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For Trek’s 45th Birthday: 10 Underappreciated Aspects of Classic Trek.

45 years of Star Trek in one handy timeline.

Dread Central interviews Kathryn Leigh Scott.

Comics fans react angrily to Batman’s reboot in 1987.

Nike unveils limited edition Back to the Future Part 2 sneakers. All proceeds will go to Michael J. Fox Foundation, which helps fight Parkinson’s Disease.

The AV Club asks what everyone’s first R rated movies were. So those on my friends list: what was your first R movie? It doesn’t matter if it was in or out of the theater. Mine was Army of Darkness, when I was 11. They showed the trailer in a local video rental store, and Dad agreed to get it. So once Mom was out of the house to go shopping, Dad and I watched it. This was followed by The Good Son—he tried to watch it alone in the bedroom, but I snuck in and watched directly behind him. Asked a question near the end, just about gave him a heart attack.

An exclusive introduction for Doctor Who’s The Girl Who Waited.

Michael Hart passed away on September 6th, at the age of 64. He was the founder of Project Gutenberg. May he rest in peace.

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[nwhepcat.livejournal.com]

Mine was "Deliverance," at a theater. My friend's mom took the 2 of us.

[deathpixie]

Mine was "The Exorcist" when I was four. It was playing at the drive in and my parents couldn't afford babysitting for my brother and I, so they made up a bed in the back of the station wagon and covered us with a blanket when they drove in. We were supposed to sleep through it all, but I remember the music waking me up and watching it, peeking over the back seat. I wasn't scarred for life or anything, tho' - I was way too young to really take much in, except the spooky music. Curse you Mike Oldfield!

[shadowlongknife.livejournal.com]

My first rated R movie was Creepshow. At a drivethrough. I think I was 9.

It was, in retrospect, a bad idea.

[spikewriter]

Blazing Saddles when it was first released. Looking at IMDB, it appears I was 13 at the time, which is a bit of a scary thought. I remember that Mom and I went and Mom made me use my student discount card, which meant I had to buy my own ticket. Naturally,they carded me and said i had to be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Mom pointed out she was my parent but she saw no reason why i shoukdn't get the student disciunt just because it was an R rating.

We laughed so hard during that, especially the campfire scene. So much of it was rude, crude and politically incorrect but it was a grwat mother-daughter day out. A couple of years later, she took me to my first midnight show, where we both got slightly stoned from the massive amounts of pot smoke in the balcony where we were sitting.

I have a great mom.

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

I can't remember my first R-rated movie. My parents were fairly liberal about what they allowed us to watch, so it was probably pretty young. And add to that that 'R-rated' doesn't quite mean the same thing here that it does in the US. (For example, in the US, you can get in an R-rated movie in the theatre with an adult. In Canada, you can't, but there's a separate categoy, "AA" (adult accompaniment), which you can, it's sort of like a 'soft-R'.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was a horror movie, though. Although it was far from my first R-rated movie (counting video), I do recall being very concerned about whether Bram Stoker's Dracula would be R (meaning I couldn't see it), or AA (meaning my Dad could take me), and being pleased to find it was AA.

I also have a vague memory of, when I was really young, seeing a boob on a rented movie and my Mom (who was slightly less liberal about such things than my Dad), trying to convince my brother and I it was just a knee. No idea what movie it was, though, or whether it was R rather than just PG.

[scarfman]

I suspect it was either M*A*S*H or the original McQueen-McGraw The Getaway. But I don't recall for sure that those were R-rated.