thought provoking films

Seabiscuit...the script includes so many though provoking lines.."You don't throw a whole life away just because it's banged up a little" and the whole true storyline about proving the seemingly impossible
 
Films that make you think, rather than ones that just make you scratch your head (a small personal selection):

The Last Temptation of Christ (questions of faith)
Stalker (is the journey more important than what's at journey's end?)
Shoah (holocaust documentary - 'nuff said)
The Grapes of Wrath (triumph over adversity)
Sullivan's Travels (walk a mile in another man's shoes...)
Network (the pernicious influence of TV)
Breaking the Waves (the power of faith to make people do extraordinary things)
 
i love mulholland drive - my jaw was literally on the floor after the first time i saw it, at just how clever it all was in the last 30 mins. i wasn't sure exactly what had gone on, but when you know what has, it all makes sense.

donnie darko is another obvious one - that end sequence where everything falls back into place is fantastic.

another one would be the original verison of the vanishing with its truly brilliant ending.

wim wenders until the end of the world is pretty amazing too - love the last part set in the aussie outback where they're all watching, and becoming obsessed by, their dreams on handheld sony's.

Iain
 
Why hasn't anyone mentioned American History X yet??!!
Well American History X and of course Donnie Darko!!

Oh and Cruel Intentions that movie will leave you thinking about Sarah Michelle Gellars lesbian kiss scene for hours!! lol
 
Are you asking for a fight ;) :D :)



Not after having to watch it for the 12th time you don't! :D



There's always one that tries to wind me up :D :D



"The main controversy over the film centered around director Tony Kaye's attempts to try to remove his name from the credits, prefering instead to invoke the pseudonym Alan Smithee. Kaye alleged that his reasoning for this was Edward Norton's re-editing of the film to give himself more screen time. The Director's Guild of America ultimately denied Kaye the right to remove his name from the production, reasoning that Kaye had placed aRAB in Variety attacking the film, thus violating Guild rules regarding the right to invoke the pseudonym. Kaye proceeded to sue the Directors Guild and New Line Cinema, claiming they had violated his First Amendment rights." ... taken from http://www.answers.com/topic/american-history-x
 
errr what?! I understood non of that? Can I have it in dumbass talk please? and what has that anything to do with people finding the film Thought Provoking?!
 
Your question was "Why hasn't anyone mentioned American History X yet??!!". I thought that perhaps its controversial tweaking and editing - reforming (dumbing down, perhaps) what the original director had in mind, may have been a factor in why nobody wanted to list it...
 
I'm not even going to attempt to get into an argument about the plus and minus points of two David Lynch films, we'd be here all year! :D


Another film that left me a bit dumbfounded was Passion of the Christ. Also left me feeling a bit sick.
 
Dead Poets' Society - made a huge impression on me, particularly
Neil's suicide
Donnie Darko - lots of head scratching
Matrix - as above
Schindler's List - for obvious reasons. I've never left the cinema in complete silence before (or cried so much) - absolutely stunning
The Man Who Fell to Earth - took a couple of viewings to really "get it" properly but a powerful, if strange, film (and Bowie was perfectly cast)
 
Cube - about responsibility and causality.

Pitch Black - as with the Hannabel Lecter films, I liked that the pivotal character was trans-human and so morally ambivalent, and the way the other characters had to deal with him.
 
Hmmm.. I'd say

*Stigmata
*Dogma
(even though im not even religious!)
*Spun
*Requiem for a Dream
(Requim expecially, i just happen to know alot of people personally who would fit in so well with the characters in these types of films!)

im sure there are others but ill have to get back to you...
 
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