25th Anniversary
This movie opened in theaters on July 18, 1990, and last Saturday, one week ago, had its 25th anniversary. I know I'm a week late with this post, and I was actually in the library and on IMDB last Saturday, but did not think it had come out until August, 1990, so that is why I did not write and post this then. But I do remember well when it first came out back in 1990, I saw a commercial advertising it on TV, and they were interviewing people that had just come out of a theater after seeing it, and they all were saying it was very good and exciting, and some were also saying it was the scariest movie they had ever seen.
I saw several movies in the summer of 1990, and this was one I definitly wanted to see, and I did go to see it at my local theater one afternoon that August. After seeing it I agreed that it was very exciting and also scary (in large part because I had always had a fear of spiders). But I also liked it alot, it became my favorite movie of 1990, which it still is today, and easily got on my favorite movies of all time list. I did not see it again in the theaters then, but rented it out and watched it on our VCR a few times the next year, then brought a used copy of it from a video store. I then watched it some more later in the 1990s, and one night in the summer of 1993 watched it on our VCR with my mother, who really disliked scary movies, but liked it and did not think it was all that scary. I then got my own apartment and TV and DVD player in 2010, and brought alot of movies on DVD from several stores, and in 2012 saw a copy of Arachnaphobia in my Wal-Mart, as well as a copy of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, another one of my favorite movies, both for only five dollars. I thought about getting them both right then, but for some reason I still don't understand did not, which was a big mistake on my part. I've gone back to this Wal-Mart and looked in the movie section some since then but neither movie is still there. But I did get Arachnaphobia from Netflix in 2013 and watched it a few times and still like it as much as I did in the early 1990s, and think I'll get it from Netflix later this year for this anniversary.
"I happen to be a vegetarian". Lex, from Jurrasic Park