The Mistake That Made Me Love Films

[@Scallycowell]

5:21 I cannot say how refreshing it is to hear someone say this. Movies aren't about shoving popcorn in your face for two hours, they're more than that. They're a connection between artist and audience. As always, love your channel and can't wait for more!

[@notproductiveproductions3504]

When the title said "mistake" I thought it was an on screen mistake at first.

[@jessebear4740]

We all did. We all did...

[@bonjovi7399]

We did........we all did.

[@graham1034]

I thought it was going to be the storm trooper head bump in A New Hope.

[@Pinak1264]

I did so too!

[@CJFourakiProductions]

I've always loved movies. My dad was the opposite of my mum and tried to show me as much as possible for my age. So I grew up with Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Jaws, Planet of the Apes, LotR, King Kong, Frankenstein, Jackie Chan films, etc. But the moment it all clicked for me was when my dad sat me down at age 7, and put on the Good the Bad and the Ugly. I'd never seen something so long and epic before, on such a scale with such different characters from what I was used to. Nobody was really a good person in the film, all having qualities of greed and violence, and that really struck a chord with me for some reason. From start to finish, I was completely captivated and knew I wanted to do something like that. So my writing and drawings improved, and I got in trouble for it at school because they were so vivid and out of my age-range. It's also the reason I have such a soft spot for pretty much every western film, because the Good the Bad and the Ugly was the movie that surged my creativity forward. Also, a lot of our "cinema screenings" for a while was just my dad and I sitting really close to the Plasma TV with all windows boarded and blinds closed to simulate the cinema. Good times.

[@Aladelicous]

I wonder if anyone else feels overwhelmed sometimes with the amount of options available nowadays. Especially with TV shows rising in quality, how many episodes do I get into before I decide if it's worth my time or time to move onto the next on the list. Anyway, pretty great vid.

[@zachariasnoack4894]

Aladelicous Luckily there are people like Rossatron, who guide us through and give advice to the many options we have today.

[@Rossatron]

Jokes on you, I just have shares in all these films

[@DevilsAdvocateofnazareth]

4 episodes is my limit for 'maybe it gets better later'

[@jon-vegard8386]

I know I feel that way sometimes. I own so many movies, and many of them are not opened, because when I sit down to choose a film to watch, I sit there for like 30 minutes trying to decide, and then I end up watching nothing... :(

[@graham1034]

I watched a season and a half of The Wire and just couldn't take any more. Now, unless something is highly recommended, I usually give a show 3-4 episodes max.

[@TheExaminedLifeofGaming]

I'm the same age as you and I had a very similar experience, but with video games instead of film. I wasn't allowed to play video games as a young kid, but one day after school I went to a friend's house and got to play Goldeneye on the N64. I got massacred, and the blood running down the screen was kind of shocking. But that also got me so interested in video games that I somehow badgered my parents into letting me buy video games. And the rest is history. I also remember stealthily watching Starship Troopers through my Grandpa's office door. Now it's one of my favorite films.

[@Rossatron]

Love Starship Troopers! I had similar experiences with games for sure, though I was a PS1 kid not 64. Ended up working in videogames on some big titles for a while, and I'd say it started with Resident Evil for me.

[@bergonath8851]

That's one cool dad you got there.

[@flcon16]

I remember seeing Apollo 13, Deep Impact, and Air Force One in the theaters with my dad. I remember Tomorrow Never Dies with my brother, and Pokemon with my best friend... I remember The Wizard of Oz on Tv with my mom. And staying up too late during the summer to watch T2, or Robocop on my blanket in the middle of the livingroom floor. I worked as a projectionist for years. While training, I caused a terrible brain wrap on Spiderman 2. And I remember watching Garden State on my first night finally running the booth on my own. I remember searching for the credits on The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift as the first film print I ever built on my own.... still I did not live film... even if I loved it. I went home over breaks from college to run the booth. I got 5 new Netflix DVDs a week... old stuff, foreign stuff, artsy stuff.. OldBoy, Dr Strangelove, Amile, Pan's Labyrinth, Pulp Fiction... whatever. And I went to the theater weekly, even if alone, to engross myself in film. 500 Days of Summer and Gone Baby Gone particularly blew me away. Still it was just a hobby. The movies that made me live it were Primer and Safety Not Guaranteed. These were the movies that, while watching them, made my heart ache... Not necessarily because of how good they were, or how emotionally affecting the were... but because these were the movies that I wish I had made. They had my voice. They spoke to my ethics, and from my heart. They hoisted ideals that I hold dear, they tear open faults I can't hide, and narrate with a voice that I always hear, but is so hard to repeat. They spoke with a creative voice that I felt must have been stolen from me... and in that I realized my own creative voice. I've always had a creative voice, as a visual artist and designer... but these made me realize that it could be applied to films. I could make a film.

[@foxfit4904]

My mom took me to see Terminator 2 when I was 9. That was the moment I knew film would always be one of my favorite art forms. My mom rocked.

[@alejandromolinac]

My mom took me to see T2 at the cinema! I was 11.... I thought it was the coolest thing ever, with the swearing and the violence... She never really cared what movies I watched...

[@rodster6campingprepper]

Thanks to toy companies cashing in on R rated movies in the 90s I was able to con my parents into letting me see Robocop, Aliens, Predator and Terminator as they all had toy lines based on them, so must be for kids right?

[@alejandromolinac]

rodster6 Oh I was a fanatic for the Kenner Aliens line… I played the crap out of those toys… Too bad because of tablets and phones, kids don't seem to get these cool toy lines...

[@foxfit4904]

The Alien toys were so rad. I had the Drop Ship and everything.

[@alejandromolinac]

cody fox Me too! Loved that the ship had a "cage" I would combine my Alien toys with the Jurassic Park toys and have creature carnage… I also liked the human characters. They had pretty cool weapons

[@FilmFightFanatic]

I guess I can somewhat relate to this but my parents didn't seem to care about preventing me from watching anything overly violent or sexual. (despite them complaining about some things being too violent or sexual....ironically) I was 5 years old when me and my parents were watching Starship Troopers on TV lol (it was 1999). I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Later starting around age 10 whenever my dad would get DVDs from the library, whichever movies I enjoyed (usually mainstream action films) I would try to watch every single special feature of just out of curiosity. I actually did learn quite a bit. Not that I remembered every detail or paid attention the entire time but I was sort of a completionist when it came to watching those DVDs...

[@Rossatron]

Yeah I think my slightly more protected childhood is in the minority compared to most. I didn't want this to be about how universal my experience was, but instead that so many people have these old memories of watching a certain film or show at a young age or indeed any age that were somehow impactful.

[@FilmFightFanatic]

It does seem rare for people to have their movie viewing experience that censored as a child haha I just had a lot of friends always talking about whatever horror movies they had seen (which seemed common for most kids) I can't remember any particular movie that left a huge impression on me though. There have been many. I would have to list one per genre. But I still haven't seen Birds or much of Hitchcock's movies (or Hitchcock Presents)....

[@FilmFightFanatic]

I saw one episode of Hitchcock Presents some time ago. I would say the horror/suspense was still pretty effective.

[@ClarenceDass]

For about 4 years because of "family reasons" i stayed with my grand dad, and he would take me to the video store every day after school to pick a movie and every night I'd get either some action flick or a horror movie. It was crazy because he'd let mw watch everything, but he fast-forward all the sex. BUT the blood and gore was fine with him lol. We didn't have Television here in Fiji at the time (late 80s), but we had great cinemas and VHS stores. I have so many great memories of me picking films baed on their VHS covers, and I'd show them to my grandfather and he'd be like "o that looks gruesome... so we get it?" And because we watched a movie every night, he and I went through pretty much every classic 80s film. Even some earlier ones. My Grandpa passed away 2 years ago, but whenever I fire up an 80s horror or action flick, it remind me of him.

[@lukebaxter3252]

For me my first full on horror film was Ridley Scott's horror classic, Alien. I watched it when I was 12 or 13 and it changed me hugely.

[@larryjlangan]

I feel kind've territorial around how movies have changed and I have memories similar to yours with night of the living dead. But your final point is so true. The filmmakers of tomorrow will have different experiences and make films inspired off of those, it's a torch passed on. Your video strikes a good balance between being nostalgic and hopeful.

[@Rossatron]

So it's better than Stranger Things? Thanks for watching, glad people are getting what I was going for.

[@hatobluewolf]

The Evil Dead was my first horror movie as a child of four... So yup no sleep for me, also doesn't helped I lived in the country.

[@alexanderchippel]

HatoBlueWolf Evil dead? Isn't that a comedy?

[@hatobluewolf]

Alexander Chippel Yeah it is now a days, back in first film during the 80s It was kind of a horror drama thing that sorta took its self seriously. Good film though...

[@alexanderchippel]

***** If I remember, Evil dead two was a horror comedy by genre.

[@TheRealSkycraft28]

Your dad sounds like a really stand up and cool guy

[@Rossatron]

He is! Apart from all the murders, he's quality.

[@roachmasta189]

I absolutely love this video

[@Rossatron]

I'm indifferent, on the one hand it makes good points, but the kid in it is ugly

[@RogueDragon05]

Your the worst critic of that kid Rossatron

[@KnjazNazrath]

This is why I tend to show my other half films within and without her comfort zone, and allow her recommendations to filter into my viewing as well. She loved Donnie Darko as much as we all do, and I found such gems as "Everything is Illuminated" through her getting slightly slavophilic after our trip to Chornobyl. Being open to the ideas behind a film can even allow one to see past the faults of a film and enjoy it for what it could have been, which is why I always hoped "Ink" could've had a better budget so it might've turned out to be the next "City of Lost Children". Oh, and as a side note, if your other half has the stamina to sit through a Tarkovsky film and then recommends you Bergman afterwards....that one might be a keeper.

[@jerryhensley6255]

it's amazing that your dad would tell you the stories with the special effects or the sounds. And then you talked about Night of the Living Dead my first horror movie experience was Night of the Living Dead and I remember my sister older sister came in and started telling me how I seen this crazy movie and she was tell me how they're coming for you Barbara and that she would just tell me the story like you said your dad was telling you and then I finally seen it one day she's done that a few times with movies like Silver Bullet and a whole lot of others just amazing

[@rodster6campingprepper]

Was this around 99/2000? I think this was the same time I first saw Night of the Living Dead too. I was out at a party and asked my dad to record Invasion of the Body Snatchers for me as I'd never seen it. He did so but then left the tape recording and caught NOTLD too which I actually had little interest in. I watched Invasion but at the time wasn't too impressed. With nothing else to do and nursing a Sunday hangover I continued to watch NOTLD and fell in love with it.

[@Rossatron]

I think it was earlier than that, but wouldn't surprise me if the same thing happened multiple times

[@jplopp7388]

I remember my mom taking me to "Silence of the Lambs" when I was 9. She had no clue what it was at the time. It was great.

[@danzigmcnaniel5226]

The Allegheny cemetery that the beginning of night of the living dead was filmed in is right down the street from where I live. I love your videos, man.

[@PauLtus_B]

I remember about four years ago, I saw a movie which had me crying for the first time in well over a decade I think. I mostly just felt miserable but it got me exited to know that I could still be affected that much by a movie at the age of 20.

[@MaisterRaebbit]

There are a lot of essays about movies on youtube, but i really like the way of your deliverance of emotions about them! keep it up! Gonna binge watch your whole channel now. Well, there goes my weekend.

[@ThroughtheLensProductions]

As a filmmaker, I find this video both inspirational and reinvigorating. Brining up Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Night of the Living Dead gave me the, "A-ha," moment for a horror movie I wanted to do about today's world. Thank you for that. Keep up the amazing work!

[@TheBattlefieldPro97]

I completely understand this, remembering how I felt when I watch War Of The Worlds & Cloverfield in theaters, those were some first films I watched in theaters and I can clearly remember how tense and literally gripping my seat for the entire duration of these films. It's people like JJ Abrams & Ridley Scott that make films so damn enjoyable

[@GeneralTantzu]

John Carpenters The Thing was my Night of The Living Dead, that film left such a impact on me with months of nightmares to boot! Definably something little kid shouldn't have watched.

[@GraphicVandalism731]

Another really beautiful video man. I am so happy I found your channel. I can say my love for films, and the kinds of movies I like all evolved much like yours. I really like the way you laid out this very awesome this very great video essay

[@georgebeech-bank]

The similar thing happened to me, I stayed up late to watch Invasion of the Body Snatchers & Night of the Living Dead with my grandfather. I was 8 at the time, and this made me want to be a filmmaker. Great video man, keep it up.

[@Jeremyjugs2400]

Amazing video, accurately describes the "eureka" moment that I feel a lot of us have experienced

[@larryjlangan]

Can you remember your eureka moment?

[@Jeremyjugs2400]

Larry Langan yea, after I saw rise of the planet of the apes, I honestly thought that what happened in the movie could happen in real life (11 at the time), but after talking about it with my dad, he told me that someone had written that story and that it wasn't the truth. So then I wanted to find out who wrote it and what about the story made me believe it. Also it took me awhile to figure out that there weren't real apes in the film, and once I did I was obsessed with finding out how they made them seem so real and lifelike. So I guess that'd be mine

[@scrabdusanproductions2104]

I had a similar experience. My dad like yours sheltered me to a certain extent so to learn about films, I resorted to video essays. One commonly explored topic in these videos was a film by a director named Edgar Wright. That film was Scott Pilgrim vs the world. It sounded right up my alley, but my dad wouldn't let me see it. Then one week he was gone on a business trip, so I watched Scott Pilgrim without my dad's permission. I hated lying to him, but the results were stellar. I loved it. It was wacky sci fi fantasy, that was totally kick ass (another movie i love) but also had meaning and subtext. I realized that these films could be both over the top and meaningful without being an MCU movie(which are movies I love, but yea).

[@originalhgc]

Great story. I have the clearest memory of seeing Night of the Living Dead for the first time. I was 12 years old, late December 1975, and we were visiting my grandparents in Miami Beach. The local hangout for little kids was the Americana Hotel, just up Collins Avenue, because it had a pinball arcade and lots of places for kids to run around. And that was the year of MiamiCon, a giant (to my young eyes) comic book convention, and Star Trek fest. They also had a program of movies being shown in lots of conference rooms around the hotel, including NOTLD. I snuck in with 2 other friends. We were blown away. Never seen people being eaten alive before. But the best part was that there was no explanation, no reason to it. Dead people were killing the living, and that was it. No mercy. No respite. We had the same information as the characters in the movie, and were gripped with the same dread (or a facsimile of it). This is a type of narrative that was totally new to me, and it's a great way to tell a story.

[@bryanbehan7464]

Beautiful display of nostalgia. Great video!

[@stevenirizarry1304]

night of the living dead was amazing

[@tomhoneycutt5253]

I can't help but be transported back to when I was 8 years old and wanted to make movies. I can't pinpoint one film that did that for me (although Star Wars was a huge influence, my obsession with that franchise wouldn't crystalize until a couple of years later). What you say about the availability of movies is certainly evident in how tentpole movies are marketed, and the fact that a lot of movies that deserve the big-screen treatment wind up going direct to Netflix, because the audience just isn't there in the cinema. But that doesn't mean that movies, and especially TV shows, aren't picking up the slack and making real impressions on people.

[@TheKrensada]

I watched Alien when I was 5 years old. scared there was a face hugger under my bed for years

[@alejandromolinac]

Really? It bored me to tears... I guess cause I had watched Aliens first... Now as an adult... I like them both.

[@TheKrensada]

This is why you don't watch movies out of order. Also, were you 5 when you saw Aliens?

[@alejandromolinac]

TheKrensada More like 10.... Remember this was back in the late 80's. So I would watch what was on TV... And Aliens played a lot... So one day Alien played... And put me to sleep... It's a flick that's more geared towards older teens or real film aficionado.... And my parents didn't really cared what I watched on TV

[@areitu]

TheKrensada I watched terminator 2 when I was around the same age, and was convinced we'd all die in a nuclear holocaust in 1996

[@RogueDragon05]

I've never been "scared" of a R rated movie... but when I was a kid I could'nt sleep many a night for years because of Garfields Halloween (yes Garfield the cat) special and a kids story show of How the Rhino got his skin and The Camel got his Hump, read by Jack Nichcolson.... don't ask me why chest bursting aliens and serial killers with blood dripping machettes don't bother me.

[@peterbrown3608]

I would say my love of Sci/Fi in particular stemmed from my very earliest memories, I remember a very early version of Jules Verne's Mysterious Island, and several Dr Who movies, before he was a time lord, but simply a grandfather (played by Peter Cushing) who goes on a journey with his nieces, and a stow away policeman played by Bernard Cribbins. In both Who films the Daleks were the villain. But then I grew up in the 70's watching the entire Planet of The Apes series at the drive-in, watching The Poseidon Adventure, and Earthquake (with Sensurround) at the cinema. The one and only film that ever gave me nightmares was JAWS, I was 12 when my parents took my brothers and I to see that one.

[@hugh-johnfleming289]

In 'Rosemary's Baby' there is a moment where Ruth Gordon's character answers the phone in a shot down a short hall. She moves camera right to left through the doorway, it's all we see, and we hear her speaking off camera. All the people in the theater craned their necks to look around the corner. At that moment, I have no idea how old I was, I got it and I giggled. My Dad thought it was funny too. I was hooked.

[@freddoproductions]

Really entertaining video - great story. It's a real shame I can't remember two of the three first 'mature' films I saw when I was young. They were all ones I saw late at night in a hotel somewhere, as that was the only chance I really got of watching more mature films. One was Joe Dante's Gremlins, another was some cheap slasher, I remember it involved a man with a pumpkin head running around with a chainsaw killing people. The third seemed to be a big budget action movie, and I remember one particular scene, when a group of marines in blue uniform are ambushed by mercenaries on a bridge above the river the marines are in. It was such a shocking twist to me at the time, as it seemed most of the main cast died, and only about three were left in the end - climaxing in some desert town in the middle east. I've tried finding the two unknown title's but I haven't been successful, and although they may not be very good, I'd still like to find and rewatch them, as they were so impactful on me upon my time of watching, and must have been the things that really got me into film, as well as The Golden Compass which was one I saw in the cinema with my dad twice. If anyone knows what those films might be, or any films similar to what I have described, it would be great if you could tell me the possible titles - i'll know if it's the one once i've watched it. Thanks.

[@maxd.9311]

I think I had a similar experience when I was pretty young watching Kill Bill for the first time, late at night when I should've been asleep. it had this air of "Man, I should NOT be watching this," that made it seem so mystical and adventurous.

[@glenncanning8189]

This is the same film that made me love cinema. My father actually rented it to watch with my sister and I- at the tender age of 8 years old. Most people would call that horrible parenting, and it did indeed scare me for years after, but I’ve always been hugely thankful to my father for doing that to me, as Night of the Living Dead made me into a lifelong cinema lover.

[@amfinc2]

I have a secret crush on the 1990 color remake of Night of The Living Dead. Don't tell Romero... or Fulci for that matter...

[@Rossatron]

You mean the Savini directed one? I don't think Romero is against it, since his old effects guy was behind it

[@amfinc2]

Rossatron that's right!

[@stevenirizarry1304]

I remember night of the living dead vividly...I was flipping stars and I saw the title. I had seen zombie movies before but the black and white is what got me in. this film was terrifying, other zombie films were fun and sometimes sad but this movie was something else...it was depressingly scary, existential horror about death was on my mind for months

[@michaelmcdowell7096]

Reminds me of when I saw my brother play resident evil 2, looked up at the ceiling for the licker for weeks

[@scottewing2031]

Best youtube video I've seen all year. Nice work.

[@RomeoAlphaDelta]

KZbin has a lot to offer, but if only everything else on it had this type of quality writing, presentation, and thought...

[@eeyuup]

Now I feel it's very hard for me to truly enjoy films when all I see are constant franchise cash cows, and I know there are great films out there still every year, but it just gtes me down seeing what I feel is the state of cinema nowadays. Thanks for making this video, thanks for reminding me what was that truy led to me loving cinema as a beautiful art form. I remember, I was a young kid and the local TV station was going to have a sci-fi marathon from afternoon till late at night. It was a friday, so I pestered my parents to let me stay up and watch TV until late, and it was then that I realized how amazing films are. First it was the Twilight Zone and man the imagination, the creativity and stories poured in that show stayed with me forever. Then it was Star Wars episode 4, adventure, excitement, a quest to save a princess, an evil empire and a mysterious magic man with secret knowledge. It had everything a kid like me could want. The last one was late at night, nearly midnight, I think, it was Enemy Mine, a huge contrast from Star Wars that is really hard to describe. Thanks, man, for bringing back some good memories.

[@dragonskunkstudio7582]

Me as a kid was like a dog seeing a squirrel on TV the dog is not aware of cameras, of the how of it, just that what I was seeing was amazing.

[@BestBackingTracks]

Mate, that was a great story! Keep up the good work.

[@6661313]

lol i remember picking up return of the living dead 3 just because the chick on the box was hot

[@KamikazeChinaman]

Heh, my parents were nice enough to let me watch The Omen when I was a kid; I was enthralled. By the way, Star Wars was the same for me. Always a part of my life, very recognizable even though I didn't remember most of it. In my adolescence is that I watched the films accordingly and truly appreciated them.

[@TOOFUTURETV]

Amazing video, took me back to my accidental VHS exportations. ;)

[@animaldays2]

My dad would do the same thing! Sometimes he’d even tell the story ripped from context and totally mystify the film.

[@RhysClark97]

i saw predator when i was 6, loved it, i was hooked on film after then, the thing was my parents didn't treat me like an idiot, they simply explained to me what films where and how it wasnt real, wish more parents did that because its a real shame people missing out on good films half their life just because of a dumb age rating

[@samuelsmith1132]

the film that made me love film was One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest. I always used to bug my dad, digging in his massive chest of dvds aged about 10. "can I watch this yet, dad?" I asked, showing his anything with that 18 certificate you mentioned. Boogie Nights? no! The Exorcist? no! Pulp Fiction? no! 😂 but OFOTCN? "you can if you want sam, but you might find it a bit boring until you're older". I was blown away. thats my story, not anywhere near as interesting as yours, but I remember that day as if it were yesterday. great video though I must add

[@raymondleggs5508]

For some reason I'm obsessed with films that went wrong

[@hayk3000]

What a great video! It made me remember my childhood watching Silver Surfer (I really don't know the actual name, I prefer to not know anything about it heh) and think how a cartoon can make me think this much

[@xkumanekox]

The first NOTLD movie I saw as a kid was the 90s remake, with my younger brother. I swear that movie fucked me up as a kid (not sure about my brother), and I was glad my parents came home that night!

[@hugh-johnfleming289]

Understanding the process is sometimes a bad thing. I never wanted to be a film maker. My Brother is and somewhat successful. I have made a few "films." It was for fun. I have one more I want to do. When you grow up in it, behind the curtain, and the magic is known sometimes it is a labor to keep the wonder. But people keep making extraordinary cinema, thank God.

[@bencousins9369]

Dark Forces was a great star wars game and a decent FPS

[@busywl69]

we live in spoiled times now. so much great content!

[@rolando-hernando]

For me, the film that made me fall in love with cinema was The Shining

[@zenxmizuki]

as a kid I always sneak around at night to watch tales from the crypt or twilight zone (the latter i did not understood for the most part) Nevertheless, they helped me widen what childish creativity I had. the only film I deemed too much for me was cannibal holocaust which I watched around 10. as a result I was traumatized for almost 10 months and until now the very mention of that film brings back memories like vietnam war flashbacks. so yeah, it was fun and traumatic at the same time

[@FrancisXLord]

I was 7 and went to the cinema for the first time. The curtains opened, a star-filled sky drifted across the screen as the camera descended on a forest. We cut inside the forest to a clearing where, bathed in a magical misty light, a spaceship sat. That was it, that was the moment that changed me forever.

[@genesisbustamante-durian]

so what was you mistake again?

[@TwoWrights]

YES!!!!! You get it man. I love that you get it. Movies are more than what most people give them credit for. Please keep spreading the gospel of the feelings and lessons that movies, and only movies, can give us. I'm trying to do the same thing with my videos too. I'm only starting out, but I'm already getting a fair few subs. There are people out there who need to realize what they're missing out on with movies. Rest assured, you're not alone with seeing the deeper emotions in storytelling. There's dozens of us. DOZENS!! Keep up the great work dude. Really. Don't give up. p.s. I'm u/latenightnerd I talked you up on r/movies in a list of excellent video essayists a few months ago. You are one of the channels that inspired me to start making video essays too. So, thank you. And check out my last couple of videos, if you like. See what you're inspiring. Lol.

[@Rossatron]

Will do pal, thanks for the kind words.

[@stuartotaku]

thank you

[@darknessviking]

well instead of hearing the rest of the story after zombie movie,i would like to hear your sisters memories after watching that movie .. if you couldnt sleep,well one could only imagine the horror she must have endured

[@ZiKoN22]

Do you ever watch Asian films that aren't strictly action/kung-fu movies? you should watch A Hard Day (2014). A south korean made action thriller movie. the plot is a detective's mother just died and he is travelling to and from work and the funeral home and he performs a hit and run except someone claims to have seen him to the deed and blackmails him. what an awesome plot don't you think?! honestly, out of everything that I saw in 2016 (besides Rogue One), A Hard Day was so good and a breath of fresh air from Hollywood. please check it out and watch it, you won't be disappointed. you should also watch Memories of Murder, possibly the most famous South Korean film.

[@spinakker14]

I really liked your personal story and your take on films in general (yeah, I also feel sometimes that film lost its magic when we can just pop in a movie on netflix, our download it on our phones and watch it whenever we are bored). But are you really only 26? I thought by your voice and your knowledge that you must be in your late 30s

[@Rossatron]

Thanks, and yep, though I'm 27 now.

[@spinakker14]

Rossatron yeah, I guessed you're older now :). But still, you're voice and your knowledge is deceiving (in a good way) ;)

[@AngusStewart01]

For me my version modern day version of this is the spidey films if it weren't for my parents introducing me to films I wouldn't review superhero films or invest in KZbin so I have similar experience

[@graham1034]

The worst is introducing someone to Star Wars and having them not like it. This actually happened to me. I'm still friends with them, but it's been difficult.

[@ndragonzgaming1]

can you do a retrospective on Gojira?

[@drakie7944]

Good video. I grew up being able to watch and was indeed encouraged to watch all the video nasties as the called them and all the supposed nonsense that came out of Asia back in the 80s and 90s. I was exposed to so many good and diverse films. Netflix and so on has taken something away from the experience sadly. Nonetheless I still collect films but find I am rarely surprised by anything modern.

[@thewhitewolf58]

2:57 wait was the American rating system in numbers at a point since today they would be rated r

[@jbird_inc]

No it’s the British ratings. R in British ratings is usually either 15 or 18

[@arturogrijalva5204]

WFT!?!? Rossatron is my age!!

[@Rossatron]

*high five*

[@arturogrijalva5204]

Rossatron It's so weird that we had childhoods that where do different. I didn't even knew what StarWars was untill episode one. back then we had no internet, the culture wasn't so homologue, but still...

[@loynjuryllgulpany4778]

Is that Singin' In The Rain from 7:15?

[@geraldmerkowitz4360]

I don't remember the first time I watched star wars either. Same for LOTR, or my first horror movie. The first true cinematic experience that stayed with me forever was Children of Men, and I was already 15. My love of movies came pretty lately compared to you...

[@reasonablyskeptical]

i think my first adult film as a child was "alien" and i remember aliens vividly because my babysitter locked me in the basement and turned the lights off while i was watching aliens, and i had horrific nightmares from the scene when the person's eyes open and the marines claimed they'd save her or him idk, and all he or she said was "kill me" perfect

[@fredbaumann4472]

Brilliant! Thank you!

[@jpofgwynedd3878]

Well done, young man...

[@AngusStewart01]

My first rated r movie was American pie

[@Chaogardenx]

Beautiful video

[@spittlefish5208]

The way that guy holds the gun at 06:35 is quite... triggering.

[@B3astMass]

You had Thunderbirds and Star Wars growing up, damn kids these days don't know what they are missing out on

[@bottlewaddle6677]

Cherry whistle dude. Love your channel

[@NewPaulActs17]

now you added 1000 subs in a day!

[@tannerfraser8286]

Absolutely bro.

[@Vaisero]

nice stuff. do you make films, etc? thanks for the videos.

[@Rossatron]

Yeah, a lot of them are here: vimeo.com/rosspck

[@Reubentheimitator6572]

Ok. I hear you say, "films aren't just about entertainment. They're about feeling. About introducing new worlds or, familiar ones in new ways.". So, I ask you, "why are they *not*, just about entertainment? Oh, also, are they obligated to be about something *more*, then just entertainment? Because if they *are* obligated, then I'll be unhappy. Cuz I feel that for me, they are obligated to be nothing but entertaining to me. I often experience them as being just that: entertaining. I'll allow them to be something more than entertaining for me, but I don't care about them being anything else beside that. If a film accomplishes something else for me besides entertaining me, then fine. Great! Happy accident! But I don't care about it. I also *wish*, that I am not obligated to care about it. I feel like I am, because I feel like I'm getting that indirect message from people on the internet.

[@zla3031]

6:35 please tell me there is a reason he's holding the pistol like that wtf

[@zla3031]

but this is a great video :D eXistenZ was that film for me

[@guyofminimalimportance7]

1:23 My dad did that too.

[@hennyvanpatten6026]

rogue one review coming soon?

[@Rossatron]

Haven't seen it yet weirdly, but I shy away from doing reviews unless I see them early, as I would rather wait for the DVD and do an analysis. Next proper review I'm doing is Assassin's Creed.

[@zachariasnoack4894]

Rossatron Taking one of the most confusing and unlogical videogame storys out there and making a movie about it, with a lead actor who is, in my opinion, wasting his potential with this movie, doesn't seem to be such a bright idea. They should be doing a "Hotline Miami" action movie instead.

[@Rossatron]

It wasn't a bright idea. And they should do Hotline, I actually talk about it in my video on game films here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIjbeIyCfbaGjbc

[@zachariasnoack4894]

Sorry to say that, but when you were talking about Hotline Miami you kinda got something wrong there. Both Hotline Miami games have a very steep and complex storyline. Sure the first game was quite simple and only gave some hints here and there that there was something greater going on and most parts of the story were free to interpretation. But the second game improved in all oft these aspects featuring more characters, a wider storyline and more background information. Still a lot of things are still free to interpret and many other story elements are never explained or have some logic issues, but point is that the whole franchise has a very complex and connected story line with quite basic but still interesting characters. So if somebody would actually do a Hotline Miami movie, you had to still interpret a lot of things and probably change the story a whole lot, but even then you would have an excellent action movie, who could really benefit from all the inspiration given by the games. If you don't believe me just look up "hotline miami story" in KZbin. With that all out of the way, I wanted to say that I really enjoy your videos and look forward to you making some more. Keep it up!

[@Rossatron]

I do believe you, this video was just made prior to Hotline Miami 2, and even then the majority of people don't play for story so you could rejig it enough to fit the film format.

[@RubenRodriguez-fp8di]

Great video!

[@jeffwalker6815]

'Chan-wook' is his first name, Park is the family name. They put them in reverse order in asia.

[@alejandromolinac]

Well I am over 10 years older than you and my parents never really care what I watched on TV... I grew up watching the raunchy 80's comedies as well as the Action and Horror flicks that were super violent... I feel that kids nowadays are lacking that, the feeling that they are watching something for "adults" as features nowadays are done to appeal to the masses and lack any true grit...

[@Rossatron]

I'd disagree, in that kids these days can pretty much access anything they want, whenever they want. They're lacking that sense of accidental discovery of something they shouldn't be watching, but are definitely exposed to things I never was as a child.

[@alejandromolinac]

Rossatron Well I had access to anything I wanted, cable and rental... My point is, I got to rent the first Robocop and my Mom took me to watch T2 in cinemas... Kids today will have Terminator Genesys and the Robocop Remake which goes light on Coke and groin shots.... Mainstream has gotten soft... At least you sold me on John Wick...

[@laflores037]

This was great

[@virgilscott120]

You're only 26? God I'm almost a decade older. God that makes me feel old.

[@thelostageofcomics7773]

who is rossatron?

[@Rossatron]

me

[@thelostageofcomics7773]

Rossatron i thought you were a middle aged guy with shades and a big moustache. o

[@Rossatron]

Ha! Well, I'm not, which I'm rather happy about. My mum says I'm actually rather dashing.

[@thelostageofcomics7773]

Rossatron lol. every you tuber needs a secret i.d.

[@aotphixion]

Rossatron was a Star Wars nerd... shooooocking.... jkjk love the videos and channel! lol ... but seriously shoooocking

[@mettehunter9475]

at least your not an only child?

[@porterdsgn]

The first in theater experience that I can remember is going to see Popeye with Robin Williams. I was about 6. I remember being in awe of everything that was happening on screen. I've been in love with movies since that very day.