Does/has anyone had a special interest in a certain movie?

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1) I talked about Dark Knight for a month. I kept following the box office total for weeks!)

2) I'm always psyched for the latest Pixar film and have some UP and Wall-E items and Toy Story 1 and 2 are my FAVORITE animated films so I'm SUPER OMG PSYCHED for Toy Story 3 plus going on 3 year old nephew I'm going to buy him TONS of Toy Story 3 stuff!! !! IMO he's more a cowboy Woody type than a space Buzz Lightyear kind of boy IMO.

3) I REALLY Love LION KING! My nephew got HUGE Simba/Nala and my sister said since he wasn't playing with them I could have them. (he came over and saw them and said "my lions.") LOL! Sure they are shoved into the closet but OH WELL! I also got a Simba Cookie Jar through Keebler and was mad the Lion King store was closed on my trip to the Animal Kingdom (I live in FL but we don't have the money to go to the parks all the time.)

4) Since I love the books I'm super psyched to see New Moon/and Deathly Hallows I'll reread the books before there respective movies come out in Harry Potter's case twice since DH will be 2 parts! LOL!

5) Right now I'm on a kick of talking about Where the Wild Things Are NO ONE else in my family remembers reading it and my little sisters 8 and 10 haven't read it! IMO IT'S A CLASSIC!! !! So I'm REALLY INTERESTED TO SEE THE FILM! The 10 year old wants to see it so perhaps we can make it a sister bonding time.

So fellow Aspies what films have you been interested in? (Spokane_Girl "Benny and Joon" 10 paragraph explanation of why B&J rocks ROFL! Just laughs Beth!! !!)

I've been obsessed with Home Alone, Jurassic Park, 101 Dalmatians, A League of Their Own, Goldeneye because of the game.

Mostly I have been obsessed with Tim Burton's films. I really love his visual style and he has a method of storytelling that really resonates to the autistic perspective, even though 2 or 3 of his films were terrible and in other films he has some plot inconsistencies or weaknesses. I don't idolize him, but I do love him in a sort of "hey, you're someone like me" way.

The Nightmare Before Christmas is my favorite Tim-involved movie. I also love Coraline, which he wasn't involved with but it was also directed by Henry Selick, who directed Nightmare. Stop-motion animation is incredibly beautiful to me.

I was so excited for Sweeney Todd. I didn't know anything about the musical, but I heard Tim was adapting it into a movie, and so I went and got the original soundtrack for it and memorized it.

I also love Harry Potter and fortunately so do a lot of my friends, so it was really fun going to the Half-Blood Prince midnight showing seeing all the people dressed as HP characters and being unashamedly nerdy.

I was once obsessed with the movie "Twister". The movie was a part of my obsession with severe weather. I watched the movie everday for about 1 month. This was 1 and a half to 2 years ago. I was also obsessed with other severe weather movies such as "The Day After Tomorrow" and movies about natural disasters, like "Volcano" and "Dante's Peak".

If you don't get any responses about Star Wars, I'll be very surprised.

I'm a bit obsessed by it, though not as much as I used to be - and never as much as I am by Doctor Who.

I'm a big fan of Terry Gilliam. I'm waiting for his latest to be released.

I love the movie, Flushed Away and my favourite character is Sid. :O)

im currently obsessing on Jurassic Park and the fat guy Dennis Nedry from it. http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt103251.html

and I am a WALL-E lover.

I don't think I experience these kinds of "special interests" because my true special interest, which is kind of difficult to explain (don't worry it's not something deviant hahaha), has been in place for basically half my life. It's so deep-seeded that it is mostly subconsious at this point. What I do understand is that feeling of just being totally gripped and fixated on something new and mysterious, it's just for me that these feelings don't last for real long periods of time. Days, or at most weeks.

That said, there are a handful of movies that have had VERY profound effects on me, that are on a totally different plane of "interest" (for lack of a better way to explain it) than all other movies I've seen.

Mulholland Drive

Boogie Nights

Motorcycle Diaries

Usual Suspects

Transformers the movie (the cartoon one from 1986)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind


I have no explanation why, out of all movies, this particular group sticks out as the best There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of common ground going on on that list.

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I was obsessed with Twister. Now it's Harry Potter. I want to see Coraline and Where the Wild Things are but I'm not obsessed with them yet.

I was also the hugest Lion King fan and I went through an LOTR obsession.

Yes, that, ( "Gladiator" ), is one of mine too, and Russell Crowe as a result aswell ( in "Master and Commander", etc )!


Ditto, for a few months.

Others:
Mulholland Drive
Brazil
American Beauty
Desperately Seeking Susan
Excalibur
( Pink Floyd's ) The Wall
"Safe", ( by Todd Haynes ), with Julianne Moore, ( who is one of my favourite actresses ), and "The Hours", also with her.
John Carpenter's "The Thing", and "Prince of Darkness"
Bagdad Cafe
The Princess Bride
Batman Returns ( Tim Burton )
The Silence of the Lambs
and Charlie Kaufmann ( "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "Adaptation" etc ) is one of my favourite writers/directors

That's only some of the most important ones. Some are "lifelong loves", whereas others, ( eg. "Crocodile Dundee", "Willow", "Ladyhawke", "Betty Blue" or "The Company of Wolves" ), I still think are fairly good in parts but I find it hard to understand why I fell so head over heels in love with them at the time, like crushes, intense and embarrassing, others I have fallen in love with gradually, or suddenly notice them after years of finding them a bit dull.

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As Good As It Gets.

Groundhogs Day.

^ I see them over and over again but never get bored?

I am currently obsessed with Harry Potter. I love the nightmare before christmas. I listen to the sound track inssessantly, my family hates it now.

I'm also obsessed with the t.v series "firefly" and I don't know if anyone remembers it but "sliders", it was awesome! =>

That was definitely true of "Groundhog Day", which I loved too, ( and still treasure ), and many of the others, especially the "intense embarrassing crushes", which I sometimes even stayed in the cinema to watch again a second time straight away ( that was before Amazon and DVDs ! ) . A bit like pieces of music I used to listen to over and over again.

But a few of them I didn't/don't watch again for ages, ( eg. "The Wall", "Mulholland Drive", "Safe", "American Beauty", or "The Hours" ), almost as if they were too much to bear, or something. I was obsessed without being addicted to them. I read about the directors/writers and/or actors in them, and thought about them a lot, but it was as if they needed so much processing that were like a big rich meal and couldn't eat any more.

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My preferences are very mixed

Animated
-I have a passion for animated films from Don Bluth; gems from my childhood. His 1988 film Land Before Time still moves me to tears, with All Dogs Go To Heaven and Secret of Nimh as follow-ups.
-Other animated films from Ralph Bakshi, Martin Rosen, and Nick Park
Non-animated
-Terry Gilliam's films are among my favorites, with Brazil as the best one.
-Rock Operas; The Who's Tommy and Pink Floyd's The Wall
-Old trilogies like Star Wars and Mad Max.
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