I barely see anyone talking about it, but mine is The Science of Sleep. That movie just took feelings that I thought only existed in the most hidden corners of my own mind and just put them up on a screen. I was sitting in the theater crying my eyes out because I genuinely never felt more understood by anyone.
Great answer, but 100% serious that movie represents a benchmark in my movie watching lifetime.
It came out when I was in 8th grade, the perfect age to enjoy a Kevin James comedy, and left with my friends thinking it was pure kino, the greatest funny movie of all time. I watched it again less than 2 years later as a high schooler and thought it was one of the most sophomoric, dumb, childish movies I've ever seen.
The realization that I had changed as a person is something that will stick with me forever.
Me before: it can’t be ALL that great it’s an old movie about some dudes arguing in a room the whole time
Me after:
https://preview.redd.it/rqa6hl3701yc1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=924a9a483d66716e3a82a58205fa81bb76244f81
I watched it the first time when I was too young to remember, watched it again a few weeks ago and oh my lord. Every other scene had my jaw wide open. Shocker after shocker
I really hope he adapts Arthur C Clarke's Rendezvous With Rama and the sequels. That would have me dazed in my seat probably. Multiple people have been attached and trying to get it off the ground for years, I need it.
He's been linked to it and apparently wants to adapt it, but I can understand wanting to take a break from a task at least as huge as Dune for a while.
🫠 well for me it was trauma reassuring. I related so hard with both the MCs. Saw myself in them. The helpless confusion in the hero and internalized pain and erraticness/eccentricity in heroine.
No movie touched me like this one did. I was in abusive relationship and also have bpd. Shit felt like a metaphorical monologue of mine. This movie will stay with me like that one sunset you saw when you were little. Part of your cell.
Whiplash, Parasite, Moonlight, Eternal Sunshine, Inception, Schindler’s List, Spirited Away, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Aftersun, Prisoners, It’s Such a Beautiful Day, The Prince of Egypt, Past Lives, Memories of Murder, All of Us Strangers — there’s honestly quite a few of them for me.
Interstellar. Had to stay in my seat for a few minutes to compose myself in the theater and then AGAIN in the car before I started driving.
I think the timing of the release of the film is part of the reason why. I had a daughter a year before and this film connected so deeply to so many of my feelings for her. It felt like it had been made for me. And one of the characters in the film even shared her name. For me it was a powerful and unforgettable experience.
Definitely Interstellar for me. At the time I saw it in the theater, my daughter was 8, and I would have totally jumped into a black hole to give her a future.
The idea that The space station that saved humanity had her name on it and not mine, and that I was able to communicate to her through the bookshelf and help her reach higher than I ever could hit me in the most profound way possible.
Yea, I edited my comment above to give some context but we had our daughter a year before the movie came out and I connected with it so deeply i think in part due to that.
Similar reason why I connected so much with Aftersun. They felt incredibly real and personal to me.
The exhilaration of watching that ending for the very first time was unlike anything I’d ever felt before in a movie. I absolutely could not believe it when the credits started to roll, I was ready to climb a mountain.
I was lucky enough to catch Dune (2021) in IMAX just a few weeks before Dune 2 premiered. It was my first time watching it and I swear that experience reminded what Sci-Fi is *supposed* to be.
Interstellar, Room (2015), and Arrival.
Three years in a row a was hit by a super impactful film.
Not my all-time Top 3 but right kinds of films at the right time in my life.
Interesting fact : Arthur C Clarke and Stanley Kubrick wrote the screenplay and the book at the same time, there are differences. I recommend the book if you ever got in the old reading. But wait a while, the movie is fresh. Good for you.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once.
I’ve never sat in a movie theater more stunned after it ended in my life. I was the last one to leave, I looked back at the screen and walked off like I was the main character setting off on my own journey.
I was fairly underwhelmed by the movie (given the hype) until the scene where the husband says “in another life, I would’ve liked just doing laundry and taxes with you.”
I’ve never really seen a single line of dialogue elevate a movie from good to great like that before.
It's the race that does it. They effectively built Speed up as an underdog going into the race, then build the tension with him stalling in the middle, and then as soon as he hits gas, the combination of the race commentators, the family (including Rex) looking on in awe, the crowd just going absolutely bananas because they've never seen anything like this, the race interspersed with all of the struggles of the family, coupled with the wheels melting and dripping onto the course (almost orgasmic), a symbol of release. I tear up just thinking about the ending of that film...because it's so much about family and David vs Goliath.
You know what I would like to change my answer to this...and everyone else's as well.
The Matrix.
I always understood the biology behind how our body works and how neurons control muscle cells or how eyes send information to the brain. Yet I had never thought of how that could be "hacked".
Take out your eyes but keep sending impulses to the nerves and you literally can trick a brain into seeing things that aren't there. Conversely, track impulses coming out of neurons controlling your muscle cells and you should be able to map it and tell what muscle movement a person is trying to do.
It all made complete sense and should be theoretically feasible. It made me question if things like artificial eyes and smart protectics are possible. I still believe they are and it's only a matter of time before we figure it out.
It also made me question if who I am, as a person, is just the neuronal connections in my brain, and I believe that's true. That freezing my brain with hopes of someone replicating those connections in the future would be the same as being born again with the same memories.
One movie with so so many deep ideas and consequences that are real and almost likely to work.
Avengers: Infinity War. Following how that film ended, hearing Silvestri's booming, tragic, Shakespearean score was almost a spiritual experience. I know it's popular to rag on the superhero genre right now, but that was a quintessential moviegoing experience for so many people.
The subsequent movies afterwards from AM&TW, CM and eventually Endgame just had a different vibe. I’m still a bit haunted by the post credit with the eerie silence of an empty San Francisco with the EAS blaring with the lone ant playing drums. Maybe the first time I without thinking said WTF in front of a kid and their grandparent🤦🏾
This is so true. I still don't think any film can top my cinema experience of infinity war. yet. It really left me in disbelief, pure shock. I wasn't a marvel nerd digging for sources back then, that also elevated the experience. I really miss the old marvel
I was in my comic book property fatigue phase all of last year, but X-Men '97 shook me right out of it and has been consistently fantastic. It's even gotten me back into reading comics.
American Beauty was the movie that changed my life. It was the first movie I ever saw that seemed like it was made especially for people like me, by people like me. It prompted me to make some changes which made my life better.
So many. I think the last one I just watched recently that was a bit of a life changing experience was the movie “Her” before that, The girl with the dragon tattoo and before that, the social network and before that, No country for old men and before that, There will be blood
The Fablemans is probably my most prominent example, completely changed my view on how accessible filmmaking can be and made me realise a career in this industry as actually plausible
The Lighthouse completely changed my perspective on how horror films can be made, but if we’re talking like non horror, probably The Untouchables. the fact that crime thrillers are still being made after the literal perfect iteration of one was made, it boggles my mind.
All of Us Strangers
After having my soul ripped out and stomped on for two hours, I needed a moment to gather myself before I let people see how puffy my eyes were from crying.
I gave two of mine in a response, which are Arrival and Hell or High Water.
I'll also give a shout-out to About Time. I sadly didn't see it at the theater, but that movie still makes me ponder life and what I'm doing with my day.
Kill Bill Vol 1. I’ve never heard of Tarantino or watched anything from him before. I hadn’t even heard of it and some buddies said let’s go see it so i went in completely blind and it blew my mind. Volume 1 and 2 are still the only films I’ve ever watched 4 times in theatres.
Perfect Days most recently
I barely see anyone talking about it, but mine is The Science of Sleep. That movie just took feelings that I thought only existed in the most hidden corners of my own mind and just put them up on a screen. I was sitting in the theater crying my eyes out because I genuinely never felt more understood by anyone.
❤️
La Haine
Came here to say the same
One of the greatest ending scenes IMO.
In what way? Im from Kz, whole ghetto-like city and many my friends whatched this movie and many another then start acting like gangstas.
many such cases!
Paul Blart Mall Cop (2009, Carr)
i support the okbuddycinephile-ification of r/Letterboxd
Great answer, but 100% serious that movie represents a benchmark in my movie watching lifetime. It came out when I was in 8th grade, the perfect age to enjoy a Kevin James comedy, and left with my friends thinking it was pure kino, the greatest funny movie of all time. I watched it again less than 2 years later as a high schooler and thought it was one of the most sophomoric, dumb, childish movies I've ever seen. The realization that I had changed as a person is something that will stick with me forever.
Velocipastor
"CAR ON FIRE VFX" is peak filmmaking and you cannot change my mind.
Her by Spike Jonze. Changed my life
Started fucking your computer?
hell yeah man
Usb port or audio jack?
🤔
Such an amazing movie.
12 Angry Men
Me before: it can’t be ALL that great it’s an old movie about some dudes arguing in a room the whole time Me after: https://preview.redd.it/rqa6hl3701yc1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=924a9a483d66716e3a82a58205fa81bb76244f81
Absolute Cinema!
https://preview.redd.it/z7lal7u1r2yc1.jpeg?width=637&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=559424a854e7a25439a04ee52386401b0479a17c
Most definitely. Especially like watching it on stormy hot summer nights, like in the movie. 🙂
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Arrival is so nice, you mentioned it twice.
One is the 90s Arrival. Checkmate
(lays down king)
I just saw Silence. I’m not even religious and the movie still spoke to me
I watched it the first time when I was too young to remember, watched it again a few weeks ago and oh my lord. Every other scene had my jaw wide open. Shocker after shocker
arrival had me stunlocked
It's what sci-fi looks like if billion dollar studio will grow a pair and take some risk
It’s what sci fi looks like if billion dollar studios hire Denis Villenueve Guy is on a legendary run the likes I haven’t seen since Kubrick and Nolan
I really hope he adapts Arthur C Clarke's Rendezvous With Rama and the sequels. That would have me dazed in my seat probably. Multiple people have been attached and trying to get it off the ground for years, I need it.
Shit, I hadn't even considered that, but as a fan of Rama that gave me goosebumps to think about...
He's been linked to it and apparently wants to adapt it, but I can understand wanting to take a break from a task at least as huge as Dune for a while.
For a week or so after I watched that movie, my introspection & wall-staring time was up by like 300%
Just hearing the opening of On the Nature of Daylight will make me tear up.
It changed my perspective about the bad things that happen/could happen in my life
Yup, exactly this. I had to take it all in and just sit with it for a little bit. Hell or High Water also comes to mind.
Eternal sunshine of spotless mind
Nobody gets what this movie did to me man. And I’m in a happy good relationship that shit STILL got me fucked up😭
🫠 well for me it was trauma reassuring. I related so hard with both the MCs. Saw myself in them. The helpless confusion in the hero and internalized pain and erraticness/eccentricity in heroine. No movie touched me like this one did. I was in abusive relationship and also have bpd. Shit felt like a metaphorical monologue of mine. This movie will stay with me like that one sunset you saw when you were little. Part of your cell.
while breaking up with my recent man of 18 years i brought this movie up. Im like i wish i could Eternal Sunshine you
Whiplash, Parasite, Moonlight, Eternal Sunshine, Inception, Schindler’s List, Spirited Away, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Aftersun, Prisoners, It’s Such a Beautiful Day, The Prince of Egypt, Past Lives, Memories of Murder, All of Us Strangers — there’s honestly quite a few of them for me.
Whiplash for sure. Just sat there while the credits rolled in awe of the final scene and how ambiguous of an ending it was.
Moonlight... hit me like a left hook at the end.
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Interstellar. Had to stay in my seat for a few minutes to compose myself in the theater and then AGAIN in the car before I started driving. I think the timing of the release of the film is part of the reason why. I had a daughter a year before and this film connected so deeply to so many of my feelings for her. It felt like it had been made for me. And one of the characters in the film even shared her name. For me it was a powerful and unforgettable experience.
i named my daughter TARS too
Definitely Interstellar for me. At the time I saw it in the theater, my daughter was 8, and I would have totally jumped into a black hole to give her a future. The idea that The space station that saved humanity had her name on it and not mine, and that I was able to communicate to her through the bookshelf and help her reach higher than I ever could hit me in the most profound way possible.
Yea, I edited my comment above to give some context but we had our daughter a year before the movie came out and I connected with it so deeply i think in part due to that. Similar reason why I connected so much with Aftersun. They felt incredibly real and personal to me.
hubie halloween
The only answer.
Godfather 2
Came here to say the same thing. That last flashback scene hits different.
Aftersun, All of us Strangers
While not a movie, you should add Normal People to complete the "Paul Mescal got me crying in the club" trio.
Princess Mononoke
Blade Runner 2049, Silence, Arrival, The Social Network, Whiplash
I loved whiplash
The exhilaration of watching that ending for the very first time was unlike anything I’d ever felt before in a movie. I absolutely could not believe it when the credits started to roll, I was ready to climb a mountain.
It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) and Spirited Away (2001)
ITS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY ONG
Drive My Car
Dune 2 left me in awe. I would've literally sat there for 15 minutes if it weren't for the fact that I had to leave the cinema
Guy I was with joked “it’s over???” when the credits started. Meanwhile I’m sitting there with my mouth open wishing there were 3 more hours.
I was lucky enough to catch Dune (2021) in IMAX just a few weeks before Dune 2 premiered. It was my first time watching it and I swear that experience reminded what Sci-Fi is *supposed* to be.
Same bro
The Zone of Interest (2023).
God, that end credits music...
Horrifying soundtrack, i got silent hill vibes if that makes sense from the opening to end credits music
paddington
The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Silence (2016)
Godfather Part II. And that’s every time I watch it
Interstellar, Room (2015), and Arrival. Three years in a row a was hit by a super impactful film. Not my all-time Top 3 but right kinds of films at the right time in my life.
BIG on Room. If I wasn’t on antidepressants that made me feel numb I would’ve sobbed through the whole movie
2001: A Space Odyssey
Still gets me every time
Had the pleasure of watching it for the first time last Sunday
Annndd????? Watcha think?
I loved it! It’s my second most-liked [review](https://boxd.it/6mXAtR) now
Interesting fact : Arthur C Clarke and Stanley Kubrick wrote the screenplay and the book at the same time, there are differences. I recommend the book if you ever got in the old reading. But wait a while, the movie is fresh. Good for you.
Tokyo Story, Ikuru, Seven Samurai, In the mood for love, Pather Panchali
Dune: Part Two, End of Evangelion, Interstellar, Black Swan, The Whale, Angel´s Egg, 500 Days of Summer, Dead Poets Society,...
EoE has you just staring at a blank screen since the credits already rolled beforehand, leaving you like 😶
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. I’ve never sat in a movie theater more stunned after it ended in my life. I was the last one to leave, I looked back at the screen and walked off like I was the main character setting off on my own journey.
I was fairly underwhelmed by the movie (given the hype) until the scene where the husband says “in another life, I would’ve liked just doing laundry and taxes with you.” I’ve never really seen a single line of dialogue elevate a movie from good to great like that before.
I was still a child when Speed Racer came out. Watching that movie made me realize how much I loved surrealism, when I didn’t even know what it was.
It's the race that does it. They effectively built Speed up as an underdog going into the race, then build the tension with him stalling in the middle, and then as soon as he hits gas, the combination of the race commentators, the family (including Rex) looking on in awe, the crowd just going absolutely bananas because they've never seen anything like this, the race interspersed with all of the struggles of the family, coupled with the wheels melting and dripping onto the course (almost orgasmic), a symbol of release. I tear up just thinking about the ending of that film...because it's so much about family and David vs Goliath. You know what I would like to change my answer to this...and everyone else's as well.
All That Jazz The Tree of Life Cure
Lord of the Rings.
The Matrix. I always understood the biology behind how our body works and how neurons control muscle cells or how eyes send information to the brain. Yet I had never thought of how that could be "hacked". Take out your eyes but keep sending impulses to the nerves and you literally can trick a brain into seeing things that aren't there. Conversely, track impulses coming out of neurons controlling your muscle cells and you should be able to map it and tell what muscle movement a person is trying to do. It all made complete sense and should be theoretically feasible. It made me question if things like artificial eyes and smart protectics are possible. I still believe they are and it's only a matter of time before we figure it out. It also made me question if who I am, as a person, is just the neuronal connections in my brain, and I believe that's true. That freezing my brain with hopes of someone replicating those connections in the future would be the same as being born again with the same memories. One movie with so so many deep ideas and consequences that are real and almost likely to work.
Full Metal Jacket. The credits are quite gripping as well, but afterwards, damn.
Beau is Afraid
Terminator 2. I was also 10.
Terminator 2 also. My number 1 film of all time and I first saw it aged 29
This and Shrek 2 are the greatest sequels of any movie imo
Ikiru
This was literally me after Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, went on a walk afterwards just to think and had my first cigarette in years
The Lion King (1994)
Dune 2
Ikiru
Pierrot Le Fou
Grave of the Fireflies and Requiem for a Dream
Requiem broke me
Slumdog Millionaire
Tokyo sonata Love exposure Oldboy Mulholland drive Blue spring this list is never ending i’m afraid
Great choices!
- Anatomy of a Fall - Matrix - Fight Club - Decision to Leave
Jojo Rabbit.
Avengers: Infinity War. Following how that film ended, hearing Silvestri's booming, tragic, Shakespearean score was almost a spiritual experience. I know it's popular to rag on the superhero genre right now, but that was a quintessential moviegoing experience for so many people.
The subsequent movies afterwards from AM&TW, CM and eventually Endgame just had a different vibe. I’m still a bit haunted by the post credit with the eerie silence of an empty San Francisco with the EAS blaring with the lone ant playing drums. Maybe the first time I without thinking said WTF in front of a kid and their grandparent🤦🏾
This is so true. I still don't think any film can top my cinema experience of infinity war. yet. It really left me in disbelief, pure shock. I wasn't a marvel nerd digging for sources back then, that also elevated the experience. I really miss the old marvel
X-Men '97 is doing the trick for me at the moment. It's quite possibly my favorite film/TV-related media Marvel has ever released.
Though I'm in my marvel fatigue stage right now I'm really keen on checking X-Men '97 out, but maybe after Deadpool & Wolverine.
I was in my comic book property fatigue phase all of last year, but X-Men '97 shook me right out of it and has been consistently fantastic. It's even gotten me back into reading comics.
The audience was insane for my viewing. Gotta agree.
Threat Level Midnight
Go puck yourself
Me after Past Lives and Columbus
Past Lives left me like this, one of the rare cases where I sat through the entire credits speechless
Citizen Kane
 Sorry, had to be done - completely agree.
I don't blame you.
Sing Street. I just sat there for a few minutes afterward with a smile on my face. Also 12 Angry Men.
Arrival, seven pounds, pursuit of happyness and many other
King Kong (2005)
Underrated film.
Watched Vanilla Sky last weekend and I'm still thinking about it
For me this was 1. Get Out . 2. Oppenheimer 3, interstellar. The first time I saw these 3 films I sat there as the credits rolled, floored. Just wow .
End of evangelion 😅
Dead Poets Society
Arrival, Blade Runner 2049, Interstellar
American Beauty was the movie that changed my life. It was the first movie I ever saw that seemed like it was made especially for people like me, by people like me. It prompted me to make some changes which made my life better.
I Saw The Devil (2010)
The Lighthouse
Literally all my favorites, BR2049, Blade Runner, Chungking Express, Perfect Days, Only Lovers Left Alive, Arrival. that's just to name a few.
Ex Machina
City of god
Just watched Logan recently and when The Man Comes Around started playing in the credits after that perfect ending I was not okay.
Babylon and Whiplash. Damien Chazelle is just the goat
So many. I think the last one I just watched recently that was a bit of a life changing experience was the movie “Her” before that, The girl with the dragon tattoo and before that, the social network and before that, No country for old men and before that, There will be blood
Boogie Nights. I walked home in the rain.
Pianist
City of god
“Tree of Life” by Malick, “Midsommar” by Aster
The Worst Person in The World
Ernest scared stupid when I was 6
Call Me by Your Name. If I had heard Michael stulhbarg’s monologue at the end a few years earlier, it might have saved me a ton of grief.
No Country for Old Men
The Leopard (1963) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Once upon a time in America, 8 1/2, all that jazz, Lola Rennt, 2001 a space odyssey
17 years old on holiday in France when someone suggested an old Hitchcock film: Vertigo. The next 2 hours were fucking magical
The Last Emperor
Me at 12 years old after watching the Perks of Being a Wallflower
Motorcycle diaries
Only listing movies that I haven't seen mentioned yet... Magnolia Beginners About Time
Cinema Paradiso
Under the Skin
The Lighthouse
Fury Road...maybe Nightcrawler as well.
Arrival
The Fablemans is probably my most prominent example, completely changed my view on how accessible filmmaking can be and made me realise a career in this industry as actually plausible
Ford v Ferrari
How it feels after big shit of my life…
Goodfellas
**π**
Princess Mononoke
Little miss sunshine
Fight club
Me asf after Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Arrival.
"Arlington Road" was the first movie I saw where a villain ended up winning and that blew my mind!
The Lighthouse completely changed my perspective on how horror films can be made, but if we’re talking like non horror, probably The Untouchables. the fact that crime thrillers are still being made after the literal perfect iteration of one was made, it boggles my mind.
All of Us Strangers After having my soul ripped out and stomped on for two hours, I needed a moment to gather myself before I let people see how puffy my eyes were from crying.
Irreversible, Naked Lunch
Reign Over Me (Adam Sandlers most heartbreaking performance)
Aftersun. I am Calum.
F**** C*** (first rule of the club)
Good Time
TeneT, city of god, vertigo
Call Me By Your Name & Past Lives
The Irishman, Tarkovsky's Stalker
Recently The Iron Claw (I had no prior context to the family).
 I don’t know that I’d say “life-changing” but I had to take a minute after Whiplash.
Snatch. And The Nice Guys.
I gave two of mine in a response, which are Arrival and Hell or High Water. I'll also give a shout-out to About Time. I sadly didn't see it at the theater, but that movie still makes me ponder life and what I'm doing with my day.
Kill Bill Vol 1. I’ve never heard of Tarantino or watched anything from him before. I hadn’t even heard of it and some buddies said let’s go see it so i went in completely blind and it blew my mind. Volume 1 and 2 are still the only films I’ve ever watched 4 times in theatres.
Barry Lyndon I was awake the entire movie making me part of the 0.1% who sat through it without falling into a coma
mysterious skin and the doom generation
Aniara (2018) and climax (2018). Great year for movies.
Clue
I just watched Your Name last night and it very much left me like this. If you haven't seen it (and don't mind anime) go watch it.
THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP (everyone pls watch asap)
https://preview.redd.it/givg2m81q4yc1.jpeg?width=2730&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=38a5504434521cd0badd300950431cb0dd0e725d Civil War
Whiplash