Postby kath » 18 Feb 2007, 16:10
the planet of the apes... may sound silly now, after every kind of sci-fi-ey ironic, dystopian twist has been played into the ground, but when i was six, this movie blew my mind right out of my brainpan. it really did change me. i went off on a whole freaky sci-fi bent that lasted most of my life, the books (asimov, bradbury, huxley, orwell, lovecraft, burgess, clarke, etc), the flicks (would take for too long to list, although someone mentioned the animated fantastic planet, which was wild, in a good way.) it may even be partly responsible for the whole altered-state thing i've loved my whole life, but maybe that's the putting the cart before the pink elephant. ah well. huggggge movie for me.
rocky horror picture show... sure, just see this when yer about eleven and tell me it doesn't warp you for life.
touch of evil, on the waterfront, casablanca, to have and have not... i group these together because these are the movies my ma (may she rest in peace, sniff) used when she wanted to prove to me that "old, crusty boring black-n-white movies" as i called them were anything but. she was right, of course. now i am doing the same thing with my spawn. on a more minor black-n-white note, curse of the demon actually gave my 18-year-old son nightmares. heh. success.
big fish... i can't really explain this one. i saw it right after my ma had a stroke. i sobbed for hours when it ended, and truly, i am not a weepy person by nature. i've never been hit so hard by a movie. not even schindler's list, and that hit me hard. (i still have dreams about what i saw in the holocaust museum.)
kath
and no, i won't go off on pan's labyrinth again.