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Re: Movies that will change the way you look at life, blow your mind, or just make you think [Re: ShakeZor]
#14245598 - 04/06/11 12:23 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Requiem for a Dream by far! Candy Donnie Darko Fight Club American Beauty A Waking Life (One of the best pieces of art made in my opinion) The Taking of Pelham 123 Zeitgeist series (even though it has mass errors the overall message is good)
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Re: Movies that will change the way you look at life, blow your mind, or just make you think [Re: saxcidjazz]
#14245603 - 04/06/11 12:23 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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funny that it is that i'd say this
casino goodfellas
i mean i know they were largely dramatized, but still the fact that aside from name changes, and dramatic renditions, all that was based on 90% facts, is crazy
also i'd have to say
saving private ryan band of brothers the pacific tora tora tora
also, how about the series, generation kill
anyone seen that? a series about marines that were in afghanistan etc., written by how it happened. and the marines who were there actually played their own characters, fucking insane shit
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Re: Movies that will change the way you look at life, blow your mind, or just make you think [Re: imachavel]
#14245612 - 04/06/11 12:26 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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I also forgot about Schindler's List. That movie is among some of the most fucked up, and sadly didn't have to be too made-up.
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Re: Movies that will change the way you look at life, blow your mind, or just make you think [Re: LoveYourLife]
#14245624 - 04/06/11 12:28 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Wristcutters (a love story)
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Re: Movies that will change the way you look at life, blow your mind, or just make you think [Re: sleepy]
#14245654 - 04/06/11 12:38 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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sleepy said: Wristcutters (a love story)
Sounds like a movie that would make me contemplate suicide after watching it haha.
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Re: Movies that will change the way you look at life, blow your mind, or just make you think [Re: LoveYourLife]
#14245765 - 04/06/11 01:18 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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i know. it's really not though. i don't even want to talk about it because it will ruin it
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Re: Movies that will change the way you look at life, blow your mind, or just make you think [Re: sleepy]
#14245813 - 04/06/11 01:39 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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maestroelite said: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of my favorites. Another movie written by Kaufman, Adaptation, is less deep but a more interesting plot IMO once you wrap your head around it all.
Synecdoche, New York is the Kaufman movie that really blows my mind (when I can get my mind around it), although most of his movies are entertaining in an intellectual way.
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Re: Movies that will change the way you look at life, blow your mind, or just make you think [Re: saxcidjazz]
#14246535 - 04/06/11 08:59 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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maestroelite said: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of my favorites.
Good one.
Another one along the same lines is "Being John Malkovich." And I'll second (third?) the Waking Life recommendation.
Also, in terms of war movies (like the guy above suggested), I think it's hard to beat Full Metal Jacket.
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Re: Movies that will change the way you look at life, blow your mind, or just make you think [Re: NetDiver]
#14246549 - 04/06/11 09:04 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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The Matrix, Inception, 28 Days Later, Apocalypse Now, etc.
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Re: Movies that will change the way you look at life, blow your mind, or just make you think [Re: ROFL_my_ WAFFLE]
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Re: Movies that will change the way you look at life, blow your mind, or just make you think [Re: Nymphaea]
#14246757 - 04/06/11 10:16 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Nymphaea said: Synecdoche, New York is the Kaufman movie that really blows my mind (when I can get my mind around it), although most of his movies are entertaining in an intellectual way.
I was going to mention that one but I'm still not sure I get it. I've only seen it twice though and I was pretty stoned if I recall correctly.
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Re: Movies that will change the way you look at life, blow your mind, or just make you think [Re: saxcidjazz]
#14247008 - 04/06/11 11:40 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Re: Movies that will change the way you look at life, blow your mind, or just make you think [Re: millzy]
#14247030 - 04/06/11 11:46 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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No movie could ever do justice of 1984.
Best book I've ever read.
The only movie I can think of that may hold a candle or even be better then the book, is Lord of the Rings.
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Re: Movies that will change the way you look at life, blow your mind, or just make you think [Re: pfxtc]
#14247059 - 04/06/11 11:53 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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no one ever mentions My Dinner With Andre on these boards.. that is a shame.
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The film depicts a conversation between Gregory and Shawn (apparently playing themselves) in a chic restaurant in New York City. Based mostly on conversation, the film's dialog covers such things as experimental theatre, the nature of theatre, and the nature of life. The dialogue contrasts Shawn's modest, down-to-earth humanism with Gregory's extravagant spiritual experiences.
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Re: Movies that will change the way you look at life, blow your mind, or just make you think [Re: pfxtc]
#14247062 - 04/06/11 11:54 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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don't get me wrong, i'm impressed by tolkein, but i can think of a few authors who have stuff that, to me personally, left my mind completely blown. william gibson, philip k dick, iain m banks. and then you have guys like plato, descarte etc. that's not even including comics, which has a highly impressive list of writers like grant morrison, warren *fucking* ellis and so on (and of course alan moore).
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Re: Movies that will change the way you look at life, blow your mind, or just make you think [Re: DarkMatterOfFact]
#14247087 - 04/06/11 11:59 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Rawr wheres my pic.........Supposed to be Legend that movie is a masterpiece.
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Re: Movies that will change the way you look at life, blow your mind, or just make you think [Re: DarkMatterOfFact]
#14247240 - 04/06/11 12:37 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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i can't leave out my favorite movie ever. nothing like the novel, but a true piece of sci fi noir. syd mead's crowning achievement as far as conceptual design goes. cyber-art-deco? yes please.

and they've just announced that prequel/sequels are in the works. not from ridley scott, but i'm optimistic.
http://sciencefictionworld.com/films/science-fiction-films/734-blade-runner-sequels-and-prequels-happening.html
and if anyone hasn't read this, do it. line for line adaptation of the novel in comic form.
http://www.boom-studios.com/do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep-1-cover-a.html
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Re: Movies that will change the way you look at life, blow your mind, or just make you think [Re: LoveYourLife]
#14247256 - 04/06/11 12:41 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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The Last Samuri actually hit home with me.
I also just saw Defiance and that was a good one too.
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Re: Movies that will change the way you look at life, blow your mind, or just make you think [Re: millzy]
#14247291 - 04/06/11 12:51 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Where's the love for Kubrik?? That guy is always blowing my mind.
2001: A Space Odyssey is a movie that will make you think for weeks or months or forever.
Full Metal Jacket has been mentioned.
A Clockwork Orange kind of changed society.
Otherwise the movie Network is really one of my all-time favorites. Genius work.
Visioneers is a little movie that forever changed the way I look at butter. Really a cool movie.
What else?
Instinct inspired me to read the book on which it is based so that one really kind of opened my eyes to a new worldview. The book is "Ishmael". The movie is very loosely based on it.
I know there are more but I can't think of them now. Maybe I'll come back. Anyway, nice thread. There are some movies mentioned that I haven't seen so now I have movies to watch!
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Re: Movies that will change the way you look at life, blow your mind, or just make you think [Re: Senor_Doobie]
#14247308 - 04/06/11 12:56 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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I almost forgot this one: The adventures of Mark Twain
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