I know most people usually try food or music and change their minds, but have any of you had the patience to go see a questionable movie over again and then enjoyed it?
District 9 (2009)
Tangled (2010)
Wreck-it Ralph (2012)
the witch
a ghost story (i liked it a lot the first time, but really fell for it on my 2nd watch)
uncle boonmee who can recall his past lives
A GHOST STORY IS A DICK...IT RAPED MY BRAIN AND IM HAVING TROUBLE RECOVERING.
shareis a movie being a dick & raping your brain good? cuz that sounds like the kind of thing i go for.
more than any other movie i've watched in my life, a ghost story gets stuck in my head. random moments from it still pop into my mind all the time.
GOOD...I GUESS...AS THE MOVIE WAS AMAZING...NOBODY ELSE I KNOW IN REAL LIFE LIKES IT AT ALL THOUGH.
shareI probably have, but at the moment I can't recall a specific movie. 🤔 If I think of one, I'll let you know.
shareThe Cabin in the Woods
sharePunch Drunk Love (2002)
For me it would be The Dark Knight. At first viewing in the theater I was like meh, too much talking. But on second viewing at home I was more relaxed and pay more attention to the dialogs it's actually better. I still think the whole Two-Face arc is unecessarily long tho'. Should have focused more on the Joker and have a shorter movie overall.
Also a curious case is The Sixth Sense. I was so mind blown by the twist I immidiately rewatched it. Knowing the ending, the second viewing was a different experience altogether. Can't say it's better per se, but it's different and equally fascinating nonetheless.
Triangle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17XqBdCiHOI&ab_channel=MillenniumEntertainment
Coherence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxAOewNzz-8&ab_channel=MovieclipsIndie
Time Crimes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XuWoe9NSic&ab_channel=Shudder
Primer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nj5MMURCm8&ab_channel=amdvpro
These are all total Sci-Fi mind fucks. You have to see them twice just to understand them.
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i like/love all those movies, except primer, which i still don't quite dig much to this day (i've watched it 4 or 5 times over the years, i'm sure).
but i really like carruth's followup movie 'upstream color,' so much so that it's 62 on my top 100.
i've watched triangle & time crimes multiple times, & i'm still not convinced that they really make sense, in that i'm not sure the movies ever really explain why their characters are doing what they do. that said, i don't really care about stuff like that. i think it's fine if movies don't make sense - they're experiences, not physics textbooks. as long as i'm having a good time, i don't mind being confuses.
I liked Primer, but I like Upstream Color more. I would say that it would be in my top 100 too. I just haven't actually made that list. I wish Carruth would come out with a new movie one of these years.
sharecarruth gave an interview last year where he said he was done with film-making, but who knows...he wouldn't be the first person to retire & then un-retire.
https://www.indiewire.com/2020/05/shane-carruth-interview-quitting-filmmaking-the-wanting-mare-1202232967/
I did know that he said that, but sometimes people have stories to tell, and I'm hoping that he has another one someday.
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