I fell in love with film at age 14 (I'm 22 now) and instantly watched down all the imdb 250, one by one, each day. I was also in a film studies class at this time. Between the ages of 14 and 18 I probably watched most Classic Horror, Film Noir, Pixar, Studio Ghibli, Tarantino, Nolan, Chaplin, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Spielberg, Darabont, Fincher and Scorsese. I was also watching Breaking Bad at this time and it blew my mind in a way no show has even come close since. An amazing experience, it was.
But there's one problem, in another sense I feel it also ruined movies for me. Because ever since this "movie honeymoon" or "Renaissance" I had with film, nothing else has really been able to compare and I don't enjoy movies nearly as much anymore. I've watched hundreds of films since, from different genres and periods. And there were some gems. But If I'm honest with myself, nothing I watch today can compare to those golden years. I literally watched the best cinema in history in the span of a few years so now my entire framing is skewed. What should I do about this? Because I've tried quite a bit of foriegn cinema and indie films, and some are good, but my experiences with them just don't compare to my "golden years" of discovery...I want to feel those emotions again.
Submitted February 10, 2019 at 09:21AM by Inovox http://bit.ly/2SAu8FF
