Post by stefancrosscoe on Feb 8, 2021 14:44:54 GMT
I would like to share one of the things we have in common here. My first 3 R-rated non-TV versions were The Terminator, T2 and Predator. I like All 3, but T2 was the one that thrilled me to the bone. I was able to relate to it more because the focus of the movie is a kid too and it was the first movie where I was so blown away by the filmmaking. I was 10 when I saw all 3 of those movies. My Dad let me and my younger brother watch them, despite my Mom's reservations.
I use to watch Demolition Man a lot when I was a teenager. There was like a week where I would watch it every day after school. Unfortunately that movie doesn't hold up that well for me anymore.
I was into all genres when I was growing up, except for westerns and musicals. I didn't have mush interest in black and white classic era movies or foreign language movies until I was in my mid-20s. Now I watch these kinds of movies on a weekly basis.
I was never much of a James Bond fan.
The big one for me was The Silence of the Lambs though. I didn't know movies could make me think and feel such complex things until I watched that movie. I was 13 when I watched that for the first time. That and Se7en were when I realized I liked disturbing material and a my fascination with psychology was born.
I do try to watch a bit more older films (when I mean older, I think of films from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60s) but black and white films have never really bothered me much. Actually I really love black and white horror and sci-fi films, specially from the 30s, 40s and into the mid 50s. There is a certain charm to them, and it kind of annoys me when a lot of the films I own, come only with the updated colorized version, and not the original B&W version. As if younger peopler only want to watch color films, not anything less.
Silence of the Lambs were a pretty damn scary way of getting drawn into the whole psychological thriller and crime genre, that seemed to hit its peak during the 90s, but few came close of re-capturing releases like Silence and Se7evn, even though CopyCat (1995) and a few others came damn close at times.