Having just looked at an old post bout Donnie Darko what other films have u seen that u really have to watch to understand whats going on.
My choices:Twelve Monkeys - i got it after watching several times
Butterfly Effect - Bizarre, Bizarre, Bizarre
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - I kept losing track of where i was in the film
Vanilla Sky - could of been a classic but they explained it at the end and ruined it
Primer (2004). I watched this one (see link below) and have watched it several times since and still don’t fully understand it!
However, I’m not alone - it confounded many of the supposedly intellectually highbrowed critics.
Hah! Funny you should mention those movies, David. Last night, I downloaded The Butterfly Effect and watched it. Excellent movie, most definitely. And I JUST downloaded Donnie Darko, though I’ve seen it several times. No matter how many times I watch that movie, I’ll never understand it completely…
Twelve Monkeys is a great movie too, and I can think of some others that kept me wondering.
Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” = I don’t know if it’s supposed to be confusing as hell, but it certainly is. The best part of it is the music (obviously).
“Brazil” (made by one of the Monty Python crowd) = Excellent movie about a strange futuristic society, very similar to 1984 except with funny bits. Confusing at bits…needs some analysing.
“Fight Club” had a decent amount of confusion in it due to the whole “split-personality” thing. Interesting!
Personally, it seems that movies like that are ones that are my favorite. After watching The Butterfly Effect last night, I think I’ve found a new one to put in my Top 10.
There must be more films ive seen where at the end ive thought WTF!!
Im racking my brain…
Fight Club
Butterfly Effect
The matrix (not me personally but I know a few people that didnt follow it)
Yes, watched the Butterfly Effect for the first time yesterday. I think I’ll need to see it again to fully understand it.
Yeah, I didn’t follow the Matrix at all. And since I didn’t follow the Matrix, the two other Matrix movies didn’t make sense either, so I’ve watched a complete trilogy that I didn’t understand in the least.
(though technically, the first movie is the only one worth watching 
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I haven’t seen it yet, but I keep hearing that Memento is one you have to watch with your full attention. I’ll probably check it out soon cuz I also heard its really good.
yeh Memento is quite good! come to think of it, I can’t remember what happens in the film, doh. Might watch it again:)
2001: a space odyssey
And i still don’t get what happens at the end 
Donny Darko - did I mention is before?
A History of Violence - WTF??? :ohah:
Pirates of The Carabeans II… Davey who?
Space Odysee - yeah that was a :swear: up one. Blow you head if you smoked somfink before…
Arrgghhh there are loads but I cannot remember…
By and far The Manchurian canidate, I couldn’t tell you thing that went on in that movie, I could tell it was a “good” movie in the sense that a lot of thought was put into it and it had good production values but I honestly was totally lost all the way though. It probably made a lot more sense to most people though.
If I had to write a synopsis of the matrix trilogy I’d be totally screwed too.
Pulp Fiction and Jurassic Park (It made ALOT more sense after reading the book)
A new-ish one to add to the list: Lucky Number Sleven. Pretty good movie, but quite confusing overall. The end of the movie tries to explain everything…maybe I’m just a bit slow, but I guess I didn’t catch it all. Grab it and see what you think.
Lucky Number Sleven; I want to watch that, hmmm maybe on the weekend. Its been recommended by quite a few people.
Good cast in that movie: Bruce Willis, Ben Kingsley, Morgan Freedman, Lucy Lui…etc. etc. Not too shabby! My only gripe with it is that it doesn’t seem to have a defined genre → It starts off as a serious movie, turns into a hilarious comedy, and reverts back to being serious. It was a bit confusing at times…but good nontheless.
Sounds cool dude, I love Bruce Willis movies.
I saw “The Game” with Michael Douglas a few days ago, I followed it more or less until it got to the last part of the movie, then I got highly mixed up and things didn’t make a lot of sense to me.
Okay here are a few:
Munich
Syriana
Spy Game
Constantine
Okay for the first three, they are all great movies! And they’re all action. Syriana and munich are pretty recent but spy game is a bit older – 2001. Out of the three munich is the easiest though. I watched Spy Game with subtitles and still rewound a few times lol. And my friend spent like half an hour explaining Syriana after I watched it in theatre with him, but now that I get I think it’s good lol. It’s just too compressed, thats the only problem with it. It’s a really complex plot squeezed in too much.
Constantine I still have no clue wtf was going on because I watched it in a theatre and literally like half the movie was in whispers or hushed tone, and I have a hearing problem so… But it didn’t seem all that great even if i had understood it, but not bad. The first 3 are definitely more worth watching.
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Responding to some of the earlier posts, do u want me to explain history of violence? I didnt really have a problem understanding it (although of course its not as simple as as some silly comedy or something) and I thought it was pretty good.
Constantine wasn’t difficult to understand, i went to see it at the cinema, not my favourite film but its ok.
Yeah I’m sure it wasn’t if u’re not deaf like I am! lol