@candle now that i'm approaching 40 i've lived a bit and things from my youth seem Old

now i can get perhaps a similar "only in the movies" feeling by watching stuff like 1982's E.T., which depicts an idyllic CA suburb that pulls at my nostalgic heartstrings all the more because that slice of American reality -- kids zooming everywhere on bikes, less development, more mom and pop stores, '80s music and culture -- no longer exists except in my memories and celluloid.