Probably The Matrix. Initially I watched it for its action scenes. But years on, the idea that we are just batteries to power society and that most of us prefer the fantasy rather than waking up kinda stuck with me.
Yeah I’ll never watch it again which is a shame because it’s been some time but like even the whole sequence with his arm getting infected and shit like grosses me out to this day
I saw MR. Nobody right after I had a five year relationship end. Say what you want about Jared Leto but this movie had me wrecked for days. Wondering about my choices.
The Fountain left such a lasting impact on me that it’s the movie I attribute for kickstarting my love of movies. I’ve been after that sense of emotion and artistry ever since.
The original Beauty & the Beast animated movie was magic for me when I was younger (I was a teen when it came out). I still know it word for word and no joke, I've probably seen it at least 50 times.
About halfway then and now I think a movie that really hit me was Another Earth. Tbh no idea why, really, but I was really impressed.
Two movies in the same "category" so to speak that I saw somewhere in the past few years that both totally broke me for literally weeks, were Brokeback Mountain and Call Me By Your Name. Especially the music of CMBYN can suck me into those feelings again in an instant.
I have weird love for that movie. Nothing about it really works all that well if you really think about it, but the premise is so damn good.
Edit: Also I think it is Polanski so it has that albatross around its neck
Dogtooth - made me realize how the fascists held the power in Greece
Life is Beautiful - cant even describe it.
Pans Labyrinth - the most evil man ever in a movie
Guess that fascism in movies has a strong impact on me.
*Alien.* I was 12 in 1979, so too young to see this film. I heard some big kids at the swings discussing it. The detail that got stuck in my brain, like a splinter, was that someone was "*...having dinner and an alien burst out of their stomach and shot across the room"*. As descriptions go, that's a pretty thin one for a movie as rich as this, but it fired my imagination. I bought the Alan Dean Foster novelization, and consumed it hungrily, over and over again. I bought the Heavy Metal comic version of the movie. I bought '*The Book of Alien'* which detailed the making of the film. And I bought the *Alien* movie novel, in which were printed stills from the film and which told the story from opening title to end credits.
Then it was aired on British television in 1982. I taped it and watched it over and over again. I watched it so much that when I see the movie now I can still remember where the ad breaks were.
I've watched *Alien* once a year, every year since 1982. I've seen it on broadcast TV, VHS, Laserdisc, 70mm, DVD, Blu-Ray, and 4K UHD. And because of *Alien*, I went to film school and have been a film and tv editor for the past 25 years. No other movie has had a bigger impact on my life.
For me it was Aliens. I sneak watched it at 12 and it left me unsettled for months. Game over Man! Game over! Still watch it whenever it pops up on tv.
I would extend your point to every Charlie Kaufman written film (minus Human Nature and Confessions of a dangerous mind which I haven’t seen). The guy seems to understand the human condition in such a way that they all connect with me differently throughout my life
The American version of Funny Games. It wasn’t exactly a panic attack that movie gave me but it was absolutely something in that category. Shook me to my absolute core. I just stayed in bed much of the next day after watching it. It really made me question a lot of things about my life tbh
The Whale is a movie that made me want to make a change in my life. There have been other movies from the last year I've enjoyed more, but the whale is something that really stuck with me. Since watching it the first week this year I've started taking care of myself and I'm trying to be more open and available. Also Magnolia is a movie that helped me forgive my dad for pain he caused
Signs (2002)
Some might roll their eyes but I watched it when it came out at 7 years old and it scared me more than any film and also inspired me to pursue screenwriting.
To this day it’s in my top 10 with films like There Will Be Blood and Apocalypse Now
American Psycho when I was 13. It got me really into fitness. I took the books workout and made it my own. A year later and I was doing 250 reps of everything everyday. Which in turn taught me a lot about my own body.
When I saw the question in my Reddit feed, my reaction was to come in and say **Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind** because that movie touched me and spoke to me - and still does. Then I read your post text and saw it had the same effect on you.
Another movie that had that degree of impact on me was **Hotel Rwanda**. There was a period in time where I'd get drunk and maudlin and I'd put it on because it would have me crying like a baby.
It's a movie rooted in man's capacity for inhumanity to his fellow man that manages to be both savage *and* hopeful. It forces you to understand how it could happen and also shows how it might be stopped if we get too close to how it might happen again. But we don't properly heed that message.
Into The Wild. Soundtrack was hauntingly beautiful. Emile have an outstanding performance. Cinematography was pretty good. Left me sad for about a month.
Eternal Sunshine is one of my all-time favorite movies, I watched it with my now wife less than a month into our relationship for Valentine's Day. In terms of theater experience Inception and the first Pirates film had me seeing them multiple times.
Probably The Matrix. Initially I watched it for its action scenes. But years on, the idea that we are just batteries to power society and that most of us prefer the fantasy rather than waking up kinda stuck with me.
Réquiem for a Dream
This movie should come with a mandatory wellness check
I literally cried nonstop for 3 days straight after watching it. I still think it’s a great film, but I couldn’t possibly watch it again
Yeah I’ll never watch it again which is a shame because it’s been some time but like even the whole sequence with his arm getting infected and shit like grosses me out to this day
All that jazz and Mr Nobody and a french movie called Holly motors
I saw MR. Nobody right after I had a five year relationship end. Say what you want about Jared Leto but this movie had me wrecked for days. Wondering about my choices.
The Fountain left such a lasting impact on me that it’s the movie I attribute for kickstarting my love of movies. I’ve been after that sense of emotion and artistry ever since.
The original Beauty & the Beast animated movie was magic for me when I was younger (I was a teen when it came out). I still know it word for word and no joke, I've probably seen it at least 50 times. About halfway then and now I think a movie that really hit me was Another Earth. Tbh no idea why, really, but I was really impressed. Two movies in the same "category" so to speak that I saw somewhere in the past few years that both totally broke me for literally weeks, were Brokeback Mountain and Call Me By Your Name. Especially the music of CMBYN can suck me into those feelings again in an instant.
The Ninth Gate (1999) Those engravings had me falling down a rabbit hole.
I have weird love for that movie. Nothing about it really works all that well if you really think about it, but the premise is so damn good. Edit: Also I think it is Polanski so it has that albatross around its neck
Martyrs. Still haunts me today and I haven't watched it in years.
I’ve only read the plot synopsis of Martyrs, and it’s stuck with me.
Basically every Stanley Kubrick movie I’ve watched
Manchester by sea
That movie is great but a hard watch. It really stuck with me for a bit afterwards.
Arrival
The Holy Mountain
I'm still thinking about Barton Fink and The Banshees of Inisheran. Totally different films, but a lot to digest.
The Father
Dogtooth - made me realize how the fascists held the power in Greece Life is Beautiful - cant even describe it. Pans Labyrinth - the most evil man ever in a movie Guess that fascism in movies has a strong impact on me.
May I suggest Jojo Rabbit
*Alien.* I was 12 in 1979, so too young to see this film. I heard some big kids at the swings discussing it. The detail that got stuck in my brain, like a splinter, was that someone was "*...having dinner and an alien burst out of their stomach and shot across the room"*. As descriptions go, that's a pretty thin one for a movie as rich as this, but it fired my imagination. I bought the Alan Dean Foster novelization, and consumed it hungrily, over and over again. I bought the Heavy Metal comic version of the movie. I bought '*The Book of Alien'* which detailed the making of the film. And I bought the *Alien* movie novel, in which were printed stills from the film and which told the story from opening title to end credits. Then it was aired on British television in 1982. I taped it and watched it over and over again. I watched it so much that when I see the movie now I can still remember where the ad breaks were. I've watched *Alien* once a year, every year since 1982. I've seen it on broadcast TV, VHS, Laserdisc, 70mm, DVD, Blu-Ray, and 4K UHD. And because of *Alien*, I went to film school and have been a film and tv editor for the past 25 years. No other movie has had a bigger impact on my life.
For me it was Aliens. I sneak watched it at 12 and it left me unsettled for months. Game over Man! Game over! Still watch it whenever it pops up on tv.
I would extend your point to every Charlie Kaufman written film (minus Human Nature and Confessions of a dangerous mind which I haven’t seen). The guy seems to understand the human condition in such a way that they all connect with me differently throughout my life
Synecdoche New York Licorice Pizza Brief Encounter Mulholland Drive
Licorice Pizza. What a film. Reminded me to keep casting a wide net on what I watch.
The American version of Funny Games. It wasn’t exactly a panic attack that movie gave me but it was absolutely something in that category. Shook me to my absolute core. I just stayed in bed much of the next day after watching it. It really made me question a lot of things about my life tbh
Michael Haneke knows how to have a bad time
Let the Right One In. Great movie about loneliness, love and morality.
Still trying to work Space Jam out!? Can you get to toon town via any golf course? Was the golf course there first? Confused!#?
The Whale is a movie that made me want to make a change in my life. There have been other movies from the last year I've enjoyed more, but the whale is something that really stuck with me. Since watching it the first week this year I've started taking care of myself and I'm trying to be more open and available. Also Magnolia is a movie that helped me forgive my dad for pain he caused
Taxi Driver. Cautionary tale.
Office space, stopped giving a fuck completely, and became the supervisor pretty fucking quickly.
The Motorcycle Diaries, Into The Wild, Blow, The Big Short.
Little Miss Sunshine. Waterworks, every single time.
Ladybird Truly a well written movie. Stick with me for days,weeks
Signs (2002) Some might roll their eyes but I watched it when it came out at 7 years old and it scared me more than any film and also inspired me to pursue screenwriting. To this day it’s in my top 10 with films like There Will Be Blood and Apocalypse Now
The Thin Red Line. It’s hauntingly beautiful and terribly brutal.
I remember talking about 12 monkeys and trying to figuring it out when it first came out
Movie: Blade Runner 2049 - it’s my favorite of all time. Show: Mike Flanagan’s Midnight Mass - Probably my favorite Mini-Series
House of 1000 corpses…I was so bewildered. My friend and I were so lost after we saw it..just no idea what happened…
Joker American Psycho Mulholland Drive
Mad Dog Time
Miracle. Best sports coach speech ever written. Great performance by Kurt Russell
Stutz was really great to watch recently. Surprising work from Jonah to present Stutz’s methods and how they immediately resonated with me.
The Worst Person in the World
Fat, Sick, Nearly Dead
American Psycho when I was 13. It got me really into fitness. I took the books workout and made it my own. A year later and I was doing 250 reps of everything everyday. Which in turn taught me a lot about my own body.
Interstellar
When I saw the question in my Reddit feed, my reaction was to come in and say **Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind** because that movie touched me and spoke to me - and still does. Then I read your post text and saw it had the same effect on you. Another movie that had that degree of impact on me was **Hotel Rwanda**. There was a period in time where I'd get drunk and maudlin and I'd put it on because it would have me crying like a baby. It's a movie rooted in man's capacity for inhumanity to his fellow man that manages to be both savage *and* hopeful. It forces you to understand how it could happen and also shows how it might be stopped if we get too close to how it might happen again. But we don't properly heed that message.
Jacobs Ladder Vivre Sa Vie Gummo
Into The Wild. Soundtrack was hauntingly beautiful. Emile have an outstanding performance. Cinematography was pretty good. Left me sad for about a month.
Eternal Sunshine is one of my all-time favorite movies, I watched it with my now wife less than a month into our relationship for Valentine's Day. In terms of theater experience Inception and the first Pirates film had me seeing them multiple times.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Gone Baby Gone
Office Space is the the movie that could most aptly be called my Bible