Vanilla Sky felt pretentious but I have an extreme dislike for Tom Cruise. It sort of falls into the category of movies I liked but don't want to watch again like Requiem for a Dream.
Ahh I watched Requiem for a Dream. I did not like it that much and thought Vanilla Sky was better. Have you watched human centipede? I thought that was a surprisingly good movie. Requiem for a dream tried to be like Human Centipede with the shock and ah, but fell short.
There were quite a lot of things about it that I liked but I'm not good at collecting my thoughts. My memory's more like a hash map, I can't get anything out of there unless I prompt it with a key.
The philosophical aspects, scenery and music are all worth mentioning. The way the movie creates this mysterious atmosphere that begs the audience to pay close attention to detail is brilliant. Take your unicorn scene, for example: the first time I watched the movie I was puzzled by the scene. The reason the scene stuck to my mind was because of Deckard's expression upon waking up and due to the background music. Of course the fact that the unicorn was out of context played its own part.
There's also a lot of subtle hints which guide the audience to notice various things which I really liked. The unicorn scene is after the scene where what's her name ( I never remember names ) shows a picture of her and her mother and Deckard tells her that the memories are just implants, and right after the unicorn scene Deckard picks a photo up.
Similarly right after you see that woman's eyes glimmer and think "hmm, so is this glimmering thing something that every replica shares" you get this:
So really the way the movie guides the audience is just brilliant.
I don't usually pick favourite scenes but I would the strongest scenes for me were the final chase and the last scene where Deckard picks up the unicorn origami. One of the things that's still puzzling me after watching the movie multiple times is the bird and human origamis. Never quite got the meaning of those.
I've always wanted to watch Gattaca, may have to track it down tonight. "In Time" was as you said, a let down, but I did appreciate the idea behind it.
Aspie.. I'm not watching Human Centipede. You purposefully don't capitalize The Fountain and suggest Human Centipede.. I don't even.
Children of Men is very good but I almost always like movies that disturb me in a realistic way (dysotopian, war films, dark documentaries). Apocalypse Now is another one of these.
@Aspienigga: Any other movies worth watching? I've wanted to watch space odyssey for a long time but I always forget to do that. By the way did you like the spider-man movie? The one released in 2002, not the newer ones (amazing spider-man etc). I thought it was surprisingly good. Not sure if you enjoy that type of movies. Not like there was much deeper meaning or philosophy to it.
On the old forum there were many dark and gloomy avatars. I felt I needed to bring some color to the place so I picked a rainbow. When the new forum was up and others changed avatars I felt like I wanted to as well. So I image googled rainbows. And found what I have now. What can be more cheesy than a rainbow AND a unicorn?
It's pretty hard to beat.