| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. 12:38 - Jan 14 with 3584 views | hype313 |
By that, I mean sitting there for 20 minutes staring at a wall.
I'll start.
Schindlers List. |  |
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| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 14:47 - Jan 14 with 862 views | Phantasm |
| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 14:14 - Jan 14 by ITFC_Forever |
Threads.
Watched it 18 months ago and it still gives me the shudders at the mere thought of it.
Genuinely the most disturbing thing I've ever watched.
Edit: Christ, they're re-making it next year!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/art
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Just completely bleak isn't it.
Dear Zachary is a movie that'll punch you in the gut, stand you back up and punch you even harder in the gut again. Most impactful if you watch without doing any prior research. |  | | |
| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 15:14 - Jan 14 with 809 views | phillymark |
In no particular order and all for different reasons
Schindlers list
Sometimes in april (rwanda movie with idris elba)
Shooting Dogs (also has the title “beyond the gates”) - also rwanda but focused on one particular story from the genocide - with john hurt
Pulp Fiction (truly so innovative for its time)
Memento (just amazing when it all comes together)
Usual Suspects
Killing Fields
Sophie Scholl (great movie about the amazing white rose nazi resistance group. The trial scene is superb) | | | |
| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 15:28 - Jan 14 with 791 views | Tractor_Buck |
Oppenheimer |  | | |
| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 16:17 - Jan 14 with 745 views | BlueandTruesince82 |
There is a Spanish movie called the coffee table. It is the most stressful film I have ever watched. No high octane stuff and the title sounds innocuous, its far from it.
Gravity, visually stunning.
Interstellar, just makes you ask questions about our existence, space, physics and what is beyond our universe
Babylon, one of the most underrated movies of the last 5 years for me, visually beautiful and fascinating, there is one scene with Margot Robbie that goes on for about 5 mins and the tension builds and builds.
Goodfellas, brilliant all round but the cinematography, the soundtrack, pulling it all together to make something that is in every way perfect |  |
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| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 16:25 - Jan 14 with 733 views | itfcst |
City of God, true story that still occasionally bothers me now.
The original version of Oldboy.
Parasite |  |
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| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 16:26 - Jan 14 with 731 views | WeWereZombies |
The Tarkovsky original 'Solaris (not the Clooney remake), felt as if I had been to another World when I walked over to The Swan after seeing that at Ipswich Film Theatre. |  |
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| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 17:33 - Jan 14 with 682 views | reusersfreekicks |
German film Stalingrad
not the more recent sniper one. Edit - this is Enemy at the Gates [Post edited 14 Jan 17:43]
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| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 17:36 - Jan 14 with 678 views | wellsy700 |
| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 12:52 - Jan 14 by iamatractorboy |
The Father
Lion
Both had me choked up at the end. Excellent films but proper tear-jerkers. |
I think about Lion all the time, such an unbelievable story |  |
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| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 17:36 - Jan 14 with 674 views | Dubtractor |
The Time Bandits. |  |
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| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 17:46 - Jan 14 with 659 views | coote |
Videodrome.
Lush movie.
Also fight club. |  | | |
| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 17:50 - Jan 14 with 654 views | iamatractorboy |
| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 14:44 - Jan 14 by ronnyd |
The first part of "Saving Private Ryan". |
It's brilliantly done, isn't it. Just horrifying. I think it probably started that technique of making the sound indistinct after an explosion, as though the audience is hearing (or im this case, not hearing) through the ears of the character on screen, didn't it? The bit where something blows up right next to Hanks' character. It's become a bit of a trope in itself now. | | | |
| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 17:52 - Jan 14 with 648 views | MattinLondon |
Conspiracy
A fantastically well acted WW2 film. |  | | |
| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 17:52 - Jan 14 with 646 views | JakeITFC |
The Zone of Interest |  | | |
| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 18:01 - Jan 14 with 619 views | redrickstuhaart |
| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 17:52 - Jan 14 by JakeITFC |
The Zone of Interest |
The Road.
Horrible. Will never watch it again. Stayed with me way too long to be healthy. | |
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| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 18:02 - Jan 14 with 617 views | bsw72 |
| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 17:33 - Jan 14 by reusersfreekicks |
German film Stalingrad
not the more recent sniper one. Edit - this is Enemy at the Gates [Post edited 14 Jan 17:43]
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Enemy at the Gates really annoys me, so many errors in it, scene is set 5 minutes in when it portrays a map of Germany invading Switzerland and Turkey. |  | | |
| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 18:13 - Jan 14 with 593 views | SouthBucksBlue |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | | | |
| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 18:16 - Jan 14 with 581 views | bsw72 |
| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 17:50 - Jan 14 by iamatractorboy |
It's brilliantly done, isn't it. Just horrifying. I think it probably started that technique of making the sound indistinct after an explosion, as though the audience is hearing (or im this case, not hearing) through the ears of the character on screen, didn't it? The bit where something blows up right next to Hanks' character. It's become a bit of a trope in itself now. |
Lots of interesting approaches on that opening sequence.
They used wide angle lenses to make the beach at Ballinesker (Ireland) seem as large as the Normandy beaches, reduced the colour by 50-60% on the film and also took all the protective coatings off the lenses - made it simulate the quality of camera and film used at that time and even moved the shutter slightly out of phase, giving more of a smear effect when panning.
Was not storyboarded either, and the camera crews used handheldsso rather than follow a set pattern the shots were effectively reactions to what was happening. Most of the "casualties" were actual amputees as well.
Took nearly 4 weeks just to shoot that 20+ minute sequence. | | | |
| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 18:20 - Jan 14 with 575 views | ronnyd |
Apocalypto is rather heavy. | | | |
| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 18:24 - Jan 14 with 560 views | Coastalblue |
The original Jurassic Park blew me away watching it at the cinema, I mean there were real dinosaurs on screen.
Das Boot probably the fullest answer though.
Oh and the last episode of Blackadder, though not a film. |  |
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| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 18:48 - Jan 14 with 533 views | Warkystache |
| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 18:13 - Jan 14 by SouthBucksBlue |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest |
Yep - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - brilliant and slightly scary film.
Mine - the first time I saw Jaws - the head in the boat still gets me.
Singing in the Rain - watched when I was a kid with my Grandad - bear in mind I had a bit of difficulty sitting still for more than 30 minutes, watched the lot open-mouthed.
The Empire Strikes Back at Cramphorn Theatre in Chelmsford 1982. Wow.
More recently, I've been immersed in 1917, The Nolan Batman films, The Coen Brothers films (especially Fargo, Lebowski and No Country), The Witch by Robert Eggers, Boogie Nights, LOTR and They Shall Not Grow Old, Jackson's World War 1 beauty. |  |
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| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 18:56 - Jan 14 with 527 views | stonojnr |
| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 14:14 - Jan 14 by ITFC_Forever |
Threads.
Watched it 18 months ago and it still gives me the shudders at the mere thought of it.
Genuinely the most disturbing thing I've ever watched.
Edit: Christ, they're re-making it next year!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/art
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why in gods name are they remaking it ? the original was so memorable and worked so well because of the time, the situation and the film makers had passion to tell an unflinchingly original story about the topic, not copy other creators ideas to boost their own egos.
and there are so many little details they added in that are things your brain picks up on, like all the news updates at the start come with a teletype/vidiprinter sound, post war they dont, because technology is all gone.
but they dont have their characters spell those things out as gigantic exposition dumps, you get that part has happened, modern filmmakers have no clue about how to do that anymore, modern writers dont even understand the depth of that kind of film making, theyre more worried about trying to grab your attention whilst youre doom scrolling your phone | | | |
| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 20:37 - Jan 14 with 469 views | jontysnut |
Blagged my way in to see Taxi Driver at the Odeon when I was 15 |  | | |
| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 20:39 - Jan 14 with 464 views | Keno |
| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 18:24 - Jan 14 by Coastalblue |
The original Jurassic Park blew me away watching it at the cinema, I mean there were real dinosaurs on screen.
Das Boot probably the fullest answer though.
Oh and the last episode of Blackadder, though not a film. |
Seconded for blackadder
Also the last episode of Still Game |  |
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| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 20:41 - Jan 14 with 459 views | Zx1988 |
Christiane F - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo
An early 1980s German film, based on the true story of a teenage heroin addict in West Berlin. Incredibly hard-hitting, and with a soundtrack and guest appearance by David Bowie. [Post edited 14 Jan 20:41]
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| Films that have stopped you in your tracks. on 20:47 - Jan 14 with 447 views | chantryblueboy |
Surprised not to have seen Requiem for a Dream yet, took me a couple days to get over that one | | | |
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