Ah-Ha! moments

Mine's kinda goofy. Its not a movie really. I have a friend who had a little cheapo Samsung Hi8 and his son was playing with some action figures and "making a movie" with his cousin. They were about 10 and 11 yrs old, and accidental though it may have been, they used a table lamp to light the figures up and were doing the voices, etc. and I thought how cool and easy is this??? I went out and bought a cheap little camcorder the next day and Pinnacle. By the weekend, I made a movie about my dog's first trip to the beach. I've been hooked ever since.

The movie Mule Skinner Blues just sealed the deal for me, though.
 
For me it's Spielberg it was almost a religious experience watching his movies. my first movie was his, Jaws, I've known since the age of 5 that i wanted to be a film maker.
 
Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times"
Sounds kind of ridiculous to say but from the first frame - that movie blew me away.

It was the first Chaplin movie I ever saw - my mom liked Chaplin a lot, and when I was a kid she rented this movie because my grandparents were visiting (and they don't speak english). We watched it after dinner, I must have been about 12 at the time, and I stayed up that night and watched it two more times back to back.

The amount of information and emotion he was able to get across without the use of dialogue really got to me.

It wasn't necessarily the movie that made me decide I wanted to make movies (I'd decided that well before) but it was one of those movies that opened my eyes to what was possible only through images. And, as a 12 year old, it made me realize that amazing things were actually done before I was born - and that black and white and silent didn't automatically mean it was boring.... there was something to learn from those who came before me.

After that I devoured anything "chaplin" that I could get my hands on.
To this day I think 'City Lights' has one of the best endings I have ever seen.

(yeah okay, so I'm cheesy... you caught me)
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Ought2bCommitted said:
Have you ever heard it live? That's embarassing to admit!
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Know what's really embarassing to admit? Playing that song live.

I was in a short-lived band that played metal versions of '80s new wave tunes. We were called Stonewash and the Bitchin' Cameros. That was one of the songs we did.
 
HorseFilms said:
Know what's really embarassing to admit? Playing that song live.

I was in a short-lived band that played metal versions of '80s new wave tunes. We were called Stonewash and the Bitchin' Cameros. That was one of the songs we did.
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Ohhhhhh..... yeah....... you might have kept that one under wraps. LOL.
I'll still have a beer with ya and take ya to the horror convention though. ;-)
 
I lived in Florida for about 5 minutes once and we went on a road trip to Cocoa Beach and the driver (my best friends sister; who by the way is who I lost it to and he still doesnt know to this day) played either the A-Ha tape or Jetz (some weird ass 80's band).

It was torture all the way there. I was like 'Can't we put on some Ratt or something ?'
 
i grew up as a TV-aholic. very little interest in films. had never even heard the names of the people who are now my favorite film-makers. A little over two years ago i watched the Big Lebowski for the first time and then at least twice a day for the next two weeks. Soon after that i got my first video camera, a Handi-Cam, and about a year after that i moved onto the DVX. Its now been a year since then. I still carry the Lebowski script around in my back-pack. Not because its my favorite film but because it was the beginning of all this fun! I can't think of any particular moment in the film that did it for me but something about the way it all worked together made me say, "This is what i want to do!"
 
i know a lot of people don't like Kevin Smith, but when I saw "Clerks" and "Chasing Amy" it hit me as well; i want to be able to write like that...
 
I don't think Smith is the greatest, but I don't think he's Ed Burns either.

I thought Clerks had some great moments and it was really cool to see what could be done with little money.

I didn't really get into Chasing Amy. The opening was great and then it was all down hill for me.

Jay and Silent Bob...cute, but nothing brilliant.

Jersey Girl...eh.
 
Ought2bCommitted said:
Halloween by John Carpeneter. I nearly wet my pants as a 6 year old when I saw it, but when my pants had dried sufficiently I said,"that's what I want to do when I grow up...if I ever grow up." ;-)
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I can tell a nearly identical story. The only difference... I was 5.:)
 
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