Are there any films you just didn't get/understand?

[Kellamity]

I'm just watching the Matrix for the second time in my life. Had no idea what it was all about the first time but this time.......I have my DH explaining what on earth is going on!!!!

Yes talkingnonsense Glengarry Glen Ross for me too. DH loves it and frequently bangs on about coffee being "for closers". I think it's a bloke thing.

Glengary Glenn Ross is a great film. But then DH works in sales so it has special resonance. .

I watched Mamma Mia on DVD when 8 months pregnant and genuinely tought I was watching the wrong film. I couldn't believe this was the one that everybody had been raving about.

I had to pause it halfway through as I was cringing so much.

surprised not to see Lost in Translation mentioned.

though, sounding smug did, but only because i'd spent a couple of months in Japan on my own and think if i hadn't then i would not have had a scooby as to what was going on.

shawshank redemption

Glengarry Glen Ross suffers from play-made-into-film syndrome.

I imagine it would have been very powerful on the stage.

Oh yes Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - no bloody idea what that was about! 2 hours of my life I will never get back!!

I got really confused reading Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Men hanging around the Charing Cross Road looking shady. Bit too subtle for me. I still want to see the film though

recall! How can you say that? Shawshank is a brill film.

Tom Cruise/Cameron Diaz was Vanilla Sky (which I rather enjoyed, though I know I'm in the minority).

I tried watching Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy three or four times and it just sent me to sleep.

The only other film that I didn't finish due to being all wtf? was Dogville - a film with no set, and apparently no plot (though it gets rave review from the arty crowds).

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - you need to watch the 70s TV series it is brilliant but I would recommend reading the book first. Was quite disappointed with the new movie just too much to cram into a 2 hour movie.

Mulholland drive.

Really really havent a clue. Maybe thats the point of it, I dunno.

I loved Vanilla Sky and Minority Report! Just finished the Matrix - got it this time around....just......with a little help from DH

DH has the box set of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with Alec Guiness. It's just the same as the film, but goes on for much longer.

PopadumPreach What does bill murray whisper into her ear at the end???

I thought the point was you would never know.

I LOVE that film. The bit where he touches her foot brought tears to my eyes

Avatar (blue thingy)

Still don't understand

Bladerunner

The Deerhunter

Black Swan

fucking mullholand drive. Worst pile of tosh I have ever seen. And legally blonde 2. My housemate had not seen his girlfriend for a while so I decided I would give them some privacy despite having no free friends to spend time with (uni holidays). I went to the pub and drank 5 pints of cider. Then went to see legally blonde 2 for something to do. I sat there, wasted and ready to piss myself laughing at the slighest little thing, and didn't crack a smile for 90 minutes. It was still 100 times better than mullholland fucking drive though

I didn't understand Mullholland Drive. Any of it. At all.
And Donnie Darko was pretty much a mystery to me as well.
Am proud to say that, although I had to concentrate quite hard while I was watching it I did manage to follow Inception.
Oh, and I understood the first Matrix, but the two sequels left me pretty flummoxed, who the hell are the Oracle and the Merovingian?? I've watched them both more than twice now and am at the point of not caring anymore!

I don't understand 12 monkeys

I don't get mama Mia, absolute crap IMO

Caché, with Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche.

Deeply tedious French arthouse piece endured in our local arthouse cinema sitting among the city's finest intellects .

Dialogue punctuated every three minutes by sotto voce 'Oh Gods' from DH.

I've just watched Pontypool - it's about a zombie-like virus that spreads through spoken words, but more complicated than that, and I spent most of the film going and trying to work out what was going on, and then there was a totally bizarre little scene after the credits that didn't fit in with the rest of the film at all... I don't even know whether I liked the film or not, my entire reaction consists of "wait... what?!"

I liked the newer version of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy nothing whatsoever to do with Benedcit Cumberbatch being in it

Alien 3. Disaster of a movie. Studio interference of the edit means the flow of the story is totally lost.