The Lingering Aftereffects of Movies

Started by ono, March 21, 2004, 11:52:32 PM

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Chest Rockwell

#15
March 22, 2004, 04:46:22 PM
Quote from: ThrindleThe last movie that kept creeping back into my thoughts was Lost in Translation.  I liked it when I watched it the first time... but I found that for days afterward my appreciation continued to grow.  The sentimental feeling of deep connection in a sea of unknown faces, really rattled me.  It was such a beautiful story, and in a time where the best anyone seems to get is a fuck buddy... I loved the idea an honest match between two people.  Hope...
As much as I hate to start talking about Lost in Translation again, I agree. The first time I saw it I wasn't really wowed by it; I liked it, sure, but I don't think I was totally amazed with it right after walking out. I thought about it and it seemed to come into my memory again like a memory of a nice vacation. The second time I saw it was the time when it floored me.

Anyway, I agree with Mulholland Dr., anyway. I just didn't get it the first time. The second viewing made me realize what was going on in a general way, and then it ruled my life for a few weeks (months?) as I tried to figure it out.

I was always pretty attached to Magnolia (not including the first viewing I had when I was much younger).

I think a good example is Irreversible. It seems to get better each time I think about it.

Myxo

#16
March 22, 2004, 07:17:12 PM
Quote from: themodernage02femme fatale.

The whole film or just the pool table sequence?

;)

samsong

#17
March 22, 2004, 07:50:24 PM
The first time I discovered Wes Anderson, I was disappointed to say the least.  I didn't get Rushmore or The Royal Tenenbaums on the first viewing (well, couldn't fully comprehend the greatness achieved in those two films at first) but now I absolutely adore them.  Bottle Rocket, I loved the first time I saw it and more with each subsequent viewing which is pretty much the case with all of Anderson's films; i love them to death.

Raging Bull, I first saw when I was 12 and it flew over my head.  I saw it a couple years later at Cal State Long Beach's Widescreen Festival and I left in tears.

Roman Polanski's stuff -- Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby to be exact -- I didn't like at first at all but now I'm deeply in love with those films and the director himself, minus the fact that he's a pedophile.  I love The Tenant as well and am dying to see Knife in the Water.

The Usual Suspects I was blown away by at first but, needless to say, its effects have dissipated since that first viewing.  BUT, I do think it's a good film, definitely a fascinting exercise in genre narrative... it's subtley pulpy and has some great characters.  Intelligently written too.

Vanilla Sky and AI lingered in my mind after seeing them, both of which I hated at first and still hate to this day.  

The excellence of Lawrence of Arabia wasn't evident to me until I saw it at the cinerama dome in Hollywood... one of the best moviegoing experiences of my life.

Dr. Strangelove I found morbidly unfunny and ridiculously boring the first time I saw it... yea, I know.  Now it's one of my very favorite films, possibly my favorite Kubrick.

My attempt at understanding Bunuel at the tender age of 13 failed miserably... Belle de Jour was the film.  Recently revisited it and it's an absolute masterpiece, one of many films I saw in my fling with Bunuel... bought all his movies from Criterion, love all of them.  Diary of a Chambermaid though took a while to sink in.  And just as a sidenote... no one shoots interiors like Bunuel.  Well, maybe Gregg Toland...but Bunuel is a god among filmmakers.

Banky

#18
March 22, 2004, 08:02:59 PM
Vanilla Sky has that lingering affect

Pedro

#19
March 22, 2004, 08:29:51 PM
Quote from: BankyVanilla Sky has that lingering affect
yeah.  that lingering effect of a mediocre film.

samsong

#20
March 22, 2004, 08:43:57 PM
Quote from: Pedro the Wombat
Quote from: BankyVanilla Sky has that lingering affect
yeah.  that lingering effect of a mediocre film.

mediocre?  you're being too nice...

Banky

#21
March 22, 2004, 08:57:58 PM
i guess im always part of the minority on this site

Ravi

#22
March 22, 2004, 09:34:03 PM
Quote from: Bankyi guess im always part of the minority on this site

Most people are.

Stefen

#23
March 22, 2004, 09:43:20 PM
Why does everyhing have to be a goddamn racist ordeal in this place?
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Jeremy Blackman

#24
March 22, 2004, 09:43:30 PM
I think I forgot Vanilla Sky five seconds after it ended.

ono

#25
March 22, 2004, 09:46:54 PM
Quote from: samsongThe first time I discovered Wes Anderson, I was disappointed to say the least.  I didn't get Rushmore or The Royal Tenenbaums on the first viewing (well, couldn't fully comprehend the greatness achieved in those two films at first) but now I absolutely adore them.  Bottle Rocket, I loved the first time I saw it and more with each subsequent viewing which is pretty much the case with all of Anderson's films; i love them to death.
Ditto here.  Rushmore just gets better for me each time I see it.  Even though its second act is kinda weak.

Quote from: samsongDr. Strangelove I found morbidly unfunny and ridiculously boring the first time I saw it... yea, I know.  Now it's one of my very favorite films, possibly my favorite Kubrick.
Same here on the initial Strangelove hatred.  I was so incredibly bored first time I saw it.  Thought it was so stupid and unfunny.  Second time around, I got the jokes, and was engaged, though I don't think it's Kubrick's best or anything.  It's an immature work, though it has its insights.

You should post more, though, samsong.  I like reading what you post, and you're a good writer.

NEON MERCURY

#26
March 22, 2004, 10:13:31 PM
...as for films that polarized me for days ......mulholland dr. , the passion of the Christ, pulp fiction,thin red line, and requiem for a dream.....

as for films that didn't hit me til afterwards.....mystic river(i so want this phucker bad on dvd).....and kill bill......

cine

#27
March 23, 2004, 01:00:50 AM
Quote from: Jeremy BlackmanI think I forgot Vanilla Sky five seconds after it ended.
Vanilla what?

Banky

#28
March 23, 2004, 06:30:43 AM
i swear you guys are some witty mother fuckers

SoNowThen

#29
March 23, 2004, 09:17:59 AM
I enjoyed Vanilla Sky.


Straw Dogs is a film that simmered for a good six years in my head, before I finally watched it again last month, and was blown away.


Almost Famous sucked the first time I saw it, but then the Untitled edition came out, and I gave it another chance, loved it, then re-watched the original again and was floored by it.
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