Some people want to be able to watch a movie “for the first time” all over again. Others want to forget a rubbish one. If you could remove just one movie from your memory, which would it be?
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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That’s the one I was thinking
Memento. But first I’d tattoo “Don’t trust ‘Memento’” on my stomach.
The Matrix. Blew my fucking mind the first time I saw it. It’s awesome on repeat viewings, but that first watch is magical.
Could you imagine forgetting The Matrix, but not the sequels?
Wait, is this a good genie wish or an evil genie wish? I feel like the spirit of the wish would make me forget sequels to any movie I specify or that’d just make it impossible to properly forget.
I’ve still never seen it. I’m 31
I am not entirely sure how this turn of events has occured
Perhaps you did saw it but managed to gmforget it to watch it again.
Realistically the matrix is a bad idea to forget, if you watched it when it came out it was awesome, if you watch it for the first time now it’s sort of obsoleted and slow. I still like it, but I think it’s because I first saw it when it came out.
Meh. Disagree. It holds up in my opinion. But, we all have our opinions.
The Mark Wahlberg’s planet of the apes.
It featured Helen Bonham Carter in full monkey makeup.
It awoke something inside of me that I wish had remained sleeping.
Ape* makeup. Not monkey. Ape. Have you forgotten the scene in which Mark Wahlberg’s character called them monkeys and one of them got on him and corrected him?
I’m surprised no one has mentioned Fight Club as a thing to rewatch with no memory that would be amazing.
For a film I’d want to erase cause it was awful I’d go with the last Jedi I genuinely hated that film. Or Star Trek into darkness hated that also.
Honestly, rewatching Fight Club when you already know the twist and can see all the small details that lead to it is, imo, even more fun that to forget it and watch again.
That’s so true. I think it was only the third time when I had the feeling of finally really understanding all what’s going on
Agreed, but after several rewatches it’d be amazing to be able to see it fresh again.
People hated TFA for all of the wrong reasons (and several REALLY wrong reasons), but it was actually a decent and competent action/adventure movie. Albeit not a great Star Wars movie, but pretty decent. TLJ was hot garbage. I didn’t even watch TRoS. Still haven’t.
I remember going to see TLJ at Leicester Square on opening night me and my brother and sister all paid silly money relative to other cinemas and I just came out of it going I don’t know if I even like this while my brother was raving about how it was the best thing he’s seen in years lol
I think he got caught up in the moment.
Honestly it’s also like when I saw Star Trek 09 with a friend at the BFI imax and I came out of it with him having had the time of his life and the only positive thing I could say was “ I liked the music “
Tucker and Dale vs Evil
I haven’t laughed at a movie like that in years. I would like to again
I got scared because I thought you were gonna say you hated it. Great movie
Just ordered the blu ray last night! It’s been on my radar for years, but never watched it.
We’re renting a cabin this Halloween and it’s on our watch list for sure!
Grave of the Fireflies
It is one of the most beautiful films I have ever seen and I have absolutely zero interest, or even capability, to watch it again. But holy crap I “want” to.
Grave of the Fireflies is very special in that it is peerless work of cinematic art and yet I cannot in good conscience recommend that anyone watch it.
It’s just so bleak and sad.
With that in mind, may I recommend the Korean film Snowy Road?
Dunkirk comes close but not quite as sad as GotF
I don’t know of any other movie that is universally as praised, but also that no one has a desire to rewatch. It’s brilliant, I recommend it to many, but there’s no way I’m subjecting myself to that again, I don’t have that kind of strength!
I was in my early 20s and still hopeful about the world and my future and the meaning of life when I first saw it. After nearly 20 years I don’t think my psyche could handle Grave of Fireflies again.
May I recommend Snowy Road?
I have similar feelings with The Tale of the Princess Kaguya.
TTotPK had that one neat scene where she’s fleeing the party, and the art got all choppy. That was cool.
Ending was a huge letdown though.
ATLA live action. It’s already almost gone from my memory but not quite all the way gone.
There is no ATLA movie in Ba Sing Se…
The first one that comes time mind is the one I’ve watched the most times and pretty much know by heart: The Princess Bride.
That said, I wonder how much of my love for the movie is nostalgia. Maybe it would ruin it for me. But it would be interesting to find out.
“You got money?”
“Sixty five.”
“Psh… I never work for so little. Except once! And that was a very noble cause.”
looks at comments Really? No Requiem for a Dream? Eff that movie.
Ayyy…that’s the film that came to mind straight away of one I’d love to forget. Such a messed up story.
For those that haven’t seen it, the film is technically excellent. Nothing wrong at all there. The tale it tells is quite unnerving.
The film is a masterpiece. The fact that people would rather have never watched it is due to how well executed it was. Personally, I still enjoy watching it every couple of years.
That movie is a tool, a very useful tool.
My friends kid started smoking weed and getting into trouble at 14 he was bitching about it to me and I said “Make her watch Requiem, I’m a grown ass man who did drugs and that movie makes me scared of drugs”
Few weeks later he had to pick her up from a friends house when the parents caught them smoking a joint after dinner at a sleepover.
She was all surprised he wasnt yelling and screaming and said “So, am I in trouble?” He just said “Nah, lets go home and watch a movie.”
In high school, most of my friends were into weed and normal shit like that. But then, our group started to get into ecstasy. After a few particularly weird e experiences, my ex and I were sick of it. We decided to decline an invite to go take ecstacy with some friends and watch this film instead. To this day, I have never touched ecstacy again. It reprogrammed us!
Did it scare her straight?
I wouldnt do his parenting a disservice by saying that the movie did the job for him, but it certainly gave him a jumpoff point for “Do you get why you doing drugs is a big deal now?” And “do you get why we are scared of where you doing drugs could lead?” His daughter certainly pumped the brakes on the rebellious behavior.
That’ll do it.
That movie fucked me up for a long time.
Try watching it for the first time. Alone. At night. While housesitting in an unfamiliar house. 😱
Actually not far off from how I watched it. Lol I had a friend with though.
I’d lobby to show that movie to every middle school to scare the shit out of them, it is so freakin good. It should scare you.
Yup. No waivers!
Ironically…Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
I don’t remember anything about it. I saw it after chugging a bottle of Robitussin DM and rented it thinking “Oh, Jim Carey, this’ll be hysterical”.
It wasn’t.
Who hates that movie? I mean if you don’t like indie romcoms… It’s definitely not your standard Jim Carey flick.
It’s probably a great movie. But it’s a terrible film to watch when you’re robotripping and expecting a comedy.
But it’s the perfect movie to forget… because you’ll just up watching again anyway.
Spirited Away. I’d love to see that movie again for the first time. So beautiful and magical
They’re putting on a live stage version of it in London next year, I’m travelling from Australia to see it.
Your Name, a beautiful anime movie. I was legit floored the whole way through. I’d watch that with new eyes in a heartbeat.
In not really into anime at all, but a friend convinced me to watch that and it was just so satisfying. Loved it.
There are a lot of others that live in that same vein. Ones that are closer to slice of life or drama and don’t have the tropes associated with most anime. Anime can be as broad as all of film as far as content and story.
A few you may enjoy if you liked ‘Your Name’
- A Silent Voice - A bully grows up and tries to make amends with the deaf girl he once tormented.
- Your Lie in April - A young pianist loses the ability to perform the piano after his mother’s death, and his experiences after he meets a violinist
- Violet Evergarden - An ex-soldier whose recent employment at a postal company tasks her with writing letters that can connect people
- Garden of Words - A student opting to skip class on a rainy day encounters a woman skipping work. They share a covered bench and a relationship begins to form
- Weathering with You - A runaway befriends an orphaned girl who has the ability to control the weather
- Belle - A very different retelling of Beauty and The Beast
- Bubble - A very different retelling of the Little Mermaid
I’m really picky about shows and movies and I’ve found all of those to be excellent.
Matrix 4
for a long time, I was like if I had a wish, it would be to see the Matrix movies like the very first time.
after seeing the 4th, my wish is to clear Matrix 4 out of my mind.
There are two ways to view The Matrix 4.
When I first watched it I hated the fuck out of it.
After thinking about it, I realised its genius; it is immune from criticism. The movie is shit on purpose.
Don’t think of the movie as a Matrix sequel - because it isn’t. Lana didn’t want to make this movie (as explicitly stated in the first act), but she also didn’t want anyone else to touch it.
So, she permanently and deliberately sabotaged her legacy. There is no ambiguous ending; she executed her baby in the messiest way possible and I respect the fuck out of her for it.
well, to me, reading all this, honestly broke the whole series a bit.
Just consider 4 a parody. The original creator regards 3 as the ending, so you should too.
Matrix 4 felt like a direct-to-video sequel.
It more or less was to be honest.
If I remember correctly the wachowskis were about to lose some rights to Warner Bros or Warner had to remake to not lose rights or so.
Therefore the one Wachowski sister did that one… That’s similar to a lot of the direct to dvd sequels that are done by disney. They remain to hold the rights.
(Please correct me if I am wrong)
There are too many to choose!
And the award goes to:
Lord of the Rings. If I can only choose one, then Return of the King.
Honourable mentions:
Avengers Endgame (watched it at a midnight screening at a Infinity-War/Endgame double bill and it was one of the best experiences ever)
Tron legacy: unlike many movies, it completely drew me into its world, with the visuals and music.
Nolan batman films: probably Dark Knight
I never got the hate for Tron: Legacy.
Its still one of my favorite movies to watch on Bluray on the big tv with the volume up too loud when I have the house to myself for a night.
You know what? I think I’ll do exactly that this weekend! In a dark room with the cold and cranked up, it’s an absolute banger
