Wtf movies

This is an increasing trend right, I'm not just getting dumber? Films which are intended to take multiple viewings to understand or simply dont make sense. Prometheus and covenant, nocturnal animals, enemy, inception, only God forgives, cloud atlas, inherent vice....even no country for old men's ending. 'Its not supposed to tie together, the discussion is the point, maaaan!' Like totally meta. Seems like most films recommended to me these days are incomprehensible

 

Just like this generation of liberal minds that doesn't make any sense.

 

Take inception out of that post.

 

It's funny because as good as Inception was I basically treated it like a Transformers film and never watched it again.

I thought Inception was a good movie, but not one I especially enjoyed.

 

The film about the dream inside the dream inside the dream ah but is the top spinning really? Take that out?

 

Fuck off

 

realised i haven't even seen any of those movies except inception and No Country; guess as i get older i'm favouring the easy, conservative movies with a conventional plot-line.

it's always been normal for arthouse/independent cinema - shit that doesn't make sense the first time, and may not make sense ever. guess some Hollywood execs are more open-minded about funding them these days.

 

I have to admit, I watched inception just once and didn't know what the fuck was going on? LOL! That film completely lost me after a while. First time that's happened to me

 

Try watching enemy. There's two of the same guy for reasons never explained then his bird turns into a giant spider. I'm sure there's a deep, tenuous metaphor somewhere to tease out but if I wanted one of those Id go to the modern art gallery

 

Nocturnal animals begins to make a good amount of sense on the third viewing if you work at it.

 

I'm convinced the appeal of these movies is that if you watch it 5 times until you feel like you understand it you can then give it to some shmuck like Hut in work or the pub then ask him the next day what he thought of it with smug answers to his bemused questions on hand. 'What you didn't get the bit when he girlfriend turned into a 20 foot spider? I thought the symbolism was pretty self evident'

Who wants a loan of nocturnal animals, it's GREAT man?

 

Yeah I heard about that....Jake Gyllenhall right? The film ends with him going into a room with a giant spider or some shit and he hardly even reacts. Definitely WTF?!

 

The huge middle ground between that and men in tights throwing tanks at flying robots seems strangely neglected right now

 

initially thought you were talking about imminent world war, instigated by drone warfare between Trump & Kim Jong-un/China

2017 really is that freaky; find myself getting mixed up between the real world and superhero movie plots.

in the next year we'll start seeing the first trump era movies, movies where the villain is a celebrity demagogue supported by a crazed mob. probably gonna end up being a staple villain of action movies/thriller/sci-fi for next few decades

 

It is like modern abstract art.

 

'The Tree of Life' was either confusing or too boring for my taste. Same with "The Fountain". The most overrated confusing movie is 'El Topo', but I will not rebuke anyone that considers it a masterpiece because it seems everybody interprets it differently. I never got in the mood to watch 'Cloud Atlas' because I read it requires a few viewings to 'get it'.

 

Enemy was definitely strange. The spider is a metaphor for his infidelity, but the whole movie is weird.

The Frame is another WTF?! movie.

 

I think the spider is him being trapped in a relationship but wanting to cheat via his double life

Cool movie..i made a thread about it that immediately fell into bolivian

 

No Country For Old Men is very easy to understand. It's a metaphor for fate, and how we can't avoid it.

 

I don't really get what the dream scene means. Maybe nothing really and maybe that's the point considering the whole final stanza is a subversion of chase-genre expectations to the point of semi-trolling the audience- the key finale scene is never shown, the fate of his wife is left unresolved, the bad guy gets away after teasing the audience with his demise, then it ends with a secondary character talking about a dream which ostebsibly doesn't tie into anything. I mean it's fucking brilliant but it's clearly meant to make you say wtf

 

I guess The Shining fits into this category. Kubrick leaves a lot open for intrepetation. Did evil spirits possess Jack and drive him insane, or did isolation drive him mad? Was the movie a giant metaphor for the effects of alcoholism?

 

kubricks kinda the godfather of wtf. 2001....wtf?

 

The biggest WTF moment in that film is the guy in the bear costume sucking off the rich guy on the bed.

 

These type of movies fall into at least two categories:

1. Ones in which the story-telling is enhanced by the symbolism and ambiguity - Muholland Drive

2. Ones in which the director/writer gets away with a weak and unoriginal plot by adding weird crap - interstellar

 

Crazy Kubrick conspiracy theory youtube vids are a guilty pleasure of mine - the one about the shining being kubrick telling the world he faked the moon landing in allegory is amazing... the maker must be the smartest moron ever

 

"And he was fixin to make himself a fire in all that dark, and all that cold. And I knew that when I got there, he'd be there."

I think even that dream sequence ties-in to the idea of fate.

 

Have you ever watched the video that makes a convincing case that Jar Jar Binks from Star Wars is the most powerful sith lord in the universe?

 

Anthony subscribes to this theory

 

When considering which of those things are true, remember that someone unlocked him from that from that room. Someone also prepared him for the arrival of the "neegaaa", his son had seen the same old woman he saw etc.

Evil spirits my man

 

The book is more about alcoholism. King felt that the movie underplayed the role of alcoholism, he was drinking heavily when he wrote the book.