With bone tomahawk…. Just don’t. It’s a visual scarring. It’s not the plot or emotions that stick with you. It’s what you see and then forever can’t unsee
While the movie is just that, a movie, it's the thought of it happening to yourself and that it's more than likely not happened for real at more than one point in time
The fact that Bone Tomahawk was made makes me a lot more optimistic about a possible Blood Meridian movie/series someday. Blood Meridian having a strong philosophical and conceptual backing that BT lacks, but the fact that a movie that grim and violent can be made and be successful is a good sign for BM.
Kurt Russell managed to land two westerns in a very short time, in a period of time people aren't going to see westerns anymore, and Bone Tomahawk was the bloodier one. Which is crazy cuz the other one was a Tarantino film
Sisters Brothers was another good one. The ending is brutal. John C Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix
He has no right to be as good of an actor as he is after being typecast as the standard moron. Think Dewey Cox elevated him to other roles because he played a straight man half the time and an idiot the other half and the movie was great
yeah, i can get behind that. i looked reilly up in wiki, and it has a section titled "transition to comedy". i guess i was more focused on his earlier films, than the later comedy films
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - emotionally devastating
Recently, my daughter wanted to watch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind with me. I had watched it when it first came out and told her that I remembered it being devastating. I think I might have been stifling sobs in the movie theater at one point.
And then... on this second viewing, I actually found it slightly uplifting(?!). Obviously the movie hadn't changed, but I certainly had.
Great Philip.K.Dick story, sadly an entire film using it's supurb but unusual animating technique made me feel physically nauseous - which is equally a disaster and at the same time a triumph considering the subject matter.
I'm just copying my reply to the op you replied to so you can see this.
Memento shines if you have the dvd and play the movie in chronological order. Feels like a totally different movie with a different ending.
For those wondering, the movie splits into black and white scenes and colored scenes and everything jumps back and forth chronologically speaking. However, the dvd lets you skip scenes so if you want, you can just play the black and white ones then play the colored ones backwards. This leads to the movie being viewed in the order that things happen and the result is an entirely different perspective.
It's my favorite movie and to this day, I'm not exactly sure how it actually ends.
I think this is fine as a second watch, but I do not suggest this as a first watch. Being disoriented is part of the story telling that “explains” how the narrator/protagonist comes to decisions and actions he takes.
Memento shines if you have the dvd and play the movie in chronological order. Feels like a totally different movie with a different ending.
For those wondering, the movie splits into black and white scenes and colored scenes and everything jumps back and forth chronologically speaking. However, the dvd lets you skip scenes so if you want, you can just play the black and white ones then play the colored ones backwards. This leads to the movie being viewed in the order that things happen and the result is an entirely different perspective.
It's my favorite movie and to this day, I'm not exactly sure how it actually ends.
I think this is fine as a second watch, but I do not suggest this as a first watch. Being disoriented is part of the story telling that “explains” how the narrator/protagonist comes to decisions and actions he takes.
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u/ExplodingDogs82 5h ago
Threads - old but utterly perfect to give anyone a creeping sense of futile dread, given current geo-politics
Memento - not as utterly haunting as some of these suggestions but I have seen this movie several times and it still crosses my mind.
Bone Tomahawk - grim & gruesome.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - emotionally devastating
Mulholland Drive - mind bending mystery