Would serial Experiments Lain count? Anime series that seems to change after each rewatch.
Titanic. The ending recontextualises everything and I’m still talking about it
Care to elaborate? It’s pretty straight forward to me.
Please see my reply to the unfortunate named user elsewhere in this thread
can you talk about it some more? i didn’t think this movie was difficult
There are multiple lenses and been through many of them at different points in my life. I really did not like it when it first came out, but then came to understand the romantic fantasy from a young woman’s perspective, and then the class aspects about how the upper classes vampire the vitality, dynamism, and culture of the lower classes to rejuvenate themselves, etc etc.
I’m not sure I would say I even like the movie yet, but I have talked a lot about it with friends and partners over the decades. So I guess it’s a good movie to talk about
Wait… Like the boat sinking?
I really thought they were going to clutch it at the last second tbh
Whoa, spoilers man, c’mon!
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.
Thanks for letting me know about the short story. Predestination is one of my favorite movies and I didn’t know it was actually an adaptation! From Heinlein, no news
Clerks, there are so many great gems buried in that movie.
I love this movie and have seen it many times, but I’m not sure rewatching it makes it all that much different. Do you have any examples to share?
I would, but I’m not even supposed to be here today.
Okay this isnt a movie but a show, but arrested development (especially the early seasons) are filled with situations, puns, innuendos and jokes that are set up over several episodes, sometimes even seasons. It is impossible to catch and appreciate them all on first watch. I have seen the show probably a half dozen times over the years and i still stumble over the occasional thing i missed.
Omg you are so right!
Arrested development was way ahead of it’s time and has some of the most clever writing of any show, especially for the time is was first made (pre Netflix.) The word play and subtle running gags are absolutely hilarious. And the characters are all written hilariously well.
I love aaall the claw jokes that show the seal gag was planned from the very beginning. “I’m a monster!”
There are even some jokes where they were seeding foreshadowing, but were never able to actually have it come to fruition because the show was cancelled. My favorite of these is that Tobias is actually a black man
Man, now i gotta watch it again. I really love the funke. Oh is his name part of this gag?
I don’t think so. It’s more like he’ll often say stuff that makes more sense if he were a black man. Eg. When Lindsay is hitting on Ice, Tobias says something like “she certainty has a type”. Or how the cover of “The Man Inside Me” seems to show a black man. Much like the foreshadowing of Buster’s hand, a lot of it is meant to be extremely subtle.
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.
Fascist!
Hag!
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.
Good pick. Definitely reawrding to rewatch. The supporting actor dvd commentaries are something special as well.
Akira. It’s weird and confusing. Goes from cyberpunk eye candy to bizarre metaphysical reality warp real quick.
Also body horror
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.
Hot Fuzz for me. Similar reasons, but I think it’s funnier. Like they took the lessons of Shawn and refined it. I know not everyone agrees though.
I remember showing my late dad Hot Fuzz. He was laughing so hard and practically wheezing at how relatable it was, from a US law enforcement background lol. (Especially when he’s fielding outrageous questions at the primary school LOL)
That was a really good time spent with my dad. I love that movie. We’d be quoting it all the time hahaha.
“Aww man did ya say anythin cool?”
“I uh, smashed him over the head with a pot and said ‘playtime’s over’.”
[racks shotgun] “You’re off the f###ing CHAIN!!”
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I wholeheartedly agree. I wish more people appreciated it like it deserves!
And then?
No and then.
AAAAAND THEEEENNNNNNN?
Stay - great movie with Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Hard to figure out and beautiful to watch, very gripping.
Ghost in the Shell
FYI: There’s a series too - can highly recommend
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
- Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society
Merrily We Roll Along
L.A. Confidential
There are multiple investigations/cases and multiple character arcs, and it all comes together so beautifully. The [REDACTED] reveal is amazing.
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I’ve never watched it, taking notes!
The Sixth Sense, if you can go into it blind. I’m usually pretty good at figuring out a movie’s plot twist, but this one caught me completely by surprise. Then when you watch it again you pick up on all the dropped hints.
Just watched this tonight for my 12 year old son, coincidentally. He loved the twist!
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I had it spoiled for me about 30 min before I went to the theater to see it by a coworker. I never forgave him.
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What’s great, though, is that knowing the twist doesn’t ruin it. It’s worth a rewatch anyway.
I figured out the twist within like the first 5 minutes of my first watch (nobody spoiled it for me, but I knew that there would be a twist and was looking for one) and it made the movie pretty boring imo
I have never watched it and probably never will- I’m sure it’s a great movie but the twist is one of the most spoiled in internet history :(
It’s a very solid movie, and worth watching, even knowing the twist
To be fair, it is a twenty-five-year-old movie. That’s a long time to keep anything unspoiled.
It was spoiled at the time. I think I was six months late in seeing it and knew the twist. Not 100%, but enough that it completely ruined it.
I recognized the twist at a certain conversation early in the movie. It’s not really hidden, or at least not well.
It was my first movie by shamalama and i didn’t see the twist cuz i didn’t expect a twist. Every movie he did after i knew one was coming and they it was easy to catch the signs…badump pssh
“I wouldn’t write myself as some kind of prophet into my own story! That’s like Shamylan levels of douchiness!”
–“Chuck”, Supernatural TV show
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