Weirdest most confusing movie you've ever seen...

[JakeBequette]

My most confusing movie would be "The Lake House". I just don't get it, how did they live two years apart in time.. the converge....then.....confusing.....magic mailbox?....but.....who knows (or cares really)​

 

[Spellbound]

Adaptation.

Loved the movie, and I "got it" by the end, but some parts were kind of confusing.


And whats with all the hate for Mulholland Drive? Thats an incredible film.

 

[sunoftheskye]

My most confusing movie would be "The Lake House". I just don't get it, how did they live two years apart in time.. the converge....then.....confusing.....magic mailbox?....but.....who knows (or cares really)​

It's just one of those movies where you've gotta suspend your disbelief. It's much more enjoyable when you stop trying to figure out how it makes sense, lol.

 

[andaroo]

Mulholland Drive. Confused the hell out of me.. but I hated it.

I was thinking that somebady had better say Mulholland Drive! Anybody that says that they understood it is lying. Lynch wants you to think about it and figure it out and watch it like 40 times. I don't want that much pressure on me when I put in a movie. Watching for every damn lamp and every little clue...that is for the birds. I hated it, too.

 

[AndrewSin]

Mulholland Dr. is so fucking good! I can't believe all the nay-sayers on here. It is easily one of the best films ever made that will apparently never get the credit it deserves. The movie's lack of accessibility is exactly what makes it so incredibly great… that and Naomi Watts

 

[AndrewV]

come on people "memento" and "mulholland drive" r two great great great films you juts have to understand it mulholland drive is one of the most creative and dificult movies to understand i had to watch it 4 times and them i get it , two of my personal favorites mvoies lets see most confusing movieee i have to say vanilla sky at the beginning when i didnt know but them my teacher explained to me and its really amazin too much psychology

 

[inner_voice]

Eraserhead, 1977 by David Lynch


really one of the weirdest movies i ever seen. a very deep fall into a strange universe that might exist as something "alternative" of reality. Maybe a nightmare or the voice of subconscious. who knows...

 

[xyboyms]

So, in Mulholland Drive did Naomi's character come up with her name after she saw the waitress's name tag at the diner?? I need to see it again....

 

[blankslate]

The legendary anime video Akira is a bit confusing. I get most of it but some parts still elude my comprehension.

I really enjoyed Akira, but yes it is confusing- had to watch it another time or two.

 

[DryIce]

I eat up anything by David Lynch whose work you either love or hate, as evidenced by this thread! "Mulholland Drive" and "Lost Highway" were both excellent, as was the "Twin Peaks" movie -- "Fire Walk With Me" -- though you would have to be a hardcore fan of the series to truly appreciate it. "Blue Velvet," of course was his seminal, groundbreaking film that paved the way for films like "Donnie Darko" to achieve mainstream acceptability and success.

I think much of David Lynch's work comes from his subconscious and is not intended to be figured out. I don't even know that the stories he commits to film make sense in his own head. I would venture that he would be fine with any interpretation you choose to lend to his films.

A friend of mine offered a very compelling explanation for what "Mulholland Drive" was all about. The Naomi Watts character, Betty, essentially represents the quintessential experience of a Hollywood starlet. She comes to Hollywood excited, naive and full of hopes and dreams, but by the end she is the used, jaded, washed up has-been "Diane" who ends up taking her own life in a fit of despair.

Though Betty had true talent as an actress -- as evidenced by when she nailed the screentest audition -- there were political maneuverings going on behind the scenes that prevented her from getting the part, which is so true in the real world where it's who you know and how many dicks you're willing to suck rather than genuine talent that will take you far in showbiz.

Of course, every waiter or waitress in Hollywood is also an aspiring actor, so that is what the waitress in the film represented.

Laura Harring's amnesiac character, Rita, symbolized how aspiring actors and actresses can lose their true identity once they are seduced by the allure of Hollywood.

The characters of Rita and Betty are essentially the same person. Rita, her memory wiped clean in the car crash at the beginning of the film, is witnessing her own Hollywood story play out through the character of Betty/Diane.

The legendary Mulholland Drive itself, which winds its way through most of Los Angeles, is emblematic of the mind-bending twists and turns that the story takes.

It's actually a brilliant dissection of the dark side of showbiz told through metaphor and symbolism.

 

[xyboyms]

Excellent dissection of Lynch's work!

 

[danomano]

Okay, I have got a film that trumps all of yours. I just saw it last night in my film class. It's a very very small independent film that is mainly screened for film schools. It's called "Sherman's March," by Ross McEwee. I can't even begin to describe what it's really about -- something about the filmmaker himself trying to make a movie about the Civil War general but somehow gets sidetracked in his quest for information and, mid-movie, changes his subject so the movie becomes a political/social commentary piece on the South in the the 1980's. sooo strange.

 

[andyspete]

The Crying Game was dumb as shit.

 

[UnderUrVoodoo]

I have tons
1. fellini's 8 1/2
2. terry gilliam's 12 monkey,the brother grimm,brazil and fear and loathing in las vegas ( yeah!! he's very good at this)
3. weeked
4. fanny and alexander
5. lost highway,mulholland drive and blue velvet ( but still very goood films)

 

[EveretteB1975]

Clockwork Orange that movie is very confusing to me. I never see the point of that movie.

 

[snapcat]

It has to be A.I.

I almost walked out of that movie!

 

[wanky_window]

pretty much anything by Miike Takashi, i saw Visitor Q recently ..it's bloody mad!

 

[JakeBequette]

It's just one of those movies where you've gotta suspend your disbelief. It's much more enjoyable when you stop trying to figure out how it makes sense, lol.

MM.. No.. ain't ever gonna happen lol​

 

[HourglassGuy]

Without a doubt, I dont even have to think about this. Donnie Darko.

 

[kank84]

I saw a European film a while back (Romanian i think) called The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, that was pretty odd. I left the cinema not really sure what i'd just spent 3 hours watching.