Thread: Movies that screw your brain

Has The Butterfly Effect been posted yet?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289879/

Originally Posted by Sil3nt

Has The Butterfly Effect been posted yet?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289879/

Yes it has.

It isn't that hard to skim through a page of replies to find it.

Originally Posted by Carôusoul

Yes it has.

It isn't that hard to skim through a page of replies to find it.

Crtl+F "butterfly" is even faster.

Originally Posted by Carôusoul

Watch the movie it's based on, Abre les ojos.

It's totally top.

So I've been told, I already have the film here ready. But it'll probably go to waste if I watch it so soon after seeing the remake, so I'm gonna wait a few days till I watch it.

But it seems to me Abre Los Ojos has a much more dark/horror theme around it (in spite of being almost the exact same story), if that's true I suspect it won't touch me nearly as much as Vanilla Sky did. Still seems pretty awesome though.

I didn't think the Butterfly Effect was very good personally. As a film.

The "Saw" movies can definitely screw with your brain if you ignore the all the bloodshed and funky stuff and start thinking about the killer's motives. Is it right for the mere human to bring justice himself or should he just leave it be...
Anyway, my opinion is that it's very wrong how the 'justice' in these movies is given by the 'Puzzle'.

Originally Posted by TheLight

The "Saw" movies can definitely screw with your brain if you ignore the all the bloodshed and funky stuff and start thinking about the killer's motives. Is it right for the mere human to bring justice himself or should he just leave it be...
Anyway, my opinion is that it's very wrong how the 'justice' in these movies is given by the 'Puzzle'.

I wouldn't really consider them particularly mindfucking in relation to most already posted.

Since Mullholland Dr and Fear and loathing in LV already have been mentioned i'll throw in Memento. =) not exactly your average popcorn flick that one.

EDIT: Oh! I just remembered The Fountain. It took me like 3 views to take it all in from that movie. Although I was stoned the second time..
It's also a very beautiful movie

Originally Posted by Carôusoul

There was a climate of mindfuck in 1408, but it was somewhat predictable and ham fisted. There are lots of movies like that though, I'd like to think this is thread is more based on the movies which really do fuck your mind heavily, whilst being quality pieces of art, and maybe trying to convey a point to you. I don't feel 1408 achieves this successfully enough to really get a mention.

But of course I may well have missed something. I only watched it once in Czech, not english, so I may have not got the full blast of awesome it may have harboured. Either way, top.

Yeah, good point about the predictability. Still, I haven't had much of a chance to get into the "mindfuck" category of movie-watching, so it was a bit of a trip for me. I realize what most people are posting here aren't quite as mainstream because you have to go into independent film to see them, and I haven't seen much indie stuff (although I'd like to).

Thanks to the Internet though, I'm totally gonna try to get to some of this stuff, because I think it's really fascinating.

what really? no one has mentioned the fountain yet? i watched pan's labyrinth and the fountain back to back, needless to say it was mindfuckery
also on a lesser note but i'll mention it anyway "american physcho" give me a bit to think about/ creepy. Oh also pink floyd's "the wall".

Fear and loathing in LV, the book, was magical. I'm apprehensive to watch the film though. Adaptations have, for the most part, left a sour taste in my mouth.

Some of these recommendations are mindblowing- no one I know has seen Pi :[. And Pan's Labyrinth is my pick for film of the decade (well it's up there).

Others:

American Psycho: I watched this a couple of years ago at the age of 14 (not recommended) and it scarred me a little. In parts it's pornographic, senselessly in my opinion (though it is a great improvement on that awful, awful book it's based on). But the psychological profiling of Patrick Bateman is spot on. The best part of the movie is the ending- so you really have to be patient.

Un chien andalou and The Blood of a Poet (actually the whole Orphic trilogy) are also brilliant, twisted works. Both are surrealist film and greatly resemble dreams more than anything.

Hmm... I've seen a lot of movies that have done strange things to my head. The fountain was pretty strange...

I was going to instantly say Donnie Darko, but someone beat me to it. Love love love that movie. Best use of music in a film right here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWJPa0bvWnM

Pi was fantastic, as was Abre Los Ojos. I've yet to watch Lost Highway (I attempted one day when I was stoned, and the opening scene freaked me out) but I know it has an amazing soundtrack. I remember seeing The Fountain, but I don't remember what I felt about it. Pan's Labrynth I saw at an outside, nighttime showing while laying in the grass at a park near my house and it was magical. Bowie's Labrynth is great too ("Did you just say 'Hello'?") I've also been meaning to see 'A Clockwork Orange' but I can't get past the first scene, and 'Requiem for a Dream' which I refuse to rent because a few of my friends own it but have yet to bring it by on movie nights.

Originally Posted by sunshineDaydream

I was going to instantly say Donnie Darko, but someone beat me to it. Love love love that movie. Best use of music in a film right here:



Pi was fantastic, as was Abre Los Ojos. I've yet to watch Lost Highway (I attempted one day when I was stoned, and the opening scene freaked me out) but I know it has an amazing soundtrack. I remember seeing The Fountain, but I don't remember what I felt about it. Pan's Labrynth I saw at an outside, nighttime showing while laying in the grass at a park near my house and it was magical. Bowie's Labrynth is great too ("Did you just say 'Hello'?") I've also been meaning to see 'A Clockwork Orange' but I can't get past the first scene, and 'Requiem for a Dream' which I refuse to rent because a few of my friends own it but have yet to bring it by on movie nights.

Fixed for ya.

EDIT: Oops. guess you already got a valid link. I just saw the horrible embedding mess you had at first, from the YouTube website, and thought I would help.

Originally Posted by oniman7

EDIT: Oops. guess you already got a valid link. I just saw the horrible embedding mess you had at first, from the YouTube website, and thought I would help.

Yep, noticed once I posted. Thanks anyway though!

No problem. For future reference, to embed it, you type

[ yt ] [ /yt ]
Minus spaces.

In the middle, paste everything that comes after the "v=" in the URL

Originally Posted by katielovestrees

Yeah, good point about the predictability. Still, I haven't had much of a chance to get into the "mindfuck" category of movie-watching, so it was a bit of a trip for me. I realize what most people are posting here aren't quite as mainstream because you have to go into independent film to see them, and I haven't seen much indie stuff (although I'd like to).

Thanks to the Internet though, I'm totally gonna try to get to some of this stuff, because I think it's really fascinating.

David Lynch movies are pretty mainstream. As in he has a large following and they're probably in your local DVD selling place.

Alternatively you can get everything here on amazon or something, or everything is streamable, but I don't recommend that.

Seriously though if you want to watch a pretty mainstream mindfuck then roll with Mulholland Drive or Lost Highway, they're both some of my favourite movies, they really are top.

Originally Posted by Carôusoul

David Lynch movies are pretty mainstream. As in he has a large following and they're probably in your local DVD selling place.

Alternatively you can get everything here on amazon or something, or everything is streamable, but I don't recommend that.

Seriously though if you want to watch a pretty mainstream mindfuck then roll with Mulholland Drive or Lost Highway, they're both some of my favourite movies, they really are top.

Sweet. I'll be sure to take you up on that, thanks.

I saw The Fountain last week and it didn't do much for me. It was trying too hard to mindfuck me, like an over-eager partner who drinks so much they end up puking in their own hair and passing out on the floor. It put this whole contrived mythos right there on the surface so there was no room for subtext, no allegorical depth, and all the interactions between characters were highly melodramatic.

And how did we get this far without mentioning Primer?

Originally Posted by Taosaur

Primer

oh shi-

Originally Posted by Taosaur

And how did we get this far without mentioning Primer?

Haha wow, I completely forgot about that one. I came across it once last year and it was pretty mindblowing. By the end I couldn't explain one thing that had happened. That one definitely needs to be seen far more than once, I'll have to find it again soon.

Also, Oldboy.

The uninvited.

Just watched Mulholland Drive...

Amazing stuff. I'm gonna have to watch it at least 20 more times to make any sense out of it. I'll definitely be checking out some more Lynch soon.