Hot fuzz. Because the first watch is enjoyable, but every subsequent rewatch makes you appreciate Edgar Wright more and more. He is just the most incredibly meticulous story teller with the most dense movies.
SHUT IT!
And then you gotta go watch the breakdowns and side by sides on YouTube to fully appreciate it on another watch. Hot fuzz is one of my favorites.
Definitely Hot Fuzz! Every single throw-away line early in the film is a callback later on. It’s incredible trying to notice them all!
Quite a few are references to/from their other films too.
Fascist!
Hag!
Memento.
Though, being real, I would say that it’s a movie that gets more interesting on second watch rather than being one out need to watch twice to get. I honestly haven’t ever run across a movie like that.
Primer also falls into this category.
Agreed!
That’s a fun one. You get to see the same movie twice but it’s different both times.
Snatch.
There’s like 15 main characters. Every scene is important but it is impossible for it all to be apparent on a first watch.
It’s really brilliant storytelling. Watching Lock To k & Two Smoking barrels, you realize that guy Ritchie might be a one trick pony. But that’s okay, it’s a great trick.
It wasn’t till my 4th or 5th viewing that I realized when we first meet Brad Pitts character he is likely taking a shit behind some truck.
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Mulholland Drive. I get… angry at myself when i don’t understand a film that i know has a hidden meaning i can’t grasp so i watched it 4 times until i finally understood it. Now i am complete
Basically every Lynch movie.
My first theory was that it was just Naomi Watts’ character’s masturbation fantasy laid out on film. I still have to watch it a second time to confirm though 😬
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I haven’t even watched this one. Will do.
When it finally clicked it was sooo satisfying so I’ll tell you nothing
There really is something to make out of it? I generally assume Lynch films are good because they’re weird and surprising, but I haven’t seen many
Yeah. I’m not a fan of all lynchs films but i dig this one. Have you seen it? Do you want me to tell you the secret?
I’ve seen it years ago, perhaps I was too young. If there is indeed a secret, then you’ve piqued my curiosity and I’m tempted to rewatch it, so don’t tell me !
😁👍 have fun
yea ! cheers
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And then?
No and then.
The Big Lebowski. I’ve never seen another movie gain so much value over time and rewatches
Okay, Dude, have it your way.
The Prestige.
Akira. It’s weird and confusing. Goes from cyberpunk eye candy to bizarre metaphysical reality warp real quick.
Also body horror
The Big Lebowski. You pick up on stuff with each watch, and it just gets funnier when you do.
Perfect example. Almost all of the dude’s lines are things he heard a scene or two before.
There’s so many things foreshadowed in the movie that you’d only catch the second or third time around.
Shutter island watches completely differently on the second watch, same with Primer, The usual suspects, and Moon (2009).
Oh yes, Moon is fantastic ! very thick and tense atmosphere.
2001: A Space Odyssey
It’s my favorite because of the cinematography and atmosphere. It’s my favorite because of the themes and philosophy. It’s my favorite because space and psychedelia are cool.
It’s just an all around great movie if you can appreciate the slow pacing and intentionally jarring or tense aspects that drag on. 30 minutes of monkeys fucking around for seemingly no reason (at least, at first). Discordant wailing that lasts so long it nearly leaves your ears ringing. Space shots with no sound at all, or just the hissing of the space suit, which linger on the slow drift of a character moving from one location to the next. A character begging for his life as another dismantles his brain bit-by-bit.
To me, this movie always flys by, and it always feels like i was there in it, fully immersed. To my friends, it lasts a week and has one cool part that took an eon to get to.
Also it begs for multiple watchings to develop a theory of what the fuck is happening at the end and what the obelisk is and where it comes from.
It also raises philosophical questions that are interesting to come up with and grapple with in new ways with each viewing. Is HAL alive? Whats the next leap in evolution? can uncomfortable art be good? Who owns the moon? How did consciousness evolve? What’s happening to Dave?
Mind boggeling that it was made in the 60’s. Incredibly prescient.
it truly is, especially visually. The vfx are incredible for any time. And I’m not ever talking about the ending, which is mostly just film-editing; I’m talking about the space scenes that actually feel like space, or the scene where frank makes a complete loop running through the ship, or the zero g scene when the space age is first introduced. That’s all astounding, and it boggles the mind to think how they achieved that with practical fx
And this was made around the time of the original Star Trek and before Star Wars.
Its prescience is a whole other layer on top of that. It was obviously influenced by the space race and how that captured the public imagination: what will we find on the moon? Will we have a moon colony? Will we have commuter class space travel? What’s next, travelling to another planet? Will computers be sentient?
And lo and behold, they were only about 25 years off with some guesses. And it’s looking more and more likely that the rest are coming down the pipe.
Did you watch second part, 2010: The Year We Make Contact? Really like quality of effects.
I did not, but you’re also the first person I’ve met who liked it. Does it add much to the original?
It explains why HAL got mad. To be honest I never watch original in full. Started watching and got bored. But watched 2010 in one go. I don’t know why. It was inspiration to watch it after I saw this film mentioned in one YT video.
I liked that it touch topic of war between US and USSR. And I really enjoyed quality of Practical Effects.
Predestination. I did understand the first time but there are so many little details that I had to watch a second time, now knowing the plot, to absorb everything.
Ps: Please, don’t ask what it is about. if someone explains you will lose a very cool crazy movie. just go warch it.
I’m watching it right now. 20 minutes in.
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The columnist is talking about aging out of the orphanage and some guy is offering him a job as an astronaut.
I took your advice and know literally nothing about it other than it came out in 2014, and falls under the “Action, Drama, Sci-Fi” genres. Still, I wanna write this down now so I don’t end up saying “I called it” after the fact and have no credibility, and if I call it wrong, we can all have a good laugh:
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I have the weirdest feeling that time travel is going to be involved at some point. And also something is just screaming “All You Zombies” adaptation at me.
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Might just be because he’s trans.
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And telling a bartender his story. And there’s some secret organization that’s been teased… And the surgery in the beginning.
Okay I paused the movie because it was starting to bother me how much there was in common, looked up the story, and wow. I haven’t read it in a decade or more; I didn’t remember the character was given a title, but it’s right there in the first sentence. Glad I’m not just crazy.
It was the weirdest feeling, to feel so strongly that there was a connection but not sure enough to trust the feeling. Like a compulsion, or an intrusive thought. Just a weirdly intense sensation.
One of my all time favorite short stories, I didn’t know they made an adaptation. I am so excited now.
loved the live feed lol Never heard of a short story but hope you liked the movie, I sure did.
I found this pdf of it just now. I’d say worth the read just to see the differences between the source material and the movie. It’s short, should only take 10 minutes.
I did like the movie! There were some things I was really pleased with how they handled, some things not as much, some things were even done better than the original. Truth be told, I’m not a fan of the author’s wannabe Hemingway All-Dialogue-Little-Description style in the bar scene and flashbacks, so it’s really cool to see the characters actually act and react and show emotion in the movie.
Thanks for introducing it the way you did, otherwise it wouldn’t have caught my attention.
Shaun of the dead has so many jokes in that its hard to catch them all. There is some good YouTube videos that also explain them in case you missed any.
The matrix and Fight club ( both released in 1999 )
It was a great year for film.
Primer
When you first watch Primer you have no idea what’s going on. You need to watch it at least three more time for you to still have no idea what’s going on
The best time to watch Primer is immediately after watching Primer.
Came here to say this, glad I am not alone.
It really is a great movie. I found this timeline a while back that helps you make sense of it all…
