Movies That Made You Think

[ViVi1188]

love this topic, i'll definatley be hitting the video store this week! here are a few of mine:

jarhead
proof
happy endings
elizabethtown
garden state
closer
not a movie but the tv show my so called life
the squid and the whale
hotel rwanda
crash
ballad of jack and rose
imaginary heroes
rules of attraction
igby
life as a house
the good girl
american beauty
ok my list could go on forever and i just got really excited for a movie marathon

 

[krnsw33tie012]

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
vanilla sky

 

[yasmine123]

watching ken park made me relise that there are probably so many srewed up people in america(mentaly). People going to school with guns and sooting their class mates just proves how disturbed some of the teens are. why is it even legal to have guns over there??????????????????? i will never understand

that movie really freaked me, and i can never forget it. i dont know why i even watched it. prob cause its iliigal to show over here and we just had to watch and see why....


i hope i havent offended anyone

 

[Tracy Éva]

Closer
The Dreamers
White Oleander

 

[chanelnumber5]

V for Vendetta definitely did, it is scary to think r country could end up like that. and 13 going on 30 did (stupid i no) but i kept thinking is there one thing ive done that will change my life forever.

 

[dorien]

great list guys/gals.

going to check out the few i've yet to see.

 

[fouroclock]

The Believer
I Heart Huckabees
Six Degrees of Separation
The Blair Witch Project
Crash
Cube
The Virgin Suicides
The Village
American History X
Dogma
Donnie Darko
The Matrix
Memento
Bowling for Columbine
Friends with Money

 

[choco_latte]

Most of these have already been mentioned

Fight Club
Requiem for a dream
Seven
The Shawshank Redemption
American History X
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Crash
The squid and the whale
Dancer in the Dark
Closer
Amores Perros (LIfe's a bit*h)
City of God
Malcom X
Garden State
Proof
Jarhead

 

[SophieKawaii]

the last movie that made me think was Dear Wendy

 

[cosmogrl5]

Definitely Crash

 

[laurlaur]

Do The Right Thing
Crash
American History X
The Matrix
A Clockwork Orange
Natural Born Killers
Elephant

 

[ShuggaStiletto]

Definitely Crash

Totally 100% agreed! We watched that earlier in the year in English class before reading Catcher in the Rye.

Dead Poets Society (another movie viewed in English class!)
Igby Goes Down
Garden State
Elf (it brings to mind the scary ordeals elves go through when they come down from the North Pole..very thought provoking.)

 

[LoveMyBoots]

what did people think about after watchnig 'garden state'?
I didn't get that movie...

I think understanding these type of films have a lot to do with age or the life you lived, and your mind set. I don't have either the age or experience to comprehend these movies, but I guess the mind set.

It had to do a lot with feeling conscious again, since he was on depressants for the most part of his life, and never felt anything- pain, sadness, love, etc. In the end, it was really a typical movie- guy meets girl, girl changes boy, boy and girl in love for ever and ever. To me, a lot of stuff was extremely corny. I.e. the scream in the rain. I have to say though, the scene between Natalie Portman and Zach Braff's character in the bar: the dialogue and performances were brilliant. It rang so true, in my opinion.

 

[ShuggaStiletto]

^ I love the scenes with Natalie and Zach in the bathtub, and by the fireplace. My favorite 2 scenes probably. It's also a huge story about growing up...how your parents aren't always around, and how you have to depend on yourself, but for so long he didn't feel anything, so he wasn't really "himself". I myself don't understand the feeling of not knowing where/what home is, but with friends/siblings/cousins that are away at college, or in their 20s I can see what they're going through and can understand it. they're all going through that phase of "finding themselves." I was surprised at how dark/depressing the underlying themes of the movie seemed to be...I initially thought it was a comedy, seeing that Zach was in it...how mistaken I was!

 

[Zen]

Fahrenheit 9/11
TV Nation
Super Size Me
Higher Learning
Schindler's List
Hotel Rwanda
Dirty Pretty Things
The Aviator
The Crying Game
Mulholland Drive
Secretary
Closer
Pulp Fiction
Momento
12 Monkeys
The Matrix
The Sphere
Primer
The Island
Dune
2001: a space odyssey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

 

[iluvfashion]

Vanilla Sky..though it was dumbto even thinkabout a made up fiction

Meet Joe Black is more like it

 

[Miss Dalloway]

Brockeback Mountain.
I havent seen a movie that touched me this deeply in a long time.
It ripped my heart out!I was thinking about this movie for the next couple of days,i just couldnt stop.
The way the charathers their lifes and decisions were shown was so real and well depressing.
I am quite sensitive person so this movie left me heartbroken and emotinal and i would never go to see it again!

 

[lithium]

american beauty
schindler's list
lolita
LeonTheProfessional
a beautiful mind
dogma

 

[sunshine daisy]

.Donnie Darko
.One FLew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
.A Clockwork Orange
.Trainspotting

....

 

[faust]

Mission Impossible III. It made me think, "How can people watch such inane garbage."