Damn it!!! I wanted to start a thread like this the other day but now cannot remember what movies I was thinking about.
It's pretty much your standard scifi movie. The director's cut is supposed to be more direct. Did you ever visit the movie's website? It has a few answers to the movie there.
I hate to agree with a Rat ( ), but I visited Japan many years ago, and the flick captured a certain slice of it perfectly. I loved it.
Lost In Translation was the first movie that came to mind, but it's already been mentioned several times. I didn't get the humor in the Royal Tenenbaums though I know a lot of people really liked it. Thought it was very boring, and it is still the only movie I've ever walked out of in the theater. Didn't like Natural Born Killers. It was too weird/out there for me. Turned it off 45 minutes into it and went to bed. Don't know why it was so popular. Somebody else mentioned Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but I didn't get why that was so popular either. The movie sucked.
pwn3d by tomato For some reason I stop thinking of David Lynch at Lost Highway. Its like saying Tarantino's last movie was Jackie Brown... Clockwork Orange is always a staple of hard to understand dont-get-it movies. Vanilla Sky as well. I think that movie I just simply didnt CARE to even want to get Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz being artsy and going for the challenging roles
I loved Lost in Translation. It's not for everybody. That movie was all about setting a mood and that's what I liked best about it. If they would have hooked up, it would have been a HORRIBLE movie. Crash was one of the dumbest most contrieved movies I've ever seen. So unrealistic that the "message" was totally lost on me. Besides, it totally ripped off Grand Canyon, which frankly was a much better movie.
You couldn't get the plots of these two? Really? At least you liked them! I didn't care for The Thin Red Line myself, and I like the director and war flicks. One that I loved at first, and then liked less after repeated viewings, was Saving Private Ryan. I swear, if Hanks made his hand shake again...
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Only movie I've ever walked out of. Thankfully, I got in for free so I wasn't out any money. Maybe I didn't get it because I don't do drugs.
Well, when I say that, it basically meant that I enjoyed the movie throughout the whole viewing. But when I exited the theater, I went, "WTF was that all about?" Basically, they're movies that are convoluted enough where I never really got the big picture or theme or whatever. I never saw Saving Private Ryan. Maybe it's because I'm not patriotic enough or whatever, but the premise seemed really boring. Did catch a bit of it on cable later. Definitely well directed and acted, but not a big fan of the story itself.
Spoilers for people who care I remember watching it high. It was about him changing his own fate with the plane crash because his life would've been screwed up with the murder and his knocked up girlfriend. All the other philosophical stuff could be wrapped around the plot and his powers. Broken down, it was a lesbian love and murder story from Naomi Watt's point of view during her mental breakdown (for murdering her gf) and right before her suicide. At least, that's what I got from watching it and reading the clues from the DVD jacket. A psuedo philosophical story about the meaning of ones life and the existence of a soul. I'm sure each period represents something, but the philo core is that love is the power that can create and define life, but the paradoxical price to pay for that reward is death and acceptance of death. I think this is so because that acorn, or whatever seed it was that appeared during Weiss's funeral at the end, came to be when everything blew up. It represented a new beginning but despite all the changes, the love between wolverine and weiss was eternal. :retch: I'm missing some things from that movie, but it was so boring to me and the points it were trying to make seemed superficial and would've been better served in a book.
the big lebowski and fear and loathing seem really overrated to me. i've never done drugs, is that supposed to help? lebowski is funny atleast i just don't get why everyone loves the fear and loathing. as for lost in translation, i watched half of it on dvd before i had to go somewhere. it wasn't bad but at the same time i haven't had any urge to finish it in the year since i started it.
I understood all of the movies, lost in translation, donnie darko, mullholland... but i totally agree. Lost Highway = makes no sense
