Top action/mind-bending movies

[Engert]

Let's discuss on why some movies suck such as Apocalypse Now and why others don't such as Inception.
Here's my list:
1. Cypher
2. Payback
3. Death Sentence
4. The Zodiac
5. Snatch
6. The thirteenth floor
7. The Oxford murders
8. Lord of war
9. The Matrix
10. Fight Club
11. Once upon a time in the west
12. Stay
13. 11:14
14. The Game
15. Matchstick Men
16. Unleashed
17. Goemon
18. Event Horizon
19. Daybreakers
20. Echelon Conspiracy
21. Peaceful Warrior
22. Sin City
23. 8MM
24. Running Scared
25. 21
26. The Terminator
27. The usual suspects
28. The insider
29. Gothika
31. Murder by numbers
32. Paycheck
33. The Bourne identity
34. Leon the professional
35. Kick Ass
36. A fistful of dollars
37. Seven
39. Unbreakable
40. LA Confidential
41. Gattaca
42. The alphabet killer
43. Knowing
44. Shutter Island
45. The good the bad and the ugly
46. Inception
47. Heat
48. Max Payne
49. Blade
50. Fallen
51. Transporter
52. Crank
53. Dark City
54. District 9
55. Kung Fu Hustle
56. Shoot ‘em up
57. The jacket
58. The fifth element
59. Crouching tiger hidden dragon
60. The fountain
61. Memento
62. Point Break
63. War Inc
64. The assignment
65. Back to the future
66. The prestige
67. Untraceable
68. Cloverfield
69. Once upon a time in America
71. Silent hill
72. Revolver
73. Planet of the apes
74. The cell
75. The number 23
76. Smoking aces
77. 300
78. Inside man
79. Lucky number slevin
80. Déjà vu
81. Perfume the story of a murderer
82. The Manchurian candidate
83. The butterfly effect
84. Alien collection
85. Tron and Tron Legacy
86. Adaptation
87. Ocean’s Eleven
88. Avatar
89. Solaris
90. Equilibrium
91. Catch me if you can
92. Batman begins
93. The island
94. Cocaine cowboys
95. The chronicle of Riddick
96. Spy Game
97. The machinist
98. Gran Torino
99. Ninja Assassin
100. American History X
101. Being John Malkovich
102. The Devil’s Advocate
103. The dark knight
104. Pitch black
105. Hancock
106. Dark City
107. Gladiator
108. Taken
109. IP Man
110. The ten
111. Identity
112. The nines
113. Pandorum
114. Gamer
115. For a few dollars more
116. The fifth patient
117. Casshern
118. American Psycho
119. Predator
120. Thank you for smoking
121. Shinobi: heart under blade
122. The departed
123. Zodiac
124. Enemy of the state
125. Children of Men
126. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
127. 16 blocks
128. The time machine
129. limiltless
130 Source code

 

[Guild McCommunist]

A lot of those aren't action or "mind bending" movies.

 

[Engert]

It's close enough so it's ok.

 

[retKHAAAN]

Here's a lit of my favorite snack foods. Discuss why some made the list and others didn't...

1. Matchbox cars
2. chess pieces
3. crackers
4. Aquafina
5. diapers
6. staples
7. wireless mouse
8. crackers
9. sea turtles
10. A League of Their Own
11. glass
12. sporting equipment
13. crackers

 

[Hyro-Sama]

This isn't bending my mind at all. It's just giving me a headache.

 

[yusuo]

Your list is bad, and you should feel bad

 

[Guild McCommunist]

It's close enough so it's ok.

There's a lot that isn't really "mind bending", it just explores complex themes. Like District 9 isn't an action movie and it's not mindbending, it's a sci-fi movie that explores concepts of racism essentially. Cloverfield isn't an action movie or mind bending, it's a disaster film (and ironically a disaster of a film). American Psycho is just a psycho movie, not really action or mind bending at all.

It just seems like a kinda random list of movies that can loosely have "action" or "mindbending" tied to them.

 

[Engert]

Yes, it's still ok.
So since you mentioned Cloverfield, i think it was semi-disaster. It was kind of original for its time and not a ripoff like the other movies who followed it.
What do you think about Apocalypse Now? My review of that film basically is that if you are 35 or younger you should not watch it. It may have been great in 1979 but it falls short in 2012.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Yes, it's still ok.
So since you mentioned Cloverfield, i think it was semi-disaster. It was kind of original for its time and not a ripoff like the other movies who followed it.
What do you think about Apocalypse Now? My review of that film basically is that if you are 35 or younger you should not watch it. It may have been great in 1979 but it falls short in 2012.

Well Cloverfield is a disaster movie just in a found footage style. I wouldn't say it's terribly original, it just mashed a style of filming with a genre. I mean it'd be as original as filming a comedy in a film noir style. There have been found footage films before it, I mean it got more mainstream popularity in Blair Witch Project but dates back as far as 1980.

I never actually saw Apocalypse Now but I'll be honest and say I don't really like war dramas. I enjoyed Saving Private Ryan but that's about it.

 

[Engert]

Here's a lit of my favorite snack foods. Discuss why some made the list and others didn't...

1. Matchbox cars
2. chess pieces
3. crackers
4. Aquafina
5. diapers
6. staples
7. wireless mouse
8. crackers
9. sea turtles
10. A League of Their Own
11. glass
12. sporting equipment
13. crackers

Crackers should have been at the top of this list since it's a type of food that can be used in all weather environments and terrains.

 

[Engert]

Your list is bad, and you should feel bad

 

[Engert]

Well Cloverfield is a disaster movie just in a found footage style. I wouldn't say it's terribly original, it just mashed a style of filming with a genre. I mean it'd be as original as filming a comedy in a film noir style. There have been found footage films before it, I mean it got more mainstream popularity in Blair Witch Project but dates back as far as 1980.

I never actually saw Apocalypse Now but I'll be honest and say I don't really like war dramas. I enjoyed Saving Private Ryan but that's about it.

Yeah that was a good movie along the lines of Black Hawk Down but it's interesting how you view District 9. Exploring racism. Although that's true i view the movies in terms of originality not category. Because we can fit pretty much all movies into Racism. Love, War, Alien, Death type of categories.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Yeah that was a good movie along the lines of Black Hawk Down but it's interesting how you view District 9. Exploring racism. Although that's true i view the movies in terms of originality not category. Because we can fit pretty much all movies into Racism. Love, War, Alien, Death type of categories.

I hate to be so abrasive but that's an incredibly simplistic and honestly horrible way to view movies.

There's not many movies that tackle the issue like District 9. It uses sci-fi as a metaphor to reveal something about racism. The aliens look ugly and the audience is supposed to perceive them as ugly to only highlight how we, at one point, viewed other races. That while in the eyes of the aliens, they find themselves to look good, we find them ugly for no reason other than our own construction of what is deemed "beautiful" and "ugly". The transformation of the main character from human to alien helps show just how stark a contrast there is between the races. One day the protagonist is accepted by society, a perfectly happy and successful man. The next day, he's abused and exiled from society, going so far as to mutilate himself because of the change. The protagonist then feels empathy for the aliens which society has segregated as he experiences their struggle. None of this would be possible reasonably without the use of a sci-fi metaphor.

To say it's an average film or something along those lines because it fits into a few categories is just an absolutely awful way to judge film and honestly takes your views as an analyst of film into question.

Also how the fuck can you put Max Payne and Blade above District 9. They're both incredibly generic action flicks. Even by your view of judging films on originality they're terrible. They're flat, plain action movies.

 

[Engert]

Now i understand why you see it that way. Because when the main character turned alien i did not view him as ugly. As a matter of fact i did not view the aliens as ugly at all. His transformation was actually cool. That's how i saw it.
Also the order of things in my list does not mean anything. It's to get people discussing my 'flaws' into my ranking.
Honestly i did not see a topic here that 'reviews' movies that all the members have seen. So i opened this one.
Max Payne and Blade were again cool action flicks for their time.
Here's one movie i saw recently that sucks balls. Act of valor. Not a movie not a documentary, not too sure what to call it. Bad guys always carry aks "good guys" always win. This is what i would expect from a chuck norris movie but not a movie that it tries to take itself too seriously.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Now i understand why you see it that way. Because when the main character turned alien i did not view him as ugly. As a matter of fact i did not view the aliens as ugly at all. His transformation was actually cool. That's how i saw it.
Also the order of things in my list does not mean anything. It's to get people discussing my 'flaws' into my ranking.
Honestly i did not see a topic here that 'reviews' movies that all the members have seen. So i opened this one.
Max Payne and Blade were again cool action flicks for their time.
Here's one movie i saw recently that sucks balls. Act of valor. Not a movie not a documentary, not too sure what to call it. Bad guys always carry aks "good guys" always win. This is what i would expect from a chuck norris movie but not a movie that it tries to take itself too seriously.

By "ugly" I mean "would you bang it?" By and large people would say no on the aliens of District 9 because they were designed that way. Contrast that to Avatar where the aliens are designed to be aesthetically pleasing. Pixar eyes, friendly features, foreign but not too distant.

I'm just kinda flabbergasted that "cool action flicks" would win out over a masterfully crafted film like District 9. They're not even good action flicks honestly, there's nothing really notable about them.

 

[Icealote]

Wow... Goemon. Didn't think that movie fit there (even that high in that list of yours) even though I liked it.

 

[Engert]

Wow... Goemon. Didn't think that movie fit there (even that high in that list of yours) even though I liked it.

So what other movies have you seen lately? How about looper? That was an OK movie. Too long. Too much dialouge and not much action.

By "ugly" I mean "would you bang it?"

lol. You could simply say that we have a different taste in movies instead of justifying.

 

[Icealote]

So what other movies have you seen lately? How about looper? That was an OK movie. Too long. Too much dialouge and not much action.



lol. You could simply say that we have a different taste in movies instead of justifying.

Hmm since I haven't really followed movies lately. I've recently watched the Big Lebowski and the Candidate which I wasn't pleased with. I will watch Looper later this week as well as Dark Knight Rises.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

So what other movies have you seen lately? How about looper? That was an OK movie. Too long. Too much dialouge and not much action.

Looper was hardly a straight up action flick as much as it was a sci-fi movie. It was more a drama than an action flick and I thought it was really good. It explored time travel really well but it made sure to not make it really a monger for loopholes (no pun intended) and it offered some really interesting concepts. Really solid movie.

 

[Gahars]

46. Inception

Yeah bu the science stuff behind is what I found confusing