For me it has to be 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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I'd promised myself that I'd go steady this week, but
with the week i've just had this shit is just what I need!

Does a film need to be intellectual?, or can it simply be something that inspires something intellectual within you?

By intellectually significant, do you mean that is provoked a large reaction, because highly influential or something?

By puzzling do you mean that the film offers a puzzle for us to solve (e.g Donnie Darko) or do you mean intellectually puzzling for other reasons (e.g  why the fuck did someone make "Disaster Movie"??)

The matrix for example, raises several epistimological ideas (e.g how can we know that we are "Real") and so in this sense it can be considered highly intellectual.  thus suceeds at the secound criteria.

On the other hand however, the film does nothing more than raises these epistemological doubts, so it fails at the first criteria.  

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I think you need to elaborate as to what you mean.

 
Does a film need to be intellectual?, or can it simply be something that inspires something intellectual within you?

By intellectually significant, do you mean that is provoked a large reaction, because highly influential or something?  

By puzzling do you mean that the film offers a puzzle for us to solve (e.g Donnie Darko) or do you mean intellectually puzzling for other reasons (e.g why the fuck did someone make "Disaster Movie"??)  

 
The matrix for example, raises several epistimological ideas (e.g how can we know that we are "Real") and so in this sense it can be considered highly intellectual. thus suceeds at the secound criteria.

On the other hand however, the film does nothing more than raises these epistemological doubts, so it fails at the first criteria.

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I believe he is referring to films which raise intellectual questions within ourselves and encourage us to ponder the answers.

As a certified LiveWire Intellectual you are indubitably capable of composing a more verbose post!

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Quote: from Blackadder at 6:34 pm on Dec. 7, 2008

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I think you need to elaborate as to what you mean.  

 
 Does a film need to be intellectual?, or can it simply be something that inspires something intellectual within you?  

 By intellectually significant, do you mean that is provoked a large reaction, because highly influential or something?

 By puzzling do you mean that the film offers a puzzle for us to solve (e.g Donnie Darko) or do you mean intellectually puzzling for other reasons (e.g  why the fuck did someone make "Disaster Movie"??)

 
 The matrix for example, raises several epistimological ideas (e.g how can we know that we are "Real") and so in this sense it can be considered highly intellectual.  thus suceeds at the secound criteria.  

 On the other hand however, the film does nothing more than raises these epistemological doubts, so it fails at the first criteria.  

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I believe he is referring to films which raise intellectual questions within ourselves and encourage us to ponder the answers.

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In that case, the criteria is entirely subjective....

did anyone else watch the pokemon movies and gain a profound insight into the social acceptability of animal cruelty??

...we can do this with any film.

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I'm only listing modern films.

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O` tru apothecary!
Thy drugs are quick.
Thus with a kiss I die.

"As a certified LiveWire Intellectual you are indubitably capable of composing a more verbose post!"

oooook.  This films embarks on different things.  Of course they're are other good movies.  Hard to pin point the biggest.

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So here's my goodbye, no one will cry over me.

I'm not worth any tears.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindwalk

Too bad they didn't make Starship Troopers into a movie. I mean a movie that Henlein wouldn't roll over in his grave about due to the utter rejection of what the book actually says.

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Mind Walk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindwalk

Too bad they didn't make Starship Troopers into a movie. I mean a movie that Henlein wouldn't roll over in his grave about due to the utter rejection of what the book actually says.

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Mind walk was a highly intellectual and philosophical film.
Others:
Waking Life
the unbearable lightness of being

Sci-fi movies are sometimes pretty intellectual:
Gattaca
2001  -as you said
Solyaris [the russian version]

I'll have to think of some more. I have a whole bunch on my computer.

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful.It's the transition
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Just because my post did not have a somewhat unhealthy abundance of correct grammar does not mean it was unintellectual...? How naive. Grammar alone does not certify posts as being 'intellectual'.

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I'd promised myself that I'd go steady this week, but
with the week i've just had this shit is just what I need!