List movies that "blew your mind".

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: 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.

Maybe, maybe not. Which of the following points do you disagree with:

Plot was pretty standard fare (thus not mind blowing)
Way too long, final two-face plot felt crammed in
Batman's voice became more and more ridiculous

The movie would have been fine if they had just ended it in the hospital scene w/ revealing Two Face. I think i'm just reacting against the ridiculous hype the movie got. In my opinion Iron Man was way more fun as a movie. Kept a tongue-in-cheek tone throughout the whole movie, lots of a great special effects and a script that moved along nicely. Who cares if it didnt attempt to tackle any moral dilemmas

 

[zoiks]

Crash
The Usual Suspects
The Shawshank Redemption
Dude, Where's my car?

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: 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.

Looks interesting.

I'll check it out.

:beer:

 

[dr150]

Insatiable - Marilyn Chambers

 

[FDF12389]

Epic movie

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: 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

A worthless sync.

DSotM is a MUCH better sync with alice and wonderland.

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: Ns1

Originally posted by: 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

A worthless sync.

DSotM is a MUCH better sync with alice and wonderland.

Well I have a strong dislike for Pink Floyd, so I have not seen either of them. I was just going with the only one I had heard of.

KT

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
Well I have a strong dislike for Pink Floyd, so I have not seen either of them. I was just going with the only one I had heard of.

KT

Wow, you are so in the doghouse tonight.

 

[mxyzptlk]

Commit
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0986346/

Two strangers meet at a coffee shop for what seems like a blind date. But as the conversation progresses, it becomes clear that this couple, who have never seen each other face to face and who met on the Internet, have actually formed a suicide pact. Problems arise when the couple realizes that they may have finally found something worth living for

It's fairly funny if you've got a dark sense of humor and the final act will keep you on the edge of your seat. Also, I'm sorry to have spoiled so much with my synopsis here. I watched it knowing less than this and found the ride quite enjoyable.

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: mxyzptlk
Commit
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0986346/

Damn, cannot find on netflix.

 

[TehMac]

Originally posted by: loki8481

Originally posted by: TehMac
Lucky Number Slevin was awesome too. Not an epiphany, but a cool show.

was the ending of that good?

I've tried watching it a couple times but my attention always starts to drift after Josh Hartnett puts his clothes on.

:Q

Err, yeah, it was good....

 

[CallMeJoe]

There are very few truly "mind blowing" movies out there. Many films may make a great and even lasting impression, but "mind blowing"?

El Topo

Un chien andalou (an Andalusian dog)

 

[Perknose]

I'm going to go at answering this by listing films that made a huge emotional impact on me at the time I first saw them:

Old Yeller -- Having to kill his own dog. Damn.

The Sands of Iwo Jima -- The stirring playing of the Marine Corps Hymn at the beginning with the scroll of Corps accomplishments is what made me, as a young boy, first want to join.

Bridge Over the River Kwai -- There was something about British military honor and stoicism, even in possible madness, that grabbed me and stayed with me. The theme music was choice!

It's A Mad, Mad, Mad World -- The very first full-length gonzo comedy film of my time. There was nothing quite like it when it was made, and I ate it up. All-star comedic cast.

Dr. Zhivago -- Julie Christie! It was an epic tale of love in a time of madness and blood. The scene of Sharif seeing her by chance going away on a trolley car years later was heartbreaking.

Note that I saw all these movies when I was much, much younger, and it was far easier to slip into that "suspension of disbelief" complete immersion into a movie that makes it a truly magical experience.

I miss that.

 

[tfcmasta97]

Forgot to add this in my first post, if you like reality of war type movies

Taegukgi

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: CallMeJoe
..."mind blowing"?

El Topo

Hahahaha, I saw El Topo in an $.99 art house double feature at the Fox Venice (LA) paired with Robert Downey Sr's ("a prince of a man") Greasers Palace.

Greaser's Palace is hilarious, thought by many to be a parody of El Topo, and definitely falls under the rubric "mind blowing":

But is the movie good? I'm not certain about how good or bad it is, but I know that I was mesmerized by it. There were so many disturbing, fantastic, and humorous things...A few that come to mind are: --Herve Villechaize as the diminutive gay man who has "Jesus" over for dinner and flirts with him. --Herve's "wife," a bearded man in drag who angrily squeezes the Messiah's testicles after he refuses to sleep with the couple. --The woman who keeps getting shot throughout the film by an unknown assailant. --Mr. Greaser's intense orgasm and/or bowel movement which causes his palace to explode (I didn't understand either...). --Lamey Homo's description of the afterlife, "I was swimming in a rainbow with naked babies, and I turned into a beautiful smile," which he repeats three times during the film (he keeps getting killed and brought back to life). --The Holy Ghost. --The Native American who gets his lower back problem fixed when the Messiah turns out to be not only the son of God, but also a fairly good chiropractor. --The savage beating of a transvestite nun by Lamey Homo and the monk. --Etc

Edit: Wow, YouTube has everything! Go to around 3:30 for a special and somewhat NSFW treat, as "Petunia" propositions "Jesus" in her own special way!

:laugh:

Also, for "mind blowing", seeing Fellini's 8 1/2 in the theater at age 12 with my parents blew mine. All I really remember is the scene, apropos of nothing as far as I could tell, of a truly emaciated horse standing on large raft slowing floating down a river. There might have been circus midgets on board as well

8 1/2 trailer.

:shocked:

 

[miketheidiot]

Requiem

2001 (this movie is seriously 40+ years old?)

fight club

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: CallMeJoe
There are very few truly "mind blowing" movies out there. Many films may make a great and even lasting impression, but "mind blowing"?

El Topo

Un chien andalou (an Andalusian dog)

Thanks for these!

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: Locut0s

Originally posted by: CallMeJoe
There are very few truly "mind blowing" movies out there. Many films may make a great and even lasting impression, but "mind blowing"?

El Topo

Un chien andalou (an Andalusian dog)

Thanks for these!

Then you really would like Fellini's 8 1/2 or Amarcord.

8 1/2 Imdb link.

 

[ja1484]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
In my opinion Iron Man was way more fun as a movie. Kept a tongue-in-cheek tone throughout the whole movie, lots of a great special effects and a script that moved along nicely. Who cares if it didnt attempt to tackle any moral dilemmas

Iron Man tried way too hard. They beat the audience over the head with "you are supposed to laugh now" moments. It was insulting that they thought that was passable comedy.

 

[ja1484]

Originally posted by: Perknose

:laugh:

Also, for "mind blowing", seeing Fellini's 8 1/2 in the theater at age 12 with my parents blew mine. All I really remember is the scene, apropos of nothing as far as I could tell, of a truly emaciated horse standing on large raft slowing floating down a river. There might have been circus midgets on board as well

8 1/2 trailer.

:shocked:

You win the thread for mentioning anything Fellini related. God I loved everything he did. I preferred Amarcord if I have to pick one of his movies, but frankly you can't miss with any of them.

Roma was pretty damn good too.

 

[TehMac]

RAN by Akira Kurosawa is good as well, I like Seven Samurai better, but frankly, AK is awesome all around when it comes to Samurai movies. What I love is that he unashamedly made these movies even though the "Samurai tradition" in Japan was sort of getting a cold glow in the '50's and '60's.
But he kept on making them, studying both Japanese traditions, Classical theater, and his attention to the details has really made his movies the ultimate blend between Western plots and Japanese style Westerns.

 

[spikespiegal]

It was insulting that they thought that was passable comedy.

More insulting how Chris Nolan (Batman Begins / Dark Knight) has to explain his key plot points over and over again like the audience is retarded. This director is WAY too stuck on himself.

It's interesting how I know 10x the number of people who loved Ironman, but don't know many people personally that were really blown away with Dark Knight. If anything, it was Ledger's performance that made the film, and if it weren't for that performance the film would have come and gone. Batman Begins is flat out the most over-rated film I've ever seen and dowright boring.

'Pi' for one of the best mind frags out there. Requiem for a Dream was good, but I felt it got lost the last 20-minutes.

Fellini's '8 1/2' was incredible.

Terry Gilliams 'Tideland' is controversial, but worth seeing if you have an open mind and strange taste.

'Zodiak' and 'FightClub'.

 

[ja1484]

For every 1 movie Terry Gilliam gets right he goes and does something like The Brothers Grimm. I don't know if I'm willing to let that man hurt me again.

 

[SonnyDaze]

Lucky Number Slevin

Righteous Kill

Blades of Glory

 

[brownzilla786]

Memento
American History X
Requiem for a Dream
Terminator 2
Braveheart