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Re: Movies that will change the way you look at life, blow your mind, or just make you think [Re: Greenvalley]
#14247331 - 04/06/11 01:05 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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love kubrick. been wanting to revisit 'barry lyndon' lately actually.
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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]
#14247466 - 04/06/11 01:36 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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same. that movie is like a moving painting. love 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: akira_akuma]
#14247508 - 04/06/11 01:43 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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PS: Mark Twain is fucking badass.
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Re: Movies that will change the way you look at life, blow your mind, or just make you think [Re: Hakim0777]
#14247579 - 04/06/11 01:58 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Hakim0777 said:
PS: Mark Twain is fucking badass.
This is the best part
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Re: Movies that will change the way you look at life, blow your mind, or just make you think [Re: Greenvalley]
#14247691 - 04/06/11 02:22 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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I can't believe no one has mentioned this one yet:
Primer

It is actually the most mind-blowing I've ever seen, there are books on the explanation of this movie, I really recommend 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: Horsewithnoname]
#14248723 - 04/06/11 05:19 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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I just watched this for the first time and this deserves to be on the list: My dinner with Andre. its all on youtube
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Re: Movies that will change the way you look at life, blow your mind, or just make you think [Re: Greenvalley]
#14248748 - 04/06/11 05:25 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Greenvalley said: I just watched this for the first time and this deserves to be on the list: My dinner with Andre. its all on youtube
glad you liked it. im sure more people on here would love it if they knew it was out there..
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Re: Movies that will change the way you look at life, blow your mind, or just make you think [Re: Greenvalley]
#14248757 - 04/06/11 05:28 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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I agree on the Animal Farm book. It's an eye-opener, for sure.
On the topic of movies, Gran Torino really got me, but that's somewhat on a more personal level as I watched it with my grandfather and he is my father figure in life, and Clint Eastwood being the old fucker that he is, kind of makes it easier to relate. Nonetheless, a great movie.
Memento also really amazed me. It's not like a life-changing movie or anything, none of the movies I'm going to suggest are. But it's a movie you can watch and really kind of get to know Leonard (The main character) and it can change the way you think of people with those kinds of disorders, or at least it did for me. Christopher Nolan is honestly one of the best directors out there right now, in my opinion.
And finally, another one that's no life-changer or anything, but really blew me away in terms of.. well, everything really. Inception. In my opinion it's almost, if not, the perfect movie. It has an amazing score, perfect actors (Leonardo Di Caprio, Ellen Page? Just to name a couple? YES!) it has an amazing, captivating score, it has a cool idea and a touching story to go with it, and not to mention, a great director behind it all. (Again, Christopher Nolan!)
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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]
#14249151 - 04/06/11 06:45 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Senor_Doobie said: Where's the love for Kubrik?? That guy is always blowing my mind.
Eyes Wide Shut is another good Kubrick film.
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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]
#14249242 - 04/06/11 07:00 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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swing blade 
limitless 
super size me
didnt see these mentioned
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Re: Movies that will change the way you look at life, blow your mind, or just make you think [Re: 1EyeCries]
#14249262 - 04/06/11 07:04 PM (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: Senor_Doobie]
#14249264 - 04/06/11 07:04 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Senor_Doobie said: 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!
2001 is a book clockwork is a book
come on mang
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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]
#14249322 - 04/06/11 07:18 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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pfxtc said: 2001 is a book
not for nothin but..
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Wikipedia said: 2001: A Space Odyssey is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke. It was developed concurrently with Stanley Kubrick's film version and published after the release of the film.
and yes, i have read the book as well..
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Re: Movies that will change the way you look at life, blow your mind, or just make you think [Re: frith]
#14251676 - 04/07/11 06:01 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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so are 'the shining' and 'barry lyndon' based off of novels. that doesn't make them great movies.
totally forgot about 'memento'. and honestly, the first 'matrix' movie blew my mind when i saw it. 'the animatrix' was really cool too.
that mark twain looks great. anyone read his autobio that just came out yet?
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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]
#14251678 - 04/07/11 06:03 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: Hakim0777]
#14251696 - 04/07/11 06:13 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Caligula?
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Re: Movies that will change the way you look at life, blow your mind, or just make you think [Re: floatingupstream]
#14251729 - 04/07/11 06:25 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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caligula is a piece of shit movie lol.
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Re: Movies that will change the way you look at life, blow your mind, or just make you think [Re: Hakim0777]
#14252019 - 04/07/11 08:38 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Fight club! I absolutely love the movie, I used to watch it every day when I discovered it, it still amazes me now how much it speaks to me when I ocasionaly rewatch it, it's also IMO better then the book, one of the very few.
The other one that really touched me is Stephen Fry's documentary, The secret life of the manic-depressive, really pits things into perspective for me.
There are a huge lot of awesome movies, most of them mentioned, but for some reasons none really speak to me...
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Re: Movies that will change the way you look at life, blow your mind, or just make you think [Re: Hakim0777]
#14252066 - 04/07/11 08:54 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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What a bitch. lol
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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]
#14252464 - 04/07/11 10:45 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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"Mind Game" - 2004, simply a great life-affirming movie. It was really strange the first time I watched this movie because I had an extremely similar near death experience involving a complete life review prior to finding out about this movie. My own near death experience and this movie both left me in complete tears and empathy.
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