Movies that had a big impact on you, from at least 10 years ago....

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...and that you saw as an adult, that you haven't seen since, and you wonder if you would still like them....

― bliss (blass), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 07:39 (seventeen years ago) link

sorry for run-on thread title, but basically, I don't watch a lot of movies on dvd, so some *important* films from a while ago - thinking about DEAD RINGERS and NAKED. I always wonder if i'll be disappointed when I see them again, i almost prefer to remember them as they affected me, not as they "are"

anyone else feel this way?

― blass jaunt (blass), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 07:41 (seventeen years ago) link

like those 2 films i mentioned - will the misanthropy/misogyny so casually portrayed annoy me now that i'm middle-aged and have less patience for that kind of worldview, even if the films aren't advocating that kind of thinking.

This is different from the movies you loved as a kid and see 20 years later and laugh your ass off at how silly they are (OMEGA MAN for me). More like the movies that made a big impact on you as a young(ish) adult, but now seem, or you fear they may seem, horribly dated, corny, simplistic etc.....

― bliss (blass), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 07:46 (seventeen years ago) link

http://images2.dvdempire.com/res/movies/5/51396h.jpg

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 07:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, you can't go back.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 08:00 (seventeen years ago) link

figleaf handbook otm

Directed by George Doboy, amirite?

― bliss (blass), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 08:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Stalker by Tarkovsky. I have less tolerance for pretentious,
"poetic" stuff than I had as a teenager, and I fear rewatching this might make me realize it falls into that category.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 08:17 (seventeen years ago) link

HE DIED WITH A FELAFEL IN HIS HAND

― Del Monte Young (ex machina), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 08:18 (seventeen years ago) link

xxx-post
wow almost 75,000 copies

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 08:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually, I remember really liking Dead Ringers too as a teen, and I'm not sure if I would today. Any stuff that's praised as "dark" and "disturbing" is less likely to have an big impact on me today.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 08:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Then again, even as a teen I didn't like other Cronenberg films as much Dead Ringers, because Dead Ringers was more coherent and less shocking, which I thought was good.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 08:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Suburbia - the Penelope Spheris one with all the non actor punk and goth cute kids in it, I loved that film so much. Saw it in 1987 or 88 - have only seen it maybe once since and it felt dated and awkward but still kind of sweet. It left a big dint in my head though, I was only 17 at the time. I cut half my hair off and bleached the shit out of it after watching it.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 08:31 (seventeen years ago) link

When I re-watched The Seven Faces of Dr Lao last year I was a bit disappointed.

― It's Expected I'm Maud Gonne (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 10:00 (seventeen years ago) link

The opening scene in the Spheeris Suburbia may be the best thing ever, when the wild dogs attack and carry off the baby!

Oh, and then there's Flea talking about how his parents wrestled him to the ground and he was NOOOOD!

― Johnny Fever (johnnyfever), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 10:07 (seventeen years ago) link

i wasn't an adult ten years ago.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link

How has Home Alone 2 stood up, enrique?

― It's Expected I'm Maud Gonne (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link

a chilling glimpse of pre-giuliani new york city.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 11:08 (seventeen years ago) link

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