# Movies you love because of the circumstances you first viewed them in... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 8, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-because-of-the-circumstances-you-first-viewed-them-in/159960 "2003-03-08T20:45:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-because-of-the-circumstances-you-first-viewed-them-in/159960/41 "2003-03-12T07:21:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by saintnobody \* > \*\*and right as the movie ends > > my building caught fire \*\* Let that be a lesson to y’all. If you want to make it a **really** memorable evening, be sure to spread a whole bunch of gasoline-soaked rags around before the movie starts, and keep your cigarette lighter handy for the perfect moment. ---
**Author:** ![Winnie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e480ec/32.png) [@Winnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnie)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-because-of-the-circumstances-you-first-viewed-them-in/159960/42 "2003-03-12T14:39:03Z")
**The Goonies**. I saw it when I was about 9 years old in a theater on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. This was the mid- late 80s, and seeing that movie again always reminds me of that happy and carefree time of my life. **Forrest Gump**. I saw it when it first came out with my boyfriend – now husband. It was at that time in the beginning of our relationship when we were just starting to realize how totally crazy we were about each other, and that movie just makes me SO happy when I watch it again. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-because-of-the-circumstances-you-first-viewed-them-in/159960/43 "2003-03-13T02:58:47Z")
Like Baker said above, mine was Flash Gordon with Max VanSydow. My mother was in the hospital with cancer and after visiting her my father took me and my little brother to see it. My mother survived however I think it was the last time my father ever went to the movies. ---
**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-because-of-the-circumstances-you-first-viewed-them-in/159960/44 "2003-03-13T03:30:16Z")
I have a soft spot for **Amelie** … 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-because-of-the-circumstances-you-first-viewed-them-in/159960/45 "2003-03-13T20:50:51Z")
**Married to the Mob** , **A Fish Called Wanda** , and **Ernest Saves Christmas**. I loved them and look back on them with wonderful memories, because these were the films I saw with my first _real_ girlfriend (i.e.–my first kiss, my first hand-holding, my first … well, they were good movies, too). A few years later, I saw **Hook** on a first date with the woman I almost married. A few years after that, I saw **Scent of a Woman** with the woman I _did_ marry. The funny thing is that I’m not much of a movie buff. I’m just as likely to remember movies for these sorts of reasons as I am for the fact that they were well/terribly acted, had great/awful visuals, and so on. ---
**Author:** ![sjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@sjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sjc)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-because-of-the-circumstances-you-first-viewed-them-in/159960/46 "2003-03-14T03:15:40Z")
**Amelie** me too. It is good even without the good experience that went along with it. A big group of my housemates went with me, it was relatively early on in our living together (none of us had known each other before). That and the fact that my French housemate, who had seen when it came out in France, was so enamoured of Amelie. He showed me a picture in a magazine but I didn’t really get it until I saw the film. Now I’m enamoured of her. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-because-of-the-circumstances-you-first-viewed-them-in/159960.md?page=2)