Mind Bending / Intellectual Movies
I always craved for complications in movies. Not weirdness, but complication. Like, after watching a movie, when you say to yourself: "what on earth was that? let me see that movie again!"
So, I created this list which contains confusing/intellectual movies, yet have a logical base , which can be explained. Not some some idiotic stupid movie like Mulholland Dr.
I don't care what critics or somebody else say, I don't care if a movie has high budget CGI, the only thing I care about is logical explanation.
I am talking about the movies, which confuses the viewer, I am not talking about confused director. :-D
The movies listed here, have some kind of "basis"; at least, it has been explained logically within the movie.
There is no particular "order", I just update this list as the movies come to my mind.
Suggestions are always welcome. :-)
Here are the movies from this list, which are "flawed", or can't be explained logically:
Fight Club
Black Swan
Mulholland Dr.
Lost Highway
Chasing Sleep
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The movie eXistenZ can be explained as long as it goes, but it ends kind of unexpectedly. So the user (viewer) doesn't get the complete "input" to make a conclusion at the end.
So, I created this list which contains confusing/intellectual movies, yet have a logical base , which can be explained. Not some some idiotic stupid movie like Mulholland Dr.
I don't care what critics or somebody else say, I don't care if a movie has high budget CGI, the only thing I care about is logical explanation.
I am talking about the movies, which confuses the viewer, I am not talking about confused director. :-D
The movies listed here, have some kind of "basis"; at least, it has been explained logically within the movie.
There is no particular "order", I just update this list as the movies come to my mind.
Suggestions are always welcome. :-)
Here are the movies from this list, which are "flawed", or can't be explained logically:
Fight Club
Black Swan
Mulholland Dr.
Lost Highway
Chasing Sleep
Source Code
The movie eXistenZ can be explained as long as it goes, but it ends kind of unexpectedly. So the user (viewer) doesn't get the complete "input" to make a conclusion at the end.
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- DirectorShane CarruthStarsShane CarruthDavid SullivanCasey GoodenFour friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention.Two engineers out of four realise that they have accidentally created a machine which actually is a time machine. But unlike other machines from fictions this machine has a very different method for "travelling" in time.
The movie has fantastic elements of science fiction, and philosophy but Carruth portrayed scientific discovery and whole movie in a down-to-earth, and realistic manner.
This movie won tons of awards.
Shane Carruth is the director, producer, one of the two protagonist, music composer, and the editor of the movie.
Carruth, is a former software engineer with an undergraduate degree in mathematics.
For more details of the movie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film)
10/10 - DirectorRichard KellyStarsJake GyllenhaalJena MaloneMary McDonnellAfter narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.Another movie on time travel. In the whole movie a large bunny rabbit visits a teenager, telling him the date of end of the world. The rabbit also possess him to commit social crimes.
The protagonist Donnie Darko thinks that bunny rabbit is a time traveller and starts research on time travel.
On the date of destruction, movie ends with a time travel paradox.
Also starring Noah Wyle, and Drew Barrymore.
10/10 - DirectorGareth CarrivickStarsChris O'DowdMarc WoottonDean Lennox KellyWhile drinking at their local pub, three social outcasts attempt to navigate a time-travel conundrum.British comedy that centres on three friends in a pub. Movie has several incidents of time travel leading the trio in different future each time, caused by themselves: the chaos theory/butterfly effect.
10/10 - DirectorJohn McTiernanStarsJohn TravoltaSamuel L. JacksonConnie NielsenD.E.A. Agent Tom Hardy investigates the disappearance of legendary Army Ranger Drill Sergeant Nathan West and several of his cadets during a training exercise gone severely awry at Fort Clayton.Not complicated but confusing. An investigation of disaster, where each of the survivor gives different statements. Upon asked for second time each of them comes with another story.
9/10 - DirectorMikael HåfströmStarsJohn CusackSamuel L. JacksonMary McCormackAuthor Michael Enslin, who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences, checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel in New York City, settles in, and soon confronts genuine terror.This movie has two different endings.
Be sure to watch the version named as "Default Ending" rather than "Alternate Ending". There isn't any difference in the story though, as it is just the ending.
10/10 for the default ending, 8/10 for alternate ending. - DirectorGarth JenningsStarsMartin FreemanYasiin BeySam RockwellMere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."Based on the classic novel/radio show by Douglas Adams.
Hats off to the novels, but movie couldn't capture the novel. Furthermore there is a lot difference in the novels and the movie.
The movie begins with demolition of earth by a race "vogans" the galactic government's bureaucrats. Later the protagonist learns lots of facts/hidden truths about the universe.
10/10 - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsLeonardo DiCaprioEmily MortimerMark RuffaloTwo US marshals are sent to a mental institution on an inhospitable island in order to investigate the disappearance of a patient.
- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsLeonardo DiCaprioJoseph Gordon-LevittElliot PageA thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster.A mixture of "Uncle Scrooge: The Dream of a Lifetime", and "eXistenZ". Yet amazing.
- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsGuy PearceCarrie-Anne MossJoe PantolianoA former insurance investigator who now suffers from anterograde amnesia uses notes and tattoos to hunt down his wife's murderer.
- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsChristian BaleHugh JackmanScarlett JohanssonRival 19th-century magicians engage in a bitter battle for trade secrets.
- DirectorMary HarronStarsChristian BaleJustin TherouxJosh LucasA wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.
- DirectorBrad AndersonStarsChristian BaleJennifer Jason LeighAitana Sánchez-GijónAn industrial worker who hasn't slept in a year begins to doubt his own sanity.
- DirectorMichel GondryStarsJim CarreyKate WinsletTom WilkinsonWhen their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories forever.
- DirectorsEric BressJ. Mackye GruberStarsAshton KutcherAmy SmartMelora WaltersEvan Treborn suffers blackouts during significant events of his life. As he grows up, he finds a way to remember these lost memories and a supernatural way to alter his life by reading his journal.
- DirectorCameron CroweStarsTom CruisePenélope CruzCameron DiazA self-indulgent and vain publishing magnate finds his privileged life upended after a vehicular accident with a resentful lover.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsTom CruiseColin FarrellSamantha MortonJohn works with the PreCrime police which stop crimes before they take place, with the help of three 'PreCogs' who can foresee crimes. Events ensue when John finds himself framed for a future murder.
- DirectorPaul Thomas AndersonStarsTom CruiseJason RobardsJulianne MooreAn epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
- DirectorBryan SingerStarsKevin SpaceyGabriel ByrneChazz PalminteriThe sole survivor of a pier shoot-out tells the story of how a notorious criminal influenced the events that began with five criminals meeting in a seemingly random police lineup.
- DirectorAnthony HopkinsStarsAnthony HopkinsStella HopkinsChristian SlaterWhile working on a murder-mystery script, unaware that his brain is about to implode, aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer becomes baffled when his characters start to appear in his life.Personally, I literally hated this movie. :-D
- DirectorsJoel CoenEthan CoenStarsGeorge ClooneyJohn TurturroTim Blake NelsonIn the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.
- DirectorGrant HeslovStarsEwan McGregorGeorge ClooneyKevin SpaceyA reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's New Earth Army, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerSharon StoneMichael IronsideWhen a man goes in to have virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars implanted in his mind, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or is he?The new Total Recall (2012) (Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale) contains a spoiler, and the story or the grasp is nothing at all compared with this one. It has advantages of better special effects, CGI, and sound effects though. But I would recommend to to watch Arnold's first, and then the new one.
- DirectorJames MangoldStarsJohn CusackRay LiottaAmanda PeetStranded at a desolate Nevada motel during a nasty rain storm, ten strangers become acquainted with each other when they realize that they're being killed off one by one.
- DirectorJoseph RubenStarsJulianne MooreDominic WestChristopher KovaleskiAfter being told that their children never existed, a man and woman soon discover there is a much bigger enemy at work.Julianne Moore believes that her son disappeared few years ago. Everybody else tells her he never existed and she made him up.
Later, she meets a man, her son's friend's father, a drunkard, who's daughter is also missing. Upon asking him, he denies of having a daughter ever. Then he starts regain the memories of his daughter. For a brief moment, the viewer is confused whether Moore is insane or what.
9/10 - DirectorJoel SchumacherStarsJim CarreyVirginia MadsenLogan LermanWalter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise.
