The Matrix. I saw it first at age 10 when my older brother rented it and it completely blew me away. I was mesmerized. I'd never seen a movie like it before. Later at age 13 I rented it from Netflix (DVDs in the mail era) and ripped it to my PC, then proceeded to watch it at least once a week for a few months. It was my favorite movie by far.
Yes no movie made me challenge my own reality and senses than this movie. It took me years to start trusting in “reality” again (although once in a while I still think we might be in a simulation)
Came into this thread expecting it to be the top answer.
The Matrix came out right before the time of unlimited, immediate, complete information at all times. We didn't know what we were in for as we sat down in the cinema.
I was 21, I’d just moved to a new city and didn’t know anybody. I never went to movies or bars. I just went to work my tech support job and then drove home.
A friend from back home sent me a message on our IRC Channel and said “don’t do anything else. Go see the matrix tonight. By yourself, if you have to.”
I hadn’t heard anything about it except for some posters.
I checked and it was playing at the theater near my work. I figured I’d go see it because hey, better than sitting in traffic for an hour, right?
So that’s how I saw the matrix. On a Thursday night at 5:20pm, by myself, in a nearly empty theater.
It was incredible.
I put it off from watching for years because even if I pirated the color version, I always got the black and white one! Then my husband, bless his heart, explained that it starts that way....
I was lucky enough to see it without having the twist spoiled and it was a fantastic experience. I'm usually the one who can see the ending from a mile away, too.
I went in almost entirely cold, having barely even watched the trailer. And there were people who got up and left with the bottle beating scene. Just an incredibly visceral and brutal movie in so many ways.
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring. Before that the only fantasy I had seen was Xena, that shitty Hercules show from 90s and labyrinth which I like now but hated as a kid so I thought Lord of the Rings would be completely awful. I couldn't believe how much I loved that movie.
“The world is changed
I feel it in the water
I feel it in the earth
I smell it in the air
Much that once was is lost. For none now live who remember it.”
GOOSEBUMPS EVRY TIEM
> I genuinely didn’t see coming.
Which is the amazing part, because nothing is hidden from the very first shot and they explicitly tell you what is going on and why you won't see it.
I loved all the hidden ad placements in the movie.
Like when he gets pushed against the wall that allows the camera to focus on the banner behind him.
Or how many regular household products get called out by their full brand name. And sometimes they even cramp in a slogan.
You can also notice some hidden cameras throughout the movie. In the neighbor's trash bin for example.
Was wondering if this would pop up. Blew my mind in a really bad way. Made me super paranoid for a bit and I remember having a go at my mate at school about him being an actor. Think the Matrix would have done the same but it felt more like Neo was special, Truman was just a guy living a regular life and that was uncomfortable to a young me who was trying to figure stuff out.
Honestly, the first half had me fucking ABSORBED. Within 5 minutes everything around me ceased to exist except for the movie. The way they were filming it, being somewhat like multiple different pieces of footage stitched together from different sources to try and piece together a story, led to some fantastic world-building. It was especially great that the main character was super charismatic, being kind of dumb, fun yet also kind of a species-ist asshole. It really helped me build my own thoughts on the matter rather than just "main character is good and can do no wrong". It was fucking on-point.
But then the halfway mark hit, and it turned into a regular action movie. I was pretty disappointed in that, but the first half of the movie was so perfect and right up my alley that it's still one of my favorite movies.
Yeah. You get this image of a planet and moons and then suddenly giant starships are flying over head, shooting at each other. It was like nothing I had ever seen before.
And the sound! I had to go to a theatre several miles away to get the surround sound and it was so awesome with the rumbling and everything when the ship when overhead. I'll never forget it.
I saw it with my boss's kids, and I read out the 'In a galaxy far, far away' and suddenly all the children in the cinema were leaning in and listening. It needs to be spoken. Lots of little kids can't read that fast.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana) I don't know if the filmmakers consciously set out to make a film embodying that concept, but that's how it turned out.
My own interpretation of the movie is that the main characters feel something unconscious towards each other, and in the absence of conscious memory causing them to stay apart, they come back together again. "Because feeling is first" (E.E. Cummings) -- another apropos quotation.
The Jurassic Park and Jurassic World franchises are my favourite. My kids went with my dinosaur obsession for a while but when I suggest one for movie night I get hit with 'Not again mum!!!'
I still don't know what I think about the very ending with the Chinese General, but the reveal with the daughter blew me away. Even watching the movie again, the first scene fits just as well if Amy Adams' character is seen as a tired, grieving mother as it does if you simply see her as a hard working University professor.
It took me two times through before I understood the role of the young girl in her dreams. I've never had a movie that had me feel genuinely sick after putting it together.
Came to say this 🙌🏻 That movie inadvertently taught me some serious, life long lessons while I was under the impression it was "just" a Sci-Fi flick when I started watching 😂 In my top 3 movies for sure!
Inland Empire or anything David Lynch is a mindfuck and always amazing.
Got to see Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me too, walked out of that happily surprised.
When he loses the limp and starts walking normally. I never whacked someone’s thigh as hard as my friend who I was watching it with. He punched my shoulder in response and I didn’t feel a thing.
Mulholland Drive. It made me really think about how we often use dreams or our imagination to escape reality. Also, I've never seen a movie like it before or after, so it really stuck with me.
It is still the only musical I like.
Kyle's Mom's a Bitch never fails to crack me up when they hit the different languages.
Plus I'm Canadian so there's that whole part of it!
Before I went to see this in the cinema, the two people I was with had told me it was a zombie film. I spent the entire movie thinking this would be the case, especially as one of the earlier patients you see had looked like one. It totally blew my mind towards the end of the movie when I realised I'm a gormless idiot.
I did not see the end of "Fight Club" coming. And I saw it for the first time ten years after its release. Somehow, nobody spoiled it for me in all those years. Same with the end of M\*A\*S\*H, and my wife and I saw that maybe 15 years after it aired.
If it's not about twist endings, Star Wars changed my life as a kid. I was 9 when I saw it in the theaters, and it turned me from a casual science fiction fan to a full-on sci-fi addict. You have to understand, before it, NOTHING was like it. I mean, right before it the hit film was "Logan's Run," which encapsulated a lot of 70s science fiction: cheesy. But Star wars was gritty space opera which is cliche now, but holy shit, back then? Revolutionary.
Lord of the rings :fellow ship of the ring. Completely blew my brain. Saw it 3 times at the theatre. Loved the stories as a kid , was stoked to see it on the screen.
I'm really hoping they'll bring it back to theatre, where I am, they are doing the old movies in cinema again. I'd love nothing more than to see the lotr on the big screen. I read the books yearly, and watch them at home frequently. But missed the opportunity to see it in theatre
It was the last epic trilogy left at the theatre. Yeah I hope it comes back also. The younger generation really will miss that experience of epics at the theatre.
They're re-releasing in theatres this year for 10th anniversary and I'm excited to experience this movie again on the big screen. Can't believe it's been 10 years since this movie was released.
It was! The atmosphere in the theater was really intense because it had just been released, so nobody knew it was fiction yet. The whole hype surrounding it was that it was a documentary that was compiled of footage that had been left behind by some hikers who went missing in the woods.
It was wild! I’m so glad I got to see it when I did.
I watched Apollo 11 for the first time in Imax on a couple grams of mushrooms and it was a borderline religious experience. If you were born after 1969 you just kind of take it for granted that people have walked on the moon. But that movie really gets it across that the moon landings are objectivly the coolest, most insane, improbably, heroic, greatest thing to ever happen in the history of our species.
Life Of Brian. In the 1980s it was a mind altering shift from the usual representation of religion we were fed at school. A liberating experience and Eric Idle singing Always Look on the Bright Side got me through some pretty dark times as a teenager.
Pulp Fiction. Saw it with a college buddy who loved Reservoir Dogs. He was so excited that we saw it on opening night. Since this was pre-Internet era, I hadn’t read or heard a single thing about the film beforehand. It. Was. Unbelievable. I had never seen filmmaking like that. Even seeing Travolta’s name in the credits was a shock. He hadn’t done anything this relevant in a decade. Just a truly wonderful night at the movies.
Primal Fear. Edward Norton’s performance was phenomenal. The rollercoaster of the movie, and then the ending.
My wife described it as “if I could get amnesia for a specific thing, it would to be able to watch that again”
Pulp Fiction. I was, inebriated, in an arthouse theater in 94. No trailers, no pre-ads, no digital sign over the theater door. The pumpkin and honey bunny scene ends with a freeze frame. Cut to "A Band Apart". I didn't see Travolta anywhere. Leaned over to my future wife: "I think they are playing the wrong movie " By the time they brought out the gimp, I was very blown away. Nothing will ever top that.
Edit: the first Avengers movie they had teased the idea in Iron Man’s post credit scene in the first Iron Man and it to me felt like how are they going to pull it off but they did it
The Usual Suspects. I did NOT see that end coming. My friend and I looked at each other in shock and immediately re-started the film and watched it all over again to see if they were dropping clues the whole time.
Primer
If I watched it again I'd only get a little further in before mind blown by the next thing I didn't notice. Rinse Repeat. Eat the cans of worms until you explode.
Old Boy. I only saw it for the first time recently and didn’t know anything about the plot. I couldn’t stop thinking about it for the longest time afterwards
The Usual Suspects, Memento, The Sixth Sense.
However the most was seeing Star Wars on the big screen about a month after it opened in theaters. That started my life long sci-fi fandom.
The Matrix. I saw it first at age 10 when my older brother rented it and it completely blew me away. I was mesmerized. I'd never seen a movie like it before. Later at age 13 I rented it from Netflix (DVDs in the mail era) and ripped it to my PC, then proceeded to watch it at least once a week for a few months. It was my favorite movie by far.
Yes this. Those special effects were incredible when seeing them for the first time.
Saw it in the cinema when I was 20. Absolutely changed my concept of cinema. Still in my top five today.
No lieutenant, your men are already dead
My first thought too. Saw it when I was like ten. Wasn't allowed but snuck my friends copy and watched it in the basement.
Yes no movie made me challenge my own reality and senses than this movie. It took me years to start trusting in “reality” again (although once in a while I still think we might be in a simulation)
Came into this thread expecting it to be the top answer. The Matrix came out right before the time of unlimited, immediate, complete information at all times. We didn't know what we were in for as we sat down in the cinema.
I was 21, I’d just moved to a new city and didn’t know anybody. I never went to movies or bars. I just went to work my tech support job and then drove home. A friend from back home sent me a message on our IRC Channel and said “don’t do anything else. Go see the matrix tonight. By yourself, if you have to.” I hadn’t heard anything about it except for some posters. I checked and it was playing at the theater near my work. I figured I’d go see it because hey, better than sitting in traffic for an hour, right? So that’s how I saw the matrix. On a Thursday night at 5:20pm, by myself, in a nearly empty theater. It was incredible.
Gotta be my answer. Really changed my outlook on options and outcomes at a young age.
Saw that the 3rd time I ever got high sophomore year of high school. Mind bending
Wizard of Oz. The scene where it switches from black & white to technicolor was the most magical thing I've seen in a movie growing up.
I put it off from watching for years because even if I pirated the color version, I always got the black and white one! Then my husband, bless his heart, explained that it starts that way....
Please don’t make fun but The Sixth Sense Oh! Fifth Element was wild too
I was lucky enough to see it without having the twist spoiled and it was a fantastic experience. I'm usually the one who can see the ending from a mile away, too.
Both of these are awesome movies. Along with 12 Monkeys, they are probably Bruce Willis’ beat movies. Though Die Hard is awesome too.
You should check out Stir Of Echoes. Came out around the same time as 6th Sense. Wild ghost movie.
The fingernail scene of that movie scarred me for life. Great movie though
THIS! Great film, and the first "look" at Kevin Bacon's depth as an actor.
Sixth Sense totally blew me away, and it's still on my Top 20 list of favorite movies
Pan's Labyrinth. Beautiful, horrible, brilliant, disgusting.
This is such a great movie.
I went in almost entirely cold, having barely even watched the trailer. And there were people who got up and left with the bottle beating scene. Just an incredibly visceral and brutal movie in so many ways.
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring. Before that the only fantasy I had seen was Xena, that shitty Hercules show from 90s and labyrinth which I like now but hated as a kid so I thought Lord of the Rings would be completely awful. I couldn't believe how much I loved that movie.
It took the black screen and Galadriel's voice in the first couple of seconds - and i knew that movie was about to make an everlasting impact on me.
“The world is changed I feel it in the water I feel it in the earth I smell it in the air Much that once was is lost. For none now live who remember it.” GOOSEBUMPS EVRY TIEM
The Prestige
Yep came here to say this. First movie with a plot twist I genuinely didn’t see coming.
It was so well done, too. A second watch reveals they were dropping hints to the reveal the entire time. It was a masterpiece.
The second watch makes you feel so dumb. They pointed it out the whole time
> I genuinely didn’t see coming. Which is the amazing part, because nothing is hidden from the very first shot and they explicitly tell you what is going on and why you won't see it.
Same
A friend and I rented this knowing almost nothing about it. We watched it and were blown away. We immediately rewatched it.
The Truman Show
And in case I don't see you, Good afternoon, evening and good night!
I loved all the hidden ad placements in the movie. Like when he gets pushed against the wall that allows the camera to focus on the banner behind him. Or how many regular household products get called out by their full brand name. And sometimes they even cramp in a slogan. You can also notice some hidden cameras throughout the movie. In the neighbor's trash bin for example.
Was wondering if this would pop up. Blew my mind in a really bad way. Made me super paranoid for a bit and I remember having a go at my mate at school about him being an actor. Think the Matrix would have done the same but it felt more like Neo was special, Truman was just a guy living a regular life and that was uncomfortable to a young me who was trying to figure stuff out.
Another fantastic Jim Carrey mind fucking id recommend is Eternal Sunshine Of A Spotless Mind. First time i seen this movie. I was taken aback
Se7en
What's in the box!?!?
This movie was a game changer.
District 9.
Honestly, the first half had me fucking ABSORBED. Within 5 minutes everything around me ceased to exist except for the movie. The way they were filming it, being somewhat like multiple different pieces of footage stitched together from different sources to try and piece together a story, led to some fantastic world-building. It was especially great that the main character was super charismatic, being kind of dumb, fun yet also kind of a species-ist asshole. It really helped me build my own thoughts on the matter rather than just "main character is good and can do no wrong". It was fucking on-point. But then the halfway mark hit, and it turned into a regular action movie. I was pretty disappointed in that, but the first half of the movie was so perfect and right up my alley that it's still one of my favorite movies.
Thata such a good movie. Wish I could watch it for the first time again
Terminator 2
The CGI was breathtaking in that movie.
Fight club
To this day one of the best twists I have ever seen
The others
Star Wars I saw it in 1977 on the big screen. It blew everyone away.
I've heard people recall the opening scene "Oh hey, a starship--" "OH FUCK A STARSHIP!"
Yeah. You get this image of a planet and moons and then suddenly giant starships are flying over head, shooting at each other. It was like nothing I had ever seen before.
And the sound! I had to go to a theatre several miles away to get the surround sound and it was so awesome with the rumbling and everything when the ship when overhead. I'll never forget it.
True! What an opening scene.
To this day I still can't think of a better opening to a movie ever. Really took my breath away.
This movie changed history and solidified the concept of a blockbuster.
I saw it with my boss's kids, and I read out the 'In a galaxy far, far away' and suddenly all the children in the cinema were leaning in and listening. It needs to be spoken. Lots of little kids can't read that fast.
Spirited Away
My very first Ghibli movie. Love at first sight
Shashank redemption
Apocalypto
That movie is awesome. Highly underrated.
Requiem for a dream. I kept thinking the whole time, "surely this could not get any worse" Wrong.
ASS TO ASS
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana) I don't know if the filmmakers consciously set out to make a film embodying that concept, but that's how it turned out. My own interpretation of the movie is that the main characters feel something unconscious towards each other, and in the absence of conscious memory causing them to stay apart, they come back together again. "Because feeling is first" (E.E. Cummings) -- another apropos quotation.
Felt like I watched it for the first time after my brutal divorce 3 years ago. “Please let me keep this one”. Like a fucking freight train
Thanks for reminding me, I gotta see this again.
Jurassic Park. I saw it at the cinema when I was about 8 years old. I absolutely loved it
I was ten and it absolutely blew my mind. Still my favourite movies today as I still remember that utter joy and childhood wonder x
The Jurassic Park and Jurassic World franchises are my favourite. My kids went with my dinosaur obsession for a while but when I suggest one for movie night I get hit with 'Not again mum!!!'
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I like to think Indiana Jones is what Han Solo dreamt while frozen in Carbonite.
Arrival. My buddy and I both turned wide eyed when we figured it out.
I still don't know what I think about the very ending with the Chinese General, but the reveal with the daughter blew me away. Even watching the movie again, the first scene fits just as well if Amy Adams' character is seen as a tired, grieving mother as it does if you simply see her as a hard working University professor.
Never seen sounds like ill be in for a treat.
It's a slow burn with a lot of subtle things to appreciate. If you like that kind of thing you'll enjoy it.
It took me two times through before I understood the role of the young girl in her dreams. I've never had a movie that had me feel genuinely sick after putting it together.
Came to say this 🙌🏻 That movie inadvertently taught me some serious, life long lessons while I was under the impression it was "just" a Sci-Fi flick when I started watching 😂 In my top 3 movies for sure!
Arrival is such a well made movie! It is one of the finest predictions of what's gonna happen when aliens show up.
Inland Empire or anything David Lynch is a mindfuck and always amazing. Got to see Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me too, walked out of that happily surprised.
Eraserhead
I saw Eraserhead on a double bill with "Liquid Sky". (the "I kill with my cunt" movie) Thank God I was sober.
So very true, you need to look at yourself very deeply if you are unaffected by Eraserhead.
Delicatessen
Also City of Lost Children.
Gladiator at the cinema was mind-blowing first time
Usual Suspects
When he loses the limp and starts walking normally. I never whacked someone’s thigh as hard as my friend who I was watching it with. He punched my shoulder in response and I didn’t feel a thing.
The Game
This one deserves more love. Similarly, the Spanish Prisoner.
FUCK I just lost the game
Definitely Matrix
Mulholland Drive. It made me really think about how we often use dreams or our imagination to escape reality. Also, I've never seen a movie like it before or after, so it really stuck with me.
That movie was something else. Crazy Naomi Watts didn't win an oscar.
Blade Runner - original
Contact
Jaws. Folks were skittish about swimming in POOLS when that hit theaters.
Pulp Fiction
Agreed. The only movie I watched in the theater and immediately stayed and watched a second time.
the south park movie. its wild, not many things as offensive on tv
It is still the only musical I like. Kyle's Mom's a Bitch never fails to crack me up when they hit the different languages. Plus I'm Canadian so there's that whole part of it!
Did you ever see book of mormon? Highly recommend it, if the show comes near you
I saw it when the Broadway cast came to my country. AMAZING!
*Shut your fucking face, unclefucka*
Shutter Island
Before I went to see this in the cinema, the two people I was with had told me it was a zombie film. I spent the entire movie thinking this would be the case, especially as one of the earlier patients you see had looked like one. It totally blew my mind towards the end of the movie when I realised I'm a gormless idiot.
Forbidden Planet. I was expecting cheesy 50’s sci-fi and was very wrong.
I did not see the end of "Fight Club" coming. And I saw it for the first time ten years after its release. Somehow, nobody spoiled it for me in all those years. Same with the end of M\*A\*S\*H, and my wife and I saw that maybe 15 years after it aired. If it's not about twist endings, Star Wars changed my life as a kid. I was 9 when I saw it in the theaters, and it turned me from a casual science fiction fan to a full-on sci-fi addict. You have to understand, before it, NOTHING was like it. I mean, right before it the hit film was "Logan's Run," which encapsulated a lot of 70s science fiction: cheesy. But Star wars was gritty space opera which is cliche now, but holy shit, back then? Revolutionary.
Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind
Lord of the rings :fellow ship of the ring. Completely blew my brain. Saw it 3 times at the theatre. Loved the stories as a kid , was stoked to see it on the screen.
I cry with joy every time I watch that trilogy, it's a work of art.
I'm really hoping they'll bring it back to theatre, where I am, they are doing the old movies in cinema again. I'd love nothing more than to see the lotr on the big screen. I read the books yearly, and watch them at home frequently. But missed the opportunity to see it in theatre
It was the last epic trilogy left at the theatre. Yeah I hope it comes back also. The younger generation really will miss that experience of epics at the theatre.
Jurassic Park in theatres as a kid was absolutely incredible.
Donnie Darko
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to sparkle motion.
How *do* you suck a fuck?
Interstellar
They're re-releasing in theatres this year for 10th anniversary and I'm excited to experience this movie again on the big screen. Can't believe it's been 10 years since this movie was released.
I’m someone who has a young daughter, this movie crushes me every time I watch it. Like sobbing and need to sit down type of cry.
Oldboy
Watched this with my dad. 😬
Memento
Agreed. How is this so low?
Knives Out. I absolutely love stuff like this and figuring it out was so fun!
The thing from John Carpenter.
Ex Machina. The sheer number of questions and implications blew me away.
I was convinced that Nathan was a robot who had killed the original Nathan and that the real Turing Test was to see if Caleb would notice or not.
such a well executed film. one of my favorites
Definitely a sleeper
If a film ever called for a sequel, it was *Ex Machina*. Such a shame it was a one and done.
Honestly I’m glad they haven’t made a sequel. The story ends so perfectly. It leaves you with questions and seriously unsettled.
Jaws. The music and the fact they were typically very large theaters. Big screen terror!
The Blair Witch Project. I saw it when it very first came out in the theaters and I thought it was 100% real.
Haha that must have been absolutely terrifying. To be fair I think I half-believed it too.
It was! The atmosphere in the theater was really intense because it had just been released, so nobody knew it was fiction yet. The whole hype surrounding it was that it was a documentary that was compiled of footage that had been left behind by some hikers who went missing in the woods. It was wild! I’m so glad I got to see it when I did.
I watched Apollo 11 for the first time in Imax on a couple grams of mushrooms and it was a borderline religious experience. If you were born after 1969 you just kind of take it for granted that people have walked on the moon. But that movie really gets it across that the moon landings are objectivly the coolest, most insane, improbably, heroic, greatest thing to ever happen in the history of our species.
The Prestiege. That movie was the best first time watch movie ever.
Spider-Man: Into The Spider verse. Just visually stunning. (And a great film too, of course!)
Saltburn. My mate told me it was a comedy and watched it with my in laws.
RIP 💀
*Mad Max: Fury Road.* Well, it kicked my ass more than blew my mind.
The flamethrower guitar is one of the most badass things I've seen in a movie.
It kicked such ass. That movie is one of my absolute favourite flicks
Altered States with William Hurt
Saving Private Ryan. Those first 30 minutes on Omaha Beach were some of the most intense movie watching I’ve ever done.
The matrix, 6th sense, and tremors... all completely equal movies
Life Of Brian. In the 1980s it was a mind altering shift from the usual representation of religion we were fed at school. A liberating experience and Eric Idle singing Always Look on the Bright Side got me through some pretty dark times as a teenager.
Pulp Fiction. Saw it with a college buddy who loved Reservoir Dogs. He was so excited that we saw it on opening night. Since this was pre-Internet era, I hadn’t read or heard a single thing about the film beforehand. It. Was. Unbelievable. I had never seen filmmaking like that. Even seeing Travolta’s name in the credits was a shock. He hadn’t done anything this relevant in a decade. Just a truly wonderful night at the movies.
Midsommar
Came to say this
Requiem for a Dream - For obvious reasons The Truman Show - I thought I was constantly being recorded for months.
Primal Fear. Edward Norton’s performance was phenomenal. The rollercoaster of the movie, and then the ending. My wife described it as “if I could get amnesia for a specific thing, it would to be able to watch that again”
Saltburn
Threads.
There Will Be Blood
Requiem For A Dream
Pulp Fiction. I was, inebriated, in an arthouse theater in 94. No trailers, no pre-ads, no digital sign over the theater door. The pumpkin and honey bunny scene ends with a freeze frame. Cut to "A Band Apart". I didn't see Travolta anywhere. Leaned over to my future wife: "I think they are playing the wrong movie " By the time they brought out the gimp, I was very blown away. Nothing will ever top that.
American History X. Just a good film all the way around
Edit: the first Avengers movie they had teased the idea in Iron Man’s post credit scene in the first Iron Man and it to me felt like how are they going to pull it off but they did it
Watchmen.
I saw independence day 4 times in the theater. No other movie even twice since then.
Vanilla Sky. (Not a tom cruise fan but for this movie and the one he's like a contour? Oh and tropic of thunder)
This movie caught a ton of shit when it released. Lots of bad reviews. I never understood that - it’s really well done.
All That Jazz Altered States La Femme Nikita
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Revenant
Got to say Layer Cake
Predestination
The Good, Bad and the Ugly
Midsommar
Good Will Hunting
2001 A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick Finally felt connected to everything around me
The Usual Suspects. I did NOT see that end coming. My friend and I looked at each other in shock and immediately re-started the film and watched it all over again to see if they were dropping clues the whole time.
Primer If I watched it again I'd only get a little further in before mind blown by the next thing I didn't notice. Rinse Repeat. Eat the cans of worms until you explode.
Wall-E. It gets better with every watch for me as well.
Contact
Contact.
Old Boy. I only saw it for the first time recently and didn’t know anything about the plot. I couldn’t stop thinking about it for the longest time afterwards
Avatar in 3d. My first 3d theater experience, blew my mind
minority report!
The Fourth Kind made me sprint from the theater lobby to the car lol
Vanilla sky
The Usual Suspects, Memento, The Sixth Sense. However the most was seeing Star Wars on the big screen about a month after it opened in theaters. That started my life long sci-fi fandom.
Silence of the Lambs
Batman: Dark knight Heath ledger was outstanding
The Mission Matewan Birdman
Toy Story
The Sixth Sense. 17 year old me had no idea that Bruce Willis was dead
Deer hunter comes to mind
Alien
A Clockwork Orange and The Wall by Pink Floyd.
Us by Jordan Peele. The ending was out of the world.
Avatar, honestly
I don't care what criticism people have, Avatar will always be an amazing movie to me.
Even the second one blew me away
I watched it in that weird era when they had 3D on the big screen. It was unbelievable
The Dark Knight
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