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Posted: 7/6/2019 3:11:18 PM EDT

Say you could memory wipe one movie and watch it for the first time again. What would it be?

I’m going with Star Wars. Jaws is a close second.

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:13:49 PM EDT

[#1]

Terminator, Terminator 2 and The Matrix.

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:14:29 PM EDT

[#2]

Blackhawk Down

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:16:10 PM EDT

[#3]

Episode 1, 2 and 3 then forget to go watch them

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:17:10 PM EDT

[#4]

Blazing Saddles. Right now. 2019.

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:18:43 PM EDT

[#5]

Blade Runner or The Usual Suspects

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:18:44 PM EDT

[#6]

no brainer

on the big screen?.....it would have to be:

lawrence of arabia

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:19:29 PM EDT

[#7]

Deadpool

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:19:32 PM EDT

[#8]

Saving Private Ryan

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:21:33 PM EDT

[#9]

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:22:26 PM EDT

[#10]

Star Wars 1977

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:23:31 PM EDT

[#11]

i was helping a friend set up an installation in an auditorium

he used saving private ryan as his test film

i heard bullets wizzing by from left to right and from right to left
i was instinctively ducking

the first 30 minutes are amazing

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:26:43 PM EDT

[#12]

I can do that now anytime I want. I watch a movie and enjoy it (or not) and it is never stored in memory. I can enjoy it the same a couple of years later. Sad for those who cannot.

The Matrix - I can name Neo and not any other character name.
John Wick - I can remember his name only because of the title.
Red Dawn - I can not name a single character.

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:27:56 PM EDT

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Watched it with my dad that year. Epic...

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:30:13 PM EDT

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I can do that now anytime I want. I watch a movie and enjoy it (or not) and it is never stored in memory. I can enjoy it the same a couple of years later. Sad for those who cannot.

The Matrix - I can name Neo and not any other character name.
John Wick - I can remember his name only because of the title.
Red Dawn - I can not name a single character.

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Uh, you might wanna get that checked out man

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:30:30 PM EDT

[#15]

Pacific Rim

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:30:54 PM EDT

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I can't say it would be my fist but, FMJ is right up there.

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:35:48 PM EDT

[#17]

its a mad mad mad mad world

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:37:31 PM EDT

[#18]

Raiders Of The Lost Ark

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:37:40 PM EDT

[#19]

The Godfather

The Godfather Part 2

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:37:46 PM EDT

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This.

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:40:24 PM EDT

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Fight Club. The twist blew my mind the first time around, I still catch little things on rewatches but the first time was something else.

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:42:17 PM EDT

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Posted: 7/6/2019 3:42:28 PM EDT

[#23]

Jaws, the answer is always Jaws.

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:48:04 PM EDT

[#24]

The Last Emperor

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:49:19 PM EDT

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Came to post this.

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:52:03 PM EDT

[#26]

The Hangover.

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:52:59 PM EDT

[#27]

Big Lebowski

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:55:30 PM EDT

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Fight Club. The twist blew my mind the first time around, I still catch little things on rewatches but the first time was something else.

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I would probably choose The Departed for the same reason.

That was one of the very few movies that completely caught me by surprise with a plot twist. Normally I'm good at figuring out plots ahead of time (and often have to explain what's going on to everyone else...

), but the elevator scene with Leonardo Decaprio was one of the most surprising moments in movie history for me.

Right when I think I know what's going on...

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:56:42 PM EDT

[#29]

three of them, 2001 a Space Odessy in70-millimetre Cinerama , Midway the original version, in a theater set up for the Sensurround, and Casablanca on the big screen, fresh print, correct light bulb in the projector. Honorable mention to Dr. Zhivago, and Lawrence of Arabia in Super Panavision 70, and a fresh print of the Godfather, again with the proper projector and light.

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:58:07 PM EDT

[#30]

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:59:38 PM EDT

[#31]

Gettysburg

Posted: 7/6/2019 3:59:46 PM EDT

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three of them, 2001 a Space Odessy in70-millimetre Cinerama , Midway the original version, in a theater set up for the Sensurround, and Casablanca on the big screen, fresh print, correct light bulb in the projector. Honorable mention to Dr. Zhivago, and Lawrence of Arabia in Super Panavision 70, and a fresh print of the Godfather, again with the proper projector and light.

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Can we add in Sand Pebbles properly screened?

Posted: 7/6/2019 4:01:01 PM EDT

[#33]

Jaws
seen it at a drive-in back when it came out and it scared the crap out of me as a kid but I couldn't stop watching

I have seen it more times than any other movie and still watch it when its on,would be cool to see it again for the first time

Alien would be a close second

Posted: 7/6/2019 4:01:03 PM EDT

[#34]

Pulp Fiction

Posted: 7/6/2019 4:01:42 PM EDT

[#35]

Star Wars has to be number one.

Second choice, maybe Blade Runner.

Posted: 7/6/2019 4:01:48 PM EDT

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Terminator, Terminator 2 and The Matrix.

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This

Posted: 7/6/2019 4:02:14 PM EDT

[#37]

Top Gun

Posted: 7/6/2019 4:02:35 PM EDT

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The Hangover.

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Came here to post this

Posted: 7/6/2019 4:04:36 PM EDT

[#39]

Patton . . . with Saving Private Ryan a close second.

Posted: 7/6/2019 4:05:19 PM EDT

[#40]

Dumb and dumber....HY-larious

Posted: 7/6/2019 4:05:39 PM EDT

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Blade Runner or The Usual Suspects

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The Usual Suspects is a very good choice. Watching it again could not possibly be the same.

Posted: 7/6/2019 4:06:17 PM EDT

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Can we add in Sand Pebbles properly screened?

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three of them, 2001 a Space Odessy in70-millimetre Cinerama , Midway the original version, in a theater set up for the Sensurround, and Casablanca on the big screen, fresh print, correct light bulb in the projector. Honorable mention to Dr. Zhivago, and Lawrence of Arabia in Super Panavision 70, and a fresh print of the Godfather, again with the proper projector and light.

Can we add in Sand Pebbles properly screened?

I don't think I've ever seen a good presentation of the Sand Pebbles, I saw it at a budget theater on a small screen years after it's release. I'd have to agree.

Posted: 7/6/2019 4:08:26 PM EDT

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Fight Club. The twist blew my mind the first time around, I still catch little things on rewatches but the first time was something else.

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I was going to vote for the Matrix because damn, I still remember the "wow, that could totally be happening" feeling that I got when I left the theater. I'm tempted to revise my vote to Fight Club though.

Posted: 7/6/2019 4:11:16 PM EDT

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Patton . . . with Saving Private Ryan a close second.

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for war movies I'd have to go with The Blue Max, saw it on the big screen when it first came out. Fantastic photography. (Besides, I think I was 12 or 13 when it came out and I kept praying for that damned towel Ursula was wearing to fall off) Another one for pure visceral feeling would have to be any of the race scenes in Grand Prix.

Posted: 7/6/2019 4:14:30 PM EDT

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Uh, you might wanna get that checked out man

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Why? It is useless information. It is not how my brain works. I seem to store visual and audio clips. A while ago I was asked about a part number at work. I remembered writing it down on a note, brought up the image in my mind and read the numbers off of the image. My daughter has told me she does the same thing. How can you not do that?