Hey guys! Recently I've enjoyed the movies Falling Down and American Beauty. And I loved them. I was wondering if you guys can recommend me some movies in the same kinda theme with the same kind of atmosphere, if you know what I mean....mainly where the main character just "snaps". I added a picture of Leonardo DiCaprio in Shutter Island where he is mentally ill and kinda snaps after a while. You understand what I mean. Appreciate all the tips and please keep the movies American and not older than say 1995. Movies like Fight Club are also cool. No bait. (Doesn't have to be, but) mentally ill main character that "snaps".
Breaking Bad is also an example of what I'm looking for. American Psycho as well.
Forrest Gump
>>67833920
Appreciate the tip, but it's kinda not what I'm thinking about.
I think you would really like Nightcrawler and There Will Be Blood. Also, Revolutionary Road.
>>67833803
The Master has the best snap ever
>>67834093
Hey! I've watched Nightcrawler and I really enjoyed it. I fell in love with Jake Gyllenhaal(?) in the movie he plays a cop and are looking for a couple of girls, can't remember the name rn and won't bother to look it up. I also enjoyed him in Brokeback Mountain. Despite the gay scenes and it being known as a girl movie, I really like that movie. But damn in Nightcrawler I fell for him, hahaha. I will check out the other movies, and thanks!
>>67834270
Hey thanks dude, I will check it out!
>>67834298
Thanks dude, will check it out!!
>>67833803
Office Space
Kick Ass
Wanted
Network
>>67834386
hmm maybe also Rushmore, Royal tennenbaums.. and most Wes Anderson tbqh, usually has a mentally ill character that goes over the edge and conquers some fear through the experience
>>67833803
John Wick is more of a revenge flick but similar to your description
Fuck off, retard.
>>67834477
+ I heart huckabees
im also a big fan of this trope. do you by any chance suffer from anxiety?
>>67833803
The movie Super
>>67834520
Thanks, but I've already seen it. Good movie, but I don't really like Keanu Reeves so I had kinda lowered my expectations before watching it. Sad though, I did like it.
>>67834386
Thanks! I've seen Kick Ass and I didn't really like it even though I think it was a good casting. Will check out the others, appreciate it! Also I've seen Rushmore, great movie! Haven't seen the others, will check them out! And no, I don't suffer from anything except epilepsy, haha. It's not triggered by light or anything, thank God. I can only have it when I sleep which is great - I'm able to have a drivers license and don't go around worrying if I'll have an attack at anytime. My girlfriend suffers from anxiety, depression and PTSD from an abusive childhood in a foster home, though. Dunno if that has an impact on me other than some really hard days.
>>67834575
Thanks, I will definitely check it out!
Watch The Prestige
Mad Max
Also... birdman
>>67833803
That Tom Hanks movie where he's a little retarded and he starts a shrimp company.
>>67834890
thanks for the tips, I've seen The Prestige and Mad Max. I loved The Prestige but didn't really care for Mad Max, dunno why. I think the whole desert thing kinda ruined it for me. I've downloaded Birdman, haven't seen it yet though. Is it so decent that I should save it for a special occasion or is it meh and just watch whenever?
The Virgin Spring
The Cow (1969)
>>67833803
Upcoming, but Suicide Squad. The Joker just snaps and becomes an absolute madman.
>>67833803
Man of Steel
Aguirre the Wrath of God
>>67835300
>>67835396
>>67835482
Thanks for the tips, but I don't really like old movies. I will however watch the trailers and decide if I think they look good enough to watch or not, though.
>>67835420
Yeah, I'm gonna be watching that.
>>67835452
Already seen it and enjoyed it, thanks tho!
>>67835536
>but I don't really like old movies.
Literally kill yourself.
Not sure if this entirely fits the bill, but Heat tells an action packed story of modern day desperados
And also I really enjoyed The Virgin Suicides if anyone's watched that.
>>67835536
>but I don't really like old movies.
More about the heavy build up to characters snapping but at least not a memendation I'd say you should watch Revolutionary Road.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3oLFDCy37s
>>67835627
Just my preferences, man.
>>67835723
lol made me laugh. just for this i might consider watching some of the old movies recommended here.
>>67833803
one flew over the cuckoos nest
>>67835536
>I don't really like old movies.
And people ask why /tv/ is going down the shitter
>>67835204
don't save birdman, I found it to be disappointing. It doesn't really have any action to speak of like the other movies you have said you liked, birdman is a lot of san fransisco talking and emotions and shit
>>67835536
>but I don't really like old movies
See >>67835627
>>67835739
some guy already recommended it, downloading as we speak!
>>67835797
thanks! i haven't watched a lot of old movies before the 90s but I do love jack nicholson so i will check it out.
>>67835836
sorry tho..i haven't really watched a lot of old movies and whenever I've tried, the high pitched voices and bad acting (at least on the ones i've seen) has really ruined it for me and made me think bad about every old movie i guess. i will give old movies a new chance though, i never really did see anyone with a good rating.
>>67835920
You should seriously, actually kill yourself.
>>67835916
:( what old movies with the same kinda stuff i talked about in first post would you recommend then? willing to watch it
>>67834298
He just turned into a dick.
Completely unrelated, but you're really nice OP. Saying thanks to everyone's suggestions and replying.
Birdman has some nice snapping moments, btw.
>>67833803
>>67833893
Go back to /b/
>>67836141
haha nah i'm not really that nice person, but when asking for help it's common decency to say thanks, aight? *tips fedora*
>>67836193
multitasking brah
>>67834346
Donnie Darko
The Shining
>>67836295
>>67836333
thanks, but i've already seen them! loved them both
>>67835536
>I don't really like old movies
>>67834386
>office space
nice
>>67836193
how can i become an okay member of /tv/ if i don't get my movie experience in order first? am i to just suddenly have it before coming here? asking for recommendations here lol
>>67836447
lol no fuck avengers
Stop suggesting any movies made before the 2000's! I already said I dont like older movies.
>>67836500
lol op you're such a funny guy ;-)
the one where this guy runs for a really long time at one point, he's sort of brain damaged
>>67836582
Blade Runner?
>>67836544
How is personal taste funny? Sorry I dont like shittier quality
>>67836627
Bubble Boy?
?
taxi driver ya dingus
The Details.
Pretty fucking good movie and it did so bad at the box office nobody knows about it.
>>67836582
life is like a crate of apples
>>67836736
seen it and love it, thanks though
>>67836774
Forrest Gump
that film where the man is kind of stupid but really good at table tennis
that kino with a mentally challenged man and his friend colonel stan
G U M P
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there's this movie with the kid with low IQ who wears leg braces
there one flick in which a retard creeps on a girl for his entire life, before finally snapping and raping her. She bears his child before dying of aids
Bullworth
>Trump supporters need not apply
forgot the name of it, but this stupid guy tells his life story to someone on a bench
Forrest Gump is pretty good.
>>67837005
It's Such a Beautiful Day?
can't recall the title just now, it's the film where this man with a learning disability joins the army for service in vietnam at one part
>>67836934
Make America Gump Again
the one where the soldier who's not that smart invents the smiley face, among other events
The one where the retarded guy gets cucked again and again by some AIDS junkie and raises another man's son
that flick with the guy who wear a suit that's a little too small and he has a bad haircut, because he's got an intelligence issue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8dUowQhkIc
Like domesticity slowly choking the optimism and life out of a person before they snap?
I haven't seen this movie in its entirety, but I read the book. If the movie is faithful as an adaptation, it'll probably have the atmosphere you're looking for.
It even has Leo in it.
that movie where tom hanks plays tom hanks
>>67837794
that looks good, but you know, I prefer the one about the box of chocolates, you know, the one with the retarded guy?
Michael Clayton
If you focus on Tom Wilkinson's character.
First time you watch the movie, he's just a dude who has lost his mind.
Second time, he's still crazy as fuck but you realize he has a point.
Third time you watch the movie, you suddenly see everything he is saying and doing.
Seriously underrated movie.
The one where the patriotic, brave(yet slightly retarded) war veteran who was a star athlete and as American as apple pie and the missionary position snapped on the sniveling, Jewish looking civil rights activist for slapping the young white girl who got mixed up in all of it
>>67838031
Why does anyone need that much bread?
that 1994 film with tom hanks and robin wright, he's retarded in it
>>67838163
>>67838163
Turner and Hooch was 1989, dumbfuck
>>67838230
touche
>>67838031
This. That guy is awesome.
>>67834760
>I don't really like Keanu Reeves
You could watch Mad Men.
Don Draper consistently oscillates between temporary enlightenment and absolute shit-loss. The whole show is literally about a dude who keeps having mental breakdowns and runs away to California to nurse them.
