Movies which confuse and bewilder you?

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weezyFTW

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Are there any movies which just leave you feeling bewildered and confused? The big one that does it for me is Rocky Horror Picture Show. I've watched it at least three times and I still have no idea about any of it, except that I do really like Time Warp and Sweet Transvestite as songs in their own right.

Any movies you just can't get a connection with? Which ones and why?
 
When "No Country For Old Men" did well at the Oscars last year i thought i'd go & see it in the cinema.To this day i don't see what all the fuss was about.Not only did i think it was pretty disappointing but the way the film ended just baffled me.It just seemed to end all of a sudden.
 
Guy Ritchie's movie Revolver.

Not confusing as such, just plain boring.

Guy Ritchie himself says now that "people don't understand Revolver because its meant to be a cerebral movie", and i just think "there's a difference between making a movie to make people think, and making a movie that makes people sleep".

Eejit.
 
I have to agree with Vanilla Sky, I still don't understand it yet I still enjoy it whenever I attempt to understand it.

The Lake house - I'm sure it's not suppose to be so confusing as it is a romance but I'm terrible at tenses. I was so confused by the end of it.
 
Mamma Mia!

If I want two hours of badly sung karaoke I can get if for free down my local boozer on a Thursday night.

PS

Needless to say I don't frequent said boozer on said night.
 
Day Watch springs to mind. Which is sad because I loved the first one - Night Watch - but just felt my hair ruffle slightly as the sequel zoomed straight over my head.
 
Vanillia Sky is one of my favourite movies. I like the endless possibilities it offers. I think it's encouraging us to use our imaginations and I love movies like that. It's boring when every tiny detail is spelled out in big letters and there's no blanks to fill in.
 
"Performance" confused me when i first saw it. watched it as part of my Film Studies course. :)
It's quite a good film if you understand what's going on.
The producers hated it when they first recieved it because they were expecting "A Hard Day's Night" (the Beatles' film from 1964) but with Mick Jagger. Apparently the producer's wife threw up when she saw the first edit of Performance. it was made in 1968 but wasn't released until 1971 because of editing.
 
I recently watched the Fountain which i really enjoyed but it's definitely one of those films that leaves you guessing/asking questions etc. about what you think happened. But in a good way! :)

Oh yeah..and i totally didn't get Solaris. Only seen the remake though.
 
I agree! Casino and Goodfellas are two of my favourite films.

Angel Heart and Jacobs Ladder are two confusing films I can think of... until the end that is ;)
 
I never got Mulholland Drive.

I did however get Vanilla Sky. It was terrible. When
the bit about it all being a computer program came out a sigh went around the cinema and there were more than a few mutterings of "Was that it?"
 
Mulholland Drive.

I watched the first 3/4 thinking "Wow, I actually understand a David Lynch fim" and then kicked myself for my niaivity as it all went a bit weird at the end.
 
Most of David Lynch's films mean nothing to me, although I've enjoyed watching the majority of them.

Eraserhead however, is just nonsensical drivel.
 
I think Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind and The Machinist can be mentioned in this thread. Both are absolutely excellent films but they leave a lot open to interpretation and I've known people who didn't "get" them.
 
I get that it's difficult to understand a lot of David Lynch's output but that's always part of the appeal. I'm normally quite good with Lynch films but Inland Empire confused the hell out of me.

And as someone mentioned Tarkovsky's Solaris earlier (I didn't find it at all confusing) I'd say I was definitely confused by Stalker the first time I saw it. I got it on second viewing, though. The great thing with film-makers like Tarkovsky is that he never made attempts to explicitly explain what was going on. He credited the audience with enough intelligence to work it out for themselves.
 
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