Movies you just can't forget about.

[Silent1CB]

We watched "Into the Wild" last weekend. Based on a true story. The end surprised us. Since then, I just can't get this story out of my head. I've googled more of the real info. I've looked at the area in Google Earth. Looked for real photos. I'm not much of a book reader, but I might just have to read this one.

Any movies like that for you?

 

[Pakey]

Requiem for a Dream

 

[happygirl]

Amish Grace really got me thinking.

 

[PlutoPony]

The Killing Fields

About the NYTimes newsman reporting on the Cambodian Pol Pot regime and their "cleansing campaign". Not exactly entertaining but very very powerful. From 1984 starring Sam Waterson.

 

[dislaney]

Super Size Me

 

[loveysbydesign]

Signs

 

[DisneyFan32WI]

Event Horizon. It was the SCARIEST movie I have ever seen!!!!

 

[CandyMandy]

The Incredibly Strange Creatures That Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies, a.k.a. The Incredibly Mixed-Up Zombie, a.k.a. The Incredibly Strange Creature: Or Why I Stopped Living And Became A Mixed-Up Zombie, a.k.a The Diabolical Dr. Voodoo a.k.a. The Teenage Pyscho Meets Bloody Mary.

Yeah, this is one "I'll never forget about" -- but for the wrong reasons!

I don't care what you think "the worst movie I've ever seen" is, nothing can top this incredibly convoluted attempt at mixing horror, romance and music. The result is a mess with a stench that sticks to you just as deeply as many of the serious dramas mentioned previously in this thread. It was directed by Dennis Steckler, who -- as described by one viewer -- "seemed to keep the plot a secret between himself and the screenwriter, because they didn't reveal any of it in two hours."

 

[wvjules]

Hard Candy - so very, very disturbing!

 

[blanq]

We watched "Into the Wild" last weekend. Based on a true story. The end surprised us. Since then, I just can't get this story out of my head. I've googled more of the real info. I've looked at the area in Google Earth. Looked for real photos. I'm not much of a book reader, but I might just have to read this one.

Any movies like that for you?

Oh, I loved "Into the Wild", and I agree with you. I thought about that movie for a very long time after watching it.

Another movie that stuck with me for some time was "The Road". It was a very powerful movie, IMHO.

 

[paintnolish]

Sybil and Trainspotting- Had to watch both for an ab. psych class
Pay it Forward-I was totally expecting it to be sad. Then, when it was almost over, I thought, "Oh, maybe it isn't sad," then, BAM!
Super Baby Geniuses 2- I wanted to claw my eyes out. There are some kid movies you don't enjoy but can tolerate. This was horrible. I don't even know how to describe it. Shark Boy and Lava Girl are a close 2nd, though.

 

[Kim&Chris]

The Changeling with Angelina Jolie. I could not get that out of my mind for the longest time.

 

[natenapril]

We watched "Into the Wild" last weekend. Based on a true story. The end surprised us. Since then, I just can't get this story out of my head. I've googled more of the real info. I've looked at the area in Google Earth. Looked for real photos. I'm not much of a book reader, but I might just have to read this one.

Any movies like that for you?

My husband has visited the bus where this guy lived. He had to wheel out there but it was an experience.

 

[MiniGirl]

Sophie's Choice.

I still think about that one. Ugh!! How do you choose?

 

[Tx_Belle]

Phantom of the Opera
The Fountain
Neverwas
PS I Love You
Legends of The Fall

 

[Toad_Passenger]

We watched "Into the Wild" last weekend. Based on a true story. The end surprised us. Since then, I just can't get this story out of my head. I've googled more of the real info. I've looked at the area in Google Earth. Looked for real photos. I'm not much of a book reader, but I might just have to read this one.

Any movies like that for you?

Honestly try not to read the book, or read a lot of the articles that this movie was based on. It will ruin the whole "aura" that Sean Penn created in the movie. The truth of the matter is that the kid was plain old dumb, and let his own hubris kill him, in the end. He could never wrap his head around how many really loved him, and, in the end, he let all of them down, only realizing too late that everyone was correct.

If you ever go to visit the area where he lived, most locals will tell you how truly dumb he was.

Anyway...I second the vote for Hard Candy, that was one disturbing film.

 

[Connieh]

In the 70's saw Johnny Got His Gun, was depressed for days thinking about the possiblility of this really happening.

Second movie on the billing was Joe, equally depressing.

 

[elgerber]

American History X. Very powerful film, not sure if I could watch it again or not.

 

[a paper star]

The Children's Hour
Taxi Driver
and anytime I watch a bio-pic where a person lived a difficult life, I end up going online and researching information on them.

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

White Oleander made me want to read the book, so I did. It was actually the very first book I had read that wasn't for school and it worked as a catalyst for me enjoying to read. Thanks Janet Fitch.