Messing With Your Mind
There are some movies out there that just love to mess with your mind and make you question if reality as you know it... really is.
The following list, in no particular order, is of films that are masterful at making you question everything you think you know.
The following list, in no particular order, is of films that are masterful at making you question everything you think you know.
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- DirectorSydney PollackStarsRobert RedfordFaye DunawayCliff RobertsonA bookish CIA researcher in Manhattan finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.This is a classic mindbender. Who are the good guys? Are there any good guys at all?
- DirectorAnthony RussoJoe RussoStarsChris EvansSamuel L. JacksonScarlett JohanssonAs Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world, he teams up with a fellow Avenger and S.H.I.E.L.D agent, Black Widow, to battle a new threat from history: an assassin known as the Winter Soldier.CA:TWS takes the action-hero formula and adds layers of Cold War-esque political intrigue, complete with shadow conspiracies, good guys doing the work of the bad guys, and -- you guessed it -- Nazis!
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsMichael DouglasDeborah Kara UngerSean PennAfter a wealthy San Francisco banker is given an opportunity to participate in a mysterious game, his life is turned upside down as he begins to question if it might really be a concealed conspiracy to destroy him.If any film makes you say, "But wait...", this would be it. It's just a really good thing he jumped off the side of the building that had the air bag under it.
- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsLeonardo DiCaprioJoseph Gordon-LevittElliot PageA thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster.I gave up trying to count the various layers of non-reality. Spin your little top, Leo.
- DirectorPhil Alden RobinsonStarsRobert RedfordDan AykroydSidney PoitierA security pro finds his past returning to haunt him when he and his unique team are tasked with retrieving a particularly important item.A classic paranoid tale. Too many secrets, indeed!
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerSharon StoneMichael IronsideWhen a man goes in to have virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars implanted in his mind, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or is he?This one (and its 2012 reincarnation) sprang from the suitably paranoiac mind of Philip K. Dick. What if your memories weren't real? What if they were? How would you ever tell?
- DirectorRenny HarlinStarsGeena DavisSamuel L. JacksonYvonne ZimaSamantha Caine lives in a small town with her daughter. Eight years ago she emerged, two months pregnant, from a nearby river with no memory of her past or who she is. However, she's getting closer to finding out about her past.Geena Davis as amnesiac CIA assassin turned housewife... it works, somehow.
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsBrad PittEdward NortonMeat LoafAn insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.The core plot is one which has been played out in countless sci-fi novels since the 1960's, but rarely as well as in this now-classic film.
- DirectorTerry GilliamStarsBruce WillisMadeleine StoweBrad PittIn a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.I seriously did not see the ending coming. Did anyone else?
- DirectorToby HaynesStarsBenedict CumberbatchMartin FreemanUna StubbsJim Moriarty hatches a mad scheme to turn the whole city against Sherlock.This episode of the astoundingly-good series is almost mind-numbingly hard to follow, as Moriarty spins Sherlock around at every turn.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsTom CruiseColin FarrellSamantha MortonJohn works with the PreCrime police which stop crimes before they take place, with the help of three 'PreCogs' who can foresee crimes. Events ensue when John finds himself framed for a future murder.An excellent adaptation of another Philip K. Dick work.