1989 was the year that my love for film began to bloom. I was 11 years old and my sister had just rented the latest Robin Williams flick Dead Poets Society. I was busy watching A-Team and Dukes of Hazzard after school and wasn't that interested, but I watched anyway, and my life was never the same. I balled like a baby after the movie was over. I took me a while to figure out why but when I did, I couldn't get enough. Some other films that have greatly affected me over the years are Pet Semetary (its the little kids and old ladies that get me), Robocop (my first real experience with extreme violence), The Green Mile (The only time I've ever actually sobbed in the theater) and The Pianist (so horrible yet so beautiful).

What films have moved you...inspired you...changed your life? There may be that one that someone is looking for, and it will change their life as well...

Movies that have changed my life? I honestly cant say just yet..but movies that have made me feel super strong emotions---well here ya go...

"Requiem for a Dream" scared the %^%$ing %$#@ out of me. I wanted to close my eyes but i was mesmerized with the enchanting camera techniques that Aronofsky used so expertly. I loved every inch of this film and Ill never do drugs now. Never.

I've never cried at a movie until I watched "Man on the Moon". I dunno what it was about this movie but i cried and cried and cried. It was insane the amount of tears I shed. It lit an interest in Andy Kauffman that is yet to die down...

"Kill Bill" introduced me to Quentin Tarantino who is currently holding a martini glass looking cool on a poster above my bed. I saw this witha friend of mine. We were both expecting a decent time at the movies. We left saying that was THE COOOLEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME! I quickly saw Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown, Natural Born Killers, while True Romance remains on the Netflix queue. Those are arguably better films but Kill Bill vol. 1 and 2 share a place in my hear for not only introducing me to Tarantino but also to all of QTs references (Jackie Brown, Deliverance, Brian DePalma flicks, chop sockey). For that I salute you Quentin!


I saw "Schindler's List" when I was 7. You may or may not think this is bad parenting but the image of the little girl in the red coat will forever be ingrained in my memory...

1st off my chest....Wilco Rules!!!!!

Movies recently that 'got me':
The Door In The Floor....the very last shot of Bridges leaving The Squash court got me balling. You find out what has gone inside his character and you relate his recited words from the Children's book he wrote(I don't want to give anything away).

Also, Garden State got to me as a reflection of today's youth(20-somethings) and how some stumble through life in a dazed, confused state that is saddening. Zack Braff plays a guy who has lived the past decade under prescribed anti-depressants and has no idea how to get joy out of life. A prisoner that has dodged emotion and will finally release himself. Very good debut and could become a director/writer/actor force ala Woody Allen, but with more widespread audience.

Dead Poets Society was one of my favorite movies growing up - I don't know why it affected me as much as it did. I still haven't seen Schindler's List - I am really easily affected by Holocaust stuff so I guess I'm just scared. Stephen King's IT used to scare the crap out of me and it still makes me afraid of clowns, so I guess that affected me too.

"All Quiet on the Western Front" is not only the film that impacted me the most but is also probably the single most influential piece of art that has effected me. Which includes books I've read, discussions, etc. Of course I've only seen the movie, and haven't read the book. But the movie is so good, plus I like movies because visuals are more important to me than words and letters.

But yeah it got me to totally rethinking my views on war and life and patriotism and at the core of it all how silly it all is.

Because really people are people so why should it be that we should get along so very awfully.

This year, the movie which I would say had the most effect on me was Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

For me it was the documentary "The Corporation"

After seeing it I wanted to quit my cubicle job at a large coporation and do something more meaningful with my life.

Of course I didn't - I have two mortgages and a son to worry about

So many movies have affected me and continue to affect me.

The latest was "Open water".

I had to stop myself from considering the implications of this movie, so unsettling was it.

This is an example of a movie that is not nescessarily an enjoyable cinema experience, but can still pack a memorable punch.

Oh wow

ive been affected by more gangster movies,
or a Quentin Tarintino movie then most and
those movies are probably :

Pulp Fiction(awesome), and Scarface(1983)

This film made me investigate the writer of the book and I wrote this piece after this investigation.
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A CLOCKWORK ORANGE AND BLACK

Anthony Burgess has bookshelves which sag under what looks like a story of blistering success: more than thirty novels, many published to international critical acclaim; dozens of non-fiction titles, from a discursive study of beds to a two-volume, 1,200-page history of English literature, written in Italian; the long entry for the Novel in the Encyclopaedia Britannica; librettos and musical scores: symphonies, song settings, sonatas; translations into and out of English; screenplays, documentaries and lectures; and countless reviews, thousands and thousands of them, a sample to be found in two collections, Urgent Copy (1968) and Homage to Qwert Yuiop (1986). Penguin have awarded modern classic status to Earthly Powers (1980) and A Clockwork Orange (1962). The latter owes its fame to Stanley Kubrick's brutal, stylish film. The musical score of this film insinuated itself into my psyche quite unbeknownst to my waking self. -Ron Price with thanks to Roger Lewis, Anthony Burgess: A Life, 2004.

As I come to my late adulthood
I look back to 1962
as the year of great beginnings,
not that I knew it at the time.
I did not know much then, at 18
as the world came close to the edge
of giving it all to the cockroaches.
Was it Kennedy who saved us in October?

Was Clockwork Orange a wake-up call
to a new anti-utopian world
of violence and state control
emerging, then, as I struggled
to control a embryonically massive id
that was exercising its own control?

I did not know, then, busy as I was
trying to pass nine grade 13 subjects
in my last months of freedom before
a bi-polar disorder rushed into my life
with its own controlling factor,
its own clockwork orange and black,
its own violence, emotional disarray
and a fear and confusion as deep as
the one you portrayed Anthony/Stanley.

Ron Price
16 April 2004

JackietheBlade, I also think that Robocop was my first experience with extreme violence. I felt sick watching that cop get trapped in the warehouse and shot repeatedly. I remember feeling guilty for watching the movie. I don't think I told my parents.

When I was a bit younger I left a Pipilongstocking movie with my aunt because I got too scared. From a psychological standpoint I wonder if the fear was from not being able to distinguish reality and theater or from not being desensitized to violence. That's the classic nature versus nurture debate. It's probably some of both.