# What's the earliest movie that you liked that you still like? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 3, 2014, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817 "2014-01-03T17:43:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/161 "2016-12-05T18:28:02Z")
Great question! Mine is Fiddler on the Roof. It may not be the first, but it’s the earliest I can recall. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/162 "2016-12-06T04:16:19Z")
Interesting question. I can’t really remember any pictures I saw in my childhood that stand out as memorable, at lest in terms of a quality film that I enjoy seeing again. I saw the early Fellini and Bergman films around 1960, and they were much more memorable. Also Satyajit Ray’s Trilogy of Apu, in 1961, which was awesome – I saw all three back to back played as a triple feature, in an art house in Saratoga CA. Also Last Year at Marienbad stood out for me. I was in my early 20s then. ---
**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/163 "2016-12-06T09:46:20Z")
Haven’t read the whole thread yet, but for me, has to be Gone With the Wind. I was in the third grade, and stayed up all night to read it in the bathroom, and then watched the film a few days later and was not disappointed. 🙂 That is a true rarity. Although cultural mores have changed, I still think this is one of the best “early” films that I have seen. The compositions for each scene are incredible–I have often remarked that you could take any random still from GWTW and render it into a lovely painting. Do I need to provide examples? The only other films I could compare that to were released around the same time…The Wizard of OZ (which I actually dislike for reasons other than artistry), the Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Good Earth. ---
**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/164 "2016-12-06T09:57:04Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > The first movie I remember being awestruck by was _Fantasia_. My parents must have brought me to see one of the theatrical re-releases. It’s still amazing. My late grandmother loved to tell the story about how she begged to see that in the theater (she was about 5 or 6) and enjoyed it, but had nightmares afterwards, keeping her steel-worker papa up all night, till finally he gave her a bit of a paddling for being a pest. But, didn’t traumatize her enough to not enjoy watching it regularly with us grandkids once it came out on VHS in the 80s. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/165 "2016-12-06T14:55:53Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > \*It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. \* When I was in (Catholic) elementary school in the '60s the nuns took us to see it at the Cinerama as a school treat. Today I own it on DVD; I think I’ve watched it within the past year. My first memory of going to a movie with my Dad. In hindsight, I bet my mom and sister didn’t want to see a dumb comedy, but I liked being Just The Guys. I still watch this and _Rat Race_ (great homage/ripoff/remake). I also learned about humor from the first scene. As the gangster dies, his foot knocks over a metal pail and the camera shows it bouncing down a hill. The cast stares in silence. Me: “Psst, dad! They forgot to say he kicked the bucket!” Dad: “It’s funnier this way.” Me: “Huh?” ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/166 "2016-12-06T16:02:33Z")
> [@mdurkee](#): > > Still watch this as often as possible and since the death of Gene Wilder it has been showing up on the movie channels more often. I am glad that we can still enjoy this awesome actor for years to come. :memory jogs: Pretty sure I saw _Young Frankenstein_ when I was six. That will have to be my answer given that it’s impossible to pin down when I saw _The Jungle Book_. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/167 "2016-12-07T01:26:08Z")
TV – _Roman Holiday_, when I was twelve (or thereabouts). Cinema – maybe _For a Few Dollars More_, when I was 13 or 14. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817.md?page=8)