Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas..I think I walked out on this movie or maybe not, can't remember, but it was the most senseless movie I've ever seen by far. Do you have to try hallucinating type drugs to get it?
I just watched it again and I think I understand it. I'm sure Invisible Fan covered it for the most part, but I'll add some of the things I thought. :::SPOILERS::: The three periods are past, present, future. The conquistador story was the book Izzy wrote and gave to Tommy to read. I guess while he was reading it, he thought that he was the conquistador and Izzy was the queen. The present is of course the present. He's searching for a cure for the tumor his wife has and will not accept failure. The future is what really confused me. I have two theories. 1) Tommy goes insane and thinks all of this up or 2) Tommy dies and this is what happens after death. The mark around his ring finger is still there so I believe my second theory fits more and ties in with the present. That brings me to the tree. In the conquistador story, the tree gives life in a natural way but when a person uses it on themselves, it causes death, therefor it can't cause immortality. In the present, the tree heals and gets rid of any trace of a disease, in this case a tumor. As for the future, I don't really know. I guess Tommy just takes the tree with him in the after-life? Just my thoughts.
Magnolia: my brother loved it, but i tought it was one of the most boring movies i have ever seen. Any of the tarantino movies(besides Pulp Fiction), i never really got into the dialogues. Well actually i do get them, i just feel they are overrated.
Natural Born Killers... I don't get it, but thats probably because the movie bored me to death so I just didn't pay enough attention.
I thought it was great! Maybe it's an American thing. You never have frogs fall from the sky in the Netherlands??
That was a horrible movie. It was almost like a parady of an Oliver Stone movie....except that Stone was directing it. I don't even understand why that movie was made. What was the point?
Actually, that's probably why you didn't like it. The first time I saw it I was 16 and had never done any drugs. I thought it was dumb. I then watched it again when I was 23 and at the height of my drug use. Since then it's been my favorite movie and I've watched it at least 20 times.
After watching all these CSI's, LnO's, and other various murder-centric series, I don't get Weekend at Bernie's anymore.
I think the term "get" needs to be defined here. To me, not "getting" a film means you didn't understand either the plot or the message the film was trying to get across. Just because you didn't think a movie was as funny as the rest of the general population doesn't mean you didn't get it (at least to me). Anyway, to add my contribution, I never "got" Rules of Attraction. Throughout that whole movie, the only emotions I could muster for ANY of the characters were ambivalence or downright loathing. There wasn't a single sympathetic character in the bunch. And during the whole movie, I kept getting this feeling like there was supposed to be meaning, or a life lesson of some kind. But I never got it. Maybe someone else can help me with that.
Actually I love that movie and you did get it. What you mentioned was kind of the point, something that kind of permeates Bret Easton Ellis's writing, it's very nihilistic
Not sure if there was a point, maybe they just had money to burn. So they decided to burn it in the stupidest possible way.
come on dude, that movie was awesome. u had to think alittle to figure it out, but the meaning of the story is obvious.
*off topic* If anyone gets a chance you NEED to download the music to "The Fountain" Its incredible. *carry on*
There aren't many movies I didn't get, but there are a lot that had me wondering what the hell did I just watch and why did I watch it! Truman Show...I understand what it was about, but it took me a while to figure it out. Green Mile...Yeah I get it, but I don't see why everyone loves it so much, I guess it was Tom Hanks. Sixth Sense...Someone else mentioned this, it was just dumb to me. 12 Monkeys...Though I don't remember it, I know I left the theater wondering what I had just watched and thinking that I could have made my last 3 hours a lot more worthwhile by staring at a wall. Monty Python (I think it's "Search for the Holy Grail")...UGH!!! Maybe the most pointless and worst movie I've ever seen. I can still see and hear that guy in my head making sounds like a horse trotting using a coulpe of rocks.... Vanilla Sky...See Sixth Sense. Minority Report...See Vanilla SKy. Munich...Now there's a movie that really made no sense to me. I think that concludes my list for now, even though I know I left out a couple. Last but not least, the greatest movie of all time....Shawshank Redemption! Pugs EDIT: Total Recall...Now I understand it a lot better than I did, but originally there were so many little twists wondering who was on what side, and what the heck they were talking about that it was hard to follow and understand.
You should not have to go to a website to understand what happened in the movie. I have only seen the director's cut and I can't remember the last time i've seen storytelling that was so bad. Anyone who claims to know what really happened has visited websites that speculate as to the plot. The movie is the equivalent of a bunch of 20 somethings getting really high and staring at their hands swearing to have come to some radical truth about the world.
