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After considering how dissappointed I was with the new Indiana Jones movie, I began to consider the times when I was totally transformed by some creative commercial effort.
Movies:
For me, my inner geek found a home when I saw A New Hope as a twelve year old... and also the first Superman. Something in me was transformed. I don't remember any other movie doing that until the first Indiana Jones, years later.
Games:
Then later, we bought this thing called a Sony Playstation. It sat plugged up to the tv for over a year before I ever played anything on it. My brothers played an occassional sports game. Then one day, on a whim, I bought a game called Tomb Raider and it literally was a whole new world to explore. When Laura Croft would enter into a huge, new cavern and the music score would begin to swell... I was there!
Soon after, I felt similar with the Resident Evil game. I became totally immersed in these worlds. I have desperately tried to re-experience these immersive highs but nothing out there seems to inspire that same sense of awe.
Music:
Music is so much more passive a form of entertainment that it has not captured my imagination like the above, but I have found myself remembering times when new music caught me off-guard. ELO'S Time album, a concept album with an ethereal theme blew me away in it's era. Later, I bought on a chance the Crash Test Dummies first big album, God Shuffled His Feet, and had a great sense of discovery of a new "sound". Of course everything they did after that fell waaay short.
What about you? It doesn't really matter if it was a phenomenon for the world... did you have any of those touchstone moments when somthing just blew you away?
Movies:
For me, my inner geek found a home when I saw A New Hope as a twelve year old... and also the first Superman. Something in me was transformed. I don't remember any other movie doing that until the first Indiana Jones, years later.
Games:
Then later, we bought this thing called a Sony Playstation. It sat plugged up to the tv for over a year before I ever played anything on it. My brothers played an occassional sports game. Then one day, on a whim, I bought a game called Tomb Raider and it literally was a whole new world to explore. When Laura Croft would enter into a huge, new cavern and the music score would begin to swell... I was there!
Soon after, I felt similar with the Resident Evil game. I became totally immersed in these worlds. I have desperately tried to re-experience these immersive highs but nothing out there seems to inspire that same sense of awe.
Music:
Music is so much more passive a form of entertainment that it has not captured my imagination like the above, but I have found myself remembering times when new music caught me off-guard. ELO'S Time album, a concept album with an ethereal theme blew me away in it's era. Later, I bought on a chance the Crash Test Dummies first big album, God Shuffled His Feet, and had a great sense of discovery of a new "sound". Of course everything they did after that fell waaay short.
What about you? It doesn't really matter if it was a phenomenon for the world... did you have any of those touchstone moments when somthing just blew you away?
-Tallahassee 
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