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List movies that "blew your mind".

I'm talking about movies that are unique in some specific way that when you watched them made you think "wow wtf I never thought one could think this way". They don't have to be your all time favourite movies though obviously they should rank high. Examples of what I mean are things like movies with extremely unique editing, dialogue, time lines, music composition etc etc... Unique ways of using the medium. Amazing synergies between music and plot. etc...

Only one comes to mind without thinking too hard for me and that would be P.T Andersons Magnolia. Specifically there is this one hour section or so in the middle where all hell breaks loose and everything falls apart in the different intersecting narratives. Dialogue is actually fairly limited in this section. The use of music and the way he cuts between each scene as this feeling of desperation builds is masterful.

Requiem for a Dream might be another.

Other examples added from replies bellow that I agree with in one way or another:

There will be blood
Full Metal Jacket
Citizen Kane (Given the period it was made in)
2001 A Space Odyssey
Apocalypse Now
Pulp Fiction.
 
Blood Diamond - how beautiful and harsh Africa is

Equilibrium - predictive martial arts.. awesome

Slumdog Millionaire - how harsh they treat the little kids

 
Pulp Fiction.
I was 15 at the time.

Actually, almost any cool movie when I was a teenager.
Plenty of good stuff has come out since then, but I am much more likely to be unimpressed.
 
The Fountain

It's a movie I don't quite like as much as I admire it. Incredible score, awesome visual style, epic storyline that absolutely no one can figure out on first viewing - I guess I appreciate the guy's vision a lot more than the movie itself. I wouldn't call it bad execution, it was just a very vague/obscure setup to begin with.
 
Originally posted by: shortylickens
Pulp Fiction.
I was 15 at the time.

Actually, almost any cool movie when I was a teenager.
Plenty of good stuff has come out since then, but I am much more likely to be unimpressed.
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Hah Pulp Fiction is another good one too. I'll add it to my OP.
 
Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
Originally posted by: spaceman
the wrestler.
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I saw this last night, left me speechless towards the end. What an excellent movie, indeed.
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it kills ya doesnt it.
people can mock it, but i was genuinely touched by that movie.
 
Minority Report is pretty awesome, one of my favorites.
A Beautiful Mind when you realize that the guy and the kid are hallucinations
Donnie Darko, after I figured it out
A Clockwork Orange - mainly in its message
 
Memento was friggin crazy. For those who haven't seen it... do so immediately. The movie is presented to you backwards. Not entirely backwards though. What they do is show you a scene (5-10ish minutes long) which always reveals more of the story in it. Then when the next scene plays, it's what happened BEFORE what you just watched and the scene ends where the last one began. The movie starts with somebody getting shot, and the whole movie you figure out who the guys were, how they met, etc...

It's a MIND FUCK!
 
Great, another list of movies that people think are great simply because they're weird but are in reality average with some superficial surrealistic gimmick. Some of you are thinking clearly with contributions like Apocalypse Now, et al. Memento and Pulp Fiction are excellent movies for reasons completely aside why people are posting them. Eschewing chronological order isn't interesting or special. The writing and overall plot arcs are what made both those films work. Pulp Fiction in particular survives on its plausible situational humor - the "funny because it's true" effect, so to speak.

I find it amusing that a Donnie Darko post was timewarped to the top.

Anyway:

Oh Brother Where Art Thou (For the genius writing and acting)
Black Hawk Down (For the phenomenal "boots on the ground" cinematography style)
The Dark Knight (For being the most profound social statement in film since 9/11)
 
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