On December 30 2010 06:33 Suffir wrote: Here are all of the movies spoken about that ive seen. I've categorized them by pseudo genre - many of them fit 3 or more. Ratings: (I'll try to be unbiased, but we know that's impossible) Great = ++ Good = + Mediocre = - and if didn't belong on here in the first place, nothing. This is based on the film as a whole, I may favor intellectuality.
Intellectual 12 Monkies++ (Sci-fi Cult Classic) 21 grams+ A beautiful mind++ (Emotional, schizophrenic, delusional, brilliant) A Space Odyssey 2001++ (Kubrick classic) Adaptation+ Butterfly Effect- (So much potential...) Dark City++ (Cult classic) Donnie Darko++ (Cult classic) Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind++ (Funny, weird, colorful and emotional) Eyes Wide Shut+ (too slow) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas++ (Drug classic) Fight Club++ (If you haven't seen this... now.) Identity+ Jacob's Ladder++ (Madness) Magnolia++ (Weird and twisted at times. Funny, pretty much covers everything) Mulholland Drive++ (David Lynch is acquired taste) Saw++ (As a series, very compelling morality) Silence of the Lambs++ (Anthony WAS the series) Waking Life+ (A nice intro to existential thought, but pretty basic) The Fountain++ (Unique) Proof+ Primer++ (Given the budget, a masterpiece) Revolver++++++++ (SEE this movie. If you consider yourself a connoisseur.) Wall-E++ (Best Disney to date)
Emotional A Requiem for a Dream++ (A trip into the insanity of drugs, legal and not) American History X+ (Racial, gangs, a tough life) Artificial Intelligence+++ (Question what emotion truly is Equilibrium++ (Life is not without emotion) Garden State+ (Mostly depressing. The main character is meant to be disliked. Reality check.) Goodwill Hunting+ (The life of an intellectual who doesn't care) Igby Goes Down+ (Dealing with a handicapped brother) Meet Joe Black (This movie had no merit to me) Memento+++ (Place yourself in the shoes of this man) Solaris+ (Odd sci-fi) The Shawshank Redemption+ (Overrated, but worth watching) The Sixth Sense++ (Hits the mark on being an outcast, though special) The Virgin Suicides+ The Jacket++ (Clever. Should see this one) Moon++ (Isolation, terribly sad)
Action Apocalypse Now++ (One of the best war movies) Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels++ (Guy Ritchie does his thing. Great stuff.) Matrix++ (Eternally bashed, but magnificently conducted take on life) Pandorum+ (Insanity on a wrecked spaceship) The Deer Hunter+ (If you enjoy war movies, then this is one of the better ones) V for Vendetta+ (Dictation, revolution. Tad bit shallow, but gets what it aims for) Watchmen- (Has its high points, but overall... cash crop superheroes)
Comedy Being John Malkovich++ (Hilarious and smart) I Heart Huckabees++ (Cooperation vs. Trees, with quirky undertones) Lost in Translation+ (Seemed a bit empty. Bill Murray has gotten stale) One Flew Over the Cockoo's Nest++ (A nice journey into a psych ward) Stranger than Fiction+++ (Hilarious) Synechdoche New York++ (Odd and sometimes just downright weird) Zombieland (Best comedic zombie movie)
Fantasy Interview with a Vampire++ (Cult classic vampires) Spirited Away++ (Weird Japanese cartoon.)
Can't Classify Irreversible++ (Unique piece of art) Old Boy++ (Good starter Asian film) Pi++ (A masterpiece, but it takes a special kind of person to appreciate it) Se7en++ (Pushing the disgusting ones to extremes, sin, beauty in death) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now, movies none of you posted.
Intellectual Stay++ (Absolutely gorgeous, great clash with insanity and self destruction.) Inception++ (Cliche, i know, but it was a beautifully built movie. Took me a few days to truly get it) The Nines++ (Brilliant, i love it. Funny, captivating, and twisty.) The Chumscrubber+++ A Scanner Darkly++ (Cell shading ala Waking Life. Paranoia, trust, drug addiction. Classic.) Slipstream+ (If you have the patience, it's worth it. Nicely shot, but not gorgeous) Dead Poets Society++ (Do what you desire. Fantastic deviation from prep norm) Black Swan+ (Not up to Pi, Requiem, or Fountain standards. But interesting.) Enter the Void++ (This is an experience. Artistically overwhelming. Pretty long, but any intellectual will appreciate this.)
Great movies on their own merits Scott Pilgrim vs the World++ (Must see if you play games. It hits all the right notes, best game movie ever.) Snatch++ (Guy Ritchie again. Sure, he recycles plots. But he's good at what he does.) RocknRolla++ (See above. Imo, better than Snatch. It has more life to it.) Go+ (Worth the watch, it has pretty much everything. Times three.) The Brothers Bloom++ (Great movie all around, it's intelligent, pretty, funny... and more)
Chatroom- (Had to throw this one in here. Unique as far as I know. Worth a watch)
Foreign Audition++ (Known by many as one of the best horror films of all time. Asian.) Martyrs++ (One of the sickest horror films ive seen. The plot behind it is one to ponder.)
I'm ending this list here, spent enough time here already.
WOW.
Allow me to add one more...
The Truman Show.
Twelve Monkeys wasn't mentioned for the first many pages - glad someone finally mentioned it. Probably the movie I have enjoyed the most that didn't start with Starwars.
Two anime style movies: Ghost in the Shell 1, and perhaps even 2 Slow paced, calm, scenario about what seperates human from machines, if such seperation exists. Yeah, often used scenario, but a great take at it. Spirited Away
I think there are many more movies of such styles from Japan, sadly I haven't seen them. Don't mistake them with the usual manga turned into anime series turned into movie-movies. These are usually terrible and only to satisfy fans.
Then, Apocalypse Now. Sometimes considered as the ultimate, all-concluding movie of war movie genre.
Actually currently no more movies suiting these criteria come to my mind. I consider both Matrix and Fight Club to have good ideas but executing them too superficially. I really think that Ghost in the Shell and Spirited Away both work on deeper levels.
On June 02 2011 01:29 zerglingrodeo wrote: The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser.
Why should any human being watch this?
Why wouldn't they? It's a nice recommendation.
Semi-thank you! My goal wasn't really reached, but at least it was touched.
To me just adding a few words to the post describing the movie, or linking a description or just recommending it personally would increase any readers interest to the movie. I just got annoyed and wanted to state an example on his post.
So if anyone reads this, if it's not too much of a burden for the quality of this threads sake, make your posts into something more than just shallow "namedropping".
It's an awesome idea to have a thread like this on a international forum with mostly students of the same age. We have a unique chance to share our experiences with movies. Why not make the most of it?
Maybe I'm lost in Platos Idea world but perhaps we could give it a try!
Some movies that seem to carry the message across in the way this thread seems to be asking, I would recommend: Rashomon (1954) - Akira Kurosawa a way to look at "human nature" - maybe even jagged by reality and disillusioned
Princess Mononoke (1997-animated) Thought it kid friendly and still deep enough until I showed it to my cousins and they came out of the movie with the violence as their only lasting impression -.-
Honestly what I hate the most is when there are complete "good" or "bad" guys
I actually dont know how anyone could say that the saw franchise is anything but torture porn. Maybe if the film wasnt so graphic it could be considered as a intelluctual movie but in my opinion the films target audience is firmly focused on kids wanting to go to a movie because it is " sooo gross man " .
I have only watched a couple of them and to be perfectly honest it disgusted me, I like my horrors but am I the only one who thinks that films used to be scarier when the movie actually had some suspense and maybe having it so you were scared of what COULD happen, and not just be spoonfed some dross with peoples arms flying off and the like?
Also, The prestige is the best movie I have seen in a while. When you watch it a second time its like your seeing everything that is happening in the film at a different angle. Simply amazing.
trying to give info on what it's about without spoilering too too much edit : posting anew because team liquid forum software hates me -.-
the game !! if you don't know it , for goodness sake don't read up on it before watching !!
children of men - what if the whole world was infertile memento - guy that can't form new memories brooklyn's finest - brooklyn crimescene from 3 different cop perspectives fight club - you're lying if you don't know it the butterfly effect - i have no clue how to describe it without spoilering sry , just watch :> primer - accidental time travel cube1/2 - seemingly random people wake up in a cube full of traps dark city (1998) - guy with amnesia accused of murder
Primer. realistic interpretation of people who accidentally discover time travel, none of the potential science is dumbed down (it was made by an engineer), and it really makes you think.
anyone ever feel really humbled by the sidekick endings of the Men in Black series? Just throwing that out there.
I'm referring to: MIB: Short clips of alien playing marbles and then gathering up said marbles represented as galaxies. MIB2: Short clip of locker being swung open to reveal our existence as being part of a collective gathering of other neatly organized lockers.
Oh and Bill Murray's dialogue in Caddyshack is pretty damn deep too.
dialogue: The big lebowski pulp fiction in general: se7en spirited away (glad to see all the recommendations for this. It's one of my favorite films and I usually loathe anime) Ghost Dog and the Way of the Samurai (with awesome soundtrack from The Rza)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114194/ although its Trash nowadays(from the SFX) it was really intense as a teenager I like Christopher Walkens acting,great Performance @ Fatboy Slim Video also
Why would anyone want to watch an "intellectual" movie? If they wanted to think, they should read a book. There's nothing a movie can convey on an intellectual level that a book can't do as good if not better.
Here's a good one that no one has mentioned: My Dinner with Andre (1981) The whole movie is two dudes sitting at a restaurant table having a chat. Pretty interesting discussion if you can get past the first 45 mins or so.
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Just throwing that out there.
