-- Posted by kjm55 at 9:31 am on Dec. 3, 2008 What is the most intellectual/most intellectually significant/most intellectually puzzling film of all time? For me it has to be 2001: A Space Odyssey. -- Posted by Blackadder at 8:34 am on Dec. 7, 2008 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.   -- Posted by xoxo1234 at 11:40 am on Dec. 12, 2008 Quote: from Blackadder at 6:34 pm on Dec. 7, 2008 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. I believe he is referring to films which raise intellectual questions within ourselves and encourage us to ponder the answers. -- Posted by whoami111 at 12:05 pm on Dec. 12, 2008 Event Horizon could be a good one. As a certified LiveWire Intellectual you are indubitably capable of composing a more verbose post! -- Posted by Blackadder at 12:47 pm on Dec. 12, 2008 Quote: from xoxo1234 at 7:40 pm on Dec. 12, 2008 Quote: from Blackadder at 6:34 pm on Dec. 7, 2008 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.   I believe he is referring to films which raise intellectual questions within ourselves and encourage us to ponder the answers. 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. -- Posted by medjai at 1:15 pm on Dec. 12, 2008 No Country for Old Men. There Will Be Blood. I'm only listing modern films. -- Posted by hI jAMES at 7:35 pm on Dec. 12, 2008 Johnny Got His Gun "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. -- Posted by obvious child at 1:44 am on Dec. 13, 2008 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. -- Posted by Event Horizon at 2:12 pm on Dec. 13, 2008 Quote: from obvious child at 4:44 am on Dec. 13, 2008 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. 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. -- Posted by kjm55 at 11:28 am on Dec. 16, 2008 'As a certified LiveWire Intellectual you are indubitably capable of composing a more verbose post!' 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'.