Herpie Cinema

Jeremy Ordan

Jeremy Ordan

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---Herpie Cinema---

Don't be confused by the title. We have all seen herpie films, you know, the movies that you watch, whether on the big screen or at home, and they leave an impression on you that you can't shake for a while... You know, Herpie Cinema.

So what are everyone's favorite or most notable herpie films?

For me from an impact point of view I am having a hard time shaking King Kong, which I just saw a screener of over the weekend. It might be the simple fact that I appreciate animals more than people, but the tragic nature of this film that I had no desire to see is just hard for me to shake.

-Jeremy
 
The first one that comes to mind was when I saw "Boogie Nights" in the theatre.
I was 17 and I was captivated by the first frame of that film, I never had seen anything like it before as I was completely amazed at what I was seeing for 2 and a half hours.

Then i walked out of the theatre, shellshocked and told eevryone I knew they had to see this film, you've never seen anything like it before.

But, years later, I realized how much of an influence *cough* (stole) from Tarantino and Scorsese had on Paul Thomas Anderson.
 
i was 10 years old and my cousin tricked me into watching one of the Faces of Death tapes.


He told me it was Pet Semetary...not a movie per se but......Jesus
 
The Machinist said:
i was 10 years old and my cousin tricked me into watching one of the Faces of Death tapes.


He told me it was Pet Semetary...not a movie per se but......Jesus
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I had the same experience with that one....still can't get that damn monkey-table out of my head.

As far as "real" movies are concerned, The Elephant Man stuck with me for a while.
 
Arachnophobia stuck with me for a real long time in a negative way. I couldn't sit down on a toilet without thinking there was a big freaking spider hiding inside ready to tear into me... And dying on the toilet isn't what I have in mind for my final resting place.

American Beauty stuck with me also. I remember walking out of the theatre with this strage sense of completion and acceptance with the world and seeing things differently. It sounds cheesy, but I really did just try to take in the beauty of everything I saw for a while after I saw that movie.

-Jeremy
 
Anything that is real I can do without (FoD) as it just has no place in my Psyche; last year I delved into the Manson *Helter Skelter* Murders and it left imagery and impressions in me and took me where I did not need to go.

I detest violence and hate. People that are capable of this hienous nature need to be removed from my planet.

Cinema is a outlet for these fears and concerns and I can watch any film or subject matter. Weird isn't it ?

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Most recently Munich has stayed with me (Review coming).
 
I think that post could quite possibility be the post of the month. It's weird, in my everyday life I normally stay as far away from violence and acts of hate as possible, but with my taste in movies and books I run to it. I can watch or read anything and it doesn't affect me at all (violence), but the moment it is real then I have a physical reaction to it (unless it is violence against an animal, then real or fake I can't take it).

When it comes to cinema, the more violent the better, but with Munich, I struggled to shake that off as well. The historical nature of the violence just really disturbed me (the same reason I have a hard time watching holocaust films).

Very good points John.

-Jeremy
 
John_Hudson said:
I detest violence and hate. People that are capable of this hienous nature need to be removed from my planet.
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And in what non-violent manner do you propose to do that, Mr. Hudson...:Drogar-BigGrin(DBG) :Drogar-BigGrin(DBG)
 
There was a scene in Saving Private Ryan when this American G.I. and German end up hand to hand fighting in this bombed out building. The German ends up with a knife and... (dang, this scene still haunts me) is about to put it in to the American. The American guy is trying to hold back the knife as it slowly... (dang). Anyway, the American guy is saying 'wait... wait... wait' as the knife slowly is pushed into his chest. This scence still haunts me.
 
I think Pet Cemetary stuck with me against my will. That scene with the grotesque sister, and that mentally disabled zombie kid diseased my mind for a little while after I saw it.
 
The end of ROTJ always got me emotional, until Lucas cut out the ewok song and replaced it with that cheesy new age music.
 
Great thread, Jeremy! (And equally great marketing strategy with the I-dare-ya-not-to-open-me title)

I agree with you on the new King Kong. I can't believe the reviews have fallen where they have (around here) on this one. I mean for Christ's sakes...I knew the story inside and out (I'm an uber-fan of the original) yet still was quite moved by finale none the less. It really stuck with me as well.

The first film whose impression I was not able to shake was Angels With Dirty Faces http://imdb.com/title/tt0029870/. I first saw it as a small boy, and its hold on me I am yet to shake in fact. For those of you who have seen it, you'll know the infamous scene well. For those who haven't...run, don't walk to pick up a copy.

Angels With Dirty Faces

As the ultimate tough guy Rocky Sullivan (Cagney) is still making wise cracks and poo pooing with the prison guards moments before he is to be executed. His boyhood friend Father Jerry (Pat O'Brien) has just recently entered Rocky's cell...

Jerry: ...Suppose I asked you to have the heart...to be scared...Suppose at the last minute the guards dragged you out here screaming for mercy. Suppose you went to the chair yellow.
Rocky: Yellow - Hey! What's the matter with you Jerry?
Jerry: This is a different kind of courage, Rocky. The kind that's well, that's born in heaven. Well, not the courage of heroics or bravado. The kind that you and I and God know about...I want you to let them down. You see, you've been a hero to these kids, and hundreds of others, all through your life - and now you're gonna be a glorified hero in death, and I want to prevent that, Rocky. They've got to despise your memory. They've got to be ashamed of you.
Rocky: You asking me to pull an act, turn yellow, so those kids will think I'm no good...You ask me to throw away the only thing I've got left...You ask me to crawl on my belly - the last thing I do in life...Nothing doing. You're asking too much...You want to help those kids, you got to think about some other way....

Then, as he is being led to the 'chair', Rocky selflessly complies with his friend's request...

Rocky: ...Oh, I don't wanna die! Oh, please. I don't wanna die! Oh, please. Don't let me burn. Oh, please. Let go of me. Please...


-Again, great topic...and I have more to come.
 
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RobertE said:
There was a scene in Saving Private Ryan when this American G.I. and German end up hand to hand fighting in this bombed out building. The German ends up with a knife and... (dang, this scene still haunts me) is about to put it in to the American. The American guy is trying to hold back the knife as it slowly... (dang). Anyway, the American guy is saying 'wait... wait... wait' as the knife slowly is pushed into his chest. This scence still haunts me.
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Yeah- that scene still makes me squirm bigtime. The thing that bothers me however, is Hopham whinning at the bottom of the stairs while it all happens. I almost stood up in the theater and yelled "GET UP THERE AND HELP HIM!!!!" I guess it's a sign of good filmmaking when a director can affect an audience .


When I was about 8, my parents let me go to movies all the time. Hell- it used to be 25 cents! Anyway, I saw some movies that in hindsite- maybe shouldn't have.

The original movie "The Other," has several scenes that still bug me to this day. One was where the kid sneaks up to his fathers casket and cuts off his ring finger and keeps it in a cigar box.
The other scene was where the new baby comes up missing. The later find the baby in a pickle barrel. Not that big of a deal these days, but I was only 8 and it creeped me out. Being a parent now, I'm overseeing what my kid watches.

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Not a film but last year on the t.v. show NCIS for those who don't watch it one of the main characters ( a woman ) in the season finally get's a bullet in the brain from a sniper.... just one of those hey everythings worked out, bad guy's plans all foiled and theyre all chatin it up about what their doing tommorow blah blah blah and than bammmmm.... head split's open...... I couldn't get the image out of my mind for week's I just kept talking about it at work....


What makes it worse is that she was hot....
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I also was moved by the new King Kong and it has stuck with me since December, but I've already embarrassed myself enough talking about that in another thread...

Movie that made an unshakeable negative impression, a la what John Hudson and others were discussing: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099763/).

For the imagery: Eraserhead, which is being discussed in another thread here. I don't have any idea what that movie was about, and remember very little about the "plot" (what there is of one), but the image of that "baby" in the bed...

ALso, in terms of emotional resonance: Monster's Ball (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285742/) as well as Lost in Translation (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335266/), which is getting slammed in another thread here...
 
Anyone who has read my posts here is going to think this is obvious, but The Devil's Rejects has stuck with me for a long time now. It is one of the few films I have seen that impressed me from a filmmaking point of view, but more than that the story captivated me. Even the grusome images haunt for a while afterwards and there is something to the story where you become so involved on so many levels that it is hard to shake this film for days afterwards.

I'm currently watching this film like once a week or something.

-Jeremy
 
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