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most of us went to movies a lot as kids and loved everything we saw because it was flashy lights and loud noises. but what was the movie that made you realize there was whole new world of possibility out there? mine was sideways, which i saw in theaters at the age of 14. please don't troll.
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# ? Sep 19, 2018 04:50 |
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 22:02 |
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Birdman because it never cuts to another scene (not sure what technical term for it is). I was starting to get upset and my brain was begging them to cut to the next scene!
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# ? Sep 19, 2018 05:01 |
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I think Koyaanisqatsi was the first movie to pull me out of the standard lineup of teenager movies. It was so hypnotic and intense, it was like having a UFO land right in front of me, just this total alien apparition. Autumn Sonata and 8 1/2 really sealed the deal.
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# ? Sep 19, 2018 14:24 |
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I'm going to give the most trite, obvious answer for males currently around the age of 35. Fight Club. It was the first movie I saw that I appreciated on a formal level. Before it, I never noticed the visual aesthetics of the movie I was watching. It made me realize movies could use their visual style to enhance the story and characters. Fight Club turned me into a cinephile.
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# ? Sep 19, 2018 15:07 |
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I saw 12 Angry Men on VHS when I was twelve years old or so and it was the first time I recognized that a movie could be about ideas expressed through characters, rather than just as a sequence of events. It's also when I started to notice, in a rudimentary way, how camera angles and lighting could convey feelings of tension and conflict all on their own. Back then I just associated everything shot in black & white that wasn't the Twilight Zone with boring, but I was 100% glued to 12 Angry Men every time I saw it.
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# ? Sep 19, 2018 15:17 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSGfcCO_h4I&t=18s
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# ? Sep 19, 2018 15:28 |
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Pulp Fiction here. Learning about how Tarantino was an obsessive movie consumer encouraged me to start branching out and turning over stones to watch as much as I could.
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# ? Sep 19, 2018 15:54 |
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TrixRabbi posted:Pulp Fiction here. Learning about how Tarantino was an obsessive movie consumer encouraged me to start branching out and turning over stones to watch as much as I could. Tarantino was probably the spark for me as well, but I saw Reservoir Dogs first so that was the one that showed me what a little creativity can do for a film. The ideas seem really obvious now, but just the basics of messing around with the chronological order of events and the way you get bits of information over time as the characters gather in the warehouse were totally mind-blowing at to me at the time. I was used to very straightforward narratives.
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# ? Sep 19, 2018 15:59 |
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Basebf555 posted:Tarantino was probably the spark for me as well, but I saw Reservoir Dogs first so that was the one that showed me what a little creativity can do for a film. The ideas seem really obvious now, but just the basics of messing around with the chronological order of events and the way you get bits of information over time as the characters gather in the warehouse were totally mind-blowing at to me at the time. I was used to very straightforward narratives. Pulp Fiction was just so cool. Like, Tarantino has such a bad rap now for inspiring edgy DudeBros, but the lesson I took away was that if you want to make movies or write about movies you need to be able to draw from every which source and that set me on the path to finding all sorts of films I never would have heard of otherwise. I bought a 20 film Grindhouse movie box set cause it had a quote from him on the cover, sending me into all sorts of divergent directions. I found Sergio Leone, Jim Jarmusch, and Jean-Luc Godard. So many people see Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction and just fall into the cycle of solely emulating the IMDb Top 250 or into Boondocks Saints territory, but Pulp Fiction for me taught me that there was a whole world of cinema that I had never heard of or could even fathom at first. Netflix when it was still more of a DVD delivery service and the Criterion Collection were also huge doorways for me. As was this forum and it's weird to say but the Shameful thread changed my life. If you dig back to my first posts there I hadn't even seen The Godfather or Casablanca or really even begun to scratch the surface of the canon.
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# ? Sep 19, 2018 16:34 |
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No Country for Old Men is really what got me thinking about movies as an artform. It was definitely what got me on to the Coen Brothers, and I kind of expanded from there.
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# ? Sep 19, 2018 17:18 |
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Blade Runner was the first movie that I watched where it didn't feel like I was "just" watching a movie. Between the visuals and the music it was like sharing somebody else's nightmare about the future.
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# ? Sep 19, 2018 18:17 |
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man of steel
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# ? Sep 19, 2018 18:45 |
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Collateral. I saw it at the cinemas when it came out, and something about the beginning of the movie before Vincent rocked up just had me hooked, and I could have watched a whole movie of Jamie Foxx driving a taxi like that.
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# ? Sep 20, 2018 13:30 |
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The first time I watched 2001: A Space Odyssey, New Year's Eve (2000 to 2001) on TCM, where I marveled at how the disparate pieces of the story could fit together into one film. The effect was no doubt exacerbated by me alternating between watching that and the scrambled Spice Channel nurse marathon that night, similar to this scene from Ceylan's Distant. Tarkovsky's Mirror (on DVD at college) was the one that really showed me that a film didn't even have to adhere to a chronological narrative, following instead a sort of emotional logic. It befuddled me the first time around, but a subsequent viewing for a class a couple years later made me appreciate it more. Over ten years on, I really want to watch it again (preferably in a theater) to see how it stacks up to my favorite films.
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# ? Sep 20, 2018 14:22 |
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2001: A Space Odyssey, Eraserhead, Pulp Fiction. Watched all these sometime in middle school and it was when I first started to realize that you can't get everything you're supposed to get out of a movie just by following the plot.
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# ? Sep 20, 2018 14:52 |
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Farg posted:man of steel batman v superman wa sbetter
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# ? Sep 20, 2018 15:25 |
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Coaaab posted:The first time I watched 2001: A Space Odyssey, New Year's Eve (2000 to 2001) on TCM, where I marveled at how the disparate pieces of the story could fit together into one film. The effect was no doubt exacerbated by me alternating between watching that and the scrambled Spice Channel nurse marathon that night, similar to this scene from Ceylan's Distant. I'm still in the "befuddled" phase with Mirror. But I have little doubt a second viewing will make it click.
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# ? Sep 20, 2018 15:51 |
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I was completely over movies being anything worth my attention until a friend dragged me to Kung Fu Panda and I had a great time.
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# ? Sep 20, 2018 15:55 |
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Dredd
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# ? Sep 20, 2018 17:57 |
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Honestly, Drive. Drive kind of opened me up to the idea that a movie that feels like eating your veggies can also actually own.
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# ? Sep 20, 2018 21:54 |
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There are no doubt several which I'd need to think about but I think the first might actually have been Mary Poppins, when I was very young, because it had real people talking to cartoons and walking around in a cartoon world and I couldn't figure out how it worked, and those bits where they're in the big "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" setpiece captivated me. I just couldn't begin to conceive of how they did it. I suppose I was easily impressed as a child.
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# ? Sep 20, 2018 22:01 |
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The Thing. It was the first movie ever saw (at perhaps too young an age) that ever made me wonder how did they do that? But beyond the stellar effects work, the movie is also filled with fantastic performances, an incredible score, beautiful cinematography, and a somber and contemplative mood that separates it from other similar genre films. It’s a movie I’ve been able o appreciate different aspects to upon multiple rewatches over a course of years. Truly a gift that keeps on giving.
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# ? Sep 20, 2018 23:23 |
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TrixRabbi posted:As was this forum and it's weird to say but the Shameful thread changed my life. If you dig back to my first posts there I hadn't even seen The Godfather or Casablanca or really even begun to scratch the surface of the canon. The shame thread has contributed a tremendous amount to my understanding of cinema.
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# ? Sep 21, 2018 23:00 |
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When I was in high school I took a class where in a few weeks we watched Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window, Psycho, and The Birds. That really opened me up to thinking about cinema as more than just entertainment (Not that those movies aren't all entertaining as hell too). Rear Window, The Birds, and later on Vertigo when I watched it on my own especially helped break me out of that terrible "Movies are bad if the characters aren't making rational decisions or whatever" phase I was in as a teenager too.
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# ? Sep 22, 2018 01:10 |
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I'm trying to think of something less cliched, but probably also Fight Club
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# ? Sep 22, 2018 01:57 |
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Star Wars and Akira when i was about 6. Understanding how horrible the destruction of Alderaan was is mindblowing, then Akira sealed the deal of movies being able to be wild. Thank you original science fiction channel
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# ? Sep 22, 2018 02:33 |
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At the risk of sounding staggeringly uncultured, Fury Road. It was the first time that all the things I had read about film theory and camera work 'clicked'.
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# ? Sep 22, 2018 13:18 |
Waking Life. You can have a movie where people jut go "wtf is life" and sit around buzzing out? And a movie doesn't need a plot? But this is like my imagination! It sounds weird to type out loud but as well as seeing a movie could do stuff like that- it was more that a movie was allowed by the universe/God to do stuff like that. I had this weird block in my mind that stuff I day dream about (life, the universe, etc) was only meant for silly imagination time. I mean, I was 13. And reality is for what we definitely know and certainty and answers and resolution and being unsure and exploring is for secret shh metime. I blame growing up in a fundamentalist authoritarian situation but yeah. Waking Life really cracked up my mind and gave me the confidence to grow my mind and change and validated much of what I kept deep inside. Film is allowed.
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# ? Sep 22, 2018 13:43 |
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Lars von Trier's Antichrist. Definitely not as good as Melancholia (one of my all-time faves) but that film set me off on the path towards getting into stuff like Dogtooth and The Lobster after that and from there it just really sent me into the spiral of more unique directors and genre films.
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# ? Sep 22, 2018 14:49 |
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When I watched Psycho around age ten or so, I think that's when I first became aware of craft and choices in storytelling.
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# ? Sep 22, 2018 14:53 |
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R. Guyovich posted:but what was the movie that made you realize there was whole new world of possibility out there? I get this feeling constantly watching things. Probably the very first one I recall was watching this scene at a young age: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rzg3esJaaU A film can open with a dream? And then shortly later this opening scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrAIDtyLlw0 A film can mix so many disparate emotions together at once? Then a little later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH7gkP5Hrk8 A film can show a guy in a hockey mask killing everyone? Another one would be most of The Entity (1982). That had multiple moments. Raxivace posted:Rear Window, The Birds, and later on Vertigo when I watched it on my own especially helped break me out of that terrible "Movies are bad if the characters aren't making rational decisions or whatever" phase I was in as a teenager too. I used to dislike when a film ended without a resolution or on an off-note. But it doesn't bother me any longer. I think the last one that stuck out was watching The Ice Storm (1997).
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# ? Sep 22, 2018 23:58 |
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This film, that my father showe dme when I was a kid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elmI3vCCQQc Our family has always been full of cinephiles, so I feel like I kinda cheated at discovering weird and different movies early on.
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 01:43 |
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It's weird because I don't think anyone really thinks about it other than a forgotten footnote, but Seabiscuit. Up until that point, I felt like my lane was children's films, that I was too 'stupid' to understand films for older audiences. After being dragged to a promo screening by my grandparents (because they owned horses, and because they knew the guy who owned the theatre), I was surprised to find that I not only could follow it but be emotionally invested. It's one of those few moments at a young age where I just knew I had grown as a person.
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 02:15 |
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I liked a few "art" movies before I knew why, but I think something between Fargo and maybe The Omen were the first films that made me feel like film could contain a multitude of feelings and emotions in a way that elevated it beyond the screen. Pi and Memento were the first that showed me film could be told in a weird way and still make me feel things.
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 04:33 |
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It would be a toss-up between Citizen Kane and The Godfather, both of which were part of a Cinema course I took in my senior year of high school in the fall of 2001. The teacher was a complete nerd about film, incredibly passionate about certain directors, and he drilled into us just how much of a collaborative art form film is. With Citizen Kane, that was the first time I genuinely understood what mise en scene could bring to a movie, and with The Godfather, between the luxurious cinematography, the editing (Michael's baptism in blood) and the visual symbolism--even stuff that's totally in your face on repeat viewings, like oranges--just blew me away when I was taught how to notice that stuff.
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 04:41 |
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Mine was Clerks. I’d never seen an independent movie before that and it’s dialogue, lack of a real plot and conventional narrative was an eye opener for me.
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 04:45 |
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I don't really have a movie that did this. However, Portrait of a Lady did this for me for books and that carried over to narrative media in general.
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 06:29 |
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Apocalypse Now or Blade Runner. I was only really interested in plot and plot twists before but those were the first movies I wanted to understand. Turned me into a pretentious insufferable poo poo, too.
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 07:56 |
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:I don't really have a movie that did this. However, Portrait of a Lady did this for me for books and that carried over to narrative media in general. For a second I thought you were talking about The Property of a Lady and got horribly confused before I remembered the James book. Good stuff, read that in honors English my freshman year of high school. Astrochicken posted:Apocalypse Now or Blade Runner. I was only really interested in plot and plot twists before but those were the first movies I wanted to understand. Turned me into a pretentious insufferable poo poo, too. I wish I had warmed up on Blade Runner sooner than I did; I think the first time I watched it was during my freshman or sophomore year of high school, I remember renting it one night and my best friend coming over to the house to watch it, because I had been told that it was a sci-fi masterpiece (and I was already a Ridley Scott fanboy because of Alien). But neither of us were really familiar with the language of film at that point--at that point, I was just finally entering my phase of realizing that Ghostbusters is a comedy, not an action movie with the coolest car and backpacks ever--and so after it was over, we were like, "... that sucked, it was like two hours long and there was 20 minutes of plot." I eventually revisited it during my freshman year of college and I was like, Oh, to be young and stupid again, instead of old and dying.
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 08:35 |
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It was probably some Ingmar Bergman film, and the revelatory aspect was in how relentlessly truthful and uncensored way his characters spoke of the human experience. Like I didn't know you were even allowed to do that.
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