Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by late (A) on October 16, 2002 at 12:28:13

In Reply to: Films that surprised you....made you do a 180?.... posted by Mrs. Piggy on October 15, 2002 at 18:53:10:

Hi,
My eyes were bad, got glasses, went to see Davy Crockett. I was about 5, had been to the movies, but this was the first one I saw clearly. I was amazed,and delighted. I remember how wonderful the world looked; once I could see it. As a scifi loving teen, 2001: A Space Odyssey was an Oooooohhhh on a cosmic scale. I think I will always carry that feeling, 'we can do this'. Apocalypse Now simply blew me away. I loved it. The years that followed it were an army of critics that unconsiously paid homage to the movie by comparing everything, even books, to it. The odd, and prophetic, Being There gave me a truly cold chill as I realised in the middle of the picture that this would come to pass. It's a tv docudrama. and not a movie, but Piece of Cake showed me every shred of humanity being torn from young men. There is an old Bergman, about a priest who loses his faith. I have never been religous, so I didn't pay much attention to it. The next day, it sunk in, and I was depressed for a month. My advice, don't watch Bergman :)