What? Gladiator came out over 10 years ago?

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Well, this topic is from another forum but I can't link to it due to some fantastically inappropriate swearing.

Here's the OP :

I seem to recall a thread on [edit] where people talked about moments they realised they were older, well a moment like that just happened to me and I feel pretty sad right now.

I was talking to a friend about how the new Robin Hood movie was starring Russell Crowe, and that I couldn't recall an action movie he's been in since Gladiator... which came out over 10 years ago.

The realisation hit me like a sack of bricks and I felt my heart sink. I'm only 26, but I remember very vividly going to the film at the cinema with my high school buddies, and we were all so excited about it and in awe with the movie itself. That was over 10 years ago and so much has happened since. I mean I realised I was getting older when my tolerance in computer games deteriorated to just quick paced action games that are over and done with in an hour max... and it's also creepy hearing about the new, young prospects in football (soccer) being born in 1990-1991 or something but damn... today's realisation really hit home hard.

Has anything happened to make you feel like time has just flown by really quickly lately? Anything make any of you realise the good years were over / drawing to an end?
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The reason that this thread resonated with me? I played football on Saturday and came home and complained to my wife that I'd really given my muscles a hammering and she gave me this confused/exasperated look before saying, "But you're 37, almost 38. What did you expect? You're not young anymore!" and I didn't know what she meant until I worked out that she was actually correct. I felt really old, even though I don't think of myself as old normally.

I remember typing programs into an Acorn Electron (which never worked :mad: ) and into my Dragon and VIC20, too. I remember having a ZX80, then a ZX81 which we upgraded with a memory expansion pack. I think it might have been 16kb.

I remember my C64 and playing Commando, and Daley Thomson's Decathalon, and Yi Ar Kung Fu. I remember sticking a hairpin across two of the pins on the back of the C64 which, I think, was meant to improve it somehow. Make it faster, maybe? I forget that part :(

I remember buying my first album, 'Complete Madness' by, predictably, Madness. It was a double fold-out and I had to take the RCA connectors attached to my tape deck>amplifier and plug them into the record player because I only had one set.

I remember playing 'Two Tribes' by Frankie Goes to Hollywood so loud that my next door neighbour called the police. The reason? I had to prove to my friend that my (dad's, actually) hi-fi separates were better than his new fangled MIDI system. I blew the bass cone on both speaker but I made my point.

I remember working in Woolworth's Head Office, Marleybone, London, in 2001 and my boss asking us to come into one of the meeting rooms to watch some developing news. The ariel to the TV wasn't working properly but we could still make out the fire and the people throwing themselves to their deaths.

I remember that bloody whistling in that horrible song when the Berlin wall came down.

I remember Bill 'I did not have sexual relations...' Clinton and can't take him seriously when I hear him talking about the best ways to deal with natural disasters which, for some reason, he appears to be involved in.

I remember when 'Loaded' magazine was new and my flatmate brought back issue 2 which had Elizabeth Hurley in black and white pictures. Damn, she looked hot and it wasn't pornography but ... well, what was it? It wasn't GQ, that's for sure. It had **** in it! FHM and Nuts and Zoo didn't exist then. I don't even know if any of these magazines are still going?

I remember watching 'Animal House' and taping it on our new video recorder. I invited my friends round and we watched it after we'd watched some 'Roland Rat' episodes' which I'd also taped.

I remember having a 14" black and white TV which had a great picture and I preferred this to my much bigger colour TV which had an attractive walnut veneer finish. I think the colour TV weighed more than I did. This would have been 1982 or something.

I remember idolising Zico in the World Cup. I still think he was one of the best football players ever to play the game.

Finally, how the **** can Gladiator really be over 10 years old? I'm pretty sure I went to see that at its premier 4 years ago! Honestly - where does the time go? I can remember these things and many, many more so vividly but it took someone else reminding me that I'm old to consider that yes, they're right.

I know that my examples aren't completely in line with the direction of the OP but, well, I felt like typing.

Anyone else feeling old?
 
[FnG]magnolia;16525866 said:
Finally, how the **** can Gladiator really be over 10 years old? I'm pretty sure I went to see that at its premier 4 years ago! Honestly - where does the time go? I can remember these things and many, many more so vividly but it took someone else reminding me that I'm old to consider that yes, they're right.

Anyone else feeling old?
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I had a moment like this recently watching the first LOTR. I remember going to see it on the opening day with my dad, thats near enough 9 years now. :confused:
 
I don't tend to feel old often but every once in a while I realise that I'm into the second half of my 20s, I'm probably fitter and certainly stronger than I was 5 years ago though so it's not too bad for the moment. I do sometimes almost feel as if by now I should know what I want to do with my life though but then perhaps I never will know, if I'm happy with what I'm doing at any given time then that's probably as good as it gets and I can live with that.
 
The one that gets me is when I have to refer to 1980 as being thirty years ago, or 1970 as being forty years ago. :eek:
 
Was talking about this thread at work and this came up in relation to an earlier conversation:

In 1984 the movie The Last Starfighter came out and featured the best CGI any of us had ever seen in a movie. Mind-blowing stuff, so incredible that it was shown on one of the last days of school in my Grade 8 year in the gym as an example of how incredible computer tech had become.

On a whim, I bought the movie on Blu-Ray a week ago. And by the christ almighty of holy **** has that movie become dated, obsolete almost to the point of unwatchability. The story is still awesome, though, so get by the graphics and it's all good.

The thing is, that movie was made on the Cray-MP, which was the most powerful computer in the world at that point. A documentary on the disc showed the making of the movie and how mindblowing it was at the time.

Now, get this. The computer you're using right now is probably 20 times more powerful than the Cray-MP. That video game system 15 times plus. That phone? Probably three or four times or more.

Your phone is more powerful than the most powerful computer in the world in 1984, a machine that took up as much space as a large fridge and cost 1.5 million per unit.

Now that's something.

Edit: There are kids who think of Wayne Gretzky the same way I thought of Maurice Richard when I was a kid - an oldie but goodie from the past. Christ.
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Bold is my own. Oh boy :(
 
Did anyone else watch the Gladiators: Legends programme or whatever it was called a few weeks ago?

They had some of the original Glads on, against the new ones - Hunter and Wolf were there... as well as Lightning :p - I still would... indeedy!
 
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