# Which film raises the most questions? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 15, 2004, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-film-raises-the-most-questions/245320 "2004-05-15T21:16:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mike1dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@mike1dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mike1dog)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-film-raises-the-most-questions/245320/21 "2004-05-16T23:35:11Z")
The Third Man. This movie is confusing on many levels. First of all how did the police not look at his body originally to see if he was actually the body that was buried? Why did he offer his friend a job and then stage his death? Why did Harry think his friend would go along with his black-market schemes? I love the movie, but it’s full of holes, plotwise. ---
**Author:** ![Shadez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Shadez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadez)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-film-raises-the-most-questions/245320/22 "2004-05-16T23:54:00Z")
The ending of _Cube Squared_ … when we were hoping it would _answer_ questions from _Cube_. No dice. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2004, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-film-raises-the-most-questions/245320/23 "2004-05-17T00:00:17Z")
Every movie “starring” Pauly Shore: Why was this movie made? Who financed this movie? Why haven’t they been arrested? Who actually likes Pauly Shore? Why haven’t they been committed? …and so forth… ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2004, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-film-raises-the-most-questions/245320/24 "2004-05-17T00:27:50Z")
> [@mike1dog](#): > > The Third Man. This movie is confusing on many levels. First of all how did the police not look at his body originally to see if he was actually the body that was buried? Why did he offer his friend a job and then stage his death? Why did Harry think his friend would go along with his black-market schemes? I love the movie, but it’s full of holes, plotwise. IIRC - He mailed an offer to his friend, then discovered the cops were getting too close, and had to duck out. Communications moved slowly in those days. The friend didn’t think penicillin smuggling any big thing - until the police showed him the harm it caused, then he was disgusted with Harry. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2004, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-film-raises-the-most-questions/245320/25 "2004-05-17T01:17:52Z")
“What’s the watermelon for?” “I’ll tell you later.” Answered on the DVD, thank goodness. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2004, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-film-raises-the-most-questions/245320/26 "2004-05-17T01:27:57Z")
> [@Wasabee](#): > > J.F.K > > Accroding to Stone the film raises somewhere around 150 questions. Some answers: [One Hundred Errors of Fact and Judgement in Oliver Stone’s JFK](http://www.jfk-online.com/jfk100menu.html). ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-film-raises-the-most-questions/245320/27 "2004-05-18T00:06:46Z")
> [@Brainiac4](#): > > **Mission: Impossible**. > > Why does he get only one result when he searches the Internet for “job”? He isn’t searching the internet, he’s searching usenet, where it is quite feasable to only get one result for ‘job’ (p.s. I don’t think he’s searching for job, I think it’s 'job 3:14) > [@](#): > > Why does he type out an email over and over, rather than cutting and pasting, or, Odin forfend, putting multiple addresses into the BCC: line? He’s doing them in different languages, unless he’s got some very clever translating software he pretty much has to do each one seperately. > [@](#): > > Why on Earth am I watching this :smack: craptacular piece of :smack: crappy :smack: crapness instead of doing something worthwhile? :smack: I liked it. Much better than MI2 (although the thing that bugs me the most is how all the agents seem to be acting as if it’s their first ever mission, like they are amateurs, whereas in the original series everyone was poker-faced, knews exactly what they were doing as if it was their day job and they’ve done ten thousand jobs like it) ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-film-raises-the-most-questions/245320/28 "2004-05-18T03:13:25Z")
**Mulholland Drive** wasn’t at all complicated for me. I figured it out by the end of the first viewing, and viewing it a 2nd time was just wonderful! One of my favorite films. [Here’s](http://dir.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2001/10/23/mulholland_drive_analysis/index.html) some explanation if you need it. Caution: a few basic facts are wrong in the analysis. (I love a movie that makes me think _and_ I don’t figure out until, well, The End. “Twists for the sake of twists” movies, OTOH, are awful.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-film-raises-the-most-questions/245320.md?page=1)