In this, the last of my “good old days of summer” posts, I recall the wonderful summer of 1982. I was a newly minted high school graduate enjoying one last respite, and my friend Gordon had a job as an usher at the fourplex downtown. That meant the movies were free! Here’s what I saw and what I thought at the time. I was so right…and I was so wrong.

• May 20, Conan the Barbarian, “P.U.”
• May 29, Rocky III, “Great!”
• June 20, Poltergeist, “Really scary and fun.”
• June 28, Blade Runner, “Slow. Uninteresting characters.”
• July 3, Annie, “Sappy but lavish.”
• July 6, E.T., “Perfect. Funny, sad, the best!”
• July 7, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, “Good but still lacking. Try again.”
• July 18, The Road Warrior, “Great car wrecks.”
• July 22, Summer Lovers, “Good sights and A+ music.”
• July 27, Popeye, “The worst. Robin Williams is ugly and songs are barf. Yuk. Ptooey.”
• August 4, Tron, “The visuals are awesome but the plot is shaky.”
• August 5, Young Doctors in Love, “Great to see all those stars.”