Movies that woke you up

[manny]

lets put together a list of movies that hit the mainstream.
that made sense to us.
maybe a bit of truth thown in for good measure.
(i say us as we think out of the box)
but made the general public sit up and say ahhh.
and the movie made some sort of connection.
if the movie mvie did wake you up please explain how and why.

i will start .please add.

the matrix
knowing
vanilla sky
e.t
contact

[modwiz]

Hard Day's Night. Made me buy a guitar and have a very exciting life as a performer/musician while getting in touch with a deeper part of myself.

Involvement with any art is always a movement towards Spirit.

[ulli]

A Hard Day's Night...WOW, that takes me back to 1965...
I nearly lost my ear drums when all those school girls around me started screaming
in a plush velvet cinema at Picadilly Circus...
I guess that set the stage for me, too....
just four years later I got to shake John Lennons hand...determined fan that i was...


then "The Stalker" Russian movie by Andrei Tarkovski
Meetings with Remarkable Men....about the life of G. I. Gurdjieff

"The Fisher King"
"The Fifth Element"

[ghostrider]

the old star trek series, star wars, close encounters of the third kind.

[Lord Sidious]

Dirty Harry.
I know what you are thinking, did I fire 5 shots or 6?
To tell you the truth, in the excitement, I don't know.
So the question you have to ask yourself is, are you feeling lucky today punk?
Well?
Are you?

I would never make a good cop, I despise criminals.

[Bill Ryan]

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Dersu Uzala
Starman
The Gods Must be Crazy
Star Wars
Crimson Tide
Good Will Hunting
The Bourne Identity
Unmistaken Child
Lord of the Rings
Kung Fu Panda
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[modwiz]

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Dersu Uzala
Starman
The Gods Must be Crazy
Star Wars
Crimson Tide
Good Will Hunting
The Bourne Identity
Unmistaken Child
Lord of the Rings
Kung Fu Panda
Avatar



I was originally going to put Lord of the Rings but thought it might be too cute. Thanks Bill.

I also agree with The Gods Must Be Crazy. That one really made you think about what you "need", and how those "needs" can lead to unintended consequences.

[enfoldedblue]

I wasn't woken up by a movie...but the film Waking Life, directed by Richard Linklater, is brilliant and I believe has the potential to awaken.... not quite mainstream though.

Escape to Witch Mountain (Disney) spoke volumes to me as a child.

Jacobs ladder was an eye opener for me...on the black ops side of things.

Altered states with William Hurt was pretty interesting

Bliss (australian version)

I'm sure there are more, but that's all (apart from the ones already listed) that come up for now

[justalight]

Ohh, there are too many. The last movie that really got me thinking quite a lot was "The Adjustment Bureau" - German title "Der Plan " (the plan). The author of the novel on which this movie was based is very good. Written by my most loved Philip K. Dick. His live was really full of mysterious events. There is a lot of information about him. I do not think he went completely mad. There was a time in his life he got to much knowledge.

He also delivered the scripts for Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly and Minority Report.

On February 20, 1974, Dick was recovering from the effects of sodium pentothal administered for the extraction of an impacted wisdom tooth. Answering the door to receive delivery of extra analgesic, he noticed that the delivery woman was wearing a pendant with a symbol that he called the "vesicle pisces." This name seems to have been based on his conflation of two related symbols, the ichthys (two intersecting arcs delineating a fish in profile) that early Christians used as a secret symbol, and the vesica piscis. After the delivery woman's departure, Dick began experiencing strange visions. Although they may have been initially attributable to the medication, after weeks of visions he considered this explanation implausible. "I experienced an invasion of my mind by a transcendentally rational mind, as if I had been insane all my life and suddenly I had become sane," Dick told Charles Platt.[28]

Throughout February and March 1974, he experienced a series of visions, which he referred to as "2-3-74", shorthand for February–March 1974. He described the initial visions as laser beams and geometric patterns, and, occasionally, brief pictures of Jesus and of ancient Rome. As the visions increased in length and frequency, Dick claimed he began to live a double life, one as himself, "Philip K. Dick", and one as "Thomas", a Christian persecuted by Romans in the 1st century A.D. Despite his history of drug use and elevated stroke risk, Dick began seeking other rationalist and religious explanations for these experiences. He referred to the "transcendentally rational mind" as "Zebra", "God" and "VALIS." Dick wrote about the experiences, first in the semi-autobiographical novel Radio Free Albemuth and then in VALIS, The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, i.e., the VALIS trilogy.

At one point Dick felt that he had been taken over by the spirit of the prophet Elijah. He believed that an episode in his novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said was a detailed retelling of a story from the Biblical Book of Acts, which he had never read.

[Chillax]

Hiya,

There are so many, but here are a few that came straight to my head.


The day after tomorrow
V for Vendetta
Simpsons the movie
Sherlock Holmes
Happy Feet
Signs

[InCiDeR]

Solyaris [1972]

IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069293/)

I didn't realize that this movie actually started the awakening process until many years later (I was only 7 when I first saw it). But I believe it put a seed into my mind that grow during the years, and as late as last year the first sprout was ready to look at the sun :)

[Carmody]

Planet of the Apes. Saw it when I was a kid.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull. (the film, not the book. The film was rather good -for what films are)

Saw THX1138 one night on TV when I was about 18, about 2 am. (Drunk and high) Blew my gaskets. To think that George Lucas has failed to make anything as good as that first film, to this day.

[tunguska]

Kpax really gets you thinking
X-files has many great stories around government knowledge of ets

[selinam]

Never let me go
Close encounters...
What the bleep do we know
Avatar
Knowing

[72MAV27]

the count of monte cristo
vanilla sky
the matrix trilogy
lord of the rings trilogy
dragon ball Z (the cartoon series)
the time machine

there are so many. gotta love movies!!!

[LM-R]

There are a few movies that always sort of resonated with me.

*Doctor Zhivago, First movie i remember watching and as a toddler i remember being transfixed to the music my parents couldnt get me or my sister away from watching it..

* Indiana Jones and the last crusade - Really stuck with me.

* Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cartoon series, Yeah ok its not a movie but these guys played a big roll in my childhood- i even taped over the only copy of my Christening cassette when i was about 5 yrs old, Other dimensions, mutants,friendly and bad aliens,ufo's, a token news reporter and a guy called "Shredder" with a metal mask whats not to like? :)

*Aliens Series, With Sigorney Weaver.

*Predator 1 Arnie and The toughest Aliens just full of WIN

*Batman- Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson one

*Superman- George Reeves

*Contact- Jodie Foster
As mentioned

* Kpax

* The Matrix

*One flew over the Cuckoos nest

Many more i may add later :)

[TheTwo]

Movies that started my waking process:

Groundhog Day (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048/)
Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165832/)
Peaceful Warrior (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438315/)
They Live (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/)

[Ivanhoe]

2001 A Space Odyssey
The Manchurian Candidate
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Pork Chop Hill,... really woke me up to the political aspects of waging war. I was still a child and suddenly realized how manipulative and callous governments could be, crushing my belief of waging war for the "right" reasons. I was 12 or so when it came out.
Oh, and,...
THX1138

[slipknotted]

the matrix, the fifth element, constantine, starwars, contact, the forth kind, ET, close encounters,

[slipknotted]

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Dersu Uzala
Starman
The Gods Must be Crazy
Star Wars
Crimson Tide
Good Will Hunting
The Bourne Identity
Unmistaken Child
Lord of the Rings
Kung Fu Panda
Avatar



kung fu panda ? just joking

[Huma]

Ghost in the Shell (Japanese animation)
PatLabor 2: The Movie (Japanese animation)
Contact
Jacob's Ladder
X-Files (Technically a show, but I digress)
Millennium (another show, but a hugely important show)

[pickle]

"What Dreams May Come"
Changed the way I thought about life, love & commitment, people, 'why', the soul, and the importance of busting a gut to do the right thing - which one day, I might get the hang of ;-)

Wiki snippet for ya....

.......What Dreams May Come is a 1998 film about a man who dies and finds himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of, but without his wife, who killed herself after he died. He decides to risk eternity in hell for the small chance that he will be able to bring her back to heaven...........supernatural drama film, starring Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Annabella Sciorra.



So many great films here peeps, and agree that One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest was special too.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull (the film) was mentioned earlier... the book has been constant motivation to me for the last 30-odd years.

[TimelessDimensions]

Movies that keep waking me up and are worth watching again and again:

apocalypto (2006)
contact (1997)
fight club (1999)
groundhog day (1993)
in the mouth of madness (1995)
inception (2010)
nemesis game (2003)
peaceful warrior (2006)
perfume: the story of a murderer (2006)
powder (1995)
princess mononoke (1997)
revolver (2005)
star wars trilogy (1979-)
the lord of the rings trilogy (2001-)
the matrix trilogy (1999-)
they live (1988)
thirteenth floor (1999)
v for vendetta (2005)
vanilla sky (2001)
waking life (2001)


- Enjoy the popcorn :)

[jorr lundstrom]

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Dersu Uzala
Starman
The Gods Must be Crazy
Star Wars
Crimson Tide
Good Will Hunting
The Bourne Identity
Unmistaken Child
Lord of the Rings
Kung Fu Panda
Avatar



Ah Dersu Uzala. Delicasy of delicacies. Ive got it on CD.

I can see once every month.:bounce:

[Aniusia]

Definitely
the Contact
Avatar and
The Green Beautiful http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5CmMm_SRpM

[ViralSpiral]

Thank you for The Green Beautiful link. I watched this some time back, and will gladly "revisit"! :)

In the movie Howards End, an English period drama, I was for the frst time, acutely aware of actions/consequences and karma.

[Icecold]

Gurdjieff - Meetings With Remarkable Men


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3813872527827778135#

[W.C.]

Conan the Barbarian
Star Wars
The Running Man
The Holcroft Covenant
James Bond
Young Guns
Cobra
American Psycho
Escape from New York
Indiana Jones
Robin Hood, Prince of Theives
The Princess Bride
Rocky
Black Rain

So many to list, so many different pieces leading to waking in various ways. I find that my mind locates pieces of the puzzle all over the place, no matter how unrelated they may seem, and then I get that 'click' moment.

Of memory, all these films had led to numerous 'click' moments for me, to awakenings on several fronts.

[Davidallany]

They live and the first Matrix.

[Borden]

It's great seeing some of the films on my list mentioned here, good thread.

here are some of mine:

Jacob's Ladder
The Ninth Configuration
I love Huckabees
Fight Club
The Matrix (ONLY the first one!)
The Prestige
Contact
Vanilla Sky
Unbreakable
Moon
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
V for Vendetta
Blade Runner
Pan's Labyrinth
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Squid and the Whale
Shutter Island
Lost in Translation

Yesterday I bought 'The Wrestler' (Mickey Rourke, directed by Darren Aronofsky), and I watched it last night and absolutely loved it. Understated and almost in a documentary style. The central character is so sympathetic and real it's painful. Very moving and touching, but no punch is telegraphed. It's subtle, I thought. I recommend it highly.

Borden.

[mountain_jim]

At the age of 14/15, I walked several miles alone to the Cinerama theater to see 2001 in its super-wide curved screen, 3 projector, initial run.

At it's conclusion, as I left the theater and went outside for my long walk home, I realized I and the world appeared very different to me than the world I left from the pre-movie experience.

I came to realize later that this was my first major 'altered state' of consciousness, triggered by Kubrick's vision and the Cinerama theater experience and being a kid alone for it all.

Also as a child, Atlantis, The Lost Continent, The Last Days of Pompei, and The Time Machine really affected me.

Later, Close Encounters, Contact, and all movies made from Philip K. Dick stories. I only wish the fav sci-fi author from my youth, Robert Heinlein, had had movies made from his books which were anywhere near as good. Still waiting for Stranger in a Strange Land and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress to be made into movies.

Most recently, Avatar in 3D.

[Siegfried The 7]

They Live
The Matrix Movies
Star Wars(recently the newer movies are VERY heavy spiritually-to me)

[Mike]

shawshank redemption.

also, a little movie called 'sideways' inspired me for reasons i can't quite define, as it is in no way overtly inspirational.

mostly everything by David Lynch, with the exception of 'dune'.

[Mister_m]

Baraka,
The Man from Earth,
The Matrix,
They Live,
Contact

To name a few. Highly reccomend the first two.

[3optic]

Dr. Strangelove

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4VlruVG81w

Brazil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcKlDMYnmug

The Killing Fields

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z1sj7gzpCk

[Limor Wolf]

I like the green beautiful Aniusia,thanks for that!

one of the best movies i have seen that has a remarkable impact on everyone who watches it in the way to waking-up,is 'Waltz with Bashir' (i am afraid not in good quality here)

It leaves the average viewer with a distinctive feeling that 'War is not worth it!' however Brainwashed the viewer was when he first started to watch. It breaks all those hidden emotions and walls that were built over the years by the governments and mainstream media.

animated but demonstrating the truth in real accuracy!
close to be a masterpiece if you ask me

The trailer:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLkwfsFzrJw&NR=1

Another trailer:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylzO9vbEpPg

The full movie (9 parts)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeHOH6PSbfM&feature=related

[Eusynnarg]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Blade Runner
The Day After
Threads
Ememy Mine
The Bourne Identity
Apocalypto

[MariaDine]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJQku8arbCI

«Hapiness must be earned» .
An ancient tale of the Jinn. Magic and the Impossible.

Namasté

Ps - An this scene...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8I9-VLrlUk

[manny]

thanks all for your responses.
there a few movies i need to catch up on.

makes me wonder if the directors or writers ,are awake and trying to put their message across via movies and books.
or if many of them have inside information.to put out to the public.
such as gene rodennberry,arthur c clark,philip k dick

[InCiDeR]

Then we have some very interesting TV-series that are broadcasting as we speak:

Fringe
The Event
V [2009]

They all keep me awake...

[BowMan]

Withnail and I.

[Raven]

I really liked Meetings With Remarkable Men and another remarkable man - Carl Jung - Matter of Heart is great too - you can also watch it online here:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3225765193573569458# (I don't know how to put it here as a video like you did above :-)

[Lefty Dave]

Greetings

The Time Machine
Starman
The Naked Truth
Zeitgeist
3 Days of the Condor
Bourne movies
and just recently http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZAaPbUeAQg&feature=related this David Icke presentation The Lion Sleeps No More
A Fistful of Dollars
The Prophet (Steve McQueen movie banned right after release)
Stargate series
Loose Change 9/11

blessings

[dan33]

2001: A Space Odyssey

Cypher http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284978/
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3 Days of the Condor http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073802/
mhum#p/a/u/2/bc2-fNj4t1M

Los Amantes del Círculo Polar http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133363/

The Dicreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068361/

El Angel Exterminador http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068361/

The searchers http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049730/

Two for the road http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062407/
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Thanks for the thread, manny

Saludos, Daniel;)

[Icecold]

Here you go Raven....

Carl Jung - Matter of Heart


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3225765193573569458#

[dan33]

[QUOTE=Huma;182910][LIST]
Ghost in the Shell (Japanese animation)

Wonderful!
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[dan33]

Ghost in the Shell (Japanese animation)
PatLabor 2: The Movie (Japanese animation)
Contact
Jacob's Ladder
X-Files (Technically a show, but I digress)
Millennium (another show, but a hugely important show)



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[dan33]

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Dersu Uzala
Starman
The Gods Must be Crazy
Star Wars
Crimson Tide
Good Will Hunting
The Bourne Identity
Unmistaken Child
Lord of the Rings
Kung Fu Panda
Avatar




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[dan33]

QUOTE by enfoldedblue
[/QUOTE]Altered states with William Hurt was pretty interesting
I'm sure there are more, but that's all (apart from the ones already listed) that come up for now[/QUOTE]

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[dan33]

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Dersu Uzala
Starman
The Gods Must be Crazy
Star Wars
Crimson Tide
Good Will Hunting
The Bourne Identity
Unmistaken Child
Lord of the Rings
Kung Fu Panda
Avatar



kung fu panda ? just joking

Mr. Bill Ryan has a lot of sense of humor, but i think he's been honest about that movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0441773/
;)

As Paul Weller said ..."That's Entertainment"

[dan33]

Wouldn't be wonderful, being hypnotized, and delet from your memories your favorite movie? See for the first time the movie,...again?

[manny]

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Dersu Uzala
Starman
The Gods Must be Crazy
Star Wars
Crimson Tide
Good Will Hunting
The Bourne Identity
Unmistaken Child
Lord of the Rings
Kung Fu Panda
Avatar




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thank you.
this scene was emotional for me..

[FearNot]

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[13th Warrior]

"Loose Change" - woke me up

Those that have had marked influence:

Fight Club
Trainspotting
Mongul
HellBoy
Full Metal Jacket
King Corn
The Hunted
The Last Mimzy
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V for Vendetta

[Dionysus]

In general, books have done it for me far more than movies. Still, the two movies that most 'woke me up' as an adult were
Dune (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087182/) (1984, David Lynch dir.)
Altered States (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080360/)

Growing up, we watched, as a family, Chariots of the Gods (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065702/), and its sequels, which obviously had a large effect on me.

Another movie that had an effect at the time was a little known film with Klaus Kinski called Android (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083557/).

There are many movies that move me, and/or which I find have a deep meaning for me, but most of these are because I had already 'woken up,' at least a little, to appreciate them by the time I saw them or they were released. So, IMO, those don't really count here.

[dan33]

[QUOTE=Dionysus;184173]In general, books have done it for me far more than movies. Still, the two movies that most 'woke me up' as an adult were
Dune (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087182/) (1984, David Lynch dir.)
Altered States (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080360/)


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[Shakespeare's Foot.]

Missing (1982) - When an idealistic writer disappears during the Right Wing military coup in 1973 Chile, his wife and American businessman father try to find him.

Breaker Morant (1980) Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.

What the Bleep Do We Know? (2004)

The Corporation (2003) Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance.

Missing is a truly brilliant film. I doubt it would get made now. Also...

Network.
Salvador.
Bonnie and Clyde.
Angel Heart (i was 15, it knocked me sideways)
La Dolce Vita.
A Bout de Souffle.
Apocalypse Now (until Brando turns up).
Taxi Driver.
The Elephant Man.
Magnolia.
Dog Day Afternoon.
Jaws (cos there really are big sharks in the water, i don't care what anybody says).

Predominantly seventies, i suppose. Films rocked then.

PS and whoever liked What Dreams May Come...i like that, too. A kinda guilty secret film.

[LM-R]

Oh i forgot to add on my list, the original King Kong(black/white)
As a toddler i used to be scared of him and then when they would hurt him i couldn't stop balling my eyes out for him.

Movies are awesome they create such a vast range of emotions.

[Asante Sana]

To name a few:

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Starman
Altered States
Terminator
Field of Dreams
Pleasantville
Meet Joe Black
American Beauty
The Truman Show
Life as a House
Avatar

[Asante Sana]

Also:

ET
Groundhog Day
Matrix
KPax
Contact
Sicko
Capitalism: A Love Story
I Heart Hugabees
Door in the Floor

[dan33]

More:

DONNIE DARKO

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http://www.mjyoung.net/time/darko.html
http://www.closertogod.net/main/thoughts/worlddetail/darko.htm


THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN

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http://www.imdb.com/find?s=tt&q=the+andromeda+strain


TAXI DRIVER

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LILITH

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058294/

CONTACT

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THE INSIDER

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[dan33]

THE ABYSS
http://www.youtube.com/user/DA3N33?feature=mhum#p/u/53/2OxstD2jN08

[Virilis]

Movies that keep waking me up and are worth watching again and again:

waking life (2001)

- Enjoy the popcorn :)

Richard Linklater's 'Waking Life' was something really special. Thanks for posting all those other movie titles as well Timeless Dimensions :)

Here are 2 of my favourite scenes from Waking Life :)

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[dan33]

THE X FILES
HOME The X Files 4th season, episode 2. Terrific!

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THE MATRIX 2

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JFK
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TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A.
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[Evelon]

Many movies, episodes of series on the tele, have inspired me, but nothing compared to the movie... V for Vendetta! A remarkable union of poetry and sacrifice in the name of freedom, that we all seek. If anyone didn't see the movie, I strongly recommend it!

Others in list -
X-files
Stargate
Mars...
and so on...

[Gaia]

Here are 4 of my favourites:

Blade Runner Ridley Scott (1982) version director’s cut and final cut.

Brazil Terry Gilliam (1984)

http://img.over-blog.com/520x280/2/64/01/55/Cin-ma/brazil07.jpg

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Michel Gondry (2004)

Sunshine Danny Boyle (2007)

http://img.over-blog.com/520x223/2/64/01/55/Cin-ma/sunshine-Danny-Boyle-3.jpg

[Hawkwind]

First, Manny, thank you for starting this thread. It's very useful. The only movie that comes to mind which I didn't see listed thus far is a short claymation clip called "Closed Mondays".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_VTdhgrpFU
I must admit that this probably made more of an impression on me than it otherwise might have because I was in a chemically altered state at the time. Then again, that's pretty much the point of the film.

In terms of waking up to how the world really works, that has come almost exclusively through books for me. Perhaps we should start another thread for that list as well.

[Loren]

My favs. Harold and Maude/Empire of the Sun/Master & Commander/Beowolf with Gerard Butler/Stop Loss/DarkMan/Taken/Enemy Mine/ With surround sound these movies are amazing !L

[FearNot]

............................

[aroundthetable]

Def Jaws, it not only woke me up, it kept me awake for weeks!

[ulli]

Soylent Green (Overpoplulation)
Rollerball (Corporation rule)

and more recently; Being John Malkovich...

for weirdest story

[Nyce555]

Two of my favorite movies are Signs and The Fifth Element, but also Stargate, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Abyss, Avatar, Manchurian Candidate... man there are so many more

[Bob_2011]

On The Waterfront.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0waNRaz6wU

Its a Wondefull Life.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4ne13Zft9Q&feature=related

DUNE.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oclaGpDzrto

[Nyce555]

Just thought of another- Mission to Mars with Don Cheadle.

[dan33]

Def Jaws, it not only woke me up, it kept me awake for weeks!

HAAAA!!!! Brilliant!

Thanks, Daniel

[dan33]

Missing (1982) - When an idealistic writer disappears during the Right Wing military coup in 1973 Chile, his wife and American businessman father try to find him.

Breaker Morant (1980) Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.

What the Bleep Do We Know? (2004)

The Corporation (2003) Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance.

Missing is a truly brilliant film. I doubt it would get made now. Also...

Network.
Salvador.
Bonnie and Clyde.
Angel Heart (i was 15, it knocked me sideways)
La Dolce Vita.
A Bout de Souffle.
Apocalypse Now (until Brando turns up).
Taxi Driver.
The Elephant Man.
Magnolia.
Dog Day Afternoon.
Jaws (cos there really are big sharks in the water, i don't care what anybody says).

Predominantly seventies, i suppose. Films rocked then.

PS and whoever liked What Dreams May Come...i like that, too. A kinda guilty secret film.

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[Elly]

- The Mission: About the place of religion within the context of power and greed.
- Born on the Fourth of July: About the reality of war and its cost.
- JFK: About the manipulation of government and influence of media.
- The Matrix: About the idea of an underlying reality.
- Minority Report: About the entrapment of individuals in a possible future.
- The Fountain: About personal challenges and attainment.

[Forevernyt]

Well, you all have almost mentioned every single movie I was going to. I was really looking forward to slapping down The Fountain as well, and sure enough, it's right there above mine. :)

When I was younger:

Close Encounters.
Alien
The Adventures Of Buckaroo Bonzai
A Clockwork Orange
The Thing - Kurt Russell version
Amityville Horror

As an adult:
The Fountain
What Dreams May Come (brings me to tears every time and I'm not a crier)
The Matrix
Conspiracy Theory

TV:
X-files
Fringe

I'm sure there are many more, I just can't think of them all right now.

¤=[Post Update]=¤

Also, just to add to the comment about The Fountain, I also saw the movie as an exploration into life and death and the power of Love.

The soundtrack is extraordinary and I know the first time I heard the music, after seeing the movie, it also brought me to tears.

I must be getting soft in my old age.

[pyrangello]

1) Contact
2) The day the earth stood still
3) Matrix
4) Jumpers
5) The Forth Kind( Make sure you have some toilet paper and it's not for crying)
6) DE JU VU
7 Family Man
8) City of angels
9) Michael
10) The Notebook
11) Arsenac and Old Lace ------ Charrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggeeeee!

From thinking outside of the box and letting go to coming back to earth and who we are, movies do have an impact on us as it is another art form of who we are as the ambassadors of this planet and this lifetime.

[Elly]

Also, just to add to the comment about The Fountain, I also saw the movie as an exploration into life and death and the power of Love.

The soundtrack is extraordinary and I know the first time I heard the music, after seeing the movie, it also brought me to tears.

I must be getting soft in my old age.

... the power of Love. Absolutely! That is what profoundly touched me in this movie.

I also agree that the soundtrack is amazing. It's hypnotic, mystical, transporting us into an emotional journey.

[strevane]

All of my many 'wake-up' movies have been mentioned except:

Forbidden Planet
Made in Heaven
Defending Your Life

(at least I don't think these have been mentioned).
What a great thread! :popcorn:

[seantimberwolf]

For me its:
They live (which is exactly what we are living)
V the series both 80's and the new one
Dark City
Fight Club

Im surprised no one mentioned these films above to be honest.

[Carmody]

How to Get Ahead In Advertising. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Get_Ahead_in_Advertising) (It didn't wake me up, but drives the point home rather well.)

The continuously running monologue of the main character? "Off the scale" good.



I don't believe anyone has mentioned 'Dark City'. One of the greatest 'wake up' films of all time.

The parallels to our experience here, are unmistakable. Some of the aspects are on the sinister side, but that only makes this particular ride more fun.

I won't ruin it for you. Just see it.

Buy a seatbelt for your chair, first. unplug the phone, draw the curtains.... and strap in.

smoke 'em if you got 'em...cuz here it comes....

When you see the city, under 'motion', understand that what is seen of human consensus reality in the flow of dimensions and timelines...it does not look that much different.

"Inception", for example, combines esoteric lore and modern storytelling into a woven story, which is why it resonates so well with so many people. It speaks to what is known truths, deep inside of us.

"Dark City" is the same, regarding that inner voice. Like 'Inception', it is a gem, a masterpiece, but with a different tact, or direction. Dark. You will like it regardless, for reasons that will not be clear, until you see it.

i still have the habit at odd times...of speaking and sounding like 'Mr Hand'. (Richard O'Brien)

[Dawn]

Yes to many on this list. What a GREAT thread! I can't wait to spend some evenings lost in films I haven't seen yet. Here are some additional ones:

Limitless..........recent film. Terrific in every way, except for the ubiquitous 'pill' that is need to awaken us. Otherwise wonderful heart expanding, resonates our deep desire to awaken.

Eragon........... Wow! The rush I get when he rides the dragon and sees through his eyes! We must have this capacity latent within us or the deep resonance wouldn't be there!

The Biggest Game in Town...... GREAT film.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6703413885850200097

[onawah]

Until the End of the World and Lulu on the Bridge are two good ones (sci-fi, fantasy) that might have eluded your movie radar.
Other favs are Rabbit Proof Fence and Winged Migration
Brad Pitt was brilliant in 12 Monkeys

[ozlemer]

Being There : Peter Sellers

[strevane]

Being There : Peter Sellers

Yes! Thank you! I had forgotten that one, but it is awesome.

[Curt]

Great thread idea. Lots of them have been mentioned.

Star Wars
9th Gate
They Live
The Matrix
Eyes Wide Shut
Twilight Zone (Original Series)
Fight Club (in a strange way)
Chinatown (without even realizing it, it woke me up)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aifeXlnoqY

[Taurean]

Erm....... Quatermass

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermass_(TV_serial)

[Eric]

I was two years old watching the movie "She", the bit where they throw the slaves down the black hole.
" The Time Machine" scared the bejesus out of me aged five ( was fine till the moorlocks).
"The day the earth stood still"
"Logans run"
"Predator"
and of course "The Matrix".

[Little Ishta]

I remembered one movie that really got me thinking.... except I can not remember the name of it. It was back in the early 70's I believe. It was about children, they always shuffled their feet. They never walked like ordinary children. They never ran. But I remember them flying though. The movie really made an impact on me. Just wish I could remember the name of it.

[Carmody]

I remembered one movie that really got me thinking.... except I can not remember the name of it. It was back in the early 70's I believe. It was about children, they always shuffled their feet. They never walked like ordinary children. They never ran. But I remember them flying though. The movie really made an impact on me. Just wish I could remember the name of it.

The People is a 1972 television film, broadcast as an ABC Movie of the Week on January 22, 1972. It is mostly based on a novella by Zenna Henderson, "Pottage", but also contains elements from her stories "Ararat", "Gilead", and "Captivity".


This science fiction film tells the story of Melodye Amerson (Kim Darby), a young teacher who goes to a remote area to work with a group of individuals who have isolated themselves from civilization and maintained an independent community, vaguely similar to the Amish or a religious commune. Melodye is unnerved by the secretive behavior of her students, and the fact that all fun, games and activities she proposes are forbidden to them. Valancy (Diane Varsi), an elder in the community, advises Melodye to stay, because she senses that things are about to change in the valley, and Melodye herself is a part of that change.

Melodye soon discovers that the secluded and "backwards" residents are actually aliens with mild paranormal powers. A natural disaster destroyed their planet, and they are hoping to establish a life on Earth. Landing in the late 1800s, initially they shared their secret with local residents, but found themselves condemned as witches. Many were killed, and the survivors forbade their children ever to use their abilities, even with extreme discretion. Young adults like Valancy (and even some of the older people) have been pushing for an end to these restrictions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People_%281972_film%29

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069072/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm1WfHlTc3A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1JLeB99FlI

[Little Ishta]

I remembered one movie that really got me thinking.... except I can not remember the name of it. It was back in the early 70's I believe. It was about children, they always shuffled their feet. They never walked like ordinary children. They never ran. But I remember them flying though. The movie really made an impact on me. Just wish I could remember the name of it.

The People is a 1972 television film, broadcast as an ABC Movie of the Week on January 22, 1972. It is mostly based on a novella by Zenna Henderson, "Pottage", but also contains elements from her stories "Ararat", "Gilead", and "Captivity".


This science fiction film tells the story of Melodye Amerson (Kim Darby), a young teacher who goes to a remote area to work with a group of individuals who have isolated themselves from civilization and maintained an independent community, vaguely similar to the Amish or a religious commune. Melodye is unnerved by the secretive behavior of her students, and the fact that all fun, games and activities she proposes are forbidden to them. Valancy (Diane Varsi), an elder in the community, advises Melodye to stay, because she senses that things are about to change in the valley, and Melodye herself is a part of that change.

Melodye soon discovers that the secluded and "backwards" residents are actually aliens with mild paranormal powers. A natural disaster destroyed their planet, and they are hoping to establish a life on Earth. Landing in the late 1800s, initially they shared their secret with local residents, but found themselves condemned as witches. Many were killed, and the survivors forbade their children ever to use their abilities, even with extreme discretion. Young adults like Valancy (and even some of the older people) have been pushing for an end to these restrictions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People_%281972_film%29

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069072/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm1WfHlTc3A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1JLeB99FlI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXZgJFCu7_k

God love you Carmody!!!! Thank you thank you!:hail::hail:
I was only 11yrs old when I saw that movie and to think I still recall it. That is how much of an impact it made on me.

[ulli]

Depends which wake-up we are talking about.
There have been many.
But the one that alerted me to secret societies and their mind control games
was Eyes Wide Shut by Stanley Kubrick.

[Carmody]

God love you Carmody!!!! Thank you thank you!

Oh, I just know my way around a search engine, so I found it fairly quick. :) i removed one of the links, the last one, as the account is terminated.

[Adem]

The Fountain

[Carmody]

Depends which wake-up we are talking about.
There have been many.
But the one that alerted me to secret societies and their mind control games
was Eyes Wide Shut by Stanley Kubrick.

For me, it was not a movie. It was a book. It was given to me by my soon to be Brother in Law. I was 18. I'd already has some very WEIRD experiences, like two total and complete prior life recalls*....but in the 'real world', it was a book.

It was this:

http://www.softwareartist.com/PHILEXP/PHLEXP_F.JPG

when I was 21, I was taking a college level 3 year technical degree. One of the courses was on public speaking, ie presentations. My 1/2 hour long presentation was on this exact subject. The Philadelphia experiment. I had bought about 5 copies of the book and other materials photocopied, etc..and had those moving around the room as I spoke on the subject.

Within I few months after that, I came into direct contact with the guy who was to keep tabs on me for the PTB. The year was 1986. I still know him to this day. I've met his wife and his kids, etc.

He's just a guy, like everyone else stuck in this machine. No matter the level, it's all the same. Very few people really know what is going on. All they know is what they are allowed to imagine exists. I've only seen him scared once, and I can't tell you why. I don't have that right. He did not tell me anything. I just figured it out on my own.

Until you get to the strange stuff, the top levels.... when the people need some form of control, a difference, that they can live as their part of the dream....to be run by and through. Their isolation is required, otherwise they'd intermix and the thing would come down. The separation is part of the package of the having of a control system. I will say this, though. In all of them that I have encountered, there is a very strong aspect of animalized sexuality that is overt enough to be part of their ability to be controlled -- and have low empathy toward others. Which is why I have little doubt about the reports concerning the prior head of the IMF.

At That level, where you pass into and through the membrane of so called 'normalcy', into the strange stuff....then you are among the control group. Only then do you stand a chance of meeting the real control structure.


* Besides my 46 years, there is the formative aspects (Because I received and relived them them as a child) of the (now) barely remembered lives of an 85 year old Louisiana French Civil War veteran...and a 40 year old hominid alien slave (on an alien planet).

Sorry folks, I did not speak about a movie, but you might find the above just as interesting, if not more informative.

For example, all I did way back when, before we had computers and cell phones..all of that stuff....all I did was speak on the Philadelphia experiment. and ...Boom! Just like that....I was under surveillance. 1986. Specifically, I spoke at a school, to my classmates. Now, do you think that the system of academia and science is infused with secret societies? That science and physics is deeply and powerfully controlled, via a well placed and hidden hand? I'd say yes.

I hope this helps you understand how extreme it has become in these modern days.

[noxon medem]

the movie "Brazil" frm Terry Gilliam
was one of many eyeopeners .


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/

http://stagevu.com/video/rfzbkeohhzjg
Brazil (1985)
....

for me
it was

...

:fish2:

nm

[WhiteFeather]

It wasnt a movie that did it for me. It was the clock believe it or not. 11:11,,, Kept seeing it all the time, drawn to it somehow without focusing on the clock at all. Did some research on the internet, took me on a journey, down rabbit holes. Ended Up Here.

[Seeker]

i don't know if anyone has said this yet but "They Live" by John Carpenter is a classic. I can't believe he was allowed to make that movie. It shows, depending on what you believe, literally or metaphorically, how we are controlled.

[Tane Mahuta]

lets put together a list of movies that hit the mainstream.
that made sense to us.
maybe a bit of truth thown in for good measure.
(i say us as we think out of the box)
but made the general public sit up and say ahhh.
and the movie made some sort of connection.
if the movie mvie did wake you up please explain how and why.



http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/1787/avatarwgo.jpg


Avatar! The movie has a lot of connections to my life and experiences


TM

[Carmen]

As It Is In Heaven

Kingdom of Heaven

Lord of the Rings

Avatar

What the Bleep

[Forevernyt]

Here's an oldie but a goodie. If you've seen it, then it has left a mark on you.

The Bermuda Depths.

Remember? Jenny with the green eyes? The giant turtle with the initials carved in its shell? If you've seen it, you know it.

The Exorcist is another one.

Fire In The Sky

I agree with Dark City. I've owned it for a long time.

Non movie for me would be a book of collected stories from H.P. Lovecraft.

[Camilo]

.Star Seed
.Dancing with Wolves
.What the Bleep do we know?
.The Matrix
.Avatar

[Forevernyt]

Phantasm.

On the surface it's just another horror movie, until you realize that they are stealing our dead and sending them through a portal to be used as a slave labor force.. :P

[atlantianferret]

When I was a child it was The Secret of NHIM

[Blacklight43]

Way back in 1987 it was Shirley McLain's mini-series "Out on a Limb".
It's been a non-stop discovery in all directions since.

[Carmen]

We didn't have the mini-series, I read her books. An incredible leap in understanding, and as you state also, non-stop discovery ever since.

Saw Avatar in a virtually empty theatre on New Years Eve, early session, two years ago. Absolutely magic. Was mesmerized by the whole movie.

[Muzz]

Revolver


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWj7oWlVtag&feature=related

[JoshuaM]

Saving Private Ryan --> allowed me the opportunity to see war from a different aspect, one without glory.
Earthlings---> thats self explanatory. If you haven't seen this, I would recommend it, not because I enjoyed it but for the reason of truth.
It's a free movie too, http://www.earthlings.com/

[ViralSpiral]

Way back in 1987 it was Shirley McLain's mini-series "Out on a Limb".



I loved this movie! Thanks for the reminder

One of the suggestions in this thread: Unmistaken Child. I have now watched it. Twice!



Here, a link (http://www.youtube.com/user/wooferblogger1#p/c/B3B32B6472095B5D/0/XYTxoty8OcE)

I also recently re-watched The Rocky Horror Picture Show. With fresher eyes. I laughed out loud, often.

In "those days" I merrily sang and danced to the light over at Frankenstein's place, thinking this was really weird sci-fi http://www.unity.i8i.co.uk/forum/images/smiley_wink.gif

[Russ1959]

I agree with many of the above especially The Matrix but how about Totall Recall, Blade Runner, Space Odyssey, Labrynth, King Arthur,Avalon, Back To The Future,The Time Machine and even fantastic childrens movies such as the Never Ending Story?
Great post Manny!

[Star1111]

lets put together a list of movies that hit the mainstream.
that made sense to us.
maybe a bit of truth thown in for good measure.
(i say us as we think out of the box)
but made the general public sit up and say ahhh.
and the movie made some sort of connection.
if the movie mvie did wake you up please explain how and why.

i will start .please add.

the matrix
knowing
vanilla sky
e.t
contact

For me its :
Shawshank redemption
The green mile
The Hours
Finding Nemo
The Godfather (1 & II)
The Bucket List
Stargate
I walk the line

and so many more that won't come through until someone mentions it then it goes to the top of my list.............

[DoubleHelix]

This movie sure woke me up


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93RvM7NnpJU

[onawah]

Clockwork Orange certainly deserves a mention, particularly in view of the current situation in England. So very prophetic! Kubrick was a genius, as much as Arthur C. Clarke, whose 2001 Space Odyssey has awakened generations of people.

[YoungSoul]

Waking Life
A Scanner Darkly
Fight Club
Matrix
Farenheit Movies

I am sure that there was more movies but these are the ones I mainly think about when I started questioning my reality.

[YoungSoul]

lets put together a list of movies that hit the mainstream.
that made sense to us.
maybe a bit of truth thown in for good measure.
(i say us as we think out of the box)
but made the general public sit up and say ahhh.
and the movie made some sort of connection.
if the movie mvie did wake you up please explain how and why.



http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/1787/avatarwgo.jpg


Avatar! The movie has a lot of connections to my life and experiences


TM

Im Looking forward to the second and third part of the trilogy.

[starsha]

Escape to Witch Mountain (when i was 6)
E.T (when i was 8) :cool:
Star Trek
Star Wars
Contact
the last Mimzy
Avatar
The green Lantern
Superman
Smallville

when i was six i watched escape to witch mountain over and over, it was the only thing that made earth feel bearable for me at that time. The hope that i would find others like me and find my way back home. it didn't occur to me at the time as an awakening, i just thought that was the normal for me. I am watching smallville series with my son right now, and watching him go through the same thing, i see how much it inspires him (and me too) to expand, imagine and think outside the box.

Thanks for this awesome thread!

[learninglight]

These films had a big impact on my outlook, i could name more but would be here for hours :)

Soldier Blue : Us goverments slaughter of the Cheyenne
http://youtu.be/S8XNoIAjxuk

Capricorn One : Was moon mission fake
http://youtu.be/RhLHAKoK35w

Flight of the Navigator : A young boys 'contact'
http://youtu.be/8LlcqO3mq9Q

Willow : Farmer/magician on mission to save baby from ritual death
http://youtu.be/rmtolG6O8ik

and more recent

The box : A simple wooden box, it promises to deliver its owner $1 million with the press of a button, which will kill someone somewhere, will they accept the box?
http://youtu.be/CFHa-ygkF_M

Moon : Astronaut based on far side of moons' mission is coming to and end after 3yrs, will he make it back to his family? ( not a horror movie )
http://youtu.be/twuScTcDP_Q

The Road : surviving an apocalyptic event, (very dark and moving not uplifting)
http://youtu.be/hbLgszfXTAY

And just because i love it

Batteries not included : love, life and mini spaceships
http://youtu.be/rJmvsb13dA8

[Black Panther]

I wonder why there are so many movies to wake us up,
because we know which people own Hollywood. There
are a lot of movies with the subliminal messages to keep
us in the dark. Why do they allow the 'good movies' to be there ?

I've watched a lot of movies after waking up. Really fun to
watch the negative and the positive ones, because it doesn't
affect us anymore.

Just like I am wondering why they let people like Alex Jones,
David Icke and Eckhart Tolle do what they are doing :confused:

[Mulder]

I also recently re-watched The Rocky Horror Picture Show. With fresher eyes. I laughed out loud, often.

In "those days" I merrily sang and danced to the light over at Frankenstein's place, thinking this was really weird sci-fi

I still sing & dance to this!

[Peter Kraai]

Naruto is the biggest factor in my awakening, it might sound abit childish but if you give it a chance you will not be let down !

[gooty64]

Brother Sun Sister Moon -circa. 1971 by Franco Zeffereli

Tells the story of St. Francis of Assisi

vEa0OGZ7VwY

[blufire]

Soylent Green 1973

It is set in the future year 2022 . . . . and I feel strongly we are headed very quickly in this direction and may be there before 2022.

I was 14 when I saw this movie and it has stuck with me ever since then . . . .almost 53 now

[Carmody]

Rollerball (1975, A- James Caan, D- Norman Jewison) is also close to being true at this time. I saw that one when I was 11, when it came out.

[Earth Angel]

The Secret ........yes some may laugh but it got me started in a big way
What the Bleep
The Secret behind the Secret.......which lead me to all kinds of Abraham Hicks ......amazing stuff
Contact

[frances]

The Odessa Files. Jon Voit.
One Flew Over The Cookoo's nest.
The Talented Mr Ripley.
Close encounters of a third kind.

[finally there!!!]

Groundhog Day is a great one.. Its been my favourite film since I first seen it,as a kid I loved it for the laughs but as I got older I finally started to comprehend the real meaning of the story being told.
Bill Murrays finest hour

[GaelVictor]

REVOLVER by Guy Ritchie.

It pointed me to the struggle of getting your EGO under your controll. It's brilliantly portrayed in the lift(elevator) scene.
Now, there is much more in this film that reveals secrets of our perception of reality. My advice; go see for yourself.

[Ba-ba-Ra]

THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU with Matt Damon - 2011 release

This movie didn't wake me up (what woke me was an OBE that happened 35yrs ago), but this movie spoke to me as it seemed to mimic many parts of my life - some very good info in it. I usually can't sit through action movies (i.e. The Matrix) even though I realize they have much good info in them, but there was something compelling to me in this one. Also I enjoyed the love story.
Note: the first 10 minutes of the movie seem as if they are going negative to the dark side, but you will soon see it differently.

[Black Panther]

Watched 'Limitless' last week http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219289/

"A writer discovers a top-secret drug which bestows him with super human abilities."

It looked like the main character woke up, but in the movie he needed drugs to
make him limitless. In the end it's not totally clear if he is able to have the
super human abilities with or without the drugs.

[MR Mojo]

Eraserhead
Aguirre the wrath of God
stroszek

[Phoenix]

Click, with Adam Sandler.

[firstlook]

A Trip to the Moon.....Melies taught us we can imagine anything we want. ;)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYRemE9Oeso&ob=av1n

[firstlook]

Also Zelig. It speaks volumes about group mentality in my opinion. The ability to agree in order to feel safe.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agkCEOHQVgg

[crossroader]

Catch 22 - funny while watching it, tearfully depressing afterward

STTNG

Matrix - wonder if the producers told the whole plot and meaning to the $$$ men before it was made...

Revolver

Avatar

Thrive

[apokalypse]

Truman Show and Groundhog day resonate with me most but zeitgeist-The Movie really wake me up.

[peace]

contact
opened my eyes (third?) waaay up.

[andrewgreen]

Panthers, woke me up. Made me realise how corrupt our governments really are and the lengths they will go too to to suppress us. No wonder this movie never became box office, it a really good watch too about the Black Panther political movement.

[wynderer]

movies that woke me up...

in the early '60s when i was in High School, Adolf Eichmann was caught & brought to trial -- a documentary was released entitled 'Mein Kampf' -- a lot of it was films of the concentration camps taken by the S.S. & by the liberators of the camps -- my parents insited that my sister & i see it, so we walked to the theater one Saturday

there were few in the audience -- in the front were two men & a woman jeering & making anti-Semitic remarks -- the usher asked them to leave, & they did

i was your typical self-conscious teenager, but all the way home i had to stop walking while i was wracked w/deep heavy crying -- i was devastated to learn how cruel Humans can be to their brothers & sisters , & i knew that i had been looking at evil when i was watching that documentary

this basically started me on a life-long searching for the answer to the question, 'How can a loving Creator allow such things to go on?' -- the answer i've found can be found in the video that Vivek started a thread on, 'The Truth...'

also 'The Matrix' -- more of a confirmation of what i have always known -- i think that some such memories -- like of the Humans hooked up to the tubes -- i probably have seen during my mind-blocked abductions

[Muzz]

I was surprised by this film. It covered some interesting topics.Worth a look IMHO.

In the year 2169, humanity has evolved to stop aging at 25 and to be born with a digital clock on their forearm bearing a year worth of time. Once 25, the clock begins ticking down until the point when it reaches zero, when a person dies. People have turned time into the universal currency, giving time for products or services just by body contact, as well as transferring to others. The only ways to die are by timing out, or running out of time, having one's clock "cleaned", or murder by stealing all of someone's time, or simply by being reckless that age is not a factor in that reason (e.g. getting shot, overdosing, etc.). The country is divided into time zones, based on the wealth of its population; the film focuses on two time zones. Dayton, a ghetto zone whose inhabitants barely have a day if they don't work in the local factory, is one of the poorest with people being indifferent to the timed-out bodies on the streets. The other zone is New Greenwich, the wealthiest zone where the wealthy enjoy the benefits of their immortality and wealth and are constantly surrounded by body guards.

read more (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Time)

fdadZ_KrZVw

and an excuse to bump a nice old thread. :)

[lizfrench]

Definitely Planet of the Apes when I was young, the Matrix, Fifth Element, which I watch all the time, and, what was that movie with Tom Hanks -The ??? Code?? Can't remember the name but I remember the feeling of awakening I got from it.

[Sith73]

I have been awake for a while. Most of these earlier movies helped me along to become more awake on this world. I add later ones cause they reinforced my awareness.

1.The first three star wars movies
2.star Trek
3.K-PAX
4.Close Encounters of the Third Kind
5.Stargate Series
6.E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
7. Blade Runner
8.2001: A Space Odyssey
9. Superman
10.Alien series
11. Predator
12.Avatar
13. District 9
14. Total Recall
15. The Thing
16.The Matrix series
17. Contact
18. Independence Day
19.Signs
20.The Arrival
21.War of the Worlds
22. The Time Machine
23. X-Files
24. Supernova
25.Lost In Space
26. The Black Hole
27. Pitch Black
28. V for Vendetta
29.Batteries Not Included
30. Dune
31.Waterworld
32. Flash Gordon
33.Buck Rogers from the 80's
34. Planet of the Apes
35.Lifeforce
36.A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
37.Starman
38. Alien Nation
39.The Last Starfighter
40. Enemy Mine
41.They Live
42.Serenity
43.Tron
44.Starship Troopers
45. Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
46.Back to the Future
47.Event Horizon
48.Cloud Atlas
49.Men In Black
50.John Carter

[KiwiElf]

Awesome list thank you Sith73! (Pretty close to mine haha!) :)
In addition to the above, may I add? (some oldies but goodies) ...

The Day the Earth Stood Still (the BW original)
The Bamboo Saucer
Hangar 18
Battlestar Galactica (both the original & reimagined TV Series - OK, not movies ;))
Prometheus
Atlantis - the Lost Empire
Cocoon 1 & 2
Capricorn One
Earth vs the Flying Saucers
This Island Earth
Forbidden Planet
Excalibur
Dark Skies (TV Series)
Fantastic Voyage
Green Zone
I Robot
In Time
Inception
The Day After Tomorrow (OK might as well add Independence Day & 2012 to that)
Indiana Jones series
Iron Sky
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Minority Report
Space 1999 (TV Series)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Some of the TV Series and the original movie)
Terra Nova (TV Series)
The Final Countdown
The Philadelphia Experiment
Things to Come
UFO (British TV series)
"V" the original sci-fi mini series & the reimagined version
WALL*E
The Abyss
Wavelength
The Time Tunnel (TV Series)
A Sound of Thunder
Mad Max Series
Alternative 3 (one-off TV Series)
Brainstorm
Eureka (TV Series)
Ferngully - the Last Rain Forest
Knowing
DaVinci Code
The Exorcist
The Omen Pentology
Jonny Quest (original animated TV series from the 60's)
When Worlds Collide
The 5th Element
Loose Change (9/11)
The Manchurian Candidate
The Falcon & the Snowman
The Invaders (60's TV Series)
Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life" & "The Life of Brian"
Black Hole

[Bryston]

HOT FUZZ!

Just rolled over in bed, and my headphones popped out during the gun battle scene.

:cool:

[Referee]

Pink Floyd The Wall
The Matrix Series
Wag the Dog
Swordfish
War Games
Twin Peaks
Star Trek
Star Wars
Stargate all

[KiwiElf]

OK, can someone help me with this, pleeeease.?

This is an awesome clip from the full Italian movie, "Allegro Non Troppo" by Bruno Bozzetto.
(Life begins from a Coke Bottle and Evolves!) All done to 'Bolero di Ravel'

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Now in about the 70's I remember seeing something very similar to this, but as far as I can remember, it was Russian, full length. It also begins with life evolving from a Coke Bottle except it's a slow zoom-in with explosions - particularly a nuclear bomb exploding - in the reflections of the bottle on a beach. Eventually the life forms evolve into humanoid creatures, who begin to make cities, flying cars, spaceships. As I recall, it was full length and considered Russia's equivalent of Fantasia?

[dynamo]

peaceful warrior

[william r sanford72]

A scanner Darkly....brazil...bowling for collumbine....moon..dr.strangelove or how learned to love the bomb...soylant green...

[Lau]

For me it was X Files and Battlestar Galactica :)

[GarethBKK]

Apocalypse Now
"This is the end"
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning"
"The horror. The horror".
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[yuhui]

The matrix,life of Brian, the village,travellers and magicians....and those I cannot remember the names. Now I have a great film list to wake the rest of me up:cool:

[ulli]

Meetings with Remarkable Men, by Peter Brooks.


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[sheme]

It's a wonderful life, voted favourite film of all time -found out that there are bad men, but also angels.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4BMdZlb0_E

I never watch scary films. they are really negative and short circuit our vibrations, Feed garbage to babes and you do immense harm.

"Stepford wives" 1975 version (The best) was most interesting and thought provoking and took me by surprise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuG8D8oUn_8- the sinister portrayal of the ideal woman from the male perspective .

'Words', you have to make a conscious effort to recall, but stuff you have seen- has a short cut to your brain and comes unbidden in a flash.

[Phoenix1304]

Some good ones I haven’t seen mentioned yet....

The Man Who Fell to Earth - oldie but goodie starring David Bowie

Solaris - George Clooney gets his mind bent on a Space Station

Sphere - Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone encounter an infinite source of energy - not great but worth a look

The Last Mimsy - some children find an artifact from the last Mimsy, a dying alien race...

2012 - I thought it was excellent, featuring the ‘Arks’ of the Elite

Battlefield Earth - John Travolta’s universally panned adaptation of L Ron Hubbard’s book, but well worth a view.

My favourites of those already mentioned...

Defending Your Life - best afterlife movie ever imo, written by and starring Albert Brooks. Funny and profound, clearly establishes Fear as the only thing to fear.
Vanilla Sky
Minority Report
The Matrix Trilogy - I fast forward through the endless fighting and special effects for the script nuggets
V for Vendetta
V original TV series
Close Encounters
Contact
Enemy Mine
They Live
Starman
Soylent Green
2001 A Space Odyssey
Phenomenon
ET
Avatar
Total Recall - the original
Inception
The Truman Show
Jumper
Dark City
Limitless
Cocoon
Knowing


And a few non sci-fi faves

My Dinner With Andre - imagine a movie with no car chases, no soft porn, no special effects, just two men having an intelligent and fascinating conversation over dinner!
Network
Altered States
The Da Vinci Code
Eyes Wide Shut
Magnolia
Saving Grace - funny Britflick in which a conservative widow is saved by growing cannabis.
Chocolat - sheer delight
The Good Shepherd - underrated Robert De Niro film starring Matt Damon about the life of an ‘elite’. Fine example of how these demented cub scouts get to control the world and what their ‘secrets’ do to them.
Anonymous - recent movie about the Earl of Oxford who, it’s widely believed, wrote the plays of Shakespeare. Outstanding performances and fascinating story.


I searched for a thread on Movies members recommend, I found this instead. For me, the only one that remotely ranks as a 'wake up' movie was The Man Who Fell to Earth that I saw well over 30 years ago. It might be more appropriate to say 'stimulating movies' and while the medium is undoubtedly used for nefarious purposes, it follows that it can also be used for good, though they usually get less exposure, like The Good Shepherd.

Thanks to everyone that contributed, I've made a list from your suggestions of quite a few for upcoming moviefests in my living room!

[Sérénité]

As a child, Close Encounters definitely opened up my curious little eyes a lot wider!

Later on, The Matrix, The Butterfly Effect and Sliding Doors made me rethink a lot of things too!

More recently I'd say Prometheus and In Time have got my old grey matter ticking over a lot :)

[donk]

As beautiful to look at as they are thought provoking:

Waking Life
Spirited Away

[donk]

Oh yeah--I just watched the Fourth Kind, which should wake up anyone to the abduction phenomenon, or at least the fact that there's millions out there who take it seriously. I was shocked at what I was seeing on Netflix (with real movie stars)...speaking of movie stars in abduction movies, Christopher Walken portrays Whitley Streiber in Communion, though I wonder at his screenplay...it could use a revamping making truer to the book (updated effects would help a lot too)

[lookbeyond]

When i saw Close Encounters of the Third Kind as a child i knew it was true for me

[korgh]

Lets see... so many..

The Thirteenth floor
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
The Time Machine(1960)
Avatar
All Star Trek series
Soylent Green
Omega Man (1971)
Moon
The Jacket
The Men Who Stare at Goats
The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey
The Big Fish
Kpax
The Manchurian Candidate
The Star Lost (1973 Tv series)
AI

[Rollo]

I just watched today "Lucy" by Luc Besson. It really fit in to the category of movies that can wake up many.

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[Ulyse30]

The T.V.,series,The Prisoner,and many more,...

[Sunny-side-up]

The Twilight-Zone and just about all the films from that Time! The film 'The Magnetic Monster' made me think quite a bit and as for'The Thing From Outer Space' which was the film that was turned into 'The Thing'
Oh 'Dr Strangelove' I always seem to think that films name is 'Dr Strange Glove' Hmm!

[donk]

The thirteenth floor is one I am glad I took heed in ya alls' lists, definitely a good one

[Delight]

Apocalypse Now


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At the time, this movie did have a lasting effect as far as "waking" up to what it might be like to have a war thrust on me and the people around me. In the movie I felt the senselessness...the people not mattering really, just being in the way. There is a scene where helicopters are coming at people on the ground (villagers). All of a sudden I felt what that might be like, the terror from the "monsters" coming at me.

[Ahnung-quay]

It's a Wonderful Life-feel good movie and it's Jimmie Stewart.

Amadeus-feast for the eyes and ears.

Little Big Man-schtick with a purpose.

Soldier Blue-sappy love story amid the most horrific (and longest) massacre scene in film history up to that point in the 1970's.

The Road-so, so grim; we can never allow it!

Salvador-no justice for the third world.

The Killing Fields-terrorism on a mass scale.

Cube-it's all just a game.

Duck Soup- and, anything by the irreverent Marx Brothers. (In certain ways, times haven't changed all that much).

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure-party on dudes. Okay, it didn't wake me up but, it was entertaining!

[Rolci]

Excellent topic, downloaded many movies mentioned here after watching even more trailers. Haven't watched them yet, but of the ones I've seen in my life, my top 10 so far: (Strictly "wake-up movies", which many here like to confuse with "mindf*ck movies". There is some overlap, which make the best movies of all.)

Best Wake-Up Movies, in order of recommendation:

1. The Matrix
2. K-Pax
3. Star Trek The Next Generation and Voyager series (14 seasons in all)
4. Avatar
5. The Fountain
6. Contact
7. The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
8. Stargate first 2 seasons
9. Out on a Limb
10. Inception

Movies that will wake you up spiritually:

Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Circle Of Iron aka The Silent Flute
Brother Orchid

Films that are not exactly movies but will wake you the F up, in order of importance:

What the Bleep do We Know - Ultra-Extended Quantum Rabbit Hole
The Secret
Sirius (Dr. Steven Greer)
No Way to Heaven; In the Beginning There Was Light
The Venus Project; Zeitgeist
The Light Bulb Conspiracy; The Cancer Conspiracy
Inequality for All
Thrive
The Corporation; Sicko; Food Inc.

Bonus Movie:

Land of the Lost

I will compile a top 10 best mindf*ck movies list later.

[Rollo]

One more movie that is quite good and contains many truths.

"No life is more important than another and nothing has been without purpose, NOTHING.
What if we are all part of a great pattern that we may someday understand?"

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[KiwiElf]

Considering what's going down at the moment, a rewatch of the 1995 movie, OUTBREAK with Dustin Hoffman - chilling. I'm not so sure reality will have such a happy ending ;)

[vilcabamba]

The show V from the 80's where the reptilians took over and fooled the humans into believing they were human too. I didn't get it ..but it made such an impression on me. I just could never forget it. Especially that scene where they went underground and all these humans were kept in glass jars like we keep pickles. I was shocked and I was more shocked in the previous years to find out all this was true.

[Roisin]

Taken, tv series
Knowing
Limitless
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Groundhog Day
Constantine
End of Days
The Da Vinci Code
Pans Labyrinth
Babette's Feast
Schindler's List
Ender's Game

[Project_Buggy_Beach]

Chronicle
Millennium
In Time
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Avatar
They Live
2001 A Space Odyssey
V (TV Series old and new)
Soylent Green
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
The Hunger
Chariots Of Fire
Star Wars (all)
Heavy Metal
The Matrix
Terminator (all)
Wings Of Desire
The Final Countdown
The Rapture
The Passion
(Hundreds Of Project Camelot Interviews!)

[Observer1964]

Chariots of the Gods by Erich Von Däniken

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MYSTERIES OF THE GODS (1977) - William Shatner

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HOAGLAND's MARS U.N. BRIEFING

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Secrets Of The 3rd Reich

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Science Report Alternative 3

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Enki Sumerian Tablet Translation

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Playlist Enki Sumerian Tablet Translation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiLnfyfh-3s&list=PL35DA4AEA00C9BDC5&spfreload=10%20Message%3A%20Unexpected%20end%20of%20input%20(url%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com% 2Fwatch%3Fv%3DwiLnfyfh-3s%26list%3DPL35DA4AEA00C9BDC5))

Star Wars
Star Trek
Stargate

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[spiritwind]

Almost every movie I would have listed has already been mentioned except:

Defiance (2008)
Push (2009)
Clan of the Cave Bear

I'm not sure if City of Ember was mentioned but thought that was good too. There's a few here I am looking forward to watching that I have not seen. Appreciate all the recommendations.

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

I had a geneticist boyfriend once, who wanted me to watch the film "Blade Runner" with him.
One of the main characters was a Replicant named Rachel.
At the time it didn't mean a whole lot to me, but later on I really started wondering why he wanted me to watch that movie.

Perhaps some underlying guilt at what they had done, the extent of what they were actually accomplishing IRL...

to think that film was made decades ago chills me.

[seehas]

When i was a kid the Star Wars movies where coin of magic for me, hard to explain but i got an intense feeling inside watching them in the 80s.

But when it comes to awakening my most important movie would be Matrix for sure, directly followed by They Live.

[Hervé]

Two "movies" by Costa-Gavras:


Z (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_%281969_film%29)
L'aveu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Confession_%281970_film%29)

While Hollywood was being Hollywood...

[Rollo]

This month I watched Interstellar movie. I have to say this is one of the best s-f movies in the last decade.
It fits for me in the same category as The Matrix, Avatar, Gravity, Ghost etc.

Highly recommended.

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[Bluegreen]

To me it was "Risky Business" with Tom Cruise in '86.
I went to see that with my girlfriend in the theater and was disgusted, appalled.
We went out into the lobby and I realized everyone liked it.
That turned me around.

I also like "Starman" with Jeff Bridges. I'll watch that anytime it's on. :alien:

[Nat_Lee]

The T.V.,series,The Prisoner,and many more,...

I'm talking to this show to poeple and they never remember !!!!
I was enjoying this alot !!!

The guy is trying to escape and there is always this big white ballons that catch him and bring him back to the Island .....
I am not a number, I'm a free man !!!! Remember the ''666 the number of the beast'' song intro by Iron Maiden ??? it was from this T.V. series :)

[Nat_Lee]

I cant say that it is a T.V. series or moovie that wake me up but the one I'M remembering very much about time concept was in Twilight Zone ....
It was litle blue mans working to moove objets in between the seconds to bring them in another place in time and if you are missing an object in your home it was because of those blue guys ... They did a mistake and the object is lost for a moment and comes back after a while !!!!

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[gripreaper]

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[Observer1964]

Celestine prophecy

Actually I read the book first but there is also a movie of it.


http://www.veoh.com/watch/v19056072fwZeBax7?h1=Celestine+Prophecy

[Spellbound]

The Legend Of Boggy Creek
Escape To Witch Mountain (Disney)
Six Million Dollar Man - Secret Of Bigfoot (there were 5 Bigfoot episodes in total throughout the series)
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Sasquatch (1978 out of print movie)
The Omen
WarGames
Communion
Intruders (TV miniseries)
JFK
Taken (TV miniseries - Spielberg)
The Men Who Killed Kennedy (TV miniseries - History Channel - including banned episodes 7,8,9)

Dave - Toronto

[lilac]

A movie that woke me up in a passionate and defiant way was: Lorenzo's Oil.. beautifully acted by Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte, it was a story that gave me hope and courage to think for myself and fight for what I know to be true.

Another film that awakened the anarchist in me was: The King of Hearts. this is a delightful film about how providence can prevail and innocence be rewarded.

I do love and have watched at least twice thru, all of the Star Trek Series' and Stargate series' as well. What I haven't seen mentioned is: Farscape. This brilliant and imaginative series is a must-see for any self-respecting Trekkie.

This has been a fun trip, remembering all my favorite movies and finding good suggestions of what to watch. Thanks.

[onawah]

Woman Walks Ahead with Jessica Chastain moved me to tears last night, not that it was such an incredible movie, though it was a good one in many ways, but because it brought home to me once again the plight of the Sioux people of Standing Rock who are still fighting for their lives and to keep their land safe from encroachment of the US government, now in the form of the proposed Dakota Pipeline.

Trump fans don't seem to want to look at this, and I can see why.
It's very ugly the way the Trump Admin is trying to push the pipeline through with no regard for the people or the environment there or downstream.
The treachery of the US government against the natives of this land continues.

The story of Woman Walks Ahead is based on fact, though there are quite a few departures from fact in the storyline.
The main character, Catherine Weldon, really did travel to the Sioux reservation to paint Chief Sitting Bull's portrait, though that was not her only reason, and their relationship was quite close.
(There is evidence he proposed marriage to her.)

But what brought the story home for me was how it linked up the events of the 1876 battle of Little Bighorn, in which Sitting Bull was victorious, and Wounded Knee.
That was in 1890, 2 weeks after he was killed because he was mistakenly thought to be leading the Ghost Dance movement, and a band of his people fled and were then mercilessly wiped out in the Wounded Knee slaughter . (Nearly half were women and children.)
Very tragic, important and heartbreaking events in the chronicles of Native America!

Catherine Weldon was not present during the last year of Sitting Bull's life ( the movie places her there), but she was a very key figure in the years just before that.
A remarkably brave woman, who did her best to help the cause of the Native Americans.
They need many more such champions now.

The scenery in the movie is beautiful, there are a lot of Native Americans in the cast including the man who played Sitting Bull, and the behind the scenes stories about the making of the movie are interesting.
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I hope this thread gets revived. There is still some good coming out of Hollywood, (however weird) and the movie industry as a whole (free flu shots not included--they were being given out at the Golden Globe Awards, if you didn't know...). :facepalm:

[Satori]

I have not been to a movie in many years. I do not like modern-day cinema and TV.

The three that come to mind now from decades ago are:

Parallax View (Political assassination and propaganda)
Three Days of the Condor (Intelligence gathering and manipulation)
Network (media manipulation and propaganda)

[Carmody]

What's wrong?

Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been?

Move Slowly....


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[onawah]

I haven't been to the movies in decades, but I love my DVD player! :heart:

I have not been to a movie in many years. I do not like modern-day cinema and TV.

The three that come to mind now from decades ago are:

Parallax View (Political assassination and propaganda)
Three Days of the Condor (Intelligence gathering and manipulation)
Network (media manipulation and propaganda)

[Bob]

The Legend Of Boggy Creek
Escape To Witch Mountain (Disney)
Six Million Dollar Man - Secret Of Bigfoot (there were 5 Bigfoot episodes in total throughout the series)
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Sasquatch (1978 out of print movie)
The Omen
WarGames
Communion
Intruders (TV miniseries)
JFK
Taken (TV miniseries - Spielberg)
The Men Who Killed Kennedy (TV miniseries - History Channel - including banned episodes 7,8,9)

Dave - Toronto

I would agree with each of those Dave.

I would also add two of my favorites, Snow White and the 7 dwarfs (Disney original), and Fantasia, Disney original.


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I'd like to add, https://deadline.com/2018/12/don-lusk-dead-disney-animator-fantasia-bambi-charlie-brown-peanuts-hanna-barbera-1202527449/ Don Lusk who helped take a dream of writers who wanted to convey deep emotional content died before making it to 2019. He was 105 years young. Nobody paid attention to his dying, many paid attention to his storyboards.

Who could forget Bambi? And the messages in there?



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLvX-erABqY

Don Lusk, was an animator and director who worked on Disney classics including Fantasia, Bambi and Pinocchio before moving to Hanna-Barbera in the 1960s, he died Sunday.

He went on to draw for cartoons and such classic Disney features as Song of the South, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan and Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty and 101 Dalmatians, among others.

In 1960, Lusk moved to Hanna-Barbera Productions, which would be a major force in TV animation. There he drew cartoons for such memorable characters as Woody Woodpecker, Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Finn, Atom Ant, Chilly Willy and the Beary Family.

In the late 1960s, Lusk began working on Peanuts TV specials including A Boy Named Charlie Brown; It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown; Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown; and It’s Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown.

Lusk continued to work in animation into the 1990s, working on such series as The Jetsons revival — he had drawn for one episode of the original 1960s show — Adventures of the Gummi Bears and multiple episodes of Captain Planet and the Planeteers.

He helmed more than 130 episodes of the 1980s classic The Smurfs, earning back-to-back Daytime Emmy noms for Outstanding Animated Program. He also scored a nom in the same category in 1990 for A Pup Named Scooby-Doo and directed for such toon such series as Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventures, Yo Yogi!, Gravedale High, Jonny Quest, The Flintstone Kids, Challenge of the GoBots and The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo.



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Above, Night on Bald Mountain, from Fantasia, Disney 8 min playtime.

I appreciate what reaches all people, all kids, all those wanting to get in and experience the magic of what good animation before CGI can do.

[lake]

Well I do not consider that this film 'woke me up'! But it does portray a great deal of that which I find to be relative to 'life' here!


A mysterious creature, known as Ink, steals a child's soul in hopes of using it as a bargaining chip to join the Incubi - the group of supernatural beings responsible for creating nightmares.

but it is much more.... not great acting, not great quality....but stunning in it's description of the interaction between this world and another, including the drama between 'good' and 'evil'!

Worth the time to view in my opinion.

Trailer:

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[Savannah]

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls033934289/

Fringe Entertainment Master List
by neptunianhorizon | created - 06 Mar 2016 | updated - 27 Jan 2017

This is a great list I have seen almost all of them.

[onawah]

Great list! There are some on there I haven't seen, and am adding to my Netflix list.
Cloud Atlas and Twelve Monkeys are two of my old favorites.

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls033934289/

Fringe Entertainment Master List
by neptunianhorizon | created - 06 Mar 2016 | updated - 27 Jan 2017

This is a great list I have seen almost all of them.

[Spellbound]

I have yet to watch Cloud Atlas from beginning to end. I've seen bits and pieces of it.....but man, is it ever a long movie and it's all over the place. That being said, I do know that it's a good movie and has a strong message. It's on my hard drive and I'll get to it eventually.

Dave - Toronto

[onawah]

I liked the book as well.
I have yet to watch Cloud Atlas from beginning to end. I've seen bits and pieces of it.....but man, is it ever a long movie and it's all over the place. That being said, I do know that it's a good movie and has a strong message. It's on my hard drive and I'll get to it eventually.

Dave - Toronto

[Savannah]

Great list! There are some on there I haven't seen, and am adding to my Netflix list.
Cloud Atlas and Twelve Monkeys are two of my old favorites.

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls033934289/

Fringe Entertainment Master List
by neptunianhorizon | created - 06 Mar 2016 | updated - 27 Jan 2017

This is a great list I have seen almost all of them.

Thanks but I cant take credit for it I found it Tom Montauk's site. By the way LOVED Cloud atlas.

[Operator]

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The Gods Must be Crazy
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Thanks Bill (and all other posters) for the suggestions ... I selected 10 movies from this thread to watch next.

I saw "The Gods Must be Crazy" last night, it is educational, insightful and entertaining at the same time, very good movie !
Perhaps I have been a bushman in a previous life, I feel very comfortable in a rainforest environment. I feel strongly that
"owning things" is indeed a key element in making our lives more complicated.

Let me contribute to this thread by adding Deja Vu (2006) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0453467)
I saw it 3 times to check some details I missed before.