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.
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.
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I haven’t even watched this one. Will do.
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There really is something to make out of it? I generally assume Lynch films are good because they’re weird and surprising, but I haven’t seen many
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I’ve seen it years ago, perhaps I was too young. If there is indeed a secret, then you’ve piqued my curiosity and I’m tempted to rewatch it, so don’t tell me !
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Basically every Lynch movie.
Bruh! I still don’t get it and I’m on my second watch. This made me feel better about it. I’ll give it more rewatches 😂
My first theory was that it was just Naomi Watts’ character’s masturbation fantasy laid out on film. I still have to watch it a second time to confirm though 😬
L.A. Confidential
There are multiple investigations/cases and multiple character arcs, and it all comes together so beautifully. The Rollo Tomasi reveal is amazing.
I’ve never watched it, taking notes!
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.
Groundhog Day. It gets better with subsequent watches.
I had a roommate who was addicted to this movie. The frequent rewatches were annoying at first, but you’re right!
It is like you are in the loop.
That’s why I rewatch it every year. You can just pick a theme and watch it with that lens for the year.
True!
Watching Groundhog Day once is already like watching Groundhog Day five times
You can say that again
You can say that again
Bing!
Donnie Darko. Besides being confusing, it’s just a great story. Plus, it’s remarkably well cast.
If you have the opportunity to watch the deleted scenes, I highly recommend it - especially the one with the dad. His role in the cinematic version is pretty small, but there’s a deleted scene where he has a quiet chat with Donnie, and tells Donnie about his past mental problems. It’s fantastic, and rounds out his character perfectly.
I’ve watched this one 3 times and I still don’t understand it :) cool movie still!
Did you watch the theatrical or directors cut? The latter explains a LOT more.
TL;DW If I remember it all correctly. The plane crash caused a “Final Destination”-esque rift in spacetime? Or fate? Or reality? And Donnie should have died, but didn’t and because he didn’t the universe will implode unless he fixes it in time by dying. He also gains powers to see the future as part of the deal (represented by the weird trails in front of people walking) and he realizes the future is everything ending unless he dies to seal up the rift. Frank, the bunny is like a guide or messenger or something.
Y’know I don’t mind the “spoiler” because the realistic likelihood of watching this one feels kinda slim…
… But this sounds like a far better version of The Butterfly Effect, which was one of the most pointlessly edgy, pathetically nihilistic, manipulatively depressing films I’ve had the displeasure of seeing.
I saw that in theaters and it was one of the maybe two movies I’ve walked out of. It was so pointlessly depressing and just not enjoyable to us so we bailed.
Donnie is much better. Depressing? Yeah in a way, but also much more engaging and enjoyable.
I don’t remember honestly. I remember having to read about the movie too kinda almost understand it.
Thanks for the explanation, now I probably have to watch it again :)
Is that in the director’s cut? I tend to recommend the theatrical cut. I don’t find it confusing but I can understand how it might be possible to get lost if you miss a key scene or two.
Don’t know. It deserves to be.
I used to have a DVD of the theatrical cut, which I got before I even knew a director’s cut existed.
I like how this movie’s fanbase is split on a group of people recommending the theatrical cut and another group recommending the Director’s Cut. I haven’t found another movie that has something similar.
It’s been a long time since I saw the director’s cut. Having read the comment above about what the director’s cut includes I’m more inclined to continue recommending the theatrical cut. The magic of that story and it’s characters doesn’t need more exposition, especially about the fantastical elements. It’s enough to know that Donnie figure’s stuff out and takes decisive action with the knowledge he and by extension the audience has at hand.
One of my favourites for sure. I just love the struggle the character has for what is and what isn’t reality in that movie.
I heard Tenet sucked, so it was firmly in the maybe column on my list of movies to watch. I finally watched it and was really fascinated by it. I didn’t like it nearly as much as Inception and Interstellar, but it was a fun movie with unique ideas. I don’t know how it got such a shitty reputation. I think people were just dumb and rather than admitting that they didn’t get it they said that the movie was bad. It was certainly flawed in several ways, but it didn’t deserve the level of criticism it got when it came out.
I think a big part of the criticism is that it was kinda neat but came off as “Wrapping your head around director’s obtuse-gimmick-idea is the whole point of the movie.”
Which I guess you could argue was Inception as well, but I feel like it was overall more relatable.
seems like i read something to the effect that DiCaprio made a lot of suggestions to give depth to his character, and that the movie as initially written really was more just-the-gimmick. i hated Tenet; i imagine Inception without likable (edit - or at least interesting) characters would have felt more like that.
That makes a ton of sense and I feel the same way you do.
I fondly remember the characters from Inception and felt drawn into their plight in the bizarre dream world with its own rules.
I only saw Tenet once…but felt like the main character(s) were simply a pair of pants to walk the viewer through the ideas…backwards, half of the time. XD
I think people were just dumb and rather than admitting that they didn’t get it they said that the movie was bad.
Definitely me. I hated the aesthetic or lack thereof and couldn’t make sense of the events. Since it took itself so seriously I felt I couldn’t relate. But then again I watched it on the plane… I really should know better
Vanilla Sky! It’s a truly mind bending movie, with an absolutely perfect soundtrack. I’ve probably seen this movie more than any other. I still find personal meaning in it 20+ years after my first watch as a kid when my older brother decided to see it in the theaters and took me along. I was confused but moved by it and I didn’t know why. Love came after the second watch.
Do I need to have seen Iron Sky first to understand the plot?
Ya but I think you need to watch October Sky before that.
You could also skip the movies and go straight to No Mans Sky, the video game.
I’ve never been more attracted to a movie character than Penelope Cruz in this movie! 😍
And she’s in the Spanish original as well, I believe.
Jacks and cokes?
Okay this isnt a movie but a show, but arrested development (especially the early seasons) are filled with situations, puns, innuendos and jokes that are set up over several episodes, sometimes even seasons. It is impossible to catch and appreciate them all on first watch. I have seen the show probably a half dozen times over the years and i still stumble over the occasional thing i missed.
Omg you are so right!
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There are even some jokes where they were seeding foreshadowing, but were never able to actually have it come to fruition because the show was cancelled. My favorite of these is that Tobias is actually a black man
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I don’t think so. It’s more like he’ll often say stuff that makes more sense if he were a black man. Eg. When Lindsay is hitting on Ice, Tobias says something like “she certainty has a type”. Or how the cover of “The Man Inside Me” seems to show a black man. Much like the foreshadowing of Buster’s hand, a lot of it is meant to be extremely subtle.
Arrested development was way ahead of it’s time and has some of the most clever writing of any show, especially for the time is was first made (pre Netflix.) The word play and subtle running gags are absolutely hilarious. And the characters are all written hilariously well.
Ghost in the Shell
FYI: There’s a series too - can highly recommend
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
- Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society
The Sixth Sense, if you can go into it blind. I’m usually pretty good at figuring out a movie’s plot twist, but this one caught me completely by surprise. Then when you watch it again you pick up on all the dropped hints.
I have never watched it and probably never will- I’m sure it’s a great movie but the twist is one of the most spoiled in internet history :(
To be fair, it is a twenty-five-year-old movie. That’s a long time to keep anything unspoiled.
It was spoiled at the time. I think I was six months late in seeing it and knew the twist. Not 100%, but enough that it completely ruined it.
Just watched this tonight for my 12 year old son, coincidentally. He loved the twist!
I figured out the twist within like the first 5 minutes of my first watch (nobody spoiled it for me, but I knew that there would be a twist and was looking for one) and it made the movie pretty boring imo
I was fortunate enough to see this one in theaters. Had no clues. Great reveal. It would really ruin it to know the twist going in.
I had it spoiled for me about 30 min before I went to the theater to see it by a coworker. I never forgave him.
What’s great, though, is that knowing the twist doesn’t ruin it. It’s worth a rewatch anyway.
I recognized the twist at a certain conversation early in the movie. It’s not really hidden, or at least not well.
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“I wouldn’t write myself as some kind of prophet into my own story! That’s like Shamylan levels of douchiness!”
–“Chuck”, Supernatural TV show
Akira. It’s weird and confusing. Goes from cyberpunk eye candy to bizarre metaphysical reality warp real quick.
Also body horror
Titanic. The ending recontextualises everything and I’m still talking about it
can you talk about it some more? i didn’t think this movie was difficult
There are multiple lenses and been through many of them at different points in my life. I really did not like it when it first came out, but then came to understand the romantic fantasy from a young woman’s perspective, and then the class aspects about how the upper classes vampire the vitality, dynamism, and culture of the lower classes to rejuvenate themselves, etc etc.
I’m not sure I would say I even like the movie yet, but I have talked a lot about it with friends and partners over the decades. So I guess it’s a good movie to talk about
Wait… Like the boat sinking?
Whoa, spoilers man, c’mon!
I really thought they were going to clutch it at the last second tbh
Care to elaborate? It’s pretty straight forward to me.
Please see my reply to the unfortunate named user elsewhere in this thread
The Holy Mountain. I suggest just watching it.
