When I was a 13 or so my Dad came into my room and told me to put on PBS. It was showing STALAG 17. It was old and black and white I had no interest. He insisted it was great and I should check it out. I shrugged and within five minutes I was hooked. I never looked at movies the same way again.
I had a similar experience with My Life as a Dog. It was on Bravo (back when they were showing mostly foreign films), and I saw it was subtitled which made me so mad (I was 15 or so), but within the first 5 minutes, I was in love. I watched the channel on a loop afterwards and it was a magical time
Exactly! After that I realized ANY movie could be good, and I shouldn’t just dismiss one because it looked old or weird or wasn’t, you know, STAR WARS.
I was the only kid in my high school watching films from Denmark! But I loved it.