A great joy of watching movies is that sense of discovery. Knowing that there is so much out there you haven’t seen and the thrill of finding one which ultimately touches you unlike any other movie has done. I love that first experience you have if it is a movie you have a deep connection with, of the unknown and it’s a shame that you know that the second time you’ll see it that feeling would be slightly different. It made me think:
Which movie(s) would you like to experience for the first time again?
Of course you could go for movies which have big reveals, something like Oldboy. But if I was forced to only pick two or three I’d probably go for my top 3 movies, Black Swan, Pulp Fiction and Mr.Nobody as I’m sure that they would have the same impact on me and would end up in the same spots. It would be thrilling to not know what would happen. Interested to know which movies you’d pick!
Yeah, I’ll have to got with my favorites as well. Would love to rediscover The Godfather, The Dark Knight, Kill Bill, Fight Club, among others.
Would join you watching those again for the first time!
Shit…. there’s just too many. I can’t really think of any in the top of my head other than The Tree of Life or Enter the Void.
I can understand those choices, but wasn’t as big a fan of Tree of Life. Enter the Void is a one time movie for me, so I guess it would be a perfect choice for seeing it again for the first time 😉
Casablanca, my all-time favorite.
Nice pick….
Oldboy is a perfect choice for something like this. Wish I had gotten to see Do the Right Thing in a theater. I did get to see The Matrix that way, would love to experience that for the first time again. So many I really could go on forever with this.
Yeah, it would shock you again. But those are movies are good picks too
Alien with the oculus rift, which is really happening, that is going to be such a thrill! Oculus Rift I think, is going to have a big impact and revolutionize the entertainment business. I believe it’s going to be a big game changer
That’s going to be scary as hell!
“Alien” on the big screen.
That would be cool
Great question!! For me it would have to be 2001 and 12 Monkeys, my personal top two. I have watched both at least 40-50 times and I’d LOVE to be able to experience either of those films again as a first watch. mainly cos I remember how much they affected me the first time around!
I guess I would need to see 2001 on the big screen as it didn’t do anything for me the first time I saw it. Maybe I was to young…
Probably something like ‘The Fall’ for me – and I wish it was in a cinema.
I’d also like to see The Matrix again without knowing every word!
Yeah, nice choices.
Boy there are so many films I’d love to see for the first time again. But I’d love to see these on the biggest screen I can find for the first time:
-Blade Runner
-2001: A Space Odyssey
-The Dark Knight (I actually saw it twice at a 70mm IMAX theater but I’d see it again in a heartbeat)
-The Wild Bunch
-Raiders of the Lost Ark
-Some of the older James Bond films: Thunderball, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Goldfinger, From Russia With Love
-The Godfather 1 & 2
-The Thin Red Line
Cool choices and would like to see a couple of those in the cinema as well.
I’d love to watch The Dark Knight again. Also anything from my childhood, like Indiana Jones or Star Wars. It’s the reason I can’t wait to show my kids these films.
Great picks Ben. Wouldn’t mind watching The Dark Knight for the first time again either.