Best philosophical movies/TV shows?

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Dulcinea

#1 December 08, 2008, 12:45:35 am

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Just out of curiousity, what do you think are the best philosophical movies of all time?

Mine are (yes, kick me, they're mainstream):

The Matrix
Waking Life
Fight Club
Monty Python's Anything (just cause they talk a lot about philosophy)
American Beauty

Also, if you wanna talk about any of the philosophy in the movies...

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headphonics

#2 December 08, 2008, 12:48:32 am

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finalfantasy 9

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#3 December 08, 2008, 12:55:08 am

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Last Life in the Universe
O Lucky Man!
Dark City
Pi
Blade Runner
Being John Malkovich
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Stalker
Solaris (original)
A Clockwork Orange
4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Adaption
Memento
Come and See

I dunno, I had to look up all these different lists and shit since I've seen so much crap I can't remember anything.

I also forgot what a philosophical movie is.

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something bizarre and impractical

#4 December 08, 2008, 01:01:04 am

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Vanilla Sky??

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Standard Toaster

#5 December 08, 2008, 01:08:51 am

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one of my favorites is The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman, its an oldie its really well done.

Garden State addresses a few ethical issues but generally its pretty light. The Truman Show is another pretty good one, but I haven't seen it in ages.

Memento isn't explicitly philosophical but it has a lot of stuff about the existence of reality etc in it, and its just a damn good movie. Rashomon also deals with questioning reality pretty well.

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Beasley

#6 December 08, 2008, 05:48:39 am

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Quote from: Dulcinea on December 08, 2008, 12:45:35 am

Just out of curiousity, what do you think are the best philosophical movies of all time?

Mine are (yes, kick me, they're mainstream):
The Matrix
Waking Life
Fight Club
Monty Python's Anything (just cause they talk a lot about philosophy)
American Beauty

Also, if you wanna talk about any of the philosophy in the movies...

haha dude i know you already called yourself on this but seriously this is like the 'movies with underlying meanings' starter kit and they're all really obvious

but im just being a douche and not adding anything so JUST IGNOR ETHE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN :welp:

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Artis Leon Ivey Jr

#7 December 08, 2008, 05:50:00 am

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the definition of philosophical seems to be very loose!

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headphonics

#8 December 08, 2008, 05:54:46 am

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Quote from: Beasley on December 08, 2008, 05:48:39 am

haha dude i know you already called yourself on this but seriously this is like the 'movies with underlying meanings' starter kit and they're all really obvious

but im just being a douche and not adding anything so JUST IGNOR ETHE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN

how does waking life have an underlying meaning, exactly

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Ghost_Aspergers

#9 December 08, 2008, 05:56:01 am

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Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas

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Vellfire

#10 December 08, 2008, 01:19:12 pm

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monty python anything REALLY?????

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Roman

#11 December 08, 2008, 08:20:32 pm

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uh so yeah this is probably going to end up with more joke replies than anything else. next time dulcinea try adding more substance to the main post and you will probably get more serious replies

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