Without Stating Your Age, Post A Popular Movie You Watched When You Were 12 Years Old.

Who the hell remembers what age they were at the time of seeing a movie.

The Muppet Movie

Cabaret ! Changed my life.

R1 dementia patient.

Jurassic Park

Forrest Gump

Unless some big movie was released the year you were twelve and there was some event viewing to make it memorable, there is no way to remember that.

Tootsie

R7 👍🏼

We know you idiots who are answering went and looked up movies that came out when you were 12. You're not fooling anyone.

R10 no fucking shit, google is your friend.

Logan's Run. I saw boobies.

The Trail of the Pink Panther.

R3 how did Cabaret change your life?

To Sir, with Love

And no R10, I did not have to look it up.

Considering I loved old Hollywood hits but wasn't even born for another 40 years later, this thread proves nothing.

But in the spirit of sharing...

My Fair Lady The Sound of Music Scaramouche (1952)

r7 makes a good point. When I was a kid during the era of broadcast TV, old movies (albeit chopped up for commercial breaks) made up a major portion of what was shown. I was more familiar with Humphrey Bogart and Bela Lugosi than the movie stars of my own time.

R11, you dipshit. OP didn't say what movie that came out the year you were 12. He said which one that you watched when you were twelve. There would have been no point in writing "without stating your age" if it was about what movie came out when you were 12 since we can all do the math and figure out your age if you do that.

Gremlins 2- Electric Boogaloo

I thought I was the only eldergay here until this thread.

West Side Story

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid

Lumiere's A Trip to the Moon

Do that math!

Jurassic Park

Bonnie & Clyde, it was the coolest movie I had ever seen, but then I felt guilty that I thought murdering bank robbers were cool. Warren Beatty made me think of all sorts of naughty stuff and I felt kind of guilty about that too :)

I know you're all liars because no one named a porn movie.

Home Alone.

12 years old you say? The Divine Woman—starring Greta Garbo.

And yes it was a talkie.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Star Wars

R3 - are you me? I would say the same thing. I knew I was "different" at 12 - but watching Cabaret made it clear to me - even though I'm not sure I understood the whole story of Cabaret. I got the album for my birthday (how could my parents NOT know I was a little gayling?) and then lip-synced all of Joel Grey's songs!

A Hard Day's Night

Titanic and The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Boyz in the Hood The Prince of Tides

R31 thank you. That’s a sweet story. 🥰

Dog Day Afternoon.

Ghost

Sophie’s Choice

Batman Forever

Jason and the Argonauts

Jumanji. I think I saw it at a drive in.

The Exorcist

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

The Poseidon Adventure.

I saw it on my twelfth birthday. I was a social outcast, and nobody I asked would go to the movie with me, so I went alone. Which is why I remember it.

Steel Magnolias, natch.

Tron - It was amazing back then.

R17 is right for my generation. I was watching things on TV that my grandparents saw when they were young, silent movies were regularly shown. My view of Europe was entirely shaped by Warner Bros. war and mystery movies.

Fantastic Voyage

The Sand Pebbles

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

MRS. DOUBTFIRE

Superman

Birth of a Nation.

Batman Forever

STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN.

The Birth of a Nation.

Um, I mean, Batman Returns

Beetlejuice.

There’s Something about Mary

The Omen - watching the devil row up was so much fun.

Frozen

Auntie Mame (on TV, a few years after its release). Still one of my favorites.

"Excalibur"

Charlie's Angels

Good Will Hunting

^^and yes I had to google the year too

2001: A Space Odyssey. My older brother took me. (And last summer he took me for my colonoscopy.)

Now and Then

Saturday Night Fever and Rocky

I'll name 3 big hits that I saw in the theater when I was 12 and loved.

Oliver

Funny Girl

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

I have no idea why I loved Butch Cassidy as I was a gayling and always thought that though handsome Paul and Robert were not hot. I still don't think they were hot. Now Steve McQueen in The Reivers(are they allowed to show it or is it banned?) was hot.

The first Harry Potter. Honorable mention to Shrek too

R69, TCM shows The Reivers every once in awhile

Big Business, starring Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin.

Completely unsurprisingly, I grew up to be a pole-smoking cockrider.

You are right r7 however I do distinctly remember seeing Cooley HIgh. It came out when I was 14 and I walked to the theater with a friend and saw it. Very important film for a young teen. At the time I did not relate to any feelings I had for boys so I could relate to that world of the story of coming of age.

SPACECAMP (1986) starring Leaf Phoenix

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The Towering Inferno

Stand By Me

Heathers

The Great Escape

The Great Train Robbery.

It's not a movie but I jerked my pussy off to Derek Hough on Dancing with the Stars.

Woodstock

Faces of Death

Airport ‘77!

"Tommy". That shit fucked me up.

Toy Story

Love Story. Hated it.

The Brady Bunch Movie

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Doctor Zhivago

Star Wars

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. It made me dedicate my life to the vocation of teaching. Three years later I was by a priest as I was crossing a road to try to see The Exorcist--the movie didn't change my life (I didn't get to see it that day, needless to say), but it put me off priests. The following year I saw a rerelease of Women in Love and that made me gay.

Jaws

The Shining. My aunt took me to the midnight showing. Then we got lost driving in the woods on the way to my grandfathers house. I kind of freaked out!Good times!

All you fags know you should be honest and say "Birth of a Nation."

Superman II.

When Margot Kidder punched that Krypton villan Ursa I stood up and cheered.

And God Created Woman

and I saw french chest

Speed

Raiders of the Lost Ark

I hate to date myself, but Dracula 1931.

Myra Breckinridge

Brokeback Mountain.

Debbie Does Dallas.

Deep Throat

The Irishman.

That Darn Cat

The Sound of Music

Muriel's Wedding

Singles

"9 to 5"

You don't have to google, for gods sake. What year was it when you were 12. What movie do you remember seeing. It's not that hard.

A Separate Peace

Stand by Me

Oh God!

Steel Magnolias was big when I was 12.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Do Mad magazine parodies count? If so, Botch Casually and the Somedunce Kid. (I did actually see the movie, too. I had a huge crush on Robert Redford.)

Last Summer and The Undefeated

Nosferatu

The Goonies.

I wanna say Home Alone. But I don't wanna check what year it came out. Or Home Alone 2. Always wanted to live in the McCallister' house.

Jurassic Park! Still my all time favourite.

Little Shop of Horrors (the musical).

The Sterile Cuckoo

There was something about Liza that I found interesting and compelling. I also found Wendell Burton (RIP) rather attractive - he played her boyfriend.

I was 12 in 1972 so it's also Cabaret. It an experience that's burned into my memory. A rainy Sunday afternoon, my parents decided to see a movie, I didn't want to go and sulked in the cinema seat... then Joel Grey's distorted face appeared "Wilkommen" and I was hooked. And it wasn't just the musical numbers, I totally understood the bisexual menage a trois and selling the fur coat to pay for the abortion. I felt like a grown up.

The Music Man

Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Poltergeist.

Superman. One of the earliest scenes involved the sentencing of Zod and his minions—those floating heads saying “Guilty”—and for some reason it scared the living daylights out of me. I had nightmares for years.

R124 You were ahead of your time. I was slightly older than you when I saw Dirty Dancing and I don't think I understood what an abortion was even after watching the whole film 15x.

Silence of the Lambs

Weekend At Bernie's.

The Valley of Gwangi with James Franciscus.

Rebel Without a Cause

American Pie. Delicious. x

'Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte'. Scared me to death.

Yet you lived to tell us that, R136.

Gremlins 2: The One with the Girl!

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes.

The Pizza Boy: He Delivers

Superman (the original Christopher Reeves version)

Idol Eyes

Dawson's 20-load weekend.

I was a precocious child.

Jaws

Your Mother Sews Socks that Smell

Lord of the Rings Two Towers I had read all of the books but had missed the first one. I think this was the first film that I ever saw in an American theatre.

The Naked Gun

Terminator 2: Judgement Day

First rated R movie I saw in a theater. My dad wanted to see it too, so the “no rated R” rule was forever broken!

"A Hard Day's Night," same as r32. I vividly remember the commotion surrounding its release. They even had special tickets with the Beatles' picture on them.

My mom rented Pulp Fiction when I was 12. I remember it clearly because we had just moved so I was 12. She didn’t know what it was about. She made me close my eyes during the Zed scene. 😂 Afterwards, she sat there and said “Well, they sure like to say the f word a lot!” She is a WASPy southerner and never cursed in our presence when we were kids. I think she was a little shell shocked! It’s funny thinking back on that - she sat thru GoT without blinking an eye. How times have changed!

Babe

Intolerance by DW Griffith