most original movie of all

[NewSc2]

Originally posted by: weezergirl
i dunno what qualifies as most original but i loved amelie and have never heard/seen a movie like it.

I don't know... it was a good movie, but it was a romantic comedy at its heart. The narration and side stories are in a lot of movies, like Fight Club and Memento.

Fight Club and Memento get my vote, though. The style of movie is pretty original and rarely seen, and they both deal with new subjects - multiple personalities and complete loss of short-term memory.

 

[JeffSpicoli]

Fast Times at Ridgemont High


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[piku]

Anyone who thinks Fight Club is original owes it to themselves to track down the absolutley horrible movie Terrified. It is awful in its current state, but if it actually had a buget (along with good acting and writing) it would have been Fight Club in 1995.

Check it out, seriously. It's pretty weird how similar (though not totally similar) it is.

 

[Radiohead]

Being Jonh Malkovich

 

[PClark99]

How about

Repo Man

or

A Boy and His Dog

 

[Sundog]

Nosferatu

 

[jinglingxl]

Amelie (french)

 

[abaez]

Originally posted by: bigsmooth
Being John Malkovich.

Or Run Lola Run

 

[3L33T32003]

How can that (2001) be original when it was based off a novel?

The novel was being written at the same time the movie was being made. It was based off of a short story called "The Sentinel."
FYI

 

[js1973]

Oh I know. It must have been one of those movies where Robin Williams played a quirky character who taught us a valuable life lesson.

 

[bigdog1218]

Brain Candy

 

[fjorner]

willy wonka and the chocoalte factory is pretty original. unless ofcourse it was a book first.

i think that terminator and terminator 2 were pretty original.

 

[cricky]

Sixty replies, and no one's said Brazil.

Shame. So my vote is for Brazil.

--Christopher

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Some good choices, but the correct answer is one older than any of us, Utopia.

Edit,

Different genre, but Seven Samurai is way up there.

 

[SP33Demon]

Strange Days? Just watched that... pretty good.

 

[AvesPKS]

"Birth of a Nation"?

 

[BlamoHammer]

The Blair Witch Project

 

[Sid59]

i liked, Memento, Resevoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction

 

[rudeguy]

toxic avenger...troma rocks!!!

 

[deftron]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas..

but it was based on a book, so that may disqualify it.

maybe The Matrix

 

[Atlantean]

Cube seemed pretty original. The Matrix was an original idea, so was Star Wars. The usual suspects was pretty original I thought.

 

[Ronstang]

Soylent Green

 

[masterxfob]

i'm not huge movie buff, but what about Pi?

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: cricky
Sixty replies, and no one's said Brazil.

Shame. So my vote is for Brazil.

--Christopher

That was my vote, but I found this thread too late.

Pleasantville
Metropolis
Caligula

 

[pulse8]

It's not THE most original, but it's got to be up there:

Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein

The steps sequence and his idea of the montage was pretty incredible.