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The Godfather, but it wasn't so much a "punch in the stomach" as a "wow, a movie that good can't exist"
Also, Taxi Driver. Absolutely daunting
Also, Taxi Driver. Absolutely daunting
I loved the original, didn't mind the second and didn't really enjoy the third.Julianking93 said:
The original Alien movie did this to me but I've matured a bit more since and it takes more to phase me. Come to think of it, I haven't seen any movie that is freaked me out as much as Cube in awhile...
Inception blew me away though but that was to be expected as it dealt with dreaming, a favourite topic of mine.
Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
Still one of the most powerful scenes I've ever read.
The film Irreversible. One you get to the very beginning you realize how just a few simple choices effected an entire night. Like the title itself mentions...you can't just go back and change everything. Once a decision is made it can stick with you forever. Hence the truth in the "ending" of the movie.
Cowboy Bebop's ending...was stunning. Just a fight to the finish. It couldn't have ended any other way.
The scene where Roland accidentally kills his own mother.
Still one of the most powerful scenes I've ever read.
The film Irreversible. One you get to the very beginning you realize how just a few simple choices effected an entire night. Like the title itself mentions...you can't just go back and change everything. Once a decision is made it can stick with you forever. Hence the truth in the "ending" of the movie.
Cowboy Bebop's ending...was stunning. Just a fight to the finish. It couldn't have ended any other way.
Memento. The whole thing is a giant mindfuck wrapped in a layer of "what the shit?" topped with some "WOAH". Amazing movie. It's also the most depressing movie I've ever seen.
The main guy, Leonard, spends every minute of his life trying to find his wife's "killer", even though he killed her, and he fabricated the story of her getting killed by a man named John C. Gammel just so his life would have purpose, because his wife's death is always fresh in his mind. He has short term memory, which he gained on the night of his wife's death. But even if he kills the "killer", he just forgets.
(Man, I thought this would be a reference to "The Hangover". And cue someone quoting me to tell me that movie was overrated in 3...2...1...)
Anyway, "Apocalypse Now" had that effect on me. That was the most weirdly depressing movie I have ever seen.
Anyway, "Apocalypse Now" had that effect on me. That was the most weirdly depressing movie I have ever seen.
A friend of mine recently got me to sit down with him and watch Milk, now I had no idea about any of the stuff that had gone on in reality, so went in blind, by the time the film was over I was speachless
Say what you want about how they ended LOST (I loved it but thats a whole other topic) but when the credits rolled at the end of that eppisode, after witnissing that ending, in silence (barring nature sounds) with shots of plane wreckage, I sat there absolutly floored unable to move, talk... anything.
Brokeback Mountain to this day leaves me crying, there is one very particular scene that I cant for the life of me find online (and here I thought everything was online) but its the very iconic scene where Jake Gyllenhaal's character "Jack Twist" uses the line "So what we got now is Brokeback Mountain! Everything's built on that! That's all we got, boy, f*ckin' all. So I hope you know that, even if you don't never know the rest!"... that entire scene, from the camp the night before onwards.... I cant get through it without a tear in my eye
Finally, this isnt a game or a movie, but if anyone has read "The Sight" by David Clement-Davies, the ending to that floored me, I spent the next 3 days in a strange mood that I couldnt put my finger on, like a wieght on my shoulders, I wasnt necessarily unhappy, though the ending was depressing, but wasnt happy either... I just was... it effected me in a way that to this day nothing else quite has... its very hard to explain...
Say what you want about how they ended LOST (I loved it but thats a whole other topic) but when the credits rolled at the end of that eppisode, after witnissing that ending, in silence (barring nature sounds) with shots of plane wreckage, I sat there absolutly floored unable to move, talk... anything.
Brokeback Mountain to this day leaves me crying, there is one very particular scene that I cant for the life of me find online (and here I thought everything was online) but its the very iconic scene where Jake Gyllenhaal's character "Jack Twist" uses the line "So what we got now is Brokeback Mountain! Everything's built on that! That's all we got, boy, f*ckin' all. So I hope you know that, even if you don't never know the rest!"... that entire scene, from the camp the night before onwards.... I cant get through it without a tear in my eye
Finally, this isnt a game or a movie, but if anyone has read "The Sight" by David Clement-Davies, the ending to that floored me, I spent the next 3 days in a strange mood that I couldnt put my finger on, like a wieght on my shoulders, I wasnt necessarily unhappy, though the ending was depressing, but wasnt happy either... I just was... it effected me in a way that to this day nothing else quite has... its very hard to explain...
Recent example: I just watched Casablanca for the first time about 6 hours ago and I was stunned by how amazing it was. I knew it would be good but I was caught completely off-guard nonetheless. If it's not in my top 10 best movies of all time, it's definitely in my top 20 (which means something; I have seen over 2500 movies in my 22.5 years).Outright Villainy said:
Best example: Perfect Blue. I am neither lying nor exaggerating when I say that this film changed my life. It's an incredible, intense, animated masterpiece by the recently-dearted Satoshi Kon.
At you and everyone else, I cant believe you keep breaking the first two rules OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN!!! JAYSUS H CRIPES MAN!Paulie92 said:
OT: MOVIES: The Book of Eli. SO powerful at the end
when you find out he's actually blind, and the antigonist would NEVER be able to read his copy of the Bible
BASIC. I did NOT see the end of that one coming, and to this DAY it remains one of my favorite flicks.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the NEW one (not that BBC crap). Say what you will,
but the scene with the Stone Table where Jadis kills Aslan in Ed's place... It really hits home for me, ya know? I mean, even if you're NOT religious, there ARE people that will lay down their life for someone else... So powerful.
To that same end, Man on Fire, for the same reasons. Only, ya know, with the whole fantasy thing.
BOOKS: The Watchmen. 'Nuff Said.
V For Vendetta! Again, 'nuff said!
The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (it's a book SERIES) ALWAYS gets to me... Just so amazing, so wonderful...
Let's see... there's this webernets blog story called "The Day the Dollar Died," (just google it), it was a NONSTOP read for me... REALLY makes you think!
As far as GAMES... The Darkness was pretty fucked up at the end. GREAT fucking game... But then that ENDING... I was speechless.
Grandia II. I'm not saying anything, even in spoiler tags, just because if you've NOT played it, go and buy a fucking dreamcast and fucking PLAY THAT GAME! It is WELL WORTH IT!!! Oh... My... GAWD...
Final Fantasy VII... I did NOT see that twist coming!
the one where Cloud is living out Zach's memories, and was never really part of Soldier? yeah, that threw me for a loop and a half!
Skies of Arcadia. Again, the plot twist was just so... Perfect. I mean, you can KIND of see it, but then not really. It is also one that gets no tags, because I'm pretty sure EVERYONE here has a GCN, and if you follow my orders from the Grandia bit, you'll have DC, so get this game for one or the other of them, and PLAY IT!
