I don’t like to dwell on a movie’s description or details before watching it so I’m looking for movies to go into blind.
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Incendies by Denis Villeneuve. I know he’s become a pretty big and successful director after he did Blade Runner and Dune, but Incendies is his best movie and an absolutely crazy ride. Twist after twist after twist until finally, you arrive at the final twist and you are not prepared. At all.
Big Trouble (2002). Massively underrated.
“I fuckin’ hate Gators fans.”
“Everything, everywhere, all at once”
It’s just… Wow
A few classics that haven’t been mentioned yet are Rear Window, The Planet of the Apes (1968), and Se7en. Se7en is absolutely still worth watching even if spoiled by the memes. Parasite is also a good, more recent one.
The recent Backrooms movie.
I agree that going into all movies blind is best, there are specific types that are best to be blind. I’d say movies where the ending is the biggest plot point like those with twist endings, mysteries, and maybe tragedies. In a romcom or adventure movie, there’s a good chance you may already know the outcome. The couple end up together or good overcomes evil. But those movies are enjoyable even if you can predict the outcome. For mysteries or twist endings, if you already know the ending then the journey towards it is less enjoyable.
Other movies that are good going in blind are ones that are so out there part of the fun is watching what makes it so different.
That said, here are the list of movies I think would be great to go in blind:
- Old Boy (the 2003 Korean one)
- Memento
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Fargo
- Shutter Island
Honestly? All of them.
Since I’ve stopped watching trailers / reading synopses etc. my enjoyment of most any movie has shot up exponentiallyIve never watched trailers. They ruin the movies. Especially now.
Agreed. If I don’t want to watch a movie I’ll just watch the trailer to get a summary of the entire dang plot
Yeah. Theyve gotten worse. Go watch a trailer for Jurassic park, now thats a good one, its like what’s happening and then IRS over, lije 15 seconds. How a trailer should be. Not every damn clip of the movie for 3 minutes.
All of them. I want to know very little about the movies I go see.
Great way to waste time and money. 9/10 releases recently are hot garbage.
Exactly! I stopped watching movie and tv trailers over 10 years ago, and it has GREATLY improved my viewing experience!
Titan AE and Atlantis: The Lost Empire for some good classics.
Oh, ans Treasure Planet too.
If you can manage it, the Matrix was absolutely amazing the first time. We had no idea what we were going to see except someone from work said it looked good. After it was done we were leaving the theater and saw that the next showing didn’t have a line, so we went again.
Project Hail Mary
The book is much better, the audiobook is even better than the book. Gosling was the wrong actor for this role.
That’s what my neighbor told me after I took his advice and watched it. Haven’t had the capacity to read/listen yet.
But going into it almost completely blind, it was a great movie.
Dark City. Make sure to watch the original release, not the directors cut. Otherwise, enjoy.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. I went in thinking it was a martial arts flick and was pleasantly surprised while not being incorrect.
1973’s Day of the Jackal.
1974’s The Conversation.
I swear I’ve heard of the Day of the Jackal 10 times by now! I don’t mean in a bad way :) Either the book or movie, I see it being suggested often in the topics I’m interested in. Might be a sign to finally watch it!
There was a new series sometime in the recent past so maybe that got some attention to the older ones.
The Cabin in the Woods
Memento
Fight Club
The Matrix
Mickey 17
Nobody/Nobody 2
Primer
That. Also Ex Machina, Snowpiercer, eXistenZ, Edge of Tomorrow, The Birdcage
