The Mission – I’d driven to Oxford
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Interstellar. Made me realize just how insignificant we truly are in the universe.
I forgot about that one, deep and well, deep. Briliant film, but not for the faint of heart.
Apocalypse Now, Platoon, Hamburger Hill
All mandatory watching if you ask me. Brilliant films.
Also seven years in Tibet
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120102/
and Kundun
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119485/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Apocalypse Now, Platoon, Hamburger Hill
All mandatory watching if you ask me. Brilliant films.
Full Metal Jacket needs adding to that list. The whole Private Pyle thing is deeply disturbing
The Deer Hunter too, for the Russian roulette scenes. Harrowing
Full Metal Jacket might be just be the best war film ever.
I recently watched Dead Mans Shoes and Tyrannosaur off of the back of another thread on here. Both were outstanding but the former hit me the hardest.
Saving Private Ryan is another.
The Kingdom - Peter Berg
Black Hawk Down - Ridley Scott Look past the gung ho and it shows what a **** up it was.
Breaking Away - Peter Yates The film that got me properly into cycling when I was about 10
Wicker Man
Ex machina
Funny games (original one)
Full metal jacket
Great thread, massive fan of cinema like this. I usually have to watch them on my own though, nobody else in my house will bear them! I'm deffo going to look up the ones I haven't seen!
2001 a Space Odyssey
Requiem for a Dream
Generally I walk away from films without much of a legacy. The only one that's really stuck with me is Requiem for a Dream, dir. Darren Aronofsky
Thought it was superb but took a while to get that out of my head and doubt I'll watch it again.
Into the wild
Happy people: herzog
The field
Withnail and i
The harder they come: Jimmy cliff
Easy rider
Withnail and I is worthy of a mention
Not for the first time you watch it. Or the second, or the third*, when you laugh your tits off all the way though it
But for when you stop laughing and you really watch the final scene and you realise you’ve just watched the greatest story of unrequited love and the final scene is one of total heartbreak and despair
Then when you watch it again it’s a completely different film
* there’s a good chance that I’m just very slow on the uptake and most people got this first time around
Bambi - my gran (god rest her) reckons I cried in the cinema when the mum got shot. Love a bit of venison now mind!
Into the wild
That's a really good one.. very well done, I can't say any more, without spolilers.
Loads.
American Werewolf in London. My uncle put it on when babysitting 9year old me. Done me for years.
Schindler’s List. A beautifully shot but harrowing film of mans capicity for good and evil. I come back to it every few years.
Bone Tomohawk - S Craig Zahler. Outstanding film. Glad I watched it. There is one scene that impacted me in such a way that I shall never watch the film again.
Reservoir Dogs/Pulp Fiction - never seen anything like it before and as a 17yr old, it felt like films for my generation
Return of The Jedi - my Dad picked me up from school and went to see it and it blew me away. But being taken to the pictures by my Dad was something that stayed with me - Octopussy too. Both films in Cinemas that were demolished.
Could go on.
Generally I walk away from films without much of a legacy. The only one that’s really stuck with me is Requiem for a Dream, dir. Darren Aronofsky
Thought it was superb but took a while to get that out of my head and doubt I’ll watch it again.
Same for me. I thought it was excellent, but couldn't face it again.
I watched Arronofsky's first film, Pi on my own in my flat in the same week I'd just been burgled. I did not sleep well for a while after that.
Darren Aronofsky
is a remarkable director. A few of his almost made my list. The Fountain is particularly good.
Herzog's "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" is a great shout. The way a film about cave paintings ends up connecting with the scientists at Cern laboratory was truly mind expanding.
A couple of other recent films that have bent my mind in a similar way have Been:
"Timbuktu" by Senegalese director Abderrahmane Sissako, about the boko haram occupation in......er....Timbuktu and:
"This is not a Film" by Iranian Jafar Panahi, made whilst under house aŕest.
Thread lacking a bit of Italian neo-realism so I'll throw in "Umberto D" by Vittorio di Sica.
Oh, there's 'war films' and then thers films about war:
"Come and see" by Elem Klimov, (Apocalypse Now for grown ups).
I also found There Will be Blood to leave a lasting impression on me.
Also, these two, but in very different ways:
Nil by Mouth - Gary Oldman - bleak and harrowing.
Cinema Paradiso - Giuseppe Tornatore - joyful, wonderful, tragic and beautiful.
The films that have had the most long term impact, for me, are the ones that question the mind.
The Truman Show - Blew my mind when I first watched this. Superb acting from Carrey.
Fight Club - Amazing introspection into Norton's mind.
The Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind - don't underestimate the value of memories, good or bad.
The Butterfly Effect - Another film that blew my mind. If you're the type of person who often looks back at their life and wants to change individual moments, then watch this film and perhaps reconsider.
About Time - Exactly the same vein as the butterfly effect, but even more potent I think. Great film.
All these films have aged well in my opinion.
Cuckoo's Nest for me also.
Goddam it, Chief. You fooled 'em . You fooled 'em all.
Fight Club – Amazing introspection into Norton’s mind.
Fantastic film! We watched it again last weekend. Even more relevant now than when it was filmed. We do a fillum night every week with the Binnerettes (13 & 16).
Both of them absolutely loved Fight Club and completely ‘got it’ as a comment on late stage consumer capitalism. The eldest is presently reading the book.
We’re doing The Big Lebowski on Friday night. Another classic
I’m not an avid movie watcher so will have to look up most of those mentioned. I don’t watch horror though so can rule those out straight away.
Jaws, yeah, will never be able to swim in water where I can’t see the bottom.
A Beautiful Mind - I’d watched it a few times before I found out that what they were giving him in the hospital was insulin and, as a diabetic I found that appalling - knowing just how helpless that feels, so can’t watch it now.
Much as I love cinema, not sure any film has ever truly changed my world view but there are some that have definitely changed my view of what cinema as an artform can do.
Star Wars. As a seven year old it blew my mind.
Blade Runner. Visually and conceptually flawless.
Close Encounters. One of the few films that genuinely gets better every time you watch it.
Moulin Rouge. Possibly the film that understands cinema more than any other I've seen.
Scott Pilgrim vs The World. Unique and way more important than it thinks it is.
JoJo Rabbit. Unafraid to just be itself and all the better for it.
Near Dark. In a decade of 'not as edgy as they think they are' bubblegum teen flicks, this was the much needed anti-Lost Boys.
Fantasia. Just because...
Dogma. If I was a director and could wish I'd made just one film, this would be it. For me very similar to JoJo Rabbit in its don't give a faeces ness approach to genre.
Black Hawk Down / The Revenant. Not sure which is the most tiring film (in a totally exhilarating way) I've ever seen.
Ah yeah The Revenant, my cinematographic experience of being repeatedly punched in the face for 2.5 hrs. I got to the end though.
No plans to watch ‘Come and See’ mentioned up there ^^
+1 for I, Daniel Blake. Just sat in tears for about an hour after it finished. And I'd been in tears for a decent chunk of the film. Such a powerful portrayal of how the government gives no ****s about people's lives.
The Big Lebowski. One of the greatest films ever made. I was obsessed with drinking White Russians for years after watching it!
It's a toss-up between Platoon and Full Metal Jacket. Possibly Platoon, just for the scene where Tears of a Clown plays.
Crash (2004).
If that fails to rock your world, nothing will... Such an eloquent film.
But horrible too..
Twelve Angry Men.
I'd love to see a study of jury voting patterns by those who'd watched this versus not.
Twelve Angry Men.
I'd love to see a study of jury voting patterns by those who'd watched this versus not.
Ned Kelly: waaaay back when my mum decided to give us kids (I was about, oh, 7) a special treat at Easter with a trip to the cinema to see Pinocchio except for some reason it wasn’t on. So Ned Kelly it was...
Similarly traumatic was The Sound of Music (at an even earlier age). Apparently I spent half the film hiding from its horror...
Earthed - the first film - specifically the section with Nathan Rennie descending at Whistler with a soundtrack of The Seeker. Any fast, swoopy descent has me searching for that feeling, and striving to ride more smoothly. I've been unable to ride for the past few years, and what that short section of film represents for me is what keeps me moving towards the day I can get back on the trails again. One of my nicknames is related to this piece of film!
+1 Jaws - it terrified me as a youngster - and not only in open water … I had visions of the shark bursting out of the plughole in the bath.
Otherwise, I'm out of my depth in this thread. 🙂
Going to sound a flippant choice but Idiocracy (...and to an extent Wall-E) as an almost wake up to the direction of western world...seen it a lot in the last 4 years and that film pops in my head straight away
Oh, and also going to add Falling Down
Kajaki - Any war movies are just that, movies, detactched from reality. However Kajaki was almost documentary-esque and probably the closest any movie has shown what being at war is like*
(* I imagine, having never actually been in a war/combat)
Tagging thread!
+1 Arrival
Fish Tank
Sullivan's Travels
Koyaanisqatsi
Parasite
Alive. Amazing true story of the Uruguayan Rugby team that survive the plane crash on the Andes.
They were stuck up there for 72 days.
Duel did it for me - I watched it sometime just before my O Levels' exams and started having recurring nightmares of the wagon piling through the walls of the exam room at school.
In no particular order..
Bladerunner (both)
Dead Mans Shoes
Drugstore Cowboy
Full Metal Jacket (especially the soap in socks bit-and Pvt Pyles whimpering after)
There Will Be Blood
The Basketball Diaries
Requiem for a Dream
Into the Wild
Ooooohhh,
North by Northwest.
Wings of Desire.
Jaws.
Alien.
Star Wars.
Two Lane Blacktop.
The Vanishing.
Rear Window.
The Music Box.
Dead Man's Shoes.
Pulp Fiction.
Cross of Iron.
Dead of Night.
Went the Day Well?
American Werewolf in London.
The Sting.
The Deerhunter.
The Three Colours trilogy.
TG,TB & TU.
All brilliant pieces of cinema that have affected how I judge other films.
I don't know about long term effect, but there are two films where I couldn't talk to anyone for hours after leaving the cinema.
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
The Fifth Element
Strange that those two films would have that effect on me, isn't it? What does that say about me?
Kes
The Graduate
Bladerunner
The Mission
Brokeback Mountain
Apocalypto
Leon
My Neighbor Totoro
Napoleon Dynamite
Also Apollo 13 effected me a bit - this was not helped by the fact I went to see it with a group including my brother-in-law who is a rocket scientist (quite literally) in LA and we also got talking to someone after the film who was actually working at Mission Control when the actual event happened (he was then a worker at the US Listening Base at Menwith Hill near Harrogate where we saw the film).
I have yet to watch Come and See. Is it worth tracking down?
