re: A movie that affected you beyond the norm

My mom rented Deliverance for me when I was around 9 or 10. I was too young for that

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The Day After.

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This one here and The Man Who Saw tomorrow. My parents were watching these with friends over when I was a child. My brother and I watched in horror through the railings upstairs. I had horrible recurring nightmares about nuclear war for most of my childhood and young adult life. I have to totally agree on being too young for certain movies.

Also, A Christmas Story. My mom dropped us off to see this. We were fully expecting something along the lines of Mickey's A Christmas Carol. Eye opening to say the least.

About Time - and recently (watched it earlier this year - my dad passed in 2013).

Best example that comes to mind.

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The Day After.

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I'm a child of the 80s and early 90s. The threat of nuclear war was always covered on primetime news. You couldn't escape it. And for a child it was extremely scary because they talked about what a nuclear blast would do to a human being (ie. vaporation, extreme burns, or worse - the fallout induced radiation sickness/cancers.

I still won't watch that movie. There's just no reason to recall those terrible childhood memories and nightmares.

I can watch scary movies all day long because none of them come close to freaking me out as much as The Day After. The reason is because even as a child I knew scary movies were pretend...but I also knew that nuclear war could happen and if it did happen the aftermath would be truly horrific.

I hate that movie.

Se7en really shook me up.

I remember being so surprised by what was in the box that I actually gasped out loud in the theater when I realized what it meant. I understood as John Doe began his monologue, before my girlfriend at the time figured it out, and she freaked out when I made the sound. She thought there was something wrong.

The idea that an act of such monstrous brutality could occur, to someone completely innocent of any wrongdoing, shined a light on an evil that I probably should have been aware of long before.

The anger, and fear for those I love, stuck with me for weeks. I couldn't shake the thoughts of what she must have gone through in her last moments. Damn, it pisses me off even now when I think about it.

frick you John Doe. You got better than you deserved

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8mm

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oh shite, I forgot about that one

Also remembering that I cried like a bizznitch in the theater when Green Mile came out. Michael Clarke Duncan gave a performance for a lifetime in that one.


Frequency was also another one I'd add to my list.

I never knew what a nuclear bomb was until I accidentally saw the scene in Terminator 2. Planted seeds of terror in me that I never really shook.

A.I. affected me beyond the norm, which is certainly not normal. For some reason I had/have a deep connection with HJO's character in his search of being important. I felt it really represented human beings as a whole, even though he was a creation of human beings, which showed the creation's personality is a reflection of the creator's, so god is also lonely. I don't necessarily believe that for myself personally, but was able to really connect with the mindset and belief structure which was interwoven within the movie itself. Yeah...weird one.

I also second Pursuit of Happyness, it has motivated me many times through my life.

Cindarella Man is another one, especially the scene where he goes begging for money. Providing for a family awakens an instinct in man that knows no shame when it comes to necessity.

Howard the Duck