The Crow here too. But this movie DID resonate with me through it's "alternative" (I don't say the G-word because things were different back then.. EMO didn't exist...) style. I still maintain that this scene is one of the most beautiful pieces of cinema ever made:
Return of the Jedi. I don't think it's the best of the trilogy today, but back when I was a kid... I just went nuts when it came out.
Donnie Darko. Walked around in a daze all evening the first time I saw it.
Serenity. On subsequent viewings, not the first one because I hadn't seen the show at the time. Final scene is also one of the best ever put to film.
American Beauty. It's just... incredible.
The LOTR trilogy (and to a similar extent, the Hobbit trilogy). Peter Jackson took me back and made me feel the same way I did when watching Star Wars as a kid. This unbelievable sense of epic wonder and grandeur. I almost lose it at several points every time I watch them.
Aliens. Partly because of some deep, personal things that it connects me to. But also because it's such a perfect movie in so many ways.
Oblivion. Don't really know why. I was in a weirdly impressionable mood that day and it just blew me away and it stayed with me for weeks afterward.
Star Trek 2 TWOK and
Generations. (Aw hell, First Contact too.) The former just because... well...
Spock... and I was still pretty young when I saw it. The latter, because Sweden was a SCIFI wasteland in the 80's and early 90's and I hadn't been able to see Trek (or any other scifi show) in YEARS. So this was the first time I saw one at the MOVIES since TVH. (I also almost lose it when Data "has his little moment among the rubble at the end". Yes, I'm a sap for the fluffy things.)
Pulp Fiction. Yeah... I was swept up in it too. It just revitalized the while movie experience at the time. Still maintain that The Marvin Incident is one of the
funniest scenes ever put to film.
Ghostbusters. It was the first time I really wanted a "prop" from a movie. Was at some in 8th grade and some dude in the show had a replica Proton pack...
Time Bandits and
Smokey and the Bandit. Because, for all intents and purposes they were the first prop replicas I actually MADE as a child. I made the BAN-ONE license plate and I used to sit at the back of the classroom drawing the TB map. Also... the last scene in TB is STILL creepy... and the credits song by Ringo is just... odd.