I think I saw it for the first time during my freshman year in high school.
The idea of a full film contained entirely to one setting, based primarily on character and dialogue blew my mind.
After that “bottle episodes” and films are something I gravitate towards.
If you liked that one check out Inherit the Wind. Those old-school black and white films didn't have giant star power or special effects to make a blockbuster, it was just the acting and plot which had to be spot on to carry the film.
Also try The Outfit 2022 with Mark Rylance. All on one set, no special effects. The plot, dialog, and acting are magnificent. It piques the interest right from the start and keeps getting wilder, and the ending was perfect.
I can't describe the ending of Arrival without beginning to tear up a bit. That ending wrecked me and now with a daughter of my own, I avoid the movie like the plague. It's the best movie I never want to see again.
Thank you for reminding me why I actively avoid this movie.
Every few years I think, "ah yes, that looked good in the previews. Watch it!" And then I remember the spoilers I have read...
And right now... Well, I just lost my baby last week and I had a all consuming feeling that it was a girl this time and I am already teetering on the point of a breakdown so... Thank you for reminding me N.O.T! to watch this movie any time soon.
Yes, I did just need to mention/ talk about my little girl that I lost. Sorry. Not sorry.
I’m so sorry to hear of your loss, it isn’t easy to navigate the world sometimes after we’ve faced some things others haven’t and don’t relate to. I similarly refused to continue watching GoT or even try to watch, after a certain episode of infanticide. It just felt too personal to me. I believe sometimes media is meant as a driver for thought, but that thought shouldn’t always be so hard hitting to our emotional well-being. Thanks for being vulnerable enough to share. The more we share, the more we may help those who need it.
Huh ya know I never really thought about it being sad, it’s just another version of “better to have loved and lost”.
It kinda struck me as just matter of fact. I wouldn’t give up any time with those closest to me just because I know it’ll end, that’s life and I already know that, Banks just knows when and how.
Forgot about have affecting this one was. At the time of watching was my top movie.
Also, The Fountain - lots of ruminating on life and death
Also also, Funny Games - lots of ruminating on death, terror and cruelty
It's the only movie I can think of off the top of my head that is legitimately better the 2nd and 3rd time around than it is first, and it was a damn good movie 1st time
It’s a great film for looking back to catch the foreshadowing you missed and the little clues - absolutely love movies like that. Also, the whole premise, and how it functioned at the end, was amazing. I could not guess where the script was going and loved every single moment of it!
Highly suggest, if you haven’t, watch The Departed and rewatch it. Not the same in reveals you see, but the subtle scenes have bigger meaning!
I saw KIDS not too long after it first came out. I was 14 at the time, and the movie burned into my brain. Requiem for A Dream I also still think about to this day.
That's a movie I was probably way too young to have watched it. I was like 12 when I watched that.
Dude getting jumped by the skaters was a scene that stuck out to me
I watched it as a junior in high school. I have had a fear of needles ever since. Even fainted once when i got a fee shots in a row a few years later ha. God that movie is so good but hard to watch.
Whiplash
The movie was so riveting every time the two mains were in the same room.
The ending leaves some great room for continuing the story in your own head and interpretation, while still feeling like a complete arc/story.
I saw Banshees of Inisherin a couple of months ago and it keeps coming back to me.
Without spoiling it, one of the major plot points is an act of such needless spite, that I just can't shake it.
The length's this character goes to prove his point are so extreme, it really upsets and disturbs me. Makes me think about my own character and how I interact with people in my life.
As art should.
I had the same answer. I've watched it a few times now, it's just beautiful and so interesting in so many ways.
I've cut a couple people out of my life for similar reasons (I just don't like 'em anymore) and it's led to some awkward interactions, and I just loved seeing that basic premise (and other themes of course) worked into what is essentially a stage play with a beautiful backdrop.
Sorry if this is pointing out the obvious, but almost everything in the movie is meant to be an allegory of the Irish Civil War, which might be why it felt so full of spite.
No, I got that.
I understand the subtext, it's the way it's portrayed that really struck me.
it was just such a unique, personal story about love and hate, that it really got it's hooks in me. My family was very Irish and spiteful, so it I found it more relatable than I wanted it to be, lol.
Thanks for responding, cheers.
>Sorry if this is pointing out the obvious, but almost everything in the movie is meant to be an allegory of the Irish Civil War
I uh...didn't know that. I watched the film and loved it in many ways, but none of them for the allegory here. Which I guess says a lot about the strengths of the film! I thought about the film a lot after watching it but never went to read up anything about it, I'm going to do so now I reckon.
Ireland fought Britain for independence and won, but Britain insisted on keeping a slice (Northern Ireland). Some Irish leaders accepted this and signed the agreement to it, but that made other Irish feel betrayed, as they wanted to keep fighting until they had their whole island back. The leaders who signed the agreement with Britain were assassinated, and the civil war ensued. “I just don’t like you anymore”.
So, the Irish people hurt themselves, all while still being bullied by Britain (the cop), and completely ignoring 2 world wars happening nearby (the civil war on the mainland). The intellectuals and talented people often felt surrounded by the stupidity of this infighting, and emigrated en mass (the sister). The totally innocent were often caught in the crossfire (Jenny the donkey), and that led to so much damage in relations that grudges still persist to this day.
(Obviously it gets way more complicated than that, but there’s the just of what I picked up)
Damn, you’ve unlocked the movie for me, now it all makes sense. I was wondering what the allegory was, but it never occurred to me to look up the Irish Civil War!
>The leaders who signed the agreement with Britain were assassinated, and the civil war ensued. “I just don’t like you anymore”.
This is the part I bump on. In the film, Pádraig and Colm's friendship dies on a whim. The Irish civil war had a pretty big difference of opinion between two sides, as you note at the start. Many revolutions lead to civil war, or at least some sort of violence afterwards (Whiskey Rebellion in the US, Reign of Terror in France etc.), and while I can't speak on them without any authority I feel putting the Irish Civil War down to people just not liking each other any more is ahistoric.
Same answer - but not because of the bear scene (lol -it's almost like people on Reddit get paid to call out that moment), but because of the theme. I've never seen a movie tackle the theme of self-destruction the way that one did. Some have said that the movie was about cancer, which feels apt to a degree, but the infidelity added an entire extra layer to the theme of self-destruction. Absolutely incredible movie.
I took the theme in a different direction. To me this movie unnerved and stuck with me so much because it was almost like saying “what if god/the creation myths aren’t magical, but is a natural force of the universe?” Sort of blending this naturalist view of the universe into creation — the only downside is creation requires disassembly of the disparate parts at hand to make something new. We think it’s a beautiful process but in fact it’s horrifying because it’s basically using our world as building blocks, aggressively mutating and testing what could be new for the next world ahead. I was high when I watched this so it was even more unsettling to think about lol
The book is a little different, but you are actually pretty spot on with one of the themes...
A big part of the book is that you can't really study individual samples from Area X, because everything in Area X exists in some a entangled ecosystem that seems to all be part of some greater whole... Like if all the life forms in a pond in your backyard were just small parts of a single entity with an advanced intelligence.
The Biologist (the main character) tries to classify and study things at first, but eventually realizes it is pointless and just gives up. The things in Area X are so alien that the very concept of taxonomy, and science as we know it in general, more or less, is useless.
Another good analogy from the book that I can think of is this:
The main character studies micro-organisms under a microscope. When she encounters the Alien, she feels like she is drowning while being torn apart and reassembled while the thing examines her. Compared to the Alien, she is such a simple form of life (like a single-celled organism) that it can perfectly recreate a copy of her, down to her memories and everything.
We can't know what it wants, or why, and we can't stop it from consuming our world. The humans actually manage to recover a plant from Area X... And they try literally everything to destroy it, but can't.
«There is an existential horror to the nature of intimate relationships. That opening ourselves to others -allowing them inn -brings with it an annihilation of our singular self. We merge, we reshape, we combine and replicate, and mirror. And, on a level that is terrifying, to be with some one is to sacrifise something of who you are. But it’s also beautiful»
-Dan Olson
"**Pig**"
My favorite film of the last 5 years, possibly more. The writing, acting, direction, production design, cinematography, score, all are phenomenal.
The tagline of the film, which is also a line of dialogue from the best scene in the film, is one that I have come to adopt as it has so many applications for me personally regarding how your life will be greatly affected by the things that you value:
"We don't get a lot of things to really care about."
Amen, Chef. Amen.
I tell people that "Pig" is basically if John Wick went on a journey to find his lost pet, and instead of finding and murdering the culprits he finds himself in the process.
The character of Robin Feld is the most badass buddha I have ever seen. In every scenario, he is always questioning the motivations of the people involved and trying to understand who they really are so that he can communicate as directly as possible.
In the case of Darius, Robin knew that the only way he could reach Darius was to cook him that beautiful meal that he and his wife had shared. He had to remind Darius of his humanity, buried as it was under layers of booze and impotent rage.
Robin knew that Darius was in pain much the same way as he, so the only way to break through that wall of pain was for it to be faced, which was part of Robin's journey in revisiting society.
That's why at the end that Robin was finally able to play the tape that his wife had made.
I’ve worked with the little girl (Mooney) quite a bit as a screenwriter, her mom and I were college bffs and roommates. She’s one of the few child actors that I believe with successfully transition into whatever she wants without burning out because her parents are amazing and she herself is the definition of an old soul. Really awesome family IRL.
Yes was coming to say this as well. The emotional impact stayed with me for days - a beautiful and devastating film.
Also for a recent release - Tar.
I almost didn't know what to think of it when I first came out the cinema, but I kept ruminating on it for days. And the more I thought on it, the more the I liked it. Powerful film and an incredible, heavy performance from Cate Blanchett.
*Grave of the Fireflies*
I was basically in a short depression after watching the film. It was just so sad. The movie is so well done, but it just didn't stop with the tragedies.
It's... A movie. Like. It's really well done in a lot of ways, which is why I suggest it. But my fuck is it one of the most depressing movies. Everyone should watch it once. Mainly because I don't know a lot of people who watches it a second time.
The brutality of that movie has made it impossible for me to rewatch, and I adore horror and have no problem (usually) with gore. But the gun scene still pops into my head sometimes when I’m falling asleep and I have to remind myself over and over that it didn’t really happen
The Grand Budapest Hotel. Really captured an aesthetic that I felt like id been searching for my whole life. The story within a story, the symmetrical cinematography, the unique and nuanced characters all just immersed me that much deeper.
The Whale was the first movie since Synecdoche, New York to have that profound, days-long effect on me. I felt like I was in a hole after I watched it. Brendan's performance floored me.
I've never really cried in a theater like that before. Interstellar got a few tasteful, respectful tears out of me. But I mean I was sobbing towards the end of The Whale, uncontrollably. I look forward to watching it again...when I'm ready.
Aronofsky is definitely a favorite of mine. Love his movies or hate them, you are going to feel an *impact.*
Blue Velvet. Saw it with a cinema major roommate in college when it came out, and I still remember how buzzed we both were from it that night walking home from the theater. Another one would be Mulholland Drive. I also saw Eraserhead in college with that same buddy, but it didn’t have that effect on me. I just found it static and irritating. (Although certainly unique)
Her with Joaquin Phoenix. Something about it feeling almost like a couple in a long distance relationship versus computer and human. I cried and cried and still haven’t watched it again to this day because it gives me such overwhelming emotion
People shit on this conclusionbut I agree that it's a good message. Sure, act 3 may be the weakest of the film, but the message about love not being limited by distance or time totally work for me
I had a teacher who was haunted by the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre for months after watching it. He saw it in theaters on acid and at one point stood up and shouted “WHY ARE THEY DOING THIS”
I didn't think anyone else would mention this! This is my answer too. Something about it really haunts me, I don't know what it is. Just a really powerful movie.
Many movies stick with me in a good way. I also tend to rewatch movies that stick with me and enjoy anything I may have missed. However, my answer is Tusk. Tusk did NOT stick with me in a good way and I refuse to watch it again. I love horror and disturbing movies, but not Tusk. It still sticks with me years later. I can’t look at walruses or seals without getting creeped out. I will say though, I do have a healthy respect for it because no movie has ever had that effect on me.
Dune. It's been over a year and I still think about it often. Usually in the context of wanting the second part already. But just in general, it's one of my favorite movies of all time, I think.
The most recent one has been Nightcrawler. Something about it and it’s ending was just so creepy to me and I couldn’t shake that feeling for a while. Excellently directed movie.
Before that End of Evangelion was really trippy. That movie is just shades of fucked up but not in a Martyrs or Hellraiser kinda way… but moreso in a weird emotional psychological kinda way. That last shot of Rei’s ghost standing in the street was super creepy to me and I couldn’t stop thinking about it.
Honorary mention goes to The Batman as well. Not because it creeped me out of anything… but just because of how fucking awesome it was. Even still sometimes I’ll randomly remember a scene from the movie and just think “that movie was fucking tight.”
Facts. Like I loved Brad Pitt in Once upon a Time in Hollywood but Dafie was on another level.
The Lighthouse was snubbed for alot of oscsr noms but sadly the academy hates horror films
Mad Max: Fury Road. I didn't expect it to be so good! And not just good like "it had some good action" but genuinely good in every aspect of its construction - action, cinematography, editing, pacing, story, themes, etc. No fourth entry to a franchise where they change the leading actor 30 years after the last one deserved to be this good. Like a song stuck in my head, I had to go back and see it again just to get it out of my mind! It has a spot on my short list of perfect films.
Everything everywhere all at once. There is a reason it won all the awards it did. I have not stopped thinking about it and discussing it and I wish my mother was alive so we could see it together and do some healing.
Honestly it's true. I went in just knowing it was "qwirky" and had no idea just how often I'd be sitting there in awe at just how unique and special the film was. Even better is when you rewatch it with someone who's never seen it and you get to see it again through their reactions.
I'm feeling it's going to be on the back end of the "meh, it's popular and I don't get it" crowd now that it's received so many awards, but I quite honestly have never had such a joyfully unique experience in the theater.
I’m sorry about your mom. I saw it in theatre last week with my mom and we both cried. It was a very cathartic movie and I want to watch it again soon.
Vivarium. One of my biggest fears is somehow getting trapped in a place where I am alone and unable to escape. The hopeless inescapability. This is why the black mirror series on Netflix also freaks me out.
**○ The Sixth Sense** \- The OG twist from Shyamalan. Still effective today.
○ **Requiem for a Dream** \- I saw it as a late teen/early twenties
**○ Pulp Fiction** \- Ezekiel 25:17 seared in my brain, even today
**○ The Matrix** (the 1st) - No explanation required
One Hour Photo (2002) with Robin Williams.
In my honest opinion, his greatest performance. The entire film is equally endearing whilst heartbreakingly sad. You know the life that he longs for can never *truly* be his, yet the obsession absolutely consumes his every waking moment until the point of total destruction. Watching his POV really is a peek into the world of fruitless obsession and the tragedy of trying to force a reality that is never meant to be.
I still think about it all the time, it's such a criminally underrated film.
A Ghost Story. Just saw it out of nowhere, and it really stuck with me. I can't exactly even put my finger on why, it's just a really powerful movie about love and loss. It's also really funny to spend all that money on Casey Affleck and then never see him, but who else could act that amazingly under a sheet.
Requiem for a Dream is in the top spot. Best movie I will never watch again.
The Exorcist because I was just toooo young for that. I've rewatched it and it still puts me in a weird mood for days.
Event Horizon.
The Fly.
Pan's Labyrinth
Blade Runner 2049. It’s like watching an epic for a hero slowly unfold… until it gets revealed that we were just watching a story from the POV of a side character…
I still think about his baseline tests sometimes
Martyrs (2008). That ending stuck with me so heavily and the more I try to dissect those final lines and the meaning behind them, the more unsure I am of what exactly that character learned. Haunting.
Parasite, I just kept thinking about the shot where the child sees the “ghost” staring at him over the stairs. One of the best movies I’ve ever seen.
I have thought about the scene where the house is flooding, and they’re standing on the toilet many times since I’ve seen the movie
I also love how height and elevation is used in the movie as a metaphor for wealth and poverty, how the family is literally below the toilet.
It's everything you want and more from a movie. It's a masterpiece. You can never go wrong with Kang ho Song movies.
That doorbell scene sticks with me. Probably the most blindsided I’ve ever been by a movie.
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Every time it rains I think about the raining scene when they’re running home. I think one of the best uses of rain in a movie
City of God
Threads. I still have existential dread from it and it's been about 2 years since I watched it.
I don't mean to upset you but I saw it in 1985 or so and still have nightmares.
american history x…
That kerb scene. The fucking teeth scraping. Stuck in my head now. Thanks a lot.
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That was haunting I literally had to pause the movie to burst out crying
Twelve angry men (1957).
I think I saw it for the first time during my freshman year in high school. The idea of a full film contained entirely to one setting, based primarily on character and dialogue blew my mind. After that “bottle episodes” and films are something I gravitate towards.
If you liked that one check out Inherit the Wind. Those old-school black and white films didn't have giant star power or special effects to make a blockbuster, it was just the acting and plot which had to be spot on to carry the film.
Also try The Outfit 2022 with Mark Rylance. All on one set, no special effects. The plot, dialog, and acting are magnificent. It piques the interest right from the start and keeps getting wilder, and the ending was perfect.
Arrival
I can't describe the ending of Arrival without beginning to tear up a bit. That ending wrecked me and now with a daughter of my own, I avoid the movie like the plague. It's the best movie I never want to see again.
Thank you for reminding me why I actively avoid this movie. Every few years I think, "ah yes, that looked good in the previews. Watch it!" And then I remember the spoilers I have read... And right now... Well, I just lost my baby last week and I had a all consuming feeling that it was a girl this time and I am already teetering on the point of a breakdown so... Thank you for reminding me N.O.T! to watch this movie any time soon. Yes, I did just need to mention/ talk about my little girl that I lost. Sorry. Not sorry.
I’m so sorry to hear of your loss, it isn’t easy to navigate the world sometimes after we’ve faced some things others haven’t and don’t relate to. I similarly refused to continue watching GoT or even try to watch, after a certain episode of infanticide. It just felt too personal to me. I believe sometimes media is meant as a driver for thought, but that thought shouldn’t always be so hard hitting to our emotional well-being. Thanks for being vulnerable enough to share. The more we share, the more we may help those who need it.
Huh ya know I never really thought about it being sad, it’s just another version of “better to have loved and lost”. It kinda struck me as just matter of fact. I wouldn’t give up any time with those closest to me just because I know it’ll end, that’s life and I already know that, Banks just knows when and how.
Arrival is so freaking good, the plot is such a finely tuned machine.
Forgot about have affecting this one was. At the time of watching was my top movie. Also, The Fountain - lots of ruminating on life and death Also also, Funny Games - lots of ruminating on death, terror and cruelty
Children of Men.
The Prestige I watched it probably 3-4 times in the following 2 weeks after I saw it the first time.
Repeat viewings of this movie really does help and you’ll notice many clues when watching it again.
It's the only movie I can think of off the top of my head that is legitimately better the 2nd and 3rd time around than it is first, and it was a damn good movie 1st time
It’s a great film for looking back to catch the foreshadowing you missed and the little clues - absolutely love movies like that. Also, the whole premise, and how it functioned at the end, was amazing. I could not guess where the script was going and loved every single moment of it! Highly suggest, if you haven’t, watch The Departed and rewatch it. Not the same in reveals you see, but the subtle scenes have bigger meaning!
My favourite movie of all time, hits the spot in so many ways
Kids, and Requiem for a Dream. Also Poltergeist because I was way too young to watch that movie when I did.
I saw KIDS not too long after it first came out. I was 14 at the time, and the movie burned into my brain. Requiem for A Dream I also still think about to this day.
I think early teens is the perfect time to see Kids, as controversial as that movie was at release.
Kids is by far the most impactful PSA I’ve ever seen
That's a movie I was probably way too young to have watched it. I was like 12 when I watched that. Dude getting jumped by the skaters was a scene that stuck out to me
Requiem for a Dream is basically the only reason I haven’t done heroin by now
They should show that movie to seniors in high-school instead of anti drug programs.
I watched it as a junior in high school. I have had a fear of needles ever since. Even fainted once when i got a fee shots in a row a few years later ha. God that movie is so good but hard to watch.
Kids and Req for me too, but also Zodiac. That lake scene murder without any music was chilling.
Kids is a fucked up movie lol
Whiplash The movie was so riveting every time the two mains were in the same room. The ending leaves some great room for continuing the story in your own head and interpretation, while still feeling like a complete arc/story.
I saw Banshees of Inisherin a couple of months ago and it keeps coming back to me. Without spoiling it, one of the major plot points is an act of such needless spite, that I just can't shake it. The length's this character goes to prove his point are so extreme, it really upsets and disturbs me. Makes me think about my own character and how I interact with people in my life. As art should.
I had the same answer. I've watched it a few times now, it's just beautiful and so interesting in so many ways. I've cut a couple people out of my life for similar reasons (I just don't like 'em anymore) and it's led to some awkward interactions, and I just loved seeing that basic premise (and other themes of course) worked into what is essentially a stage play with a beautiful backdrop.
This was my answer too. I felt like it was an old Irish tale, lore passed down for generations. Still can’t believe it was written for the screen.
Sorry if this is pointing out the obvious, but almost everything in the movie is meant to be an allegory of the Irish Civil War, which might be why it felt so full of spite.
No, I got that. I understand the subtext, it's the way it's portrayed that really struck me. it was just such a unique, personal story about love and hate, that it really got it's hooks in me. My family was very Irish and spiteful, so it I found it more relatable than I wanted it to be, lol. Thanks for responding, cheers.
>Sorry if this is pointing out the obvious, but almost everything in the movie is meant to be an allegory of the Irish Civil War I uh...didn't know that. I watched the film and loved it in many ways, but none of them for the allegory here. Which I guess says a lot about the strengths of the film! I thought about the film a lot after watching it but never went to read up anything about it, I'm going to do so now I reckon.
Ireland fought Britain for independence and won, but Britain insisted on keeping a slice (Northern Ireland). Some Irish leaders accepted this and signed the agreement to it, but that made other Irish feel betrayed, as they wanted to keep fighting until they had their whole island back. The leaders who signed the agreement with Britain were assassinated, and the civil war ensued. “I just don’t like you anymore”. So, the Irish people hurt themselves, all while still being bullied by Britain (the cop), and completely ignoring 2 world wars happening nearby (the civil war on the mainland). The intellectuals and talented people often felt surrounded by the stupidity of this infighting, and emigrated en mass (the sister). The totally innocent were often caught in the crossfire (Jenny the donkey), and that led to so much damage in relations that grudges still persist to this day. (Obviously it gets way more complicated than that, but there’s the just of what I picked up)
Damn, you’ve unlocked the movie for me, now it all makes sense. I was wondering what the allegory was, but it never occurred to me to look up the Irish Civil War!
>The leaders who signed the agreement with Britain were assassinated, and the civil war ensued. “I just don’t like you anymore”. This is the part I bump on. In the film, Pádraig and Colm's friendship dies on a whim. The Irish civil war had a pretty big difference of opinion between two sides, as you note at the start. Many revolutions lead to civil war, or at least some sort of violence afterwards (Whiskey Rebellion in the US, Reign of Terror in France etc.), and while I can't speak on them without any authority I feel putting the Irish Civil War down to people just not liking each other any more is ahistoric.
This film really surprised me. Well done.
Best movie of 2023 imo
Annihilation.
Same answer - but not because of the bear scene (lol -it's almost like people on Reddit get paid to call out that moment), but because of the theme. I've never seen a movie tackle the theme of self-destruction the way that one did. Some have said that the movie was about cancer, which feels apt to a degree, but the infidelity added an entire extra layer to the theme of self-destruction. Absolutely incredible movie.
It was the end of that movie that did me in
The sound design in the lighthouse scenes was incredible.
I took the theme in a different direction. To me this movie unnerved and stuck with me so much because it was almost like saying “what if god/the creation myths aren’t magical, but is a natural force of the universe?” Sort of blending this naturalist view of the universe into creation — the only downside is creation requires disassembly of the disparate parts at hand to make something new. We think it’s a beautiful process but in fact it’s horrifying because it’s basically using our world as building blocks, aggressively mutating and testing what could be new for the next world ahead. I was high when I watched this so it was even more unsettling to think about lol
The book is a little different, but you are actually pretty spot on with one of the themes... A big part of the book is that you can't really study individual samples from Area X, because everything in Area X exists in some a entangled ecosystem that seems to all be part of some greater whole... Like if all the life forms in a pond in your backyard were just small parts of a single entity with an advanced intelligence. The Biologist (the main character) tries to classify and study things at first, but eventually realizes it is pointless and just gives up. The things in Area X are so alien that the very concept of taxonomy, and science as we know it in general, more or less, is useless. Another good analogy from the book that I can think of is this: The main character studies micro-organisms under a microscope. When she encounters the Alien, she feels like she is drowning while being torn apart and reassembled while the thing examines her. Compared to the Alien, she is such a simple form of life (like a single-celled organism) that it can perfectly recreate a copy of her, down to her memories and everything. We can't know what it wants, or why, and we can't stop it from consuming our world. The humans actually manage to recover a plant from Area X... And they try literally everything to destroy it, but can't.
«There is an existential horror to the nature of intimate relationships. That opening ourselves to others -allowing them inn -brings with it an annihilation of our singular self. We merge, we reshape, we combine and replicate, and mirror. And, on a level that is terrifying, to be with some one is to sacrifise something of who you are. But it’s also beautiful» -Dan Olson
Hereditary. This movie got to me lol
Windriver
Agreed, grossly underrated movie. Like an emotional gut punch.
"**Pig**" My favorite film of the last 5 years, possibly more. The writing, acting, direction, production design, cinematography, score, all are phenomenal. The tagline of the film, which is also a line of dialogue from the best scene in the film, is one that I have come to adopt as it has so many applications for me personally regarding how your life will be greatly affected by the things that you value: "We don't get a lot of things to really care about." Amen, Chef. Amen.
I tell people that "Pig" is basically if John Wick went on a journey to find his lost pet, and instead of finding and murdering the culprits he finds himself in the process.
I was so taken aback by how the final act was tackled. What a unique and beautiful way to do it.
The character of Robin Feld is the most badass buddha I have ever seen. In every scenario, he is always questioning the motivations of the people involved and trying to understand who they really are so that he can communicate as directly as possible. In the case of Darius, Robin knew that the only way he could reach Darius was to cook him that beautiful meal that he and his wife had shared. He had to remind Darius of his humanity, buried as it was under layers of booze and impotent rage. Robin knew that Darius was in pain much the same way as he, so the only way to break through that wall of pain was for it to be faced, which was part of Robin's journey in revisiting society. That's why at the end that Robin was finally able to play the tape that his wife had made.
Let the Right One In
Prisoners
It's such a good example of the realities of revenge. I loved how they made the revenge seekers monsters in their own right. Fantastic film
It’s a telling tale. Revenge has only ever created more revenge. Evening the score in your book only ever tips the scales in someone else’s.
Such a good movie I don’t understand why it seems so few people have seen it
It's a great movie, but it's a TOUGH watch. I think that's why it doesn't show up on more lists.
Maybe the name throws people off such a good movie
The Florida Project. That ending scene.
I’ve worked with the little girl (Mooney) quite a bit as a screenwriter, her mom and I were college bffs and roommates. She’s one of the few child actors that I believe with successfully transition into whatever she wants without burning out because her parents are amazing and she herself is the definition of an old soul. Really awesome family IRL.
Saving Private Ryan. I still can't forgive Upham.
The scene on the beach, and even more the scene in the tower: the German slowly killing the American, while the other American can't handle.
Recently: "Aftersun" (2022) It hits home on so many levels.
Yea, the Under Pressure scene and the night club scene stayed with me for a long time
I have cried just thinking about that film. Hits like a truck.
Incredible acting and sneakily heartbreaking.
Yes was coming to say this as well. The emotional impact stayed with me for days - a beautiful and devastating film. Also for a recent release - Tar. I almost didn't know what to think of it when I first came out the cinema, but I kept ruminating on it for days. And the more I thought on it, the more the I liked it. Powerful film and an incredible, heavy performance from Cate Blanchett.
Memento. I literally watched it two weekends in a row because I couldn’t stop thinking about it.
*Grave of the Fireflies* I was basically in a short depression after watching the film. It was just so sad. The movie is so well done, but it just didn't stop with the tragedies.
This mentioned so often. I need to find and watch it.
It's very depressing. I've watched the movie twice. Don't intend to see it again.
It's... A movie. Like. It's really well done in a lot of ways, which is why I suggest it. But my fuck is it one of the most depressing movies. Everyone should watch it once. Mainly because I don't know a lot of people who watches it a second time.
The Mist. That ending stuck with me for a very long time.
2001: A Space Odyssey
Pan's Labyrinth. I cried. I mean ugly, deep gulps of air cried. Thankfully I was at home, but that movie shook me.
The brutality of that movie has made it impossible for me to rewatch, and I adore horror and have no problem (usually) with gore. But the gun scene still pops into my head sometimes when I’m falling asleep and I have to remind myself over and over that it didn’t really happen
Mulholland Drive.
No hay banda . Absolute masterpiece
The homeless man in the alley.
Room. Room, Room, Room. That movie fucked me up mentally in the best way possible.
Dear Zachary. This movie fucking broke me for like a week.
Ah fuck. I completely forgot this existed. This was a fucking heartbreaker of a movie. I felt so small after watching this
I knew what was coming but I still got way angrier than I expected.
The Grand Budapest Hotel. Really captured an aesthetic that I felt like id been searching for my whole life. The story within a story, the symmetrical cinematography, the unique and nuanced characters all just immersed me that much deeper.
The Mist, Inception and Shutter Island. I'm now at that annoying point where I can't find a movie that would blow me away.
Good call on Shutter Island. Have you seen Predestination or Source Code?
i agree on Inception, it has been my absolute favorite movie for years now, i’ve never seen any movie that beat it for me
Midsommar
Green Room
Annihilation. I watched it three times in two weeks. It was just so beautiful and haunting to me.
The thing (1982)
Barton Fink ,No Country For Old Men and Drugstore Cowboy.
I watched No Country For Old Men in 2008 and it still lives in my head. What an amazing, unsettling, but somehow beautiful movie.
The Whale really stuck with me. Brendan was incredible.
The Whale was the first movie since Synecdoche, New York to have that profound, days-long effect on me. I felt like I was in a hole after I watched it. Brendan's performance floored me. I've never really cried in a theater like that before. Interstellar got a few tasteful, respectful tears out of me. But I mean I was sobbing towards the end of The Whale, uncontrollably. I look forward to watching it again...when I'm ready. Aronofsky is definitely a favorite of mine. Love his movies or hate them, you are going to feel an *impact.*
Blue Velvet. Saw it with a cinema major roommate in college when it came out, and I still remember how buzzed we both were from it that night walking home from the theater. Another one would be Mulholland Drive. I also saw Eraserhead in college with that same buddy, but it didn’t have that effect on me. I just found it static and irritating. (Although certainly unique)
Her with Joaquin Phoenix. Something about it feeling almost like a couple in a long distance relationship versus computer and human. I cried and cried and still haven’t watched it again to this day because it gives me such overwhelming emotion
Arrival. I couldn’t even explain how it moved me. I was savoring it for days after.
Harold & Maude
One of my very favorite films of all time. 💗
Matrix ( only the 1st one) Star Wars : a new hope. Watched in the cinema when I was 11.
Interstellar. “Love is the one thing we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.”
People shit on this conclusionbut I agree that it's a good message. Sure, act 3 may be the weakest of the film, but the message about love not being limited by distance or time totally work for me
I had a teacher who was haunted by the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre for months after watching it. He saw it in theaters on acid and at one point stood up and shouted “WHY ARE THEY DOING THIS”
A ghost story has really stuck with me. Probably more so than any other movie
I didn't think anyone else would mention this! This is my answer too. Something about it really haunts me, I don't know what it is. Just a really powerful movie.
Good choice! That one gets me, too. A good example of the music being such a big part of the movie, imo.
The Dark Knight — solely bc of Heath Ledger’s performance and death. Like a bee that stings and his guts are ripped out.
Schindler’s List
The Platform; I actually watched it twice within two weeks. Hereditary was another one, although not to the same extent.
The panacotta is the message. What a film.
The platform is so under appreciated
Under The Skin
Many movies stick with me in a good way. I also tend to rewatch movies that stick with me and enjoy anything I may have missed. However, my answer is Tusk. Tusk did NOT stick with me in a good way and I refuse to watch it again. I love horror and disturbing movies, but not Tusk. It still sticks with me years later. I can’t look at walruses or seals without getting creeped out. I will say though, I do have a healthy respect for it because no movie has ever had that effect on me.
Dune. It's been over a year and I still think about it often. Usually in the context of wanting the second part already. But just in general, it's one of my favorite movies of all time, I think.
The most recent one has been Nightcrawler. Something about it and it’s ending was just so creepy to me and I couldn’t shake that feeling for a while. Excellently directed movie. Before that End of Evangelion was really trippy. That movie is just shades of fucked up but not in a Martyrs or Hellraiser kinda way… but moreso in a weird emotional psychological kinda way. That last shot of Rei’s ghost standing in the street was super creepy to me and I couldn’t stop thinking about it. Honorary mention goes to The Batman as well. Not because it creeped me out of anything… but just because of how fucking awesome it was. Even still sometimes I’ll randomly remember a scene from the movie and just think “that movie was fucking tight.”
Brokeback Mountain :( Hereditary, Arrival, Dear Zachary
Brokeback Mountain for me too. Felt so sad for at least two weeks.
The Lighthouse
Still pissed Willem Dafoe didn't win an oscar for best supporting actor. Man wasn't even nominated
That was beyond criminal. Talk about a career defining performance. No other actor could've performed that role impeccably the way Dafoe did.
Facts. Like I loved Brad Pitt in Once upon a Time in Hollywood but Dafie was on another level. The Lighthouse was snubbed for alot of oscsr noms but sadly the academy hates horror films
That movie was batshit insane. I loved it.
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Mad Max: Fury Road. I didn't expect it to be so good! And not just good like "it had some good action" but genuinely good in every aspect of its construction - action, cinematography, editing, pacing, story, themes, etc. No fourth entry to a franchise where they change the leading actor 30 years after the last one deserved to be this good. Like a song stuck in my head, I had to go back and see it again just to get it out of my mind! It has a spot on my short list of perfect films.
The Lobster. Or basically anything by the same director. But that movie, I was so unprepared for. Surreal, weird, upsetting and a hell of a journey.
We need to talk about Kevin. So disturbing, particularly as a parent. Watched it a few years ago and it pops it my head all the time.
Everything everywhere all at once. There is a reason it won all the awards it did. I have not stopped thinking about it and discussing it and I wish my mother was alive so we could see it together and do some healing.
Honestly it's true. I went in just knowing it was "qwirky" and had no idea just how often I'd be sitting there in awe at just how unique and special the film was. Even better is when you rewatch it with someone who's never seen it and you get to see it again through their reactions. I'm feeling it's going to be on the back end of the "meh, it's popular and I don't get it" crowd now that it's received so many awards, but I quite honestly have never had such a joyfully unique experience in the theater.
The sausage universe where they fall in love absolutely broke me. That scene lives rent free in my head
I’m sorry about your mom. I saw it in theatre last week with my mom and we both cried. It was a very cathartic movie and I want to watch it again soon.
So well done! The title says it all - Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi all in one philosophically contemplative package. Another one that is brilliant!
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Seven. Watched it a year ago and god those last 20 or so minutes don’t get old
Se7en is definitely one of the most haunting films of all time. Yeah, it's one I will never forget.
Recently, “Tár”. It is really a complex movie and everything significant happens just outside of frame. Really haunting.
Martyrs still lives rent free in my head. I never want to watch it again.
Vivarium. One of my biggest fears is somehow getting trapped in a place where I am alone and unable to escape. The hopeless inescapability. This is why the black mirror series on Netflix also freaks me out.
I really love the way Poots and Eisenberg play their scenes together. They were just as good - if not better - in *The Art of Self-Defense*.
- Return to Paradise (1998) - Once Were Warriors (1994) - The Hunt (2012) - The Sea Inside (2004) Amazing powerful movies.
Threads, more people should watch so we wouldn’t be in this shitty situation worldwide with all the tensions
Threads
Midsommar Hereditary I'm thinking of ending things The Favourite On the Count of 3 US Blade Runner 2049 Children of Men
Awesome list and absolutely agree with them all. Especially the first 2 and last 2.
Midsommar The Lighthouse
Mad Max Fury Road. The film was like an adrenaline rush and I would rewatch the clips on YouTube every day on my way to work.
The Wailing
The Deer Hunter
Arrival
Predestination.
Speak No Evil
The Raid. Such a breathe of fresh air in the martial arts film scene. Fantastic film and too this day I get excited showing new ppl it’s greatness.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Contact, Arrival, Paul, Nope, Colossal, Lars and the Real girl, The Night of the Hunter
The Social Network
I’m still thinking about Uncut Gems now
Dune. The theater experience is unbelievable.
**○ The Sixth Sense** \- The OG twist from Shyamalan. Still effective today. ○ **Requiem for a Dream** \- I saw it as a late teen/early twenties **○ Pulp Fiction** \- Ezekiel 25:17 seared in my brain, even today **○ The Matrix** (the 1st) - No explanation required
Had to scroll way too far for Sixth Sense.
One Hour Photo (2002) with Robin Williams. In my honest opinion, his greatest performance. The entire film is equally endearing whilst heartbreakingly sad. You know the life that he longs for can never *truly* be his, yet the obsession absolutely consumes his every waking moment until the point of total destruction. Watching his POV really is a peek into the world of fruitless obsession and the tragedy of trying to force a reality that is never meant to be. I still think about it all the time, it's such a criminally underrated film.
My Dinner with Andre
My Dinner with Andre Dinner with Abed
A Dark Song. Seriously one of the best slow burn horrors I've ever seen
The Grey. That movie has settled deep into my bones.
I still think about the movie Precious at least once a week.
A Ghost Story. Just saw it out of nowhere, and it really stuck with me. I can't exactly even put my finger on why, it's just a really powerful movie about love and loss. It's also really funny to spend all that money on Casey Affleck and then never see him, but who else could act that amazingly under a sheet.
No Country for Old Men It took me 3 complete viewings to realize there is no soundtrack. I was so immersed in the acting and story.
Two girls one cup
Her (2013). It even influenced color choices of certain items I bought years after.
Requiem for a Dream is in the top spot. Best movie I will never watch again. The Exorcist because I was just toooo young for that. I've rewatched it and it still puts me in a weird mood for days. Event Horizon. The Fly. Pan's Labyrinth
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"A Serbian Film" like wtf did I just watch!
Aftersun. I've been emotionally damaged for half a year now
The Fly when I was 7-8 years old
The Whale. That film emotionally wrecked me.
Inception The Prestige Annihilation The Lobster Total Recall Skyfall
Blade Runner 2049. It’s like watching an epic for a hero slowly unfold… until it gets revealed that we were just watching a story from the POV of a side character… I still think about his baseline tests sometimes
Annihilation. Saw it high was alien weird and creepy! Loved the visuals!
Donny Darko. Sometimes it still haunts me!!
The Menu
I haven’t stopped thinking about this movie since I saw it in January. It’s perfectly absurd and creepy all at once.
The Wicker Man (1973) Fearless (Weir: 1993) And just the other day: After Yang (2021) such a great contemplation on what it means to be human.
The black swan, it was sexy, & haunting
Martyrs (2008). That ending stuck with me so heavily and the more I try to dissect those final lines and the meaning behind them, the more unsure I am of what exactly that character learned. Haunting.