Raiders of the Lost Ark 40th!
Raiders is 40?? How can this be??? I remember Raiders coming out but not the way that you would expect. I was 12 when it hit theatres and I remember the commercials but I guess I didn't pay close attention and I wasn't really excited to see Han Solo be somebody else! Without internet and cable/satellite television, I knew very little about the movie before it came out. We also went on a family trip to visit friends of my mother here in Florida ( I was living in New Jersey). They had kids close in age to my brother and I and one older child as well. So one night, the kids all went out to the movies. The older kids bought tickets to a Cheech and Chong movie and the younger kids bought tickets to Raiders. But we didn't watch Raiders. One of the older kids came out of the theatre with all the ticket stubs to the Cheech and Chong movie for us younger kids to use to sneak in to an R rated flick! I can honestly say it was not my plan but I didn't do much in the way of protest
