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films: Hardest Movies to Understand

ah eXistenZ.... what a odd movie. maybe because i saw it on a long sleepy flight... but i agree that one was confusing
 
How come everyone saying that Fear and Loathing is so hard to follow? It's about two friends who go to Las Vegas, one is there to report on a race and the other is there for the ride. But what is ostensibly a cut-and-dried journalistic endeavor quickly descends into a feverish psychedelic odyssey and an excoriating dissection of the American way of life. This movie is amazing and a true story, eveyone who hasn't seen it should.

Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop. Your normal speeder will panic and immediately pull over to the side. This is wrong. It arouses contempt in the cop-heart. Make the bastard chase you. He will follow.-HST
 
Siesta. It starred Ellen Barkin and Gabriel Byrne (with quite a funny bit part by Alexi Sayle). I remember seeing it about 12 years ago and thinking "what the fuck happened there"
 
eraserhead was just insanity, but i'm sure i'm not alone though. i also found mulholland drive near-impossible on first viewing, but have since come to terms with it.

i didn't really find fear and loathing tough to follow though - you have to remember that much of the film is being given to us from the perspective of duke/thompson, so *of course* it's going to be fucked up :)
 
When I watched Magnolia I had the feeling that something was going on, but I wasn't sure what... especially during those long periods with the suspense music.
Hurley Burley had me a little confused at first, but now i think its just a "day in the life of" movies.
 
took me a long time to piece together the Matrix.

Once I did, I realized how fucking awesome every single installment really was.
 
Miss Sin Is In said:
Vanilla Sky. Seen it twice, still don't get it. Anyone willing to help? Please?
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SPOILERS!

Rich guy lives in an age where medical technology cannot cure ugliness, so gets cryogenically frozen until such technologies exist. He purchases the delux super ultra mega package which lets him have dreams while he's in the fridge.
He starts to fuck out in his dream and wants to wake up and is intructed to jump off of a building to do so.
Whether he was in stasus and woke up or just suffering paranoid delusions and killed himself in the jump is never absolutely established.

Watch the original. It's exactly the same and has exactly the same chick in it (cruz) but is in spanish. Both are good.
 
Hmm.. I don't really have a hard time understanding movies. Usually, I can pinpoint the parts of movies that I don't "get," think about them, and interpret something meaningful.

Lost Highway probably had me the most lost of any movie I've ever seen. Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to figure out that movie before someone told me what it was about.

Mulholland drive was another funky one, but I had it pegged as I was leaving the theatre. Online research confirmed my suspicions.

David Lynch is just about the only director that can twist things with enough intensity to throw me for a loop.
 
drEaMtiMe*@# said:
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A great case in point which i value to a degree is Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 . You really had to as you said just sit back and let the film wash over you in a more general way to be able to get something out of it. For those who havent seen it the movies directed in such a way so that it's a complete wish wash of dream sequences, fantasy elements, and reality. It's a movie, and it's simultaneously a movie about the making of that movie... Very tricky. If you try to rationalise everything in it, well.., you just cant. [/B]
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But a gorgeous film nonetheless.
 
wanderlust said:
ah eXistenZ.... what a odd movie. maybe because i saw it on a long sleepy flight... but i agree that one was confusing
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Cronenberg is wicked. I remember seeing it my home town (very townish, rural) on some strange film night. This was in High School no less and it rocked my world. I wondered what I had just seen.

Spider was weird too. Sheer genius. I was in Boston for that and the weirdest thing happened. The audience sat through the credits. It was bizarre. You could have heard a pin drop in the room. No one moved for 10 minutes.

Romance anyone? Where she's in the wall and the guys walk up to her and just start wanking off on her.

I think Apocalypse Now was disturbing when I first watched it alone. And sort of became the traveller character.

And Kubrick the Shining. Watched that alone. Scariest movie ever.
Watched it stoned and didn't really have the same effect.


These are really hard to understand movies just movies that twisted my brain.
 
buzzy said:
Someone explain Twelve Monkeys to me.
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SPOILERS!!

Not long before the world is ravaged with a new unstoppable virus, a child witnesses a guy get shot and killed. The woman with the dead guy stared at him afterwards. This kids grows up to be a loony tune in an underground civilisation that sends crazy people to the surface of the earth to collect samples of life to help develope something to combat the virus. Being good at these missions, this crazy guy is sent back in time for more samples but since "science aint an exact science", he happens to meet the prime suspect for creating and releasing the virus. Twist and turn and he finds the real culprit before he gets shot and killed in front of himself as a kid. Since he was being monitored, the people who sent him had enough information to send one of their scientists to befriend the culprit as he begins his crime, presumably to get a sample of the original unmutated virus to take back or store for future researchers to find.
Great film! One of my favourates. Unfortunately I haven't seen the film it was based on called something like "La Jette".


Now someone please explain Magnolia.
 
crystalcallas said:
Someone please explain why Tetsuo blimped into that horrible monster in Akira.
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exponential mutation


I HIGHLY recommend everyone to read the original manga. It's 1000x better than the movie, which is great on it's own.
 
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