[chatwood2]

Ok, let's start the list:

1) 15 Minutes
2) Seven

[DoctorGonzo]

Wings Of Desire
Fight Club
Muriel's Wedding
The Matrix
Threads

[roger_ramjet]

Memento

[roger_ramjet]

Wings of Desire is a great flick.

[KellyHogan]

None. I don't need movies to do that. I just watch the news.

[chris v]

1. My Beautiful Launderette
2. Under the Volcano (not Joe vs. the volcano!<--it's baaaad!)
3. Diva
4. Down By Law
5. Mystery Train
6. Angel Heart
7. The Usual Suspects

There's more, but I'm having brain-lock

CV

[chris v]

Originally posted by DoctorGonzo:
<STRONG>
Muriel's Wedding
</STRONG>

Oooh! I missed that the first time through! Yes, damn fine movie. Ironic use of Abba music in film at its finest!

CV

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[spauldingg]

12 monkeys
brazil
or pretty much anything by Terry Gilliam

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[chris v]

Originally posted by spauldingg:
<STRONG>12 monkeys
brazil
or pretty much anything by Terry Gilliam

[ 12-15-2001: Message edited by: spauldingg ]</STRONG>

Yes, yes, both, esp. Brazil. Brain-lock is lifting, coffee kicking in.

Judging from your screen name, why would you not list another heavyweight:

Swimming to Cambodia

(needs to be watched in conjunction with The Killing Fields)

CV

[The Dude]

I think the movie Pi also deserves a place somewhere on this list.

It really did open my eyes up to the fact there are patterns everywhere in the universe.

[C.J. Moof]

Waking Life. Sooooooo beautiful.

[rjenkinson]

the mission.

-r.

[Timo]

"Afterlife" (a Japanese movie from a few year's back)
"Mulholland Drive"
I second "Memento"
"Blade Runner"

[Millennium]

American Beauty
Mononoke Hime
Kenji's Spring (aka Spring and Chaos)

[Silky Voice of The Gorn]

Office Space.
What other movie makes you think "Holy ****, that's ME. Shit, I need to get out of this place..."

[chatwood2]

The Game

[chris v]

Originally posted by Silky Voice of The Gorn:
<STRONG>What other movie makes you think "Holy ****, that's ME. Shit, I need to get out of this place..."</STRONG>

Apollo 13

No, really, American Beauty. Left the theater resolved to NEVER NEVER let that happen to my family.

CV

[grand illusion]

Jacob's Ladder is freeky,
looks a lot like a modern version of Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge by ambrose bierse

.

[flatcatch]

Rush and Fabulous Baker Boys... because how can you not completely hate humanity and the misery it causes after watching these movies. :-)

[sek929]

American Beauty
Fight Club
Seven
12 Monkeys
Requiem For a Dream

[eep!]

i second these movies:
fight club
anything by terry gilliam
pi
the usual suspects (greatest movie ever, possibly)
+------------------------+
is office space that movie with jennifer aniston? if so, it gets my vote as one of the worst ever, dumb, dumb movie

[tinrib]

Originally posted by eep!:
<STRONG>i second these movies:
fight club
anything by terry gilliam
pi
the usual suspects (greatest movie ever, possibly)
+------------------------+
is office space that movie with jennifer aniston? if so, it gets my vote as one of the worst ever, dumb, dumb movie</STRONG>

Office Space is the Superman III type movie where a bunch of dudes try and siphon off all the fractions of a penny into a bank account. Yeah - it had Jennifer Aniston, thinking about it. So you have the right movie. Well you can't deny - the beginning bit in the traffic jam is funny!

I can never tire of watching The Big Lebowski.

[DKeithA]

Return to Oz - It's one of my favorites.

[chris v]

Originally posted by tinrib:
<STRONG>

I can never tire of watching The Big Lebowski.</STRONG>

As long as you're talking Coen Bros. I would be remiss if I didn't mention their first movie:

Blood Simple.

Not a funny thing about it. just scary, scary. Filmed in and around Austin, too.

CV

[cdhostage]

Fight Club

[OwlBoy]

Originally posted by Millennium:
<STRONG>American Beauty
Mononoke Hime
Kenji's Spring (aka Spring and Chaos)</STRONG>

I agree with the first 2 ( I have not seen the 3rd, your most likely right).
The Second cuz its so long and well done, you just get so wraped up in the world.

The Matrix
Fight Club (I never saw that ending coming)

After watching BTTF 1 2 and 3 in a row, you could be a lil wraped up in it

-Owl

[eep!]

Originally posted by tinrib:
<STRONG>I can never tire of watching The Big Lebowski.</STRONG>

ve are nihilists! ve believe in nossing!

[iNub]

Holly Does Hollywood

Heh, you were expecting a thoughtful and inspiring response? Like stated above, I just watch the news. I've read a book that changed my perspective on life, though. It's in my sig.

[eep!]

Originally posted by iNub:
<STRONG>Holly Does Hollywood

Heh, you were expecting a thoughtful and inspiring response? Like stated above, I just watch the news. I've read a book that changed my perspective on life, though. It's in my sig. </STRONG>

richard bach? he wrote "jonathan livingston seagull" and "the reluctant messiah" right? i don't think i've read illusions though i've seen it around the house.

[grok420]

damn, all the big ones i was thinking are on the list already.

The Mission -- wow, saw it as a young man when I didn't know movies like that existed. that really changed me a lot.

Fight Club

Coen brothers, especially Big Lebowski.

and if it wasn't for Terry Gilliam movies I don't know what I'd do. He makes Perfect Movies.

Oh, add Network to the list. That movie turned out to be downright Prophetic.

[poocat]

as does most everyone, i agree with things above but will refrain from repeating them...

ghost in the shell
full metal jacket
clockwork orange
rear window
the adventures of buckaroo bonzai across the eigth dimension


but really, books way way more than movies **** with my worldview...

pcat.

[juanvaldes]

okay most all of my movies are already up there but here they are:

• Fight Club
  American Beauty
  Pi
  Requiem for a Dream
  Big Lebowski
  American History X

Of course I have everyone of these great flicks on DVD

[scottiB]

Wings of Desire is a wonderful, wonderful flick and needs to be released on DVD.

The Bicycle Thief is a film that "messed with my perspecive of the world." I first saw it in a film class years ago. After it was finished, I walked to a campus bar and downed a double shot of Jack Daniels. To me, it was that brutal.

I've seen it a couple times since, and it's tough for me to watch, but I couldn't recommend it enough.

[flatcatch]

...have to add Harold and Maude

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[godzookie2k]

heh heh, Animal House. or even fear and loathing. Those movies always make me want to go on a bender.


Nick

[Korv]

Originally posted by iNub:
<STRONG>Holly Does Hollywood

Heh, you were expecting a thoughtful and inspiring response? Like stated above, I just watch the news. I've read a book that changed my perspective on life, though. It's in my sig. </STRONG>

The Richard Bach that did Johnathan Livingston Seagull? Actually, I never read that book, but I've read all his others (seriously). At one point he was definatly my favorite author.

One of my other favorite authors was just brought up too. If you though the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas "messed with your prespective on life", try the book. That is one good piece of literature. Another book/movie combo I'd recomend in this category: American Psycho. But read the book first. The book is scarring.

[MikeM32]

heh heh, Animal House. or even fear and loathing. Those movies always make me want to go on a bender.

Thinking of it in those terms was something that hadn't quite occurred to me

I'd vote for "Dazed and Confused" as making me want to smoke some herb and get piss drunk

Mike

[grand illusion]

right now (started at 8:45pm e.s.t.) on turner classic movies
"the 5000 fingers of dr.t"
it's dr. suess with live people
bizzare

[Korv]

<STRONG>They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa.
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa.
To the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be happy
to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're coming
to take me away, ha-haaa!!!
To the happy home, with trees and flowers and chirping birds and basket
weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes and they're
coming to take me away, ha-haa!!!
To the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time... </STRONG>

Luois the Fourteenth... if I'm not mistaken.[/LIST]

[Lerkfish]

(aside note...Joe vs. the volcano is one half a Baaad movie, and one half a very compelling, interesting and different movie. about halfway through the film it dives right in the toilet)

Since I'm a great lover of film, my list would be too long and too inclusive, but I'll offer some gems that altered my way of thinking:

1. The illustrated man
2. They might be Giants
3. Satyricon
4. The conversation
5. The Fifth Man
6. Kubrik films (Clockwork Orange, 2001, The shining, Paths of Glory, full metal jacket, etc.)
7. It's a wonderful life
8. Superman
9. The In-laws
10. Stir of echoes
11. (and , similarly) sixth sense
12. the Haunting of Hill House (the original, not the cheesy remake)
13. The apartment
14. Runaway Train
15. I agree, anything by Gilliam
16. The Drowning Pool
17. The birds
18. Alien
19. The Day the Earth Stood Still
20. Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein.

whew! I don't know when to stop.

[grand illusion]

Originally posted by Lerkfish:
<STRONG>...9. The In-laws...
</STRONG>

Sheldon: Did we hit the little boy on Sixth Avenue?
Vince: No, we missed him by a good foot and a half.

Sheldon: I have flames on my car. I HAVE FLAMES ON MY CAR!

[Macrat]

Fight Club
The Matrix
American Beauty
Groove
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Serial Experiments Lain
Cowboy Bebop
Men in Black
Stargate

[iBabo]

ANTITRUST..Can someone please say it with me...ANTITRUST
SNATCH...and anything else by guy richie
Jurrasic Park(the first one only!)
Entrapment!...definatly
ohh and who could forget..Ferris Beulers Day OFF!
ohh did i mention ANTITRUST?!

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[OwlBoy]

Originally posted by iBabo:

SNATCH...and anything else by guy richie


[ 12-17-2001: Message edited by: iBabo ][/QB]

I just saw Snatch, a good movie, what other things has he done? (Cept that BMW film, I saw that, its cool

-Owl

[Lerkfish]

Originally posted by grand illusion:
<STRONG>

Sheldon: Did we hit the little boy on Sixth Avenue?
Vince: No, we missed him by a good foot and a half.

Sheldon: I have flames on my car. I HAVE FLAMES ON MY CAR!</STRONG>

there are so many GREAT moments in that film!

Sheldon: and I assume this is Mrs. Dictator on the flag?
Dictator: oh no, that is a local prostitute.

Sheldon: Don't shoot at me, I'm only a dentist!

[grok420]

Originally posted by Lerkfish:
<STRONG>

there are so many GREAT moments in that film!

Sheldon: and I assume this is Mrs. Dictator on the flag?
Dictator: oh no, that is a local prostitute.

Sheldon: Don't shoot at me, I'm only a dentist!</STRONG>

Vince: "SERPENTINE! SERPENTINE!"

God I love that movie. What's the other one where they do the insurance scam? With Charles Durning...

[G Barnett]

Wow, can't believe nobody has yet brought up....

"The Wall"

Add to that:

"Akira Kurosawa's Dreams"
"Eating Raoul"
"Heavy Metal" (the first one)
"Ralph Bakshi's Wizards"
"Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone" (Molly Ringwald does Sci-Fi -- that's enough to really mess with your head)
"The Gods Must Be Crazy"
Anything by Kubrick
Anything by Gilliam
Anything by Tim Burton -- no, really
"The Abyss"
"Plan 9 From Outer Space" -- yes, Virginia, movies CAN be that bad....
"The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover"
"Nightflyers"
"Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer"


There, that should be a good start.


G Barnett

[MikeM32]

"O Brother Where art Thou?"

pete: "Well who elected you leader of this outfit?"

Everett: "Well I thought it should be the one with the capacity for abstract thought"



Mike

[rjenkinson]

i forgot to include "abre los ojos" (open your eyes), the spanish movie vanilla sky is based on.

-r.

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