movies that have confused you

[DairyMan88]

eraserhead is probably at the top of my list

[Sally]

The Wall.

[Domo]

Donnie Darko, the first time I watched it.

Second time around I understood it a little better.

I still don't get Memento, though. I need to watch it again.

[Charnye West]

Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension.

However, that doesn't mean I don't :ava: the flick.

[Domo]

Also, when you think about it, Bambi doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

[exemplary citizen]

The Institute Benjamenta.

Seriously. Go rent it now.

[Chakan]

The ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Gave me nightmares as a child. I mean, what are we supposed to be seeing, the astronaut's transformation? And the final scene in the white room where the man gradually ages and finally turns into a fetus is just really creepy.

Powder was another weird movie, but I don't remember a lot about it, other than the whole lightning thing.

[Meat Load]

Predator 2.

You have to have an extensive knowledge of Predator history and behavior to actually get what happens in the ending.

[Stevil, yo]

The Pokemon Movie.

[Komrade Kayce]

Brokeback Mountain.

[Forever Finite]

how can you've got mail for queers be confusing?

[ImWearingUrSkin]

van helsing.

Also,

the matrix.

Also,
the eye, or something like that. some japanese horror.

[Shaman King]

Stay.

I got it at the end, but it was extremely confusing until then.

[HOMERCHESTRA]

"The Crippled Masters."

It's a 70's grindhouse kung-fu movie about a guy with no arms (save for some sort of freakish stub thing on his left shoulder) and a guy with horribly malformed legs teaming up to be a kung-fu duo. It's probably the grossest and stupidest kung-fu movie I've ever seen. There are four punching sound effects that are re-used throughout the entire movie. Imagine playing Virtua Fighters and hittin the punch button over and over again. it's exactly like that. Oh, and it just plain doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

http://www.sandonmovies.com/dvd's/Crippled%20masters.jpg

[Charnye West]

It actually sounds pretty cool.

[HOMERCHESTRA]

That's what I thought, too. It's just really, really gross. And annoying. And I'm an avid MST3K fan.

[DairyMan88]

i was also pretty confused by akira, but then again i saw that movie when i was seven

[Derram]

Perfect Blue and Super Mario Bros. Both good examples of insanity. :)

[DairyMan88]

perfect blue was pretty sweet

[Derram]

Oh, it was indeed sweet. I just couldn't tell what the fu*@ was going on.

[Domo]

When I first watched it, E.T. made no sense.

[MST3Kakalina]

Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension.

However, that doesn't mean I don't :ava: the flick.
My brother got that movie for like a quarter at a library sale. It is so FUCKED. UP.

[Charnye West]

But it's so awesome, too. The "monkeyboys" part of my sig that was there for, like, a year and a half was from it. I own 2 copies. ;)

[excellence152]

The Matrix trilogy will never cease to confuse me.

[Komrade Kayce]

Yeah, like how they took such a decent first movie and threw the trilogy into the trash.

[excellence152]

Yeah, like how they took such a decent first movie and threw the trilogy into the trash.
Yes, that's one good reason.

Hell, what am I saying? I own the entire trilogy. To make matters worth, I have copies of the original DVDs PLUS the Ultimate 9-disc boxed set.

I love the series... and that's the REAL confusing matter.

[Linzoy]

Cache. My mom convinced me to see it because she described it as a thriller, and wanted to see if it was really possible for the french to make a thrilling movie. Turns out this was the most unthrilling movie I have ever seen in my life. I swear I am not exaggerating when I say that there are several scenes in this movie where you are forced to stare at the same parked cars for several minutes. There isn't even any music in the backround, just the parked cars! The entire movie is about a guy who keeps sending this family videos of parked cars, only sometimes the cars are moving. Maybe my stupid american brain just can't comprehend the meaning of this but I think it's boring. I fell asleep and woke up during the only part of the movie where anything happens, when this guy's throat gets slit. They ruined any suspense that moment could have had by having the camera look at the dead guy for half a minute though. At the end of the movie I had no idea what happened, but I'm guessing that it was the 12 year old kid playing a stupid joke on his parents, because the parents in the movie kept not knowing where he was and not being sure about what he was doing. There only scene where he does anything is a scene of him swimming several laps back and forth in a swimming pool. Nothing against the french but I hate to imagine what kind of world they live in where they consider this kind of movie a thriller. There are some slow movies I can sit through without getting distracted. One of my favorite movies is 2001. That movie is very slow but it never gets boring because there is something going on in every scene. Nothing much happens in cache. There was one part of the movie that was intresting, when they where giving the back story about the main character and how he sent his brother to a mental hospital when he was a little kid. I shouldn't have had to sit through all the unintrestingness to get to that part though.

[Rasputin]

Nothing! I'm too damned smart. It really spoils my enjoyment by being able to understand everything. I like being confused! It gives a nice sense of raw nervousness.

[tater]

Brazil.

that movie was ... beyond bizzare.

[Forever Finite]

Cache. My mom convinced me to see it because she described it as a thriller, and wanted to see if it was really possible for the french to make a thrilling movie. Turns out this was the most unthrilling movie I have ever seen in my life. I swear I am not exaggerating when I say that there are several scenes in this movie where you are forced to stare at the same parked cars for several minutes. There isn't even any music in the backround, just the parked cars! The entire movie is about a guy who keeps sending this family videos of parked cars, only sometimes the cars are moving. Maybe my stupid american brain just can't comprehend the meaning of this but I think it's boring. I fell asleep and woke up during the only part of the movie where anything happens, when this guy's throat gets slit. They ruined any suspense that moment could have had by having the camera look at the dead guy for half a minute though. At the end of the movie I had no idea what happened, but I'm guessing that it was the 12 year old kid playing a stupid joke on his parents, because the parents in the movie kept not knowing where he was and not being sure about what he was doing. There only scene where he does anything is a scene of him swimming several laps back and forth in a swimming pool. Nothing against the french but I hate to imagine what kind of world they live in where they consider this kind of movie a thriller. There are some slow movies I can sit through without getting distracted. One of my favorite movies is 2001. That movie is very slow but it never gets boring because there is something going on in every scene. Nothing much happens in cache. There was one part of the movie that was intresting, when they where giving the back story about the main character and how he sent his brother to a mental hospital when he was a little kid. I shouldn't have had to sit through all the unintrestingness to get to that part though.
cache wasn't a bad movie. you're just used to american films.

plus, you have to admit that the throat cutting scene was pretty rad.

[SLUM WIZZARD]

The Butterfly Effect was a halfway decent movie, but watching it un-sober will mind-fuck you tremendously.


(no matter how many food wrappers you read, and no matter how many times you read them, you will not land in a grocery store. ever. :()

[HOMERCHESTRA]

Brazil is the best movie ever, and Butterfly Effect was only good in the sense that Ashton Kutcher wasn't playing an idiot fratboy in it.

[Charnye West]

Highfive, Brazil kicks ass.

[Meat Load]

I'll third that.


Remember the scene where the guys get their suits filled with sewage and they explode?

Gold.

[HOMERCHESTRA]

Remember every single scene in that movie?

Gold.

[exemplary citizen]

Fuck yes. I :<3: Terry Gilliam and anything he touches.

On that note, I would like to recommend "The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen" to anybody that hasn't seen it yet. Not really a mindfuck movie per-se, but definitely in the way that all Gilliam movies are.

[Charnye West]

YES. Munchausen is lolgasms and funjobs. Especially a sweet young Uma Thurman as Venus. Mee-ow.

[exemplary citizen]

Hawt.

[Rasputin]

I love Brazil to the bottom of my heart but it isn't really THAT much of a mindfuck. It's just indescribably cool.

[HOMERCHESTRA]

Wasn't it, like, Robert Deniro's first movie?

[Komrade Kayce]

Speaking of Gilliam movies, Time Bandits.

I mean, the movie on a whole makes perfect sense, but therse stuff in it I found myself scratching my head over.

Like how they managed to get Sean Connery in it.

[tater]

I love Brazil to the bottom of my heart but it isn't really THAT much of a mindfuck. It's just indescribably cool.
i don't know that i'd call it a mindfuck. it was just one of those movies where, after the credits rolled, i found myself staring at the screen and thinking "okaay". it should be noted that we watched the director's cut.

[Rasputin]

Wasn't it, like, Robert Deniro's first movie?

The hell? Robert De Niro's been around since the early '70s. He starred in Taxi Driver! Godfather II! Milordy, I find myself offended by your lack of film knowledge.

Orrrr...I'm the Film Studies student and you're probably not. Sowwy.

[HOMERCHESTRA]

The hell? Robert De Niro's been around since the early '70s. He starred in Taxi Driver! Godfather II! Milordy, I find myself offended by your lack of film knowledge.

Orrrr...I'm the Film Studies student and you're probably not. Sowwy.

I thinK I was actually thinking of Taxi Driver when I wrote that. I've watched both of those movies within the last week. It was also, like, 6 in the morning when I wrote that.

[Rasputin]

I thinK I was actually thinking of Taxi Driver when I wrote that. I've watched both of those movies within the last week. It was also, like, 6 in the morning when I wrote that.
*ahem* I respectfully apologise. *bows*

[HOMERCHESTRA]

Man it's a good thing you did that because I was gonna go apeshit.