Weekly Poll Results: Best Cryptic Movie
Last week’s poll was a survey of your favourite “cryptic films”, which was really just a nice way of saying “favourite mindfucks”. Everyone loves a good mindfuck every now and then right? #1 and #2 are pretty obvious: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Donnie Darko. People love both of these movies (I like them too) but to be fair they are a little light as far as the weirdness factor goes. 12 Monkeys, Dark City and Vanilla Sky rounded out the top 5 (Vanilla Sky being one of few of these types of movies that I really didn’t like). There’s plenty more out there, so let us know what some of your other faves are. Next week’s poll: best action franchise (can you tell we just thought of it today?).
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind — 31.3%
2. Donnie Darko — 22.6%
3. 12 Monkeys — 14.8%
4. Dark City — 8.7%
5. Vanilla Sky — 7.0%
6. Cube — 5.2%
7. Eraserhead — 4.3%
8. Existenz — 2.6%
9. The Fountain — 1.7%
9. The Jacket — 1.7%
Comments (4)
Vanilla Sky had no point. It was nearly a shot for shot remake of the original (Abre los Ojos — which I really like). I like Vanilla Sky too, kind of by default…. but, it was a weird choice on Cameron Crowe’s part.
I also am yet to see like _half_ of these, yikes. I swear, there’s too many freakin’ movies I need to see still.
Posted by Zedd on December 15th, 2006(that were not on this list)
Posted by Aaron Moore on December 16th, 2006Memento. Fight Club. Jacob’s Ladder.
Wow… not one mention of “Tetsuo, the Iron Man” or “Lost Highway”?
Although with a short list of only ten I guess one should expect a few gems to be left out. I’m kind of surprised that “2001: A Space Odyssey” didn’t make the cut either. I don’t know about you people, but the end of that movie did an adequate job of blowing MY mind.
Posted by ISO100 on December 19th, 2006Leave a Reply