Current Events > What's the most incomphrensible film you've ever seen? Don't lie.

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The Holy Mountain by Jodorsky. That's a damned strange film. Damned strange.

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Begotten

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Gummo.

It's not incomprehensible on its own.

It just turns the entire history of human life into question.

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Eraserhead, maybe.

iirc, it was inspired by David Lynch's fears of becoming a father, or something, but still...

edit: or maybe Gozu

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Singapore Sling

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Ken Park
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Ashens and the quest for the gamechild

incomprehensible because everyone seems to like it even though its about as funny as sticking pinecones up your nose

And I like Robert Llewellyn and Warrick Davies

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did anyone understand donnie darko when watching it the first time?

if we're talking in the literal sense i have absolutely no idea how people could understand the dialogue in movies like the revenant or true grit... those completely thick accents just throw me off.

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Lucy
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Boogeyman

Underwater

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Arrival

How the fuck is an English (was it language) professor able to afford such a nice crib
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I had to watch The Third Generation twice to fully get the plot

Please watch it Sunhawk

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Ayy, same time post
3 out of 4 won
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awesome999 posted...

Arrival

How the fuck is an English (was it language) professor able to afford such a nice crib

Tenured profs can make bank. Also I think she was a linguistics professor.

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Rubber

For a film about a tyre on a killing spree, it's surprisingly impenetrable.

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stalker

maybe i wasn't paying attention

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MedeaLysistrata posted...

Tenured profs can make bank. Also I think she was a linguistics professor.

Ayy, same time post
4/5 won

Also, I didn't know that, I always thought professors in fields like language made peanuts, but I suppose that's too big of a generalization
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Anyone seen Primer? I've heard it's impossible.

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Pi
Probably?

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pinky0926 posted...

Anyone seen Primer? I've heard it's impossible.

great movie, but yea, it lost me a few times.

I heard there were nine timelines in the movie, or something like that.

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Gummo came to mind first.

Also, maybe it's because I was a bit drink and irritable, but my friend made me watch Prometheus and I was literally mad when it finished.

It felt like they shot half of a movie and ran out of time, and when they went to push the "finish" button, pushed random instead. I didn't understand a second of that shit.
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Southland Tales
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Mulholland Drive.

What an awful movie.
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Mulholland drive, I still dont understand it all these years later

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tennet

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Primer was a total "wtf did I just watch". It took a lot of reading to even get a grasp.

Mulholland Drive was confusing as hell, but I still liked the movie and eventually things did make some sense.

Inland Empire made me nauseous like when you have a migraine. That was just a pure fucking waste of time and I didn't even want to make sense of it. Random Terry Crews was the best part of that mess.

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I'm gonna go with Gozu. It just seemed weird for no reason

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I have vague memories of Lost Highway. Mostly that I wasn't really following what was going on at first. Then, when I started feeling like i had a handle on it, the whole cast changed and it was like a new movie started or something.

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ALIEN_WORK2HOP posted...

tennet

I saw this recently and it hurt my brain a little. I was probably a little too high but it was an awesome movie to watch. I want to watch it again to try to understand it better.

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Theres this black and white japanese film where a guy becomes more "robot" throughout the film. Its trippy.

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Stinker tailor soldier spy

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Lairen posted...

Theres this black and white japanese film where a guy becomes more "robot" throughout the film. Its trippy.

I haven't seen it myself, but is it Tetsuo the Iron Man

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g0ldie posted...

I haven't seen it myself, but is it Tetsuo the Iron Man

Thats it. Its not bad but very weird.

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The Room
I'm still not sure what it was.

Tree of life

R1masher posted...

Stinker tailor soldier spy

I fell asleep during that movie so it felt unfair to say I didn't understand it

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Anyone remember that movie The Box? For me, everything that happens after the part where the married couple presses the button is very confusing.

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Natural born killers. It was just presented in such an offputting way that it was like sensory overload. I didnt want to keep watching and stopped halfway through

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g0ldie posted...

I haven't seen it myself, but is it Tetsuo the Iron Man

That's it. Seen it. "guy eventually becomes a robot" is what you have to keep in mind as you watch. weird and in places incomprehensible otherwise.

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Still not sure what's going on in Eyes Wide Shut. Seen it maybe 3X.

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Why does David Lynch keep cropping up?
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I feel like I want to say Pi but I don't remember exactly.

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Lairen posted...

Thats it. Its not bad but very weird.

One of the best films I've seen. Could watch it over and over.

Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees is probably the hardest to understand, but I still loved it

the witch. I had a real hard time understanding what the fuck the dad was saying 90% of the time. he was speaking English right?

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Puss in Boots had too many goofs.

For example: the golden eggs are too heavy to lift, but later than can carry them without a problem. And that's the only one I remember.
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Along Came a Spider. I consider myself somewhat intelligent, but even I couldn't follow the plot of this movie. There are so many plot twists and implausible situations its borderline unwatchable.

I dont know about film, but there was an episode of Kevin Sorbos Andromeda where I was just sitting there utterly confused. It seemed like a wacky dream episode but no, it was really happening. The whole thing just made no sense.

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i also will roll with eraserhead
that fuckin film man

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BeyondWalls posted...

I dont know about film, but there was an episode of Kevin Sorbos Andromeda where I was just sitting there utterly confused. It seemed like a wacky dream episode but no, it was really happening. The whole thing just made no sense.

I know it's confusing, inexplicable and just makes no sense, but it's true - Kevin Sorbo really didkeep getting cast in things.

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I honestly can't think of a movie I've found to be personally incomprehensible in the strictest sense; even with something like Mulholland Dr. I was able to take away some nebulous personal meaning, even if it wasn't the director's intent (and there were little snippets of things that I picked up on in a more objective sense, like the reference to Goddard's 'Contempt' at the very end of the movie).

On that note, there's probably a ton of things in the films I watched during my foreign film studies classes - films like 'Stalker' and most of Goddard's work - that would have gone over my head without the benefit of a teacher and classmates to help noodle through them.

I guess I'd have to say that 'Pierrot le Fou' is probably the most incomprehensible film I've seen, and yet its somehow it's one of my all-time favorite films. I guess I don't have to fully 'get' a movie to enjoy it.

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