Told my husband I saw Barton Fink when it came out in theaters and didn’t realize until just now that that’s a weird thing for a 12 year-old to do.
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I would like to formally apologize for what is surely not the last instance of making this joke after someone had already made it, I didn’t see the others before I posted mine 😭
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17, but yes
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My folks were super strict on what I got to watch but once when I was about 12 I managed to sneak watch Clint Eastwood’s The Beguiled on TV. What a parental fail on their part for allowing that to happen.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CNy...
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I walked to the new theater by our apartments and saw 2001 when it came out. I was seven and confused by it definitely made an impression. I dived into science and science fiction after that.
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That's a high level Coen Brothers movie. Good for you, weird as it was.
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A couple friends and I were crazy about Raising Arizona. I suspect if we'd been tuned into directors/writers at that age, we probably would have been up for Barton Fink. I recall watching most of the Coen brothers stuff quite young, though mostly on VHS.
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It was a groundswell of tween support that had evaporated by the time of The Hudsucker Proxy.
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Josh just told me that joke, too!
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Miller's Crossing was a great film for me at 17 just starting college within 25 miles of an independent theater in Austin, but Barton Fink just confused most of us.
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My friend wanted to see Blues Brothers for his birthday, so his mom took us. We were 11. All the way to the car, she was reiterating that she didn't want to hear us use any of that language.
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Great side effect of “going to the movies” being a thing everyone did all the time, we got a variety of interesting movies and families made weird but understandable choices
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Why did I watch the vhs of a fish called Wanda so often before 5th grade? Nobody knows, it’s probably fine
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I had an informed opinion of Kevin Kline before the end of elementary school.
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Oh man. Mine was "The Joy Luck Club". My parents took me to see it in a theater! I was 10!
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Oh wow same
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Congratulations, Maris, on being the living embodiment of one of the ten or so Simpsons jokes I know
sep 1, 2025, 10:58 pm • 18 0 • view
Josh literally just told me about that!
sep 1, 2025, 10:59 pm • 3 0 • view
Yessss my people! Fargo was my fav movie when i was 12 and my mom still likes to bring it up like "you watched that strange movie all the time and i never understood why..." 😂
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My mom took me and my friend to see Six Degrees of Separation when we were in jr high and it was actually really formative. Understanding 60% of what's going on is still really instructive.
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