re: 3 movies to capture the thrill of cinema?

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It depends. If I am just looking to get across how cool of a spectacle movies can be, then I'm showing them:

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On the other hand, if I'm trying to get them to see film as art, then I'm showing them

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nah, OP was talking about getting them started and into cinema.

Film as Art is a later step. Pushing artsy movies too early will bore and turn them off.

My 3, to a newcomer (as stated maybe your child):
1) Raiders of the Lost Ark (The Mummy is a good alternative)
2) Star Wars (original, in original/despecialized format)- just a rollicking good time
3) The Princess Bride- plenty of adventure, and it's also funny as hell. I would love to watch that with someone who's never seen it.

Jurrasic Park
Saving Private Ryan
The Exorcist

Runner up, GhostBusters

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Say you were trying to get your kid, spouse or friends into movies. They give you 3 movies to show them how enjoyable the movie experience can be.


What are the 3 that you would show them and why?

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Well first of all, I would tell them this isn’t the fricking Olympics, and that on the fricking MTVBoard we do Mount Rushmores so they’re going to watch four fricking movies and they’re going to fricking like it


1) Raiders of the Lost Ark - widely recognized as the perfectly structured screenplay, it is the quintessential Spielberg masterpiece that will train them on how storytelling through film works, with visuals that will blow their minds and one of the most charismatic actor/characters ever to grace the big screen.




2) Terminator 2: Judgement Day - another master class from Cameron on how to deliver that perfect structure, with even more action, revolutionary special effects, and the screen presence of another of the biggest movie stars of all time to take the cinematic experience to the next level.





3) Jurassic Park - just when they think they’ve seen all that the magic of movies can deliver, it’s time to see what every child has imagined come to startling life





4) Interstellar - the final frontier for any journey through the wonders of cinema has to be outer space. Having seen the past, present, and future of this planet projected onto the silver screen, it’s time to go beyond our world and travel among the stars and into the heavens





Not only are all of these visual marvels, which is the key to any master class of cinema imo, they are all great stories, filmed by three of the best directors of all time, featuring many of the greatest movie stars ever to grace the screen.

They also feature the added dimension of undeniably brilliant scores that are essential to being transported to another time and place to truly create the magic of the cinema.

They are epic journeys that capture the imagination and are filled with action, fun, humor, and heart.

Not sure how anyone could sit through these and not be hooked on the thrill of the cinematic experience.

I don't really care to go to the theater for the most part.

Saying that, I'd love to see The Good the Bad and The Ugly on the big screen just for the visuals. That movie is art.

Interstellar.- Visually stunning but more than anything the sound and music captures you.

Independence Day- the definition of a summer blockbuster

Saving Private Ryan- one of the best war movies.

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Bloodsport
Back to the Future
Bloodsport again

Despite what people thought of it as a movie on here, the first Avatar was breathtaking on the big screen.

Especially when you consider tech at that time. It was amazing.

This thread has made me want to watch Interstellar again.

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The main theme is a testosterone booster itself.

Jaws has to be one of the three. I didn’t see it anywhere on page 1

Jurassic Park

Avatar (3D)

-Avatar is obviously the most controversial. It’s not a great movie. But the 3D used in that movie was truly revolutionary. Before that movie, 3D was just a gimmick with stupid shite jumping out at you randomly with some stupid red and blue glasses