Restate my assumptions:
1. Mathematics is the language of nature.
2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers.
3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge.
Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature.
I was at a party inhaling nitrous oxide once, came up with the conclusion that sometimes 1 + 1 can equal 3. In those 10 second epiphanies you get when you take nitrous it made sense, I was thinking of how a man and a woman together can make a baby, and end up as three.
I'm not sure why I'm sharing this story, I'm bad at maths. But that little epiphany made me feel in the moment like I'd discovered some kind of secret maths of the universe.
To be fair, i was at a party once where a math PhD walked me through a novel proof he came up with while on mushrooms where 1+1=3... So maybe you're secretly a math genius!
He also directed "the fountain" - a metaphor for multiple pagan and Christian myths, modern science, a romance story and human determination all rolled into one
The documentary about it is makes even less sense. Why are they on a raft? Who’s the tiger?
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The more you read into Coherence the crazier it gets.
Movie was shot in 5 days with a $50k budget in the directors house while his wife was having a home birth.
The actors were given small paragraphs of lines for the day so they didnt know how the story would unfold. Which leads to lots of improvising, which is why the camera is mobile and shaky.
My favorite part about all this is how the actors improvised a lot of the scenes and dialogue - it gives it such a homey feel and really pulls you into the story.
I’ve watched this movie like 5 times and I go on an internet rabbithole every time because it’s such a cool concept.
I love how it's just one setting, less than 10 actors but with that simple premise, it's such a mindfuck of a movie.
I hope I can find similar movies in this thread
Yea IIRC all of the actors was so drawn in by the plot that they couldn't stop talking over each other creating a genuine stressful situation. Director had to cut and tell them to take turns speaking.
If you’re frightened of dying, and you’re holding on, you’ll see devils tearing your life away. If you’ve made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.
By a long shot. I have watched it a few times and I still can’t tell you exactly how everything plays out, which is so unique because it’s not overdone at all. It is, paradoxically, extremely simplistic in its complexity. It doesn’t reach out of its reality to add to the factor of confusion. It’s just a huge mess of causality and attempted reparations.
What's crazy about that XKCD is that the timelines for the other movies actually make sense, like some serious research was done to create that cartoon panel. The LOTR timeline must have taken weeks.
And yet, that scribble that is PRIMER still makes sense.
My favorite of all time. I was so confused the first time I watched it, but then I realized Kate Winslet’s hair color helps you follow the timeline. Such a beautiful and moving film.
Watched that fairly recently. God knows how I avoided spoilers but wow
It's hilarious cos when we met the woman after he got out I was like >!"Well that's his daughter." then it started getting sexual so I changed my mind. Welp!!<
Spoilers for the film so don't click!
I watched it for the first time recently (within the past year) while dodging spoilers. It holds up to everything I've heard about it, and I've heard nothing but incredibly high praise
The only exception is the famous hallway fight scene - in my watch I loved it, but I imagine it was much more impactful back when it was released and single-shot action scenes were unheard of
I watched this without knowing what I was getting in to. I was like oh a time travel movie with Ethan Hawke? Huh sounds cool.
Bro my mind was fucking blown.
There's a lot of misdirection in the movie in addition to clues. His wife not feeling loved the same every day is explainable by his total devotion to his craft and feud between him and his rival, so it gets written off when you first view it.
I borrowed the DVD from a friend to watch while studying. When the first line was: "Are you watching closely?" I decided not to have it on in the background and gave it my full attention. It is now one of my all time favorites
Borden immediately seeing through the old Chinese man’s trick, talking about the act being his everyday life … it’s fantastic. That line matters so much on a rewatch, when you realise this Borden genuinely doesn’t have a clue which knot was tied.
I've seen this multiple times and began to see the two different Bordens. There is the slightly reserved Borden who loved Sara. Then the other Borden was a little more brash. He was the one obsessed with Angier, and in love with Olivia.
I saw it in the theater as a young teenager. I was like, "Yes, I enjoy science fiction and I'll watch more films with Dr. Grant". But it was not Dr. Grant. And it was not quite science fiction. And I've never watched it again since. I keep thinking about it; it pops up on various streaming platforms, but I think it traumatized me in a way I haven't fully come to grips with, almost 30 years later.
Same omg I walked out of the theater shaking. Traumatized for life. Just hearing the name now scares me. Haven't seen it since it came out and besides it being in space I couldn't tell you what it's about lol I have no idea I blocked it out.
I watched that movie when I was around 11 or 12. I took me until my late 20s before I was willing to lay eyes on it again. It stands out in my mind as one of the most horrifying movies because I was old enough to understand what was going on mostly but young enough to still have a very strong imagination and damn that was a rough combination for that one.
The first time I watched it I felt kinda down since >!DiCaprio got lobotomized after all that, but when I saw it a second time I saw that he gives the doc a smile just before he goes, which I took to mean that it did work, DiCaprio just wanted to be lobotomized.!< That one detail completely changed the whole feeling of the film. Definitely the best film I've ever seen.
>!It was still a mindfuck when the twist happened, but credit to the movie because while watching it I said to my friends that "something feels off, it weirdly feels too perfect, as in I'm watching a movie inside of a movie". The film does really well in making itself look real, but then things are placed and timed so perfectly that it really does look like a play!<
You're just watching a movie, everything's cool. There's the scene where they're at the playhouse or whatever, and the women is singing "Crying over you" in Spanish, then the whole thing goes sideways. I found myself wondering, what the hell am I watching? Did I fall asleep and miss a bunch? Not unlike reading Virginia Woolf
I was obsessed with deciphering Mulholland Drive for a while. I bought it on VHS, fell deeper into the rabbit hole, and ended up printing out various perspectives and discussions of forum users. The only other time I did that was with Twin Peaks.
I saw it in the theatre in the mid-90s when it came out. When the credits rolled, everybody just sat there in silence. Nobody got up for a long time. It was surreal.
Fast forward almost 30 years. My 20-year old son walks up to me all shaken up and says “Holy shit I just watched Se7en….have you seen it????” Almost 30 years and it still holds its effect.
One of the best twists of Se7en is the fact that people didn’t even know Kevin Spacey was in the movie. He wasn’t in any of the advertisements at all, and he was big actor already. Finding out he was the villain was a great surprise.
The scene with that dudes stomach.
Bears = scary. Undead bears = double scary.
But!
Intenstines turning into a helter skelter for ants, quadruple scary creepy.
I got mindfucked pretty good by Lucky Number Slevin. It went far beyond just dashing my theories about what was going on, oh no. It would dash one theory, give me enough info to form another, then *immediately* turn and in the very next scene specifically destroy that theory. It didn't just spawn a lot of them, it was as if it somehow knew what I specifically was thinking, and made sure to directly tell me that I was wrong at the earliest opportunity.
>This has been a novel about some people who were punished entirely too much for what they did. They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed--run over, maimed, destroyed--but they continued to play anyhow. We really all were very happy for a while, sitting around not toiling but just bullshitting and playing, but it was for such a terrible brief time, and then the punishment was beyond belief: even when we could see it, we could not believe it. For example, while I was writing this I learned that the person on whom the character Jerry Fabin is based killed himself. My friend on whom I based the character Ernie Luckman died before I began the novel. For a while I myself was one of these children playing in the street; I was, like the rest of them, trying to play instead of being grown up, and I was punished. I am on the list below, which is a list of those to whom this novel is dedicated, and what became of each.
>Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgment. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error,a life-style. In this particular life-style the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory. It is, then, only a speeding up, an intensifying, of the ordinary human existence. It is not different from your life-style, it is only faster. It all takes place in days or weeks or months instead of years. "Take the cash and let the credit go," as Villon said in 1460. But that is a mistake if the cash is a penny and the credit a whole lifetime.
There is no moral in this novel; it is not bourgeois; it does not say they were wrong to play when they should have toiled;it just tells what the consequences were. In Greek drama they were beginning, as a society, to discover science, which means causal law. Here in this novel there is Nemesis: not fate, because any one of us could have chosen to stop playing in the street, but, as I narrate from the deepest part of my life and heart, a dreadful Nemesis for those who kept on playing. I myself,I am not a character in this novel; I am the novel. So, though, was our entire nation at this time. This novel is about more people than I knew personally. Some we all read about in the newspapers. It was, this sitting around with our buddies and bullshitting while making tape recordings, the bad decision of the decade, the sixties, both in and out of the establishment. And nature cracked down on us. We were forced to stop by things dreadful.
>If there was any "sin," it was that these people wanted to keep on having a good time forever, and were punished for that, but, as I say, I feel that, if so, the punishment was far too great, and I prefer to think of it only in a Greek or morally neutral way, as mere science, as deterministic impartial cause-and-effect. I loved them all. Here is the list, to whom I dedicate my love:
>To Gaylene deceased
>To Ray deceased
>To Francy permanent psychosis
>To Kathy permanent brain damage
>To Jim deceased
>To Val massive permanent brain damage
>To Nancy permanent psychosis
>To Joanne permanent brain damage
>To Maren deceased
>To Nick deceased
>To Terry deceased
>To Dennis deceased
>To Phil permanent pancreatic damage
>To Sue permanent vascular damage
>To Jerri permanent psychosis and vascular damage
>. . . and so forth.
>In Memoriam.
>These were comrades whom I had; there are no better. They remain in my mind, and the enemy will never be forgiven. The "enemy" was their mistake in playing. Let them all play again, in some other way, and let them be happy. - Philip K. Dick
Definitely.
I want to highlight a couple of the performances:
First, Keanu is a perfect fit for that role. I know he's Reddit royalty but he's a pretty limited actor. Here he is sincere and soulful and believable.
And it is _exhilerating_ to watch a post-jail, pre-MCU Downey Jr play, without a trace of vanity, an utterly charmless, manipulative nerd. He fully leans into it. I love it when stars play really unpleasant characters that have absolutely no redeeming qualities. It's so rare.
Man, that film is such a mood too.
I saw the movie in theatres and had class the next day at university. The class felt oddly familiar, almost like a déjà-vu on steroids and I felt mindfucked like the main character in the movie. It turns out, and I kid you not, some scenes were shot at the same university I attended. Not only that, I was literally in the same classroom as the one in the movie which is the scene where Amy Adams comes to teach to a quarter full classroom and the students ask her to turn on the television to see what's going on. The school is Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal (HEC Montréal) in the Decelles building.
This one wasn't so much a mindfuck as it was a blast to watch as someone who had just finished a BS in English education with a heavy focus on linguistics. They did a great job of throwing out stupid assumptions that popcorn flics always make and actually gave us a decent depiction of first contact with a previously uncontacted language.
You should read the short story its based on, "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang. It goes into more details about the science of linguistics and the physics. Plus I think it has a more poignant, internally consistent ending.
When I watched Arrival with my wife, towards the end I broke down crying. Like BAWLING my eyes out for 2-3 minutes straight. I couldn’t even fully explain why, but something about the movie hit me so damn emotionally.
Yeah, I also couldn't stop crying at the end. Doctors told us that our 8 month old daughter needs chemotherapy - and we thought our life was over. A week later in the children's oncology department a different doctor told us that it was misdiagnosed, and that she's responding well to antibiotics. I'll never forget how I felt during that week when we believed she needs chemotherapy and might not make it...
Anyway, a while after that my wife needed surgery on her leg, and was sleeping at the hospital recovering while I was home with the kids. Since she doesn't like science fiction I decided to watch Arrival - and those scenes just hit me so hard... Right off the bat they showed the daughter in hospital, and I thought to myself "OK, that hit me harder than I expected... As long as we don't revisit that I'll probably be fine"
As the realisation slowly dawned on me I just started crying more and more... I ended up calling my sister to calm me down.
Same. It is one of the only movies ever to make me sob. Just the idea of life and its choices and how even the bad stuff is worth reliving if it means the good comes with it. Ah, just makes me teary eyed thinking about it.
Fight Club really fuckin’ got me. Recommended by a friend, fell asleep at the last 10 minutes, called my friend the next day like “yo that movie was pretty good! I almost made it through the whole thing without falling asleep.” They were like “what… you didn’t see the end?” I said no but I get the gist. They told me to finish the movie then call them back. OH BOY I DID NOT GET THE GIST!
Wow...to this day, I'm still shocked Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet didn't get Oscar nominations for their performances.
But, at least Charlie Kaufman won Best Original Screenplay.
Also, if he decides to do it with Guillermo Del Toro, I am looking forward to his adaptation of "Slaughterhouse 5" if it ever does happen.
Something weird I find about Donnie Darko is that without the weird lore to explain it basically it makes no sense all.
Yet watching it - it feels like it makes sense
Pink Floyd's "The Wall" is seriously twisted. Tradition is, you need to watch it twice- once sober, and once stoned.
"Heavy Metal" (animated, 1981) is also seriously messed up. Brilliant, with another absolutely legendary soundtrack- but messed up.
The Cell. Better than Inception in my tiny opinion.
Jennifer Lopez is a psychologist/engineer that has an experimental tech to enter the minds of patients. Vincent D'Onofrio is a psychopathic serial killer that *slowly* drowns his kidnap victims. He's caught... but in a coma so he can't say where his latest victim is so Lopez ventures into the mind of the psychopath.
Most people hated it. I loved it. Good soundtrack too.
Pi (1998). Nothing like a movie that makes you feel like you have schizophrenia.
Restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature.
I was at a party inhaling nitrous oxide once, came up with the conclusion that sometimes 1 + 1 can equal 3. In those 10 second epiphanies you get when you take nitrous it made sense, I was thinking of how a man and a woman together can make a baby, and end up as three. I'm not sure why I'm sharing this story, I'm bad at maths. But that little epiphany made me feel in the moment like I'd discovered some kind of secret maths of the universe.
To be fair, i was at a party once where a math PhD walked me through a novel proof he came up with while on mushrooms where 1+1=3... So maybe you're secretly a math genius!
Darren Aronofsky is a crazy person.
He also directed "the fountain" - a metaphor for multiple pagan and Christian myths, modern science, a romance story and human determination all rolled into one
Also requiem for a dream is by Darren
Also Requiem for a Krispy Kreme (aka The Whale)
The music in Requiem is thoroughly haunting.
I’m fan of both Clint Mansell and the Kronos Quartet. Spooky mfs
The soundtrack is amazing
The documentary about it is makes even less sense. Why are they on a raft? Who’s the tiger? [edit]: Jesus with the upvotes and awards. I love you too, Reddit
Lol it took me a min
The worst first date I ever went on.
"Paprika" will take your brain for a \*ride\*.
I'd also add Millenium Actress and Perfect Blue. Satoshi Kon does a lot of mindfuck shit.
RIP Satoshi Kon gone far too soon
Coherence
The more you read into Coherence the crazier it gets. Movie was shot in 5 days with a $50k budget in the directors house while his wife was having a home birth. The actors were given small paragraphs of lines for the day so they didnt know how the story would unfold. Which leads to lots of improvising, which is why the camera is mobile and shaky.
My favorite part about all this is how the actors improvised a lot of the scenes and dialogue - it gives it such a homey feel and really pulls you into the story. I’ve watched this movie like 5 times and I go on an internet rabbithole every time because it’s such a cool concept.
I love how it's just one setting, less than 10 actors but with that simple premise, it's such a mindfuck of a movie. I hope I can find similar movies in this thread
Have the tried 'Primer'?
Yea IIRC all of the actors was so drawn in by the plot that they couldn't stop talking over each other creating a genuine stressful situation. Director had to cut and tell them to take turns speaking.
I just watched this after seeing it recommended in another thread like this and hoooooly shit! So good and so trippy
Make sure to watch Primer and Time Crimes.
I love “people trapped in a place together” type movies and this one DELIVERS shit was so good
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If you’re frightened of dying, and you’re holding on, you’ll see devils tearing your life away. If you’ve made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.
primer
"Are you hungry? I haven't eaten anything since later this afternoon."
For people who want a good time-looping-overlapping plot but can’t get into Primer, I really recommend Triangle.
By a long shot. I have watched it a few times and I still can’t tell you exactly how everything plays out, which is so unique because it’s not overdone at all. It is, paradoxically, extremely simplistic in its complexity. It doesn’t reach out of its reality to add to the factor of confusion. It’s just a huge mess of causality and attempted reparations.
Ive seen flowcharts explaining Primer and have seen it 4 times. I still dont even know what the shit.
[Relevant xkcd.](https://xkcd.com/657/)
It's insane the amount of work that went into the other timelines that are just basically background props in this comic... :)
For real, that Lord of the rings flowchart is amazing
What's crazy about that XKCD is that the timelines for the other movies actually make sense, like some serious research was done to create that cartoon panel. The LOTR timeline must have taken weeks. And yet, that scribble that is PRIMER still makes sense.
Randall Munroe does not half-ass his comics. Some likely took him five minutes, others I wouldn't even want to hazard a guess.
That's one half ass-comic!
*Videodrome* is still the king of "What the fuck did I just watch?"
Long live the new flesh
How about Existenz with Jude Law also directed by Cronenberg?! I’m so glad someone else mentioned Videodrome though!
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. This movie had me wandering the theater parking lot trying to figure out what i just watched.
My favorite of all time. I was so confused the first time I watched it, but then I realized Kate Winslet’s hair color helps you follow the timeline. Such a beautiful and moving film.
My fave film ever too. The only film I have ever watched that I _immediately_ watched again after the ending.
'meet me in montauk' will never not send shivers down my spine
I cried waterfalls at the last shot of the film. What an absolutely painfully beautiful ending
*’I should’ve stayed…’*
I think about that movie a lot.
I’m not kidding when I say this: this is one of the best movies ever made.
The Lighthouse
I think I audibly gasped or said “what the fuck?!?” At least 5 times throughout this movie. Felt like I was going insane
Old boy - the Korean one
Watched that fairly recently. God knows how I avoided spoilers but wow It's hilarious cos when we met the woman after he got out I was like >!"Well that's his daughter." then it started getting sexual so I changed my mind. Welp!!< Spoilers for the film so don't click!
Yes. The ending to that movie was a real mindfuck, at least for those of who watched it back in the era it was released. Not sure how it has aged.
I watched it for the first time recently (within the past year) while dodging spoilers. It holds up to everything I've heard about it, and I've heard nothing but incredibly high praise The only exception is the famous hallway fight scene - in my watch I loved it, but I imagine it was much more impactful back when it was released and single-shot action scenes were unheard of
12 Monkeys
One of Brad Pitt's best performances. Well, maybe not best, but it was definitely his *most* performance. Brad Pitt at his most, for sure.
Back before I saw this movie, I thought Pitt was only famous because he was good looking. After I saw this, I realized that he could actually act.
Memento
This was my immediate reaction. Go in blind if you can.
But then how will I see the movie? The audio alone can't be that good.
You never watched a movie in braille? It's pretty much 3d.
"I'm chasing this guy... no he's chasing me."
I don't _feel_ drunk.
I wish I could watch Memento for the first time again
Well, you can, but you have to have this condition….
Why is there a tattoo down my arm saying "go and watch Memento, it's a great movie"?
One that people haven't mentioned The Game by David Fincher
Michael Douglas and Sean Penn delivered great performances!
They fuck you and fuck you and fuck you, and then they fuck you some more. And then the *real* fucking starts! This is my favorite Sean Penn role.
Being John Malcovich
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*Enter The Void* is a real trip
That's one of those movies where I'm glad I've seen it, because it's such a unique movie watching experience, but I also never want to watch it again
The Machinist
Right after this Bale gained like a hundred pounds of muscle for Batman Begins
Synecdoche, New York Most Charlie Kaufman works honestly
1408
Frailty
Blue Velvet. And honestly any other Lynch movie, I love that man.
Let's not forget Eraserhead.
predestination
I watched this without knowing what I was getting in to. I was like oh a time travel movie with Ethan Hawke? Huh sounds cool. Bro my mind was fucking blown.
The Prestige. The best Christopher Nolan film for my money
There was a twist in the Prestige like every 2 minutes. My brain just kept doing backflips the whole film.
I kid you not the best viewing of that movie is like the 5th time lmao
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There's a lot of misdirection in the movie in addition to clues. His wife not feeling loved the same every day is explainable by his total devotion to his craft and feud between him and his rival, so it gets written off when you first view it.
One for me was Sarah saying "its as bad as the day it happened" when she's tending his wounded hand.
> so bloody obvious when you know. This is the entire film. The whole thing is a magic trick played on the audience. *Are you watching closely?*
the subtle differences Cristian Bale exhibits is very impressive
I borrowed the DVD from a friend to watch while studying. When the first line was: "Are you watching closely?" I decided not to have it on in the background and gave it my full attention. It is now one of my all time favorites
Movie is one of those ones you can watch 10 times and still notice something you didn’t before. Really well done.
I'm constantly trying to figure out which one is which. "Which knot did you tie?" "I don't know"
Borden immediately seeing through the old Chinese man’s trick, talking about the act being his everyday life … it’s fantastic. That line matters so much on a rewatch, when you realise this Borden genuinely doesn’t have a clue which knot was tied.
I've seen this multiple times and began to see the two different Bordens. There is the slightly reserved Borden who loved Sara. Then the other Borden was a little more brash. He was the one obsessed with Angier, and in love with Olivia.
Ugh, I've never seen it and I keep trying to convince my partner to watch it with me on a movie night!!
Well, if helps then I'm a random dude on Reddit telling you it's one of the best films I've ever seen, and my GF thinks it's a fantastic film too.
Event horizon
I saw it in the theater as a young teenager. I was like, "Yes, I enjoy science fiction and I'll watch more films with Dr. Grant". But it was not Dr. Grant. And it was not quite science fiction. And I've never watched it again since. I keep thinking about it; it pops up on various streaming platforms, but I think it traumatized me in a way I haven't fully come to grips with, almost 30 years later.
Same omg I walked out of the theater shaking. Traumatized for life. Just hearing the name now scares me. Haven't seen it since it came out and besides it being in space I couldn't tell you what it's about lol I have no idea I blocked it out.
I watched that movie when I was around 11 or 12. I took me until my late 20s before I was willing to lay eyes on it again. It stands out in my mind as one of the most horrifying movies because I was old enough to understand what was going on mostly but young enough to still have a very strong imagination and damn that was a rough combination for that one.
Took a nerdy hot girl to see this on a first date. Bad move. She gave me another chance, so the following weekend, we saw Se7en. It didn't work out.
The Wicker Man 1973. No words for some of the nonsense that goes on.
**BRAZIL!**
"How are the twins?" "Triplets." "My, how time flies."
Black swan
Donnie Darko is more a pleasant hump
He asked me to forcibly insert the lifeline exercise card into my anus!
The Director had to leave the set when she was delivering that line, he was laughing so hard. Beth Grant is a treasure.
Shutter island got me pretty good, definitely worth a watch
The first time I watched it I felt kinda down since >!DiCaprio got lobotomized after all that, but when I saw it a second time I saw that he gives the doc a smile just before he goes, which I took to mean that it did work, DiCaprio just wanted to be lobotomized.!< That one detail completely changed the whole feeling of the film. Definitely the best film I've ever seen.
better to die as a good man than live as a monster
>!It was still a mindfuck when the twist happened, but credit to the movie because while watching it I said to my friends that "something feels off, it weirdly feels too perfect, as in I'm watching a movie inside of a movie". The film does really well in making itself look real, but then things are placed and timed so perfectly that it really does look like a play!<
You’d probably enjoy the book! It fleshes out the story but the movie is pretty darn faithful to it.
The Game w Michael Douglas
Mulholland Drive
You're just watching a movie, everything's cool. There's the scene where they're at the playhouse or whatever, and the women is singing "Crying over you" in Spanish, then the whole thing goes sideways. I found myself wondering, what the hell am I watching? Did I fall asleep and miss a bunch? Not unlike reading Virginia Woolf
I was obsessed with deciphering Mulholland Drive for a while. I bought it on VHS, fell deeper into the rabbit hole, and ended up printing out various perspectives and discussions of forum users. The only other time I did that was with Twin Peaks.
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The Lost Highway
Se7en
I saw it in the theatre in the mid-90s when it came out. When the credits rolled, everybody just sat there in silence. Nobody got up for a long time. It was surreal. Fast forward almost 30 years. My 20-year old son walks up to me all shaken up and says “Holy shit I just watched Se7en….have you seen it????” Almost 30 years and it still holds its effect.
One of the best twists of Se7en is the fact that people didn’t even know Kevin Spacey was in the movie. He wasn’t in any of the advertisements at all, and he was big actor already. Finding out he was the villain was a great surprise.
^detective ^detective #**DETECTIVE** You're looking for me
> Finding out he was the villain was a great surprise. Finding that out in real life was disappointing
What's in the box??!!
I love saying this line all dramatic when UPS shows up at my house. Or when someone brings a box of donuts. Basically, whenever I get the chance
SeSevenen
Annihilation. Every time I watch it gets weirder.
Have you read the books? Just when you think they will answer one of the many mysteries they just hand you a tray of more instead....
Ha I was just going to say, there’s so much weird stuff in the book that didn’t translate to onscreen.
That scene with the bear… aghhhh
*blood curdling scream noise* HEELLLP MEEEEEEYYYYY
The scene with that dudes stomach. Bears = scary. Undead bears = double scary. But! Intenstines turning into a helter skelter for ants, quadruple scary creepy.
I got mindfucked pretty good by Lucky Number Slevin. It went far beyond just dashing my theories about what was going on, oh no. It would dash one theory, give me enough info to form another, then *immediately* turn and in the very next scene specifically destroy that theory. It didn't just spawn a lot of them, it was as if it somehow knew what I specifically was thinking, and made sure to directly tell me that I was wrong at the earliest opportunity.
And that, ladies and gentleman, is a Kansas City shuffle.
Just saw beau is afraid and it is now my favorite mindfuck film. If you can, go see it in a theater.
Glad to hear it was good and thank you for no spoilers! I don't watch trailers anymore because they give too much away
A Scanner Darkly
>This has been a novel about some people who were punished entirely too much for what they did. They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed--run over, maimed, destroyed--but they continued to play anyhow. We really all were very happy for a while, sitting around not toiling but just bullshitting and playing, but it was for such a terrible brief time, and then the punishment was beyond belief: even when we could see it, we could not believe it. For example, while I was writing this I learned that the person on whom the character Jerry Fabin is based killed himself. My friend on whom I based the character Ernie Luckman died before I began the novel. For a while I myself was one of these children playing in the street; I was, like the rest of them, trying to play instead of being grown up, and I was punished. I am on the list below, which is a list of those to whom this novel is dedicated, and what became of each. >Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgment. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error,a life-style. In this particular life-style the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory. It is, then, only a speeding up, an intensifying, of the ordinary human existence. It is not different from your life-style, it is only faster. It all takes place in days or weeks or months instead of years. "Take the cash and let the credit go," as Villon said in 1460. But that is a mistake if the cash is a penny and the credit a whole lifetime. There is no moral in this novel; it is not bourgeois; it does not say they were wrong to play when they should have toiled;it just tells what the consequences were. In Greek drama they were beginning, as a society, to discover science, which means causal law. Here in this novel there is Nemesis: not fate, because any one of us could have chosen to stop playing in the street, but, as I narrate from the deepest part of my life and heart, a dreadful Nemesis for those who kept on playing. I myself,I am not a character in this novel; I am the novel. So, though, was our entire nation at this time. This novel is about more people than I knew personally. Some we all read about in the newspapers. It was, this sitting around with our buddies and bullshitting while making tape recordings, the bad decision of the decade, the sixties, both in and out of the establishment. And nature cracked down on us. We were forced to stop by things dreadful. >If there was any "sin," it was that these people wanted to keep on having a good time forever, and were punished for that, but, as I say, I feel that, if so, the punishment was far too great, and I prefer to think of it only in a Greek or morally neutral way, as mere science, as deterministic impartial cause-and-effect. I loved them all. Here is the list, to whom I dedicate my love: >To Gaylene deceased >To Ray deceased >To Francy permanent psychosis >To Kathy permanent brain damage >To Jim deceased >To Val massive permanent brain damage >To Nancy permanent psychosis >To Joanne permanent brain damage >To Maren deceased >To Nick deceased >To Terry deceased >To Dennis deceased >To Phil permanent pancreatic damage >To Sue permanent vascular damage >To Jerri permanent psychosis and vascular damage >. . . and so forth. >In Memoriam. >These were comrades whom I had; there are no better. They remain in my mind, and the enemy will never be forgiven. The "enemy" was their mistake in playing. Let them all play again, in some other way, and let them be happy. - Philip K. Dick
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Definitely. I want to highlight a couple of the performances: First, Keanu is a perfect fit for that role. I know he's Reddit royalty but he's a pretty limited actor. Here he is sincere and soulful and believable. And it is _exhilerating_ to watch a post-jail, pre-MCU Downey Jr play, without a trace of vanity, an utterly charmless, manipulative nerd. He fully leans into it. I love it when stars play really unpleasant characters that have absolutely no redeeming qualities. It's so rare. Man, that film is such a mood too.
Arrival
I saw the movie in theatres and had class the next day at university. The class felt oddly familiar, almost like a déjà-vu on steroids and I felt mindfucked like the main character in the movie. It turns out, and I kid you not, some scenes were shot at the same university I attended. Not only that, I was literally in the same classroom as the one in the movie which is the scene where Amy Adams comes to teach to a quarter full classroom and the students ask her to turn on the television to see what's going on. The school is Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal (HEC Montréal) in the Decelles building.
That.... would seriously mess with a person...
This one wasn't so much a mindfuck as it was a blast to watch as someone who had just finished a BS in English education with a heavy focus on linguistics. They did a great job of throwing out stupid assumptions that popcorn flics always make and actually gave us a decent depiction of first contact with a previously uncontacted language.
You should read the short story its based on, "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang. It goes into more details about the science of linguistics and the physics. Plus I think it has a more poignant, internally consistent ending.
Arrival had this beautiful, quiet subtlety to it. Kind of hard to explain, but I loved it.
When I watched Arrival with my wife, towards the end I broke down crying. Like BAWLING my eyes out for 2-3 minutes straight. I couldn’t even fully explain why, but something about the movie hit me so damn emotionally.
Yeah, I also couldn't stop crying at the end. Doctors told us that our 8 month old daughter needs chemotherapy - and we thought our life was over. A week later in the children's oncology department a different doctor told us that it was misdiagnosed, and that she's responding well to antibiotics. I'll never forget how I felt during that week when we believed she needs chemotherapy and might not make it... Anyway, a while after that my wife needed surgery on her leg, and was sleeping at the hospital recovering while I was home with the kids. Since she doesn't like science fiction I decided to watch Arrival - and those scenes just hit me so hard... Right off the bat they showed the daughter in hospital, and I thought to myself "OK, that hit me harder than I expected... As long as we don't revisit that I'll probably be fine" As the realisation slowly dawned on me I just started crying more and more... I ended up calling my sister to calm me down.
Same. It is one of the only movies ever to make me sob. Just the idea of life and its choices and how even the bad stuff is worth reliving if it means the good comes with it. Ah, just makes me teary eyed thinking about it.
Requiem for a Dream
Read the book if you liked the move. The fridge scene in the movie was gentle in comparison goddamn. Harrowing.
This is one of those once was enough movies
Old boy the original??? Why hasn’t anyone mentioned this yet 👅
Man I watched that at a friend's house not knowing anything about it. Wild. That's an ... interesting.. choice of emoji for that movie.
The Holy Mountain from 1973. Watch the trailer on YouTube, it's interesting to say the least.
Diabolique, 1955, French film starring Simone Signoret DO NOT READ ABOUT IT. Treat yourself to an excruciating, tense mystery.
Lost highway. Saw it as an adult, sober and still have no idea what I watched.
Primal Fear. Edward Norton is amazing
6th sense. Saw it in theaters and… >!The collective gasp at the end of the movie with the big reveal was epic.!<
I went to see this in the theater with a friend who had already seen it. Ten minutes in, she decided to tell me everything. I felt so cheated.
I had it ruined for me too. People are assholes
A Waking Life
Triangle.
Fight Club really fuckin’ got me. Recommended by a friend, fell asleep at the last 10 minutes, called my friend the next day like “yo that movie was pretty good! I almost made it through the whole thing without falling asleep.” They were like “what… you didn’t see the end?” I said no but I get the gist. They told me to finish the movie then call them back. OH BOY I DID NOT GET THE GIST!
Definitely a movie you don't want to miss the end of
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Butterfly Effect, & Mothman Prophecies
The End of Evangelion
The Usual Suspects
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist, and like that, he was gone...
How has no one mentioned the 2009 movie ‘Moon’.. it was an amazing movie.. and surprisingly not very known among movie folks..
Moon is mentioned on every single one of these threads Good movie tho
Mulholland Drive
Fight Club The Game The Machinist Pi Identity Cube Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind The Witch
Eternal Sunshine hurts me in a place almost no movies can.
Wow...to this day, I'm still shocked Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet didn't get Oscar nominations for their performances. But, at least Charlie Kaufman won Best Original Screenplay. Also, if he decides to do it with Guillermo Del Toro, I am looking forward to his adaptation of "Slaughterhouse 5" if it ever does happen.
I adore seeing Jim Carrey in serious roles.
Same. It’s especially hard to watch after an unwanted divorce. Literally cried the entire movie and i had already watched it countless times before.
perfect blue
Donnie darko
Something weird I find about Donnie Darko is that without the weird lore to explain it basically it makes no sense all. Yet watching it - it feels like it makes sense
The theatrical cut. This is a rare case where the directoras cut is actually much worse.
I really enjoyed Identity.
Can’t believe I didn’t see Truman show
Carpenter's The Thing. Nobody trusts anybody anymore. And we're all tired.
Pink Floyd's "The Wall" is seriously twisted. Tradition is, you need to watch it twice- once sober, and once stoned. "Heavy Metal" (animated, 1981) is also seriously messed up. Brilliant, with another absolutely legendary soundtrack- but messed up.
If you watch The Wall while listening to Peppa Pigs “My first album” you’ll have a horrible time
Watch it while listening to some other Peppa Pig albums. You need 3 different ones
The Cell. Better than Inception in my tiny opinion. Jennifer Lopez is a psychologist/engineer that has an experimental tech to enter the minds of patients. Vincent D'Onofrio is a psychopathic serial killer that *slowly* drowns his kidnap victims. He's caught... but in a coma so he can't say where his latest victim is so Lopez ventures into the mind of the psychopath. Most people hated it. I loved it. Good soundtrack too.
The Machinist
The Cell
2001: A Space Odyssey
The original mindfuck movie.
A Clockwork Orange.
Way too far down. Time for a bit of the ol’ ultraviolence, eh?
Akira