That film blew my mind!

Inception is the film title on everyone's lips at the moment, and for good reason.

Director Chris Nolan's latest film is a phenomenal success as well as - miracle of miracles - a thinking person's action blockbuster. (Review here.)

It manages to be weird, surreal, emotional, and spectacular - sometimes all at the same time. But Inception is not the first of Nolan's films to blow our minds.

Way back when no one had heard of the young British filmmaker, say around the turn of the millennium, Nolan directed a very different time-twisting little film that starred a freakishly tattooed and chronically forgetful Guy Pearce trying to figure out who murdered his wife.

The fact that Memento's fragmented story was revealed to the audience backwards chronologically only made it more compelling as the clever, gritty and gripping brain-teaser unwound (or rewound).

But Nolan isn't the only filmmaker to dabble in the weird. There have been numerous others, including, of course, the master surrealist Salvador Dali (In 1929 with Luis Bunuel, Dali made the silent short, An Andalusian Dog, which you can see here. It's still pretty disturbing stuff, even today, what with the eyeball slicing, severed hand and sexual harrassment, etc.).

So what is the movie that blew your mind?

Was El Topo tops for you?

Did The Matrix mess you up?

Is the Clockwork Orange still ticking at the back of your brain?

Are you still trying to figure out how to forget Brazil?

Did you eat all the Pi?

Are you still dreaming of Blade Runner's electric sheep?

Do you still not talk about Fight Club?

Or was it pretty much everything David Lynch has done (or will do)? (It's impossible to pick out just one of David Lynch's brain-melting works as the craziest, most mind-blowing-est. Please don't ask me.)

Just take your nerve pills and share your favourite freakish film experience below. Go on. It's bound to be therapeutic.

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Dale   #1   01:35 pm Jul 26 2010

You forgot Donnie Darko :-)

confused   #2   01:41 pm Jul 26 2010

Mulholland Drive still has me confused...have no idea what that film was about!!

Tony   #3   01:47 pm Jul 26 2010

Must not forget The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovich on that list. Sheer works of genius

Chris   #4   01:50 pm Jul 26 2010

Enter The Void, a French film directed by Gaspar Noé.

Jacob   #5   01:50 pm Jul 26 2010

As described, I don't think you could go beyond David Lynch for confusion. Just when you think you're getting a handle on things you fall futher into the madness. Trying to watch them post-midnight is bound to end in mental failure.

2001 was mind blowing in so much as you had to keep reminding yourself that this movie was made in the late 60s. How far we haven't managed to come since then. Although George Lucus figured out how to make noise in space, so that's no small achievement.

sarah   #6   01:54 pm Jul 26 2010

Inception was awesome, very well done I hope christopher nolan gets the awards he deserves on this one. and good job by the two main leads.

The one thing I thought about when I first saw the trailor was how it reminded me of the movie "Dark City" Now there's a movie that originally blew my mind!

Other movies that have blown my mind.. Fight club, The cube, Butterfly effect

mikemike   #7   02:11 pm Jul 26 2010

Primer - mindblowing, impossible to get in the first watch. even reading the confusing 9 timeline diagram does little to help.

Great tho

Spartacus   #8   02:18 pm Jul 26 2010

Watching Twin Peaks at the moment, damn it's good. I still think The Holy Mountain is the most brain busting film i've ever seen. Memento was so good that I watched it twice, back to back in the same sitting.

Inception was great for a blockbuster, not many of them pour on the strangeness as much as it did.

Ryan   #9   02:19 pm Jul 26 2010

Jacobs ladder, so amazing!

Mulholland drive by the way is about a persons life flashing before there eyes before they die

Louisette   #10   02:26 pm Jul 26 2010

I love a good mind blower. Fight Club and Versus are my favourites ATM.

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