15 Movies That Either Touched You, Stuck With You, or That You Remembered For Some Strange Reason or Others

A friend had this up on facebook.

1. Planet of the Dinosaurs - First movie I can clearly remember watching over and over. It is very bad. The music in the movie still unsettles me.

2. Batman (Tim Burton) - The first movie to cause psychosis in me as a child. I don't remember, but I am told that I would wear makeshift capes, speak as little as possible, and never smile. I have no memories of this, though I do have pictures from a birthday party where I'm wearing a cape and grimmacing, even while blowing out the candles.

3. Aliens/Predator - This is a double whammy. First seen at the age of 5 or 6, the cause of my first nightmare. In the nightmare I wake up and see a dead face hugger next to my bed. Predator was much easier for me to handle.

4. Conan the Barbarian - The second movie to cause psychosis in me as a child. This is definitely the movie that has "touched me, stuck with me, or that I remembered for some strange reason or others". I remember pretending to push the "wheel of pain" around the living room for the amusement of guests. I began to realize my sense of worth.

5. Robocop/Total Recall - Both are Verhoven movies, and I was shown both of them very close to each other. Filled a similar territory in my head, but both movies I was obsessed with. Also, both movies feature incredible soundtracks!

6. Army of Darkness - Watched this over and over on STARZ! I was still pretty young when I watched this, but I think it was the first time I felt "aware" of it being a movie that people worked on and made.

7. The Shadow - I am talking about 1994's "The Shadow" starring Alec Baldwin. I loved the movie a lot; a great deal of my enthusiasm stemmed from the soundtrack, which was the first soundtrack I listened to of my own accord.

8. My Neighbor Totoro - I thought at first it was surely some stupid kids movie, but ended being completely absorbed into a Hayao Miyazaki phase.

9. Pulp Fiction - Pulp Fiction blew my little 12 year old head off. Probably the first time I ever felt transformed after watching a movie. Head was spinning for years.

10. Fight Club - It's easy for a teenage boy to go completely apeshit for this movie. I did, all my friends too. We made our own fight clubs, watched the movie on the regular, and read all of Chuck Palahniuk's books. Hard to consider watching it again because I know it so well.

11. Once Upon A Time In America/The West - My dad, the man I have to thank for having shown me so many of my favorite movies, tried unsuccessfully to get me into Sergio Leone at the age of 11ish. It didn't work. Later on, after Pulp Fiction and Fight Club, he tried again and I realized what a fool I was.

12. Blue Velvet - Oh man. I can get drunk just by watching this movie.

13. 8 1/2 - Woo boy. This movie came out of nowhere for me. It was shown to me once, I knew I liked it. I couldn't stop thinking about it 8 or 9 months later and went out and bought it. Since then, I've become a real pretentious mother fucker and consider Fellini one of my favorite directors.

14. A History of Violence - The most recent movie on this list... it's so ridiculously good.

15. Because I Said So - I'm not sure why. It definitely affected me, and I can only assume it's because of
A- The Title
B- Diane Keaton
C- The scene where Diane Keaton can't work a computer and ends up being all over some porn websites.
D- Mandy Moore being a huge slut by dating 2 guys at the same time and banging both of them in a bizarre montage sequence.
E- I felt I had completely lost touch with humanity and myself after I finished watching it.