Confusing Films

[AvsJoe]

Primer. Couldn't follow it at all. Horribly boring. Worst movie I've ever seen. Only thing that ever made me feel truly stupid. Unforgivable.

I too got lost somewhere in the middle and never caught up. But I would never say it's a bad movie; rather I'd say that it's too intelligent for the general audience.

Memento, awesome movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vS0E9bBSL0

Agreed. What a mindfuck. Takes a couple of viewing to truly appreciate what everyone is doing. Classic!

Basic. Seriously, what?
So, like, the black guy killed everyone but then he didn't but then he did but then everyone is a liar but then they're all perfectly fine?

Yeah, this movie suffers from One-Twist-Too-Many Syndrome, like Primer and Unknown. This picture about sums it up:

 

[cynikles]

I recently watched the Takeshi Kitano film Takeshi's. I cannot make head nor tail of it.
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Seconded. Even understanding the language did not help me one bit. I must admit, I enjoyed it, but first watch was an utter mindfuck.

 

[Gudrests]

I think the movie was called the butterfly effect. or eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. yeah i think it was the sunshine one. but i was confused and lost through both of them.

 

[liveslowdiefast]

you think inception was confusing try syndocyde in New york.

 

[Jack_Uzi]

Lost Highway.

I mean, seriously.

For me too. I'm a big fan of movies and they don't have to be straight forward for me to enjoy. But this one just beat the last bit of logic I posessed out of me and turned it off.
Sometimes I think Lynch's movies are a bit like this: I'm going to make a movie and throw all kind of vague characters at you, have fun figuring out which ones really have something to do with the story and which don't.
Nearly got trough Eraserhead, but I don't know either to love it or dismiss it.
The first season of twin peaks on the other hand, was really good.

 

[Diablo27]

Ong Bak. Watchmen and probably a heap more.

 

[Michael826]

Spoiler: Confusing, but only because of how unbelievably bad it was

 

[Tdc2182]

Don't read the comic then! The film was a dumbed down and shortened version of the comic. Although I don't agree I found that both the comic and the film where easy to follow.

The only thing dumbed down about the movie was them taking the side stories out. I am getting so sick of people saying this. If you didn't like the movie, then absolutely no other director out there could have done it better. The fact that the movie followed the story so closely was remarkable(besides the ending, which I thought was more appropriate).

OT: Memento. It was hard to follow, but such an original film.

 

[3rd rung]

Primer. Couldn't follow it at all. Horribly boring. Worst movie I've ever seen. Only thing that ever made me feel truly stupid. Unforgivable.

I agree that it is confusing not that its bad, one of the most interesting time travel films I have seen in a while.

 

[CK76]

I have to admit, the end of 2001 made me go "I think I need to see that again".

I'm not sure it is intended to be "gotten" though and is more an interpretive ending.

 

[ninjaman 420]

donnie darko, I love that movie now but back in the day when I was still unexposed to it my friends told me how confusing it was. I fancy myself an intelligent person so I was like fuck that, ill watch it one time and get this, and was doing real good up till the final 3 minutes. Literally had to do research to work all that out.

 

[Smeg_head]

Well, I had to rewatch the 'The Day the Earth stood still' remake before I fully understood it.

 

[Sarkule]

A Scanner Darkly (Could anybody explain what that was about)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Memento (A little bit)
And Om Shanti (A bollywood film, look up the plot summary YOUR MIND WILL EXPLODE)

 

[smudgey]

I think the movie was called the butterfly effect. or eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. yeah i think it was the sunshine one. but i was confused and lost through both of them.

Loved both of them, thought they weren't too hard to follow.

Spoiler

Butterfly effect was about a guy who could travel through time, but everything he did made things worse. What happens at the end depends of which version you saw though (Ending changed between cinema and DVD).
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind was about a guy who found out the chick he loved was erasing him from her mind, so he decided to get his memories of her wiped. Trouble was, he changed his mind halfway through the procedure, and tried to fight it. In his mind.

Both Adaptation and Memento were confusing, but bloody good.

 

[tristow]

end of evangelion i had no idea what was going on until i looked it up

 

[Nomanslander]

Well, there's two types!

One that's confusing because it's intricately well crafted to where it demands more then one viewing:
Memento and now Chris Nolan's Inception.

Or ones that are confusing because they're a load of bull:
Matrix sequels, Basic (with John Travolta if you remember), most David Lynch movies (although Dave still manages to make them interesting and quint...=/)

 

[Girl With One Eye]

A Scanner Darkly (Could anybody explain what that was about)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Memento (A little bit)
And Om Shanti (A bollywood film, look up the plot summary YOUR MIND WILL EXPLODE)

I liked Om Shanti Om, have you heard of Race? Now THAT was confusing.