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My story

posted 20 years ago by bielatowicz
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Hello,

I've just read a few posts on this message board and i wanted to share my story about what effect this film had on me...

I, like many people on the message board, have never ever met anybody who has ever heard of the film, let alone seen it! I've recently started experimenting with ebay and i was surprised to find a few copies for sale on there, so i also did a search of the web and found this site!

I saw the film by accident, well kinda... My parents must have set the VHS recording something on tv and then gone to bed leaving the programme being recorded. Sometime later, i was bored and looking through all the videos in our house to see what was on them - I discovered that this film was on after the programme my parents recorded and so it also go recorded. This was about 10 years ago (when i was 16) and it's haunted me ever since. The film had a massive impact on me - such a beautiful film... i still get the pulling-in-my-chest sensations of nostalgia when i think of it. Infact, the tape ran out before the film ended, so i've never seen the end of the film! Still, this film had such a profound effect on me. I saw up until the part when the guy went to pick the girl up from the convent school in a car and then sped away - then the tape ran out! I can't believe this film has had such a big effect on so many other people too! I thought nobody else knew about it! I watched it loads of times during the summer holiday when i found it - then my Dad accidently recorded over it - i was very upset! I really want to see it again (especially to see how it ends!) but there's also a part of me that's a bit worried that seeing it again will just shatter this perfect memory of a perfect film i once saw! Thinking of this film also brings back memories of a happy teenage time - i don't want to lose that association. Man, i have tears coming to my eyes just thinking about this film - what makes it so powerful?

Anyway - that's my story of this film. I think it's wonderful and amazing that it's affected other people in the same way it affected me. I just wanted to share what this film means to me - thanks for reading.

Paul :o)

[–] wildblue-1 20 years ago

HI PAUL...

Such a wonderful story. I am a huge Fire with Fire fan. I have a website about it, cause i like this movie but most of all cause i know there are lots of people like u Paul, that love this movie but can't find informtations about it. It's why i am always updating it, trying to share to other fans everything i can find about this movie that changed my life too. I saw it when i was 16 too and i remember that affect me. After more than 10 years i still love it as i loved it for the first time. And now i just collect everything related with this movie. I already have nice things and i want to get more and more.
So i hope you get a copy soon and for the first time u see the entire movie and finally how it ends...i love the ending...but most of the people does not like it:)

WildBlue.

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[–] wildblue-1 20 years ago

I FILM FAN...

I have lots of things related with fire with fire:

the script
the american press kit (a note book + 12 black and white pictures)
the japanese press kit
A poster made in turkey
the american's VHS version
The British VHS Version
The German VHS Version
A collection of 10 colour pictures
the wildblue - fire wth fire - music video that promoted this movie at MTV in April / May 1986
The Wildblue - fire with fire - vinyl ep record
the trailer ( i never had the oportunity of see it, cause i don't have a machine for it)
The new west magazine article (that inspired fire with fire movie) with some director's notes

and some other little things...if u need something u just tell me and i'll be able to make a copy for u.

cya.

WildBlue.

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[–] wildblue-1 20 years ago

OH MY GOD...You have the trailler of Fire with Fire??? You have to make me a copy of that...i am crazy looking for this one. Please, get me a copy and i'll pay you for that, i even send you a VHS video Tape...and if you really want i can make you good copies of the things I have here...I hope you read this soon and you can reply to me. Please reply to: [email protected] and we deal directly about this import, really import issue.

Thank U.

[–] jvillacci-1 20 years ago

I saw this movie when I was 14 in 1987 on video at a friends house. I have probably seen it over a hundred times since. I have it on video and have been looking for it on dvd. I don't believe that there has been a movie to compare with it since and don't really understand why it did not do better. I can't believe that it has not been made onto dvd yet. Anyone I have shared this movie with also loved it. I think the ending was perfect, it still brings tears to my eyes to see them coming through the water when you realize that they are safe and free to be happy!

[–] enchanted_am 19 years ago

I love Fire With Fire. I first watched when it was on tv and I have loved it ever since. I was able to get it on video at a video store that was selling old videos for a good price. I am so glad that I got this amazing film. I also love the music in it also. I hope they will release this on DVD!

[–] rogersjctt 18 years ago

here's my story. back when it premired, me and my best friend where hellbent on being there for the first weekend. being that we where 16, and chicks to boot, we loved it! how much, you might ask? so much that we kept going back every weekend while it played in my home town!

I've shared it with my whole family, even if they didn't want to see it in the first place! gotta say that anyone who's ever seen it, that I know of,has actually liked it. even my neice, whom was all of 5 years old at the time, loves it.

I'm overtly visual so the sheer beauty that was Craig and Virgina is what drew me to this picture. I can confess, it's also the point in my existance that I finally had to admit to myself that I have no control over my own brain! it took over at a..certain point. which is why I first had to go back the next weekend to actually see what I'd missed.

Joe and Lisa are one of my all time favorite couples from the movies. I don't think That will ever change. I just adore both it and them!
Tina