Movies that "got" you?

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Goddamnpassword@reddit

For your sake OP do zero research about the author/director of this movie.

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bumblebeetown@reddit

Office space. “I did nothing. And it was everything I thought it could be.”

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Scrapla1@reddit

Many saw that too young to relate. Not anymore.

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Yep, at the time I thought the dude with the stapler was a weirdo. Now that I’m 40 something, burning the building down at the slightest provocation is extremely reasonable and he was right to do it. Justice for Milton!

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Scrapla1@reddit

gif

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gpo321@reddit

I have eight different bosses….

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MajorMiners469@reddit

Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays.

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drkidkill@reddit

Corporate accounts payable Nina speaking, just a moment...

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MajorMiners469@reddit

Aww man. Now I have to watch the movie or that's going to be ringing in my head all day.

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CrouchingDomo@reddit

Naw, man. Naw. I believe you’d get your ass kicked sayin something like that.

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6thBornSOB@reddit

YO, PETER!

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Logical-Error-7233@reddit

Always related to it strongly but I loved software dev and didn't connect with the ending when he takes a construction job. However lately I find myself really wanting out of tech and envious of people I see doing landscaping while I'm stuck inside. I'm sure the grass is not greener but I really agree that we weren't meant to sit in front of computers all day.

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superschaap81@reddit

I say this to my co-workers when they ask how a day off was. I usually tack 1 - 2 days onto a long weekend, stretching out my vacay days. I'll come back and honestly, this is what i do. NOTHING. I'll read or putter around the house, but for the most part. NO. PLANS. No having to make sure something is done, visit anyone or make chit-chat with people cause I'm home.

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fierypitt@reddit

Story of my life for 30 years now.

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Middleage_dad@reddit

It’s crazy how Office Space and Fight Club came out in 1999, and they both feel as relevant today. If not more so.

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Cutthechitchata-hole@reddit

These 2 plus ferris buellers day off have defined my life.

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SnapsMcgillicutty@reddit

Network from 1967 is even more relevant today than when released.

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Middleage_dad@reddit

I remember a friend raving about it in 2008 and I watched it and felt the same.

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MarvelousT@reddit

This movie and Fight Club taught me all the wrong lessons in college lol

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False_Influence_9090@reddit

I think this movie inspired me deep down to try and reach the point of being able to do nothing whenever I wanted. But now that I’ve been retired for a few years, it’s not everything I thought it would be

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Doctor_Mothman@reddit

Me too, but because of my pale skin and emotional nature I was teased incessantly by people calling me Powder throughout school the year it came out, so I have very mixed feelings about this movie. Kids suck.

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PeterPunksNip@reddit

Pump Up The Volume. Prompted me to NEVER become an old fart.

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Most_Present_6577@reddit

Wasn't that movie thinly veiled pro pdfile propaganda?

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FatherOfTwoGreatKids@reddit

No

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Most_Present_6577@reddit

The director has been convicted. You should watch it again. Its creepy af

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FatherOfTwoGreatKids@reddit

I didn’t say the director was innocent. What does the movie have to do with pro-pedo propaganda?

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Most_Present_6577@reddit

How old is the main character through the movie? Then, examine his relationship with other older males

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theluzah@reddit (OP)

I honestly can't say I took it that way at all, but I haven't rewatched it lately with adult eyes.

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Most_Present_6577@reddit

The director has been convicted of it. He used to be a child care worker before he was a director.

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theluzah@reddit (OP)

fucking gross

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Jerkrollatex@reddit

Clerk's.

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AugustiJade@reddit

The Journey of Natty Gann!

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ennuiismymiddlename@reddit

Never Cry Wolf. Such a beautiful and bittersweet movie.

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AugustiJade@reddit

I love that one! I had thought I was the only person to ever watch Never Cry Wolf. 😅

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MyVoiceIsElevating@reddit

Empire of the Sun.

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Frosty_Cloud_2888@reddit

I watched this movie way too young

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colly_mack@reddit

It was on TV all the time during the day when I was little

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ennuiismymiddlename@reddit

Yes! Brilliant movie.

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daggersrule@reddit

I just told my gf we need to watch this, as she hasn't seen it. Such a great film.

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gayjoystick@reddit

I cannot hear Suo Gân without shedding a tear to this day.

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MyVoiceIsElevating@reddit

The soundtrack is beautiful.

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mr_Papini@reddit

Harold and Maude

First saw it as a suicidally depressed 14yo. It didn't fix whatall was wrong but it gave me hope that I could somehow maybe find joy in this life, and eventually I did. My favorite song is still If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out

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cornedbeef101@reddit

I thought this was Death from Bill & Teds Bogus Journey, but I haven’t seen powder yet :/

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Fear_Punk_Planet@reddit

Came here thinking the same. Death! I loved William Sadler in that role. Dudes from my area of NY

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hbi2k@reddit

Only other role I've seen him in was Sloan from Star Trek DS9, but he killed it in that too.

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Unit_79@reddit

Have you seen Die Hard 2?

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hbi2k@reddit

Nope. Die Hard lives in the same space in my mind as something like Robocop, where people will tell me, "oh, you should watch the second one, it's pretty good," and I will ask, okay, but is it better than the first one? And then they will get all quiet and I will be like, cool, I'm just going to rewatch the first one again.

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just_some_guy2000@reddit

Comparing Die Hard 2 to RoboCop 2 is hateful to Die Hard. It's not as good, but it is pretty darn good for an action movie. I would call it better than Commando with Arnie. Die Hard 3 is every bit as good as the original though.

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6thBornSOB@reddit

“I would call it better than Commando with Arnie.”

I hope your children’s children are born with jock-itch on their foreheads for this affront to God you’ve typed here this day!!

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ImOnlyHereForTheCoC@reddit

Hey, don’t take this person’s bad opinion out on their kids!

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ImOnlyHereForTheCoC@reddit

Back when SpikeTV was a thing they ran an ad for a Robocop marathon that I’ll never forget:

ROBOCOP! The ultra-violent action classic!

ROBOCOP 2! Not as classic, but it IS pretty violent!

ROBOCOP 3! Not that violent, not at all a classic, but it does have robot ninjas!

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Unit_79@reddit

Okay, but William Sadler is in it so I was curious.

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BeefModeTaco@reddit

Die Hard 2, and the first time you see him he's doing nude Tai Chi... so kinda hard to miss.

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WodensEye@reddit

Shawshank redemption? Tales from the crypt: demon’s knight?

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hbi2k@reddit

Totally forgot about Shawshank. I'm sure there are at least a few others.

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Stormy261@reddit

You've probably seen him in a lot of parts and not realized it. One of my favorite roles because the movie is so campy was in Disturbing Behavior as the rat catcher.

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Arizonacolleen@reddit

Shawshank Redemption? He's great in that, too.

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hbi2k@reddit

Oh shit, you're right, I just now realized.

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Unit_79@reddit

Even when the material is weak, he’s awesome.

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ImOnlyHereForTheCoC@reddit

coughTRESPASScough

If there was an award for “most comically oversized dope syringe in cinema,” it’d be a top contender.

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MajorMiners469@reddit

DAMN RIGHT!!! *in his voice

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Consistent_Stick_463@reddit

They Melvined me!

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Illustrious-Lead-960@reddit

It’s not good.

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manism582@reddit

Honestly, for being portrayed by three different actors; Jeremy, Death, and Voldemort could have been played by the same actor.

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DerisiveGibe@reddit

As an edgy teen we used to call people "powder" as an insult if someone was pale.

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manism582@reddit

As a 43 year old, my wife still calls me that now! Though, to be fair, there are parts of me that make mayonnaise look Nubian by comparison.

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scrotanimus@reddit

“What’s a Nubian?”

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eggs_erroneous@reddit

"Shut the fuck up!"

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manism582@reddit

Settle down Brody…

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Head-Air9642@reddit

I got that reference

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Nomadzord@reddit

I would like to compare our pale skin. I have some areas so white that they almost look blue, if that makes any sense.

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theluzah@reddit (OP)

Kids used to make fun of my "blue" skin, especially if I got cold... my veins were just like roadmaps lol

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manism582@reddit

We are of similar pale. If I stand in remotely direct sunlight next to a slightly darker than medium colored surface, I cast a white shadow.

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theluzah@reddit (OP)

I live in Florida, it's a struggle lol

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manism582@reddit

Extra grande oof. I’m at least partially covered by living in the Midwest, there’s only about 3-4 months out of my year that rival that people-steamer you call a state, lol.

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too_old_to_be_clever@reddit

I challenge your pale to my pale.

I come in only two colors. Pale and sunburn

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

Red 5 standing by.

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PersianCatLover419@reddit

Hah we did that too.

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FoppyDidNothingWrong@reddit

I 'member.

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Cloud_Disconnected@reddit

Oh man. I don't want to be the one who ruins this movie for you, but once you know the history of the director, Victor Salva (who also wrote the film), it's difficult not to see it as a disgusting metaphor for his own life.

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PersianCatLover419@reddit

I never knew this. I had only ever watched one of his horror movies. I never saw powder.

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therealpopkiller@reddit

When I was in film school, one of our professors made us go see a movie in theaters every week (sidenote: an expensive assignment for college students) but one of those movies was Jeepers Creepers and I was so mad afterwards because I didn’t know about Victor Salva before and only learned about his pedophilia afterwards. Had I known, I would never have paid to see that movie

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BeefModeTaco@reddit

Yeah, this, of course it was many years later learning about all of that.

The deer hunting scene is still burned into my brain somewhere, though.

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theluzah@reddit (OP)

I'm used to being disillusioned with the people who gave me great things from the 80s and 90s by now, tho lol

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Cloud_Disconnected@reddit

Yeah, this is a little more than just the director being a bad guy. The character of Powder is a self-insert for the director. Salva obviously feels that people like him, child rapists, are just misunderstood outsiders who are unfairly shunned by society for no good reason. So it's not like other cases where the work is tainted just by association with the creator, the movie itself and its themes go straight to the heart of his crimes.

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theluzah@reddit (OP)

I mean, I can't even watch White Christmas anymore during the holidays either, what a fucking piece of shit. Salva should suffer for the rest of his days, fuck him. Now I'm so fucking upset that something which meant so much to me was directed by the fucking dickcheese in the devil's taint.

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HicJacetMelilla@reddit

Can you fill me in on White Christmas? What's the link here?

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theluzah@reddit (OP)

Sorry, just two different things where parts of my core memories were solid or ruined. I learned that Bing Crosby was an absolutely atrocious human frequently perpetuated violence on people around him. My family and I used to watch that movie almost as a religious annual event or something and once I found out what a horrible person Bing Crosby was, it just ruined everything that he ever did for me.

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HicJacetMelilla@reddit

Got it, yeah I was thinking this is what you meant! I agree, Bing Crosby is like wholesome Mr. Christmas in our culture but it was so disappointing to find out he was an angry alcoholic and not good to his first wife and kids.

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theluzah@reddit (OP)

Absolutely broke my heart for them because you know they probably had no recourse during that time.

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Cloud_Disconnected@reddit

I know, I'm sorry. I hate it too, because that stuff hadn't been publicized yet when the movie came out, and I think we all took it as a nice story with a good moral lesson about how we treat people who are different. I took Powder to be a metaphor for a gay teen or maybe as someone who had AIDs. Hey, there's still Edward Scissorhands.

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theluzah@reddit (OP)

Yeah, there is that. For some reason, that movie didn't affect me as much (except Depp was super hot). Wow, my heart is heavy for those poor kids. I had no idea Wtf. Thank you for letting me know.

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CorkFado@reddit

This. Salva is an incredibly bad person. How he keeps managing to make and release films is beyond me.

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LilMushboom@reddit

I always thought Powder was a just a bad mostly-repeat of Edward Scissorhands anyway

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theluzah@reddit (OP)

welp... fuck.

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PersianCatLover419@reddit

Watership down,our impact on the environment and with animals that live in it.

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Intelligent_Pass2540@reddit

I had the biggest crush on Powder. As a 7th grade goth kid it was my jam. However learning that the writer was a pedophile who was allowed to continue to abuse people really killed the nostalgia for me.

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kennyofthegulch@reddit

Writer-Director. Dude was on-set creeping on the boys in the locker room.

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theluzah@reddit (OP)

Yeah just now learned about that. Fuck.

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Intelligent_Pass2540@reddit

While I'm no stranger to disappointment its always so gross to learn creative men were allowed to abuse people for so long. Neil Gaiman broke my heart. Always disliked Amanda Palmer and should have known better but the Gaiman stuff recently was so awful to learn about.

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muddydachshund@reddit

I homeschool, and before all the Gaiman stuff came out I bought a literature curriculum that used lots of his books. Couldn't even finish it I was so grossed out and disappointed. He has some delightful kid-friendly novels but the ick factor ramped up to 11. 🤢

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Intelligent_Pass2540@reddit

Yes..I'm a psychologist and used to use both his work and JK Rowling as metaphors with clients because the material was so rich for healing. Now it just makes me sick to think about.

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kennyofthegulch@reddit

It's a shame Powder is actually about director Victor Salva's delusions of persecution stemming from his pedophilia.

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Classic_Barnacle_844@reddit

The director Victor Salva is and was a convicted child molester. This was one of the first things I ever boycotted.

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BxSpatan@reddit

The Bucket List, it got me bro it got me.

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Ok-Potato-4774@reddit

For me, Martin Scorcese's "Hugo". It wasn't a box office hit but I got the Blu-ray and watched it over and over. I loved Hugo's search for a purpose on his life, and showing George Melies that his life has purpose, too, even though it seemed like people had forgotten his movies decades after he made them.

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jtmann05@reddit

For me, it was Up in the Air. I was about 5 years into my career where I was traveling every week. George Clooney’s character resonated with me. Never really in one place long enough to make meaningful relationships, lots of loneliness, chasing status, frequent traveler miles/points, it was actually my life.

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GISReaper@reddit

Falling Down with Michael Douglas. Rewatching as an adult seems so relevant now.

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_deep_thot42@reddit

My old workplace had an animation for a mental health course we all had to take and this was one of the characters. I still wonder how many people noticed (as it wasn’t mentioned, making it even funnier someone got it approved)

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Jonestown_Juice@reddit

Yikes.

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Risikio@reddit

Especially that part at the end of the movie where a cop has to confront a completely deranged man who has gone on a violent rampage when the only moment of clarity from him in the entire movie is "I'm the bad guy?"

But we cheered the spree killer on the entire time.

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FoppyDidNothingWrong@reddit

I was not ready for this movie whrn it came out

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theluzah@reddit (OP)

OMG YES!!!! Officer... ess

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fromthedarqwaves@reddit

Powder and Dark City. HS was a weird time.

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timbrejo@reddit

I legit thought this was Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey and was about to say, "You already posted it!"

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High_Speed_Chase@reddit

Tyler Durden gets me.

Do you know what a duvet is?

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lilacsmakemesneeze@reddit

Powder for me too. The deer scene. 😳😫

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OntologicalParadox@reddit

I don’t remember Billy Corgan in a movie

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col_akir_nakesh@reddit

Not to be confused with Susan Powter.

Stop the insanity!

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cottoncandymandy@reddit

The waitress.

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kennyisntfunny@reddit

The Iron Claw mostly just an emotional journey but it’s the first time I felt seen completely with the “I used to be a brother” scene and breakdown. Midsommar also had good punch for this specific emotion, but I felt way more seen by that movie due to my fear of Swedish people

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Sheshnation@reddit

"Rudy, Rudy, Rudy, Rudy...

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User152552@reddit

Clifford

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dubl1nThunder@reddit

stand by me

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nomad1128@reddit

Past Lives; you move, you change, and you long for the life that could had been, missing that version of yourself as well as the relationships that person had

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R0botDreamz@reddit

Lucas (1986). First off, I know of the horrible things related to this movie. Fuck Charlie Sheen.

I first saw this like how many of us watched movies before streaming services - I was channel surfing and came across it on a lazy Saturday afternoon. I saw it right before I started high school and coming off a devastating 8th grade heartbreak. It really put things into perspective and made me understand some hard truths about love and relationships.

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TheMancYeti@reddit

Hackers. Was the perfect age and demographic for that film. Remember walking out feeling like an absolute teenage badass.

And to a lesser extent, The Worlds End. Turns out I was a bit like Gary King and had to get my life sorted out.

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18randomcharacters@reddit

Powder resonated with me too. But I was also just a super awkward kid at the time. I worry if I ever watched it again it would make me cringe.

Now it’s things like interstellar and arrival. Parent stuff.

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purplepickles82@reddit

what's eating gilbert grape

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YorkiesandSneakers@reddit

Is this Powder? That’s about as close as I ever got to walking out of a theater before the movie ended.

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theluzah@reddit (OP)

It is Powder yeah lol

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Intelligent_Pass2540@reddit

The Secret Garden 1993 version.

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theluzah@reddit (OP)

Oooooooh that was GREAT!

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uncle_monty@reddit

Once Were Warriors

I actually think it was a big reason I changed course as a late teenager. I was pretty angry at the world at that time, and not always dealing with the anger in the best way. I didn't want to go down the road of being and angry man constantly self-sabotaging and taking it out on my loved ones.

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theluzah@reddit (OP)

Oh that's an awesome movie and I'm glad it helped you. This is an awesome story, congratulations getting your feet back under you.

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Dimplefrom-YA@reddit

oh that’s voldemort’s younger and more handsome brother—powder. he was a magical wizard too.

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theluzah@reddit (OP)

Now I can't unsee it lol

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ThepalehorseRiderr@reddit

I loved this movie. Powders real name is Jeremiah Reed from Indiana. I used to know a Jeremiah Reed from Indiana.

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theluzah@reddit (OP)

Was he pale? :)

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ThepalehorseRiderr@reddit

No. And not terribly bright either. I think he was headed in the opposite evolutionary direction.

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KayBeeToys@reddit

Terminator 2. I grew up with a single mom and we had a hard time of it, so I bonded with Sarah Connor.

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5uck3rpunch@reddit

"Meet The Parents" - most of my life I try to do the right thing & everything just comes out wrong & I'm the bad guy.

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Holmes221bBSt@reddit

I loved this movie & although I didn’t have incredible abilities, I felt just as outcasted. Plus, I was the palest person in my school

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theluzah@reddit (OP)

TWINSIES :) I'm glad you're here, special abilities or not.

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Holmes221bBSt@reddit

Ngl, it’d be pretty badass if a just converted to pure energy though 🤷🏻‍♀️

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theluzah@reddit (OP)

You have your own amazing energy and I did too, no one cared to see it but that wasn't on us. Okay so if we whoosh up as energy after all, eventually, we gotta meet up in the stratosphere and hang lol

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