Who else saw this in theaters?

I was 8 and it was the best movie I'd ever seen (up to that point at least)

I couldn't wait to see this film. I was 21 years old and had already fallen in love with the idea once I started seeing early pictures of the film and then saw the first footage and behind the scenes on Entertainment Tonight. I used to collect a ,ot of stuff, and I bought a lot of Rocketeer memorabilia, though I was miffed at the cheap quality of a lot of the stuff Disney put out. I saw it three or four times in the theaters, I can't clearly remember now. The best part, though, was discovering the Dave Stevens comic books. The bad part was that this was the worst time to be seeking them out...all prices shot up thanks to the film and there was no internet to make it easy. But in a way, that made the search fun.

The film is still one of my absolute favorites today, and I still have that soundtrack I bought way back in 1991!

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I did. It was very affective and was nice to see a good adaption of a comic book. At the time, the only decent and recent ones were 'Batman' and the 'TMNT' movie. Though, I was a little disappointed when I found out that Dave Stevens had written it recently and it wasn't actually conceived in the 1940s. I don't know why that was. It's not really important.

I was 28 and gobbled it up on the edge of my seat. I think this movie made me fall deeply in love with classic airplanes too, which has been an obsession ever since. My best friend at the time, who saw it with me, was so smitten by Jennifer Connolly that I this she was all he talked about for the next six months.

I did it. I was 17 and I did it mainly for Timothy Dalton :P

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It was one heck of a show for my 11-year-old self!

I saw when I was 9. Loved it! Still do! I had to make my dad run out and get the comic it was based on.

hey guys. normally I do these threads!  sorry im late in on this one. yeah I saw it back in summer 91 (UK). I think I saw it shortly after T2 and it was my dad who wanted to go. he liked old time movies 1930s/40s stuff set near the war like Indy plus was a big bond fan and this looked similar to Indy and had Bond in it so he was up for seeing this (he liked T2 as well which I was surprised by as normally he hated big action movies with Arnie or Sly, but it was such an epic how could anyone not like it). I wasn't that keen as it was an unknown thing to me and wasn't fussed on the retro setting, but then Indy was the same period and Bond was in it so what the hell maybe it'll be ok. Also looked abit similar to Dick Tracy the year before which id seen and sort of enjoyed abit (which had seemed to have come out on the back of Batman89 which itself had a kind of retro setting so I think it was Batman that started off these retro superhero movies that continued with The Shadow and The Phantom)

Anyway I was soon won over by the fun atmosphere, characters, and the FX which were astounding (I remember thinking the flying scenes were what Superman IV should've been like - of that standard. id never seen flying FX that realistic. a definite step up from the Supermans. if only theyd got ILM for Superman IV) it did feel quite Indy due to the setting, Nazis, henchmen etc (remember this was coming just 2 years after Last Crusade) and was fun to see 007 on the big screen again (I missed LTK as it was a 15 in UK so the last Bond Id seen was TLD in 87 - so 4 years was an eternity to a youngster, plus there were rumours there wouldn't be another Bond film back then too). I was a Star Trek nerd (still am) so knew the main guy had been in The Next Generation so this should really be his big break out as a movie star. JConnerly looked amazing like she was straight out the 1930s (I bet my dad liked her). I remember the ending on the Zeppelin was astounding - the kind of FX stuff Bond could only dream of at that time (In fact I think I remember me and my dad after saying something like the next Bond film would have a job to top that). the film really felt like a mash up of Superman, Bond, and Indy in the best way. also the score was fantastic (RIP James Horner) again as a trekkie I recognised some of Wrath of Khan in there but it worked great almost like a Superman score (been listening to it recently due to Horner)

all in all a great cinema experience and hard to believe its so long ago now (25 years next year). seen bits of it a couple of times on tv but haven't watched in its entirety since that time in 91 (so maybe now its time to head to amazon to get the dvd, although maybe I should just have it as a memory? I find when you revisit stuff years later it isn't as good as you remember..)