Movies that say something about YOU

[CConn]

Okay, so what favorite movies of yours really say something about you? Either as kind of mirrors of your own personality, or philosophies, or whatnot, and why?

 

[Art Damage]

(500) Days of Summer.

It was so much like failed relationships in my life, I had to stop watching it and come back to it.

 

[CConn]

Here's mine...

Batman

While it doesn't say much about me personally, it did - inconcievably - engrain in me at the age of 3 the foundation for which I would judge all movies after that. The reliance on visual filmmaking, artistic scenery, characters with subtle and psychological deep portrayals, and a score that not just compliments the film, but drives it, are all key ingrients to a great movie in my mind.

Inception

Inception is very much my love of psychology and the human mind put to film. Not only does it serve as an outright commentary for the complexity of the human mind, but even the multilayered and multi-meanings of the plotting espouse just how deep and endlessly fickle the human psyche is.

The Life Aquatic

Steve Zissou, for better or worse, is a bit of a role model for me. His consistent pompousness, tenuous grasp of reality, cutting wit, and general disregard for others when it comes to his philosophical or artist ideals rings very true to me in a lot of respects. Exaggerated greatly though, of course.

Moonrise Kingdom

A perfect summation of how I feel about love, childhood, and life itself. The exuberance of childhood, the damaged nature of adolescence, and finally, the bland and hollow world of adulthood all speak to me very deeply.


Also, if you'll notice, all three of the films I list after Batman very much subscribe to the 3 rules that Batman started for me:

1. Strong emphasis on cinematography and art design
2. Intricate characters with complex and multiple interpretations
3. Music that plays a large role in the overall cinematic experience

 

[Art Damage]

Wow, good choices.

In that way the Nolan Batman films have had a huge impact on my life personally as well.

Words can't even explain what the film series has meant to me. Obviously like everyone here the viral marketing for TDK from early 2007 to a month before it was released in 2008 was one of the most exciting things I was ever a part of. Viral marketing from both this film and Cloverfield inspired me so much, I decided to become an advertising major. I have recently graduated with my B.A. in the field. The virals and general excitement for the film has also really brought me and my younger brother closer together. We've been Batman fans since we were kids and it's so awesome that Batman has continously grown up along side with us. I also find it amazing how these films almost conincide with my life personally.

In 2005 when Batman Begins was released, I was starting my senior year of high school. I was getting ready to move on to college and begin a whole new life for myself. I found my first love that same year as well as started my first note-worthy show playing band, I had been just jamming guitar with friends years prior but finally got a good enough band together to start show. In ways that Bruce Wayne eventually layed down the groundwork for what his future life would include, so did my personal life in many ways. Batman Begins completely blew me away, I wasn't following the film too much before hand but when I saw it with my grandfather, father & brother. It knocked us all out. That was the first time I went out and HAD to play the tie in video game, which I beat the same night.

Obviously with the Joker being my favorite character sans Batman, it was understandable with the HYPE HYPE HYPE I had for that movie. The virals, the trailers, the stills...seemed like everything was in order for that to be (which it still is) my favorite film ever made. In 2008, I was in the middle of finishing my time in community college. I had since horribly split with my first love and had found another that I really thought was going to be the one, with eventual plans of marriage of moving out of St. Louis to Phenoix...she left me just as I was starting my semester at a university. Like Batman at the end of The Dark Knight, everything seemed to start just fine and be in order...but a situation rears it's ugly head and a choice needed to happen that I would eventually have to learn to deal with. Obviously Bruce Wayne's sacrifice at the end of TDK was higher in the scale of things, but I felt very connected to that film a year later when my life started to have to change.

Now for TDKR, we haven't seen the film. We have no idea what to expect. Yet I can already just feel a great connection to the movie based on the feel alone. I graduated college, I have great friends and a great family. This horrible thing that happened to me in my life, I rose over it and set out what I wanted to do...even after being "emotionally frozen" in time for a bit. Who knows what Bruce Wayne's eventual outcome will be but with the legend ending, hopefully at the end of the day the man behind the mask can have a sense of "job well done".

I know I may have ranted too long here and sorry if I've gone on a tangent, but I just love this film series. This is MY trilogy and forever will be.

 

[Silvermoth]

When I first saw 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford' I was working my first 'job' as a volunteer and I idolised my boss. The movie spoke to me because it showed the bad side of giving someone an unhealthy amount of adulation.