Movies That Blew Your Mind

[Morbid Side]

Why isn't Cape Fear on the list? That movie had drama, suspense, action all rolled up into one. And who could forget about De Niro's performance as a psychopathic ex-con.

[DJ Nocker]

Anything by David Lynch...among some other movies.

[amalthea23]

Pan's Labyrinth blew me away. It was just gorgeous.

That said, when I saw Bad Taste at 11 or 12, I immediately fell in love with Peter Jackson, so that blew my mind in a whole other way.

[jarmana]

4 Rooms.

[celestial]

Akira

[Michiko_Dreads]

1. Movies That Blew My Mind.
2. The Nightmare Before Christmas- I was THREE when it came out.
3. Secret Window-Johnny Depp
4. Edward Scissorhands-Johnny Depp (again)
5. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas-Johnny Depp (my fav Actor)
6. Donnie Darko-I dont even know who that was
7. Figt Club- Edward Norton FUKING PERFECT!!!!!
8. Crazy/Beautiful-Kirsten Dunst what more can I say
9. Mad Love-Drew Barrymore/SuicidalTeen/love(I RELATE)
10. Girl Interrupted- Angelina,Winona,Brittany,Whoppi

[AmieLamie]

The one movie that totally blew my mind is Gummo.

It's just so fucked up, so crazy, so wrong, that I love it.

Who knew white trash could be so beautiful.

lol

[Black Jack (1)]

hope this is good enough!

[the eternal]

The one movie that totally blew my mind is Gummo.

It's just so fucked up, so crazy, so wrong, that I love it.

Who knew white trash could be so beautiful.

lol

Before any of you put it on Netflix, note the lol at the end.

Beautiful is not exactly the word that springs to mind with Gummo.

Fucked up, crazy, and wrong would be up that alley.

Movies that blow your mind sets a very high bar, and I fear that anyone might read mine (if I really have any) and laugh as I have at least chuckled at some of the ones listed here.

Which I'm allowed to do, since none of the people I chuckled at even post anymore.

That said, if love was based on movie selection alone, Phee and I would be star-crossed.

Did anyone mention Eraserhead? It's not even one of my favorites, and yet, when I saw it as a kid, I had never seen anything like it.

I was like, whoa, a movie can be like this?

People generally have one of three emotions after watching it

--Annoyed

--Bored

--Blown away

Grave of the Fireflies (never thought I could be so moved by an animated film--It may be PG but it's for adults only)

Night and Fog (30 min Holocaust doc filmed only a few years after the war . People weren't even talking about it yet. He filmed it.

It's now considered one of the best documentaries of all time. Stark, Unemotional. Scary.

The gas chambers were still intact. Watching it, you half-feel like you're going to a crematorium yourself.

If you go in with a sappy "Life is Beautiful" mentality this movie will fuck you up)

Edited July 30, 2009 by the eternal

[pomba gira]

I think I'm over-analyzing what "mind-blowing" means. I'll go with "made a deep and lasting impression, and was impossible to get out of my mind for a long time".

Freaks

Quills

Pan's Labyrinth

I Spit on Your Grave (mind-blowing but not in a good way- VERY hard to watch)

Akira

Throne of Blood

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

Fantastic Planet

Dead Ringers

Princess Mononoke

The Piano

Quadrophenia

[Simon Bar Sinister]

There are movies that I think are better than these (the LOTR series comes to mind), but these are some of the ones that really shook my ideas of what was possible in film:

Sorcerer

Apocalpyse Now

A Clockwork Orange

Brazil

Naked Lunch

City of Lost Children

Cemetery Man

Amelie

Irreversible

Cache

Dark City

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

[Homicidalheathen]

it may not have totally blew my mind but it was the best I have seen in like a year.

Electric Mist with Tommy Lee Jones (mr badass!)

it touches on lots of subjects and is great.

coming from someone who can't usually sit through a film, that says allot.

[Scales]

[pomba gira]

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=tiK1smzPZPQ

Whoah! It's the incredible Mountain Three Wolf Moon shirt! That shirt changed my life... read all about it in my Amazon review!

[jynxxxedangel]

Taxidermia. 'Nuff said.

[wormsinwombs]

jacobs ladder blew my mind, aeon flux cartoons blew my mind, the dark knight blew my mind, and begotten, sin city, pans labyrinth, donnie darko, the matrix (dont laugh)

also when I read fight club the book blew my mind so maybe the movie might have if i saw it before i read the (fantastic) book. same thing happened when I read invisible monsters!

[TheGimp]

all the movies ive seen the ones that still stick in my mind are... Snatch, Pulp Fiction, Boondock Saints 1 & 2, a few SAW movies...The Patriot, The dark knight, Thinner, Ishi the killer, and Audition

Edited December 21, 2009 by TheGimp

[wormsinwombs]

The one movie that totally blew my mind is Gummo.

It's just so fucked up, so crazy, so wrong, that I love it.

Who knew white trash could be so beautiful.

lol

omg that movie is amazing. so many great moments. my friends could hardly watch it lol

[TheGimp]

i enjoyed Gummo, weeeeeeeird as fuck but all in all its a good movie...

[Scales]

Whoah! It's the incredible Mountain Three Wolf Moon shirt! That shirt changed my life... read all about it in my Amazon review!

I looked so hard to find that thread but couldn't.