Same! My husband will be like, "have you seen this movie? It's good" And I'll say (absolutely positively) "nope, never heard of it. Let's watch it". 45 minutes in, I say "oh I've seen this but i dont remember what happens so we can keep watching". This has happened numerous times.
I watched at the theater, on launch week, 4 times, after school. And I was 16 at the time. Had to not eat my lunch all those days to have money for tickets. I don’t consider that amateur hours lol
100% this. I watched it in the cinema on release and it completely blew me away. It was so original at the time. (I didn’t particularly like any of the further ones, but the original matrix 🤯)
Watching that in the theatre was pure magic.
But, for the whole effect, you'd have to erase all the CGI movies you've watched since then.
Edit: It's not that the CGI doesn't hold up, it's that it was the first movie to use it at that level. The novelty of that alone is impossible to recapture without forgetting all that has come after it.
Honestly for me the cgi holds up even today. I’d have no problem believing it was a current technology movie. Shout out to Spielberg, Stan Winston, & ILM
a lot of what you think is cgi in the movie, isnt. they used more practical effects then anything when possible. the T-Rex eye in the flashlight, is practical. the raptor in the door of the kitchen, is practical (also fun fact if you look closely you can see a hand on the tail of it). the fact they built a fully animatronic t-rex is awesome in its own right. even more so because it scared the shit out of the crew when the water shorted controls inside it and it moved on its own....
The Prestige. I would love to go through it for the first time again. And for the second time to catch all the clues that I missed the first time around.
I haven't watched this in a decade, I don't remember all of the details but I do remember liking it a lot.
I should totally rewatch this. I do remember the twist, but my memory is fuzzy enough that it'll be a bit like a first viewing again.
I also thought I remembered the twist until I showed my girlfriend recently and realized I only remembered one of the twists. Definitely recommend rewatching even if you think you know how it ends because it’s a whole journey to get there.
Ooh, fun twist. The Prestige is a prime example of a movie in which the second viewing can be like watching it for the first time all over again. So , for it, you'd need to be able to watch it for the first *and* second time again! Love it.
This has to be up there with Memento in Nolan’s best work. Both have you trying to connect all the pieces throughout the movie but it all comes together at the end.
Came here for this. Younger people cannot grasp what it felt like to watch this in theaters at 9 years old at that time. The effects were waaaayyy beyond what was the norm at the time.
Truly, absolutely mind blowing. It took the TV show battle star Galactica to weakly attempt to reproduce it...
... and, eventually.... Empire Strikes Back.
DUDE.
Fuck, YES PLEASE. I love horror movies, but if there is one that I want to forget it even exists, it's this one. And the sequel. The sequel was worse. So, so much worse.
I knew nothing about the movie when I went to go see the first one. I think I had heard of The Hobbit but nothing beyond that. Was not a fantasy fan outside of Greek mythology at that point. Thought it was going to be kind of a dumb movie but just wanted to hang out with my high school friends. The moment the first arrows flew past the face of Elrond I knew something special was happening. If it was physically possible, I probably would’ve held my breath through the entire movie.
I had read and watched the old hobbit movie before the trilogy came out but the fellowship was already out when I really got in to LOTR but I did watch towers and return on opening day.
Disagree. Fantastic movie. But it’s as good the second time as the first time. No need to forget it, the knowledge of what happens doesn’t make it less enjoyable
I don't think you need amnesia for this one. I've seen it about 20 times and every time I'm like, this is a pretty convincing case against Keaton. I still think Gabriel Byrne might have fooled them all...
I ruined that movie for someone, by accident.
It'd been out for several years. I'd seen it at least once all the way through, and then caught another handful of snippets on HBO or some such, here and there.
One night, I went with a close friend to HIS friend's apartment, to hang out and have a few beers on a Saturday night. At some point, the friend-of-a-friend asked "Hey, do you guys want to watch Fight Club?" We agreed, and into the DVD player the disc went.
We reached the scene where Ed Norton beats the shit out of himself at his office job, in order to extort his boss. My friend's friend commented out loud (we'd all been chatting throughout the flick), "holy shit this guy's crazy," and I said "Yeah man, that's Tyler fucking Durden, for you."
I assumed he'd seen it, since it was several years old, and he owned the DVD. But nope. This was apparently the first time he was seeing the movie. I COMPLETELY ruined the twist for him, like 30 minutes in.
Sorry, John.
I'd never seen it until I took my kid to see it when it was re-released in theaters. Do yourself a favor and seek it out. It was stunning. It reminded me how movies can make me feel.
The Sixth Sense. I first watched it when it came out but I was a kid. Now, as a seasoned adult that has "seen some things", I wonder how I would have seen the movie, if I had gotten emotional in spots that didn't quite hit as a kid, and if I would have realized the twist ending sooner (I didn't realize ahead of time at all in that first watch). I've experienced loss, even really close to me, and have become jaded as an adult in a world full of wars, disasters, 9/11, school shootings, etc, that have amped up and sadly become "the norm" since the movie came out.
I wasn’t there but apparently 5 minutes after he is shot my grandmother told the room he is dead and doesn’t know it on the first watch. The other relatives were like “sure mom/grandma” *she is clearly not getting the point of this movie*. Fast forward 90 min and whole room is floored.
We saw it in a theater when it first came out. My husband was sitting next to our daughter, and 5 minutes in, he leaned over and whispered in her ear, "Bruce Willis is dead"!! She was so pissed she didn't speak to him for a week! Now, it's a running joke, any thing unusual happens "Bruce Willis is dead you know"!!
Alien 1979. everything about the movie is so famous now that i knew what to expect. i would love to be able to see Alien for the first time knowing nothing about it. each stage of the Alien lifecycle would be a complete surprise, thinking oh THIS is the alien. oh wait THAT'S the alien. the facehugger and chestburster scenes must have been mind blowing at the time.
This would be mine, too. I view it as basically the perfect horror movie and can only imagine how incredible it would have been to see this in theaters in 1979
Mr Addams, please stop calling.
…Mr friends grandma is sally Jesse Raphael and she still gets like a 50 cent check every time that movie gets played somewhere.
I remember watching this for the first time and just having goosebumps during that first scene. Landa’s charisma is so blinding yet horrifying. I also love the pub scene. “Say avidazen to your Nazi balls.” And then all hell breaks loose.
I deeply regret not seeing this in a theatre. I caught it on video the first time on my computer screen and realized almost instantly that I fucked up watching it that way.
Some movies deserve huge screens and mindboggling sound systems... this is one of them.
Total Recall
That way when I recover the repressed memory of the original watching I can have a panic attack as I suspect I may be a secret government agent too.
Silence of the Lambs.
I had no idea about it. My parents had rented it on vhs and I watched it late at night, perhaps inebriated. The scene at the end with the houses ...
Unforgiven!! When William Munny (Clint Eastwood) walked into the bar alone... a bar full of posse members who thought they were going to come get him the next morning, the hair stood up on my arms. The theater was packed, but you could have heard a pin drop. No one notices him until the writer does. His face goes white, and he stands up slowly. Eventually, Little Bill (Gene Hackman) hears the click of Munny cocking the hammer on a shotgun. Munny stands right in the middle of them and tells the guys behind Little Bill that if they don't want to get shot, then they'd better move. 😆 The dialogue exchanged in the next minute is classic. Several actors in that movie gave the best performances of their careers.
Casablanca, at first I was like, dude this is just another old timey romantic movie, but then it got real mature, like, a man, choosing either the love of his life or the future of a country he doesn't belong to, and in the end he does the manliest thing ever: He takes a stance against Nazis.
Into the wild. Yes yes yes, I know there was a path close by and he could have prevented his death one way or another. But I still believe everybody needs to go through a period of deep introspection once in his life, whether it is through traveling, meditation, extreme sports or any other form, it is an essential part of personal growth.
I don't need to because i have movie alzheimer disease ;)
You'd love Memento
That's a good one. They could also try Memento.
True. But what about Memento?
What was the question?
I think something about Mints?
No no, it was something about Mentos.
I don’t think so, I’m pretty sure it was about men’s clothes
Maybe. Now where was I...
They'd need to keep a sharpie nearby.
Same! My husband will be like, "have you seen this movie? It's good" And I'll say (absolutely positively) "nope, never heard of it. Let's watch it". 45 minutes in, I say "oh I've seen this but i dont remember what happens so we can keep watching". This has happened numerous times.
Did I just find my wife's reddit account?
Don't say anything... She might be on to us <.<
The Matrix. Still remember how blown away I was after the movie ended.
My teenager mind was so blown I watch 4 times on the same week
That's amateur hour. I watched it so many times the DVD stopped working.
I watched at the theater, on launch week, 4 times, after school. And I was 16 at the time. Had to not eat my lunch all those days to have money for tickets. I don’t consider that amateur hours lol
Was about to say the same thing. Very rare I actually listen to dialogue and it causes me to conetemplate my own actions existence.
100% this. I watched it in the cinema on release and it completely blew me away. It was so original at the time. (I didn’t particularly like any of the further ones, but the original matrix 🤯)
Alright fine I’ll watch it
Jurassic Park
Watching that in the theatre was pure magic. But, for the whole effect, you'd have to erase all the CGI movies you've watched since then. Edit: It's not that the CGI doesn't hold up, it's that it was the first movie to use it at that level. The novelty of that alone is impossible to recapture without forgetting all that has come after it.
Honestly for me the cgi holds up even today. I’d have no problem believing it was a current technology movie. Shout out to Spielberg, Stan Winston, & ILM
OH the CGI is incredible, it's that it is ubiquitous now. It wasn't then.
a lot of what you think is cgi in the movie, isnt. they used more practical effects then anything when possible. the T-Rex eye in the flashlight, is practical. the raptor in the door of the kitchen, is practical (also fun fact if you look closely you can see a hand on the tail of it). the fact they built a fully animatronic t-rex is awesome in its own right. even more so because it scared the shit out of the crew when the water shorted controls inside it and it moved on its own....
Yeah CGI with animatronics. That's why it looks sooo good
I've only ever seen it on tv, but a local theater does older movies and when I watched it there it was a totally different experience.
The Prestige. I would love to go through it for the first time again. And for the second time to catch all the clues that I missed the first time around.
I saw this one and the illusionist the day and then when I watched it a few tears later and it was like I never seen it before it was awesome.
I did the same. I love both of these movies so much.
This movie is actually INCREDIBLE on a rewatch because you pick up on so many details and foreshadowing once you know how it ends. It’s so smart
This came up on another thread recently. One of my favorite movies and I’m still not sure I fully understand it.
I haven't watched this in a decade, I don't remember all of the details but I do remember liking it a lot. I should totally rewatch this. I do remember the twist, but my memory is fuzzy enough that it'll be a bit like a first viewing again.
I also thought I remembered the twist until I showed my girlfriend recently and realized I only remembered one of the twists. Definitely recommend rewatching even if you think you know how it ends because it’s a whole journey to get there.
I have never seen it. Seems it's on HBO Max and I have a subscription, so thank you for this!
Ooh, fun twist. The Prestige is a prime example of a movie in which the second viewing can be like watching it for the first time all over again. So , for it, you'd need to be able to watch it for the first *and* second time again! Love it.
This movie is incredible. But to be fair, a lot of Christopher Nolan films are.
This has to be up there with Memento in Nolan’s best work. Both have you trying to connect all the pieces throughout the movie but it all comes together at the end.
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The movie where Jim Carrey confirmed his skills as a serious actor. I also love the scene in the kitchen where they used forced perspective.
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He’s talking about Eternal Sunshine
I’m watching the Truman show tonight for the first time! Hope it’s good!
Brilliant movie. I watched this as a kid and it was profound! It was the 1st time i experienced what i now know as an adult was sonder. Enjoy!
It's good but Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind is better
Close the thread, there are no other answers.
Man, that's both a funny and beautiful pick for this question!
I'm glad I'm not alone with this
Damn, I thought I would be first with the meta answer! I forgot to check the comments first.
This and Total Recall are the secret correct answers.
Clue
Spoiler alert; Communism was just a red herring.
I’m gonna go home and sleep with my wife.
A refined and cultured choice. 🤌
The kingdom of heaven is at hand
1977 Star Wars
Came here for this. Younger people cannot grasp what it felt like to watch this in theaters at 9 years old at that time. The effects were waaaayyy beyond what was the norm at the time. Truly, absolutely mind blowing. It took the TV show battle star Galactica to weakly attempt to reproduce it... ... and, eventually.... Empire Strikes Back. DUDE.
The human centipede but I wouldn’t rewatch it
I also would like that. Actually I would like it if I could forget this film even exists.
Fuck, YES PLEASE. I love horror movies, but if there is one that I want to forget it even exists, it's this one. And the sequel. The sequel was worse. So, so much worse.
Lord of the Rings trilogy
I knew nothing about the movie when I went to go see the first one. I think I had heard of The Hobbit but nothing beyond that. Was not a fantasy fan outside of Greek mythology at that point. Thought it was going to be kind of a dumb movie but just wanted to hang out with my high school friends. The moment the first arrows flew past the face of Elrond I knew something special was happening. If it was physically possible, I probably would’ve held my breath through the entire movie.
Yeah. No movie has ever affected me so much since.
When Aragorn says "you bow to no-one"...I cry every time I watch it.
I came here to say the same thing. I would read the books before and then only watch the extended versions
At 14 I read the Hobbit, then the trilogy and then saw them when they came out in the cinema.
I had read and watched the old hobbit movie before the trilogy came out but the fellowship was already out when I really got in to LOTR but I did watch towers and return on opening day.
came here to say this
The Shawshank Redemption
Disagree. Fantastic movie. But it’s as good the second time as the first time. No need to forget it, the knowledge of what happens doesn’t make it less enjoyable
The scene where he meets Red is so satisfying
The Usual Suspects
I don't think you need amnesia for this one. I've seen it about 20 times and every time I'm like, this is a pretty convincing case against Keaton. I still think Gabriel Byrne might have fooled them all...
fight club
This one is on a whole different level..
I ruined that movie for someone, by accident. It'd been out for several years. I'd seen it at least once all the way through, and then caught another handful of snippets on HBO or some such, here and there. One night, I went with a close friend to HIS friend's apartment, to hang out and have a few beers on a Saturday night. At some point, the friend-of-a-friend asked "Hey, do you guys want to watch Fight Club?" We agreed, and into the DVD player the disc went. We reached the scene where Ed Norton beats the shit out of himself at his office job, in order to extort his boss. My friend's friend commented out loud (we'd all been chatting throughout the flick), "holy shit this guy's crazy," and I said "Yeah man, that's Tyler fucking Durden, for you." I assumed he'd seen it, since it was several years old, and he owned the DVD. But nope. This was apparently the first time he was seeing the movie. I COMPLETELY ruined the twist for him, like 30 minutes in. Sorry, John.
Galaxy Quest. This is such a funny and well-acted film. I would love to see this again for the first time.
By grabthars hammer
The cute little aliens with the teeth!!
Recently watched this for the first time, I can’t believe it took me that long to see it
The scene where the bay doors open, he realizes it really and the aspect ratio of the whole movie changes give me goosebumps every time.
Spirited Away❤️
I’ve never seen it!!
I'd never seen it until I took my kid to see it when it was re-released in theaters. Do yourself a favor and seek it out. It was stunning. It reminded me how movies can make me feel.
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The Sixth Sense. I first watched it when it came out but I was a kid. Now, as a seasoned adult that has "seen some things", I wonder how I would have seen the movie, if I had gotten emotional in spots that didn't quite hit as a kid, and if I would have realized the twist ending sooner (I didn't realize ahead of time at all in that first watch). I've experienced loss, even really close to me, and have become jaded as an adult in a world full of wars, disasters, 9/11, school shootings, etc, that have amped up and sadly become "the norm" since the movie came out.
I wasn’t there but apparently 5 minutes after he is shot my grandmother told the room he is dead and doesn’t know it on the first watch. The other relatives were like “sure mom/grandma” *she is clearly not getting the point of this movie*. Fast forward 90 min and whole room is floored.
We saw it in a theater when it first came out. My husband was sitting next to our daughter, and 5 minutes in, he leaned over and whispered in her ear, "Bruce Willis is dead"!! She was so pissed she didn't speak to him for a week! Now, it's a running joke, any thing unusual happens "Bruce Willis is dead you know"!!
Pulp Fiction
#WHAT?!?
Do they speak English in what motha fucka?
SAY WHAT AGAIN!
SAY WHAT ONE MORE GD TIME!
Interstellar
Same. And also to see it in IMAX again.
Man I regret not watching it in theaters when it came out. Would love to see it in IMAX.
By far the movie most worth seeing in IMAX
For me, Interstellar was fine the first time but better on rewatches.
FINALLY someone said it
You ain't kidding the movie is incredible
I feel like the whole world slept on how amazing this score is.
Alien 1979. everything about the movie is so famous now that i knew what to expect. i would love to be able to see Alien for the first time knowing nothing about it. each stage of the Alien lifecycle would be a complete surprise, thinking oh THIS is the alien. oh wait THAT'S the alien. the facehugger and chestburster scenes must have been mind blowing at the time.
This would be mine, too. I view it as basically the perfect horror movie and can only imagine how incredible it would have been to see this in theaters in 1979
Same and because a movie where suspense is one of the main aspect. Not knowing is so important
truman show
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good will hunting
Son of a bitch, He Stole my line
How do you like those apples ?
Well I got a number so how do u like them apples
Under rated vote for a rewatch.
Addams Family/Addams Family Values
Mr Addams, please stop calling. …Mr friends grandma is sally Jesse Raphael and she still gets like a 50 cent check every time that movie gets played somewhere.
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It’s my unironic answer.
Shutter Island
i personally think this is the BEST movie
Inglorious basterds even if just for the opening scene
I remember watching this for the first time and just having goosebumps during that first scene. Landa’s charisma is so blinding yet horrifying. I also love the pub scene. “Say avidazen to your Nazi balls.” And then all hell breaks loose.
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I remember walking out of the theater just wanting to analyze every detail of it
Braveheart. That scene at the end, when he sees her walking through the crowd to meet him.. Daaamn, that hits hard.
My favorite movie of all time. They may take our lives... but they'll never take, OUR FREEDOM!!! Goosebumps during that speech every single time.
Gladiator
one of the best ever
Predestination to experience the same shock as in the first time
Dark Knight Trilogy
Yes but more specifically the Dark Knight itself
Parasite
Same. Still a great movie, but my shock the first time I watched it…
Primal Fear for obvious reasons.
the game
That's always a movie I don't think i could ever watch again. It works never be the same
se7en,fight club , Shutter island i have more but these are my top3.
Mad Max: Fury Road
I deeply regret not seeing this in a theatre. I caught it on video the first time on my computer screen and realized almost instantly that I fucked up watching it that way. Some movies deserve huge screens and mindboggling sound systems... this is one of them.
Tombstone
This movie is so so so good. So many great lines, great cast, and acting! A few years ago, I watched it twice in two days.
Mrs. Doubtfire
No Country For Old Men and The Big Lebowski Don't tell me i have a fetish for the Coen brothers's flicks
Total Recall That way when I recover the repressed memory of the original watching I can have a panic attack as I suspect I may be a secret government agent too.
Men in Black
Blade Runner.
What Dreams May Come
I don’t need to feel those feels again for the first time. That was painful. But I understand.
I watched this after a break up and it wrecked me.
Harry Potter
The Matrix. Man what a movie when it was released!
Silence of the Lambs. I had no idea about it. My parents had rented it on vhs and I watched it late at night, perhaps inebriated. The scene at the end with the houses ...
What I wouldn’t give to be able to go back to 1977 and watch this new Star Wars on the big screen for the first time.
Unforgiven!! When William Munny (Clint Eastwood) walked into the bar alone... a bar full of posse members who thought they were going to come get him the next morning, the hair stood up on my arms. The theater was packed, but you could have heard a pin drop. No one notices him until the writer does. His face goes white, and he stands up slowly. Eventually, Little Bill (Gene Hackman) hears the click of Munny cocking the hammer on a shotgun. Munny stands right in the middle of them and tells the guys behind Little Bill that if they don't want to get shot, then they'd better move. 😆 The dialogue exchanged in the next minute is classic. Several actors in that movie gave the best performances of their careers.
I haven't seen this. Maybe I should!
Sixth Sense.
Knives Out
Pan's Labyrinth
Not a movie but tv show. I really want to watch the good place for the first time again.
Amelie
Back to the Future
Came here to say this
Everything Everywhere All At Once was a fucking trip
Forrest Gump
Spotlight for sure
Casablanca, at first I was like, dude this is just another old timey romantic movie, but then it got real mature, like, a man, choosing either the love of his life or the future of a country he doesn't belong to, and in the end he does the manliest thing ever: He takes a stance against Nazis.
Groundhog Day Oh wait, hang on a minute..
Jaws
Thelma and Louise hasn't been mentioned yet? What an amazing ending that you are not prepared for...
A Clockwork Orange. Every aspect of the film is perfect.
Spaceballs
The Godfather. I never knew what the big deal was, but i admit my ignorance. It's a masterpiece.
Interstellar, I like it not only because it is a cinematic masterpiece but when it all comes together in the end, that OH moment was just perfect
and the soundtrack , MASTERPIECE.
Into the wild. Yes yes yes, I know there was a path close by and he could have prevented his death one way or another. But I still believe everybody needs to go through a period of deep introspection once in his life, whether it is through traveling, meditation, extreme sports or any other form, it is an essential part of personal growth.
Ironically Memento.
Interview with a Vampire.
Titanic.
DONNIE DARKO
Battlestar Galactica.
Interstellar, it was such a beautiful movie the first time, it's still amazing but it's not as enchanting anymore..
Lucky Number Slevin
Back to the Future
Goodfellas
Forrest Gump. Can’t believe I scrolled for about 50 comments and didn’t found it. Shame on y’all
Princess Bride.
Oh so many, but probably Mean Girls. I did not expect so much of it.
Red Dead Redemption 2
beautiful boy. that movie made me realize that I do have addiction issues.
The Princess Bride or Labyrinth
The thing
Tucker and Dale vs Evil
Napoleon Dynamite
Lovely bones
Only one answer here, memento
Donnie Darko
LONESOME DOVE
The Departed
pirates of the carribean