What movies made you love movies?

Reservoir Dogs - inspired me to branch out more and more

2001: A Space Odyssey - showed the what movies are really capable of. You don't need dialogue, characterizations, plot, fast pacing, etc to tell a fascinating story.

It's funny to see this asked because I used that line in the MWADS write-up of First Blood, Part II.

Good Will Hunting.

That's the film that made me want to pursue a career in the industry.

Jurassic Park

The first move my parents ever took me to was Treasure Island at the Broadmoore Theater. I was mesmerized. I've loved movies ever since.

As silly and as simple as it is, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It was the first movie I remember seeing in the movie theater (It was '87 and I was 6) and just being absolutely in awe of what was happening on the screen. I harassed my poor mother for quite some time after the fact to take me to the movies again.

To Kill a Mockingbird had a pretty significant impact on me as a teenager. It was probably that first movie that I fell in love with despite the fact it wasn't "modern".

Some others that I've seen overtime that have made me love movies would be The Shawshank Redemption, LOTR, Star Wars (the originals), The Big Lebowski, Gone With the Wind, Good Will Hunting, Let the Right One In (especially from a foreign film perspective), Pulp Fiction, American Beauty, The Color Purple, Dazed and Confused, Field of Dreams, and so many more.

Dark Crystal
Labyrinth
Indiana Jones
The Wizard
Aladdin
Lion King
Rats of Nimh
An American Tail
Major League

Blue Velvet
Le Cercle Rouge
Pierrot Le Fou
Man Bites Dog

Not my favorite movies but certainly affected me.

That is an excellent question. I guess I grew up with Star Wars so I've always loved those movies and watched movies all the time as a kid.

I'm going to answer this way:

At some point, after numerous AP English courses and some Drama also, I realized that (good) movies can be analyzed much like a play or a book. I guess it was just an epiphany I had one day. I hate to say this, but I can't recall a specific movie that did it. When it happened (sometime in my early 20's), it was like my eyes were opened for the first time. Movies that I thought were lame at first like Pulp Fiction became my favorites.

Anyway, just thought I would share.

Probably sounds cliche but it was Godfather I&II.

I was 16 or so and my brother had his DVDs at my grandma's house and that's where I would go after school. I never did homework so I popped in the first Godfather. Could not believe how good that movie was and probably never moved for the entire three hours. Went home, went to sleep, got up for school and getting home to watch pt II was literally all I could think about all day. Drove home and was blown away even more by the second one. I mean it was honestly at that point that I was like "Omg, fast and the furious freaking sucks. That is a real movie."