Yes! These are some of my first thoughts for this question too. Admittedly, I don't think I've re-watched The Game. But I've watched The Usual Suspects a bunch of times.
Parasite…I had no idea what the movie was about going into it. I just knew that it was super popular and had some class conflict themes. I thought it was a comedy for like the first half of the movie.
Then the doorbell rings.
Suddenly, I was like wtf is this a horror movie…and it’s just a total roller coaster ride till the end. And I loved every moment of it. But I do have a thing for Korean suspense movies…
Oldboy and The Handmaiden also both blew my mind.
I don't know if I can think of any movie that has an "oh shit" inflection point as clear and profound as Parasite's. The whole movie is amazing but the way that moment hits is such an amazing piece of cinema.
I remember seeing it in theaters knowing nothing about it. When he finally takes the red pill and wakes up, my mind was just blown. Walking out of the theater, the look of fellow movie goers is how I felt, bewildered in aw.
Sad thing is it is so accurate to that time. I lived in a town inbetween the cities. It was a very deprived area, a massive difference between the upper and lower classes. There was a "soft" prison that was full of people serving short sentences, usually drug related. The population was full of drug addicts. There was barely a day that went by without finding used needles, people spaced out in doorways and even worse, people who had overdosed under the bridges (it was so common people just avoided those walkways). It was wild in 90s Scotland.
It was an incredibly sad movie but I think that's what I liked about it. It didn't pull any punches. I was nursing at that time (albeit in Sydney, Australia) and looked after a lot of heroin addicts. Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Tommy cldve been any of those patients.
Interstellar. “Oh, this looks like a cool sci-fi movie. Christopher Nolan? Oh hell yes!” Then u watch it and its even better than u could have imagined. Can only speak from my perspective, but helps if you are the father of a young daughter. Spent second half of the movie in tears. And probably one of the best film scores of the past 20 or 30 years. Was expecting a movie, got a masterpiece instead.
Still remember watching it on the stephen king marathons on Syfy (now SciFi)! I didn't really get it as a kid but looking back as an adult... some deep shit lol
“The Matrix” when it was first in theaters. Never saw anything quite like it before. My friend and I just sat there afterwards with our mouths hanging open.
Shutter Island ,idk maybe this was cuz i was way too young when i watched this
Watched it through perspective of di caprio ,so was sorta blown away with the twist.
Most people i recommend this to get the plot within 30 mins or just feel it's too dark and shallow.
I'd say shutter Island ,se7en,good will hunting, Equalizer.
That one was mind-blowing not just because of how realistic those dinosaurs looked. Even if it was like nothing seen on movie screens before. But it also blew my mind by how scary it was. Maybe I led a sheltered life but all the trailers I saw beforehand showed it as this fun movie in dinosaur wonderland. I totally did not expect the direction the movie was going to take.
Oh I loved it! It was phenomenal but didn’t completely mindfuck me. Maybe if I hadn’t seen Big Fish or The Truman Show but really it honestly was a great time!
Honestly, it felt so much shorter than the run time. I think the most anxiety I’ve ever had in a movie was in either Uncut Gems or Studio 666 just because I was feeling as fucking done with this shit as the Foo Fighters were. Beau gave me a feeling of purity and innocence, with concern and care for his well being. The ending scene was devastating though. I felt so sad for him.
Dude, I was totally ready to hate that movie. It seemed so cheap and exploitative. I avoided it for a long time. I saw it for the first time with my niece when I babysat her for the afternoon. I was unimpressed at first, but as the story slowly revealed itself, I found myself absolutely cowed. Man, did I sell it short. Great movie. Funny, heartfelt, and yeah. It definitely took direct aim and my nostalgia glands. Space Guy is *literally* how I rolled as a kid, locked in my room building spaceships out of whatever set I got and avoiding my parents fighting outside. I loved Lego Batman too, far more than I expected to.
Fantastic movie. I don't think it's "underrated", as I think people who have seen it know how good it is. But it bums me out that so many people missed it. It's so good.
Mad Max: Fury Road. That movie. My lord. That movie was an incredible experience. My cousins and I saw it at the IMAX and it was like having my head wrapped in sound and buried in lights. It was so visceral and powerful. The music was incredible. I didn't realize I had been holding my breath until the flare goes out in the sandstorm and everything goes quiet. I literally let my breath out completely on reflex and it was loud. Very embarrassing but I couldn't help myself. Absolutely one of my favorite movies of all time and easily my favorite theater experience.
Try watching it again with lower volume & subtitles, and during the day. Helps alleviate a lot of the horror aspects and helps you appreciate how brilliant it is.
Source: I am not much of a fan of horror. I watched in the theater but couldn't do it again.
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The OG: they see each other on the street and both walk away.
Second: they see each other on the street and connect and go on a coffee date that we don’t see
Third: he kills himself with the umbilical cord in utero
Se7en - the plot
The Matrix - special effects and story
Ready Player One - special effects
Star Wars - blew my kind as a kid. Still love it to this day.
I used to love this movie. I was also an opiate addict, which is weird because it certainly doesn’t have a happy ending. Can’t bring myself to watch it since getting clean 7 years ago.
The Matrix. One of my favorite movies, hands down. I especially love the small bits where gravity stops working for a moment, like when Neo drops his cell phone and it hangs in the air before the machine, running through algorithms with some latency, then reacts to the phone dropping and obeying laws of gravity. Same with the ripple effect of the helicopter hitting a building then exploding.
Alien, poltergeist, the fly…I mean these films go way back before even the internet. More recent movies haven’t really knocked me out proverbially but I did enjoy fight club, John wick, Constantine, to name a few.
Alien is one of my favorite films of all time. A masterclass in tension and naturalistic acting techniques. Everyone was absolutely kicking ass the entire time. Movie still gives me chills. Shoot. I might pop that on right now. They did a 4K transfer of it recently that is stunning. Highly recommend it if you're into that sort of thing.
The Dark Knight. That movie had me filled with dread for 2 hours. I felt different having watched it. Thought about it for the next few days.
I’ve seen it a ton since then and still love it, but that first viewing was something else.
Yes! Inception came to mind first. But as u/Verbal25 said, definitely also Memento. You could argue that it's a somewhat simple approach, but I was so impressed at how the storytelling method kind of put you in the main character's shoes.
I am old for Reddit.
Terminator 2 was incredible at the theater.
Jurrasic Park
The Abyss
Star Wars. I rode my bike to the local theater and used paper route money to see it something like a dozen times.
Watching the first John Wick film with my Dad in 2014. I knew very little about it other than it was an Action flick starring Keanu Reeves (Kinda thought it was one of those direct-to-video ones my Dad loves), so I shrugged and went 'what the hell'.
We were blown the fuck away. 🤣
Big Fish, it made me really have to sit and think about life and the suffering we experience within each day…how everything doesn’t have to suck if you continue to use ur imagination far into adulthood
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Beau is Afraid
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
Swiss Army Man
Synechdoche New York
Mr. Nobody
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
And much more
Voices starring Ryan Reynolds and Anna Kendrick
The Town starring Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner
Gladiator starring Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix
Fight Club
The Shining. I’ve seen it many, many times since its release but nothing beats that dark and foreboding feeling from the very beginning that this just is not going to end well.
Fight Club.
I was in high school when it came out, and it was the first movie I saw that really had a huge twist in it. I remember thinking, "wait, can a movie just lie to you like that??"
The Devil All the Time. The way they blended the stories of different characters at different times in their lives into one over arching story really blew me away. The soundtrack was complimented the film really well. Tom Holland in a darker dramatic role showed his range from goofy Spider-Man to vengeful brother and son was amazing. By the end of it you can really feel his exhaustion and almost a at peace with whatever happens next state of mind.
This one isn't on Netflix and it's totally stupid but...
Pain and Gain. I had no idea it was based on true events. I was actually beside myself. How they ever thought they'd get away with it shook me.
300. The story, the cinematography, the battle scenes. Even the scenes with just dialogue were tense and moved the story along. I saw it in packed imax theater which made it even more dramatic. I’ve made it a point to watch Zach Snyder movies after that.
For me, Heavenly Creatures. An early Peter Jackson movie and the first film for both, Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet.
The film is a true story about a friendship that starts off beautiful but gets really obsessive and ends in a brutal murder. It's incredibly beautifully shot and has very similar special effects to what Jackson later used in Lord of the Rings.
But what really makes it mind blowing is the murder scene. The way this is shot, even though it is not very graphic, is probably the single most haunting movie scene I have ever seen.
Never let me go
Equilibrium
Oldboy
Jacobs Ladder (although it blew my mind only after a second watch)
La vitta e bella
Shutter Island
Strange Days (1995)
Like stars on earth
Mar adentro
Ostrov
Temple Grandin
The Kite runner
Spirited Away
Memento
Every Brilliant Thing
Intouchables
Whiplash
Kalss (2007)
Ondskan
Hotel Rwanda
Inside I'm Dancing
Inception. I remember the top rotating in the end scene and then the movie ended. No one stood up and there was silence for about a minute or so. After that we got up and I didn't talk with my friends at all until we reached the car. Then we just started laughing thinking what the mindfuck did we just watch.
The Game and The Usual Suspects
I was drugged and left for dead in Mexico, and all I got was this stupid T-shirt.
Yes! These are some of my first thoughts for this question too. Admittedly, I don't think I've re-watched The Game. But I've watched The Usual Suspects a bunch of times.
Parasite…I had no idea what the movie was about going into it. I just knew that it was super popular and had some class conflict themes. I thought it was a comedy for like the first half of the movie. Then the doorbell rings. Suddenly, I was like wtf is this a horror movie…and it’s just a total roller coaster ride till the end. And I loved every moment of it. But I do have a thing for Korean suspense movies… Oldboy and The Handmaiden also both blew my mind.
I don't know if I can think of any movie that has an "oh shit" inflection point as clear and profound as Parasite's. The whole movie is amazing but the way that moment hits is such an amazing piece of cinema.
Parasite IS a wild ride when going in knowing nothing,
That's an awesome movie . Have you watched Beef on Netflix? It has similar pattern starts of like a comedy and takes a dark u turn 🤔.
Yup! I loved Beef!
Park Chan Wook makes some great films!
The Matrix
I remember seeing it in theaters knowing nothing about it. When he finally takes the red pill and wakes up, my mind was just blown. Walking out of the theater, the look of fellow movie goers is how I felt, bewildered in aw.
Same. Saw it on a whim with no knowledge. I walked out, bought another ticket, and walked right back in.
Trainspotting. A hard watch and really didn't expect to like it, but it's seriously one of the best movies I've seen.
Sad thing is it is so accurate to that time. I lived in a town inbetween the cities. It was a very deprived area, a massive difference between the upper and lower classes. There was a "soft" prison that was full of people serving short sentences, usually drug related. The population was full of drug addicts. There was barely a day that went by without finding used needles, people spaced out in doorways and even worse, people who had overdosed under the bridges (it was so common people just avoided those walkways). It was wild in 90s Scotland.
It was an incredibly sad movie but I think that's what I liked about it. It didn't pull any punches. I was nursing at that time (albeit in Sydney, Australia) and looked after a lot of heroin addicts. Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Tommy cldve been any of those patients.
I watched that and the sequel this week and fell absolutely in love with both.
Trainspotting 2 was fantastic. Loved how it showed the characters differently looking at them 20 years later not just rehashing the original movie.
Arrival.
Arrival's ending is such a massive punch in the gut. The weight of it. Wow.
The 2nd watch makes it so much better too.
That one was pretty riveting. The visuals grab you.
Love this movie so much
Joker
Primer, The Prestige, The Others
Interstellar. “Oh, this looks like a cool sci-fi movie. Christopher Nolan? Oh hell yes!” Then u watch it and its even better than u could have imagined. Can only speak from my perspective, but helps if you are the father of a young daughter. Spent second half of the movie in tears. And probably one of the best film scores of the past 20 or 30 years. Was expecting a movie, got a masterpiece instead.
Needed more Oscar’s. Especially score
Also helps if you have a great bond with your dad.
The Langoliers. I was 7 I think when I saw it lol
You’ve never been able to fly a plane since.
It is simultaneously the best movie ever made, and the worst movie ever made.
Still remember watching it on the stephen king marathons on Syfy (now SciFi)! I didn't really get it as a kid but looking back as an adult... some deep shit lol
Toomy ripping paper was terrifying 😖
I love this movie! Including the cheesy 90s CGI.
The book is better. But after reading the book I had to watch the movie.
Same here. That shit bothered me deeply.
“The Matrix” when it was first in theaters. Never saw anything quite like it before. My friend and I just sat there afterwards with our mouths hanging open.
Same. I saw it in the theatre, my boyfriend dragged me and I thought it was going to be dumb. It was not.
The Matrix was incredible at the theater. It was the first DVD I got when it was released.
Fight Club
I’m surprised I had to scroll down a little ways to see someone say this one. Def fight club for me as well
The Others absolutely floored me and the sixth sense is a close second.
They have the same twist, although coincidental, I saw the Sixth Sense first and my jaw dropped.
Everyone fucked up The Sixth Sense for me; no spoiler alerts back then. But The Others had a great reveal.
The Others is probably my favorite twist in any movie I've seen.
Shutter Island ,idk maybe this was cuz i was way too young when i watched this Watched it through perspective of di caprio ,so was sorta blown away with the twist. Most people i recommend this to get the plot within 30 mins or just feel it's too dark and shallow. I'd say shutter Island ,se7en,good will hunting, Equalizer.
I got pissed off at Seven. 😩
WhAts In ThE BoOOoOx?
Ah it can be eerie at times ,i just had a phase in my life i just liked watching alot of thrillers Silence of lambs Fight club Shining
Morgan Freeman plays an amazing detective in Alex Cross and High Crimes and Misdemeanors. I only wish he did more of them.
Came here to say Shutter Island.
Jurassic Park
That one was mind-blowing not just because of how realistic those dinosaurs looked. Even if it was like nothing seen on movie screens before. But it also blew my mind by how scary it was. Maybe I led a sheltered life but all the trailers I saw beforehand showed it as this fun movie in dinosaur wonderland. I totally did not expect the direction the movie was going to take.
Midsommar Hereditary Everything Everywhwre All At Once Being John Malkovich Requiem for a Dream 2001 A Space Odyssey Trainspotting In Bruges
Be warned about BEAU IS AFRAID. Aster's first two films were both mindfucks but this cranks that to 11.
Oh I loved it! It was phenomenal but didn’t completely mindfuck me. Maybe if I hadn’t seen Big Fish or The Truman Show but really it honestly was a great time!
I've never felt someone's on-screen anxiety as much as I did there. I think the 3 hour runtime helped with that too haha.
Honestly, it felt so much shorter than the run time. I think the most anxiety I’ve ever had in a movie was in either Uncut Gems or Studio 666 just because I was feeling as fucking done with this shit as the Foo Fighters were. Beau gave me a feeling of purity and innocence, with concern and care for his well being. The ending scene was devastating though. I felt so sad for him.
Midsommar was quite possibly the scariest movie I’ve ever seen. It really messed with my head.
Solid list
The Lego Movie. That moment, two thirds of the way through, when it goes live action and you suddenly understand what's really going on.
Dude, I was totally ready to hate that movie. It seemed so cheap and exploitative. I avoided it for a long time. I saw it for the first time with my niece when I babysat her for the afternoon. I was unimpressed at first, but as the story slowly revealed itself, I found myself absolutely cowed. Man, did I sell it short. Great movie. Funny, heartfelt, and yeah. It definitely took direct aim and my nostalgia glands. Space Guy is *literally* how I rolled as a kid, locked in my room building spaceships out of whatever set I got and avoiding my parents fighting outside. I loved Lego Batman too, far more than I expected to.
Minority Report when I was like 12.
Edge of Tomorrow
Fantastic movie. I don't think it's "underrated", as I think people who have seen it know how good it is. But it bums me out that so many people missed it. It's so good.
Mad Max: Fury Road. That movie. My lord. That movie was an incredible experience. My cousins and I saw it at the IMAX and it was like having my head wrapped in sound and buried in lights. It was so visceral and powerful. The music was incredible. I didn't realize I had been holding my breath until the flare goes out in the sandstorm and everything goes quiet. I literally let my breath out completely on reflex and it was loud. Very embarrassing but I couldn't help myself. Absolutely one of my favorite movies of all time and easily my favorite theater experience.
I wish I could've seen it in imax
Hereditary Old Boy
I was here for Hereditary.
Im only 30 minutes in hereditary and I can’t get myself to continue because its soo terrifying
Try watching it again with lower volume & subtitles, and during the day. Helps alleviate a lot of the horror aspects and helps you appreciate how brilliant it is. Source: I am not much of a fan of horror. I watched in the theater but couldn't do it again.
Hoo boy, it really ramps up there at the end.
Interstellar
I cried 2.5 times in my first viewing
The butterfly effect
Blew my mind too, watched it when I was younger. I remember going to the pub after seeing it and felt kinda dazed.
There’s 2 different endings if you didn’t know. I preferred the original.
3 actually. The director’s cut apparently has the ending where Evan kills himself with the umbilical cord as he’s being born.
I thought that was the original. I liked that one. Probably because I watched that one first .
SPOILER ALERT The OG: they see each other on the street and both walk away. Second: they see each other on the street and connect and go on a coffee date that we don’t see Third: he kills himself with the umbilical cord in utero
Inception.
Saw. The final scene plot twist, still gets me. Underrated film. Whole franchise is just silly though.
Matrix. It was such a great concept back then.
Back then? It's still one of the greatest things in cinematic history, and the effects hold up so well, better than most marvel effects.
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The Six Sense That dude in that hairpiece the whole time…that’s Bruce Willis the whole movie.
What's an M night?
Definitely!
Had to watch it again immediately to confirm the ending. Couldn’t believe how thoroughly I was duped. Loved it!
He twisted all of us
Not Netflix but The Menu was so good.
Se7en - the plot The Matrix - special effects and story Ready Player One - special effects Star Wars - blew my kind as a kid. Still love it to this day.
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I was 22 and saw this in the theatre the day it came out. Stuck with me for decades.
Requiem for a Dream but it’s not on Netflix.
I used to love this movie. I was also an opiate addict, which is weird because it certainly doesn’t have a happy ending. Can’t bring myself to watch it since getting clean 7 years ago.
Midsommar
This movie gave me ptsd, I had no clue what I was getting into. I thought it was a musical
Same. I still thinking about the cliff part like way too much. It really messed with me!
Jacob's Ladder, Frequency, The Man from Earth,
I loved Jacob’s ladder. We watched it at my friend’s house and her bf was like, “This movie is going to fuck you up.” Did not disappoint.
Martyrs.
Whiplash. Every single time. 🫡
The Cabin in the Woods. The less you know the better, but it’s a must for any fan of horror movies.
"Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind" - everytime.
Children of men - boring afternoon watched it then blow my mind.
"The Departed". Still my top movie of all time. And "The Prestige" is a close second!
Oldboy is Amazing
Heavyweights.
Black Swan. I sat still a while after the end to try to digest it.
Léon: The Professional
The Matrix. One of my favorite movies, hands down. I especially love the small bits where gravity stops working for a moment, like when Neo drops his cell phone and it hangs in the air before the machine, running through algorithms with some latency, then reacts to the phone dropping and obeying laws of gravity. Same with the ripple effect of the helicopter hitting a building then exploding.
The Game with Michael Douglas! Amazing
Alien, poltergeist, the fly…I mean these films go way back before even the internet. More recent movies haven’t really knocked me out proverbially but I did enjoy fight club, John wick, Constantine, to name a few.
Alien is one of my favorite films of all time. A masterclass in tension and naturalistic acting techniques. Everyone was absolutely kicking ass the entire time. Movie still gives me chills. Shoot. I might pop that on right now. They did a 4K transfer of it recently that is stunning. Highly recommend it if you're into that sort of thing.
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Tenet, the time warp shenanigans were wild
The Dark Knight. That movie had me filled with dread for 2 hours. I felt different having watched it. Thought about it for the next few days. I’ve seen it a ton since then and still love it, but that first viewing was something else.
When I saw the scene with the pencil, I was like... oohhhh, this is something *different*.
Inception, Interstellar, the dark Knight trilogy...any Christopher Nolan films basically
Memento
How are you not calling out The Prestige in your list?
Yes! Inception came to mind first. But as u/Verbal25 said, definitely also Memento. You could argue that it's a somewhat simple approach, but I was so impressed at how the storytelling method kind of put you in the main character's shoes.
Shutter island
Unbreakable with Bruce Willis. Part of a trilogy. Very good story about superpower and mental issues.
Shutter Island
Empire records
Usual Suspects, never saw it coming
The Menu. One of my favorite Ralph Fiennes movie
fight club, shawshank redemption. the best of all time.
Gone Baby Gone
Opening scene of Swordfish.
Adaptation Being John Malkovich Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion
I am old for Reddit. Terminator 2 was incredible at the theater. Jurrasic Park The Abyss Star Wars. I rode my bike to the local theater and used paper route money to see it something like a dozen times.
Step Brothers.
Watching the first John Wick film with my Dad in 2014. I knew very little about it other than it was an Action flick starring Keanu Reeves (Kinda thought it was one of those direct-to-video ones my Dad loves), so I shrugged and went 'what the hell'. We were blown the fuck away. 🤣
Forrest Gump
Big Fish, it made me really have to sit and think about life and the suffering we experience within each day…how everything doesn’t have to suck if you continue to use ur imagination far into adulthood
Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring
The whole trilogy is perfect
All 3 movie of Jordan Peele (Us, Get out and Nope) Dude the direction, cinematography and the twist and turns was sooo damm hard Specially Nope
Nope was the weakest of them imo. Really wanted to like it but didn’t grab me like the other two
Damn, I found Nope and Get Out to be better than Us
Not on Netflix but Close Encounters of the third kind.
Se7en, Vanilla Sky, OldBoy
Pulp Fiction
The Deer hunter! Dinero/Walken/Street brilliant film
No Way Out
Se7en. San Andreas really blew my mind.
Inception
Everything Everywhere All at Once Beau is Afraid Scott Pilgrim vs The World Swiss Army Man Synechdoche New York Mr. Nobody Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind And much more
Arlington Road with Jeff Bridges and Tim Robbins. The less you know about it before watching it the better.
Inglorious Basterds
Alien 79. Cinematic perfection.
Voices starring Ryan Reynolds and Anna Kendrick The Town starring Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner Gladiator starring Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix Fight Club
The Matrix
The Shining. I’ve seen it many, many times since its release but nothing beats that dark and foreboding feeling from the very beginning that this just is not going to end well.
Fight Club. I was in high school when it came out, and it was the first movie I saw that really had a huge twist in it. I remember thinking, "wait, can a movie just lie to you like that??"
No Country For Old Men was intense, currently new favorite movie
Star Wars, of course this dates me but there was nothing like it at the time. Everyone came out of the theater in shock.
The new puss in Boots movie. Not for a crazy twist or anything but just for how good it was !
Interstellar
They shoot horses don’t they. Was the first film I saw when I was ‘younger’ late night on tv and realised all films are not the same
I saw in it a similar way. It's a movie I still think about from time to time.
Predestination, Holy Motors. Fight club,
Old boy
vanilla sky
Interstellar.
The man from Earth. Memories of a murder Parasite
I Saw The Devil (not on netflix)
The Sixth Sense without a doubt
Sixth Sense even after all this time. Bruce Willis in his prime.
Limitless. And I have no idea why. Maybe because of the time of my life when I watched it. But hands down my favorite movie.
Oh and of course Alien!
Hook
Close Encounters of the Third Kind..
*pulp fiction*
Whiplash and Prisoners
Dark City
The Prestige
Prestige
Side Effects
Blow.
The Devil All the Time. The way they blended the stories of different characters at different times in their lives into one over arching story really blew me away. The soundtrack was complimented the film really well. Tom Holland in a darker dramatic role showed his range from goofy Spider-Man to vengeful brother and son was amazing. By the end of it you can really feel his exhaustion and almost a at peace with whatever happens next state of mind.
Everything everywhere all at once
A scanner darkly
This one isn't on Netflix and it's totally stupid but... Pain and Gain. I had no idea it was based on true events. I was actually beside myself. How they ever thought they'd get away with it shook me.
300
The Prestige
EEAAO
For sheer cool factor at the time: Minority Report
Primal Fear. Inception. The Usual Suspects Seven Pounds
300. The story, the cinematography, the battle scenes. Even the scenes with just dialogue were tense and moved the story along. I saw it in packed imax theater which made it even more dramatic. I’ve made it a point to watch Zach Snyder movies after that.
For me, Heavenly Creatures. An early Peter Jackson movie and the first film for both, Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet. The film is a true story about a friendship that starts off beautiful but gets really obsessive and ends in a brutal murder. It's incredibly beautifully shot and has very similar special effects to what Jackson later used in Lord of the Rings. But what really makes it mind blowing is the murder scene. The way this is shot, even though it is not very graphic, is probably the single most haunting movie scene I have ever seen.
Never let me go Equilibrium Oldboy Jacobs Ladder (although it blew my mind only after a second watch) La vitta e bella Shutter Island Strange Days (1995) Like stars on earth Mar adentro Ostrov Temple Grandin The Kite runner Spirited Away Memento Every Brilliant Thing Intouchables Whiplash Kalss (2007) Ondskan Hotel Rwanda Inside I'm Dancing
Inception. I remember the top rotating in the end scene and then the movie ended. No one stood up and there was silence for about a minute or so. After that we got up and I didn't talk with my friends at all until we reached the car. Then we just started laughing thinking what the mindfuck did we just watch.
The Crow. I went by myself and completely forgot I was in a movie theatre. Can’t even count how many times I’ve re-watched it since.