Hollywood likes to put out brainless, recycled crap, but once in awhile there are original movies that make you think.
Sometimes you have to watch them more then once to understand them.
i.e. clever twist ending, strong theme or lots of subtext.

So what 3 movies make your "WOW" list?

Rounding out my list.......
1. Donnie Darko- thought provoking, had to watch multiple times to grasp meaning and themes.
2 Molholland Drive (David Lynch has his own unique style!!)
3. Saw -My fav horror film of 2004, has great twist ending

Honorable Mention: A Sixth Sense- Clever twist ending, strong acting

Have fun.

Three movies:
1. Batman Begins("wow", really good script)
2. Lord of the Rings Trilogy ("wow", really good setting)
3. Matrix Trilogy ("wow", nice special effects)

Honorable mention: Shawn of the Dead ("wow", how funny can they get)
Dishonorable mention: Napolean Dynomite ("wow", how dumb can they get)

1) Falling Down (kinda old, but very well made, extremely thought provoking)
2) The Game (an awesome movie ... not particularly thought provoking, but very interesting, and 100% original )
3) Matrix 1, and 3 (Revolutions) (the first one is still the best ) (the second one does not deserve to be on the list, it was horrible )

Dishonorable mention: Star Wars 1-3: Wow, the worst movie trilogy of all time

I was thinking more on the line of anti-hollywood, atypical movies. Not big blockbuster necessarily.
If I chose my all-time fav movies, my list would be different.

Elite7..I liked Batman Begins, but wouldn't call it thought-provoking. (Pretty straight forward, predictable).
Neither the epic Peter Jackson trilogy.... but it would appear on my top 20 all time list though.

TMex, I agree with the MAtrix (only liked the first original, before it went overboard on SFX/CGI) since it was confusing, original (at that time) and thought provoking... mixing different realities and themes.

The top 3 movies that make me think:

1. K-Pax (so simple and psychically-mentally, so complicated, The BEST!)
2. Fargo (the film about humanity...)
3. Movies by M. Night Shyamalan like Sixth Sense, Signs, The Village

Ah and I like the horror/suspense genre very much. Stephen King adaptations like Sleepwalkers, etc. in the past. Nowadays: The Ring (Ring2 wasn't too memorable), yea Saw (haven't seen Saw II. yet), The Grudge, etc. just for fun.
David Lynch and his special/unique athmosphere films are my other favs. It began with the TV series: Twin Peaks, and continued with Mulholland Drive (well I had to watch it some.... times to understand but each time I watched it I discovered more & more meanings).

But these are just very few. I love movies (ahh, and their music so much)

Amelie, The Godfather (I-III), 21 Grams ...

A Good Woman and Lost in Translation (both with Scarlett Johansson ) are also nice

Right now, i'm watching Lost (the TV series). It makes me think a lot... everytime i take the plane

Speaking of planes.. may want to stay away from "Flight Plan" with Jody Foster.

Best plane movie has gotta be Final Destination ... perfect for an in-flight movie too

There can't be a comparison with FREQUENCY simply the best one.
JUMANJI was a real fun for sure.
KATE AND LEOPALD along with IDENTITY are the best.

Do you really find it interesting? I think it is a little childish...

Cube 1 and 2

Big Fish

Debbie does Dallas part 14

Sponge Bob Square pants..........The movie

the first two on the list are my three. the others are for the p0rn meisters and kids. Cept I luv Sponge Bob. lol.

Winter

me too and boring

1- Wild Things (The whole movie has you thinking you know what happened, but that isn't the case unless you've seen it before).

2- Back To The Future (all movies) Did everything really make sense about time travel or were they wrong on some analogies?

3- The Day After Tomorrow ( All I did was think when I watched that movie. I kept thinking to myself....What if.......

the day after tomorrow was a confusing film that made me think what if because you never no whats gonna happen

Hitchcock > not all his movies but about 75% (huge fan )

Mullholland Dr. YES

Memento

Cube YES

Requiem For A Dream


p.s. don't wanna be an a$$ but Y are you posting movies like jumanji, kate and leopold or idk...star wars...
i understand Matrix cuz it has a very good point , "machines controlling humans in the future thing".

...lol....GF...muahahahah


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1 The Blair Witch Project. I found it disturbing as it wasn"t total horror, it was just disturbing. Anything which disturbs you tends to make you think a little. After i watched that movie it definately made me think of a number of things.
2 The Office( British version) I know its not a movie, but i feel it comes into this category as they weren't just episodes. If you watched it from start to finish you would find that there is a story line in all series. What made me think so much was the fact it was different and "David Brent" was such a wanker, and in real life, we all know that there are people walking around with heads as big as his. This was a wake up call for a lot of people not just those who work in an office.
3 Spinal Tap, made me think of the extremes people can go to. All them goupies , yea yea yea. I'm there already. Enough said. Grassy

Awsome idea :-)

My Favourite movies are the ones that have one of those twists that make you go 'wow' and suddenly it all makes sense. Then there are just movies which are awsome films!

Recently: The Prestige with Hugh Jackman

Not So Recently:
The Game
Identity
Donny Darko
The Sixth Sense
Matrix no.1 (i love the 'In another life, maybe' idea. I actually missed that the first time i watched it! lol)
The Others (Nicole Kidman)
... and One BRILLIANT film called "Arlington Road"
Pirates of the Carribean (no real twist, but Johnny Depp Was awsome in it)

Recently i've also been getting into the T.V Show, Heroes. I saw one episode of Lost and absolutley loved it but haven't been able to see anymore. I feel i should watch the whole thing for fun one day.

By the way, The Day After Tommorrow didn't make me think 'what if' - it made me think 'as if'...haha

Chris :-)

My favorites are :

1. Fight Club

2. American Psycho

3. Cruel Intentions

4. Mulholland Drive

Sorry I have 4 favs

I saw American Psycho yesterday... very strange movie

Here are my new favorites: Crash, Babel, Dogville... they really make you think

Lord of Rings and Back to future.These movies make me thinking a lot.

SAHARA
SYRIANA
BOURNE ULTIMATUM

Scent of a Women

Ms. Crazzycat (you're woman, right?), you've mentioned just one. Let's see the other 2

MOVIES THAT YOU DON'T KNOW WTF'S GOING ON UNTIL...

Truman Show
Vanilla Sky
The Matrix (hated it, but made me think)
Fight Club
6th Sense
Total Recall
Lost Highway
Some robin Williams movie where he's dead
From Dusk Till Dawn
Shattered
The Game
conspiracy theory
Manchurian Candidate
The Shining
The Village
The Mothman Prophecies


WTF MOVIES?
Equilibrium
American Beauty
Magnolia
Run Lola Run
Soylent Green
The Lost Room (Hands down, greatest TV Series EVER)
AI (the movie that never ends)
Hitchhiker's Guide
Cemetery Man
Memento
Irreversible
Inland Empire
The prestige & The Illusionist (magician movies)
Logan's Run

GENERAL MINDFUCK MOVIES
Momentum
12 Monkeys
Flatliners
A Scanner Darkly (I was high, so...)
The Prophecy
John Malcovich
Adaptation
Eraserhead
Lawnmower Man (lol)


Dishonorable mention: Broken. Need more tits Trent.

Honorable mention: Jim Carrey in Eternal Sunshine.
As an actor, Carrey is highly underrated. He can play serious roles just as good (if not better) than DeCapri or Denzel and directors should not be so soon to judge him based on Dumb & Dumber. I think he's got a hidden natural talent that has yet to be harvested.

"Mindhunters" - its a thriller, has quite a few twists. Also "Reindeer Games" starring Charlize Theron and Ben Affleck. And "Donnie Darko"

The Intuition
Matrix
The Lord of the Ring
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