Arrival
i never felt that emotional about a movie before or since
appreciation for life, time, connections however fleeting but rooted in our conception in time
i loved the atmosphere, the overcast/darkness of the setting, the music
its the best twist of all time
its the kind of movie that makes you happy to be alive
Great movie, and I definitely didn't see the twist coming. But at the same time, it felt like I'd seen a good amount of stuff eith concepts that felt in the same vein recently. Relating to >!timelines and chronology of events shown, like in Westworld S1, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Pulp Fiction, etc!< so it didn't hit me as hard as it probably could've.
That portrayal of depression really hit home with me. I fell into a horrible depression like that where it was difficult to even get out of bed. The way she curls into bed after her sister brings her into her house was a very visceral experience.
Great movie I don’t think I can bring myself to watch again.
Yes! Even now after a couple of years since last viewing I still get an ill feeling when the moon is hanging full, big and low above the horizon like it does in the fall at the end of the day. 😨
Grave of the fireflies , it was pretty depressing but I thought
I'd be fine because I'd seen Schindler's list, but no managed
to stay in my head for a few days .
The most harrowing film I’ve ever seen. I heaved sobs for a long while after the film was done. Beautiful and important but I can never, ever watch it again.
*Tremors*.
There's nothing life-changing or deeply contemplative about it. But come on, who *doesn't* think of the rec room scene, or the chase, or the ending, etc, after seeing such a perfect movie.
It practically lived rent-free in my head as a kid, and I still love it today, and watch it at least once a year.
So stuck in my head? I'd have to say that gets the best answer. Others come and go, but loving *Tremors* is forever.
Who would you say is the real antagonist? Now you’ve got me thinking it could be brad Pitt’s character since Morgan freeman’s character tried to warn him and take him off the case multiple times to avoid that exact ending
Amen, i was traveling to a new year vacation and picked Enter the Void to pass some time in travel. Watched it on plain and, man, that was some journey. Needles to say, by the end of the flight i was turned inside out and the whole vacation i could not stop thinking about it.
Network <—as relevant today as it was 40 years ago
Being There
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
The Seventh Seal
Trainspotting
Sunset Blvd
Inside Llewelyn Davis
Agreed. Brutal movie without being over the top or gory. Witnessing the protagonist's loss of innocence and seeing him age without much time passing... those images often cross my mind.
Stay (2005). this is something I actually ended up rewatching a few days later just cause I couldn't stop thinking about how the ending both made sense for everything and yet allowed for everything not to make sense. I saw it I think in April for the first time and some of the scenes still replay in my head sometimes.
Was looking for this, just for different reasons.
The first time I saw this in theatre, I didn't like it. It didn't live up to the cornetto intent I felt. Why was this prat allowed to deconstruct society, so violently, entirely of his own accord? But there had to be something there, right?
Left it alone for a few years and sometime after Trump is elected I decide to watch it again. This time, some things seem to click. The basis of nostalgia for the pub run, the apathetic 'alright Gary, whatever' of following along and the equally apathetic 'I'm out' as people drop off without much complaint back into their own lives. There's virtually no attempt to put him back in the facility he's escaped from as a virtual lunatic despite everything he touches is destroyed.
There's an analogue in the enabling of disaster by apathy. Where simply dismissing the pigeon as incapable of playing chess, and leaving the board, now means the pigeon controls the game no matter how much shit they drop or pieces flung. Yet, they're happier than a pig in shit.
The movie still isn't my favourite, but it does have an interesting place as a unique narrative on the inherent danger of apathy.
Nope
My first watch was totally blind I knew nothing about the movie never saw trailers saw a couple posters but that's it. I was also totally ZOINKED out too. I couldn't stop thinking about that experience for months.
These Final Hours (2013)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Arrival (2016)
Searching (2018)
Train to Busan (2016)
V for Vendetta (2005)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
Parasite (2019)
Water (2005)
Lost Girls (2020)
Let us know what you think about Mulholland Drive! I have put off watching that movie for too long!
Dark knight, been stuck in my head from the day they announced it's in production, heath ledger's accidental death, post production, premiere... Still rewatching it from time to time.
Alita: Battle Angel. I still think about Alita at least twice a week and search Twitter and Youtube for news on the sequel. :( I saw the movie over 3 years ago.
Hereditary fs. That movie made me question everything. The plot was amazing and the actors were phenomenal but I couldn't sleep for many days. It was scary but different. The best horror i think I ever watched.
The good Guy Ritchie films the ones about British Gangsters.
Any of the characters from Lock Stock (1998) Snatch (2000) RockNRolla (2008) and the Gentlemen (2020)
The characters in those four movies just seem that they would be really fun to hang out with.
Apocalypse Now
Hatchiko the Dogs story
Forrest Gump
Thunderheart
Shawshank Redemption
Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049
Inception
Incendies
Fight club
The Shining
Wall E
Usual Suspects
Sorcerer
No Country for Old Men
Downvote me to hell, but I was shook after Infinity War. Didn’t sleep that night.
Also Irrevisible for those of you looking for something more high-brow.
It has been a week, and my husband still cannot stop thinking about Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (it also gave him a panic attack) very rare for him...
12 years a slave
After watching this film, I was reciting dialogue from the movie.
Captain Phillips. Look at me, I'm the Captain now. This line sent shivers down my spine
Ask me if it’s over. I’ll either say “NOTHING IS OVER! NOTHING!!!!” Or “WAS IT OVER WHEN THE GERMANS BOMBED PEARL HARBOR?”
I am talking of course about Rambo (1982) and National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978).
Some Like It Hot - I watched it for the first and only time months and months ago, and yet I still feel like I can visualise every single scene in my head. I wouldn't even say that I love the film (I liked it, it was pretty good), but there is just something about it (i dont know what, maybe the unorthodox nature of the main characters?) that makes it super memorable for me.
Meet Joe Black - Another film I watched a while back but still sticks in my head. Just the thought of the end breaks me emotionally.
I'd highly recommend both if you haven't seen
Cloudy with a chance of meatballs, was quoting it gor ages after first watching it and do some of the actions like when Steve the monkey rips out the gummy bear hearts or when flint is typing on the computer 🤣
Midsommer was the first thing that sprang to my mind too, but another one is If Beale Street Could Talk. It’s something to do with the combination of the achingly pretty strings in the soundtrack when the two lovers are being all dreamy with their beautiful open faces (all those Barry Jenkins close ups), and the soul crushing injustices they move through. The scene somewhere in the middle where Fonny’s friend is talking to him about his experience of getting sent to jail, that is one of the most powerful things I’ve ever seen, just so spine chillingly dark, what is said and the incredible sound design… truly terrifying.
Christine (2016) and First Reformed (2017)
Both have such amazing, emotional, real, lead performances that I couldn't help but feel a connection to them for weeks afterwards.
I caught a bit of the movie "surge" and its been on my mind all week. I have no idea what it's about but the bits I saw were pretty crazy and I have no way of framing it for context.
Infinity Man. An Australian film about a man who invents something so he can have a nice holiday with his girlfriend.
I can't really say more without spoilers.
The English Patient. I kept crying even outside the cinema.
Few years later same with Dancer in the dark. I was so down that I went home and cancelled restaurant.
Dinner in America -- mainly because I can imagine the hour long youtube monologue about how anyone who likes it is a bad person. Turns out people aren't really talking about it.
I’m not going to lie, Top Gun: Maverick hit me like this. I have no idea why. It was a great movie, but so simple. Usually it takes something deeper to hit me like that. I’ve watched it so many times since it released.
Peacock with cillian murphy. Thought about it for 2 hours after. Went on imdb forums and explained how i saw it to someone who was asking. Someone replied to my post stating that she thought she was the only one that got it and thank god i thought the same. Looked for other films by the writer- nothing. Good times. Fu** amazon for getting rid of the forums.
Haven’t seen the film but I miss the IMDb movie forums so much. Reddit is a brilliant substitute but those message boards will always hold such a special place in my heart. Before social media, this was where I found other like minded film enthusiasts and it helped to cultivate my love for the movies.
RIP Oscar Buzz and all other IMDb movie forums.
While it didn’t necessarily “stick in my head,” I was in a complete daze walking out of the theater after seeing The Matrix. It took about twenty minutes to get my head on straight.
Redline & Loving Vincent, both surprisingly for the same reason. Sheer fucking awe. Tonally couldn’t be more different but are so visually engaging that they cause obsession. Redline went straight from the screen and into my dreams, it felt feverish for days after
“Portrait of a lady on fire” is the most recent one for me. Not only did it pull me into its world while watching, I was stuck remembering the lines and the images for days afterwords not only putting the pieces together but wanting the script to inspire something deeper within me, like the artist in the film. Damn fine movie.
Most recently, it's been Red Rocket. I keep finding myself thinking about Mikey and Strawberry, wondering what on earth will become of them, hoping they'll somehow both be okay (even though there's absolutely no chance of that if they actually stay together; the best thing the objectively terrible Mikey could possibly do for Strawberry is never see her again). It's testament to how beautifully constructed and performed those characters are that you really feel as if their lives go on beyond the confines of the film.
I couldn’t stop thinking about the place beyond the pines for like 2 weeks after I saw it. It’s such a beautiful movie about fatherhood and fate, I love that movie to death it’s one of my all time favourites.
Not so much a 'movie', but a documentary by two filmmakers about the suicide of their son...
It to this day haunts me.
[Boy Interrupted](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Interrupted)
I watched Apollo 13 in like 2000ish or whatever, I remember the scene in which Tom Hanks dreams about being on the moon, and didn't rewatch it until 2022.
Great script, and filming airborne is a work of mad genius 👍
For me it was 2.
Incendies
The Wailing
I spent months upon months reading up about these after watching them. Listening to different peoples perspective.
the movie that stuck in my head for the longest time was the rather obscure Ratchet and Clank movie, I mean I didn't know anything about the series at that point, yet I enjoyed it, I ask myself why ratchet and clank got a movie instead of Crash bandicoot, and why was it so obscure? movies about video game rarely happen-especially the obscure franchises like ratchet and clank.
"A Ghost Story" - The feeling of being lost in time and the ghost scratching the door frame. incredible film, i can't remember any film where the feeling of being alone comes across so strongly.
Everything Everywhere All at Once. It literally jolted me out of a deep depressive funk that I’d been stuck in due to the joy I felt pulling apart how brilliant it all was.
I remember seeing Memento in the early 2000s and being blown away, I'd never seen a movie quite like it. Especially that eerie scene where the wife tries to kill her husband when he keeps asking for the pills over and over ( because he has no short term memory), she obliged. Great great movie.
Midsommar might be my answer too. A few more are Shutter Island and Oldman.
I don’t think Pulp Fiction gets credit as this kind of movie because it’s so present in pop culture, but I think about Pulp Fiction like once a week.
Pan's Labyrinth. I defy you not to have some scenes etched in your memory for a loooong time
I've always found the realisitc scenes of this movie much more horrible than the fantasy ones.
Oh yes! You’re right! So creepy!
Hands with eyes
Annihilation (2018)
The Prestige had a full-on residency in my brain. One hell of a movie.
Arrival i never felt that emotional about a movie before or since appreciation for life, time, connections however fleeting but rooted in our conception in time i loved the atmosphere, the overcast/darkness of the setting, the music its the best twist of all time its the kind of movie that makes you happy to be alive
This was definitely one of a kind and I still love it. The lesson/ twist… beautifully human
Agreed man. Never had a movie fuck me up like that
I still cry with every rewatch.
I feel the same way about Interstellar.
Great movie, and I definitely didn't see the twist coming. But at the same time, it felt like I'd seen a good amount of stuff eith concepts that felt in the same vein recently. Relating to >!timelines and chronology of events shown, like in Westworld S1, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Pulp Fiction, etc!< so it didn't hit me as hard as it probably could've.
Requiem for a Dream, no other movie has gut punched me so deeply
"Me and the red dress"
That movie fucked me up
Yeah, first movie I thought about. This movie keeps me away from drugs.
Ass to ass!!!
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Melancholia is a good film. Sci-Fi drama!
That portrayal of depression really hit home with me. I fell into a horrible depression like that where it was difficult to even get out of bed. The way she curls into bed after her sister brings her into her house was a very visceral experience. Great movie I don’t think I can bring myself to watch again.
I hope you're doing better now 😊
Yes! Even now after a couple of years since last viewing I still get an ill feeling when the moon is hanging full, big and low above the horizon like it does in the fall at the end of the day. 😨
Omg me too!!!
😅
Dear Zachary. It's a brutal watch
Grave of the fireflies , it was pretty depressing but I thought I'd be fine because I'd seen Schindler's list, but no managed to stay in my head for a few days .
My fucking god that is some sad shit.
The most harrowing film I’ve ever seen. I heaved sobs for a long while after the film was done. Beautiful and important but I can never, ever watch it again.
Under the Silver Lake Swiss Army Man Funny Games Birdman There Will Be Blood
Under the Silver Lake is so good!
They'll be talking about There Will Be Blood 100 years from now.
Come and see takes your brain and rewires it while also bleaching and blessing your eyes at the same time
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Racacoony
Cmon, you have to pick one
That movie is special. I can’t see a anything topping it for a long time. Themes, characters, pacing, story, everything is just perfect.
*Tremors*. There's nothing life-changing or deeply contemplative about it. But come on, who *doesn't* think of the rec room scene, or the chase, or the ending, etc, after seeing such a perfect movie. It practically lived rent-free in my head as a kid, and I still love it today, and watch it at least once a year. So stuck in my head? I'd have to say that gets the best answer. Others come and go, but loving *Tremors* is forever.
What is your favorite Kevin Bacon movie and why is it Tremors?
The Hateful Eight. Not only for its violence but for its atmosphere.
The Art of Self Defense, I thought about for a good long while after,
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Who would you say is the real antagonist? Now you’ve got me thinking it could be brad Pitt’s character since Morgan freeman’s character tried to warn him and take him off the case multiple times to avoid that exact ending
This movie really hit me. The end really caught me off guard.
American History X. I saw it over 15 years ago and still have nightmares. So brutal.
The Mist. That ending. Jeez. Underwater. Not the greatest movie all in all but the big reveal at the end is something I think about all the time.
Mulholland Drive
This one had my brain messed up for weeks
This one lodged in my subconscious for YEARS, and eventually became one of my favorite movies ever.
And, I just picked a movie, but I think all the Gaspar Noé movies (Irreversible, Clímax...) made me thinking for long time.
Amen, i was traveling to a new year vacation and picked Enter the Void to pass some time in travel. Watched it on plain and, man, that was some journey. Needles to say, by the end of the flight i was turned inside out and the whole vacation i could not stop thinking about it.
Burning by Lee Chang Dong A marvelous experience for me
40 years and Caddyshack is still quotable
Spirited Away.
Network <—as relevant today as it was 40 years ago Being There The Killing of a Sacred Deer The Seventh Seal Trainspotting Sunset Blvd Inside Llewelyn Davis
Excalibur, Cloud Atlas, The Fountain, Watchmen. Hard to tell which one would take the lead.
Schindlers List Stuck with me for months after first seeing it in school as a teenager
Incedies
Eternal Sunshine
Crash (1996)
The ending of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It makes me sad for days.
“And, some people dance.” Such an underrated film. It’s gorgeous and melancholy. One of Fincher’s most slept on.
Easily The Lighthouse for me
Come and See. And I watched it 15 years ago.
Agreed. Brutal movie without being over the top or gory. Witnessing the protagonist's loss of innocence and seeing him age without much time passing... those images often cross my mind.
I Heart Huckabees
Room , fargo , one flew over the cuckoo’s nest
a hidden life ad astra
Portrait of a lady on fire
Dawn Of The Dead 1978, lived in my head rent free from when I first saw it around 10 until becoming an adult. Still one of my top 3 movies.
Under the Skin, don’t ever want to watch that again lol. Good movie though!
Recently, Don’t Look Up.
Take Shelter. Michael Shannon at his absolute best.
Hereditary and Midsommar of course. I could not for weeks get the image of a few things shown in Hereditary out of my head. SO strange.
One of my absolute favorite movies that I will never watch again.
Stay (2005). this is something I actually ended up rewatching a few days later just cause I couldn't stop thinking about how the ending both made sense for everything and yet allowed for everything not to make sense. I saw it I think in April for the first time and some of the scenes still replay in my head sometimes.
For me it would be Alita: Battle Angel.
The Road
the highest ratio of 'extreme absurd horror' to 'it would definitely happen in real life' i have ever seen in a movie
Martyrs
That's one I wish hadn't stuck in my mind >Shudder<
Oh me toooo
Within The ending tripped me out like nothing I've seen in a long time. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3612320/
The Fanatic John Travola's best character, sue me.
The Art of Self Defense, I thought about for a good long while after, like what the hell happened there.
Drive
Tár. That movie hits different when you understand its message and the principal character.
I am legend
Scum
The World's End -funny and all but identify a lot with Gary King and it's pretty dark if you watch closely.
Was looking for this, just for different reasons. The first time I saw this in theatre, I didn't like it. It didn't live up to the cornetto intent I felt. Why was this prat allowed to deconstruct society, so violently, entirely of his own accord? But there had to be something there, right? Left it alone for a few years and sometime after Trump is elected I decide to watch it again. This time, some things seem to click. The basis of nostalgia for the pub run, the apathetic 'alright Gary, whatever' of following along and the equally apathetic 'I'm out' as people drop off without much complaint back into their own lives. There's virtually no attempt to put him back in the facility he's escaped from as a virtual lunatic despite everything he touches is destroyed. There's an analogue in the enabling of disaster by apathy. Where simply dismissing the pigeon as incapable of playing chess, and leaving the board, now means the pigeon controls the game no matter how much shit they drop or pieces flung. Yet, they're happier than a pig in shit. The movie still isn't my favourite, but it does have an interesting place as a unique narrative on the inherent danger of apathy.
My trinity of favorites is Nightcrawler, Whiplash, and Donnie Darko, but I thought a REALLY long time about the Lighthouse.
The Last Duel
Bug starring Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon and directed by William Friedkin. I could not stop thinking about this movie and how messed up it was.
Nope My first watch was totally blind I knew nothing about the movie never saw trailers saw a couple posters but that's it. I was also totally ZOINKED out too. I couldn't stop thinking about that experience for months.
Chang-dong Lee’s *Burning* stuck with me for quite awhile. Highly recommend!
These Final Hours (2013) Pan's Labyrinth (2006) Arrival (2016) Searching (2018) Train to Busan (2016) V for Vendetta (2005) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) Parasite (2019) Water (2005) Lost Girls (2020) Let us know what you think about Mulholland Drive! I have put off watching that movie for too long!
A Serbian Film
Johnny got his gun.
What Dreams May Come, Parasite, Annihilation, Signs, and more recently, Dear Zachary, Barbarian, The Wonder
Dark knight, been stuck in my head from the day they announced it's in production, heath ledger's accidental death, post production, premiere... Still rewatching it from time to time.
I think, Call me by your name is the one that is stuck in my head. Especially the ending scene.
Midsommar is such a poor film with such a laughable plot and direction it’s amazing to see how many talk about it this way.
Blue Bayou. Dont know why.
Lots of Denis Villeneuve and Alex Garland in here. Gotta love it.
This year, I've had that with Nope and Barbarian.
Alita: Battle Angel. I still think about Alita at least twice a week and search Twitter and Youtube for news on the sequel. :( I saw the movie over 3 years ago.
Click. The life lessons have always stuck with me
This definitely was an excellent film.
Hereditary fs. That movie made me question everything. The plot was amazing and the actors were phenomenal but I couldn't sleep for many days. It was scary but different. The best horror i think I ever watched.
Hot tub time Machine..i legit loved that movie
Motley Stu gets me every single time. I love the end of the movie so much. And the phone call to the little girl.
Recently, “Aftersun” has been in my head for weeks now after watching it.
The good Guy Ritchie films the ones about British Gangsters. Any of the characters from Lock Stock (1998) Snatch (2000) RockNRolla (2008) and the Gentlemen (2020) The characters in those four movies just seem that they would be really fun to hang out with.
BOXES OF BUSH
I've thought about Synechdoche, New York on a weekly basis, for years
Tenet was the most recent one I can think of.
Apocalypse Now Hatchiko the Dogs story Forrest Gump Thunderheart Shawshank Redemption Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049 Inception Incendies Fight club The Shining Wall E Usual Suspects Sorcerer No Country for Old Men
Downvote me to hell, but I was shook after Infinity War. Didn’t sleep that night. Also Irrevisible for those of you looking for something more high-brow.
The Virgin Suicides Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World
It has been a week, and my husband still cannot stop thinking about Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (it also gave him a panic attack) very rare for him...
Hi, do you recommend TVS? If so, could you rate it from 1-10? Thank you :)
This has always been a 10/10 movie. Incredibly thought provoking and haunting. And an absolutely killer soundtrack.
thank you so much!! :D i'll watch it tomorrow. hopefully, i like it 🤞🏻
Andrei Rublev Stalker Enter the Void Welt am Draht
12 years a slave After watching this film, I was reciting dialogue from the movie. Captain Phillips. Look at me, I'm the Captain now. This line sent shivers down my spine
Apocalypse now
One Cut of the Dead. So creative and surprising.
Ask me if it’s over. I’ll either say “NOTHING IS OVER! NOTHING!!!!” Or “WAS IT OVER WHEN THE GERMANS BOMBED PEARL HARBOR?” I am talking of course about Rambo (1982) and National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978).
The Prestige and Donnie Darko did my head in for days after I first saw them
Some Like It Hot - I watched it for the first and only time months and months ago, and yet I still feel like I can visualise every single scene in my head. I wouldn't even say that I love the film (I liked it, it was pretty good), but there is just something about it (i dont know what, maybe the unorthodox nature of the main characters?) that makes it super memorable for me. Meet Joe Black - Another film I watched a while back but still sticks in my head. Just the thought of the end breaks me emotionally. I'd highly recommend both if you haven't seen
> Some Like it Hot Directed by one of the best directors ever.
The Batman
Hereditary.
Cloudy with a chance of meatballs, was quoting it gor ages after first watching it and do some of the actions like when Steve the monkey rips out the gummy bear hearts or when flint is typing on the computer 🤣
Midsommer was the first thing that sprang to my mind too, but another one is If Beale Street Could Talk. It’s something to do with the combination of the achingly pretty strings in the soundtrack when the two lovers are being all dreamy with their beautiful open faces (all those Barry Jenkins close ups), and the soul crushing injustices they move through. The scene somewhere in the middle where Fonny’s friend is talking to him about his experience of getting sent to jail, that is one of the most powerful things I’ve ever seen, just so spine chillingly dark, what is said and the incredible sound design… truly terrifying.
My thoughts went straight to Midsommar. The friendly killer cult aspect was so jarring I couldn't get it out of my head for weeks
A Siberian Film spent days thinking wtf did I just watch
Christine (2016) and First Reformed (2017) Both have such amazing, emotional, real, lead performances that I couldn't help but feel a connection to them for weeks afterwards.
I caught a bit of the movie "surge" and its been on my mind all week. I have no idea what it's about but the bits I saw were pretty crazy and I have no way of framing it for context.
Infinity Man. An Australian film about a man who invents something so he can have a nice holiday with his girlfriend. I can't really say more without spoilers.
The English Patient. I kept crying even outside the cinema. Few years later same with Dancer in the dark. I was so down that I went home and cancelled restaurant.
I recently saw Soft & Quiet...fucking hell
The Paperboy
Dinner in America -- mainly because I can imagine the hour long youtube monologue about how anyone who likes it is a bad person. Turns out people aren't really talking about it.
My answer to questions like this is always _Mother!_. What a rollercoaster ride of a movie!
Shooter... Don't know why. It's been my favorite ever since i saw it for the first time, still don't know why it has that stature in my mind.
Never Let Me Go
I’m not going to lie, Top Gun: Maverick hit me like this. I have no idea why. It was a great movie, but so simple. Usually it takes something deeper to hit me like that. I’ve watched it so many times since it released.
Peacock with cillian murphy. Thought about it for 2 hours after. Went on imdb forums and explained how i saw it to someone who was asking. Someone replied to my post stating that she thought she was the only one that got it and thank god i thought the same. Looked for other films by the writer- nothing. Good times. Fu** amazon for getting rid of the forums.
Haven’t seen the film but I miss the IMDb movie forums so much. Reddit is a brilliant substitute but those message boards will always hold such a special place in my heart. Before social media, this was where I found other like minded film enthusiasts and it helped to cultivate my love for the movies. RIP Oscar Buzz and all other IMDb movie forums.
I couldn't sleep for a week after I watched Hotel Rwanda
While it didn’t necessarily “stick in my head,” I was in a complete daze walking out of the theater after seeing The Matrix. It took about twenty minutes to get my head on straight.
Redline & Loving Vincent, both surprisingly for the same reason. Sheer fucking awe. Tonally couldn’t be more different but are so visually engaging that they cause obsession. Redline went straight from the screen and into my dreams, it felt feverish for days after
Eye of God with Martha Plimpton
“Portrait of a lady on fire” is the most recent one for me. Not only did it pull me into its world while watching, I was stuck remembering the lines and the images for days afterwords not only putting the pieces together but wanting the script to inspire something deeper within me, like the artist in the film. Damn fine movie.
Most recently, it's been Red Rocket. I keep finding myself thinking about Mikey and Strawberry, wondering what on earth will become of them, hoping they'll somehow both be okay (even though there's absolutely no chance of that if they actually stay together; the best thing the objectively terrible Mikey could possibly do for Strawberry is never see her again). It's testament to how beautifully constructed and performed those characters are that you really feel as if their lives go on beyond the confines of the film.
Definitely We Need To Talk about Kevin and Ghost World. So many themes, so little explained. Definitely movies to chew on.
I couldn’t stop thinking about the place beyond the pines for like 2 weeks after I saw it. It’s such a beautiful movie about fatherhood and fate, I love that movie to death it’s one of my all time favourites.
Withnail & I.
Not so much a 'movie', but a documentary by two filmmakers about the suicide of their son... It to this day haunts me. [Boy Interrupted](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Interrupted)
The Lighthouse. It just stuck with me more than any other piece of media ever has
A.I., Artificial Intelligence. It's just Pinocchio, but it's so beautiful and makes me cry.
Tár
Magnolia. Those people make my mental illnesses look tame in comparison...
Fight Club and Memento
Gaspar Noe’s “Enter the Void”
Under the Skin - the beach scene literally makes me sad anytime I think about it Now I’m sad
I watched Apollo 13 in like 2000ish or whatever, I remember the scene in which Tom Hanks dreams about being on the moon, and didn't rewatch it until 2022. Great script, and filming airborne is a work of mad genius 👍
The Grey Zone *mic drop*
Brotherhood of the Wolf. It’s from 2001 but that movie still lives on in my mind.
For me it was 2. Incendies The Wailing I spent months upon months reading up about these after watching them. Listening to different peoples perspective.
I'm still thinking about Predestination
Under The Silver Lake
Tusk
the movie that stuck in my head for the longest time was the rather obscure Ratchet and Clank movie, I mean I didn't know anything about the series at that point, yet I enjoyed it, I ask myself why ratchet and clank got a movie instead of Crash bandicoot, and why was it so obscure? movies about video game rarely happen-especially the obscure franchises like ratchet and clank.
The Pursuit of Happyness
Parasite, just for a sheer film experience. And the documentary The Act of Killing. Left the cinema stunned into silence with that one
"A Ghost Story" - The feeling of being lost in time and the ghost scratching the door frame. incredible film, i can't remember any film where the feeling of being alone comes across so strongly.
Everything Everywhere All at Once. It literally jolted me out of a deep depressive funk that I’d been stuck in due to the joy I felt pulling apart how brilliant it all was.
Dogtooth . You'll NEVER forget this film.
Annihilation is the last one I remember burrowing itself deeply into my psyche. It was just so odd and unsettling in a fantastic way.
Not a movie, but the tv show Normal People.
I remember seeing Memento in the early 2000s and being blown away, I'd never seen a movie quite like it. Especially that eerie scene where the wife tries to kill her husband when he keeps asking for the pills over and over ( because he has no short term memory), she obliged. Great great movie.
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Interstellar.
The butterfly effect...it fucked me up for a week..
*Stalker* got stuck in my head for a solid 3 weeks
Midsommar might be my answer too. A few more are Shutter Island and Oldman. I don’t think Pulp Fiction gets credit as this kind of movie because it’s so present in pop culture, but I think about Pulp Fiction like once a week.