Now that was a weird movie. Imagine, if you can, Field of Dreams + Sound of Thunder + Somewhere in Time + The Little Mermaid. What I remember: some really atrocious acting/directing, firetruck shot tight so that the shot can stand in for 1969, horrible montages, typical time paradox problems, split screen montage that doesn't respect personal space, mandatory-but-tiresome "can this really be happening?" sequences. Also, did I mention that this was a weird movie? Amazingly, if you check around the web, this seems to be pretty popular and well-reviewed.
Kudos go to anyone who can guess two other movies that were highly recommended to me.
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we need clues...
(tough ones though)
These are relatively mainstream films (not art films) that tend to have a kind of philosophical bent which is cute that people think of me that way.
philosophical bent...you must be talking about this movie...
seriously, maybe existenz and manchurian candidate?
Hey I actually watched National Treasure to get ideas for our film. No, the two films are: Waking Life and The Matrix. The Matrix I really liked. It could be in my list of great films. Waking Life... that really should have been a book, not a film. Existenz... squishy and gross as only David Cronenberg do it.
i like the scene in national tray-zure where he hides the original declaration in the gift shop amongst the souvenir reproductions. i think the matrix was a truly uniting movie, it struck a chord with just about everybody - how many movies can say that? they always say that citizen kane summed up all movie-making techniques that came before it. when i was watching the matrix for the first time, i had a feeling that it was compiling and integrating every single sci-fi idea ever, with total audacity. it's at least as good as citizen kane. keanu was awesome - in my opinion that was key to the surprise attack that the matrix performed on its audience, because at the time keanu had a reputation as a ridiculously bad actor. this casting created a lot of suspense by itself. watching keanu sell it was more unexpected than bullet time.
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