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Oldest film you've ever seen that made an impact on you?

posted 7 months ago by BlueCat (9)
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Which old film, its oldness defined by what you think and find to be old, impacted you the most? Do let us know what impact it had you on you and why that film in particular.

[–] samoanjoes (51131) 7 months ago

How are you at 0 posts?

[–] robocat893 (13495) 7 months ago

Strange. I've never seen that before.

[–] samoanjoes (51131) 7 months ago

There was a user a while back who was in the negatives.

[–] Where (1269) 7 months ago

What difference does that make? I have had to re-register my account on here several times due to technical glitches, then had to start from 0. Also, maybe this person just has this one burning question and went out of their way to make an account just to ask it.

[–] Stratego (29278) 7 months ago

Because it should be (1) just for posting this thread.

[–] Where (1269) 7 months ago

Technical glitch

[–] Stratego (29278) 7 months ago

Like samoanjoes mentioned, there have been posters with a negative post count, so there seems to be a specific reason this happens. Maybe by deleting posts, I don't know.

[–] GlenEllyn (21118) 7 months ago

So true. There was an earlier poster who, before they left MC, went through and deleted every post and response they'd made. They ended up with a minus number. I can't remember how low the number was but it was more (less?) than -1.

[–] samoanjoes (51131) 7 months ago

What stratego said. There's no (1) beside their username.

[–] [deleted] 7 months ago

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) -the futility of war.

[–] Padeen (6459) 7 months ago

Not the oldest I've seen, but "Dersu Uzala (1975)" definitely made an impact on me recently. If anyone likes Jeremiah Johnson, you'll like this movie.

[–] capuchin (2673) 7 months ago

Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge (1888).

And, yes, I'm serious.

Not because of any inherent profundity in the film itself. The film is exactly what you think it is. It's a three second clip of people crossing a bridge.

But I used to cross that exact bridge -- built from cast iron in around 1870 and very recognisably the same bridge today -- two or three times a week for several years and consequently thought about that short bit of film frequently and felt the strange uncanniness of being on the same bridge that used to carry horses and carriages and long-dead people in Victorian clothing. Big thoughts about the passage of time, progress, mortality, &c, surprisingly frequently on the way to work.

True story.

[–] blue1981 (6488) 7 months ago

Taxi Driver (1976) - the feeling of "God's lonely man" and sense of purposelessness. Yearning for the sense to feel alive.

[–] Frodrick (223) 7 months ago

The Big Trail (1930)- John Wayne's first movie and a rare pairing with a actress who had Big tits.

[–] Mnaisoa (0) 7 months ago

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[–] tcrum (29811) 7 months ago

Walkabout (1971) It was so unique and different from every other movie out there.

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