2001: A Space Odyssey. The movie was making total sense, until the ending happened.
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Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (Well, at first, anyways. It gets easier to follow later on.)
Fight Club was confusing when I first watched it.
2001: A Space Odyssey ending
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (Well, at first, anyways. It gets easier to follow later on.)
Fight Club was confusing when I first watched it.
2001: A Space Odyssey ending
same with me... i didnt quite get the alien part, i was like awesumz!!11!!1! movie ... aliens appear.. bleh.. never gonna watch it again :/ShaFe123 said:
Twas based on a book which, believe it or not was even more outrageously plotted, and woe betide the screenplay, it left all the good mindfuckery out.Gabanuka said:
Ghost in the Shell makes my brain hurt.
I saw this Brothers Grimm movie a few years ago, and most of what I remember is having no idea what on earth was going on, but that can probably be chalked up to my relative immaturity at the time.
Don't worry I can!Sarkule said:
Basically the main character played by Reeves in an under cover Narcotics cop, so undercover in fact that he has started using the drugs they're trying to bust,and then...
his drug use leads him to having permanent brain damage and a crippling addiction, he is fired from his job and sent to a rehab center. It turns out that Winona Ryder was his supervisor all along and the police force was ensuring he was hooked on purpose because they felt the recovery center had a connection with whoever was supplying the drugs, but they would only ever let people who were completely gone into the rehab program. Reeves was selected to work on a recovery farm, and lo and behold, underneath the corn row are the blue flower the drugs are derived from. Reeves manages to retain enough of his former self to pick a flower and present it as a "gift for his friends". Aka Ryder when he is allowed to go back to town
Primer (I get it now, but the first a saw it, whew)
And a whole slew of B-movies. Not on purpose, but because of sloppy writing.
Trust me it isn't very confusing. If you just pay attention to where the characters actually are, and how the whole dream-system works, you'll follow it just fine. There's no secondary plot or big allegory. You would be doing yourself a great disservice not to see that film, it's truly very, very good. Also, very stylish.Demon ID said:To be honest the whole 'it's confusing' thing has put me off seeing inception. I wouldn't care if I got it or not, it's the way people are acting about it. I've seen loads of people go 'hurhurhur stupid people don't get it', they sound just so arrogant and annoying.
So much so that I wouldn't want to either be patronised or become one of those arrogant pricks. I'd much prefer not to see it, and stay out of this strange developing shitstorm
Although the final scene will make you want to jump for joy, then cry a little bit, then kill the director.
Pi - Awsome but weird ass movie
Primer - Figured it out on my 2nd watch but still go back to it
Oldboy - Right up until the end¬¬
Primer - Figured it out on my 2nd watch but still go back to it
Oldboy - Right up until the end¬¬
Fuckin' A, dude. The book is by far superior and film just isn't... good, you know? It completely fails to provide a sense of isolation, negates all the genuinely scary parts of the book and inserts a load of "shock tactic" extra scenes and completely changes the ending, thus failing to both explain the events of the story or bring any closure to it. Bah!TraderJimmy said:Heh I actually hated The Shining. And tho I hate to be the 'read the book' guy...
read the book
It's awesome.
There's a bit with hedge animals.
O_O
Stephen King is really very talented.
OT: The original Ju-On (The Grudge) and Ju-On (The Grudge) 2 can give you a bit of a mental twist if your not in the right mind set.
Donnie Darko. The time travel thing really, really messed with my mind. Inland Empire was pretty confusing too. And Legion. Well, it wasn't all that confusing, but there was just so much wrong with it. What confused me was why they thought it was a good idea.
I love this movie. And the book. Admittedly it'd be easier to understand if you've read the book (which you really should; Philip K. Dick was a genius). If you absolutely refuse, though, here's the plot in a nutshell.Sarkule said:
Bob Arctor is an undercover narcotics agent. Since the war on drugs has escalated, the identities of all undercover agents are closely guarded secrets. When he reports to the police station, he has to wear a scramble suit designed to disguise his identity.
When he's not at the police station, he lives with a group of junkies under the name Fred. To maintain his cover, he joins them in binges on the powerful narcotic, Substance D. He and his friends just had to commit another one of their group to a rehab group for this powerful hallucinogen. He's also in love with his dealer, Donna.
Unfortunately for Bob, all the Substance D he's doing is wreaking havoc on his brain. He suffers brain damage to the extent where he has two separate identities. When he's with the police, he's Bob Arctor. He watches "Fred" on video and has no idea that it's him. When he's with his friends, he's Fred entirely. It gets to the point where he can no longer function and he's committed to rehab.
It's in that rehab he sees the source of Substance D. They're using messed up junkies, too blitzed to recognize their tasks or surroundings, to grow the flower the drug's distilled from. Even worse, Donna turns out to be a cop who pushed Bob into his mental breakdown so she could get a mole inside the operation.
When he's not at the police station, he lives with a group of junkies under the name Fred. To maintain his cover, he joins them in binges on the powerful narcotic, Substance D. He and his friends just had to commit another one of their group to a rehab group for this powerful hallucinogen. He's also in love with his dealer, Donna.
Unfortunately for Bob, all the Substance D he's doing is wreaking havoc on his brain. He suffers brain damage to the extent where he has two separate identities. When he's with the police, he's Bob Arctor. He watches "Fred" on video and has no idea that it's him. When he's with his friends, he's Fred entirely. It gets to the point where he can no longer function and he's committed to rehab.
It's in that rehab he sees the source of Substance D. They're using messed up junkies, too blitzed to recognize their tasks or surroundings, to grow the flower the drug's distilled from. Even worse, Donna turns out to be a cop who pushed Bob into his mental breakdown so she could get a mole inside the operation.
It's an awesome film. Yes it does push the "Drugs Are Bad" message, but it was written by a guy who did a lot of drugs and who watched dozens of his friends die or suffer horrible fates as a result of their indulgences back in the 60s. Plus, part of the message also stems from futility of the War on Drugs.
Yeah, I've written a thesis on this author and this book. Definite favorite.
The only movie to ever confuse me was the final Pirates of the Carribbean movie. It was less that it was confusing, more that the plot was ridiculous, made no sense, and was very poorly handled.
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it makes no sense whatsoever, one of those "psychological horrors" that throws in random crap and calls it scary
it makes no sense whatsoever, one of those "psychological horrors" that throws in random crap and calls it scary
This thread is so getting a bookmark, I love confusing movies, as few as I have seen.
OT: Donnie Darko, now one of my favorite movies ever, but the first time I watched it I didn't understand what was going on at all.
I'm really proud I understood as much of The Box as I did, though. One viewing, and at the way back home I constructed a whole theory explaining just about everything in the film.
Most of the theory has been forgotten by now, though.
OT: Donnie Darko, now one of my favorite movies ever, but the first time I watched it I didn't understand what was going on at all.
I'm really proud I understood as much of The Box as I did, though. One viewing, and at the way back home I constructed a whole theory explaining just about everything in the film.
Most of the theory has been forgotten by now, though.
