# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/81 "2022-09-18T00:24:57Z")
“Wilhelm Reich: Mystery of the Organism” left me confused, not least because they translated “orgasm” to “organism” ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/82 "2022-09-18T06:23:48Z")
[Futz.](https://youtu.be/QXgk3H0ELco?t=11) ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/84 "2022-09-19T13:08:43Z")
The last one I saw for the first time is **Men** , and as already mentioned, it is a whole lot of strange. This past weekend I rewatched **Mulholland Drive** for the first time in several years. I have a pretty good handle on it now, after having read many explanations and theories, but when I saw it the first time it was one big, resounding WTF.??? ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/85 "2022-09-19T13:32:14Z")
_The Lighthouse_. Incredibly beautiful cinematography, Willem Dafoe chewing up the scenery, but came out of the theater with an absolute WTF feeling. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, sometime WTF is a good thing. > **[The Lighthouse (2019 film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lighthouse_(2019_film))** > > The Lighthouse is a 2019 film directed and produced by Robert Eggers, from a screenplay he co-wrote with his brother Max Eggers. It stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson as nineteenth-century wickies (lighthouse keepers) in turmoil after being marooned at a remote New England outpost by a wild storm. The film has defied categorization in media, and interpretations of it range from a horror film, a psychological thriller, a survival film, and a character study, among others. > The idea for th... ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/86 "2022-09-19T18:35:22Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > _Under the Skin_ > Scarlett Johansson is the only recognizable actor. I joke that the movie is not believable in any way. Who really thinks that Scarlett Johansson could lure random men into her van to have sex with her. I mean really. One that I would mention is “Holy Motors” (2012). It was fascinating to watch, but I have no idea what was going on. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/87 "2022-09-19T18:42:39Z")
**Licorice Pizza.** Watched it earlier this year with 3 other adults, knowing it had been nominated for best pic. Not one of us had any idea what we had just watched. Kinda started off as an interesting portrayal of the time of our youth, but never went anywhere (that was of interest to any of us), and kept tossing in weird bits for no apparent reason. I know some folk around here this it was great. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/88 "2022-09-19T21:54:43Z")
> [@mcgato](#): > > Who really thinks that Scarlett Johansson could lure random men into her van to have sex with her. I mean really. A documentary I watched recently pointed out that, in fact, many of the encounters were with non-actors, who weren’t aware that they were in a movie scene (not the key, extended encounters). ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/89 "2022-09-19T22:21:00Z")
I got the DVD from the library, and made it about 15 minutes in. I had the same reaction to “LaLa Land.” ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/90 "2022-09-19T23:55:20Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I had the same reaction to “LaLa Land.” _LaLa Land_ wasn’t WTF. It was just very mediocre. ---
**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 20, 2022, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/91 "2022-09-20T00:20:39Z")
I will admit, **Orphan: First Kill** may not be a great movie, but it certainly made me say WTF or at least come close just about half-way through it. I kind of love it just for having the guts to go there. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/92 "2022-09-20T00:25:24Z")
Oprah, first kill would be good also. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/93 "2022-09-20T00:54:02Z")
The idea that Scarlett Johansson would lure men into a van to have sex with her seemed ridiculous until she married Colin Jost. ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/94 "2022-09-20T00:56:46Z")
I can’t remember a recent movie that left me scratching my head, but [Boxing Helena - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_Helena) seriously made me wonder what in the world I had watched. There were a few parts of [Everything Everywhere All at Once - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_Everywhere_All_at_Once) that made me go wtf, but it all was part of the wackiness of the movie so it fit rather than made want to throw up my hands. `//i\\` ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/95 "2022-09-20T01:03:50Z")
The wraith. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/96 "2022-09-20T01:31:56Z")
It was visually stunning, even on TV, but that was about it. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/97 "2022-09-20T03:14:12Z")
I’ll nominate _Repo Man_ from 1984 starring Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton. Estevez plays a young punk rocker whose forced to get a job after his parents send his college fund to a televangelist. He hooks up with an older repo man played by Stanton who shows him the ropes. During the course of the movie, they try to repossess a classic car that’s carrying some sort of alien technology in the trunk. I think my first WTF moment was a scene where all the consumer products were just white with big block letters reading chips, beer, or whatever was supposed to be inside it. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/98 "2022-09-20T12:22:17Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > I think my first WTF moment was a scene where all the consumer products were just white with big block letters reading chips, beer, or whatever was supposed to be inside it. Generic packaging was real, you know. They didn’t invent it for the movie. > **[Generic Products of The '80s](http://historysdumpster.blogspot.com/2012/08/generic-products-of-80s.html?m=1)** > > History's Dumpster, kitsch, '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, pop culture, fads, strange, nostalgia, vintage, retro ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/99 "2022-09-20T12:31:01Z")
I think the “WTF” moment was that ALL the products in the store were generic. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/100 "2022-09-20T12:42:33Z")
That was the joke, yes, along with the extreme genericness of some of the labels (“food,” “snacks”), but Odesio’s post seemed surprised at the idea of generic packaging at all. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516/101 "2022-09-20T13:08:06Z")
It’s entirely possible that @Odesio isn’t old enough to remember generic packaging. Store brands took over that niche after a relatively short run. I’m 62 and barely remember generics. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-you-saw-that-made-you-say-wtf/971516.md?page=6)