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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Jul 31, 2010 16:53:52 GMT -5
Obviously, they haven't seen Eraserhead. Or "The Apple".
Heck, Rock-A-Doodle was more confusing than Clockwork Orange.
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Post by I Like Your Poetry on Jul 31, 2010 16:54:25 GMT -5
"Primer" should be somewhere on this list. Seriously, I had no damn idea what was going on, but maybe I'm just dumb. I nominate THIS. Holy God, I still have no idea what happened in that movie. And I saw the diagram that explained it. Like 10% of that movie is understandable, and that's if you have an advanced physics degree.
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Post by Arturo Classico on Jul 31, 2010 16:56:09 GMT -5
"Primer" should be somewhere on this list. Seriously, I had no damn idea what was going on, but maybe I'm just dumb. I agree with this. I blame it on the dialogue of the movie. It was just too dry and too much technical based. I'm pretty intelligent and get complicated concepts but Primer kind needed to have someone edit that script. However still liked it and got the basic concept but yeah I could see why people would get confused. Really any David Lynch movie deserves to win this especially Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire and Lost Highway. The first two were utterly confusing! I've seen Mulholland Drive like four times and I still don't understand it. Another I'd like to nominate would be Synecdoche, New York. Awesome movie with great performances but kind of hard to understand what in that movie was real and what wasn't and the whole timeline is utterly messed up. But still a great movie. But as the original topic goes Vanilla Sky isn't confusing unless you don't watch it all the way through. Also yes Matrix Revolutions was confusing, but more in the realm of how the hell did they go from a great story like in the first movie to what Revolutions was? Oh and definitely agree with 2001 still don't get that ending, but actually like it being unresolved and confusing. Also although I'm saying that something is confusing doesn't mean I don't like more times than not I love it when they do that because it leaves me with something and will remember the movie more.
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Post by Jay Peas 42 on Jul 31, 2010 16:56:25 GMT -5
I agree with 12 Monkeys, even though I think it's clear the Women at the end was a back-up killer. errr, how so? {Spoiler}I know she was one of the people you see interact with Bruce Willis in the "future" scenes, but the problem with your idea is that the guy had already released the virus at the baggage check before they met on the plane.
Unless they just wanted to point out how useless the backup plan was, I don't think that was the case Seriously, the movie came out like 15 years ago, and has been on the sunday mantinee rotation for the last 7. Spoiler tags aren't needed. It's been a while since I've seen the film, if memory serves, any exposure to the virus in the airport would have minimal, as opposed to the massive aerosol attacks planed by the eco-terrorist. Assuming the doctor did not allow the terrorist to carry out his plan, that's it. Now, this is of course assuming that the resulting time paradox wouldn't have nullified the attempts, but hey, I'm not a hack science fiction writter. I mean, I assume the focus of the story was the man being haunted by visions of his own death, not mumbo jumbo about eco-terrorist nonsense. If you can create Time Travel, you can create a cure for viral diseases. As for most of the films on this list, most of these are film adaptations of books, which are by nature, abrigements, and will leave something out. A lot of them man the line between complex and convoluted symbolism. And a lot of them are just poorly excuted.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Jul 31, 2010 17:10:35 GMT -5
How did Southland Tales not make this list? Because nobody actually saw it?
I still have no idea what the f*** happens in that movie
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2010 17:36:33 GMT -5
As far as a movie that makes no sense textually, I've read plot summaries of Fight Club many times and been confused by them. Actually sitting through and watching the movie, there's nothing to be confused about, but again, plot synopses of it are totally baffling to me. I'm really not sure why, as any other movie I've seen that isn't a nonsensical mess, this doesn't happen for.
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Post by FrankGotch on Jul 31, 2010 17:51:31 GMT -5
Schizopolis and Eraserhead beat anything on that list. Alos Gummo.
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Post by oldad5518 on Jul 31, 2010 20:42:07 GMT -5
Loved this film...... I got the ending
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Post by Jay Peas 42 on Jul 31, 2010 22:40:24 GMT -5
They left off "Eyes Wide Shut" too. I mean, granted, a lot of it was a dream, but even if it was, it still doesn't make sense.
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Post by Jiren on Aug 1, 2010 5:17:14 GMT -5
I thought "Imaginarium Of Dr Parnassus" was confusing
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Post by mybraveface on Aug 1, 2010 5:35:50 GMT -5
"Swimming Pool"?
I was gonna say "Eraserhead" too.
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Post by John Galt on Aug 1, 2010 6:41:24 GMT -5
errr, how so? {Spoiler}I know she was one of the people you see interact with Bruce Willis in the "future" scenes, but the problem with your idea is that the guy had already released the virus at the baggage check before they met on the plane.
Unless they just wanted to point out how useless the backup plan was, I don't think that was the case Seriously, the movie came out like 15 years ago, and has been on the sunday mantinee rotation for the last 7. Spoiler tags aren't needed. It's been a while since I've seen the film, if memory serves, any exposure to the virus in the airport would have minimal, as opposed to the massive aerosol attacks planed by the eco-terrorist. Assuming the doctor did not allow the terrorist to carry out his plan, that's it. Now, this is of course assuming that the resulting time paradox wouldn't have nullified the attempts, but hey, I'm not a hack science fiction writter. I mean, I assume the focus of the story was the man being haunted by visions of his own death, not mumbo jumbo about eco-terrorist nonsense. If you can create Time Travel, you can create a cure for viral diseases. As for most of the films on this list, most of these are film adaptations of books, which are by nature, abrigements, and will leave something out. A lot of them man the line between complex and convoluted symbolism. And a lot of them are just poorly excuted. The scientist at the end is just there to collect a sample of the pure virus before it mutates so they can create a cure. 12 Monkeys is my favourite film.
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Post by thesam07 on Aug 1, 2010 7:39:23 GMT -5
I liked "Vanilla Sky".
But I am, by all accounts, an idiot. So what do I know?
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Post by Hypnotix on Aug 1, 2010 22:38:59 GMT -5
I agree. Rented it years ago and thought WTF is going on here? Will this f'n movie just end already??
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Post by Threadkiller [Classic] on Aug 2, 2010 0:20:41 GMT -5
On what planet is Vanilla Sky more confusing than MULHOLLAND DRIVE?
I've seen that movie over twelve times and I still don't have even the slightest idea what in the great-good f*** what's going on. I've been to countless sites and read countless theories, and there's literally at least thirty-five different ways this movie could go, depending on which theory you feel like believing that day. I can't even begin to ballpark what Lynch might have been going for, and a lot of his other works have been similarly confounding. But I think this is the apex of his obtuseness.
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Post by Real Folk Bruce on Aug 2, 2010 1:04:59 GMT -5
I can think of two things wrong with that title. Being the biggest fan of William S. Burroughs on this board, I think it's a damn shame that Naked Lunch is only remembered as a joke from The Simpsons.
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Post by SEAN CARLESS on Aug 2, 2010 2:54:18 GMT -5
On what planet is Vanilla Sky more confusing than MULHOLLAND DRIVE?. I'm still trying to figure out why Laura Harring had a digitized vag. The rest of the movie took a backseat to this strange and disturbing fascination for me.
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Aug 2, 2010 4:59:00 GMT -5
How did Southland Tales not make this list? Because nobody actually saw it? I still have no idea what the f*** happens in that movie Apparently to understand that movie you need to have read the comic book prequel. I liked S.T. even though I didn't know what the heck was going on
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Aug 2, 2010 5:03:58 GMT -5
Schizopolis and Eraserhead beat anything on that list. Alos Gummo. Gummo wasn't really confusing, it was just about a really effed up town with a bunch of effed up people in it. I always describe it as an episode of COPS if the police never showed up
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Post by boiledewokthe3rd on Aug 2, 2010 5:17:03 GMT -5
Not seen some of those films. My vote goes to Lost Highway www.imdb.com/title/tt0116922/Best explanation I've ever been able to come up with for his movies is that they are just weird dreams put on film and that they don't really have meaning.
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