Men in Black and Tomorrow Never Dies in theaters.

I remember going to see Men In Black in 1997. I had a meltdown because I found the aliens scary, and my Mom had to leave the film early. My dad took my sister and he got to see the whole movie, which my mom resented.

I was 5.

Men In Black is PG-13, isn't it? Serves your parents right for taking a 5 year old to watch it!

In the UK, Men in Black was a PG when released. We had a "12" rating at the time, but that meant 11 year olds couldn't go to the cinema to see it, even with an adult present.

Independence day which came out a year earlier (also with Will Smith) was a 12.

The first ‘12’ general release was I believe for Batman.

I went to see that with my older, cool as fuck aunty who went to university, shaved her head and had a CAR.

All of that was cool as fuck to me.

I felt so grown up going to see that! I was not sure if adults ate sweets (candy) at the pictures so I declined her offer only to see everyone get a stuff!

Ah the pressures of growing up. Spend half your life desperate to be grown and the other half wishing you weren’t!

Sally later confided to me that no adult would go with her to see Batman. Comic book movies except Superman were very much not for ‘adults’ in late eighties Liverpool !

Your aunt really was cool!!

It was also my favorite year! It felt like everything was getting better across the board.

Hauling ass home from the school bus drop off to catch the last half of Magic School Bus, if I hustled.

Going to New Orleans. Seeing Crash Worship. Met a girl there. With her best friend, all 3 of us climbed a huge, ancient tree. Watched the moon rise over the city.

Buying GoldenEye for the N64 on release day. For the first couple of weeks, being the only one of my friends to own it, but telling all of them how great it was. A week or two after that, one of my friends buying the game (and an N64 to play it on) and rapidly becoming better than me.

We and our other friends played almost every week for the next couple of years.