What is it about the first great movie u see?

[JCPhoenix]

I dunno about the rest of you schmoes, but it's strange because before seeing The Usual Suspects, I wasn't really into movies that much, but right after, I was completely blown away, and started watching all sorts of movies. It was because of THIS movie that I became a movie fan...literally one of the few things that have happened to me overnight. But I've watched it 13 times since then, and each time i can't quite figure out how this movie influenced me soo much.

But what is it about the first great movie u see? Does it stick with you as your favorite movie? It did for me anyway. While I've seen many many great movies since then, it's weird because everything seems to pale in comparison with The Usual Suspects. And I don't know if this is because this is the first great movie that I saw, or just because it is THE best movie i've ever seen...certainly there have been some that come close...shawshank, almost famous, fight club, etc...but none of them ever quite reach it.

i just don't understand why the usual suspects is my favorite movie, why i can watch it over and over and over again without ever getting tired of it.

Sure the dialogue is witty, the story is well put together, it is entertaining, funny, smart, great chemistry between the ensemble cast, and the music is right on, but i could say the same for other movies like Almost Famous or Fight Club. Usual Suspects isn't a sentimental movie really but I go for sentimental movies a lot as well. It's not even a movie that has great impact or has a mind provoking subject like JFK for example.

And before I saw The Usual Suspects, I wasn't really into that kind of movie that much (if i was even into movies at all). One last note, my dad rented mostly either crap, or those stucksomewherewithamonsterorkillerthatkillseveryon eexceptfortwopeopletheend types of movies like anaconda, komodo, or deep blue sea (which i liked tho i admit).

What do you guys think? Is it because it was the first movie I really really liked that I ever saw? or something else?

Oh, and any1 else who has something similar post it please...

[Justin Harris]

I can't exactly remember what seeing Fight Club for the first time was like. However I remember having my mind blown, especially at the secret at-hand. I love that fucking movie.

[flowrchild]

I remember seeing It's A Wonderful Life as a kid, and feeling moved and inspired and blown away by how much depth and heart the movie possessed. I've watched it every christmas ever since.

[Justin Harris]

Originally posted by flowrchild
I remember seeing It's A Wonderful Life as a kid, and feeling moved and inspired and blown away by how much depth and heart the movie possessed. I've watched it every christmas ever since.

I watch that and White Christmas every Christmas.

[Zombie]

SEeing Striptease changed my life...:D

[Favourite end]

The first movie I saw was amazing -Psycho. But let`s face it -I was too little to be overexcited about a movie. So guess, it would be Jurassic park, this movie made me feel great.

[FeverDog420]

The Crying Game destroyed everything I thought a movie could be, taught me what an intelligent "adult" movie really is, and it made me into a more alert moviewatcher. It was the first movie I saw that was smarter than I, and it's still a favorite.

Of course, that could also apply to Blue Velvet, which I went to see when I was 12, but I didn't really understand it then. Or, Jacob's Ladder, another mature movie I saw as a kid, but that movie doesn't seem as great now as it did then.

[rupert pupkin]

Back to the Future - and it is still the greatest movie ive ever seen

[Damned Martian]

This movies changed my life:

The Naked Gun - It defined my kind of humour :D
Total Recall - Saw it when I was 10, its massive massacres shocked me a lot
T2 - Saw it at 12, the F/X marked me.
Basic Instinct - Saw it at 13, it's obvious that it changed my way of watching movies :D
Fargo - I discovered with this the pleasure of the original version with subtitles, and of watching movies alone.
Happiness - It discovered for me the independent films.
Funny Games - Same than Happiness, but with european.
Mulholland Drive - Same but with mindfucking movies.
Everyone says I love you - Same but with musicals.

[movies35]

The movie that really got me into movies was... AMERICAN PIE.

[Mad Maggot]

I can't pick a certain movie which made me a movie fan. It could be Titanic or Forrest Gump, if only I didn't see them at the age of 11. Eleven isn't a proper age for movies, at 11 you are still having fight with girls and boys next door in your yard and don't really care that there are thought-provoking / controversial movies.

It (my becoming a movie fan) just came with years. I started watching movies in full (can't find a better word) at the age of 13. I went to see The Beach to the local theatre (I hadn't gone to theatre for quite a time) and theatre, its atmosphere just involved me. I thought, 'Man, I should come here more often.' The Beach certainly wasn't a movie which awoke all those movie-watching genes in me... Then I saw The Matrix and it made me feel just superior, that was time when I realized that big cinema exists. Then there were other movies on video and in theatre, but none of them really made me a movie fan. Just time came, I said.

[Edie0027]

I think several movie have had some sort of affect on my appreciation for them- however, the one that jumps to my mind is American History X- that has to be one of the most powerful movies I have ever seen.

[ze424]

The Usual Suspects...and it has the same effect on me

[JasonLeeFan]

I'd say Fight Club, Star Wars and The Matrix really turned me on to movies. I think I really like the Star Wars trilogy and The Matrix because it involved a whole other world. Fight Club stays with me because its just mindblowing/mindnumbing. Of course, I don't think Star Wars and The Matrix are the greatest movies, but I'll always have a special spot in my heart for these.

[Tom Samborski]

I remember seeing T2 the first time, in fact, I even remember the month and year I saw it: August 1998. It blew me away, and that's how my movie obssession started to grow on me.

[sharkstank]

when i first saw Schindler's List when it came out i learned that a movie didn't need big fx or explosion to be great.

[Hannibal21]

I remember watching Casablanca for the very first time. I was completely into the movie, the atmosphere was just great. Nothing is better than to watch Bogie and Bergman sizzle on screen, everything was PERFECT.

[paul calf]

i have always felt that i was born with a love for the movies,my dad used to take me and my brother regular when we were kids,the early films that he took us to see where the sort of movies that made you want more.
starwars
jaws
rocky
close encounters of the third kind

i have started to take my kids regularly and my son has the same sort of love as me,he is only 8 but some of the films that he has collected put most of my friends to shame
monty pythons life of brian
sparticus
braveheart
all starwars episodes
saving private ryan.
he has a real taste and diversity that is well beyond his years.