Movies that make you think

[piece-it pete]

Originally Posted by Fedallah

The book is really far more clear than the movie. Kubrick tries to take the movie places where the book can go quite easily, but in film - it's like putting wheels on a sailboat and driving it on the freeway. You can do it - but you need to be very clever and more than a little bit lucky to pull it off. In the end trying to toss visual metaphors and so on into film is usually more trouble than it's worth, since it's a lot of work to get right and nearly everyone in the audience is going to totally miss it anyway.

No kidding, very well said. I read the book before I saw the movie, otherwise I could've been lost in more than one place. Very trippy though.

I hate to say this, but I just saw Spiderman 3 and was surprised to see life lessons in it.

Pete

[cfranz]

Hm....

Silent Running
The Station Agent


'Wag the Dog' was done better. Look up Sean Connery movies.

[6thumbs]

Executive Action,,,Burt Lancaster,,A movie that puts a different spin on the Kennedy assasination,,,,,Deer Hunter,, 12 Monkeys

[donoghue]

Memento, kept me off balance all the way as I remember it. I might just have to watch that now.

Also Bringing out the Dead, thought that was pretty deep in its way

[outshined]

"Waking the Dead" with Jennifer Connelly and Billy Crudup.

Is she really dead or...?? Not a horror flick. But a mind bending drama/thriller type.

[OvenMaster]

Originally Posted by drknstrmyknight

Was Deckard a replicant?

Yup.
"Ridley Scott, after remaining coy for twenty years, stated in 2000 that Deckard is a replicant,[23] and has reinserted a unicorn sequence into the Director's Cut indicating Deckard has false memories like Rachael.[24]"
#23 Scott, Ridley (2000) video clip of Ridley Scott confirming that Deckard is a replicant http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?...28243172902888
#24 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/825641.stm Retrieved on 2007-07-27.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner

[diddlybopper]

"Failsafe" the original made me stop and think about it...
The remake made me wonder "Why did they bother"

[MAXZ28]

Irreversible

[BroonsBane]

Sicko