Movies That Lost You

[Guest MrRant]

Have you ever seen a movie which you were able to follow uptil a certain time and then it just went to shit? Not that the movie was bad but it just completely lost you? Timecop did that to me. As well as Eye of the Beholder.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Eye of the Beholder is awful...

 

I kinda got into it at first...and his little girl being there as his imagination was a pretty cool also (IMO)...but what the hell?!

 

It just stopped making any kind of sense...and the ending blew hard.

 

House on Haunted Hill was a suckfest the last 30 minutes after a strong spooky start...didn't "lose" me...but it sucked do bad I had to mention it

[Guest godthedog]

the first 45 minutes or so of 'dancer in the dark' i TOTALLY bought, hook, line and sinker. bjork was a goddess, all the characters reasonably well drawn, and oh my god what great camera work. first beautiful movie shot on digital film ever, i didn't even think it was possible. then comes the day when everything starts going wrong for selma, culminating in that HORRIBLY OVERBLOWN AND STUPID gun scene. at that point i just stopped sympathizing with her and started thinking "lars, what the hell are you DOING?"

 

after that scene the movie did manage to win me back (mainly with great music, bjork's acting and more great camera work) & it was still one of the best movies of 2000, but...oh man, i was ready to call that one of the greatest movies ever made. started out wonderfully sad & poetic, and then just became manipulative and contrived.

[Guest Mr. Pink]

The Thin Red Line....

 

 

 

Good sweet god, how I hated that shit trap.

 

 

This movie was so bad, I was Lost after he said "What is war?" and the alligator.

 

 

 

What

 

 

 

The

 

 

 

Fuck?

[Guest chirs3]

2001: A Space Oddysey and The Thin Red Line

[Guest kane3212321]

Lost Highway, spooky start with the darkness and that creepy guy, then the movie goes spastic and loses it very very very badly

[Guest Kingpk]

Timecode. The four screens thing was just way too confusing to follow at times.

[Guest red_file]

Most David Lynch movies. I usually really dig the atmosphere he creates, enjoy the way the movies progress, but the endings seem to come out of nowhere and make little to no sense.

[Guest C.H.U.D.]

Lost Highway started out great, then turned into a complete turdburger.

[Guest kane3212321]

Did it ever, I was digging the guy who said the I met you at your house I'm there right now etc... and him walking through the darkness and BLAM lynch screws it up.

[Guest Downhome]

Mullholland Drive, that is the only one. I watched it, and re-watched parts of it again, and I still do not truly know what the f*ck the movie was about, what most things in the film meant, etc... I love "thinking films", that tend to make me think, but this one, well...

 

...was just a tad bit "out there".

[Guest Strike Force!]

This is a good topic.

 

It's an easy one for me: Apocalypse Now.

[Guest Si82]

"The Sum Of All Fears" did that to me recently. I don't know why but after the big explosion scene. I just couldn't keep track. Bloody Tom Clancy! Also "Minority Report" was a kick-ass movie but I got lost a bit in the middle but regained my train of thought by the end.

[Guest Strike Force!]

Minority Report had a good plot, IMO. It just seemed that Spielberg got lost being stylistic. Just my opinion.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I completely lost interest in every M. Night Shamylan movie about 40 minutes into each, when I correctly guessed the "twist ending" or else just though it sucked, like Signs.

 

SPOILAH~!******** (for those that want to see the crap for the first time)

 

OOOoooooooOOOOOhhhhhhhh...water! damn, that's scary.

 

Especially since the aliens were out running around people's lawns and cornfields at night. Anyone else ever notice the massive amounts of condensation that is on plant life at night? Especially grass, and they're out traipsing around in it with no shoes on.

 

Also, you'd think they wouldn't attack a planet where 75% of its surface is covered in the substance that is their very undoing.

 

NOT TO MENTION the fact that these supposedly supremely advanced creatures had mastered intergalactic travel, or at the very least, interstellar travel, couldn't figure out a locked DOOR? Please.

 

Signs sucked.

[Guest Strike Force!]

Also, you'd think they wouldn't attack a planet where 75% of its surface is covered in the substance that is their very undoing.

While I liked Signs, and I think it's asinine to whine about small flaws in logic in movies, that's a very good point.

[Guest Si82]

Minority Report had a good plot, IMO. It just seemed that Spielberg got lost being stylistic. Just my opinion.

Look don't get me wrong it was a good movie and it didi have a good plot. I just got a bit confused with it that's all. Mind you I blame lack of sleep 'cause of going to an early showing.

[Guest kane3212321]

Downhome, watch Mulholland Drive a second time, I did and the movies story actually made sense and wasn't as strange as the first time I watched it.

[Guest J*ingus]

What I never understood was that Lost Highway got smashed by the critics while Mulholland Drive got praised, yet the movies are so incredibly similar that they're damn near the same thing, with minor plot differences and different actors.

[Guest godthedog]

What I never understood was that Lost Highway got smashed by the critics while Mulholland Drive got praised, yet the movies are so incredibly similar that they're damn near the same thing, with minor plot differences and different actors.

yup. i've wondered that aloud myself. but i thought they were both brilliant movies, & if i remember correctly, you didn't like either.

 

what i really don't understand is how so many people can say 'mulholland drive' started out great & then petered off. i thought, and still think, that the first 45 minutes-1 hour of 'mulholland drive' were really slow-moving, pedestrian and boring. the acting looked really fake, & i had no interest in the characters at all. it wasn't till things started getting darker & weirder, with the returning motifs, that i was really taken in by it. the only thing that really interested me was how lynch could take so many things & characters and find the ways to bring them together in ways i didn't expect.

[Guest J*ingus]

Actually, I did like both of them, though Lost Highway was my favorite of the two.

[Guest godthedog]

my bad.

 

high 5 on 'lost highway' being better.

[Guest godthedog]

god damn connection, made me double post.

[Zorin Industries 0]

Saving Private Ryan.

 

First 20 minuites amazing, the rest was just there.

 

I can't honestly say why, just something about it really bored me to death, and this is from a MASSIZE WW2 fan.

[Guest kane3212321]

Really I thought Mulholland Drive was the better film, at least it made some sense in the end where in Lost Highway I was scratching my head. I loved the first 30 minutes of Lost Highway and it was really starting to grip me, then blam, when it switches to the kid and that I really had no idea what was happening, any thoughts on it's meaning anyone?

[Guest red_file]

As with most of Lynch's stuff there doesn't seem to be any type of consensus on what really happens or what is meaningful in Lost Highway. David Fost Wallace wrote a pretty good essay about the movie in his essay collection A Supposedly Funny Thing I'll Never Do Again for which he even managed to finagle himself onto the set; his theory points to Lynch's usual trope about the way perception moulds identity.

 

Somewhat interesting interpretations can be found at here and here, but neither of them offer a very satisfying explanation.

 

As I said, Lynch tends to lose me.