Well, it was the 60s. Sometimes that’s the only explanation needed.
::gasping::
Heretic!!!
:: slaps Zebra with glove ::
Tomorrow. Dawn. The lake. You can choose the weapon.
Cache, because the ending made no sense. Then I watched the director’s commentary.
He agreed it made no sense, but said that French movies don’t have to make sense. Only Americans need endings that make sense.Um, okay.
No County for Old Men.
Huh? 
A comment on IMDB sez it better than I can:
"I have a plea out on the message boards for someone to please explain this movie to me. I love movies and I am not one of those who insist on only being hand fed obvious characters and plots. I enjoy movies that make you think and use symbolism.
But I honestly did not understand this film. Im not saying its horrible but I will say I don’t think it deserves the ratings it is getting. I personally rated it a 1 because I feel compelled to balance out the absurd over ratings it is getting.
What I saw was two men fighting over the same two million dollars. One who is somewhat good and obviously poor and the other who is this maniac psycho killer. Im not even sure its his money, how he knows about it or why he even wants it. None of that was clarified.
The good guy is running with the money the bad guy is chasing him the sheriff seems like he is supposed to be chasing them but doesn’t really want to and would rather be some sort of hillbilly philosopher about the whole thing.
Then the good guy suddenly dies. The bad guy escapes death by the skin of his teeth AGAIN the money disappears and the sheriff retires but not becoming so philosophical that the whole movie just ends right there at his dinner table with him rambling on about some dreams he had.
Again I would love to figure out this movie.
I am a 40 year old movie buff Academy Award trivia expert I own over 700 movies I’ve been a member here for 6 years And I have a college degree…"
What don’t you (and the imdb reviewer) get? It’s like he described the whole movie and then said “why?” Well, why are movies made in the first place? Why is the sky blue? How does the positraction work on a 1970 Hemi? I don’t know, man. It just does.
Syriana. Fortunately, somebody did put an explanation on the Internet for those of us wondering WTF.
It’s easy to forget, but there are actually two continuities in Memento. The reverse-chronological plot, which is in color, and the chronological telephone interview, which is in black-and-white.
But the color cues and scripted transitions do make the two continuities very clearly distinguishable.
Anything by David Lynch.
I disagree on Pirates of the Caribbean, though. If you watch the sequels already knowing how they turn out, they make much more sense. Most of the time when Captain Jack appears to be winging it and scraping past by the skin of his teeth, he’s really just double bluffing everybody so he can be in control of his own agenda, except the trouble is he keeps encountering moral fortitude he didn’t know he had. He trusts nobody, and yet many trust him, and that confuses him, forces his hand to show a modicum of trust in return, which is foreign to him.
Totally agree. Convoluted and dull.
I like clever and convoluted movies, but the one so far that took me to the limits of having any idea what was going on (or the big twist was so “meta” or something that it really flipped the movie over 180 degrees in my head 2/3 through) was Mulholland Drive. But I kind of loved the sense of ??? I have a copy of Inland Empire awaiting my attentions meanwhile.
Oh I love the movie, because I get the jokes. But I don’t think enough people who remember the Doris Day/Rock Hudson films were going to see Renee Zwelliger and Renee fans probably are not hip to Ms. Day.
I’m amazed that it took 48 posts before Lynch got mentioned.
Mulholland Drive is one of my favorite movies of all time. But after watching it the first time, after that whirlwind last half hour, my reaction was very much–“Waitaminute…that’s it??? It’s over? What the fuck just happened???”
Inland Empire is weirder than Mulholland Drive by a couple of orders of magnitude, although apparently the “solution” to following the continuity is roughly the same. I’ve only seen it twice, in rapid succession–the first time I didn’t like it much, the second time I found it growing on me. But I still have no idea what the rabbit stuff was all about.
The Uninvited Guest (El Habitante Incierto)
Is a movie that is very hard to follow due to strange plot twists. Even those of us who “got” the ending are left confused by the dreamlike turn of events halfway through. The British are threatening to remake it in English, so we’ll see if it’s just a language barrier issue or what.
I can appreciate the twist in Mulholland Drive, but the fact that it was literally tacked on by Lynch after ABC told him they didn’t want to make his show irritates me. Because all the Mulholland Drive fans are quick to point out how everything is connected between both “worlds” of the movie. But they’re not. It’s something Lynch just pulled out of his ass to finish off the movie.
Oh, and hot lesbian sex! That’ll sell some tickets. :rolleyes:
I agree. Someone I have a ton of respect for loaned me Blue Velvet once, and was eagerly awaiting my review. I was sweating bullets after I watched it because I didn’t know how to tell him I thought it was a convoluted piece of shit.
Of course they are. I know that the movie’s structure was conceived after the fact and grafted onto the ruins of an aborted project. That doesn’t mean that the connections as they stand in the final product aren’t valid.
I hated that one too. Not because it was convoluted, but because it was just plain unpleasant to watch.
Link please! I enjoyed this film but was quite confused by the end.
Oh, you silly Americans; expecting a film to tell a story. Will you ever grow up?
David Lynch is secretly a Francophile; hence, nothing about his movies makes any sense, even though he tantalizes you with clues that seem to be adding up to something.
Stranger
I myself was quite fond of the sense of hot girl-on-girl, but I digress.