The 10 Movies That Impacted You Most Growing Up

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

#7

The most recent film on my list is 2017s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. From the director who had previously brought us "In Bruges" and "Seven Psycopaths", and starring the Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson. The story of a mother unhappy with how the police have investigated the rape and murder of her daughter. Absolutely immense film, it won several Oscars but should have also won Film and Director (even though I also loved The Shape of Water which won those... it was a good year! ).

[Jack the Stripper]

Just a question Kilo. Didn’t you watch a lot of movies when you were young and growing up?

[Thelemech]

Day 8

Re-Animator

One of my favourite times of growing up in the 80’s was sitting around smoking dope with my mates and watching endless movies on VHS. We’d watch everything from famous classic movies to really bizarre movies like Videodrome and Liquid Sky as well as lots of B horror movies. One particular movie that really stuck with me though was the H.P Lovecraft inspired horror movie Re-Animator. 
A perfect blend of suspenseful horror, extreme gore and black humour masterfully navigated from director Stuart Gordon and perfectly played out by actor Jeffery Combs as the determined medical student Herbert West who’s come up with a serum that reanimates dead bodies.

Re-Animator is one of my all time favourite movies and a must watch for any slightly twisted horror fan.

Jeffery does an excellent job, perhaps one of his best. He has only been better in Star Trek Deep Space Nine IMHO.

[Jack the Stripper]

^^Yes he’s good in the sequels also but Re-Animator I like best. From Beyond is another good one.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Just a question Kilo. Didn’t you watch a lot of movies when you were young and growing up?

I've got a couple of oldies on my list . (I'm including The Green Mile in that oldies list )

But I didn't watch films to the extent I have in the last 15 years or so, and even then they were mainly on TV/Video. But many of the films I did see and enjoyed as a kid have already been selected by others (Alien, Terminator 2, Mad Max 2 etc.). But I only started going to the cinema regularly in 2005.

I do have a 70s film coming up, but I find old films often don't compare with new ones!

[Jack the Stripper]

Just a question Kilo. Didn’t you watch a lot of movies when you were young and growing up?

I've got a couple of oldies on my list . (I'm including The Green Mile in that oldies list )

But I didn't watch films to the extent I have in the last 15 years or so, and even then they were mainly on TV/Video. But many of the films I did see and enjoyed as a kid have already been selected by others (Alien, Terminator 2, Mad Max 2 etc.). But I only started going to the cinema regularly in 2005.

I do have a 70s film coming up, but I find old films often don't compare with new ones!

I was gonna say you’re certainly making up for it now. I’ve kinda gone in the opposite direction. Seems like my dad use to take us to the movies every 2nd week in my younger years, and a lot of them were a double bill, and then a little later on as I mentioned, I use to watch a lot of movies with my mates. These day’s I don’t watch a lot of movies at all. Might go to the cinema 3-4 times a year max and I’m lucky if I watch one movie a week at home.

When my kids were younger I took them to see a lot of the animated features but they’ve both long grown out of those. I took my son to see Once Upon A Time In Hollywood last year and he watched The Irishman on Netflix when it came out and he’s now totally hooked on Tarantino and Scorsese. Before that it was just Marvel, DC and Star Wars he was into. 

[Tyr66]

This is the end ...

"... the Smell of Napalm in the Morning" Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore

[Zzzptm]

Number 7...

As promised, this is one you ought to recognize:



I used to teach Economics and I would show this every year in my classes as a review. Kids would think, "Oh boy, movie day. I don't have to think!" But nooooooooooooooooooo! I would stop this sometimes as often as every 5 seconds to ask questions about what was going on in economic terms. Ants gathering grain? Employment! Ants standing around? Structural unemployment! Flick's gadget? Industrialization!

As it turned out, the story itself is laced with a political subplot about the machinations between Dot and Ada for control of the ant colony once their mother, the Queen, dies. Dot aligns with a paramilitary faction loyal foremost to her and creates a fascist vanguard. Whereas, on the other side, Ada makes a bid for power by appealing to the masses of workers, utilizing Flick for support in this endeavor. At the end of the film, although Ada is crowned, Dot is sure to intercept the crown of the heir apparent, fiendishly laughing in the knowledge that should anything "happen" to Ada, the right to rule falls to her. Very chilling end when I frame it like that and the students would typically castigate me for ruining the film for them.



But they did really well on their AP Economics exams! 

[Jack the Stripper]

Day 9

Full Metal Jacket

Master filmmaker Stanley Kubrick delivers a riveting, uncompromising and darkly funny view of the Vietnam War from boot camp through to the terrifying realities of war.
R. Lee Ermey is both hilarious and compelling as the ruthless drill instructor Gunnery Sergeant Hartman as well as other great performances from Mathew Modine as a wise-cracking young recruit and Vincent D’Onofrio as the mentally broken Private Leonard “Gomer Pyle” Lawrence. Full Metal Jacket is a captivating watch from start to finish and one of the most memorable and realistic portraits of war in movie history.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

#8

It was a close run thing between Life of Brian and The Holy Grail. I've never been a super huge Monty Python fan, but these two films are as good as any comedy films out there. Holy Grail has the better lines but is more a series of set-peices without too much plot, but Life of Brian has both:

[Thelemech]

This was my first Arnold movie and my first truly violent and adult content film. I was about 9 or 10 and I loved every minute of it. Except of course the ridiculous editing fuck up with the yellow Porsche  damn Arnold had some great lines in this one.
I will always remember being with some friends and playing the movie in slow motion when Arnold comes out of the shed and throws the saw blade into the rebels head!!! 

[Jack the Stripper]

This was my first Arnold movie and my first truly violent and adult content film. I was about 9 or 10 and I loved every minute of it. Except of course the ridiculous editing fuck up with the yellow Porsche  damn Arnold had some great lines in this one.
I will always remember being with some friends and playing the movie in slow motion when Arnold comes out of the shed and throws the saw blade into the rebels head!!! 

Gotta love Commando. I still get a kick out of it when I watch it, especially the final fight scene with Bennett(Vernon Wells)

[Tyr66]

"The Name of the Rose" directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud.(1986)


A classic again.
Unforgettable Sean Connery as William of Baskerville.

[Zzzptm]

Day 8...

Well, I'm all out of movies.

Wait, no, I remember!



As a little kid, I would pretty much just sing along and cheer for the Fab Four and wish I was cool like George.

As I got older, I realized it was, underneath it all, a great anti-war movie. The ultimate conclusion was not to crush the enemy, but to *convert* the enemy, for true peace. And I love it for that and let that idea guide me. It's not a guide I follow unerringly, but it's a standard I try to follow.

[Jack the Stripper]

Day 10(Last day)

Goodfellas

The great Martin Scorsese delivers a blend of hard-hitting realism and black comedy detailing the inner workings of the real Mafia. The cinematography, the editing, the masterful use of the roving camera and the eclectic soundtrack that spans the entire timeframe of the movie along with the amazing cast all playing their characters to the hilt make this movie absorbing and intoxicating and one of the greatest mob movies ever committed to film and one of the most influential films of the 90’s.

Goodfellas was one of the most impactful movies on me growing up, I watched it three times at the cinema when it came out and will always remain one of my all time faves.