
If you’re reading this list, it’s most likely been a significant part of your life as well. The movie theater. A place where little socialization actually occurs when the lights dim and that green banner fades up, informing those in front of it there’s a preview on the way. Once that trailer starts, however, something social happens. You, and everyone sitting around you, may be in for the best batch of trailers, followed by the best movie, ever made.
Sure, the chances are slim you’ll recognize something like that the minute you walk out of theater and if you do you’ll be lying to yourself. But, all of that aside, your life is changed every time you see a movie, because you’ve seen something you haven’t seen before. Even if it was a cliche-ridden exercise in genre (as most films, in fact, are), it was different. It was different because you saw it for the first time, and, whether you know it or not at the time, it had an effect on you.
Years later, the movie stays with you. Somewhere in there, love it or hate it, it remains, and it takes only an actor, a director, a title or (God-willing for the screenwriter) a line to recall that film and, with it, that experience in the theater: who you were with, how you felt that night and everything that happened after it.
Most all movies are “dated.” Let us not forget that we, the movie-goer, are dated with them.
Here’s how films have dated me.
In chronological order:
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