Blow Out

This film, directed by the great Brian De Palma, has an odd feel about it.  While watching, I had trouble really grasping if this was supposed to be some kind of parody or if the film was expected to be taken seriously!  Mainly because the script/acting was so terrible... very sad for John Travolta.  BUT then it hit me - Antonioni's Blow-Up!  This 1966 film is about a fashion photographer who discovers he has caught a murder of a young woman on some film he shot in a park, while the 1981 movie makes Travolta a film sound recordist who is recording late one night and discovers that a car accident was in fact a murder.  Both movies are about the innocent bystander who gets caught up in a conspiracy after unwittingly capturing a murder on his professional medium.  However, if I had a choice to watch only one, hands down Antonioni over De Palma.

P.S.  Worst poster ever hahaha