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What is the most intelligent movie you have ever watched and why?
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Most people don't understand that fight club is based on the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and that Generation X considered themselves the lost generation. My how things have evolved. The writer of Fight club actually penned the term Snowflake for the first time in that movie. Super deep movie that most don't understand where the context came from.
Ex Machina
I thought of another one that I really liked.
Life of Pi
The depth of of the main character practicing all of three religions at once despite the protests of his three religious leaders. The depth of the story of the animals verses the humans on the boat. Super deep.
Adult Pi Patel: So which story do you prefer?
Writer: The one with the tiger. That's the better story.
Adult Pi Patel: Thank you. And so it goes with God.
Writer: [smiles] It's an amazing story.
Life of Pi
The depth of of the main character practicing all of three religions at once despite the protests of his three religious leaders. The depth of the story of the animals verses the humans on the boat. Super deep.
Adult Pi Patel: So which story do you prefer?
Writer: The one with the tiger. That's the better story.
Adult Pi Patel: Thank you. And so it goes with God.
Writer: [smiles] It's an amazing story.
I'd say the first 3.99 seasons of Man in the High Castle was smart. That last .01, though.
I wondered if Magnolia would be mentioned. Need to watch it again to see if it still impressed me like it did however many years ago.
The Usual Suspects.
Cause I had no idea.
Cause I had no idea.
Scent of a woman
Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land
Donnie Darko
I'd say Jacob's ladder for the sheer amount of emotional depth and intelligence needed to pull that off as a director.
BTHOB-98 said:
Most people don't understand that fight club is based on the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and that Generation X considered themselves the lost generation. My how things have evolved. The writer of Fight club actually penned the term Snowflake for the first time in that movie. Super deep movie that most don't understand where the context came from.
We are the all singing, all dancing crap of the world.
BTHOB said:
Gattaca
Christopher Nolan's movies simplify a lot once you figure out the time perspective or the physics rules of each movie.
Inception for example, according to the rules spelled out in the movie he's still asleep at the end of the movie(he gets the ending he wanted) but the spinner will still fall(because it's his dream and he doesn't know the weight of it since it was his wife's) and Dom (Leo's character) accepts that level of dream as reality because he wants to be reunited with his kids.
Though even as a Nolan fan, this is the correct answer and it isn't close, apparently they shot the whole thing in DFW with a very limited budget. A great example that you don't need a budget to pull off a complex movie. Once again the plot is everything.
here's the timeline for Primer, try to keep up:
Inception for example, according to the rules spelled out in the movie he's still asleep at the end of the movie(he gets the ending he wanted) but the spinner will still fall(because it's his dream and he doesn't know the weight of it since it was his wife's) and Dom (Leo's character) accepts that level of dream as reality because he wants to be reunited with his kids.
bluefire579 said:
Primer from a pure mathematical approach
Though even as a Nolan fan, this is the correct answer and it isn't close, apparently they shot the whole thing in DFW with a very limited budget. A great example that you don't need a budget to pull off a complex movie. Once again the plot is everything.
here's the timeline for Primer, try to keep up:
Memento
Usual suspects
Revolver
Sixth Sense.
Usual suspects
Revolver
Sixth Sense.
It's probably taken for granted nowadays how amazing The Matrix was in 1999. So many different influences from the worlds of religion, philosophy, Hong Kong cinema, and a ton of other things that when you're a kid they fly right over your head.
Also, for those mentioning Primer, check out The Infinite Man. Similar kind of movie and equally brilliant.
Herman's Head jokes aside, "Inside Out" really surprised me with how smartly it addressed emotions and the interplay between happiness and sadness, the parent/child relationship, and generally just growing up and dealing with change.
I like movies with a big twist, the following come to mind:
Fight Club
Beautiful Mind
Sixth Sense
Shutter Island
I'm sure there are more along that line. The twist at the end that makes you re-evaluate the whole movie is very cool to me.
Fight Club
Beautiful Mind
Sixth Sense
Shutter Island
I'm sure there are more along that line. The twist at the end that makes you re-evaluate the whole movie is very cool to me.
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I forgot about Shutter Island, great ending. "Which would be worse, to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?"
Saving Mr. Banks was an unexpectedly dark look at a Classic movie.
Tree of Life and A Hidden Life by Terrence Malick!
Back to the Future
KidDoc said:
I like movies with a big twist, the following come to mind:
Fight Club
Beautiful Mind
Sixth Sense
Shutter Island
I'm sure there are more along that line. The twist at the end that makes you re-evaluate the whole movie is very cool to me.
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No Way Out was pretty phenomenal. I don't think anyone saw that ending the way it did. So well done.
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Back to the Future
I think that's where he went wrong on Tenet. I agree that the plots are fairly simple if you get the rules. Inception layed out the rules very well when Leo was showing Ellen Page's character how it worked in a practical way that wasn't sitting there and having a lecture to the audience. Tenet had a very brief scene with the gun after he gets off the boat, but there were just too many more rules to the universe to really get the rest of the movie well.hunter2012 said:
Christopher Nolan's movies simplify a lot once you figure out the time perspective or the physics rules of each movie.
Inception for example, according to the rules spelled out in the movie
I give Nolan credit because he treats the audience like they're smart enough to figure it out, but Tenet (which i do like, but it probably my least favorite) was just too complex.
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he's still asleep at the end of the movie(he gets the ending he wanted) but the spinner will still fall(because it's his dream and he doesn't know the weight of it since it was his wife's) and Dom (Leo's character) accepts that level of dream as reality because he wants to be reunited with his kids.
Carlo4 said:BTHOB said:
Gattaca
Top 5 episode of The League
Arrival. That movie had me thinking for weeks afterward.
BTW, if you're a mother, have some Kleenex handy if you watch it.
BTW, if you're a mother, have some Kleenex handy if you watch it.
I think everyone has varying definitions of intelligence and what movies they would categorize as such. I think most would agree that Nolan's movies are quite intelligent, but those type of movies are also the type that are beating you over the head telling you how intelligent they are.
What I tend to find just as impressive and much more subtly intelligent are movies that are entirely dialogue driven, and yet have the ability to keep a viewer engrossed. I find Linklater's movies fit this bill for me, and most specifically the Before Trilogy and Waking Life.
What I tend to find just as impressive and much more subtly intelligent are movies that are entirely dialogue driven, and yet have the ability to keep a viewer engrossed. I find Linklater's movies fit this bill for me, and most specifically the Before Trilogy and Waking Life.
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Dr. Strangelove, layers of 20th century history and satire.
Ooh, I'd add Knight of Cups as well
blade runner (both)
shawshank
forrest gump
truman show
1984
v for vendetta
eyes wide shut
gattaca
the seventh seal
wild strawberries
the good the bad and the ugly
logan
no country for old men
the matrix
inherit the wind
inception
i robot
metropolis
total recall
wag the dog
(lots of good ones that cheezed out the ending and killed it, falling down for instance)
shawshank
forrest gump
truman show
1984
v for vendetta
eyes wide shut
gattaca
the seventh seal
wild strawberries
the good the bad and the ugly
logan
no country for old men
the matrix
inherit the wind
inception
i robot
metropolis
total recall
wag the dog
(lots of good ones that cheezed out the ending and killed it, falling down for instance)
Orlando Ayala Cant Read said:
No Way Out was pretty phenomenal. I don't think anyone saw that ending the way it did. So well done.
This movie, Arrival, and Whiplash are the 3 that come to mind.
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