What Film? Made You Fall In Love?

[bruce_pullen]

Name the film that made you fall hard for movies? What about it made it special? Casablanca? Braveheart? What is it?

[Crim122]

I have been thinking about this really hard lately, what made me go from wanting to see films like Transporter and Darkness Falls to Let The Right One In and There Will Be Blood, and its only been 3 years...but I am pretty sure it was City of God.

[tacoreed]

I would have to say it was a couple of movies when I was a kid. Star Wars, Goonies, and Indiana Jones all gave me a sense of imagination and adventure that could only be created on-screen.

[kpkelley]

Braveheart.

I have a theory that most everyone finds their favorite film when their in their teens, i think it may have to do with that sense of us that believe times were more innocent back then and through the film we can transport ourselves back to that time reconnecting with our lost innocence. I was only twelve or thirteen when this movie was released, and it was the perfect blend of action, romance, and comedy. I have certainly seen better films than Braveheart, but it remains to this day to be my favorite.

[Jayromy]

The earliest film I can remember being absolutely enamored with was Back to the Future. After that, I was hooked.

[Blu Titan]

Ever since I can remember, yes...everything I can remember I have loved movies. But if I had to pick an impressionable moment, it would be watching Jaws with my Dad when I was a little kind.

[dadkins]

Diamonds Are Forever - 1971 - James Bond.
Action, chase scenes, babes...

[bruce_pullen]

Strangely enough..., Bruce Beresford's Driving Mrs. Daisy (1989). I don't know why completely. I was nine at the time. And I was taken away by the history, the performances, by Jessica Tandy. That great score, seeing Freeman and Tandy traveling by car, and all that travel footage. The movie made me appreciate film craft. Dan Aykroyd can act? The passage of time, and the building of the relationship. The gradual strokes stretched across its run time. Left their mark, I was absorbed.

The film reminds me. Of a time before films became militant and in your face, those were the days. Before innocence was lost, and emotions flared. When you could tell a story without outrage. Nostalgia works just as well.

The last scene: showing that empty house. The sun gazing in. The interior so empty, so expectant. This made me realize. Movies are an art form. And away I went.

Give me your examples?

[Sussudio]

as a KID, and i know im gonna get jabbed for this, but robin hood prince of thieves. i watched that movie more than any other and i honestly still think it's a great epic (not necessarily a great piece of cinema). i dont care what people say about kevin costner's accent. that more than any other movie got me initially hooked into watching movies.

in recent years, i'm not sure how or why or my movie tastes changed from only wanting to see the blow-em-up explosion-packed flicks. i'd like to think it had something to do with taking film theory/appreciation classes in college and actually being subjected to movies i never would have watched myself; they opened my eyes to better filmmaking.

interesting question, bruce

[J_UNTITLED]

Originally Posted by Sussudio

that more than any other movie got me hooked into hollywood.

... Into Hollywood or cinema?

[Sussudio]

Originally Posted by J_UNTITLED

... Into Hollywood or cinema?

i just meant that as a general term for getting hooked into watching movies. robin hood definitely didn't get me hooked into watching good cinema

[surfdude12]

Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi **my cousin had a pirated-incomplete trilogy - we lived in the Irish countryside**

[Joe Cain]

Originally Posted by bruce_pullen

The film reminds me. Of a time before films became militant and in your face, those were the days. Before innocence was lost, and emotions flared. When you could tell a story without outrage. Nostalgia works just as well.

When was this? Before The Birth of a Nation?

[bruce_pullen]

Originally Posted by Joe Cain

When was this? Before The Birth of a Nation?

Different type, my friend. Different type. By the way, what's your film?

[Jayromy]

Originally Posted by Sussudio

as a KID, and i know im gonna get jabbed for this, but robin hood prince of thieves. i watched that movie more than any other and i honestly still think it's a great epic, i dont care what people say about kevin costner's accent. that more than any other movie got me initially hooked into watching movies.

in recent years, i'm not sure how or why or my movie tastes changed. i'd like to think it had something to do with taking film theory/appreciation classes in college and actually being subjected to movies i never would have watched myself; they opened my eyes to better filmmaking.

Robin Hood wasn't that bad. It could have been worse...it could have had Christian Slater faking an English accen---oh wait, it did. Yeah, that movie sucks.

[Sussudio]

Originally Posted by Jayromy

Robin Hood wasn't that bad. It could have been worse...it could have had Christian Slater faking an English accen---oh wait, it did. Yeah, that movie sucks.

to each is his own, my friend accents aren't everything

[assydingo]

The first movie that made me realize movies can be more than entertainment?

Honestly I have no clue. I just remember have Buffy (show not the movie) my opinion of entertainment in general was never the same.

[bruce_pullen]

Rear Window (1954) and Vertigo (1958).

I rented them both. On a lark, from the public library, I brought them home. And I became amazed...

Rear Window was creepy. The style was something I hadn't seen before. Perry Mason killed his wife?? The hero's in a wheelchair? I never saw that before? And nowhere since? (I'm not counting the remake) The music, the style, this blew my mind away. I loved the movies at that moment.

Vertigo, I saw right afterwards. A one-two punch, again... had I known, I wouldn't have done it. My mind still reeling from the other. Was blown away again, I was speechless. The mood, the music, that ending at the belltower. "God have mercy!" As the bell kept ringing, I knew I was a different.

I knew Hitch was the man.

[Crim122]

Godfather, There Will Be Blood, and No Country really sent me overboard though.

[Sussudio]

i may have misinterpreted the posed question. in terms of movies that actually made me fall in love with cinema, 2001 was it. watching that movie over and over again made me realize how in-depth, meaningful, and multi-layered movies can be, not just forms of entertainment.

i know a lot of people that can't stand the movie, though probably because it's so much more than just a form of entertainment