Feelslikefar
Senior Member
- Location
- Nashville, TN
Like many here, my first introduction to movies was at the Saturday kid matinees.
Getting lost in another world in those dark theaters, watching cowboys save the day
or soldiers winning the war.
Later on, I went to movies that all my friends raved about or sometimes with a date,
scared I'd do something wrong and that would be the end.
Don't remember too many of those movies.
It wasn't till I was a young man, many miles from home, just looking to relax from the crazy stuff going on around me,
that movies really started to affect my life.
Back then, you got whatever movie they shipped you and most were outdated, popular movies.
Every once in a while, they sent you a 'Gem'.
A good movie that didn't really make a lot of money, but ones that have stood the test of time.
I'm grateful for those solitary days spent watching movies; movies I probably would not have seen if I was 'back-in-the-world'.
They started my journey to collect movies and I still watch my movies alone, in a darkened room...
A short list of some of those movies from the 70's:
A Clockwork Orange
Two-lane Blacktop
Harold and Maude
Eraserhead
Sorcerer
A Boy and His Dog
Sounder
The Last Detail
In these movies, it may be an actor's performance, it might be the director's vision or a screenwriter's adaption of a great book.
A movie is foremost a visual media where lighting, camera angles and background music have to mesh together to draw you in.
There are still good movies being made. You just have to look for those 'Gems' that surface every once-in-awhile.
My journey continues...
Getting lost in another world in those dark theaters, watching cowboys save the day
or soldiers winning the war.
Later on, I went to movies that all my friends raved about or sometimes with a date,
scared I'd do something wrong and that would be the end.
Don't remember too many of those movies.
It wasn't till I was a young man, many miles from home, just looking to relax from the crazy stuff going on around me,
that movies really started to affect my life.
Back then, you got whatever movie they shipped you and most were outdated, popular movies.
Every once in a while, they sent you a 'Gem'.
A good movie that didn't really make a lot of money, but ones that have stood the test of time.
I'm grateful for those solitary days spent watching movies; movies I probably would not have seen if I was 'back-in-the-world'.
They started my journey to collect movies and I still watch my movies alone, in a darkened room...
A short list of some of those movies from the 70's:
A Clockwork Orange
Two-lane Blacktop
Harold and Maude
Eraserhead
Sorcerer
A Boy and His Dog
Sounder
The Last Detail
In these movies, it may be an actor's performance, it might be the director's vision or a screenwriter's adaption of a great book.
A movie is foremost a visual media where lighting, camera angles and background music have to mesh together to draw you in.
There are still good movies being made. You just have to look for those 'Gems' that surface every once-in-awhile.
My journey continues...
