Thread about first impressions, which were misleading about a movie only to fill you with regret now you finally understand said movie years later.
I saw Hobo With A Shotgun on opening night in Sydney. I was nervous, in a weird part of town I hadn't been to before and it was full of loud hipsters which didn't help my hypersensitivity to sound when I saw the actual film. I can't reconcile how I wasn't fazed by Cannibal Holocaust on DVD as much as Hobo in the theater, but it had something to do with the fact that I was very new to extreme ended exploitation flicks, CH aside, so I didn't know what I was getting into like I did after watching CH after Brad Jones reviewed it.
That said it remains up there with the time I saw Pan's Labyrinth in an old red curtain theatre in terms of actual going-to-the-movies-with-family (brother) events, since to this day I haven't forgotten the visceral impact of it on the big screen with a packed house of cheering bohemians. I think me seeing a lot of young couples taking their dates to see this movie threw me off on a personal level too. One, I haven't gone on a real, not stood up date yet, so I felt a little lonely there when things got intense, and two, what kind of man (or woman) goes to Hobo With A Shotgun for their first date?
I was wrong about that movie for various reasons, so since my brother bought the Blu-Ray yesterday I'll give it another shot soon enough.
What were your first impression mistakes of cinema?
Thread about first impressions, which were misleading about a movie only to fill you with regret now you finally understand said movie years later.
I saw Hobo With A Shotgun on opening night in Sydney. I was nervous, in a weird part of town I hadn't been to before and it was full of loud hipsters which didn't help my hypersensitivity to sound when I saw the actual film. I can't reconcile how I wasn't fazed by Cannibal Holocaust on DVD as much as Hobo in the theater, but it had something to do with the fact that I was very new to extreme ended exploitation flicks, CH aside, so I didn't know what I was getting into like I did after watching CH after Brad Jones reviewed it.
That said it remains up there with the time I saw Pan's Labyrinth in an old red curtain theatre in terms of actual going-to-the-movies-with-family (brother) events, since to this day I haven't forgotten the visceral impact of it on the big screen with a packed house of cheering bohemians. I think me seeing a lot of young couples taking their dates to see this movie threw me off on a personal level too. One, I haven't gone on a real, not stood up date yet, so I felt a little lonely there when things got intense, and two, what kind of man (or woman) goes to Hobo With A Shotgun for their first date?
I was wrong about that movie for various reasons, so since my brother bought the Blu-Ray yesterday I'll give it another shot soon enough.
What were your first impression mistakes of cinema?
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