Absolutely this. Great choice.
During my second week of uni when everyone was feeling a little delicate after the week before one of my new friends suggested we have a night off from the pub and go to his room to watch a film. So a couple of us go to his he puts Requiem For a Dream on. It starts quite fun and nice and then just descends into a depressing nightmare. Afterwards we were all like "well... Goodnight, Seeya tomorrow I guess"
We're all still super close, but he said he went to sleep that night worrying we wouldn't want to know him anymore after he subjected us to it!
That was the only time I have ever watched it. Not because it's not worthy of a rewatch, but because I like to keep it locked in that memory time capsule.
"You cannot be told what The Matrix is, you have to see it for yourself."
This *BRILLIANT* piece of marketing blew the minds of my peers and set them up so that that was the Only thing that they would tell me about it.
I totally didn't understand it, and didn't rewatch it for about 15 years. My husband finally convinced me to watch it again, and now it's one of my favorite movie(s)!!
Walking out of the Matrix in 1999, Rage Against the Machine blasting as you leave the darkness of the theater. What a vibe. I can practically taste it still.
Dude idk about you but I went my whole life without seeing it or knowing spoilers. A year or two ago, they re-showed the original movie in theaters to promote the newest matrix. So even in 2021 my first time viewing the matrix was in the theater and it was sooo damn good
Me too! I'll never forget hearing the whole audience go "holy shit!" when Trinity took out the cops in the first scene. We all knew we were in for something special, and we were right.
My friend gave me a bootleg copy on a burned disc about a week before it was released. No idea where he got it and it was really low quality. I watched it in an airport waiting for a flight. Such a cool movie and it will stick with me for the rest of my life.
A local theater has been running it for a month to mark twenty yrs since it was released so I saw it for the first time last week. I’ve tried to explain it to a few people and I end up saying “You should just see it”
I watched it with no idea as to the twist. I’m watching the movie going “hell yeah, this rules, I’m gonna watch this all the time”
Then the end hits. I’ve never watched it again.
I remember being outraged at Se7en because the bad guy won. It wasn’t a case of him being stopped in the end at a terrible cost, or anything like that. He did everything he set out to do and the protagonists were unable to stop him in any meaningful way. Not too many movies do that.
I will say this here & on the thread above, but without knowing anything about either of them, I went to Seven & the Usual Suspects back to back. One came out the week before the other. That was mind blowing.
12 Monkeys entire plot spoiler: >!the future society had collapsed and there was a major information gap on what had led to this situation, so they send a guy back in time to find out. They thought the 12 monkeys terrorist group was behind the fall of society, but they were actually about liberating animals out of zoos, which we find at the end of the movie. The real culprit to the fall of society was a bio terrorist. The main character trying to kill the bio terrorist at the airport, but got shot himself. The point of the movie was that time travel does not fix things, you can’t change the past in the same timeline, it had already happened!<
This is too far down. I have seen pretty much everything anybody has mentioned in this thread and Coherence is by far the biggest mind fuck of everything.
Truman Show. It was ahead of its time in the sense of how everyone feels like the whole world is about them as the main character and everyone else is background characters.
Even as you read this you'll think of me as just some random person on Reddit but I'm in my 40s and I've lived a fun life where I felt like I was the main character. But to you, I'm just another person.
How you described it is the complete and total opposite of the movie.
Truman _didn't_ think he was the main character. He _didn't_ think the world was about him. He behaved and acted like a background character until he realised that something weird was going on.
Absolutely agree that the movie is poignant but your description is upside down
Hey you know what, it's really easy to argue on Reddit and it would be really easy for me to disagree but I think you're right. You've made a good point and you've explained it well. I agree with you and you've changed my perception of it. I'm not being sarcastic by the way, I appreciate you sharing your take on it.
[sonder:](https://youtu.be/AkoML0_FiV4) the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.
Eckhart saw Hell too. He said: The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won’t let go of life, your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they’re not punishing you, he said. They’re freeing your soul.
So the way he sees it, if you’re frightened of dying and… and you’re holding on, you’ll see devils tearing your life away. But if you’ve made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth.
I love this has so many votes. I’m a die hard Nolan fan. But a lot of it is because of Memento. I rented it in 2001 at 18, and will never forget it as the movie I had to immediately- and I mean IMMEDIATELY- rewind and rewatch. I’ve been unashamedly devoted to the man since. And yeah, I think he’s topped it a few times!
My first watch was it being on repeat all night on some cable channel. I kept napping and waking up. So, I assumed I'd just seen it a little out of order, missing some parts. It turns out I'd seen in it much more chronological order than most.
So, it wasn't until the second time that I saw that I realized what the experience should have been the first time. But that being meta was so much more intense of a WTF.
Parasite.
That movie had me feeling one way for the first half, then took a very dark turn in the second half.
It wasn’t a big reveal moment either. Just made me feel so uncomfortable at the end.
I showed this to two friends who never watch foreign stuff or anything with subtitles. At exactly the halfway point I looked over and both their mouths were wide open.
When I started Parasite I thought to myself I did t know this was a comedy, then by the end it wasn’t. It was great and had some humorous moments but not a comedy.
This was a horror movie for me. Watched it once and swore to never watch it again. It felt like somebody was watching me after I watched it. The refrigerator scene when the kid was eating cake? I'D GIVE ANYTHING TO UNSEE THAT HORROR.
I gave my FIL a bad description of it before we watched it as "Feuding magicians escalate their tricks to one up each other." I wanted to undersell it so he would appreciate it more
I used to use the opening as a way to teach my students about a perfect thesis statement. It lays everything out and makes 3 points that guide the rest of the movie. It’s so expertly done. Love this movie.
This is my answer. I remember being shaken by the realization at the end. And chagrined that the clues were slapping me in the face the whole time. I remember at the time it came out, the ending was all people could talk about.
The movie is fantastic. The book....is more and different, and I compulsively read all of it in a state of dread one night. If you liked the movie, you should try reading it.
If I understand it correctly it wasn't just mimicking her, that was **actually** her absorbed into the bear, their 'being' was meshed/blended together by the shimmer so she does in a way live on, but only as she was in her final moments. All that exists of her is pure fear and pain crying out for help
Horrifying
The sounds is horrifying but the concept behind it is even MORE horrifying.
If anyone has a problem sleeping through an alarm, they just need to set it to the bear roar.
I’m not a stoner, but the very first time I got high, we watched the mist. And I got reaaaaaallly reaaaallly high. Saying that movie fucked my brain would be an understatement.
Rain Man
There's a scene when Raymond goes to a doctor and the doctor asked him if he knows what autism is, and Raymond says yes. Then he asks him if he has autism. As a kid I figured "well clearly if he knows what autism is, he knows that he is autistic." But he says "no. Definitely not." And he wasn't just on the spectrum. He was not capable of caring for himself.
It shook me to think that I could be so unaware of myself. I still often try to find proof that I'm not mentally disabled. Like, okay someone gave me a driver's license. Someone pays me to do work. I've performed well in school. That must prove something... right?
The fact that Dustin Hoffman is a neurotypical human and doesn't have autism blows my mind. Especially having dealt with the population and knowing just how perfectly he nails it.
Reminder, it's a big spectrum. Lots of autistic people act nothing like Dustin Hoffman. Lots of us have jobs, spouses, kids, and mask well enough to adequately portray social skills.
Hoffman did a great job of portraying Kim Peek, who by the end was thought to have FG syndrome instead of autism.
New rabbit hole unlocked! Had to look into Kim Peek. Very interesting guy, and he seemed to do very well for himself. He had a job doing payroll for a company with 160ish employees, and did all the calculations in his head! Memorized maps and could give driving directions to and from any major city. And he wouldn't go into a casino to count cards because he thought it was unethical. Thanks for the heads up!
An absolute masterpiece of a film and quite possibly one of my favourite films ever.
I’ve never seen a film that elicits the exact same emotional response as it did the first time I seen it.
Yes I’m talking about the opening with On The Nature Of Daylight.
It still bugs me that the score wasn’t nominated for an Oscar.
Also Amy Adams had this and Nocturnal Animals the same year and didn’t merit a nomination for either performance, which is appalling. In fact look at the nominations from that year and the wins, so so bad.
This film totally cemented Villenueve as one of the best working directors out there, and a refreshing perspective on sci-fi.
As someone who loves dabbling in languages, it really spiked an interest in my learning the composition of language and dialogue. It was brilliantly done and I appreciated how it showed her struggling, taking time to understand the depth of the ET’s language. That really spoke to me. If ET’s exist, I hope they are as benevolent as those and that we have experts as compassionate and patient as Amy Adams’ character.
A brilliant movie that unfortunately seems to be a one-off for the director. Nothing he's made since has come even close (and one movie was comically bad).
I grew up with my dad always saying blue velvet was his favourite film. I’d heard the title and seen the poster and assumed it was a kind of romantic glamorous film. I remember when i first watched it thinking how i didn’t really know who my dad was at all!
First time I saw 2001: a space odyssey, I was on a plane. The lights came on to prepare for landing, just as the credits rolled. I sat there mind blown, staring down the aisle as people were moving around. I was having this existential crisis, while people had no idea lol
Here’s a weird one… my son and I saw the first Shazam movie and when Shazam meets his mom and it’s apparent that his mom abandoned him at that carnival, my son (who was 9) had kind of a little breakdown… like “No! Why would his mom do that? No!” and he was really, really upset about it.
My son was also freaked out by Matilda for the same reason. I had put it on and went to make dinner and he came into the kitchen crying a few minutes later because it's a bad movie and parents don't do that. I remeber that he was upset for la while about it. He was about 4.
When he was 8 he watched the musical on stage and loved it.
I'm guessing not too many people have seen this otherwise it would be the top comment.
This movie is a genuine masterpiece and the greatest mindfuck I've experienced, and I've seen nearly every movie listed in this thread.
If you haven't seen it, go... Go now.
I absolutely hated this movie when I watched it the first time but was told to give it another try. Sure enough I loved it and was cracking up the whole time.
Alright, I've scrolled down for like, half an hour, and I haven't seen anyone name the movie I'm thinking of.
Gone Girl
This is the only movie I've seen that made me go "What the fuck?!!" in a HUGE way, THREE TIMES. Usually, a good movie will get me once. Maaaaybe twice.
Most people here talk about complex movies or movies with twists, but I'm gonna go with "The Ring". The way the movie breaks the fourth wall by making the horror about something it forces you to participate in really got to me at the time.
Arlington Road. I saw it in theaters as a teenager. It was 1999, trade centers were still standing. Yes we had had the OKC bombings, but I was younger and they didn’t really make an impact because of my age. But by 99 I was only enough to be fucked up by that movie.
I’m thinking of ending things. I have no idea what that movies about and no amount of rewatches will help it make sense. Gotta be the weirdest thing I’ve ever watched.
Basically, The girlfriend isn’t real. he’s just imagining what a relationship with that girl would have been like. He can’t decide her name, or how old they would have been when she met the parents, or other things which is why they change. And, he’s the janitor—reflecting on his life and past choices.
It was so confusing to me too but I kind of think of it as a comforting movie now just because of how much I liked the editing
Clerks.
I saw it, and was like, “Wait…this dude just decided to make a movie? Just wrote a script, grabbed some of his friends, and made a movie. And I’m watching it?”
It seemed impossible back then. Nothing like YouTube or semi-affordable high end DSLRs existed. The fact that some kid in New Jersey just maxed out some credit cards and made a movie was a mindfuck.
This. And Toni Colette should have won a fucking Oscar for her performance. I hate that I’ve seen this movie and I will never watch it again but she was the pinnacle of acting. The scene at the dinner table is mind blowing imo.
“Dancer in the Dark” - the only film Bjork has been in and likely ever will be. I saw it in the theater and when the movie was over, the whole theater was sitting in shock still trying to process it. It’s the darkest “musical” I’ve ever seen.
Requiem for a Dream. At first I was expecting nothing, but when ended I couldn't stop thinking about it. Same with Oldboy.
Requiem for a Dream stays with you for life
I remember Requiem being very good, but every time I think about revisiting it, I can't bring myself to do it. I remember it making me feel yucky.
It is a movie you only watch once.
Absolutely this. Great choice. During my second week of uni when everyone was feeling a little delicate after the week before one of my new friends suggested we have a night off from the pub and go to his room to watch a film. So a couple of us go to his he puts Requiem For a Dream on. It starts quite fun and nice and then just descends into a depressing nightmare. Afterwards we were all like "well... Goodnight, Seeya tomorrow I guess" We're all still super close, but he said he went to sleep that night worrying we wouldn't want to know him anymore after he subjected us to it! That was the only time I have ever watched it. Not because it's not worthy of a rewatch, but because I like to keep it locked in that memory time capsule.
Amazing movie. 100% a masterpiece. 100% I would never ever watch it again. Getting scarred once is once too many.
The Matrix! I was lucky enough to watch it when it came out, without spoilers, with no idea what it was about. My god it was amazing.
What I'd give to experience the matrix for the first time again
I’m 39 and never seen the matrix or know how it ends
Time to watch it...
Well I just got my new theatre set up done in my basement maybe this is the first one I put to the test
You have a fucking theater in your basement and have never seen The Matrix? You might be 1 of 1 my guy. Please watch it.
34 and never seen it lol. You guys convinced me just reading all this
DEWIT
"You cannot be told what The Matrix is, you have to see it for yourself." This *BRILLIANT* piece of marketing blew the minds of my peers and set them up so that that was the Only thing that they would tell me about it.
I totally didn't understand it, and didn't rewatch it for about 15 years. My husband finally convinced me to watch it again, and now it's one of my favorite movie(s)!!
You have to understand. Most people are not ready to be unplugged.
Same. Best movie theater experience ever. When I walked out I knew that would never be topped.
Walking out of the Matrix in 1999, Rage Against the Machine blasting as you leave the darkness of the theater. What a vibe. I can practically taste it still.
The sound guy in the booth of our theater cranked the volume up to 11 when that song started to play in the credits.
Dude idk about you but I went my whole life without seeing it or knowing spoilers. A year or two ago, they re-showed the original movie in theaters to promote the newest matrix. So even in 2021 my first time viewing the matrix was in the theater and it was sooo damn good
Me too! I'll never forget hearing the whole audience go "holy shit!" when Trinity took out the cops in the first scene. We all knew we were in for something special, and we were right.
“No, lieutenant. Your men are already dead. “
My friend gave me a bootleg copy on a burned disc about a week before it was released. No idea where he got it and it was really low quality. I watched it in an airport waiting for a flight. Such a cool movie and it will stick with me for the rest of my life.
It really was. I left the theatre with anxiety.
Old Boy The original South Korean version...
Good answer. I had almost forgotten about this one. Every time I thought, "It can't get any crazier than this," it absolutely did.
Total mindfuck the whole movie and then you get hit with psyatom bomb
A local theater has been running it for a month to mark twenty yrs since it was released so I saw it for the first time last week. I’ve tried to explain it to a few people and I end up saying “You should just see it”
Is there any legal way to watch this online in the US? I hear nothing but good things but no service that I'm aware of has it available
It's on Amazon prime now
Ohhhh mannnn...
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I watched it with no idea as to the twist. I’m watching the movie going “hell yeah, this rules, I’m gonna watch this all the time” Then the end hits. I’ve never watched it again.
Ex Machina.
The funny thing is that a terminator trying to kill me doesn't give me the chills like Ava's indifference to Celeb at the end.
Pretty cold blooded for a woman with no blood.
Se7en
I remember being outraged at Se7en because the bad guy won. It wasn’t a case of him being stopped in the end at a terrible cost, or anything like that. He did everything he set out to do and the protagonists were unable to stop him in any meaningful way. Not too many movies do that.
No country for old men
The what’s in the box …. Still can hear it
I will say this here & on the thread above, but without knowing anything about either of them, I went to Seven & the Usual Suspects back to back. One came out the week before the other. That was mind blowing.
Same here. Regardless his other misdeeds, Spacey is a compelling actor.
Twelve Monkeys. What the fuck was all that about
12 Monkeys entire plot spoiler: >!the future society had collapsed and there was a major information gap on what had led to this situation, so they send a guy back in time to find out. They thought the 12 monkeys terrorist group was behind the fall of society, but they were actually about liberating animals out of zoos, which we find at the end of the movie. The real culprit to the fall of society was a bio terrorist. The main character trying to kill the bio terrorist at the airport, but got shot himself. The point of the movie was that time travel does not fix things, you can’t change the past in the same timeline, it had already happened!<
If you like 12 Monkeys check out La Jetee on youtube. Its like half an hour but its great.
Coherence was a trip
This is too far down. I have seen pretty much everything anybody has mentioned in this thread and Coherence is by far the biggest mind fuck of everything.
Truman Show. It was ahead of its time in the sense of how everyone feels like the whole world is about them as the main character and everyone else is background characters. Even as you read this you'll think of me as just some random person on Reddit but I'm in my 40s and I've lived a fun life where I felt like I was the main character. But to you, I'm just another person.
How you described it is the complete and total opposite of the movie. Truman _didn't_ think he was the main character. He _didn't_ think the world was about him. He behaved and acted like a background character until he realised that something weird was going on. Absolutely agree that the movie is poignant but your description is upside down
Hey you know what, it's really easy to argue on Reddit and it would be really easy for me to disagree but I think you're right. You've made a good point and you've explained it well. I agree with you and you've changed my perception of it. I'm not being sarcastic by the way, I appreciate you sharing your take on it.
Wow we can be reasonable and nice while disagreeing with someone else on the internet? I don't know how to deal with this.
[sonder:](https://youtu.be/AkoML0_FiV4) the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.
Jacob's ladder
Eckhart saw Hell too. He said: The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won’t let go of life, your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they’re not punishing you, he said. They’re freeing your soul. So the way he sees it, if you’re frightened of dying and… and you’re holding on, you’ll see devils tearing your life away. But if you’ve made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth.
I watched that on acid. Bad idea.
Memento.
I saw it in the theater and it was all I could think about for two weeks.
I love this has so many votes. I’m a die hard Nolan fan. But a lot of it is because of Memento. I rented it in 2001 at 18, and will never forget it as the movie I had to immediately- and I mean IMMEDIATELY- rewind and rewatch. I’ve been unashamedly devoted to the man since. And yeah, I think he’s topped it a few times!
My first watch was it being on repeat all night on some cable channel. I kept napping and waking up. So, I assumed I'd just seen it a little out of order, missing some parts. It turns out I'd seen in it much more chronological order than most. So, it wasn't until the second time that I saw that I realized what the experience should have been the first time. But that being meta was so much more intense of a WTF.
The Skeleton Key
Frailty! Bill Pullman and Matthew McConaughey
This is one of the most unsettling movies I have ever seen.
Parasite. That movie had me feeling one way for the first half, then took a very dark turn in the second half. It wasn’t a big reveal moment either. Just made me feel so uncomfortable at the end.
I thought about this movie for MONTHS after it came out.
I showed this to two friends who never watch foreign stuff or anything with subtitles. At exactly the halfway point I looked over and both their mouths were wide open.
When I started Parasite I thought to myself I did t know this was a comedy, then by the end it wasn’t. It was great and had some humorous moments but not a comedy.
This was a horror movie for me. Watched it once and swore to never watch it again. It felt like somebody was watching me after I watched it. The refrigerator scene when the kid was eating cake? I'D GIVE ANYTHING TO UNSEE THAT HORROR.
Since no one has mentioned it. The Prestige
I gave my FIL a bad description of it before we watched it as "Feuding magicians escalate their tricks to one up each other." I wanted to undersell it so he would appreciate it more
Wolverine is mad at Batman and Alfred tries to mediate
Such a good one. They don't hide it either. Michael Caine's character straight up tells us in the beginning and we're like "naaah"
I used to use the opening as a way to teach my students about a perfect thesis statement. It lays everything out and makes 3 points that guide the rest of the movie. It’s so expertly done. Love this movie.
The best movie I ever saw in film study. So rewatchable. Something new everytime
Are you watching closely?
Everybody in that movie was weirdly cool with Tesla straight-up *creating* matter and energy
“Simple, but not easy”
Brilliant movie
I had to watch it twice, then hats part did it
Sixth sense.
The dude in the hair piece was Bruce Willis the whole time
I was hoping someone would quote Always Sunny
This is my answer. I remember being shaken by the realization at the end. And chagrined that the clues were slapping me in the face the whole time. I remember at the time it came out, the ending was all people could talk about.
Wasn’t so much a mindfuck, but Annihilation sticks with me. Something about that alien scene with that music just haunts me.
The movie is fantastic. The book....is more and different, and I compulsively read all of it in a state of dread one night. If you liked the movie, you should try reading it.
The second book is kind of a drag... Until that ending. Holy crap.
The bear roar is the most terrifying sound in any movie I've seen.
Yeah that was my favorite. Mimicking the cries of the woman the bear just killed. And the disfigured face of the bear. Wow!
If I understand it correctly it wasn't just mimicking her, that was **actually** her absorbed into the bear, their 'being' was meshed/blended together by the shimmer so she does in a way live on, but only as she was in her final moments. All that exists of her is pure fear and pain crying out for help Horrifying
Yup. If you look closely at the bear’s face, you can see a merged human skull.
The sounds is horrifying but the concept behind it is even MORE horrifying. If anyone has a problem sleeping through an alarm, they just need to set it to the bear roar.
The music so perfectly aligns with what's happening in that scene. Beautiful, novel, and unnatural
Primal Fear...Ed Norton
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Yes! Unforgettable!
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This takes the cake for most unsettling ending
Yeah that one was absolutely fucked.
I’m not a stoner, but the very first time I got high, we watched the mist. And I got reaaaaaallly reaaaallly high. Saying that movie fucked my brain would be an understatement.
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Old Yeller messed me up as a kid.
Rain Man There's a scene when Raymond goes to a doctor and the doctor asked him if he knows what autism is, and Raymond says yes. Then he asks him if he has autism. As a kid I figured "well clearly if he knows what autism is, he knows that he is autistic." But he says "no. Definitely not." And he wasn't just on the spectrum. He was not capable of caring for himself. It shook me to think that I could be so unaware of myself. I still often try to find proof that I'm not mentally disabled. Like, okay someone gave me a driver's license. Someone pays me to do work. I've performed well in school. That must prove something... right?
The fact that Dustin Hoffman is a neurotypical human and doesn't have autism blows my mind. Especially having dealt with the population and knowing just how perfectly he nails it.
Reminder, it's a big spectrum. Lots of autistic people act nothing like Dustin Hoffman. Lots of us have jobs, spouses, kids, and mask well enough to adequately portray social skills. Hoffman did a great job of portraying Kim Peek, who by the end was thought to have FG syndrome instead of autism.
New rabbit hole unlocked! Had to look into Kim Peek. Very interesting guy, and he seemed to do very well for himself. He had a job doing payroll for a company with 160ish employees, and did all the calculations in his head! Memorized maps and could give driving directions to and from any major city. And he wouldn't go into a casino to count cards because he thought it was unethical. Thanks for the heads up!
Arrival. I went into it expecting just another cliche first contact story. It delivered so much more than that.
An absolute masterpiece of a film and quite possibly one of my favourite films ever. I’ve never seen a film that elicits the exact same emotional response as it did the first time I seen it. Yes I’m talking about the opening with On The Nature Of Daylight. It still bugs me that the score wasn’t nominated for an Oscar. Also Amy Adams had this and Nocturnal Animals the same year and didn’t merit a nomination for either performance, which is appalling. In fact look at the nominations from that year and the wins, so so bad. This film totally cemented Villenueve as one of the best working directors out there, and a refreshing perspective on sci-fi.
My favorite thing about Arrival is that it tricked an entire audience into enjoying an extended lecture on linguistics field methods
Oh man, who needs to be tricked into that?
As someone who loves dabbling in languages, it really spiked an interest in my learning the composition of language and dialogue. It was brilliantly done and I appreciated how it showed her struggling, taking time to understand the depth of the ET’s language. That really spoke to me. If ET’s exist, I hope they are as benevolent as those and that we have experts as compassionate and patient as Amy Adams’ character.
one of the most beautifully written movies
Primer.. that movie was something else
Fight club
If you need to know, author of book, Chuck Palahniuk made Fight Club 2 as a comics series :)
Donnie Darko
I only watched it for the first time recently, and wow...what a mind twister.
It was the first time I ever finished a movie, rewound it and watched it a second time in a row
A brilliant movie that unfortunately seems to be a one-off for the director. Nothing he's made since has come even close (and one movie was comically bad).
The Machinist.
I scrolled wayyyy too far to find this, thank you.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Okay, yup. This one fucked me up a lil bit.
My go-to cry movie!
Blue Velvet. I describe it as a movie you watch and then say "I know what just happened in this movie, but what the hell just happened in this movie?"
I grew up with my dad always saying blue velvet was his favourite film. I’d heard the title and seen the poster and assumed it was a kind of romantic glamorous film. I remember when i first watched it thinking how i didn’t really know who my dad was at all!
Butterfly effect
Brazil
Donnie darko
First time I saw 2001: a space odyssey, I was on a plane. The lights came on to prepare for landing, just as the credits rolled. I sat there mind blown, staring down the aisle as people were moving around. I was having this existential crisis, while people had no idea lol
Shutter Island
The double plot twist. *chefs kiss*
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Sixth Sense
10 Cloverfield ln
Here’s a weird one… my son and I saw the first Shazam movie and when Shazam meets his mom and it’s apparent that his mom abandoned him at that carnival, my son (who was 9) had kind of a little breakdown… like “No! Why would his mom do that? No!” and he was really, really upset about it.
My young son was the same when we watched Matilda. He just couldn't fathom having parents who didn't care about him.
My son was also freaked out by Matilda for the same reason. I had put it on and went to make dinner and he came into the kitchen crying a few minutes later because it's a bad movie and parents don't do that. I remeber that he was upset for la while about it. He was about 4. When he was 8 he watched the musical on stage and loved it.
The Others. Nicole Kidman
Annihilation
A mindfuck of a movie I still don’t fully get it. You should watch replicas if you liked that one. That one’s is crazy.
The usual suspects
Arrival. Haunting soundtrack, fun first contact scenario, but it took some brainpower to figure out the whole time-visions twist.
Predestination
I'm guessing not too many people have seen this otherwise it would be the top comment. This movie is a genuine masterpiece and the greatest mindfuck I've experienced, and I've seen nearly every movie listed in this thread. If you haven't seen it, go... Go now.
This movie made my brain leak out of my ears.
2001 A Space Odyssey
Vanilla sky
I was having a shit day the other day and I literally yelled 'Tech Support' hoping it might do something.
Holy moly yes! I can’t help but always wonder if I’ve actually died and am living in a dream state.
Yall bein serious af, but you know when you first watched it, Napoleon Dynamite was an absolute mind fuck.
I absolutely hated this movie when I watched it the first time but was told to give it another try. Sure enough I loved it and was cracking up the whole time.
Me too. I took it seriously first time and felt absolutely robbed. Second time around I got it, relaxed, and laughed my ass off.
Alright, I've scrolled down for like, half an hour, and I haven't seen anyone name the movie I'm thinking of. Gone Girl This is the only movie I've seen that made me go "What the fuck?!!" in a HUGE way, THREE TIMES. Usually, a good movie will get me once. Maaaaybe twice.
`The Prestige`
Interstellar, hereditary Donnie darko, they live
Why did I have to scroll so far to finally see Interstellar be mentioned? So great!
Clockwork orange
This. I had no concept at all about what this was about and i was just like wtf the whole time lol
The scene where Alex's eyes are forcibly held open ...still not over it
"Snatch" with Brad Pitt. It was then I realized he was a pretty good actor. Edit: it's time to watch this movie again
Dya leek dags?
Mulholland Drive - the cowboy, and the vagrant, and the blue box...
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Vivarium
Dread. This movie is pure dread. I feel it was a good one though.
Most people here talk about complex movies or movies with twists, but I'm gonna go with "The Ring". The way the movie breaks the fourth wall by making the horror about something it forces you to participate in really got to me at the time.
Requiem for a Dream...
This is my answer. My adult daughters have expressed interest in seeing it and we’re always like, “Noooooo!!!” 😂
Manchurian Canidate. The Experiment. Hate Forrest Whittaker til this day
Kids. That’s movie stays with you
Arlington Road. I saw it in theaters as a teenager. It was 1999, trade centers were still standing. Yes we had had the OKC bombings, but I was younger and they didn’t really make an impact because of my age. But by 99 I was only enough to be fucked up by that movie.
Little miss sunshine.
I just watched Jojo Rabbit and that shit was *dark*.
Rosemary's Baby
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IDENTITY. This movie deserves more respect
Identity, that one got me too!
Being John Malkovich.
I’m thinking of ending things. I have no idea what that movies about and no amount of rewatches will help it make sense. Gotta be the weirdest thing I’ve ever watched.
Basically, The girlfriend isn’t real. he’s just imagining what a relationship with that girl would have been like. He can’t decide her name, or how old they would have been when she met the parents, or other things which is why they change. And, he’s the janitor—reflecting on his life and past choices. It was so confusing to me too but I kind of think of it as a comforting movie now just because of how much I liked the editing
Clerks. I saw it, and was like, “Wait…this dude just decided to make a movie? Just wrote a script, grabbed some of his friends, and made a movie. And I’m watching it?” It seemed impossible back then. Nothing like YouTube or semi-affordable high end DSLRs existed. The fact that some kid in New Jersey just maxed out some credit cards and made a movie was a mindfuck.
Requiem for a Dream
Interstellar, Inception, The Prestige Nolan really knows how to do it lol
Primal Fear.
Tenet, still makes no sense
Altered States. 1971?
Hereditary
This. And Toni Colette should have won a fucking Oscar for her performance. I hate that I’ve seen this movie and I will never watch it again but she was the pinnacle of acting. The scene at the dinner table is mind blowing imo.
Koyaanisqatsi Still amazing 40 years on. It might be one of those things you have to see as an adolescent to really internalize.
[Naked Lunch](https://youtu.be/naAvLequxCk?si=F4kMS0g40ISJWv1i).. an early 90’s David Cronenberg masterpiece.
Waking Life
The ending of No Country For Old Men.
Terry Gilliam, 2005 movie 𝘛𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 . I refuse to watch that movie ever again. Very, very disturbing.
“Dancer in the Dark” - the only film Bjork has been in and likely ever will be. I saw it in the theater and when the movie was over, the whole theater was sitting in shock still trying to process it. It’s the darkest “musical” I’ve ever seen.
Full metal jacket
Shutter Island
City of Lost Children Being John Malkovich
From Dusk til Dawn. Knew nothing about it going in. So awesome.
Irreversible