Top 10 Most Confusing Movies of All Time

St._Andalou · 21-07-2010 10:02PM #1

Lovefilm rental conducted a poll to find the "most confusing movies of all time". The link to the story is here.

The list in full:

1. Vanilla Sky
2. Mulholland Drive
3. Donnie Darko
4. The Matrix Revolutions
5. Memento
6. 12 Monkeys
7. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey
9. Revolver
10. A Clockwork Orange

I think there are some odd choices there. Is A Clockwork Orange really that confusing? I know it's disturbing but I found the plot easy to follow.

Hank_Jones · 21-07-2010 10:15PM

Whoever that writer is, they need to see more films.

Vanilla Sky isn't particularly confusing.
Neither is Donnie Darko, Memento, 12 Monkeys, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Give me Stalker or Solyaris any day. And then there is Inland Empire, Eraserhead, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.

The Daily Mail is a rag.

krudler · 21-07-2010 10:16PM

Freddy Got Fingered tops the list for me, how that got funding, and a release, is absolutely baffling.

St._Andalou · 21-07-2010 10:17PM

Hank_Jones wrote: »

Whoever that writer is, they need to see more films.

Vanilla Sky isn't particularly confusing.
Neither is Donnie Darko, Memento, 12 Monkeys, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Give me Stalker or Solyaris any day. And then there is Inland Empire, Eraserhead, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.

The Daily Mail is a rag.

True, it is, but they didn't conduct the survey, they just reported on it.

I'd agree that Memento, 12 Monkeys, Eternal Sunshine aren't that confusing. I found Donnie Darko hard to follow, but then, I never liked it that much.

Skerries · 21-07-2010 10:18PM

i'll tell you a film that confuses me
Sex and the City 2, why would they make another one!! :mad:

Shryke · 21-07-2010 10:19PM

St._Andalou wrote: »

1. Vanilla Sky
2. Mulholland Drive
3. Donnie Darko
4. The Matrix Revolutions
5. Memento
6. 12 Monkeys
7. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey
9. Revolver
10. A Clockwork Orange

The ones in bold are not confusing to me. It's sad that someone would think a film is confusing because the concept for it is more complicated than someone needing to put their dick into someone else. But hey.

Karl Hungus · 21-07-2010 10:21PM

Hmm, the Daily Fail lives up to it's usual standards.

El Horseboxo · 21-07-2010 10:24PM

Probably has to be Primer for me. Very confusing and after watching more than once i still don't know how to explain it as i came away with a different understanding each viewing.

Exclamation Marc · 21-07-2010 10:25PM

Southland Tales. Baffling.

johnny_ultimate · 21-07-2010 10:30PM

Oh dear.

A V A · 21-07-2010 10:35PM

why isnt shutter island in there ?????

Mickeroo · 21-07-2010 10:42PM

A V A wrote: »

why isnt shutter island in there ?????

because it's not confusing?

tony1kenobi · 21-07-2010 10:44PM

It's Employee of the Month for me.....try as I might I just could not find the comedy in that film.

mike65 · 21-07-2010 11:05PM

The poll was commissioned by that arbitor of cinematic insight er Lovefilm

bluto63 · 21-07-2010 11:11PM

Mulholland Drive is the only confusing one. 2001 is not confusing, you just need to make your own interpretation of it. Honestly, who was confused at the others? A Clockwork Orange? It has a completely linear plot line with no hidden key elements. It's all laid out perfectly for you to follow!

Ugh, sh*te newspaper

L'prof · 21-07-2010 11:17PM

El Horseboxo wrote: »

Probably has to be Primer for me. Very confusing and after watching more than once i still don't know how to explain it as i came away with a different understanding each viewing.

I think I'd agree with Primer. I only watched it the once though and I was pished!

21-07-2010 11:18PM

Wizard of Oz is an incredibly confusing movie. And probably one of the scariest I've ever seen. Granted I've only ever seen it once and was feverish, suffering from insomnia and slightly intoxicated watching it.

But those midgets..

Maannn.. scary stuff.

mike65 · 21-07-2010 11:18PM

Its not the papers fault, people who rent from Lovefilm are idiots! (that makes me look like I'm defending the Daily Heil, I'm not not but get your target right).

Faith+1 · 21-07-2010 11:20PM

Lord of the rings trilogy. Didn't get it at all.

Red Hand · 21-07-2010 11:24PM

The Fountainhead. I don't really know what the tree in space was about. If even that was what it was.

krudler · 21-07-2010 11:28PM

Faith+1 wrote: »

Lord of the rings trilogy. Didn't get it at all.

Whats to get? evil ring, gets lost, gets found, they walk a lot, big battles ensue, ring is thrown into volcano, the end.

A V A · 21-07-2010 11:34PM

Mickeroo wrote: »

because it's not confusing?

i think it is very confusing. i dont know how many people have said it to me tahst hey couldnt fallow it

Mickeroo · 21-07-2010 11:42PM

krudler wrote: »

Whats to get? evil ring, gets lost, gets found, they walk a lot, big battles ensue, ring is thrown into volcano, the end.

hey spoilers!

Galvasean · 21-07-2010 11:43PM

mike65 wrote: »

Its not the papers fault, people who rent from Lovefilm are idiots! (that makes me look like I'm defending the Daily Heil, I'm not not but get your target right).

It's their fault for reporting useless surveys as news.

Lu Tze · 21-07-2010 11:45PM

Dune

/thread closed

Bodhisopha · 21-07-2010 11:47PM

Code Unknown.

Science of Sleep, which was pure rubbish. Maybe it wasn't so confusing but it was so irritating i lost interest.

rockmongrel · 21-07-2010 11:47PM

Was initially surprised to not see Synechdoche, New York there, then I realised that most would never even bother watching such a brilliant film.

SirLemonhead · 21-07-2010 11:50PM

Oh, you intellectually superior bunch of internet Film watcher types

:pac:

titan18 · 21-07-2010 11:50PM

Primer for me anyway

Spunge · 22-07-2010 12:15AM

Probably Inland Empire.

Mulholland Drive and Lost Highway are also quite "confusing".

Hank_Jones · 22-07-2010 12:40AM

Lu Tze wrote: »

Dune

/thread closed

I didn't really find Dune confusing at all when I watched it the first time.

I'd barely even heard of the books at the time as well.

Also, Dune = awesome.
Very underrated film IMO.

johnny_ultimate · 22-07-2010 01:37AM

Hank_Jones wrote: »

I didn't really find Dune confusing at all when I watched it the first time.

I'd barely even heard of the books at the time as well.

Also, Dune = awesome.
Very underrated film IMO.

When I saw David Lynch speaking in Trinity a few years ago, someone asked the ludicrous question "What's your favourite film of yours". Waste of a question IMO, but Lynch gave a great response (paraphrased slightly):

"It's like picking your favourite child, you can't do it. However, Dune is the ugliest child".

I haven't watched Dune because of said comment :pac:

Jako8 · 22-07-2010 02:39AM

I think that for a lot of peopl "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" could be extremely confusing. Especially if you have no idea who Hunter S. Thompson is.

storm2811 · 22-07-2010 02:46AM

Jako8 wrote: »

I think that for a lot of peopl "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" could be extremely confusing. Especially if you have no idea who Hunter S. Thompson is.

What?No way,love that film,what's confusing about it?

I did have to watch Donnie Darko a few times to get it but Clockwork Orange?Confusing?Wtf??

30txsbzmcu2k9w · 22-07-2010 03:06AM

This "poll" is a lazy press release that was written in a matter of minutes with the intention of getting the DVD rental company's name in the paper.
100 per cent fabricated fluff that was sent to every paper in the country.

trustno1 · 22-07-2010 07:38AM

Out of the list the films that I have seen I have 100% 'got' (Memento, 12 monkeys etc..) the only film that has ever truly baffled me is:

Thomas and the magic railroad

starring the one and only Alec Baldwin... I seriously, seriously could not make head nor tail of this film.. its like as if they were making it up as they were going along.. but the strange thing is that my children got it and didn't understand why I didn't!..

Lu Tze · 22-07-2010 07:57AM

Hank_Jones wrote: »

I didn't really find Dune confusing at all when I watched it the first time.

I'd barely even heard of the books at the time as well.

Also, Dune = awesome.
Very underrated film IMO.

Its a test of endurance to watch that film to the end it is so bad!

Dune is difficult to follow as there are decisions taken and actions carried out by the characters which make no sense at all! I preume they have a better explanatory build up in the books as to why he went to ride the big worm thing - in the film he just decides completely out of the blue!

genericguy · 22-07-2010 08:57AM

El Horseboxo wrote: »

Probably has to be Primer for me. Very confusing and after watching more than once i still don't know how to explain it as i came away with a different understanding each viewing.

fcuking amazing movie.

Tabnabs · 22-07-2010 09:07AM

Not only a crap movie, but Gigantic, what the f...

The most confusing ending to a movie has to be Limbo.

fryup · 22-07-2010 09:20AM

how about that movie on rte last night Zodiac??

that had me baffled

AnonoBoy · 22-07-2010 09:22AM

How is Clockwork Orange confusing?

AnonoBoy · 22-07-2010 09:23AM

fryup wrote: »

how about that movie on rte last night Zodiac??

that had me baffled

How?

It's pretty straight forward and excellent too.

fryup · 22-07-2010 09:34AM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

How?

It's pretty straight forward and excellent too.

Enjoyed the movie too but i wouldn't call it straight forward, it was a wash with conflicting evidence, numerous suspects, complex characters and no conclusive ending.

And what was the character Brian Cox was playing all about??

Brendog · 22-07-2010 10:05AM

Inception is definitly in there!!.....you just have to stop halfway through the film and think about how you got to where you are....

12 monkeys is very confusing also...

fear and loathing in las vegas.......WTF?!?!?

Faith+1 · 22-07-2010 10:10AM

krudler wrote: »

Whats to get? evil ring, gets lost, gets found, they walk a lot, big battles ensue, ring is thrown into volcano, the end.

That's my point exactly! 3 movies for that! Lol :rolleyes:

AnonoBoy · 22-07-2010 10:13AM

fryup wrote: »

Enjoyed the movie too but i wouldn't call it straight forward, it was a wash with conflicting evidence, numerous suspects, complex characters and no conclusive ending.

And what was the character Brian Cox was playing all about??

Yeah but the conflicting evidence and all that is part of the case. It's never confusing in that you don't know what's going on. It's just a confusing case that is being worked on in the film.

Brian Cox played a lawyer that the Zodiac contacted. I don't understand the question.

JustinDee · 22-07-2010 10:18AM

St._Andalou wrote: »

Lovefilm rental conducted a poll to find the "most confusing movies of all time". The link to the story is here.

The list in full:

1. Vanilla Sky
2. Mulholland Drive
3. Donnie Darko
4. The Matrix Revolutions
5. Memento
6. 12 Monkeys
7. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey
9. Revolver
10. A Clockwork Orange

I think there are some odd choices there. Is A Clockwork Orange really that confusing? I know it's disturbing but I found the plot easy to follow.

It seems any movie with a twist would confuse the Daily Mail pundits and readers.

Skerries · 22-07-2010 10:24AM

considering Gandalf could have just flown over the volcano on his big eagle and dropped it in

NicoleL88 · 22-07-2010 11:22AM

Inception needs to be put on that list. Savage film.

uncleoswald · 22-07-2010 12:50PM

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

When I saw David Lynch speaking in Trinity a few years ago, someone asked the ludicrous question "What's your favourite film of yours". Waste of a question IMO, but Lynch gave a great response (paraphrased slightly):

"It's like picking your favourite child, you can't do it. However, Dune is the ugliest child".

I haven't watched Dune because of said comment :pac:

Dune actually looks fantastic in my opinion. I have noticed its influence on lots of sci-fi since, in particular The Fifth Element. It just unfortunate that its a boring pile of poo.

As for the pole? Populist top-ten pole produces crap results shocker. For me it was Primer. I don't really count the David Lynch stuff, I still have trouble sorting out Mulholland Drive but it matters not a jot to my love of it. And I really had no idea what was going on in Transformers 2 but then I think it was making my eyes hurt so I closed them for large parts.

billymitchell · 22-07-2010 01:03PM

The Fountain deserves a mention. Only watched it the once, but it confused the hell out of me. Possibly could be a good film, but I didnt really understand it.

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