Confusing / Thinking movies

Dan B

Dan B

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I just wanna see some confusing / Thinking movies like The Others or some movie that would make you need to see twice. I know alot of M night samalaght ( can't spell the guys name) movies are really good for that kind of stuff, like The Village totally made me feel like an idiot at the ending, and the sixth sence made me watch 3 times. I really like those kinds anyone suggest any ? I was reading some other thread and I heard "Crash" would be a good choice, it's a friday and im gonna go on a block buster-spree tonight.
 
Dan B said:
I just wanna see some confusing / Thinking movies like The Others or some movie that would make you need to see twice. I know alot of M night samalaght ( can't spell the guys name) movies are really good for that kind of stuff, like The Village totally made me feel like an idiot at the ending, and the sixth sence made me watch 3 times. I really like those kinds anyone suggest any ? I was reading some other thread and I heard "Crash" would be a good choice, it's a friday and im gonna go on a block buster-spree tonight.
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Rent Brazil or any movie by Ingmar Bergman.
 
The Machinist said:
Pi

Magnolia

Barton Fink
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The Machinist, how could you leave out your namesake? I am not the biggest fan of it but it is definitely a thinking/confusing type movie.
 
I guess you're right.

I didn't consider it because when i saw the flick the first time I was dating an English major and she was a huge Dostoevsky scholar and apparently The Machinist draws on themes from his novels. (most heavily from The Idiot she said)


Anyway she had figured out the whole thing by the half way mark and to my chagrin took a good deal of smug pleasure in explaining the film before the finale.
So i never really got to think about the movie since it was spoon-fed to me.

But aside from that bit, I always prefered the style of the film and the consistently solid Bale's performance to the film's plot.

And on a side note the namesake is an old nickname i had way back when before The Machinist came out. As a wee lad of 10 or 11, I used to fix my grandfather's growing collection of broken Super 8s and projectors that he'd collect from random flee markets and yard sales.
 
"Waking Life"
"Twin Peaks; Fire, Walk With Me"
"The Big Lebowski" I know that sounds strange, but it falls into this catagory because of the levels.
"Dreams" not so much the messages, but trying to watch it as if I were blind. As if I were Kurosawa. Hell, much thought has taken place.

Just a few off the top of my head.
 
Godard's First Name: Carmen :D Or any of his 90's works, on up to his most recent Our Music. If you can find it on VHS, JLG/JLG

Welles' Touch of Evil.

Tarkovsky's The Mirror.

A lot of Fellini's work, but especially 8 1/2

Antonioni's "isolation" trilogy, e.g. L'Avventura.
 
The Machinist said:
I guess you're right.

I didn't consider it because when i saw the flick the first time I was dating an English major and she was a huge Dostoevsky scholar and apparently The Machinist draws on themes from his novels. (most heavily from The Idiot she said)


Anyway she had figured out the whole thing by the half way mark and to my chagrin took a good deal of smug pleasure in explaining the film before the finale.
So i never really got to think about the movie since it was spoon-fed to me.

But aside from that bit, I always prefered the style of the film and the consistently solid Bale's performance to the film's plot.

And on a side note the namesake is an old nickname i had way back when before The Machinist came out. As a wee lad of 10 or 11, I used to fix my grandfather's growing collection of broken Super 8s and projectors that he'd collect from random flee markets and yard sales.
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That makes your nickname much, much cooler. I wasn't sure it was connected to the movie. Hell, you could actually be a machinist! I agree with your analysis of the film. I thought the cinematography, the style and Bale's performance brought this film up from bad to okay. It was sick how thin he was. I heard that the producers were shocked. They thought he would lose like 15 - 20 lbs. Not the crazy amount he must have lost to look like that.

Machinist, what line of work are you in? Are you in the biz? PM me if you want to talk about it. Don't want to hijack this thread.
 
I liked Identity as a second-viewing kind of movie. I didnt expect the ending at all and when you have a movie like that, its like having two movies really. The one you see without the knowing, and the one you see forever more afterwards.
 
bklyndv said:
Godard's First Name: Carmen :D Or any of his 90's works, on up to his most recent Our Music. If you can find it on VHS, JLG/JLG

Welles' Touch of Evil.

Tarkovsky's The Mirror.

A lot of Fellini's work, but especially 8 1/2

Antonioni's "isolation" trilogy, e.g. L'Avventura.
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Yeah, Zerkalo was very confusing, especially after only 2 and a half viewings and since scenes don't really follow one another. The first scene with the stuttering boy is one of my favorite scenes in any film. However, I'm not sure how that scene relates to the rest of the film... maybe I need another viewing? I thought L'Avventura was very straightforward... but I suppose it can be confusing if you try and find some deeper meaning through the story. 8 1/2 would definitely require repeated viewings - it's not really a normal plot, it sort of meanders and curves off at the end... when the people start to dance you're wondering "what's going on!?" Satyricon... wow - now thats 10x more confusing - especially how it ends.
 
My Dinner with Andre ... just kidding.

Naked Lunch
Existenz
Videodrome


I know, I know... they're all Cronenberg. What can I say?
 
dcho787 said:
Yeah, Zerkalo was very confusing, especially after only 2 and a half viewings and since scenes don't really follow one another. The first scene with the stuttering boy is one of my favorite scenes in any film. However, I'm not sure how that scene relates to the rest of the film... maybe I need another viewing?
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I think it is quite literally Tarkovsky "finding his voice" and "speaking clearly" for the first time.
 
Persona, by Bergman, Breaking The Waves, by Von Trier, Shungking Express, Fallen Angels and In The Mood For Love, from Wong Kar Wai (Ok, 2046 too :) )
 
2001: a space odyssey -> Kubrick

Dead Man ->Jim Jarmusch

THX 1138->George Lucas (thinking...ehh?)

Seventh Seal -> Ingmar Bergman (though he was suggested in general)


 
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