movies

[LostELeMent]

What are some thought-provoking/sacreligious movies.

dumb and dumber and saving ryans privates

[LostELeMent]

a list of some people have already given me.

donnie darko, stigmata, k pax, bless the child, mission to mars, and spirited away.

[MindFlare]

Stigmata, The Messenger are the only two I can think of that are "sacreligious".

[alphatronics]

thought provoking: wit

sacreligious: not sure what you mean, dogma i guess

[ethEreal]

The Believer

[Cain]

The Last Temptation of Christ (alluded to in Donnie Darko in a rather obvious way) created a storm of controversy at its release. But many of these "anti-religious" movies are really just less-religious movies that only offend fundamentalists.

[Acharne]

the matrix reloaded wasn't worth my six bucks + snack money... i feel so used :*(

[snaggle]

They tried to hard to make a pseudo-religious film with Reloaded, and failed...miserably. Sometimes it's hard to live up to your own hype. What worked so well for the first one was that they didn't try to make a religious reference film...or lock down on one particular theology...they just sort of mixed things up and went with it...leaving it up for interpretation. Reloaded told you what you were supposed to think, and how to think it. That's where they failed.

[fiend]

life of brian

[SithDrummer]

dogma

The End of Evangelion
2001: A Space Oddysee
Akira

These three movies are all about the exact same thing.

[VeeKaChu]

"The Rapture" is both thought provoking and disturbing. Highly reccomended...

[Hica]

Clockwork Orange, American History X, Donny Darko

[NappyK]

American History X was a great movie. I have a somewhat weak stomach so there were some parts that made me cringe, but it was definitely a great movie. Ed Norton is really good in it.

[Hica]

Yeah, that movie made Edward Norton a movie God in my book. I've seen that movie so many times and it doesn't get old. It does make me want to cry at parts though...

[NappyK]

Yeah, it's tough to stomach.

[Fatty]

donnie darko rapes

[LactoseOverdose]

By the end of evangelion do you mean where the last angel dies or the episode afterwards where everyone is in the chair in the dark. Because the chair in the dark episode was lost on me.

Originally posted by LactoseOverdose
By the end of evangelion do you mean where the last angel dies or the episode afterwards where everyone is in the chair in the dark. Because the chair in the dark episode was lost on me.

Neither... End of Evangelion is the movie version of the last two episodes. It's basically a remake that has a different narrative but the same plot overall. It's more about action that introspection (at least at the start) and it's really, really, cool.

[ethEreal]

I didn't like American History X - too much romanticization. The Believer is similar, and a much better movie; writing and acting are far superior.

[DarKCroW]

Originally posted by LostELeMent
a list of some people have already given me.

donnie darko, stigmata, k pax, bless the child, mission to mars, and spirited away.

Ok Donnie Darko, Stigmata, and K-Pax are good. Mission to Mars? WTF THAT MOVIE SUCKED. I haven't seen Bless the Child of Spirited Away.

[Moniker]

The End of Evangelion is incredibly fucked up and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

[Insolence]

American history X, Pi , Requiem for a Dream, and American Psycho

Originally posted by Fixxxer
Clockwork Orange, American History X, Donny Darko

^^^

I enjoyed Contact a lot too but some people hate it.

[Calvin]

run lola run is good

[[SSK]Nemesis]

run lola run
is that the american title of 'lola rennt' ? cuz if it is then yeh, pretty decent movie
K-Pax hurt my brain and i loved it :)

[MindFlare]

Anyone like the movie "Pi" ? I thought it was good.

[Willy Wonka]

Bob Roberts is an interesting movie

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0103850

[Insolence]

Anyone like the movie "Pi" ? I thought it was good. American history X, Pi , Requiem for a Dream, and American Psycho Hate to quote myself but,.....

[Cod]

American History X and Pi

[crz]

Originally posted by [SSK]Nemesis
is that the american title of 'lola rennt' ? cuz if it is then yeh, pretty decent movie
K-Pax hurt my brain and i loved it :)

yes, thats lola rennt.

[Tripwire]

Full Metal Jacket is pretty good.

I saw End of Eva mentioned by someone, that will make you think "wtf was that director doing?"

[adamantium]

Desperation by Stephen King. Yes I am aware he said "movies", but this book made me think about shit more than any other thing I have ever seen/read/heard. Great book, I reccommend it to everyone.

[brett]

The Matrix (original... sequel wasnt very thought provoking),

I beg to differ :P I seem to remember about 5 threads that all went 4+ pages of replies about the Matrix 2..

[Tripwire]

Want thought provoking? See the Lupin III tv series and movies dubbed. Then ask yourself why the fuck can't 3 companies (Pionnier, Funimation and AnimeEgo) share the same damn voice actors?

[LuTze]

wag the dog; was interesting.

I really wouldn't say mission to mars was that thought provoking.

[alphatronics]

Originally posted by Bigrichard
I enjoyed Contact a lot too but some people hate it.

I like it, even though occasionally I get bits of bad acting from it.

Originally posted by Hellz-Angel01
contact was a bit abstract, but aside from that it was pretty good. One of the few movies with aliens that was believable.

Yeah, the way that they made it look like "this is how it would really happen if it happened tomorrow" was neat.