What Movie First made you actually understand movies.

The AristoCats.

Fucking advanced, me.

 

Tough Question. My parents never censored what I watched growing up. Actually took me to see lots of R rated fare in the theaters, so it's hard to really pick one.

If anything I grew jaded with childrens movies at a pretty young age, unless it was something with a lot of edge to it like "Watership Down" or "Secret Of Nimh".

I remember seeing stuff like Raging Bull, The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter at a very young age. I'm pretty sure I never appreciated any of those movies when I first saw them.

My first real horror movie I saw at the theaters was "Amityville Horror" and that shit fucked me up for years because my grandmother lived in a house that looked just like the one in the movie. ::

I saw "Gandhi" on a class trip to the movies and remembering being one of the only kids who didn't think it was boring as fuck.

Probably the first one I remember really sticking was when my Dad took me to see "Platoon" when I was 15 years old, and feeling like I was being punched in the gut, over, and over, and over again.

 

Never quite like that first time because I know what's coming, but I can't help but watch it nearly every time I see it's on.

Now it's about remembering the lines, realizing how many of these actors who were basically nobodies when they made this movie and are still steadily working 30 years later, and wondering why some of them never made it. The guy who played "Junior" was fucking great (especially his chemistry with the Kevin Dillon character) and he doesn't have a credit past 1988.

 

When I was a child there were no such thing as 'family movies' or 'children movies'. I have been watching movies since as far as I can remember. Not only my mom used to go to the movies with me & my brother every Sunday and watched everything from Mexican wrestling horror films to big budget Hollywood epics like 'Cleopatra' (freaking movie was loooooooooonnnnngg!!!). Then back at home we will watch everything that was broadcast until the national anthem played and let us know it was damned time to go to sleep. I was a big fan of Humphrey Bogart and will watch him in late night movies from gangster films to comedies! and I was not even in first grade yet! Always loved monster movies like '20 Million Miles To Earth' & 'King Kong' and watched all westerns that were ever aired on tv during the 60s. By the time I went to school, other kids made fun of me because all that I talked about was movies and was clueless about 'in' stuff like cars, baseball teams & Zodiac signs.