Some Mind-Bending Movies That Also Bend Time |
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Jared
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It's a phenomenal achievement logistically, one single 88 minute take around the Hermitage... I have most of Sokurov's films. My choice: After Life (Kore-eda, 1998)
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The Final Countdown (1980) - starring Kirk Douglas. Martin Sheen, Katherine Ross & James Farentino.
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How could I ever forget to add Russian Ark here? It is one of my absolute favourite movies and perfectly fits here.
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I suspected he may have been a Morlock. The resemblance is uncanny.
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Hi,
The Navigator is the film I voted for. I think I remember an Australian film that also fits, but for the life of me, I cannot remember its name. Originally I thought "The Last Wave" would fit since it is hard to figure out where the images are from and all that, but I'm not sure that it would be a good choice. It's an interesting list, nonetheless, and there are some things that I will be looking for from that list. Time Bandits is fine, but ... I think it was just too satirical than otherwise, and in some ways The Baron Munchhausen would be better since things move all over the place from the earth to the moon to some planet out there and so on, but this could be a stretch and like Monty Python, I thought a lot of their material was about making sure they could "displace" your view and ideas. One shot in The Baron M film that I absolutely love is the one in the theater, and the character turns to his left, and boom ... they are somewhere else. That is a breath-taking shot and really, speaks more for our minds and imaginations than it does something else. But it was neat! (But I admit that the Botticelli thing had me dreaming about Uma for a long time. Been trying to make a bedroom like that in my own place! )
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Logan
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I don't think that that Time Machine should be here. I wouldn't think of it as obscure. It's a classic film adapted from a classic novel made by a very famous writer. And when it comes to temporal dynamics, I tend to favour a deterministic view in that what is not here should not be here in a deterministic sense, but then I was bound to say that, just as you are bound to say that it should be here from that linear causal effect perspective.
It reminded me of a related one I love, Time After Time. Not much of a mind-bender, but a fun time-bender, featuring Evil from Time Bandits as another quite evil character. I love David Warner. Edited by Logan - October 12 2021 at 09:59 |
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^ I don't remember watching it, even if I did when I was an adolescent or kid. Pre-70s cinema... I'm eager to discover it, and already doing that albeit steadily and slowly.
I loved The Time Machine (2002) though. I wouldn't say it is a masterpiece, but the year 2002 is somehow special for me. I realised it in the recent years. Edited by Shadowyzard - October 12 2021 at 07:14 |
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YES!!!!!!!!!!! I just wanted to post about this movie.
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The Time Machine (1960), should be on this list.
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The Final Countdown (1980) starring Kirk Douglas
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home |
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Time Bandits and The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey.
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I won't wear my Mohammad cartoon shirts. Better than in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan methinks. I notice many religious people who could be considered on the phobic side when it comes to how thetly view non-believers (atheists, agnostics), Pagans, Satanists (I've met some very nice ones though for many it's an FU to religions) but there isn't seemingly as much made about that in the media here let alone having those people labeled phobes (a phobia being a psychological condition involving an extreme irrational fear). I mean I never hear people called atheophobes or agnostophobes. ; ) I think phobia diagnoses should be left to the psychologists anyway. I dislike persecution and hatred by both the religious and non-religious. Of only I had a time machine, then maybe I could go back and create a world where we would get along much better and be open to different ideas ,leading to ages of reason.. I could go back in time again with my juicematic mindblender if they weren't willing to listen the first time.... Mindblending films would be a fun topic. The Lawnmower Man did that, although that was more mindmulching. Excuse any typos, doing this on my phone but that doesn't excuse the nonsense. Edit: sorry for going off on the Islamophobia, I just dislike the term as it is commonly used by non-psychologists. Anti-Muslim bigotry would be better. I'm sure the true phobia exists, but the thing about a phobia is that it negatively affects the person who suffers from it. This taints everyone who has phobias when phobes are maligned. I developed acrophobia at one time, despite having been an avid climber due to an accident with a friend -- he died. I don't think many nice people would have maligned me for my phobia. People traumatised by ISIS attacks may have developed a phobia too when it comes to Islam (an irrational and extreme fear). The government here tried to pas a hate crime bill specifically referencing Islamophobia. I emailed them saying that instead of stigmatizing phobes, and criminalizing phobias, they should fund treatment by psychologists to treat the phobias and give advice on how to deal with these irrational fears. It's an unfortunate term that gained common acceptance, I think. Homophobia is a real thing too, but I won't call People like the Islamic State, and other Islamic groups, automatically homophobes for how they treat homosexuals and see homosexuality. Edited by Logan - October 12 2021 at 12:53 |
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I guess as long as you don't wear a shirt written "Islam sucks" on it, you won't face many problems here. Even then, most of us don't understand the English language. So, if you want trouble, you can attack Islam in the Turkish language. You may not see the other day, be warned. I'm an apatheist, and I prefer to ignore the religions normally. I'm rarely offensive. But, I always say that I don't believe such nonsense in every environment, if asked. If I want trouble, I sometimes do so without being asked too. Luckily, I've been victorious so far. Hahah. Edited by Shadowyzard - October 11 2021 at 18:21 |
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I'd like to come to Turkey, but will hide my Islamophobia.;) I'm rather phobic when it comes to many religions. Had some bad experiences, and some people hold it against me that my mother was a jackal :( ;)
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Happy Death Day was pretty good, Source Code too, and Tenet of course. As far as goofy B movies Jean-Claude VanDamme's Time Cop was not too bad. |
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^ Monty Python is liked and appreciated by people like me, in my country. We are quite a minority, I must say. Yet, this doesn't come to mean that the Turkish TVs didn't show some wild British humour. We are quite a chaotic country, really. Any foreign person who feels optimistic (a Muslim) or pessimistic (a non-muslim or Islamophobic) that s/he is coming to a Muslim country would probably be bedazzled or bewildered. I've seen many examples in both ways.
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Logan
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We got a lot of more "more English" fare where I live on local channels, and quirky films, whereas Turkey may have been more American/ Hollywood mainstream dominated when it came to imports. And Monty Python was huge here, don't know how big Monty Python was in Turkey.
Of course you're younger than me and I got to see it not that long after its release (I'd trade that to be younger). I used to have a collection of newspaper movie clippings, which included Time Bandits. Edited by Logan - October 11 2021 at 18:09 |
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^ The Turkish TV channels never showed it, as far as I know/remember. I met Time Bandits in the 2000s.
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