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What were some movies you had to look up explanations of after watching? (leminal.space)

submitted 1 year ago by CorrodedCranium@leminal.space to c/moviesandtv@lemmy.film

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Beau is Afraid was the last one I recall. I think it was mostly the latter half of the movie where I started to get a bit confused and needed the ending explained to me.

What movies made you look up some kind of explanation afterwards? I feel like I have done it several times in the past for more surreal movies but can't think of any other examples.

It can also be a TV show.

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

2001 A space Odyssey

No country for old Men.

*Annihilation.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

2001 was a movie that made me go "wait, what? People like this?"

I heard it come up so often and was excited to watch it. Absolutely hated. One of the worst movies I've ever watched. I had to look it up a lot after I watched it because I was sure I had to be missing something big. But no, I wasn't. Really not my kind of movie, I guess.

[–] HardlightCereal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I watched it with my partner and we riffed on it the whole time. Thoroughly enjoyable. Making fun of the movie's bad parts allowed me to get past the boredom and appreciate the good.

[–] shrodes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If you have the chance to see it in a cinema I highly recommend. Something about the big projection and sound, plus ideally an intermission really made it click for me

[–] fernandofig@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean, it was groundbreaking for its time and it redefined the genre and a lot of moviemaking in general, but it really didn't age well as far as moviemaking goes. Yeah, it has severe pacing issues, is undeservedly way too long and it got way too trippy and abstract by the end. Frankly a whole lot of it feels like Kubrick masturbating over how great he is, with a lot of scenes being way too long and serving no real or useful purpose on on the movie.

I could say pretty much the same about Solaris too (the original Tarkovsky version which cinephiles always rave about, not Soderbergh"s, which I actually prefer), and if rumors are true, apparently Kubrick took a lot of ideas from it.

And I say all that as an avid sci-fi fan. The books from Arthur C. Clarke are more enjoyable.