Confusing Films

[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.

 

[yankeefan19]

2001: A Space Odyssey. The movie was making total sense, until the ending happened.
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[ShaFe123]

'Knowing'
Didn't make much sense for me.
Everything looks relatively normal and then BAM aliens.
And What the F*CK is with the meadow bit?

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

Waking Life
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

 

[cormacd12]

Memento, the first time round.

 

[EvilMaggot]

'Knowing'
Didn't make much sense for me.
Everything looks relatively normal and then BAM aliens.
And What the F*CK is with the meadow bit?

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 :/

 

[Erja_Perttu]

Sahara made no sense to me at all.

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.

Ghost in the Shell makes my brain hurt.

 

[subject_87]

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.

 

[Acier]

A Scanner Darkly (Could anybody explain what that was about)

Don't worry I can!
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...

Spoiler

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

OT: Anything by David Lynch
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.