Movies that left a lasting impression on you

The Founder

A quintessential American story that is actually a damning indictment of the culture. A highly underrated film that I find fascinating.

 

In this vein, my summer camp in 1960 trooped off to see "Psycho." Great movie, but a bad night for the counselors when we got back.

 

Schindler's List, Gorillas in the Mist, and, oddly enough, Driving Miss Daisy.

 

The Breakfast Club.

I first saw it in high school around the time it came out, and it spoke very clearly to the angst I felt as someone who was accepted but just a little out of step with the rest of my HS.

 

Gallipoli

 

In agreement. The moment the janitor told the VP “the kids haven’t changed. You have” was genius. Years later Bobby Bowden said after one FSU practice “Kids don’t change. Parenting has.”

 

Taxi Driver
Platoon
The Exorcist
The Departed
Silence of the Lambs

 

Raiders of the Lost Ark.

I never gave a hoot about comic book super heroes. I was all about Indy. I have the movie poster on the wall in my classroom.

 

Se7en (“What’s in the box?”) was the only movie whose ending disturbed me, although to be fair I was seeing a girl at the time who looked like a brunette Paltrow. That ending was fuct up.

 

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Rollerball (original)
Andromeda Strain (original)
Silent Running

 

Perfect dark movie. Great ending, surprising at the time but now an expected “twist.”

Original Rollerball was much darker than the remake. Plus it had post-The Godfather James Caan.

 

The Way of the Gun

Flight

Once

Once Upon a Time in the West