Most puzzling film ever!

I was equally confused by Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, and Primer. I did stop watching Primer at about 30 minutes because it's incredibly boring, and I stopped watching Eraserhead some short time before the end because it is terrible and unpleasant. Mulholland Drive makes the most sense, metaphorically at least, if not chronologically.

The Truth wrote: Maybe Eraserhead... Inception didn't really puzzle me at all, he was in limbo but he came out of it.

Someone have seen the danish movie called Valhalla Rising (em português: Guerreiro Silencioso)? Is very interesting.

Viewer discression advised, lots of weird and NSFW sh*t ahead.

Star Wars I: the Phantom Menace.
Seriously, I've seen it three times, and I still don't understand what's happening throughout the whole movie. Okay, Obi Wan Kenobi and his pals are flying away from a planet and they have to protect a princess, and... Uh, profit?

Greg Araki's Nowhere was also another source of interrogations for me (and I'm still not sure if I've been enthusiasted by this movie).

Dean wrote: AtomicCrimsonRush wrote: In Inception is the main character locked in limbo at the end.... The ending is deliberately ambiguous and for that I simply don't care since that is the ending Nolan gave it.   If I could muster enough thought power to care then I think the important aspect is that he is not looking at the top but at his children, which is all that matters to the main character.

I'm pretty sure I saw the thing start to wobble a bit

CPicard wrote: Star Wars I: the Phantom Menace. Seriously, I've seen it three times, and I still don't understand what's happening throughout the whole movie. Okay, Obi Wan Kenobi and his pals are flying away from a planet and they have to protect a princess

That's pretty much it, what is there not to understand?  Star Wars is basically a simple, old-style serial cliffhanger broken onto parts; you either dig it or you don't

What puzzles me the most is how M. Night Shyamalan could make a career of directing films with the same ending.

Inception makes perfect sense, I don't know why people were confused by it. Reality is a bit more complex than we're used to in the film, but Nolan takes great pains to ensure the audience can follow what is going on.

Eraserhead makes no sense at all, but it's not supposed to, so I feel like if I get angry at it I'm letting David Lynch win. 

stonebeard wrote: I was equally confused by Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, and Primer. I did stop watching Primer at about 30 minutes because it's incredibly boring, and I stopped watching Eraserhead some short time before the end because it is terrible and unpleasant. Mulholland Drive makes the most sense, metaphorically at least, if not chronologically.

Primer gets more interesting after the first half hour, but yeah, the dialogue and acting are extremely boring and the ending is a complete cop-out. And Eraserhead is possibly the worst movie of all time.

The Dark Elf wrote: What puzzles me the most is how M. Night Shyamalan could make a career of directing films with the same ending.

The Sixth Sense wasn't even a good movie to begin with, yet he's been riding that damn thing for over a decade. 



Edited by Henry Plainview - May 01 2011 at 23:44

NecronCommander wrote: Man, I liked Primer

I can sort of understand why it became a cult movie because it has an interesting take on time travel and it's an underdog story, but it's just really not a well made movie. It's so obvious that it was the guy's first time doing anything and it's painful at times. And you should not watch the movie several times and still have questions about some fundamental sections of the movie: claiming that part of the twist is "unknowable" is the most ridiculous thing ever. 

I would like to nominate Mystics in Bali, which I recently watched part of with other people in Synchtube.

The people who actually watched the whole thing said seeing the beginning didn't help much with regard to it making sense. 

I'm going to watch Inception for the first time a bit later so I guess I can see if it has my vote.