How old and when did you first see this?

My mom took me to see it in theatrical release; I would have been 9. At the time I saw it, I loved it, and wanted to be an assassin named "Peace."

Now that I'm an adult, I have a love/hate relationship with this film. The nostalgia balances out my current cinema tastes - this film just does too much wrong. I have a copy of it on vhs somewhere, but can never bring myself to watch it.




"An old lady on Main Street last night picked up a shoe. The shoe had a foot in it. We're going to make you pay for that mess." - Hank Quinlan

I was actually only about seven. Maybe younger, it's around the same time I saw the anime film "Devilman", which was my first exposure to actual nudity in a cartoon, though I think I was six when I saw that 'cuz I was in pre-first and it was my first exposure to animated blood or nudity of any kind. But I know I was really young when I first saw Wizards, REALLY young, it was in one of the first houses I lived at that I saw it and I moved around a lot back then.

Anyhow, my dad rented it for me 'cuz he figured I'd like it and taped it. So I had the movie for years. I never really saw it for anything political or deep, I never saw it for anything artful, and I never saw it for anything giving any kind of message until I was much older. I just knew I liked the fantasy and the monsters. o.o

But, it turned out to be one of the few childhood films I loved when I was little that I -still- like as an adult.

I was about 8 or 9 and long after it came out in theatres. Since I was the biggest anime freak possible as a kid and loved anything fantasy-like, my dad rented it for me without knowing what it was really about. I didnt get any of the message or its allusions to Facism. Still there was enough action to captivate me. Even 15 years latter, can still remember its violent imagery pretty well.

GMG Man

18 years old, when it first came out in theaters.

Was this movie the inspiration for all the Dungeons & Dragons and elfen characters that came later?

I think I was "Goth" (before that was a term), wearing a black cape, black make-up, and rings on every finger.

Fun times!

Fantastic! I had just graduated high school and I remember it was the VERY FIRST MIDNIGHT MOVIE ever after Rocky Horror; we were mesmerized by this film; it was so avant garde and 'cool'; the 1970's was the best decade. What I remember the most about this film is one scene where Blackwolfe is cloaked in black and he is at the top of a mountain and he says "Son of a bitch", that was the very, very, first time I heard any cussing in a film. I'll never forget this movie.

I was also about 10, maybe younger. Now that I look back at it, it sure was a wierd movie, but also different.
But what was with the Nazism? The movie came out in 1977, weren't we fighting the Communists by that time? Why remind the world of the Nazis?


"The following is based on true events. Only the names, dates and locations have been changed."

I was 18. When did I first watch it? Just now. "Oh yeah...one more thing: I'm glad you changed your last name, you son of a b!tch!"

Greatness.

"I'll die unless you kill me!" - Ethan Hunt

29 and I'm just watching it.