I wish I could re-read “The Lord of the Rings” again for the first time.
and it would so much fun to see “Pirates of the Caribbean” [the 1st one, of course] again for the first time.
Fight Club.
I love this movie and went in knowing almost zero about what this movie was about, so I didn’t even guess that there was a twist, let alone what the twist was. The movie is great and enjoyable the second-infinity times through but the fundemental relationship between The Narrator and Marla is so radically altered once you learn of The Narrator’s secret, you just can’t watch it the same way again.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind popped into my head instantly on reading this. This falls into the category of “Movies that are among my all-time favorites, but have too much emotional impact for me to ever want to watch more than a couple times.” I suspect that movies like that, and movies with big plot twists, would dominate results for a question like this.
And I absolutely agree with Jurassic Park, but I would require more than “unseeing” it - I would also want to be 14 again, and have no idea what CGI was or would be capable of producing in the future.
Agree with your post in its entirety, including the spoiler, Enderw24.
SpartanDC, that occurred to me too, regarding Jurassic Park. Part of what was so amazing at the time was that I’d just never seen anything like those CGI dinosaurs. It took my breath away.
Blade Runner, esp if it could be the latest directors cut.
I just showed someone Fight Club who had never seen it and had no idea what was going on, at the end she was all “I have to see that again!”
There are some great responses up there in front of me, but I’ve got to go with ‘Run, Lola, Run’. I love that movie and the way it all comes together at the third “end”.
It’s a cliche now but I went to see The Sixth Sense its opening weekend. There was very little hype and I thought I was seeing a straight forward ghost story. I figured out the twist about 30 seconds before it was telegraphed to the audience and I literally gasped. It was an amazing feeling that was really rare.
Even just knowing there was a twist of some kind going in would have lessened the impact. That’s one of the reasons I absolutely hate spoilers.
It’s not a movie, but when I first reached the twist near the end of Bioshock and realized the genius of how they took the very act of playing their game and made it a plot point, it was an amazing feeling. I couldn’t stop smiling.
It is times like these that make me love entertainment in all its forms so much.
I would like to see the John Glenn launch scene from The Right Stuff afresh. It’s my firm belief that the whole point of the space program was to provide visual accompaniment to Holst’s The Planets.
On the other hand, I just watched Envy with Ben Stiller and I wish I could unwatch it and just leave it at that.
Yeah, I want to relive seeing these moments with my kids.
They were ankle-biters at the time, and actually went “Whoaaaaa…” when Laura Dern turns Sam Neill’s head to see the dinosaurs. The John Williams score, Attenborough’s character (“We have a TEE-Rex!”), and the magic of seeing moving dinosaurs that weren’t Barney made it perfect.
Now, my kids had pretty plebian tastes in movies, so to relive more of those moments would mean sitting through:
Kenan and Kel watching Abe Vigoda clean a full slushie machine from the inside in Goodburger;
Timothy Dalton chewing scenery as a Nazi in The Rocketeer;
and a very Jewish Jon Lovitz in Rat Race, taking his daughter to visit “The Barbie Museum”:
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"Wow! The Barbie Museum!"... -- "Klaus Barbie... sometimes known as the Butcher of Lyon. Let the Jew revisionists talk about their death camps... and so-called crimes against humanity. This museum is lovingly dedicated to the Klaus Barbie that nobody knows. The husband, the devoted father, the wine connoisseur... and three-time ballroom dancing champion".*
The entire canon.
Speaking of seven-per-cent solutions (though not canonical), the thread’s premise isn’t impossible, using hypnosis and the subject is susceptible. Have the hypnotist suggest author/book/movie amnesia, and voila.
Wouldn’t work for me, though, alas. Despite repeated attempts, I don’t appear to be anywhere near a satisfactory subject. Nothing happens.
The Wire.
Quite a few episodes of Radiolab.
You forgot the first rule of Fight Club.
I would love to read P.G. Wodehouse for the first time, again.
The aforementioned The Sixth Sense, for the same reasons.
Also, The Silence of the Lambs. Mostly for the big reveal in the ambulance.
The Matrix.
Video clip of Let Forever Be
I wanted to say that. Sad that I will never see a new episode.
Would love to see The Sting again for the first time.
I’d like to read the Harry Potter books afresh.
Both the Sixth Sense and Unbreakable.