Your First Time

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Anyone remember their first time watching the Burbs? I'm not sure if this thread topic has been addressed before or not but I'm curious to hear other people's experiences and impressions from their first time seeing it.

My first time: I saw it back in the early 90's on VHS. I was home sick from school and my mom took me to the drug store to get my medicine. They had a video rental service there. I saw the cover and thought to myself "I think this is that movie where the guy falls through the floor in a rug." Little did I know at the time the movie I was thinking of was The Moneypit. I got home and started watching it. It didn't take long before I was like "What the hell is this?" Minorly disappointed Tom Hanks didn't get stuck in his floor with a rug, I finished the movie. I remember thinking about it all day. How it wasn't what I expected but still...awesome. I rewatched it a 2nd time later that day and then a third the next day before returning. I promptly bought a copy soon after.

I'm now 31 and if someone is a visitor in my house and has not seen the Burbs I make sure their first time is with me.
 
I don´t remember EXCACTLY the date I saw the movie for the first time (especially as I love it so much I must have seen it hundreds of times by now).

But I do remember my early feelings, it was like an awakening...hey...this is MY neighborhood (if you don´t count the murdering Klopeks), but you know...your average "Americanized" suburbian neighborhood with curious neighbors that want to know what´s going on in their neighborhood, and wants to hang out with each other.

Every neigborhood have excatcly these issues that are described in the movie, that is (to me) why it is so memorable and so watchable again and again. I even chosed my neighborhood where I bought a house - based on that movie, how weird is that? :D

Btw. Welcome to the burbs.
 
I grew up on a busy state highway outside of a very small town. I preceived that this is how people in subdivisions are. It seems totally plausible (and twistedly awesome). Like I could drive one mile into town, go into any subdivision, and see a group of people shaking down a garbie in the street.

Also, I'm considering putting an offer in on a house in a subdivision. It would be the first time I've ever lived in one. First thing I looked at was the neighbors' lawns.
 
You should...it'll change your life - literally!

Having a house to come home to, is awesome to say the least, especially in the suburbs or subdivisions. I live a bit far away from any big city (about 1 hour by train), but it rocks. We have about 7000 people in our city, small...yes...but big enough to have trains directly to any big city, and houses are like a subdivision...they live neatly (like in Hinkley hills) side-by-side, roughly 30-50 meters spaced between each house. ;)

And we always know what's going down in our neighborhood :) Every neighbor is special. We have the slavic people, they keep to themselves most of the time (yes, this is for real! This is not taken from the movie, this is MY neighborhood), then we have the native Swedes...they like to talk to each other (including me), it's kind of like the American suburbs...where the Americans talk to each other...about the strangers moving in....

The neighborhood I live it, looks pretty much like it does in the movie (thats why I chose it), we live in a Cul-De-Sack, everyone mows their lawn for the 800000th time (not kidding about that), it's almost like a lawn-mowing competition in Sweden, everyone wants their lawn to look better than the other.

I'm growing BIG tuja trees to separate my lawn from my neighbors lawn...he's a grumpy guy (exactly like walter) they're growing fast...but I really am babying my trees! Grow my minions! Grow for your master.... mwhahhahaha!

Anyway, if you moved into my neighborhood...we could have a barbecue and some few hundreds of beers ;) Anyway, wherever you move, make it a great place! Buying a house is the biggest investment of your life.

 
I remember seeing this on tv for the first time at a very young age. I loved it but it gave me nightmare's. I guess i was a bit too young.
 
I saw it in the late 90s on TV. I fell in love after the first few minutes.

My dad and his friend just watched it for the first time and they didn't like it. How can you not like The 'burbs? And their least favorite character was Art. A FAT ONE!
 
I bought my current house because it reminded me of the burbs neighborhood as well JoOngle, but its really not at all. Maybe i'm the klopecks for the rest of them, as they are always wondering what i'm gong to do about my yard. They don't seem half as interesting as Art and Rumsfield anyways.

I'll find my burbs neighborhood with the next move!
 
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I know what you mean man! ;)

Feels like Americans are better at being - well - Amercians than we are (or at our neighbors), they can be a bit boring. Every time I visited a small town in the USA, I immediately got the "burbs" feel, and people came over to smalltalk...they don´t do that the same way here, albeit we do talk.

Might move to the States one day, if I ever get that Green Card...

Green sky tonight...

 
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