Imagine if you could somehow take a film you’ve seen and recapture all the wonder and excitement of seeing it for the first time. Which film/s would you choose?
I’d choose:
- Jurassic Park
- Jaws
- Die Hard
I'd pick smaller films. Where something caught me by surprise and completely sucked me in.
L.A. Story
Enchanted April
Project Nim
Under The Tuscan Sun
I’d pay good money to see the last 30 minutes of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) for the first time again.
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The Sixth Sense
Scream
Monty Python's The Life of Brian (1979)
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Persuasion (2007)
The Sting*
Raiders of the Lost Ark
LotR:Fellowship
The Sting came out the year I was born so, of course, I never seen it in the theater. I first seen it in my early 20s as a rerun on TV and I watched it from the middle. After a couple of watchings it hit me how much different the film would have been if I'd only seen it from the beginning, not knowing who was really conning who with all the side stories kind of hinting at something more going on. I wonder how much home viewing and movie ownership changed how filmmakers looked at their films. It seems that large payouts at the end of the film might actually cheapen the punch of viewing some movies because it could no longer be assumed that people were going to watch the film in a linear fashion from the very beginning.