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How old and when did you first see this?

posted 18 years ago by Doctor-Phibes
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Me, I saw it when I was about 10-11, back in the mid 80's. We lived overseas at the time and couldn't get TV stations (save for taped shows sent over by family), so Wizards was one of a few movies I'd rewatch a gazillion times.

I almost wonder if many kids who've grown up on things like Dragonball Z (ugh) think that Wizards is a screwy flick. I still love the trippy effects, weird rotoscoping- and Mike Ploog's and Ian Miller's art still stands today!

[–] doug_love 16 years ago

I saw it in the theatre in 1977 and I was 16 at the time. It is still one of my favorite films.

[–] kennerguy66 16 years ago

I was 3 maybe 4. In '91 or '92. My dad had taped it off of HBO from waaaay back in the early 80's or late 70's. I liked it then and watched it off and on maybe every 6 months or year until I was about 9.

I went to a local indie movie store and they had a used dvd copy with the insert for 7.50. I bought it but haven't gotten around to rewatching it. It's been a long time so I've forgotten most of what happens. I'll sure as hell enjoy it though.

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[–] standardbearer 16 years ago

Around 2002, when i was 18.
My Bakshi-frenzy reached it's peak after watching coonskin, so I just had to see all his other works too.
Loved it, of course!

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[–] blahblaher2003-1 16 years ago

I saw it a few months ago for the first time. I was probably 2 or 3 when it came out and it just stayed off my radar until recently. It amazes me, when I discover something like this that I missed as a kid. It's cool though, knowing old movies are out there to still discover.

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[–] WillBarks 16 years ago

Haven't seen it yet, but I hope it'll be in my mailbox soon. I'm 18 now.

Edit: Just seen it and like it :)

[–] ecbush 15 years ago

Saw it when it came out in 1977. I was 18 then.

[–] GuyFleegman 15 years ago

I was nineteen and at the UofW in Seattle and saw it at the theater with some buddies. Here's the memorable part; there was a trailer for this thing called "Star Wars". None of us had ever heard of it, as this was before the days of the studio marketing machine hitting you over the head every day months before a movie came out. The trailer knocked us out, and later that was all we talked about.

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[–] PourItInYourEar 16 years ago

i grew up on DBZ, and saw this film for the first time when i was 9.
i live in mexico, and once our cable was shut down, so there where only like 3 channels viewable, one of them was the culture/arts channel and i saw this cartoon movie that looked kinda interesting, it changed my life, i am now 18 and im a film school student.

[–] prplmnky-1 16 years ago

I was around 3-5yrs old so that was mid to late 80's. My dad gave me tapes of all kinds of animated films from HeavyMetal to Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings and Fire&Ice, StarChaser and Gandahar when I was really little. They were all wonder films and as I grew up I was really dissappointed that there weren't more movies being made like them in the 90's.

[–] YouKnowMyName68 16 years ago

Back in 79 in Mountain View, CA, I had a chance to see it on cable when I looked through the TV Guide (does anybody remember those? Ha ha) but was upset that I had missed it by a day or so. I was 10 or 11 years old.

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