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All time favorite movies list

posted 8 years ago by residentevil6901
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I've been thinking a lot lately about what are my all time favorite movies and this one is on the list. I absolutely love it, watch it all the time still. I was only 10 when it came out so I didn't see it until cable & video store rentals were more common about 4 years later. It sure made me look forward to high school and college. To be honest it made me enjoy high school way more then I thought I was going too. (I employed the sometimes you just gotta say what the F&$# philosophy) Then once you get to college life just felt like it was exploding with fun. Sure made studying a lot easier. If I ever happen to feel down I pop this movie in and it sure brings my spirits back up. Funny how a certain movie can do that to you. The part I relate to the most is when Joel is sitting in class and really wants to get out of there and he keeps looking at the clock and it ends up ticking backwards to show how slow time is moving for him. When I was in elementary time felt to go by so so so slow for me so when ever I see that scene it's what I think about. I'd be sitting in class and what would feel like 3 hours gone by was actually only like 30 minutes. LMAO I would get so upset to look at the clock thinking we should be close to getting out of school and then realizing we still had over 2 hours to go. I guess I just had way too much energy back then, sure wish I had that problem today.

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[–] Movie_Riggs 8 years ago

I can definitely see how 'Risky Business' would do that to you, and I like how it seemed to have affected your high school/college life. After watching 'Dazed and Confused' (my all-time favorite movie), I also had a similar change in viewpoint. I had been a pretty stiff nerd up till that point, but seeing all those great characters cutting loose on screen really made me realize that I should be having fun once in a while. While you applied the 'Risky Business' line to your life, I lived by Wooderson's famous quote, "Just keep livin', man. L-I-V-I-N." Worked for me.

"We're not too old for this sh*t!" -Riggs and Murtaugh, 'Lethal Weapon 4' (1998)

[–] residentevil6901 8 years ago

That's so cool. Funny what movies can do to us.

[–] Movie_Riggs 8 years ago

It is, isn't it? I think that's what I'll always appreciate most about them. It can be a lot of fun to sit back and enjoy a popcorn flick on Saturday night, or to binge-watch TV mini-series on Netflix, but the best movies are always the ones that inspire us and make us see things differently. The ones that stay with us are the ones that really matter, and even if I ever met Richard Linklater I could never fully articulate to him how glad I am he gave me his movie to be both entertained and enlightened by.

"We're not too old for this sh*t!" -Riggs and Murtaugh, 'Lethal Weapon 4' (1998)

[–] residentevil6901 7 years ago

Yup I have a list of probably 30 to even 50 movies that have influenced me big time over the course of life. I've taken a lot of positive from them and some even kept me from making mistakes. Out of those movies there probably isn't a day that doesn't go by where I at least don't think of certain things from at least one of them. Lol funny how some of them are extremely fictional too but yet help out in our non-fictional lives.

[–] mattleighkelly 8 years ago

The emotions this movie brings back, if you were at THAT age when it came out, makes you hope your early experiences were as great as the memories of them. I guess, in retrospect, it doesn't really matter, as long as you remember them that way. But the movie sure works hard at convincing you.

[–] residentevil6901 8 years ago

Yup, I think this movie influenced me so much as did Sixteen Candles that I enjoyed high school & college life even more so then if I had never seen them. I think it made me look back on life without some regrets, I think I would've had some had I not used the philosophy What The F&@$.