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ST Poll: The Wrap named the "15 Most Confusing Movies of All Time" based on searches of the title followed by "explained" - can you name them?

Posted by MDH Jun 14 '22, 12:00

Not sure I think the source of how they are named the most confusing is great, but I guess it's still a fun poll.

Responses:

That POS Magnolia -- nm - Strongbad Jun 14, 13:41
I am thinking the rest have to be movies that most people dont find confusing. -- nm - Jovian Jun 14, 12:31 1
- What About Bob? -- nm - Spawn Jun 14, 12:59
I'll spoil them: #2 I'm Thinking of Ending Things -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:22 6
- well that one's at least legitimately confusing. -- nm - Reagen Jun 14, 12:51
- #8 The Shining -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:22 4
  - lolololol. stupid is a stupid does -- nm - Jovian Jun 14, 12:31
  - some of my fave pictures on this list! -- nm - mud Jun 14, 12:23
  - #12 The Matrix -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:23 1
    - I was going to say the Matrix only because of the lowest common denominator of "people be dumb" -- nm - sycor Jun 14, 12:25
Godfather3 -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 14, 12:22 2
- Woman in the Dunes, Hiroshima -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 14, 12:24 1
  - Disney's Fantasia -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 14, 12:28
The Master -- nm - zork Jun 14, 12:21
Enemy - sycor Jun 14, 12:18 1
- N/A -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:18
Gattaca. eXistenZ. - Beryllium Jun 14, 12:17 6
- Gattaca? -- nm - mud Jun 14, 12:22 2
  - I'm having trouble thinking of films I found confusing, so I'm trying to think of films that other people found confusing. - Beryllium Jun 14, 12:23 1
    - I was just trying to imagine what needs to be "explained" (of course I've seen it so many times maybe any confusion faded away for me) -- nm - mud Jun 14, 12:25
- The first guess has an actor that stars in one of those missing. -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:18 2
  - Predestination -- nm - mud Jun 14, 12:21 1
    - #11 -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:21
Lost in translation -- nm - Beryllium Jun 14, 12:15 1
- N/A -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:15
Hints: 1 movie from the late 70s (horror), one 2020 movie, Tom Ford, a mid 2010s sci fi movie, and a 1999 masterpiece. -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:13 12
- Shining? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jun 14, 12:33
- A Single Man -- nm - Roger More Jun 14, 12:28 1
  - Fight Club -- nm - Roger More Jun 14, 12:28
- Phantom Menace -- nm - zork Jun 14, 12:19
- that dumb fucking movie with Jake G and Amy Adams. Nocturnal Animals - St. Epiphany Jun 14, 12:17 5
  - #7 -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:18
  - Huh. really? I must have really not understood it. -- nm - sycor Jun 14, 12:18 3
    - spoils - St. Epiphany Jun 14, 12:20 2
      - I remember most of that. Maybe I understood it but just don't remember it very well. It was not a great movie. -- nm - sycor Jun 14, 12:24 1
        
        agreed. it was not -- nm - St. Epiphany Jun 14, 12:38
- American Beauty -- nm - rollo Jun 14, 12:16 1
  - N/A -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:19
eraserhead -- nm - mud Jun 14, 12:10 5
- N/A, but this Director is represented on the list and hasn't been guessed -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:11 4
  - Mulholland Dr -- nm - mud Jun 14, 12:11 3
    - Lost Highway is crazier. -- nm - Reagen Jun 14, 12:34 1
      - agreed, but Mulholland was more infamous -- nm - mud Jun 14, 12:35
    - #5 -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:12
Shutter Island -- nm - Beaker Jun 14, 12:09 1
- #3 -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:10
Apocalypse Now -- nm - zork Jun 14, 12:09 1
- N/A -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:10
Star Trek -- nm - Beryllium Jun 14, 12:08 2
- N/A -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:10
- (I'm betting on an algorithmic quirk...) -- nm - Beryllium Jun 14, 12:09
Donnie Darko -- nm - Beaker Jun 14, 12:08
Interstellar -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 14, 12:06 2
- #6 and the final Nolan movie on the list (4 in total) -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:07 1
  - So they missed The Prestige. -- nm - Roger More Jun 14, 12:25
Annihilation -- nm - Jovian Jun 14, 12:05 5
- No! I change my answer to... Donnie Darko?? -- nm - Jovian Jun 14, 12:06 3
  - 2 minutes -- nm - Beaker Jun 14, 12:09 1
    - heh -- nm - Jovian Jun 14, 12:11
  - #4 -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:07
- N/A -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:06
That Amy Adams one where the aliens experience time differently or something, and the end of the movie already happened before it started or something -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jun 14, 12:05 1
- #9 Arrival -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:05
2001: A Space Odyssey -- nm - zork Jun 14, 12:03 1
- #15 -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:04
Primer -- nm - znufrii Jun 14, 12:03 5
- N/A -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:04 3
  - Fail. -- nm - znufrii Jun 14, 12:07 1
    - Probably not enough people saw it since it's based on searches? -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:07
  - ok, wtf :) -- nm - oblique Jun 14, 12:04
- heh, this is the movie I was actually thinking of when I typed "Looper" -- nm - oblique Jun 14, 12:04
Looper -- nm - oblique Jun 14, 12:02 1
- N/A -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:02
Memento and Fight Club, -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 14, 12:02 1
- #13 and #10 -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:02
Inception. And his last movie I could not even watch. -- nm* - Spawn Jun 14, 12:00 2
- the Pitch Meeting for Tenet was all I needed :) -- nm - Beaker Jun 14, 12:10
- #14, and #1 (Tenet) -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:01

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