[Salamander]

Desperately seeking Suzanne Somers ping.

[Third Person]

Hey Bill, that’s what happens when Dad is hardly ever home.

[cva66snipe]

Dern I'm feeling old. I was 16 when it came out. The chain on the cops axle was hilarious. It had a sequel I think. Toad got drafted and went to Nam. He tried several ways to get discharged including trying to make a guy he was playing football against injure him by calling him names etc. It shows him rigging a latrine to blow up with him supposedly in it as he goes off into the jungle. In Nam his unit has one of the Pharaohs in it too best I remember.

[Bullish]

American grafiti.... Hated it.

[Jack Hammer]

American Graffiti - wonderful film about the way things used to be.

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
- The Late, Great Jeff Cooper

[martin_fierro]

** swoooon **

[rawcatslyentist]

Super animation, turning on the nation.

[JoeProBono]

[beaversmom]

Excellent movie and one I always enjoy seeing. Felt like I was living that night with all the characters. Even though my teen years were in the 80s, I could very much relate to that experience and those feelings.

[DJ Frisat]

"These days, the machines and awful films that blow things up every 10 seconds ..."

I absolutely despise most 'action-adventure' movies. They bore the snot out of me with the ridiculous fights and incredible death-cheating stunts and miraculous close shaves. I can suspend disbelief for a short time, but not long enough to swallow 99% of the stupid, unbelievable crap that happens in the first 15 minutes of one of these films.

Saw "Gravity" a day or two ago. Absolutely stupid in some of the things they expect you to believe happened.

[circlecity]

"The consensus: It was OK. Too many cars."

There can never be "too many cars."

[erlayman]

American Graffiti is one of the best films ever, certainly well deserving of its reputation as a classic. And thanks to the magic of movies we can travel back in time and as long as we 'remember' it, that period of fleeting innocence will never die. I have nothing against unabashed nostalgia as long as it isn't confused with being faithful to life as it actually was.　 　

[HomeAtLast]

Was it 40 years ago? Oh my.
We saw it at a drive-in, while multi-tasking. Thought it pointless and mildly distracting, but basically trash. The little white goddess gave it some cred, not enough.
But what can you do? You have to go to movies, if only to shorten the discussion with your parents later.
Where were you — Went to a movie — How was it — It was great, Opie was in it — Oh.

[MuttTheHoople]

The Car Culture is dying. When I was a teenager in the 1970’s, I was chomping at the bit to get my driver’s license, and got it when I was 15. My two oldest kids, 17 and 18, could care less. One has a driver’s license but can’t stand driving. My oldest still hasn’t gotten his (to be fair, he has OCD and Tourettes) and doesn’t seem to care.

[Venturer]

Whatever you do, never trot out a Spencer Tracy or Katherine Hepburn movie.

Both were so liberal I almost puke watching their trash.

[TalBlack]

The thing I think of when I consider this ‘nostalgia’ movie is that the night it depicts was only about 13 years past when the movie premiered. Things were moving fast back then...

[exDemMom]

Good movie, I enjoy watching it once in a while. We were absolutely thrilled one day to go to a car dealership in Sacramento and find the Thunderbird from that movie on display in the showroom.

I think Bill has not disciplined his kids very well. I can’t imagine my son ever pulling out one of his electronic devices while we watch a movie, even when he was little.

[aomagrat]

He should have shown them “Hollywood Knights.” I bet some scenes in that would have gotten their attention.

[zeugma]

Re-watched Casablanca the other day. I'd forgotten how stunning Bergman was. Wow. Also, the thought that came to mind most strongly was that the movie depicted a much more civilized time than we currently live in.

[zeugma]

Have you done Harvey yet? Absolute classic.