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.
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.
That 9/10 is not a recent thing at all. Movies have always been.
It is entertainment, it is all about wasting time and money.
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.
Donnie Darko, if you like unnerving mysteries with mind bending resolutions.
Project Hail Mary
These movies I specifically recommend people go into knowing as little as possible about them.
Requiem for a Dream
From Dusk Till Dawn
Funny Games
From Dusk Till Dawn really does not have the same impact if you know anything at all about the movie. Which is sort of a challenge for a 30-year-old franchise with three movies and a tv series
So if anyone is reading this who doesn’t know anything about the 1996 movie and you don’t mind a bloodbath, I highly recommend you watch it. Right now if you can
When I was in college, I got to show this movie to someone who had never heard of it. I’m so glad I got to see their reaction when they figured out what the movie is about.
It truly is a rare treat. I caught it for the first time on late night tv
It’s one of those movies that I wish I could completely forget about so I could experience it as a first time again
Funny Games
The one from 1997, not the 2007 US remake.
Psychological horror - Cube, Cube2, if you liked them Cube 0
Sci-fi - Enders Game
Comedy - Austin Powers (all)
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 Iron Giant
- The Neverending Story
- Pearl (if you know nothing of the series…full blind)
EDIT: The Apartment (1960)
The Cabin in the Woods
Memento
Fight Club
The Matrix
Mickey 17
Nobody/Nobody 2
Bullet Train
The Shawshank Redemption
Silence of the Lambs
Honestly? All of them.
Since I’ve stopped watching trailers / reading synopses etc. my enjoyment of most any movie has shot up exponentiallySorry to bother you (2018)
Any John Williams movies. Even if you can’t see what is going on in the movie, at least you’ll be able to enjoy the music
can’t see
I reckon OP was speaking figuratively :)
Tbh pretty much all movies. There’s really nothing to be gained from feeding the hype train.
The obvious answer for a question like this is often a movie with some kind of big twist - which does make a recommendation pretty hard if you want to preserve the surprise of the twist.
In an alternate vein, I think horror movies have a lot of potential here. I used to have a subscription to Shudder, and watching old horror movies I had never seen was a special kind of experience. Ditto for anything that describes itself as a “mind-bending psychological thriller” or anything psychedelic
For a specific recommendation, I’m going with Blood Beat (1983). Although even if I didn’t go in blind I probably would have found it just as weird
Ah the initial knowledge of a movie having a twist is not an issue for me because when I usually get movie recommendations I add them in a big list and by the time I get to watch them I forget that the movie is supposed to have a twist. Thank you for your recommendation!
