# What was the last movie you saw that made you say "WTF?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [September 13, 2022, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516 "2022-09-13T20:58:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dr.Colossus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.colossus/32/9423_2.png) [@Dr.Colossus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Colossus)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/41 "2022-09-14T23:58:06Z")
The digestion scene in NOPE. Yelled WTF in longform, aloud. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/42 "2022-09-15T01:01:56Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > This is what i came to mention, WTF does not even begin to cover it. Yes, Titane was something else. I’m not even sure what to make of that movie. It was insane. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/43 "2022-09-15T01:28:24Z")
It’s been a while but the biggest WTF movie I have ever seen is “Circle of Iron” (aka “The Silent Flute”). The movie doesn’t reveal what period in history it takes place or even where on Earth it takes place. But it’s about a very white guy on a quest to see a book. On his way he encounters talking monkey men, a man trying to melt his own dick in a vat of oil, and other strange things that are presented as being perfectly normal. [Kam Yuen Battles the Monkey King (David Carradine) in CIrcle Of Iron - YouTube](https://youtu.be/GLL3Xh9mZNc) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/44 "2022-09-15T02:43:14Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > The movie doesn’t reveal what period in history it takes place or even where on Earth it takes place. “A land that never was and always is.” > [@](#): > > But it’s about a very white guy on a quest to see a book. On his way he encounters talking monkey men, a man trying to melt his own dick in a vat of oil, and other strange things that are presented as being perfectly normal. For what it’s worth, note that he closes his eyes and nods off right before he sets out on said quest… ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/45 "2022-09-15T03:26:27Z")
Same here: I read the books 40+ years ago (yikes!), saw the new _Dune_ in a theater this summer, but I had never seen the David Lynch version. It was just on IFC so I was able to record it (and I just finished it today). I had an “oh oh!” feeling when I remembered that when it first came to theaters a friend of mine said “They had to hand out a [cheat-sheet](https://www.openculture.com/2014/08/glossary-david-lynchs-dune-1984.html) before the movie started” and he was still confused. There must been _lots_ of drugs involved, or perhaps lots of drugs were needed to understand it. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/46 "2022-09-15T04:46:30Z")
I DVR’d a couple movies from TCM that were totally unwatchable. One was Babo 73, the other was so fucked up I don’t even remember, nay, blocked out the name. Fuck, I hate my life. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/47 "2022-09-15T05:00:14Z")
_**[No Country for Old Men](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Country_for_Old_Men_(film))**_ Sadly, I could not grok that film. Acting etc, all fine, but the plot. The plot for Avatar was also messed up. Beautiful film, though. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/48 "2022-09-15T05:20:36Z")
> [@dirtball](#): > > I found that I could approach it as something reasonably interesting if I thought of it as a story of a very horrible, twisted attempt at redemption with the old man, not Justin Long, as the main character. One thing about Tusk that I noticed that I don’t think I have ever seen anyone else call out is that the old man is basically a realistic version of Batman. He has the exact same backstory but instead of turning into a superhero he is placed in an abusive foster home and he goes completely insane. And I agree, he’s trying to redeem himself in his own twisted way. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/49 "2022-09-15T06:00:25Z")
_The Dragon lives again_ (1977), when I was told that there was a Bruce Lee exploitation movie where Popeye the Sailor(?!?) appears, I got curious, and it was as WTFey as was told. > **[Chinese Popeye makes spinach look like a drug I want to try!](https://dangerousminds.net/comments/chinese_popeye_makes_spinach_look_like_a_drug_i_want_to_try)** > >   > Here’s a lil’ scene from the 1977 Bruceploitation film The Dragon Lives Again where Popeye fights a gang of mummies! > > A brief synopsis of the film:The Dragon Lives Again is a martial arts fantasy comedy in which the soul of Bruce Lee goes to... > The deceased Lee meets a number of pop-culture icons, including Dracula, James Bond, Zatoichi, Clint Eastwood, The Godfather, Laurel and Hardy, The Exorcist, and even 1970s soft-porn character Emmanuelle. Lee befriends The One-Armed Swordsman, Caine from TV’s _Kung Fu_, and Popeye. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/50 "2022-09-15T07:17:34Z")
> [@ZonexandScout](#): > > _Hold the Dark_ (2018). > > It seems like it should be making sense, but it doesn’t. It reminded me of _Donnie Darko_ in that the viewer really needed to know things (from the book on which it was based) that the film didn’t make clear. After the credits started, my wife and I literally turned to each other and simultaneously said, “WTF?” Had you read the book before seeing it? I did, and I was baffled that the director was squeamish enough to remove almost all hints about the thing that made the book controversial. I did a thread at [moviechat.org](http://moviechat.org) and none of non-book readers who responded had any idea why the kid died. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/51 "2022-09-15T10:20:20Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Lucy, the movie with the myth about how you only use 10% of your brain, starring Scarlett Johanssen. Laughable crap. It was mindbogglingly bad. I mean, not even entertainingly trashy - just all kinds of dumb, even before you get to the ten minutes of Microsoft Windows screensaver footage at the end. I don’t know what Johannson or Freeman were thinking, unless it was “I’m getting paid a shitload of money for this nonsense”. My recent WTF movie was also a “woman punches things” film but a much better one: **Sucker Punch**. I don’t know if I’d call it “good”, but it was enjoyably weird, visually fun and well-acted all around. Unlikely to watch it again but worth one go. > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I still haven’t watched the third movie in that trilogy, and have no desire to do so. Here is what you missed in _The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies_: Five armies battle. Interminably. There is about five minutes of actual plot, and little of it is interesting or original. The good guys mostly win, although someone dies so the composer can write a lot of sweeping sad music. There. I’ve just saved you a couple hours of your life. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/52 "2022-09-15T10:29:02Z")
_ **Devil’s Pass** _, a horror film take on the Dyatlov Pass incident. I was rolling my eyes through most of it. A truly stupid movie and a complete waste of time. > **[Devil's Pass](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Pass)** > > Devil's Pass (originally titled The Dyatlov Pass Incident) is a 2013 horror film directed by Renny Harlin, written by Vikram Weet, and starring Holly Goss, Matt Stokoe, Luke Albright, Ryan Hawley, and Gemma Atkinson as Americans who investigate the Dyatlov Pass incident. It is shot in the style of found footage. > Five Oregon college students set off to find out what happened to the nine hikers who mysteriously died in the Dyatlov Pass incident. Holly and Jensen are co-directors, J.P. and Andy... > **[Dyatlov Pass incident](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident)** > > The Dyatlov Pass incident (Russian: гибель тургруппы Дятлова, transl. "Death of the Dyatlov Group") was an event in which nine Soviet hikers died in the northern Ural Mountains between February 1 and 2, 1959, in uncertain circumstances. The experienced trekking group from the Ural Polytechnical Institute, led by Igor Dyatlov, had established a camp on the eastern slopes of Kholat Syakhl in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. Overnight, something caused them to cut their way out of their tent... ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/53 "2022-09-15T10:53:26Z")
_You’re Wrong About_ had a great podcast episode about the incident. Very informative and persuasive that it was simply the result of terrible weather and bad choices about where to camp. As for WFT movies: _Swordsman with Umbrella._ I mentioned it on another thread, but the dubbing is amazingly bad and the effects are terrible. And a guy flies with his umbrella like a kung-fu Mary Poppins, which is less interesting than you might hope. ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/54 "2022-09-15T11:57:27Z")
No, neither of us had read the book (or even knew of it). Now, after the fact, we’re aware of some additional plot points, but only because kind people like you have discussed them elsewhere. Frankly, I would never give a thought to reading the book after seeing the film, even though I think I would have been interested prior to watching the movie. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/55 "2022-09-15T12:46:59Z")
My last WTF movie was just this past weekend. Mrs. solost had rented some movies from the library that seemed interesting. We dusted off the Blu-Ray player and popped one in. The movie was ‘Crimes of the Future’. the basic plot: in the future body modification is all the rage and everybody routinely does surgery on themselves to alter their bodies in various ways. The main couple (played by Viggo Mortensen and some actress I wasn’t familiar with) are performance artists, and she uses genetic engineering to grow new, previously nonexistent organs in his body, and then surgically removes them. For the sake of art. LOTS of closeup shots of open body cavities while dubious surgery is performed. This movie is not for the squeamish. Here’s a scene that sets the tone: at an art performance a man (not Viggo, this is another artist), wearing only speedo-like shorts, has maybe 100 ears all over his body and is dancing. A couple in the audience is watching and a woman is saying to her companion “sooo derivative. The ears don’t even work! the only good thing about this exhibition is his interpretive dance”. The tools used to do the surgery and other tasks look like weird creepy mashups of organics and electronics, and I thought “this is like a bad knockoff of Cronenberg”. I took a closer look at the DVD jacket, and saw “a movie by David Cronenberg” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/56 "2022-09-15T12:57:08Z")
> [@griffin1977](#): > > My tolerance of WTF for the sake of WTF has gone down a lot since I got older (as a kid I would happily watch the worst straight to video garbage if it was sufficiently messed up and WTF-ey). But RRR pulled off a good dose of WTF while still being an extremely entertaining watchable movie: Honest Trailers did a wonderful episode about **RRR** [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/_9K3nj_v8xU/maxresdefault.jpg "Honest Trailers | RRR") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9K3nj_v8xU) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/57 "2022-09-15T13:08:53Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > Same here: I read the books 40+ years ago (yikes!), saw the new _Dune_ in a theater this summer, but I had never seen the David Lynch version. It was just on IFC so I was able to record it (and I just finished it today). I had an “oh oh!” feeling when I remembered that when it first came to theaters a friend of mine said “They had to hand out a [cheat-sheet](https://www.openculture.com/2014/08/glossary-david-lynchs-dune-1984.html) before the movie started” and he was still confused. There must been _lots_ of drugs involved, or perhaps lots of drugs were needed to understand it. I went to see the Lynch Dune when it was released, and still have the Cheat Sheet they handed out. The problem with Dune is that it’s such an immense work, with so many details, and they tried to condense it down into a two hour movie. It didn’t help that they changed several things from the books (Weirding Modules?), so that even a lot of people familiar with the books were lost. I loved it, having read the books multiple times. I loved that the vision of the future it presented was so weird and fully imagined, even with the strange stuff they made up and threw into it. A lot of it just worked right. My wife saw this before he read Herbert’s books, and described it as “a book with the middle chapters torn out”. That’s about right. Like the version of the Russian film War and Peace I once saw that was edited down from seven hours to two. They made up a longer version for TV, in which they recut it, added an opening narrated explanation (so you didn’t need the sheet), and added scenes that had been cut from the released version. Lynch disowned this version (it lists the director as “Alan Smithee” in the credits – the usual dodge when the real director wants to dissociate him- or her-self from the picture) , but it is more comprehensible than the feature release version. By the way, this isn’t the only movie I saw with a Cheat Sheet. The film **Executive Action** (a film about the JFK assassination conspiracy – sort of Oliver Stone’s _JFK_, but made much earlier and without Stone) was first released with what amounted to an entire newspaper of documentation and footnotes. Here’s the **Dune** Cheat Sheet > **[Dune Was So Confusing To 1984 Audiences Universal Handed Out Cheat Sheets](https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/scifi/dune-confusing-1984-audiences-universal-handed-cheat-sheets.html)** > > Many, if not most, of you out there have read Frank Herbert’s classic Dune, or are at least familiar with … Continue reading "Dune Was So Confusing To 1984 Audiences Universal Handed Out Cheat Sheets" Here’s the handout for **Executive Action** : [https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/executive-action-movie-handout-1840823869](https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/executive-action-movie-handout-1840823869) ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/58 "2022-09-15T13:37:41Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > And I agree, he’s trying to redeem himself in his own twisted way. Whew. I’m glad it’s not just me. 🙃 ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2022, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/59 "2022-09-16T07:15:50Z")
I have two. #1 - ‘Possession’ starring Sam Neill and Isabel Huppert. I don’t know how to describe it but it involves some kind of birth of an octopus-thing involving 10 straight minutes of screaming in a subway station. But it’s not a horror movie, per se, it’s that and a glum artsy movie, too. It’s been on TCM too often! #2 - ‘Maitresse’, a French film starring Gerard Depardieu (which I woke up to while TCM was on in the middle of the night). Balls out S&M, speaking of which the Maitresse nailed a customer’s testicles to a board. Which really happened there on the screen, not done by the actress, but performed by a real pro and a willing client… Thank you, TCM! That one slipped under the radar, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2022, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/60 "2022-09-16T12:11:43Z")
> [@salinqmind1](#): > > I have two. #1 - ‘Possession’ starring Sam Neill and Isabel Huppert. I don’t know how to describe it but it involves some kind of birth of an octopus-thing involving 10 straight minutes of screaming in a subway station. But it’s not a horror movie, per se, it’s that and a glum artsy movie, too. It’s been on TCM too often! I saw this in the theater. In fact, I went out of my way to find it. The octopus thing was the work of Carlo Rambaldi (probably best known for his mechanical work in the movie **Alien** , although he’s done tons of other stuff, going back to the early 1960s). which made me curious. Rambaldi worked for low pay just to be able to contribute to the film, which shows you that it had the enthusiastic support of some people. I had read about the film (and seen stills from it) in the magazine _Cinefantastique_. I was practically the only person in the theater. It was gone the next day. I still don’t understand the plot, even after re-reading it on Wikipedia just now > [@](#): > > A number of critics deny the creature with tentacles in physical reality – it may be a reflection of Anna’s psychosis, the product of Mark’s inflamed consciousness: unable to accept his wife’s betrayal,[[9]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_(1981_film)#cite_note-goddard-9) or a kind of revenge of the director traumatized by his own divorce from his ex-wife.[[10]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_(1981_film)#cite_note-pyzik-10) > **[Possession (1981 film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_(1981_film))** > > Possession is a 1981 psychological horror drama film directed by Andrzej Żuławski and written by Żuławski and Frederic Tuten. The plot obliquely follows the relationship between an international spy (Sam Neill) and his wife (Isabelle Adjani), who begins exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking for a divorce. > Possession, an international co-production between France and West Germany, was filmed in West Berlin in 1980. Żuławski's only English-language film, it premiered at the ... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516.md?page=4)