Waking Life.
If you wrap your head around it after the 2nd viewing, you’re doing better than most people.
It took me a few watchings of Akira to really have it all sink in.
Koyaanisqatsi
Visual poetry. Literally. It’s conveying a message, it’s just you have to come up with the dialogue. Beautiful work. The sequels are fantastic as well.
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It’s very meditative. I find it kinda more “taxing” in that regard than Baraka. But it won’t be taxing at all if you are like water
Enemy (2013). lots of people’s least favorite Villeneuve movie, but I really liked it. no shot you’ll have any idea what happened after just one watch.
Been meaning to rewatch this one. It was great but I definitely had to do some reading afterwards to make sense of it all.
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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yea ! cheers
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 😬
The Sixth Sense
Glad I wasn’t the only one.
but who would go to the boring slog of watching it again
Triangle HORROR/BLOOD
I absolutely PROMISE you a fulfilling time, and this is a movie that could be discussed at length for a long time and still have more to say. Please don’t research or you’ll spoil it some, but there’s more than just that. I love this move with EVANGELICAL passion.
Timecrimes on steroids.
Yea, it is a weird one, watched it years ago. Definitely brainfuck potential
One of my favorites. I’ll watch it every two years or so
Hot fuzz. Because the first watch is enjoyable, but every subsequent rewatch makes you appreciate Edgar Wright more and more. He is just the most incredibly meticulous story teller with the most dense movies.
Good pick. Definitely reawrding to rewatch. The supporting actor dvd commentaries are something special as well.
SHUT IT!
Fascist!
Hag!
And then you gotta go watch the breakdowns and side by sides on YouTube to fully appreciate it on another watch. Hot fuzz is one of my favorites.
Definitely Hot Fuzz! Every single throw-away line early in the film is a callback later on. It’s incredible trying to notice them all!
Quite a few are references to/from their other films too.
I like primer, but I’m not sure I really understand it even with all the charts and diagrams that are out there
I honestly don’t think Primer is meant to be understood. I think I read somewhere that their goal was not to make a cohesive storyline, but rather something that was open to interpretation.
My wife and I spent a few days really digging into Primer, and I feel like we understand like… 85% of it, which is pretty good imo. Love that movie.
There’s only one chart that matters when it comes to Primer.
I don’t even have to click this link, I know where it goes 😂
One of the few movies I have rewatched.
The plot is both intricate and simple, it is very well done.
Yeah, I watch that about once a year. It’s, I think, the only time travel story that actually follows it’s own rules. Have you seen Upstream Color? Same guy, really interesting story. It can lead into Blade Runner 2049 elements about consciousness and memory.
This movie gets a lot of love among a certain crowd I feel. I watched, but I feel the diagram and timeline exploration takes so much effort and energy it’s not really a story any more. It’s just mental masturbation (kinda like tenet).
Memento.
Though, being real, I would say that it’s a movie that gets more interesting on second watch rather than being one out need to watch twice to get. I honestly haven’t ever run across a movie like that.
Primer also falls into this category.
Along the same lines: Inception. There’s tons of little details that you don’t pick up in your first watch.
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 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 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.
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 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
Just watched this tonight for my 12 year old son, coincidentally. He loved the twist!
The Big Lebowski. I’ve never seen another movie gain so much value over time and rewatches
What makes a man a man?
A pitiful sack of lies!
Okay, Dude, have it your way.
Not a movie, but bojack horse man. On the first watch it all just seems like shitty bojack. After learning all the back story its more like, oh poor bojack.
It’s mostly shitty Bojack. Sure he had trauma and depression, but he always made the choice to continue the self destructive cycle.
The Prestige.
A few weeks ago, I finally saw this for the first time, knowing virtually nothing about the plot. WOW. I’m looking forward to watching it again!
SPOILER ALERT-- do not read further if you haven’t seen the movie.
When my husband is being a jerk, I tell him I want the other brother back, the one who loves me.
Ouch!
By the way, you can use spoiler tags on Lemmy!
::: spoiler This is a spoiler Now the movie is ruined! :::This is a spoiler
Now the movie is ruined!
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I don’t think she really could know. She is definitely suspicious but it’s such a hard conclusion to jump to without any reason to think it.
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Having had a partner who gaslit and had basically a personality disorder, I could absolutely see someone getting driven to do what she did. You start to doubt your own ability to distinguish reality, to be able to trust yourself or anyone else. Constant fear and anxiety will make anyone go a little nuts
I don’t think she knows. She may feel like “this isn’t the man I married” but not in the sense of it being literal.
I think if I was in her shoes there’s no way I’d figure it out unless it was super obvious. It’s way too unreal and it contradicts occam’s razor.
The Holy Mountain. I suggest just watching it.
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
Care to elaborate? It’s pretty straight forward to me.
Please see my reply to the unfortunate named user elsewhere in this thread
Wait… Like the boat sinking?
Whoa, spoilers man, c’mon!
I really thought they were going to clutch it at the last second tbh
