I feel like everyone has had a movie partially spoiled by a trailer but I also feel like descriptions, movie posters, and even genre tags can be a give away and make a plot twist or scene less impactful.
One movie I vaguely remember watching without any context was the 2021 movie Oxygen. I enjoyed it but I feel like it would have been slightly more predictable if I had looked at the genre tags and that would have effected my enjoyment.
I feel like you need to have a pretty good sense of someone’s tastes to make a “trust me”-style recommendation like this.
Not a movie but the experience of watching it feels cinematic to me (such that I rank it in my favourite films) and it was made by a film maker:
Twin Peaks (incl season 3, released 2018).
It’s a TV show and the first 2 seasons lean into that format, but if you go ahead and skip the “filler” in season 2, and are prepared to tolerate the indulgences of season 3, all together it’s like a very long art house film.
Apart from knowing that it’s by Lynch, it was wonderful to watch all the way through without knowing anything about it (which I did a few years ago). The experience of finishing it is
notnow one of my favourite “films”.Memento
Shutter Island. It is both a movie that is better when you don’t know what it’s about and when you’ve already seen it once. Watch it twice.
Cabin in the Woods
Tucker and Dale vs Evil
Something tells me you would enjoy Zombeavers.
I had a friend tell me to watch Tucker and Dale and went in completely blind and I’m so glad I did. Such a hilarious movie, I’m sure the trailer would have ruined all the best one liners.
Why’d you list the same movie twice?
One has mermaids.
Oh and elevators, fair enough
Ex Machina
I’ve got 2 Id recommend: Matchstick Men Identity
Yessssss. Identity is my favorite Cusack film. Such a fun one.
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I always do this as I hate spoilers.
I had no idea what to expect when I watched Swiss Army Man.
Beautiful film, thanks for the reminder
20th Century Boys.
barbarian
Memento.
Each scene is a spoiler for the next scene!
I feel like you need to have a pretty good sense of someone’s tastes to make a “trust me”-style recommendation like this.
You do. Also, if you ask specifically for movies you have to be unprepared for, won’t that make you prepared for them?
It’s kind of a question by proxy. I’m less asking for me and more asking for suggestions that might be good to blindside friends with.
For example we’re spending time together and I put it on for something to watch.
Primer
I don’t understand Primer now.
It is executed in a way that is consistent and well done if you know what is going on, but also convoluted and kind of boring if you don’t catch all the details or understand everyone’s motives.
I think it is vastly overrated, but likely because I only watched it once and hated the characters. Like it is fine, just more confusing than mind bending.
It’s pretty straightforward
Yeah I went in having heard quite a lot about it, and I still had to watch several times to piece together what happened.
The Matrix.
The Endless
Two brothers go on a road trip to investigate the UFO cult they spent time in during their childhood. I’ll leave it at that to avoid spoilers
The Matrix
You ever see eXistenZ?
