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Been thinking about this and I'm going to go with Sorcerer, which I saw when I was 8. "It's 5 to 9....in Paris" 
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Jan 18, 2019 20:25
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I expected the silly characters, but was totally disoriented by the structure and subverted expectations, especially the ending. Watched it again last week and had a great time.
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Jan 23, 2019 19:28
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The first movie I saw in a theater was Bambi, this was sometime in the 80s so I couldn't have been older than 7 or 8, and it was one of those movies that taught me that film can present to you traumatic stories with a degree of separation so that you can watch it with both the emotional connectivity that a movie provides, while also not have to personally go through that trauma yourself (or at least go through it in a way that you're still the observer and not the one suffering from the direct impact of the trauma).
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Jan 23, 2019 20:59
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I saw Barton Fink in a theater when it was released and when I left I was stunned. I felt like it was a new world.
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Feb 17, 2019 04:36
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Modern Times. I first saw it when I was around 8-9 years old, it was the first silent movie I'd ever seen, and I loved it. I laughed nonstop. And then it got to the part where a safety flag drops off the back of a truck, Chaplin picks it up and waves it around, trying to get the driver's attention--and a crowd of protesters starts marching behind him, leading to his arrest. That's when I understood that the movie was really about something, not just made for entertainment. Subsequent viewings were still entertaining, but for a different reason--now I could understand the ideas being conveyed by the visual gags.
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Feb 17, 2019 05:16
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Fart City posted:The Thing. It was the first movie ever saw (at perhaps too young an age) that ever made me wonder how did they do that? But beyond the stellar effects work, the movie is also filled with fantastic performances, an incredible score, beautiful cinematography, and a somber and contemplative mood that separates it from other similar genre films. It’s a movie I’ve been able o appreciate different aspects to upon multiple rewatches over a course of years. Truly a gift that keeps on giving. Bingo. Same here. The film was ahead of its time, and its ending had a profound effect on the way I watch movies; it's the first time I saw a film that intentionally focused on themes (in this case, the primal fears of isolation, paranoia, and body horror fused so flawlessly) in favor of plot that worked. And that loving score.
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