Movies you just can't forget about.

[lacrosse_lady72]

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.

Thank you! I thought I was the only one who thought that guy was a complete moron. You'd think a college grad would have a little more sense than that. I just can't believe how selfish and dumb he was.

 

[natenapril]

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.

Have you been in the area? Because I live in "the area" and while his own actions caused his demise I sure don't hear "everyone in the area" saying how dumb he was.

 

[HSMndLKfan92]

A Clockwork Orange is the most disturbing movie I've ever seen. It took me weeks to watch it because I kept having nightmares.

 

[iwrbnd]

Alive!

 

[Aristocath]

The Prophecy with Christopher Walken. It was very disturbing to me and I was so mad at my husband for taking me to see it. That was in 1995. I need to go remind him right now about that movie and how mad I still am about that horrible, disturbing movie!

 

[ZuZugal]

Revolutionary Road

Funny Games

Both incredibly disturbing to me.

 

[okeydokey]

I read Into the Wild before seeing the movie. I really enjoyed the book as well, but the story was so tragic. The guy who wrote it (Jon Krakauer.) also wrote Into Thin Air about the group who climbed Mt Everest some years ago and had a bad ending. He was actually on that expedition so it's first person. Both books are very well written.

 

[LuvCuteBoys]

Another vote for Changeling. It disturbed me for a good long time.

The Man in the Moon with Reese Witherspoon and Sam Waterston really got me.

Some others:
Crash
Almost Famous
Finding Neverland
Atonement
Saving Private Ryan


And, more than anything... Star Wars.

 

[richmond282]

I second Revolutionary Road. very disturbing. I'm still sorry I watched it a year after the fact.

 

[luvmy3]

Alive!

Definitely this movie.

Another one for me is The Mothman Prophecies, its supposedly based on a true story. I haven't read the book, so I'm not sure what kind of creative liberty they took with the movie but the whole idea of a group of people seeing this thing before a tragedy freaks me out. Because of that movie I cannot bring myself to look out of my windows when its dark out.

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

Definitely this movie.

Another one for me is The Mothman Prophecies, its supposedly based on a true story. I haven't read the book, so I'm not sure what kind of creative liberty they took with the movie but the whole idea of a group of people seeing this thing before a tragedy freaks me out. Because of that movie I cannot bring myself to look out of my windows when its dark out.

Oh yes! I forgot about that one... so eerie.

 

[shmoogrrrl]

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

Oh man, I still have nightmares about the crime that got him in prison. I can't even think about it without feeling ill.

 

[shmoogrrrl]

*Schindler's List

*Rudy (one of my favorite movies. I cry every time I watch it, and I watch it pretty often)

*The Breakfast Club - That movie just seemed to define my generation.

 

[themilesfamily]

The Pianist.

It was such a chilling depiction of how the world can go from sane and ordered to complete madness in a very short time.

That scene at the end where he looked up from his piano and smiled. It just went into the core of me.

 

[charming23]

Into the Wild
Revolutionary Road
Changling

 

[Planogirl]

I was thinking Schlinder's List too. And The Green Mile.

 

[Poppinsme]

Shawshank Redemption.Brilliant.

 

[Sparx]

the shawshank redemption
the green mile

 

[DVC~OKW~96]

A Beautiful Mind
The Crying Game
Schindler's List
Children of a Lesser G-d
Love is never silent
Sybil
Three Faces of Eve
Amadeus
The Nun's Story
The Exorcist
Philadelphia

 

[Sparx]

Leon the professional is another one on the list.