What movie would you most like to watch for the first time again?
What movie would you most like to watch for the first time again?
Mine would be Annihilation while very stoned.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I've seen it too many times now for me to know if it's really as good as I find it, but I think I'd really like it all over again if I could forget it.
15I came to say this. We watch it most times it's on. So good! But also so emotionally exhausting!
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Lord of the Rings. In cinema, but the extended cut.
14I'd love that, but I don't know if my butt could handle being in a theater seat that long.
7The extended editions do have intermissions built in, at least.
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I watched the CinemaWins (on youtube) videos for LOTR and it motivated me to watch them again but with my mind sort of turned off and focused on the present moment, so that, for example, I can focus on the greatness of the Moria scene instead of thinking "here comes the Balrog". It made me appreciate the greatness, emotion and impact of some scenes again.
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Spirited Away. I first watched it on cable (with ad breaks!) on my parent’s tiny crt, definitely not ideal
Annihilation is a good one 🐻
12Clue, it is awesome knowing what's coming but it's so fucking wild the first time.
12Princess Mononoke.
I was maybe 10 years old when I first watched it on a pirated DVD copy.
12The best way to watch any movie
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I won't be very original, but first thing that came to my mind is Fight Club.
But actually, it is best to watch the second time, once you know what is happening, but I want to experience this plot twist one more time. If someone didn't watch it already, please so not spoiler it to yourself.
11You’ll love the book if you liked the movie.
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Probably Contact. I cried at the line:
spoiler
"They should have sent a poet."
11I'm rewatching cosmos rn, and am gonna watch contact again when I'm finished. Such a good movie.
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Now that I've read the book, 2001 a space odyssey
10Its so good the first time. Way too slow the second.
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My friend pulled a cool move once where he threw a pear to a wall. I would like to see that move again.
10Fixed it thank you
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Primer
Cube
The matrix
Hackers
To kill a mockingbird
So many.....
9I haven't seen hackers. How is it?
2Great!
The early over the top hacker aesthetic, the ridiculous adversarial hacker battle, the complete misunderstanding of what hacking actually involved (the world has changed). It is all awesome.
Some of the stuff they got right is also cool, the social engineering is still a thing.
Also because of my age when it came out (1995)....I would have seen it in 96/97, I was in my late teens.
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Jurassic Park
9Trainspotting
7Your Name
7The Matrix
Saw it in the theatre knowing nothing about it other than that the poster looked fun.
Was not expecting a philosophical mind fuck.
6Just rewatched the matrix a few days ago. I swear I forget all the main details until I watch it every 6 years or so haha. It's good, some effects are really showing their age now though.
3Same, the “what is the Matrix” marketing was so mysterious and effective.
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Vanilla Sky. That movie is a bizarre trip even when you do know what's going on. But when you don't, it's a positively surreal experience.
6Tarsem Singhs “The Fall”
It is still to this day the most powerful piece of art I’ve seen. I wish I could recreate that experience. I still remember thinking, at about a quarter of the movie through, that this was the best movie I’ve ever seen, and it got better and better. The theater was packed, everyone there was completely drawn into the movie and you could feel the room sharing emotions, it was powerful enough, here almost 20 years later, I can still feel that connection.
5Harry Potter. All of them. I’m currently reading the books, and I know that when I’m done I’m going to be so disappointed that there’s nothing left to experience the first time.
4If you haven't listened to Jim Dale's audiobook version, it's a great way to have a third way of revisiting that story!
2Hmm, that’s a great option. Although, I’m not a big audiobook/podcast fan because I feel I need to concentrate on it to understand what’s going on, and that’s not particularly useful when driving/working/etc, but I may give it a shot in the future!
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Recently rewatched all these. They're so good.
I'd redo breaking bad.
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Saving Private Ryan or The Shawshank Redemption.
Both outstanding movies and heavy hitters as far as the visuals and storyline go. Getting to experience the landing in France, the terror of the knife fight, the satisfaction as the warden and Hadley got their comeuppance… yeah, that would be fantastic to experience again.
4If you need to be stoned, then that, Interstellar, Solaris (2002), Sunshine or Sphere.
4Yaaaas 2002 Solaris Team.
I do like both adaptations, but I really love how the 2002 version was handled and scored.
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Predestination
4Memento
4Interstellar
3How to Train Your Dragon
I still get that knot on my throat in the first flight sequence, that movie is perfect for me. I want to feel it like it was the first time.
3In terms of being able to enjoy that massive reveal behind the whole plot, The Sixth Sense or The Usual Suspects.
In terms of being able to just enjoy the whole storyline without any prior knowledge, The Godfather (parts 1 and 2) or Se7en.
3Lord of the rings The lure awe and wonder of the first watch when I was young
A high that just cant be beat
2The Lion of the Desert.
1For me, it would be Heat. It was released before people really had the internet, so I had no idea about the movie and just wandered past an afternoon showing with a friend, thinking well why not, let’s give it a shot.
Came out wanting to immediately see it again.
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