Movies that were way ahead of their time
 

Mad Love (1935) Featuring Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre plays a mad scientist/doctor that transplants the hands of a dead knife throwing lunatic onto those of a piano player who's hands were crushed in an accident. He does it as a "favor" to the mans wife, who Peter Lorre's character has lusted over for years. The man realizes his new hands are not proficient at piano, but instead at throwing knives.

The most brilliant scene is when the pianist is confronted by the dead knife throwing lunatic Rollo, who was decapitated, but reveals to him that the doctor reattached his head, gave him metal hands and reanimated him.

Couldn't agree more. Repped.

also repped! good choice.

Back to The Future 2

Public Enemy. That predated mainstream grapefruit smashing by 50 years.

Public Enemy is a wonderful film. The end is so unsettling.

Here's another one:

I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Very similar to the latter movie Cool Hand Luke.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QvF2FZZftY

The end scene is a total classic, with our hero become anti-hero fading into the darkness in this beautifully eerie shot:

Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" - still hasn't been topped to this day.

iwill rent this tonight

Seconds (1966).

A company offers their wealthy clients a chance at a second life. They find a life that is what their clients would have wanted (artist, writer, politician), kill the person who is to be replaced and surgically alter their clients to take their places.

Genuinely disturbing. A great ending too.

yeah, i absolutely can't believe that movie was made in 1935. excellent film and if you look in yr rep box there's one from me as well.

i can't actually think of any off the top of my head though

Those are all great films, but (apart from Back to the Future 2 lol) why are they ahead of their time?

Morning demonrail! How's Ting Tings? :p

I said "Metropolis", because of it's futuristic dystopia theme (how many times has this been used again over the years). Also No Metropolis = No "Blade Runner" or "Brazil" or even "The Matrix"

you're spot on about that movie. excellent.

no 2046 without it either.

Fair enough, and on those grounds:

Psycho:

It took the horror film away from the clutches of vampires, mad scientists, zombies, etc, and into the hands of the quiet maniac that would eventually give us Halloween, Friday the 13th, and every other slasher movie since then.

Re How's Tings: Not good. I think I may have a trapped nerve or something in my neck; I can hardly move it and I have a real pain in my right shoulder that keeps waking me up at night.:mad:)

I agree with Metropolis.

Chris Marker's "La Jetée" from 1962 (the one that inspired T. Gilliam's "12 Monkeys") is a short film, consisting mostly of photographed stills, but was also very ahead of its time, I think, if only for its themes: post-apocalyptic world, earth contaminated after WW3, people living underground, research on time travelling, and all the story about this man obsessed with the vague memory of a woman at the airport beore the war...

Also, maybe Alain Resnais' "Hiroshima, mon amour", for its extensive use of flashbacks in 1959.

IMO Psycho is boring, really.

Metropolis.

19 years from now.

YOU WILL SEE.

Bladerunner

still wondering how this movie was possible in 1982

It travelled back in time from the future.

Un Chien Andalou
Dog Star Man
Tetsuo: the Iron Man
The Holy Mountain and El Topo
Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Blood Feast