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Opinions on some of the movies from the list I've seen:

Idiocracy – Basically an ordinary comedy, with an above average plot, but overall nothing that special or interesting. Overrated.

Fight Club – One of my favourite movies, perhaps in my top 10. Really loved it.

The Game – Another great movie from David Fincher, I love the mysterious atmosphere of his movies.

The Man From Earth. – Huge disappointment, I never understood why people like this movie. It's basically one guy telling a predictable and boring story. One of the most overrated movies ever. (I mean overrated in subjective sense obviously.)

Traffic – One of the best movies about drugs and organized crime.

Inception – Above average but overrated, logically inconsistent, nothing really special about this movie. The Cell is another movie where people enter someone else's dreams and even though it has only 6.2 on IMDB, I think I enjoyed it more. The depictions of the dreams were definitely more creative and looked more dreamy.

Of the top of my head I would recommend these:

* Something from David Lynch – Lost Highway, Blue Velvet or Mullholland Drive.

* Requiem for Dream

* Evil (2003)

* Sin City

* Crank – not very known, but wow, this is the best action movie ever.

* Elite squad – another great action movie, very realistic, borderline documentary.

    Idiocracy – Basically an ordinary comedy, with an above average plot, but 
    overall nothing special or interesting. Overrated.

Agreed. I found it surprising when some relatives started overusing the jokes contained on the movie, as if they were part of the idiotic society portrayed on it.

Maybe the movie is a joke about itself, but I am afraid that's not the case.

Do you have any comments on Mullholland Drive? Perhaps I'm showing off my shallowness here, but that movie just seemed to be mostly random scenes, under the guise of being deep.

I need to watch Lynch movies a couple of times to understand them. The first round goes with just an excitement about the themes, the atmosphere, the music. On the second round I got more pieces together and the movie finally hits me on the third watch.

Good examples are Mulholland Drive, a movie about dreams and reality. And Lost Highway, a movie about denial and jealousy.

http://www.mulholland-drive.net/studies/classical.htm

Basically, the first part of the movie is Betty's dream and the second part is harsh reallity. After watching it, I was as confused as you but still was amazed by the movie. What I like about Lynch's movies is the "trippy" experience.

I think one core problem with Mulholland is that it was supposed to be a tv series. After some time of filming, they realized that wasn't going to happen (not sure why), so they had to wrap it up to make a movie instead. ddg for more details.

Completely agree, take a random topic generator for the plot, add some fear to death and other therapy topics, mix it all with some randomly annoying music, edit cutting randmly at the story and you have and instant clasic!!. You will have all those in need of mental Jigsaws chearing you as a gennious. Blogbuster movies are unable to create any mental challenge, so "art" directors just overcompensate for those who need them. For me art cinema ends being as annoying as comercial movies, just at the other end of the spectrum. There are always exceptions at both ends though.

> * Crank – not very known, but wow, this is the best action movie ever.

Just seconding this, in case it is not known. As action, Crank is perfect in every way. It's a shame Crank 2 went off the rails the way it did...

Nice to see that others appreciate Crank as well! I always wondered why it was so underrated.

I hoped Crank 2 would be as good, but the craziness was over the top.

Yeah, they seem to have thought what was called for was "Crank, but more so" when what they really needed to hit was "Crank, and exactly the same amount." I wasn't too disappointed though, since the original stands so well on it's own.

In regards to Elite Squad, I suggest the complementary (actually the other way around) City of God http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317248/

I've seen most of them, here some recommendations of my own:

* Revolver (2005)

* Enter the void (2009)

* The fountain (2006)

* Jacob's ladder (1990)

* Lost highway (1997)

* Love and sex (2000)

* RocknRolla (2008)

* The road (2009)

* The shining (1980)

Lost Highway is an adventure. I highly recommend everyone take it at least once in their lives. It's like a modern hajj.

> Inception – Above average but overrated, logically inconsistent, nothing really special about this movie.

What did you find logically inconsistent, out of curiosity?

I liked Inception, but it's nowhere near my top 10. It's more interesting to me if you ignore the actual content and look at it purely in terms of story formation: the deliberateness with which Nolan loops well... everything, from themes to sounds to places and so on is interesting to me.

It's certainly not the mindfuck that people keep claiming it is. I'm actually a little bothered by how many people have trouble wrapping their heads around it... almost as much as I'm bothered by how much people prefer the first Matrix to the latter two.

For example it doesn't make sense to use spinning top as a dream vs reality test. In my dreams spinning tops fall all the time.

Other plot holes I've recently seen on Quora:

http://www.quora.com/Movies/Which-major-movies-have-the-bigg...

It makes about as much sense as having a magic device that induces dream-sharing. :P

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