Mind Blowing Movies

[Nargleblarg]

I want to know if there has been any movie that you have seen that have just blown your mind or changed the way you think of the world.


My movies would be
The Matrix
Equilibrium

NOTE: I have just finished watching Equilibrium for the first time and that's why I am making this thread.

EDIT: oh wait I have another Apollo 13

 

[Arsen]

Equilibrium was "cool"...but I saw past the Hollywood bull.

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Seven Samurai
Reservoir Dogs (been a while, still awesome)

Other than that...I don't watch movies that much.

 

[Vek]

Well, for me, it was Schindler's List, and Full Metal Jacket.

 

[zoozilla]

Mind-blowing, eh....

I guess 2001: A Space Oddessey would be up there, along with Children of Men (my favorite movie).

Huh. I feel like there should be more, but nothing's coming to me.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

The Matrix. It makes you think.

Slumdog Millionare

One of my favorite movies. I care more about the people who are in those situations now than I did before I saw that movie.

 

[Pseudonym2]

Eraserhead

Waking Life

A Scanner Darkly

Hearts and Minds.

Network. (Once you realize it was made 30 years ago)

 

[oliveira8]

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. That Graveyard scene is just to awesome.

 

[Cliff_m85]

Pleasantville. So many underlining messages in it.

V for Vandetta. Just shows that people are sheep. They follow V, a person they know absolutely nothing about who demands that they follow him into battle, in a battle against the government which is comprised of people they know absolutely nothing about. Add that V, which complaining about the government being immoral TORTURES a innocent woman to prove a point. Gah

 

[0p3rati0n]

Enemy at the Gates, Dark Knight, Band of Brothers, and Soldiers and Saints! That's for me!

 

[flare09]

A.I. That was the only movie that has ever made me cry.

 

[Ghostkai]

Empire of the Sun. So emotive.


Besides that, gotta be the Matrix, or Jurassic Park.

 

[teisjm]

Boondock Saints and Fight Club.

Every time I watch Boondock Saints I wanna go kill some bad people

 

[Nazulu]

Fantasia (as a kid I had no idea what was going on but it was awesome)
Shawshank Redemption
The Matrix
All 3 LOTR films
Jurassic Park

Theres plenty more but I can't remember right now.

 

[Stormcloud23]

Fight Club, The boondock saints

Boondock Saints and Fight Club.

Every time I watch Boondock Saints I wanna go kill some bad people

Damn i saw yours right before i clicked post... We're blood brothers

 

[manaman]

Pleasantville. So many underlining messages in it.

V for Vandetta. Just shows that people are sheep. They follow V, a person they know absolutely nothing about who demands that they follow him into battle, in a battle against the government which is comprised of people they know absolutely nothing about. Add that V, which complaining about the government being immoral TORTURES a innocent woman to prove a point. Gah

Except not.

The entire movie they show that the people are not happy with the totalitarian goverment and their forced religion. They felt small and powerless as individuals, but found a voice in one person willing to do something about the goverment. They followed an ideal, the twist was the ideal was pretty much bullshit with the plan to take down the goverment done for revenge and not for the betterment of the people. A good dead done for bad reasons, then in typical bullshit cop out ending he has a change of heart buys his line and decides it is for the people to decide. By that he means the women he indoctrinated to his cause. The torture aspect had nothing to do with proving his point. In his own twisted way he was attempting to help her be the stronger person she wished to be. Besides I think there is a fine line between torture and systematic poisoning of tens of thousands of people, along with the concentration camp style testing grounds where they tested on the population.

Edit: Need to watch Plesentville again but I remember it being good.

 

[teisjm]

Fight Club, The boondock saints

Boondock Saints and Fight Club.

Every time I watch Boondock Saints I wanna go kill some bad people

Damn i saw yours right before i clicked post... We're blood brothers

Would've expected someone to have Fight club and someone to have Boondock Saints, but both and nothing else, thats awesome. Wanna go kill bad guys?

"And Shepherds we shall be
For thee, my Lord, for thee.
Power hath descended forth from Thy hand
Our feet may swiftly carry out Thy commands.
So we shall flow a river forth to Thee
And teeming with souls shall it ever be.
In Nomeni Patri Et Fili Spiritus Sancti."

Nice avatar btw

 

[guhzill]

i thought fightclub was a good movie it gave me a new perspective on the world

 

[Timotei]

Four words.

[HEADING=3]A bastard in a basket![/HEADING]

 

[high_castle]

The Usual Suspects. It's the only movie whose ending I didn't see coming until two minutes before the credits rolled. The ambiguous storytelling is an artform, and because of this movie I'm willing to forgive Bryan Singer of everything...even Superman Returns.

I also think Collateral did a masterful job of creating a sympathetic antagonist. It was also a pretty symbolic struggle against chaos and order done very well, and very dramatically. And if you weren't moved by the ending, you're not human.