Simon's Favorite Movies
Boogie Nights
R
A huge film that could have so easily gone off the rails but didn't. Transcends genres, effortlessly being really light and extremely dark. Too many great performances to mention just one, but I will anyway: Julianne Moore. Amazingly shot. Great soundtrack. An epic, brilliant film.
Donnie Darko
R
First watching it, all the way through, I thought it was just a collection of really great scenes that didn't entirely fit together, and then the ending comes and everything seems to fit... even though, even now, I'm still not one hundred percent sure. Such a great mindfuck, but also such a great watch. Often mindfucks have characters and scenes that, while watching them, are unrelatable or boring or seemingly meaningles, and it's a struggle to get to, and you only persevere so you can see what the movie is on about, but not here! It rules all the way through. If you don't think so, you can go suck a fuck.
