Children of Men was hands down the best movie i saw last year.

i don't know if it's allready mentioned..:

lock stock & two smoking barrels
jackie brown
snatch
resevoir dogs

"Fat Girl"
"Performance"
"Zardoz"
"O Lucky Man"
"The Proposition"

I can't say i have seen any of them. I'll add them to the queue to look up.

Taking the risk of repeating a lot of what was suggested here are some of my favorites:

- CUBE

- Cypher (underrated and a bit "vulgar" but was quite impressed with it)

- Memento

- Trainspotting (not mind fuck per se but think it does fit, great work with the tunes, scenery,theme,characters,etc..)

- Prozac Nation (orphan but its a nice flick :1orglaugh)

- Matchstick Man

- Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind (Jim Carrey fits pretty well into this sort of roles)

- Magnolia

- Short Cuts

- El Laberinto del fauno

- Scanners Darkly (trippy!!!)

- Gattaca (very underrated IMHO, I just love this flick)

Yep, I was trying to hit you with the stuff that i didn't think anyone else would mention and with a sense of variety.

A few others I forgot (I do hate this sort of thread that makes me dig tru the stuff I like\loved, you are always bound to miss something):

- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

- The Usual Suspects

- Irreversible

- Apocalypse Now (the last part is pure gold!)

- 2001: A Space Odyssey (cant get any of my friends to appreciate this, I'm the only one who seems to see the greatness of this)

- Blue Velvet :)

- Blade Runner

- Vanilla Sky (was told the original was better, have yet to see it though)

- Papillon

ok..going to STFU now as this is turning into the list of all my favorite movies (even the "non-mind-fuck ones") :X

2001 = Genius (imo)

A few more to add...

"Utu"
"The Duellists"

and if you have a taste for the absolutely surreal then any of the Jodorowsky films that just finally came out on DVD...

"El Topo"
"Holy Mountain"
"Sante Sangre"

:winkwink:

Best Laid Plans?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133412/
November?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368089/
Stay?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371257/

Also, I don't think I saw anyone mention Fear and Loathing, American History X and American Beauty, but I'd be shocked if you haven't already seen them.

Perhaps not to your taste: Waking Live, Pink Floyd's The Wall, PillowBook, Total Recall

Do you like documentaries?

"Hells Angels Forever"
"The Devil and Daniel Webster"

oooops... I meant "The devil and daniel johnston"... my bad

Good on ya. Did I meet you or one of your other partners in Miami? Things were a bit confused with all the drama.

Thost should all be a given. I'll check out the ones that may not be to my taste. I do own The Wall on dvd and Total Recall.

Yep we did meet very briefly but yes there was an issue which we were dealing with regarding a certain drunken inappropriateness from one of our other guests... my apologies for the whole situation - was certainly honored that you made it by.

Thead bookmarked.

ditto 78

Oh man, this isn't a mindfuck movie, and I didn't think it was all that incredible, but has anyone seen "Feed"? Holy cow.

Session 9. It's a great movie, but the ending was stilted and trite. It's still one of my favorites.

Some of my friends helped with the research and execution of that movie. They shot it at Danvers State Hospital in Ma.

I can't really add to the list, as all of the great ones are already named. Time to fill up the blockbuster queue.

There were some great scenes, generally how people played off of eachother. Can you believe they destroyed that to make bloody condos?

Unfortunately I can believe it. Also, someone torched it recently.

I have a glass slide with a slice of an actual human brain from a surgery amphitheater in that hospital.

Well I guess a couple of titles could be yet mentioned, sure you should have probably seen a lots from them but why not to try to dig for a little bit more:

"Colors" (1988) - a good old school style crimi with Sean Penn and Robert Duvall

"The Last Detail" (1973) - not that known but a killer Jack Nicholson performance

speaking about Jack, these are a must:

"Chinatown" (1974) - Polanski at his best (before he got involved with a 13 year old irresistible)

"Prizzi's Honour" (1985) - I guess John Huston's last one, but a great one

"Proffesion Reporter" (1975) - quite a departure, Michelangelo Antonioni work co starring Maria Schneider (known from the "Last Tango in Paris")

If you wanna something a bit disturbing you may also like:

"Romeo is bleeding" crimi noir with Gary Oldman, one of my all time favorite actors

"The Butcher Boy" - by Neil Jordan, one of the most suggestive novels I ever read, everyone in this novel is a waste outside this young lad who slaughters the whole family of british puritans at the end

"I.D." (1995) - a UK production, a cop goes undercover to a gang of Hooligans and gets consumed so much that he looses his own character and private - a great and underrated movie

If you want to check something more relaxed I really did liked "Trees Lounge" (1996) a directing debut from Steve Buscemi playing a seladon drunk having affair with his drinking mate guy's 18 year daughter

Lock Stock and two smoking barels really haven't delivered, the movie tried to have every aspect of a "pacy" and "flashy" cool movie - it had effects, weird characters, tried to have a humour in it, but I really missed any plot and even it tried to play on all these aspects put together it was a waste of time and at some moments even pretty annoying.

The only reason I watched that to the end was because of practicing my English a bit.

"Ninth Configuration" also known as "Twinkle Twinkle Killer Kane"

Yeah, I'll refrain from naming names as I haven't in this post or the last and you have also. It was great meeting you, but I'm sorry it was under those circumstances.

Remember when you mentioned that the first 5 minutes looked like a chick flick? :thumbsup

Yep, sorry for doubting you.

I didn't see "The Cell" mentioned.

J-Lo and Vince Vaughn

I just watched Cube thanks to this thread. Great dark flick. Going to check out many others shortly.

Fried Green Tomatoes.

Mr. Bean's Holiday ;)

How bout your favourite B movies?

Apart from many action flicks from the 80's I can remember those a likes like:

The return of the living dead (1985) by Dan O'Bannon (the Alien creator) - funny shit

The Escape from NY (1981) - very much a classic, John Carpenter and Kurt Russel at it's best

The Thing (1982) - the same team that delivers

The people behind the stairs (1991) - a good one by Wes Craven

I also liked Dawn of the dead (1978, 2004) - even the remake is a nice one

plus who cannot love the complete insanity of Peter Jackson's Bad Taste (1987) or Braindead (1992)..

You can't talk about B movies without bringing up Ed Wood and Plan 9 :thumbsup

SFW(So Fucking What) is one of my faves too. A lot of big names in there.

156 Twilight Zone Episodes

Ok I watched these two:

Naked Lunch
American Psycho

They both seemed pointless. I didn't understand Naked Lunch at all.

Jacob's Ladder was decent though.

American Psycho is more of a commentary on the 1980's me-me generation. A social satire of the time and the people.

Naked Lunch was also social commentary and criticism but a few decades prior to the era of American Psycho.

I like your taste in movies. Let me see what I've got in my collection
that wasn't already mentioned.

La Pianiste - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/ - You should definitely see this if not already.
Pretty much all Vincent Gallo movies, don't miss Buffalo '66 and Brown Bunny
you have to be hardcore to digest Brown Bunny but its an exceptional movie.
Blow up - Classic movie (must see for all movie fans)
8MM - was already mentioned but its worth mentioning it again
Gloomy Sunday - this one its gonna be hard to get, but if you find it its great

I know they were mentioned before, but they deserve to be mentioned again

- Bladerunner (Amazing cinematography, amazing Sci-Fi story, probably one of the best movies I've ever seen)
- Children of Men (I agree with one of the previous posters, when I saw this in the cinema, and I watch around 50 new movies a year, every 5 minutes throughout the whole flick I though to myself "Oh boy thank God they still know how to make good movies" )

and here's one you probably haven't seen but might have heard of:

- Death of Salesman (Volker Schlöndorff version, with Dustin Hoffman and a young John Malkovich -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089006 - Warning: This is not your classic hollywood movie, this script comes 1:1 from the theater stage and was adapted for TV. A drama about the American dream, schizophrenia, dementia, depression and a false reality.)

The Life of David Gale
Man on Fire

Naked lunch is very hard to absorb without knowing the background and time when it was written, I strongly recommend checking Burroughs's biography or any trivia comments before watching or reading that.

In a way, it's a great movie based on a novel that is quite impossible to make a movie of..

I also had a chance to check Schlöndorff's "Blechtrommel" which is an adaptation of Günter Grass and for what he received also an Oscar in late 70's I guess.

The movie would be a very nice potraial of pre - nazi and nazi era, needless to say I got incredibly annoyed by the main character and his schreeking so whoever is allergic to kids should rather miss this piece of art.

Even if I hadn't previously read the book, its still a great mindfuck movie. Drugs all over, talking asshole typewriter bugs, ahhh i'm overloading.

The ending pissed me off because it was EXACTLY what i expected before having even seen the movie.

One of my best friends saw it first and told me i would be pissed, therefore I knew what was going to happen.

Wow, what a great fucking thread.

Almost all of the on-topic movies I can think of are already listed. A couple comments: I just saw The Lives of Others and was pleasantly surprised. Someone said they heard Vanilla Sky's original Open Your Eyes (Spain) was better. I'd say they are about the same, but I'm leaning towards Vanilla sky. The Machinist blew me away. I was physically creeped out during it, and it's the only movie in the last 5-7 years that's done that to me.

Some new additions:
Following - Christopher Nolan's movie two years before Memento.
U-Turn - A great Oliver Stone movie that slipped through the cracks.
Inland Empire - David Lynch's latest movie (fuck the haters). He made this movie over several years by writing short stories as they came to him and filmed them on-the-fly with DV cameras, with no intention of making a feature length film. The only Lynch film the studios couldn't interfere with.
Devil's Advocate - Great movie, even if you hate Keanu.
Secret Window - Kind of formulaic these days, but Johnny Depp rocks.
Identity - John Cusack's best since Gross Pointe Blank (someone already mentioned the new 1408, which was great)
The Salton Sea - A very underrated Val Kilmer movie.

Off topic (keep in mind, I'm trying to avoid movies already listed):

A few people have mentioned WWII movies, and no one brought up Downfall?! That's easily my favorite WWII movie ever.

Great foreign movies:
City of God (Brazil)
Amores Perros (Mexico)
Good Bye, Lenin! (Germany)

Recent favorites:
300
The Departed
Smokin' Aces
The Fountain (by the director of Pi/Requiem)

Pure awesomeness:
V for Vendetta
Batman Begins
Lord of War
Natural Born Killers

Other great movies:
Punch Drunk Love
Frailty
Minority Report
Jarhead
The People Vs Larry Flynt

I'm definitely going to re-visit them since I own them now. It may just take time to digest. I actually like American Psycho but was disappointed with the ending. Maybe I was expecting more or something else.

Anyway, this is a great thread for mining stuff I never would have known about. I love mindfuck and tragic movies.

Haha yeah I have this movie. It's funny and bizarre. There is no heavy social commentary at all. It's just an all-around acid trip about a seriously unlucky dude. Sean Penn did a good job.

Did I mention Suicide Kings yet?