The matrix and Fight club ( both released in 1999 )
Shaun of the dead has so many jokes in that its hard to catch them all. There is some good YouTube videos that also explain them in case you missed any l.
Hot Fuzz for me. Similar reasons, but I think it’s funnier. Like they took the lessons of Shawn and refined it. I know not everyone agrees though.
I remember showing my late dad Hot Fuzz. He was laughing so hard and practically wheezing at how relatable it was, from a US law enforcement background lol. (Especially when he’s fielding outrageous questions at the primary school LOL)
That was a really good time spent with my dad. I love that movie. We’d be quoting it all the time hahaha.
“Aww man did ya say anythin cool?”
“I uh, smashed him over the head with a pot and said ‘playtime’s over’.”
[racks shotgun] “You’re off the f###ing CHAIN!!”
Deja Vu with Denzel Washington and Jim Cavisal or however you spell it. Terrorist murder mystery with a bit of a look into the past.
Waking Life.
If you wrap your head around it after the 2nd viewing, you’re doing better than most people.
It took me a few watchings of Akira to really have it all sink in.
Koyaanisqatsi
Visual poetry. Literally. It’s conveying a message, it’s just you have to come up with the dialogue. Beautiful work. The sequels are fantastic as well.
I’ve wanted to see Koyaanisqatsi for a long time and finally put it in my list yesterday. This week or next weekend, can’t wait!
It’s very meditative. I find it kinda more “taxing” in that regard than Baraka. But it won’t be taxing at all if you are like water
The Big Lebowski. You pick up on stuff with each watch, and it just gets funnier when you do.
Perfect example. Almost all of the dude’s lines are things he heard a scene or two before.
There’s so many things foreshadowed in the movie that you’d only catch the second or third time around.
Marathon Man.
It’s all in the details. The cab driver in the very first scene picks up a different character later in the movie.
Also, the torture scene gets worse every time.
Is it safe?
Primer because you don’t know what’s happening at the start, and then you start to piece it together, but you really have to watch it a few times because the details you pick up provide context for what’s happening allowing you to piece more of the puzzle together.
I really want to watch this but it’s not available on any streaming service in Australia. It’s been years too.
I might have to just buy it
it’s definitely worth it
https://rentry.co/megathread-movies-and-tv#streaming
Just make sure you have an adblocker so you don’t get computer aids
The Holy Mountain. I suggest just watching it.
BladeRunner: 2049 gets better and better with every viewing. Even more so if you’ve read Pale Fire, which is referenced a few times in the movie. A masterpiece in every way.
The Sixth Sense
but who would go to the boring slog of watching it again
Glad I wasn’t the only one.
Predestination. I did understand the first time but there are so many little details that I had to watch a second time, now knowing the plot, to absorb everything.
Ps: Please, don’t ask what it is about. if someone explains you will lose a very cool crazy movie. just go warch it.
I’m watching it right now. 20 minutes in.
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The columnist is talking about aging out of the orphanage and some guy is offering him a job as an astronaut.
I took your advice and know literally nothing about it other than it came out in 2014, and falls under the “Action, Drama, Sci-Fi” genres. Still, I wanna write this down now so I don’t end up saying “I called it” after the fact and have no credibility, and if I call it wrong, we can all have a good laugh:
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I have the weirdest feeling that time travel is going to be involved at some point. And also something is just screaming “All You Zombies” adaptation at me.
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Might just be because he’s trans.
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And telling a bartender his story. And there’s some secret organization that’s been teased… And the surgery in the beginning.
Okay I paused the movie because it was starting to bother me how much there was in common, looked up the story, and wow. I haven’t read it in a decade or more; I didn’t remember the character was given a title, but it’s right there in the first sentence. Glad I’m not just crazy.
It was the weirdest feeling, to feel so strongly that there was a connection but not sure enough to trust the feeling. Like a compulsion, or an intrusive thought. Just a weirdly intense sensation.
One of my all time favorite short stories, I didn’t know they made an adaptation. I am so excited now.
loved the live feed lol Never heard of a short story but hope you liked the movie, I sure did.
I found this pdf of it just now. I’d say worth the read just to see the differences between the source material and the movie. It’s short, should only take 10 minutes.
I did like the movie! There were some things I was really pleased with how they handled, some things not as much, some things were even done better than the original. Truth be told, I’m not a fan of the author’s wannabe Hemingway All-Dialogue-Little-Description style in the bar scene and flashbacks, so it’s really cool to see the characters actually act and react and show emotion in the movie.
Thanks for introducing it the way you did, otherwise it wouldn’t have caught my attention.
Not a movie, but bojack horse man. On the first watch it all just seems like shitty bojack. After learning all the back story its more like, oh poor bojack.
It’s mostly shitty Bojack. Sure he had trauma and depression, but he always made the choice to continue the self destructive cycle.
Memento.
Though, being real, I would say that it’s a movie that gets more interesting on second watch rather than being one out need to watch twice to get. I honestly haven’t ever run across a movie like that.
Primer also falls into this category.
Along the same lines: Inception. There’s tons of little details that you don’t pick up in your first watch.
Satohi Kon’s “Paprika” is still my favourite movie, and there is a lot to discover and reflect on, on second and third and umpteenth watches.
Legendary film. Stunning animation, excellent scifi and a mind-bender.
I’d go with Possessor by Brandon Cronenberg. I’ve only seen it once so far, and the unfolding of the story was such that you had to work for it. It wasn’t impenetrably dense, but I definitely had to give it the attention it demanded.
That looks interesting. Thanks.
