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Movies that left a lasting impression on you

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by John B. Foster, Feb 15, 2019.

  1. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

    The Founder

    A quintessential American story that is actually a damning indictment of the culture. A highly underrated film that I find fascinating.
     
  2. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    In this vein, my summer camp in 1960 trooped off to see "Psycho." Great movie, but a bad night for the counselors when we got back.
     
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  3. WriteThinking

    WriteThinking Well-Known Member

    Schindler's List, Gorillas in the Mist, and, oddly enough, Driving Miss Daisy.
     
  4. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    The Breakfast Club.

    I first saw it in high school around the time it came out, and it spoke very clearly to the angst I felt as someone who was accepted but just a little out of step with the rest of my HS.
     
  5. Amy

    Amy Well-Known Member

    Gallipoli
     
  6. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    In agreement. The moment the janitor told the VP “the kids haven’t changed. You have” was genius. Years later Bobby Bowden said after one FSU practice “Kids don’t change. Parenting has.”
     
  7. Slacker

    Slacker Well-Known Member

    Taxi Driver
    Platoon
    The Exorcist
    The Departed
    Silence of the Lambs
     
  8. Driftwood

    Driftwood Well-Known Member

    Raiders of the Lost Ark.

    I never gave a hoot about comic book super heroes. I was all about Indy. I have the movie poster on the wall in my classroom.
     
  9. Twirling Time

    Twirling Time Well-Known Member

    Se7en (“What’s in the box?”) was the only movie whose ending disturbed me, although to be fair I was seeing a girl at the time who looked like a brunette Paltrow. That ending was fuct up.
     
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  10. maumann

    maumann Well-Known Member

    An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
    Rollerball (original)
    Andromeda Strain (original)
    Silent Running
     
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  11. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    Perfect dark movie. Great ending, surprising at the time but now an expected “twist.”

    Original Rollerball was much darker than the remake. Plus it had post-The Godfather James Caan.
     
  12. jlee

    jlee Well-Known Member

    The Way of the Gun

    Flight

    Once

    Once Upon a Time in the West
     
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