i was born the same month the original movie came so i'm curious. What is it like to be a fan of the original movie and can't wait to go see the new sequel and you are kindly treated to Jesse Jesse:a young man's exotic journey from milan to minsk? Were you disapointed and how did it affect your attitude when you heard part 3 was coming out?
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@tim57
Not true about the prices---it was actually way cheaper then to go to the movies, but you're right about home video becoming more popular as time want on. The only NOES film I saw at the theatre when it came out was NOES3, and I remember complaining about the price going up to $3.75 (which is what I paid to see it.) Nowadays, with tickets going to $9 and $10.00 after 6 p.m.that would be considered a bargain price,big time!
I was a little kid when it came out so I was a bit too young to see it in the theater. However it was the first one I ever saw (thanks to HBO). I saw part one not long after, but at that time, when my friends and I were just getting into horror movies, this was the one that we saw first and that left the biggest impression on us initially.
I get people complaining about it now, and maybe for older people who were able to look at films (even low budget horror) critically they could already identify that it was inferior to the prior one, but I think for a lot of us young folks, and based on some of the other answers in this thread, we didn't think that deeply about it at the time. It was just a cool, imaginative horror movie that scared the crap out of all of us (at least based on what we were able to see from peaking between the hands over our eyes, or around the corner after adult figures made us leave the room).
My mom took me to see part 3 in the theater- which I was probably too young for, but she knew how much I loved the first two. At the time it was like the coolest thing I'd ever seen. I think it really took the establishment of the series' "rules" via the next few sequels for a lot of people to start to reflect badly on this one. For the first few years it was around, most of us didn't really look at it like that. We just thought it, like any other horror movies we were able to see, were cool and scary.