw her again last month for the first time in 22yrs and we were cracking up about it and my older sister noted that no amount of time between us would keep us from quoting this movie, PeeWee's Big Adventure, singing songs from Stand By Me or Dirty Dancing. 22yrs and it was like no time had passed and she about fell over when my 16yr old son that she had never met, started in on Dentist. LOL Somethings will never change.

Funny how many peoples' dads took them to this film. That's how I first saw it too, in 1986. 😃

Loved it then, still enjoy it now. For awhile, years back, the UC theater in Berkeley was trying to make it a Friday midnight movie along the lines of Rocky Horror, but it never caught on the same.

Although the darker ending looks great and is more of a dark, true morality tale, like many I kind of find it unsatisfying. The theatrical ending is happier, but also feels forced. I kind of wish there were a middle-ground ending, slightly darker but not ending in the 2 leads' deaths.

The war is not meant to be won... it is meant to be continuous.

Hey there, I'm from STL and still live here. Which theater did you end up seeing this at?

I did also, my first year away in college. I immediately went to the Peaches and bought the soundtrack ... on cassette!