After i watched this film i just couldnt stop thinking about it, such an eyeopener! what are your top 5 films (or more) you couldn't get out of your head after watching them, dosent matter if other people dont agree, but what you thought....
Heres mine...
1. mysterious skin
2.the beach
3.christiane. f.
4. mississippi burning
5.a clockwork orange.
thanks!
I wouldnt let you sleep in my room, if you were growing on my ASS!!!!
watch Visitor Q. You have been warned.
shareIrreversible
Descent
Two WORST rapes scenes I have EVER seen!
You are dead on right Mr. Carl about both of those rape scenes. Irreversible takes the cake for me though. I was permanently scarred by that one even though I tapped out after about 6 minutes of it. I believe it was 10 minutes total.
10 excruciating, horrifying minutes! After watching that people will never again question how horrific rape is.
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"Bring the dog, I love animals. I'm a great cook."
-Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction
I can't believe no one said anything about The King (2005). That movie was seriously intense.
shareNo particular order, and just what springs to mind right now:
The Vanishing (Absolutely NOT US version)
Mysterious Skin
Carnival of Souls
Audition
Last Night
The Machinist
Freaks
Moon
The Innocents
Pleasantville
"Three years...I promise."
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Yes, I saw it a few days after I posted (above). I was tempted to add that title to my list, but didn't get around to it.
'Never Let Me Go' is everything you say it is - I don't make a habit of crying during films, but with this one I did. The performances were intense, the familiar landscape (not at all futuristic) was discomforting to say the least. The premise was chilling... to the marrow - much more so than the worst of horror films.
I had intentionally avoided anything remotely spoilerish before watching, so I didn't really realise what I was letting myself in for, and yes, my heart broke, and how.
Nothing negative toward the film, but when I watched it, I was feeling a bit down; by the time it was over I was near suicidal, lol. Not really, but it's not something to watch if you're at all depressed.
I will watch it again sometime, but not in the near future.
"Three years...I promise."
1. Mulholland Dr.
2. Fight Club
3. Pierrot Le Fou
4. A Clockwork Orange
5. The Beach
I constantly think of The Beach...almost everyday. I'm not sure why. I think it's because I keep replaying this memory I have of being about 5 years old, sitting in front of the t.v. just waiting for that trailer to come on (I had huge crush on Leo DiCaprio ha). I really like that movie but...it didn't have a HUGE impact on me, so it's odd that I continue to think about it.
-- I am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been
Here's my list (plus some of those lines that you can't help but go back to and dissect.)
1) Stranger Than Fiction
("Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies. And, fortunately, when there aren't any cookies, we can still find reassurance in a familiar hand on our skin, or a kind and loving gesture, or subtle encouragement, or a loving embrace, or an offer of comfort")
2) American Beauty
("I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life... You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry... you will someday.")
3) Eternal Sunshine
("'This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon. What do we do?' 'Enjoy it.'")
4) Little Children
("You're a miracle, Ronnie. We're all miracles. Know why? Because as humans, every day we go about our business, and all that time we know... we all know... that the things we love... the people we love, at any time now can all be taken away. We live knowing that and we keep going anyway.")
I've seen no mention of Tideland. I highly recommend it and associate it with Mysterious Skin as one of the few films to really look at the child's experience, and to study the balance between the child's ability to use and change their traumas with the deep effect that is left around the traumas and the healing as the child grows to adulthood.
shareYea I'd probably have to say number one transformers: dark side of the moon, number two gamer, and number three iron man. They really make you think.
No but seriously I didn't see The Deer Hunter mentioned. I've never been that shocked in any movie before and I've seen some pretty nasty stuff. At the end of that movie I literally didn't know how to respond, couldn't get it out of my head for at least a couple of weeks.
1.Oldboy
2.Memories of murder
3.American psycho
4.The Truman show
5.The prestige
In no particular order:
1. Mysterious Skin
2. This Is England
3. Inception
4. Nil By Mouth
To be honest, I think it's the truly extreme stuff is always unforgetable. I don't know about Inception, it's just so visually stunning.
"Stop looking at the walls, look out the window." ~ Karl Pilkington On Art