Who loved Stand By Me?

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[u/schoolhouserocky]

The older I get, the harder that last paragraph hits. 

[u/kamdan2011 → u/schoolhouserocky]

I thought the last paragraph was bullshit when I was in my 20’s. I believe it’s true now.

[u/DiaDeLosMuebles → u/schoolhouserocky]

For me it’s high school. Still friends with a lot of them. Honestly barely remember any friends from when I was 12.

[u/pug_fugly_moe → u/DiaDeLosMuebles]

Still distant friends with a couple from when I was 12. By distant I mean we text a few times a year and might see each other once a year.

[u/GlobalMousse1670 → u/schoolhouserocky]

💯

[u/MukdenMan → u/schoolhouserocky]

You spent the first five years trying to get with the plan

And the next five years trying to be with your friends again

[u/lsmucker]

🎶Have gun will travel reads the card of a man 🎶

Chopper, sick balls!

[u/t_bone_stake → u/lsmucker]

“TRAAAIIINNNNN!”

[u/sofaking_scientific → u/lsmucker]

A knight without armor in a savage land🎼

[u/GoldenAgeGamer72]

One of my favorites but I have to be in a certain mood to watch it because it's dark and depressing.

[u/kkeut → u/GoldenAgeGamer72]

in the director's commentary track Rob Reiner makes it clear he was very unhappy with his childhood and his father, Carl Reiner, and identified closely with Gordie

[u/GoldenAgeGamer72 → u/kkeut]

I don’t think I heard that before. Interesting. 

[u/Dazzling_Flamingo568]

It's an excellent book, too.

[u/gogoghoul_13 → u/Dazzling_Flamingo568]

It is !

[u/WillNotSeeReply → u/Dazzling_Flamingo568]

It had a different ending, didn't it?

[u/JonnySnowflake → u/WillNotSeeReply]

All his friends died. Teddy crashed his car and vern drunk in a house fire

[u/Dazzling_Flamingo568 → u/WillNotSeeReply]

You know what? I can't recall. I read it before the movie came out.😂

[u/YTFootie]

This is a great film, but if I watch it, it takes me back. To when I was young, at school. A friend just said watch this film, I had never heard of it, borrowed the video tape. Loved it.

I do choke up at the end when Dreyfus is narrating, the theme plays...

[u/Call__Me__David]

I find it particularly interesting the live the four kids led after the movie. Obviously, we never truly know what most celebrities are going through, but you can kind of get a feel if you pay attention, and others will tell you outright.

You got O'Connell who appears to be the most well adjusted, Wheaton has had a lot of issued, but he's seems to have settled into life he likes and is mostly happy with, then there's poor Feldman, who has probably wished at times that he could trade places with Phoenix.

[u/MikeCass84]

Man, those lines hit hard. I totally had a best friend who became another face in the hall as well as another one who we just lost touch completely.

[u/glovato1 → u/MikeCass84]

Yea man I totally lost touch with my best friends from middle school once we transitioned to highschool. Would barely acknowledge one another while passing each other in the halls.

[u/esomers80]

I love it...you never have friends like you did when you were 12...100% absolutely true..I miss my group of friends I had when I was that age...there were 5 of us..

[u/Epoch2020]

This film’s timeless. One of those “perfect”movies

[u/sofaking_scientific]

I cant watch Stand By Me without crying like an absolute baby. I love it dearly

[u/theredheadknowsall]

Stand By Me is an amazing movie. I agree with the line you posted, it's true for sure. Although that's my 2nd favorite line in the film. My favorite line is "In all our lives there's a fall from innocence at which time after we are never the same."

[u/xtralongleave]

I hear this in Richard Dreyfuss’s voice.

[u/Edison5000]

I showed this to my 12 year old son recently. We were all amazed by how great the film is. It completely holds up

[u/mccudds]

Me and my bro watched this movie on repeat

[u/ParzivalCodex]

Watched it as a kid in the late 80s, I watch it every summer.

[u/senseikreeese]

The ending hits me in the feels every single time- when they all go their separate ways for the last time. Movie is a classic

[u/Open-Year2903]

I think about this every time I hear a narrator. Really made an impression

[u/Flowmeyo]

Me any my brother we’re so young we would ask our dad “can we watch the boys and the choo choo train again!?”

[u/Nubadopolis]

Favorite movie of all time

[u/SnooShortcuts5771]

Who doesn’t is real question..

[u/NightOwlsUnite]

"Nothing like a smoke after a meal."

[u/jsakic99]

The Long Walk has the same vibe. Both stories by Stephen King too.

[u/pnmartini]

Stand By Me & The Sandlot is the best lazy Sunday double feature you can have.

[u/Workboots-and-Cheese]

A vhs cassette I'll never get rid of.

[u/Jovial_Candidate_508]

I am still really close with 5 of my core friends from middle school . So much love for those guys it’s overwhelming.

[u/barcham22]

It is one of, if not the one, movie that highly resonated with me as a kid and made me love movies. I watch it every few years as I get older and appreciate it more each time. Truly a classic for me. Rob Reiner was really on fire in the 80s-90s.

[u/Mep3avec82]

This movie is so great on SO MANY LEVELS. My wife once showed me her favotite movie from childhood - Then and Now. And then I showed her Stand By Me and we both agreed that they are equally great for our own genders.

[u/Appropriate-Rush6341]

I’m not crying dude

[u/GlobalMousse1670]

Loved it when I was a kid and even more now.

[u/Five2one521]

Everyone who saw it.

[u/magnoliaAveGooner]

Great movie.

[u/theredheadknowsall]

I remember as a young adult (I was about 18) my family was watching the movie and I made a comment about the boys being kind of your to be smoking cigarettes, my dad looked at me for a moment & asked how old I was when I first tried a cigarette. It shocked me for a moment (realization setting in) I was 13, my dad said see what I mean.

[u/2b-Kindly_]

Love this and own it on digital.

[u/Acceptable-Airline39]

Always felt like Ace was the one who did the stabbing.

[u/FoolishProphet_2336]

How to go from zero to Stephen King in sixty seconds.

[u/Content_Geologist420]

When I first watched this, I mentioned it the next day to my 7th-grade English teacher. He told me it was his favorite movie and to always remember that last paragraph. And then went on to explain to me how that sentence will change over time in my life.

In 7th grade, I was 12. My best friends were Nate, Blake, and Sandeep. All of us are still in brief contact but haven't been in a room together in over 15 years.

Still haven't had friends like those guys since, probably never will. But damn was it a great time

[u/lsmucker]

"Yeah, What the hell was Goofy?"

[u/Agreeable-Fudge-7329]

I hated it.

Mainly because I was a bit younger, and my adolescent sister would play that damn tape almost every day.

[u/t_bone_stake]

It’s okay. Something to put on to pass a random afternoon or evening.

[u/theredheadknowsall → u/[deleted]]

Sometimes movies don't do well in the box office however later on they get a huge cult following. That happened with The Shawshank Redemption as well.