Movies that bring back good moments of life.

[Caio92]

Hi there!

You know that movie you watched in some specific period in your life, maybe when you finished high school, or during your first job ever? That movie that will always have a special place in your heart?

I'll start with one: the first Iron Man. I was in the 2nd high school year when it came out, and to this day, that movie throws me back to that time. I don't know how to explain, it just has some magic; the music, the pacing, everything. It brings me very good memories of that time .

[Guy87]

Christ! What a great thread idea.

I will absolutely come back to this one after I've given it some thought beyond which movies were on whilst I was having sex.

[Darthvaderrocks]

TDK is still the best theater experience i've ever had.

[CreasyBear]

A lot of 90's flicks take me back. Clueless, Batman Forever, Independence Day, Clerks, T2...all so many fond memories and they really take me back to when I first saw them in theaters and the general carefree nature of youth and how things felt more palatable.

[slumcat]

Toy Story 3

I saw that movie in IMAX 3D - on an absolutely enormous 70-foot screen in a packed theater. I will always remember the memory of that experience. I was watching with friends. And I had big giant IMAX 3D glasses on. And I was so overwhelmed by the movie, so completely taken in, and even catching myself at unawares, I burst in genuine and prolonged tears and I was very happy for the glasses.

I was really moved by the power of storytelling and the empathy we can generate and get people to reflect back on their lives, and genuinely touch a cord and say something meaningful about life and whatnot.

I don't want to say transformative but it was a singular and arresting experience. And a rare one. It's not everyday you have such an experience while watching a movie.

[blakninja]

Robocop. Watched it many times when I was in grade school. Didn't understand anything my comprehension was based on the visual.

More movies to come.

[oubukibun]

So, so many. That's why I became a collector, and why I love cinema.

However, to start?



That sequence, beginning to end, changed my entire perspective of cinema up to that point. Luc Besson knew what I wanted, needed, and delivered it to me immaculately (in every way something can be immaculate) without ever knowing I even existed.

I was actually breathless from the minute she punches through the glass up until roughly seven seconds after that GIF.

Still my favorite film.

[JMS1223]

Grease

It brings me back to 1996 when I first got to see this movie. I had wanted to see it for several months after hearing the soundtrack and owning it on CD. Then one day my parents allowed me to rent Grease from Blockbuster. I remember watching it in the living room and being so happy when it started and hearing the songs I loved so much. It was my favorite movie at the time. Today when I watch it I think of those memories and smile at all the great songs as they come on.

Also Titanic brings back good memories too.

[Darthvaderrocks]

Originally Posted by Caio92

There was no IMAX theater where I live when it came out, but by the time Rises came out, I watched it on IMAX; which I can quote you, best theater moment to this day.

Yeah, the plane crash in IMAX was amazing. 2000-2012 was hell of it a run for Nolan. I think his quality got a bit worse after it.

[Rodney-2187]

[atomik kinder]

Originally Posted by oubukibun

So, so many. That's why I became a collector, and why I love cinema.

However, to start?



That sequence, beginning to end, changed my entire perspective of cinema up to that point. Luc Besson knew what I wanted, needed, and delivered it to me immaculately (in every way something can be immaculate) without ever knowing I even existed.

I was actually breathless from the minute she punches through the glass up until roughly seven seconds after that GIF.

Still my favorite film.

This film has the opposite effect on me. I cannot watch it any longer. without it bringing back bad memories.

[John1701D]

Die Hard gave me one of my favorite memories with my Dad. I saw it by myself and loved it so I wanted to take him but holy hell he hated Bruce Willis from the little bits he had seen of Moonlighting. It was a job convincing him to go and I'll never forget him telling me "ok that was pretty good."

[kylor]

Back when my grandparents were still alive they had a CRT TV with a built-in VHS player. I'd always watch these movies on crispy VHS nearly every time I went to visit them:

RoboCop
Bloodsport
Kickboxer
No Retreat No Surrender
Blind Fury
Roadhouse

Each one of those films give me fond memories visiting my grandparents back in the late 90's/Early 2000's. Plus they are awesome movies on top of that IMO.

[Guy87]

Right.

Best cinema experiences

Jurassic Park - 6th birthday, surrounded by friends and family. That water ripples in the cup and my friends and I all shrink in our seats. I think we all remember our first time seeing that T-Rex.

Saw - Toward the end when

[Show spoiler]The "killer" get his head smashed in with the top of the toilet unit

elected genuine cheers in the theatre as the culprit of such horrible torture finally got what was coming to them, followed by utter silence at

[Show spoiler]the reveal of Jigsaw

The World is Not Enough, Scary Movie and Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa - I saw all of these with my Dad. I was coming out of high school, probably 12 years old when Dad swings by the gates and hurries my friend and I in the car because "WE'RE GOING TO SEE THE NEW JAMES BOND!".....

"What is 'James Bond?'" I ask. He looks genuinely confused at this question (despite the fact it's probably his responsibility to ensure I've seen one by this point.) Either way Bond makes Dad this excited for every entry, which is something I didn't know for the first 12 years of life, but have been very aware of since.

The other two movies are just two others that I've gone to see with just Dad and I, and have pissed ourselves laughing together for the entire duration. It was rare to go to the cinema with just one of my two parents because as a kid we always did everything as a family (Me, Mum, Dad, Sister), and as teen and adult it was with my friends and now my wife.

Shaun of the Dead - I had just wrapped on a 'zombie trailer' for my A-Level Media project. None of my friends were zombie fans as it was the early 00's and zombies had been missing since the late eighties so weren't really on their radar (which was about to change in a big way from this movie onward). We all went to see Shaun as a "wrap party" type thing, and it was utterly fantastic. The crowd ate up every single gag, which was every thirty seconds. It played perfectly and will always remind me of being that student with having that specific group of friends in my every day teenage life.

The Avengers - My greatest cinematic experience. At what used to be the "Giant Screen" in Birmingham. Essentially a make-shift IMAX, but near a Uni, so the place was packed on opening night with rowdy Uni students, mostly dressed in makeshift Avengers costumes similarly to any night at a Uni venue. My wife (fiancée at the time) and I were sat behind a fantastic suited up Tony Stark and clearly an American Football player simply painted green. They whipped out a bunch of Marvel toys (Gauntlets, hammer, Cap's shield) and were playing about with like-minded fans (and us) before the movie starts. The second the BBFC screen comes up...INSTANT SILENCE. For the rest of the movie every single joke played like gangbusters, and every time one Avenger met another there were cheers. Iron Man joins Cap to fight Loki, cheers. Cap, Iron Man, Thor fight in the woods, cheers. Everyone on the carrier, cheers. During the fight at the end in New York, the atmosphere was so bustling in the theatre that we all might as well had been there. I think we were all aware that we were watching a special event (seems so quaint now) and it was a miracle that it was THIS good. By the credits we were all breathless, but weirdly none of it seemed obnoxious.

Mad Max: Fury Road - I convinced two of my work mates to go to this with me. One knew Mad Max, the other didn't but was a huge gearhead so I was like "Mate, this is going to be so far up your alley". Everything from the opening up until the end of the sandstorm where Max's car flips and the screen fades to black had us on the literal edge of our seats, mouths agape, and I genuinely, with no exaggeration, had stopped breathing. We all looked at each other in that fade to black and took deep breaths. It was magnificent.

Captain America: Winter Soldier - My wife turning to me wide eyed when the Winter Soldier is demasked and went "IT'S BUCKY!". I had no idea she was THAT clueless on the comics.

Godzilla (2014) - My wife going "ooooOOOOOHHH" as Godzilla's spine light up blue and then "AWW THAT IS SO F'N COOL" when he first blasts his nuke breath at the MUTO. Apparently she'd never seen a Godzilla before.

At home
Ghostbusters - I was raised on this movie. It has been in my conscious life longer than most of my friends. I will always be a kid when it comes to this franchise and everything surrounding it.

Friday the 13th series - I was maybe 15 in the early 00's, and just getting into film and filmmaking. One summer my friend (fellow media student) and I had shit all to do, so we went to the local rental and began asking if they had and entries in the big horror franchises. They would always have random F13ths, and Elm Streets ("we have 2, 5 and 7"...) and as they were years old, we'd take them for like, 50p for a week, and go home with a stack of eighties horror VHS. It was a great summer discovering the best and worst of eighties franchise fare and I can never see that summery Crystal Lake without flashing back to that easy going time of having weeks off school, hanging out on the park with friends, having crushes on girls and making an utter bellend out of myself trying to impress them, having no responsibilities and a stack of cheesy movies to discover.

The Evil Dead trilogy - Same story as above, except something in my brain went haywire once we got to the Evil Dead movies. I adored them and couldn't believe it could be as "easy" as dicking about with a camera in the woods with some friends as long as you had talent and a will to do something with it. These were the movies that sent me to uni to make films myself, and essentially set me up for the life I have now (and the wife I have now, having met her whilst studying film at uni). I must've worn the ED 1 & 2 rental tapes out with re-rentals. I remember asking for Part 3 and they didn't have it, and when I found out it was called "Army of Darkness" I instantly rang the rental place to find they DID have. Straight down there on my 10 speed bike to find out they wouldn't let me rent it as I didn't have ID (never mind that fact that AoD is easily the least bloody film I rented that summer.). Straight on the phone to Mum who I dragged out from her workplace in the car to score me a copy. Go Mum!

I know I joked about the sex thing earlier, but all kidding aside I struggle to watch Halloween and Taxi Driver because of it. Halloween because of a...ahem...great time I had with my wife early in the relationship, which I really struggle to not bring up whenever Halloween is on in the hope of gently nudging toward the devil-may-care "honeymoon" phase we were in when we first met (14 years ago). Taxi Driver I struggle with worse, because that experience was also great, but with an ex, and I might have brought it up once to my wife once as a laugh, but mentioning it more than once is obviously just a bad idea. So that one has to sit in my head whenever Taxi Driver is on......or discussed openly on an internet message board.

[Gacivory]

Not necessarily movie going experiences. But I remember how fun it was lining up for the last few Harry Potter films. Get there on Thursday afternoons a bunch of friends that one group of annoying theater kids singing. I miss when movies actually had a midnight screening.

[Darthvaderrocks]

Originally Posted by Gacivory

Not necessarily movie going experiences. But I remember how fun it was lining up for the last few Harry Potter films. Get there on Thursday afternoons a bunch of friends that one group of annoying theater kids singing. I miss when movies actually had a midnight screening.

You surely liked 18th July 2008 right?

I imagine you watching the film, and preparing to write hating comments in online boards. Lmao.

[Darthvaderrocks]

The Force Awakens was a pretty good one.

I did enjoy that and seeing SW in the big screen.

[atomik kinder]

Originally Posted by Gacivory

Not necessarily movie going experiences. But I remember how fun it was lining up for the last few Harry Potter films. Get there on Thursday afternoons a bunch of friends that one group of annoying theater kids singing. I miss when movies actually had a midnight screening.

Most people now don't realize how movies used to sell out and then you would have to wait until the next showing, Which would be AFTER the showing you missed and not maybe 20 min to half an hour later. I remember in 1983 going to the theater to see Return of the Jedi and being there five hours before the movie even started and there were already people in line. Fun times. Went to the Sneak Preview of Gremlins and there was a line clear down the block from the theater. Didn't know if we were going to get in or not since we were almost at the end. Then within just a few more minutes, the line had nearly doubled. Luckily we got in and the theater sat over 800 people. Again, so much fun.

[JMS1223]

Originally Posted by Gacivory

Not necessarily movie going experiences. But I remember how fun it was lining up for the last few Harry Potter films. Get there on Thursday afternoons a bunch of friends that one group of annoying theater kids singing. I miss when movies actually had a midnight screening.

I did this in 2011. I think it may had been the only time I ever went to a true midnight screening. Prior to that, I usually just waited until Friday to see event movies. However, I decided for the final Harry Potter movie that I wanted to experience a midnight screening. I remember getting the 3D glasses and they were shaped like Harry Potter’s. I also dressed up for the event as well. It was quite fun.

Good thing I did this midnight screening because only a few years later they started doing the Thursday 7pm thing and no more midnight screenings.

[TheSpruceMoose]

Iron Will- I remember a cold, snowy New England Sunday and Fox61 would run movies during the afternoons when sports season was off. I remember watching this while a giant pot of gravy was being cooked in the kitchen and it was ready mid way through the movie. So not to belabor the point but that movie makes me think of mom's delicious sauce with sausage, in a mug.