Comments on: A truly psychological thriller – Inception

By: Young One

Young One — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:53:20 +0000

I find it hard to agree with the common consensus that this film is so wonderful. The concepts are amazing, and I thought the layering and detail in the movie were also excellent, but it lacked something for me. It was all mind-games and no….how do I put it?….finesse? As a movie I feel it lacked style, it seemed as though it relied too heavily on it’s depth of plot to win the audience over.
That having been said, I may not have been in the right mind set to watch it.

By: Tburn

Tburn — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:07:08 +0000

have anybody came across the movie Resurrection (1990), directed by Russell Mulcahy and a Christopher Lambert’s movie. Should catch that movie on. My all time favourite besides Seven.

By: Kevin McGroarty

Kevin McGroarty — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:23:37 +0000

The Fall by Tarsem Singh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_%282008_film%29) a wonderful move. Better than The Cell (which was reasonably enjoyable and also by him, also entering people’s minds)

By: Francis Scully

Francis Scully — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:06:10 +0000

Mr. Nobody (2009 Movie) wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Nobody_%28film%29

Just watched this movie a couple days ago and loved it. I didn’t think the official trailer did its justice, so I put one together and uploaded it to: youtube.com/watch?v=brCu_ifpE28

In case you wanted the official trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=2yEwVQdCl74

By: whodat

whodat — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:43:58 +0000

Brazil was decent, but it hasn’t aged well
similar to the way Star Wars feels dated

came back to list Dangerous Liaisons
some dirty digging through the subconscious went down in that

By: spiderabc1

spiderabc1 — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:37:35 +0000

Also Girl Interrupted, Awakenings and A Scanner Darkly.

By: Bren

Bren — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:30:45 +0000

Another dreamish film is Mirrormask. The fairly weak script (by the usually wonderful Neil Gaiman) is completely outweighed by the stunning visuals and direction by Dave McKean.

By: @zenpyramid

@zenpyramid — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:02:56 +0000

….many already mentioned, so i’ll just add:

El Topo http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067866/
Grey Gardens http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073076/
Alice http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095715/

I’ve recently been ploughing through the insanity of Takashi Miike.

…most mental one?

Izo http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377079/

…most awesome (and mental) one?

Ichi the Killer http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0296042/

…most fucked up and disturbing (and mental) one (difficult to narrow that down!):

Visitor Q http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290329/

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:56:58 +0000

I am glad that so many love Brazil. I have been banging my drum about it since I was a young teen.
I showed it to a friend who is a ‘film buff’ (his words) and he said, at the end, laughing: “That is the worst film I have ever seen”. He then explained to me that he liked action films. Oh dear. I thought it had quite a lot of action!
Anything by Gilliam is wonderful.
Also Dark City – my wife doesn’t understand why I like it so much.
Both Solaris films, for different reasons.
Really happy to see no mention of The Matrix. I would rather read a William Gibson novel, although I enjoyed the films as eye-candy.
For an old classic – The Phantom of Liberty by Louis Bunuel is a surrealist masterpiece. It messes with your head. (And your dining table)

By: P J Cooper

P J Cooper — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:45:11 +0000

Excellent suggestions from Francis Scully, and I’d like to back up rob’s mention of Satoshi Kon’s “Paranoia Agent”. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433722/ Utterly amazing for those of you who can stomach animation. His film “Paprika” rightly deserves to be near the top of this list.

Got back from seeing Inception a couple of hours ago. Incredible in every way. As my friend Alex said, nice to see a blockbuster that doesn’t patronise you too.