Why those ages? Because I'm really sick and trying to work through the sweet agony of an upset stomach.

Age 10 - you were probably as big a geek as childhood would allow before puberty set in.

Age 18 - senior in high school, brah, need I say more?

Age 22 - arbitrary graduated from college.

Only criteria being you saw it in the theater and it came out that year.
Box Office Mojo runs movie lists back to 1980 if that helps: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/


And leading off

Age 10: Ghostbusters (1984) I wasn't allowed to see Beverly Hills Cop, and Temple of Doom kinda freaked me out. But my whole family went to Ghostbusters and had a blast, and I got to learn some new words and became a lifelong fan of Bill Murray.

Age 18: Wayne's World (1992): I started watching SNL in 1988-89 so this was just a slam dunk hit for me. I hated the people I went to high school with who thought Bohemian Rhapsody was a new song by this new band Queen.

Age 22: The Rock (1996): Imagine living in BCS in the mid 1990s when suddenly the giant Tinseltown opens up and you don't have to go to the Schulman 6 or the Post Oak Mall anymore to see a movie. As I was graduating A&M, saw Twister, mission Impossible, The Rock, and Independence Day all within about 6 weeks. I was way more into ID4 at the time, but the Rock is so irresistible - Connery, Cage (fairly normal by his own standards) and Ed Harris as the most sympathetic bad guy until Thanos came long.

Age 10 (1991) -Beauty and The Beast
Age 18 (1999) - Toy Story 2
Age 22 (2003) -LOTR-The Two Towers


Only reason Toy Story is listed is because it was the highest grossing movie I saw that year after I turned 18. (October B-Day). Saw Phantom Menace that May when I was still 17.

Age 10 (89) - The Last Crusade
Age 18 (97) - Titanic (Don't hate)
Age 22 (01) - Shrek

Age 10 (1991) - Didn't watch movies in theaters yet
Age 18 (1999) - The Matrix
Age 22 (2003) - Elf

Age 10 (1991) - Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Age 18 (1999) - The Matrix
Age 22 (2002) - Catch Me If You Can

10: T2 (I cant believe I saw it at the age of 10. I have a 10 year old now and I can't fathom letting him watch it just yet. And i saw it on the biggest movie screen in LA)

18: Matrix

22: Minority Report

10 (1998): The Truman Show (I loved Armageddon more at the time though.)
18 (2006): The Departed
22 (2010): Inception

Age 10 (1987) - Spaceballs
Age 18 (1995) - Showgirls
Age 22 (1999) - Fight Club

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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Age 10 (1977) - Star Wars
Age 18 (1985) - Back to the Future
Age 22 (1989) - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

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Man, you really lucked out on the years. Nobody can beat this.

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I figure I win the thread.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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10 (1998): The Truman Show (I loved Armageddon more at the time though.)
18 (2006): The Departed
22 (2010): Inception

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You could power the Internet strictly on Armageddon gifs.

10 - Return of the Jedi
18 - T2 - Judgement Day
22 - Se7en

10 - Empire Strikes Back
18 - Planes, Trains & Automobiles
22 - Point Break

He has space dementia.

10 - TRON
18 - Batman
22 - Jurassic Park

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Imagine living in BCS in the mid 1990s when suddenly the giant Tinseltown opens up and you don't have to go to the Schulman 6 or the Post Oak Mall anymore to see a movie. As I was graduating A&M, saw Twister, mission Impossible, The Rock, and Independence Day all within about 6 weeks.

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I remember that time clearly. Fun fact: Twister was the last movie I saw before I married my wife the next week and Mission: Impossible was the first movie I saw when we got back from our honeymoon.

10 - Titanic ('97)
18 - Batman Begins ('05)
22 - Inglorious Basterds ('09)


And I want to do comedies separately because there were some heavy hitters:

10 - Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
18 - Wedding Crashers
22 - The Hangover

Damn am I the youngest here

10 - Gladiator ('00)
18 - The Dark Knight ('08), although Iron Man was a close 2nd
22 - Skyfall ('12), although Avengers was also close.

10 - Beetlejuice (88 - and it was rated PG, even though my parents regretted the choice)
18 - Independence Day (96 - loved it when it came out, remember seeing it at Hollywood (I think) theaters in College Station with the Purple Chairs)
22 - Gladiator (00 - pure epicness)

MuckRaker96 said:

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Age 22: The Rock (1996): Imagine living in BCS in the mid 1990s when suddenly the giant Tinseltown opens up and you don't have to go to the Schulman 6 or the Post Oak Mall anymore to see a movie. As I was graduating A&M, saw Twister, mission Impossible, The Rock, and Independence Day all within about 6 weeks. I was way more into ID4 at the time, but the Rock is so irresistible - Connery, Cage (fairly normal by his own standards) and Ed Harris as the most sympathetic bad guy until Thanos came long.

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Was it a Tinseltown, I thought it was Hollywood Theaters, some offshoot brand. I do remember the sloped floor (pre-tiered seating) with purple plush chairs everywhere.

I saw very few movies in theaters before my actual teens because we lived way out in the middle of nowhere and we had no time with a ranch to go to movies. I was already massively into history at that point and begged my dad to take me since he was also a big history buff.

He probably regretted it, but that movie was awesome.

I very specifically remember my parents and brother going to see Gladiator (I was 12), and I didn't want to see it. (I just was not into period epics at that age.)

So I went to another movie while they watched it. Can't remember what I saw, but based on what I see in the release calendar, is was probably MI-2. (I was REALLY into that movie and that soundtrack.)

I switched to their theater when my movie was over, and I still caught the last 40 minutes or so.

I just find it ironic, because that is now one of my favorites movies of all time, and I regret doing that to this day.

2007 - Spiderman 3
2015 - The Revenant
2019 - Midsommar or Toy Story 4? Not sure, I still haven't seen Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and there is half the year left to go

10 - Poseidon Adventure
18 - Friday the 13th
22 - Against All Odds

That makes a lot of sense! And it was double bonus since that movie is awesome!

Age 10 (1996) - Twister
Age 18 (2004) - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Age 22 (2008) - The Dark Knight

Great attempt to scrape personal data, OP. Tummy ache my ass.

'86 Hoosiers
'94 Pulp Fiction
'98 Saving Private Ryan

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