Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Dannyalcatraz]

then i look at some actress/actor's ages and get irritated they are younger than me.

I’m more often surprised by those older than I thought.

 

[el-remmen]

I’m more often surprised by those older than I thought.

Reverse for me. Everyone seems young or seems old and turns out to be my age. So yeah, old.

 

[MoonSong]

Fifty-four thousand, five-hundred and sixty were to be chosen. Twenty-thousand, eight hundred and forty from the land of the eagle, sixteen-thousand and nine-hundred from the kindhearted mountains, eigthy-five hundred from the Maiden coasts, sixty-one hundred and seventy from the inner sea, nine hundred and sixty from the beacon in the southern islands, and one-hundred and ninety from the heart of the Moon. However, the demon of Greed got in the way and there was none...

 

[The Firebird]

I remember watching Casablanca with my dad when I was a boy. It was only 40 years old but it felt ancient--old video format, old songs, old slang, old actors in old costumes telling an old story about an old war. I was 8 years old.

An 8-year old boy today might have the same feelings about Top Gun or Platoon.

I'm afraid to say, that was my response to Platoon. I'm sure very impactful at the time, but I just didn't connect to it.

Despite all the kind of dopey decisions happening with NASA and government-funded right now, this one actually makes sense.

The NASA budget passed recently and was just about everything we asked for, short of Mars sample return (which was becoming massively over budget anyway).

 

[Ryujin]

because we can (maybe?) NASA Commits to Plan to Build a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon by 2030

They're a little behind schedule.

 

[payn]

So we got predictions of a new style of pineapple pizza coming in 2029 or 2030. One guy says as early as 2027 and they are never wrong about these things.

 

[Aeson]

If there's a new pineapple pizza it means I'll have to buy all new toppings to go on the pizza. I'm too old and too poor for that .

 

[trappedslider]

I’m more often surprised by those older than I thought.

I'm also surprised, like "I didn't think they that old" or my age,

 

[Thomas Shey]

I'm afraid to say, that was my response to Platoon. I'm sure very impactful at the time, but I just didn't connect to it.

I'm a massive fan of 50's SF films, but I'm very cautious about which ones I recommed, and knowing the specific person is usually a factor in it. A lot of it is going to look dated because of film style and SFX technology, but some of it can overcome that, and some of it can't.

 

[billd91]

I'm afraid to say, that was my response to Platoon. I'm sure very impactful at the time, but I just didn't connect to it.

Context certainly can be key. Platoon was released the same month I turned 18 and registered for the selective service at my local post office. That might not seem like much but this was mid-Reagan years and it looked like he was pushing for a war in the Middle East, he had bungled the Reykjavik Summit with the Soviets, things were running amok with the Iran-Contra Affair... so I was primed for feeling a bit salty about the state of the world and prospects for US militarism. That made Platoon hit a bit harder.
I loved it and found parts of it very moving. Still do.