List movies that "blew your mind".

[ja1484]

Originally posted by: vi edit

Originally posted by: ja1484

Have fun co-blogging with everyone!

All I saw was a legitimate thread with people leaving thoughtful opinions until you came and stunk it up. I think it was you that did similar trolling in a weight room annoyance thread.

I catch you doing it again and you'll get a few days off.

See ya then

 

[BW86]

Memento
Donnie Darko
The Machinist
Pulp Fiction
Clockwork Orange
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

 

[trigun500]

Death Race (pure insanity)
American Psycho

 

[lokiju]

fight club
sixth sense
Requiem for a Dream
Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind

I'm sure theres more but that's off the top of my head.

Oh yeah, the first Matrix movie the first time I saw it.

 

[Saga]

Originally posted by: robphelan
memento
Saw 1 - 4
The Number 23
almost every episode of Lost

If this shit blew your mind, I'd happily suggest there was no mind to blow in the first place.

 

[evident]

fight club

 

[Chunkee]

turtles can fly...

i do not think i ever felt so much despair and rancor toward mankind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_Can_Fly


If you were not moved at all by the film, you have no nervous system at all.

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: ja1484
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)

The Dark Knight is a profound social statement? In which way? The contrived, cliche, scenario of who to rescue? The movie was the most overhyped movie of last year. Way too self important to be entertaining, too shallow to be important.

 

[imported_Champ]

fight club

Jurassic Park

that is all

 

[buck]

Originally posted by: intogamer
Collateral

I thought so as well.

 

[PepePeru]

2001
Memento

 

[krylon]

Originally posted by: Mo0o

Originally posted by: ja1484
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)

The Dark Knight is a profound social statement? In which way? The contrived, cliche, scenario of who to rescue? The movie was the most overhyped movie of last year. Way too self important to be entertaining, too shallow to be important.

Sounds like you.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: lokiju
fight club
sixth sense
Requiem for a Dream
Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind

I'm sure theres more but that's off the top of my head.

Oh yeah, the first Matrix movie the first time I saw it.

You should check out Synecdoche, New York.

 

[IGBT]

Apocalypto.

 

[racolvin]

The Usual Suspects

 

[InflatableBuddha]

As have already been mentioned:

Matrix trilogy
Requiem for a Dream
Fight Club
Memento

Also:

Blade Runner
V for Vendetta

A couple I saw recently that I still don't know WTF happened:

Naked Lunch
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Good, but not outstanding movies, but such mindfucks that they "blew my mind". Still can't wrap my head around what actually happened, particularly Naked Lunch. Were the "bug typewriters" actually real or just a hallucination?

 

[jteef]

The Usual Suspects was the only movie I can think of that had me wondering until the end. Unfortunately it only works once.

I liked Blackhawk Down for some of the reasons already mentioned. even today its the only movie that really portrays what an infantry battle in the past 20 years might actually be like, but it isn't "mind-blowing"

 

[cardiac]

Leaving Las Vegas - Nicolas Cage's best performance ever

7 Deadly Sins

The Green Mile

(And another vote for Pulp Fiction)

Bob

 

[vi edit]

Most recent movie that left my brain a quivering lump of goo trying to wrap itself around the plot was "The Fountain".

I'd think I'd get it. Then second guess or confuse myself. Have a moment of clarity. And then fizzle out again.

And ultimately just walked away with Arbor Day slogan of "Plant a Tree" stuck in my head.

 

[BassBomb]

Matrix Trilogy (including the Animatrixs)

Dark Knight (interesting but not mind blowing)

Terminator (giant mindfuck of the time space continuum)

Fight Club

Blackhawk Down (kid shooting his dad)

Patch Adams

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
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.

very eloquently put.
i loved the movie. in fact, as soon as i saw the thread title, i thought of The Fountain. I didnt quite get all of it on the first viewing, but understood enough to sit there quietly and go "wow!" Then I promptly started the movie again

 

[tw1164]

I would have to say Waterworld, I still can't believe they spent that much money.

 

[soulcougher73]

The Matrix
The City of Lost Children - am i the only one who has seen this movie?

 

[Ns1]

n/m

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: Ns1
n/m

You were going to say the Wizard of Oz synced with Dark Side of the Moon weren't you?

KT