# Dreamlike Movies

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreamlike-movies/206119>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 7, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreamlike-movies/206119 "2003-10-07T18:14:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
**Page:** 3

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**Author:** ![jea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a5b964/32.png) [@jea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jea)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreamlike-movies/206119/41 "2003-10-10T15:29:44Z")

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Anything by David Lynch. Especially “The Lost Highway”

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreamlike-movies/206119/42 "2003-10-11T03:48:02Z")

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A few more that I don’t think have been mentioned; _Barton Fink_, _The Blair Witch Project_, and _Repulsion_.

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**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreamlike-movies/206119/43 "2003-10-11T06:32:41Z")

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“Svengali”, with John Barrymore, seems to fit in this thread. Hammily acted by JB, but almost the entire movie felt like a dream, no doubt influenced by the dream-like trances the heroine was placed in by the title character. Would’ve been much more enjoyable without the vaselined lenses, and that wind machine.

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**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreamlike-movies/206119/44 "2003-10-11T08:26:08Z")

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movies by studio ghibli

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreamlike-movies/206119/45 "2003-10-11T17:37:49Z")

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I don’t think anyone’s mentioned **Monkeybone** (which I just saw on TV last night, and _loved_).

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**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreamlike-movies/206119/46 "2003-10-11T22:15:45Z")

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Monkeybone is good??? I always just wrote it off like I did Cool World and Bebe’s Kids.

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreamlike-movies/206119/47 "2003-10-11T22:23:19Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Alias \*  
> \*\*Monkeybone is good??? \*\*

Well, _I_ liked it. But I hated _Chicago_, so YMMV.

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