The Most Recent Film You Were Blown Away By

[blind_dead_mcjones]

redline by takeshi koike, it did strange and magical things to my eyeballs that left me feeling sullied and unusual afterwards, it was just that awesome

 

[tthor]

Scott Pilgrim, best movie i've seen all year.

also, i loved Sweeney Todd, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid(the latter i watched in my Film/TV class, great movie)

OH OH and The Prestige, that movie was awesome!

 

[birdplaneman]

Inception, definitely. Moon, also definitely--the music alone is hands-down PERFECT.

I've just finished watching "Sweeny Tod: The Demon Barber" and I loved the love neglect relationship that was clear between Sweeny and Mrs. Nellie Lovett, though the ending is what really got to me thinking that this film is truly amazing.

Movie would have been better with less singing.

None of the actors are good singers, and most of the songs drag on way too long. Story was interesting though.

Hehe thats what I thought gave the movie its more "gritty" feeling towards everying in his life, the slightly shaky tones of their singing voice's making the scene feel darker than it already was =] the only two people I couldn't stand for long while singing was Sweeney's daughter and that little boy (that kid annoyed me so much in the film! =P).

To you Broadway virgins who were nonplussed by Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd, I would highly HIGHLY recommend trying to see the stage version. I'm probably a miniscule minority here (theater geeks on the Escapist), but it's one of my favorite plays of all time, and the movie just didn't do it justice.

 

[alittlepepper]

One of the bigger movies I've seen lately that really blew me away with how good it was is one that will firmly establish my nerd cred:
Batman: Under the Red Hood.

Laugh all you want, it's a pretty damn good movie in my opinion.
I suppose before that...eh, I dunno, I really don't watch many movies. Though Razortooth left an impression on me just for being so awesomely awful. But the campaign page for Mercer did much the same thing back when it was still around...

http://www.mercerforpresident2008.com/ Have a read...

 

[s_glasgow99]

Toy Story was the latest movie to hit me like an emotional truck, Up hit harder... the guys at Pixar are frickin geniuses.

The last live action movie to hit me emotionally... Garden State. It summed up my own geeky repressed emotions in a way no other film has, and probably ever will.

oh, and my choice on most emotionally impacting 'classic' would have to be "The Passion of Joan of Arc". No other silent film has expressed emotions in so much detail, hell, it's the movie that invented the closeup.

 

[Ashcrexl]

a film i was blown away by? what about "Wind!"

no, but really, i was pretty blown away by the original matrix when i first saw it. it was so good.

 

[dalek sec]

It's a tie between "Inception" and "The Town" for me. Both of them just blew my mind in very different ways that are hard to describe. D:

 

[subfield]

V for Vendetta.

"Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof."

 

[AvsJoe]

I have given out a few perfect scores over the past year, but the one that blew me away the hardest was How to Train Your Dragon. I thought is was going to be a standard kids animated film, the type of movie you would use the word "another" to describe. I was not expecting such an exciting adventure with great characters, great humour, and perfect casting choices.

Now to the other end of the spectrum. The film that blew me away the other direction would be the movie I currently refer to as "the most shocking movie of all time". I am, of course, talking about the 30 year old horror classic Cannibal Holocaust. I will forever thank this movie for proving to me that I am not completely desensitized to film. The turtle scene and the muskrat scene have scarred me.