I recently got around to thinking about movies that seriously mess up your mind & make you question what the hell happened in the end (or just through the whole damn thing), and I think I got some good mentionables on my lil list here.
We've all seen em'. Those movies that leave you sitting there utterly unable to close your jaw or un-wrinkle your forehead.
I know there are many more movies to add to this fun lil list, and I'll leave that up to you, but I'm going to focus on my top three here.
1. American Psycho
Okay, maybe this ending made sense to most people, but it left me a lil pissed off that I didn't get it.
Patrick Bateman is a wall street yuppie with serious OCD, and a lust for blood & hookers.
It all begins when he murders his co-worker, Paul Allen, in a raincoat in his living room with an axe, the whole time raving about how much he loves Huey Lewis & The News.
| Just tell him you love Huey Lewis, dude. He's all bent out of shape. |
This leads to a series of bizzare murders, including running down the hallway naked with a chainsaw, chasing a hooker, and dropping it on her ass from three floors up.
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| "Here's looking at you, hooker. I think I just crapped my pants." |
But it all becomes fucky to me towards the end when he supposedly blows up cop cars & has helicopters after him, hiding under a desk, calling his lawyer. Then, meets his buddies for lunch the next day & nobody fucking cares & somehow he's now become Paul Allen, that other yuppie he hacked to death, and omg, why did this whole thing just become more complicated than a confused teenage girl?!
Was he Paul Allen to begin with? Did he imagine himself as Patrick Bateman & the whole thing?
Was that first yuppie back at his apartment a representation of the old him he wanted to kill off?
(Clearly, I just clarified my own confusion. Did I?)
Maybe. Moving on.
2. The Naked Lunch
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| Holy NEVER watch this movie on hallucinogens like my girlfriend had me years ago! |
This guy's a writer/journalist, I kind of don't remember, and he comes home one night to some dude banging his wife on the couch as another guy is standing by reading excerpts from the bible. He casually walks across the room & she staggers over & places an apple on her head. He then aims with an arrow & misses the apple, shooting his wife in the head, while the whole time the other dude is still reading the bible.
Then he gets turned onto bug powder & starts getting ridiculously high off this stuff.
Like, he was so high on bug powder his typewriter began to turn into this giant beetle type thing & starts talking to him.
At some point I'm sure this thing turns into a giant vagina, but I could have been imagining that!
Don't think it could get worse?
He starts hanging out with this guy next.
Meanwhile, no one has any idea wtf all these drug induced space age creatures are trying to tell this guy, and who cares, because this is just too fucking weird for words.
It makes no sense to me beginning to end, he just keeps getting higher & higher, and shit just gets weirder & weirder. The end.
3. Lost Highway
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| King of cinematic WTF's |
HEYYYYYYYY!! What. The. Fuck. Is. Going. On. HERE?!?
They're at home. Some weird tape arrives in the mail. I forget what's on it.
They're at a party. There's that weird guy creeping everybody out, and omg wasn't he that guy that murdered that chick in real life, like, for real, for real?
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| My own blog is going to give me horrible nightmares because that's what THAT is the face of, my friends. |
Bill Pullman's wife's personality & hair keep changing color (at least he thinks it's his wife), and all you can really gather is that she was somehow involved in porno (with horrible German music) & he didn't know about it.
He's driving down a highway. For like, a really long time.
I think he's lost. He should have been given a titular line.
"I'm so lost on this goddamn highway."
Oh, look there's a house. It's creepy video camera guy again, which is probably a sign you're about to die, and he refuses to tell you about your weird wife's vagina.
How can we really tell how it ends when the whole damn movie just lacks too much damn sense to comprehend or even remember.
Over the top, David Lynch. Over the top.
This one might have been better off at a fucked up mime porno film festival.
And that concludes our episode of WTF Theater.
I know you got some up your sleeve, or have seen one, or all, of these movies.
If you know any good ones, feel free to add them to the WTF list.
OMG I swear I used to masturbate to American Psycho! Christian Bale was so freaking hot in that movie. (please don't think I'm a total psychopath lol)
ReplyDeleteAmerican Psycho, quite disturbing...You should totally do an accent vlog...I'd love to hear it...enjoy your night.
ReplyDeleteFalen, I thought he was hot looking, but his character was fucking me up in the head too much.
ReplyDelete(you know me, I'm the weirdest chick ever. lol. I couldn't think that)
Marty, I'm considering it. That was cool. I wonder how amusing mine would be seeing I'm from the Boston area. Have a great weekend, mama.
"Don't just stare at it... EAT IT!" is one of the greatest movie lines of our generation...
ReplyDeleteI laughed through 90% of that movie.
ReplyDeleteWhich, oddly enough, reminds me of the Puppet Master films.
I love American Psycho. It was a weird flicj but It was very entertaining. I will make sure to check out the other flicks you mentioned for sure. Thanx for that.
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ReplyDeleteOh, please report back if you ever do & figure out what the hell they're all about.
ReplyDeleteNoted. I think I'll do a few editions of this in the future. I'd like a good handful to go over at once, though.
I know what you mean about disturbing movies that linger in your mind. For some reason, I've been seeing a lot of those, lately. Anyway...
ReplyDeleteThe book, American Psycho, which the movie is based upon, was a little less confusing. I've seen and read both versions. The ending in the book, made sense but it left you thinking there would be a sequel, if I recall. I liked the book a lot better of the two. It had some really dark humor in it (the movie lacked humor, in my book). In the book, in one chapter, Justin Bateman is wearing someone's decapitated head on his erect penis while he's hunting in the open refrigerator for something to snack on. I think the head finally slips off his dick while he's munching on an apple. That whole scene in the friggin' book is so surreal, horrifying and humorous- all at once. I still remember that part and it's been close to twenty years since I read that book. Weird, huh?
I remember watching Naked Lunch and halfway through, I had to turn it off. I have crazy thoughts but that movie gave me more than a run for my money, so to speak. It made zero sense to me, if I remember correctly.
I've never seen Lost Highway but I heard and read enough about it to know I didn't want to see it. If you want to see a movie that critics hated and I liked and it makes perfect sense, try watching Surrogates (Bruce Willis is in it). The message that movie puts out is something we should all pay attention to in this day and age. Take care, LilPixi.
That's crazy about American Psycho, Kelly.
ReplyDeleteI wish I had the attention to make it through books easily. Too much focus on a story for too long for this ADD girl.
I'm always hearing how all these books are better than the movies.
You are 100% correct about The Naked Lunch. I believe most people have to turn it have. It's agonizingly confusing.
I love the suggestions!!
I LOVE The Lost Highway! You were close, that is actually Robert Blake that was also accused of murdering his wife but never found guilty...and he's just as creepy as Phil Spector...
ReplyDeleteAnd how about Robert Loggia as Mr. Eddie in Lost Highway?? "I hate fucking tailgaters!!"
One of my favorite movie characters...I'm a sucker for Lynch films, though...and did you also know that Lost Highway was Richard Pryor's very last movie appearance?
And did you know that I still think you are awesome?!
I did not know all that about Lost Highway. I started out with the hopes that it would be epic.
ReplyDeleteSo, it made perfect sense to you?
I'm sure I'd find it good if I could just UNDERSTAND it. lol.
Damn, I was wrong on the guy! Was all proud of myself for that (false) knowledge. They ARE equally as creepy.
I hope so. ;~} And I'd be willing to give the movie another try if I knew I could make sense of it.
OK, after reading this I have decided to 'Follow' you, which is not to be confused with stalking, although it seems odd to me that Blogspot gives you the option to follow publicly or follow privately. Why follow privately? Isn't that JUST like stalking? I think so. Anyway, your WTF post was right up my alley. I mean, not that I literally own an alley or anything, but I write weird shit like this and weird writer people should stick together. Somehow that makes sense to me. I hope it makes sense to you. Or alternatively, I could just follow your blog because your profile pic looks relatively hot, which is a good enough reason to follow a blog in and of itself.
ReplyDeleteHey, Steve. Welcome! I checked out your blogs, I think they're great, and I'm following back.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the compliment. Yes, I think us weird writers should stick together. Haha.
It's funny you mention the private/public thing because I noticed in Friend Connect this morning that my blog actually has 69 followers, more than likely meaning three people follow it privately. I feel so dirty.
Hey you...I tagged you on my blog today=) Enjoy.
ReplyDeleteLove the name of your blog.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant writing!
I will be back!
Lisa
Thanks again, Marty! I'm going to get on that during the day. That was very thoughtful.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, Lisa. I went & visited & really like your blog. =) Great writing!
I just recently watched American Psycho and I felt totally cheated at the ending too!
ReplyDeleteThe others I haven't seen but guess whose adding them to her Netflix account right after this??
Yeh you're right about American Psycho it was one strange movie. It's been so long since I watched it, but rememeber it, as being pretty fucked up. Haven't watched the others, and will remmeber to stay away from them if they're as wierd as AMeriocan Psycho.
ReplyDeleteTMMW - The other two confused me sooo much more. Good luck with those if you attempt them, mama. lol
ReplyDeleteGreg - They are so much weirder. I was & am still intrigued by Lost Highway considering its era & influence, but it confused the hell out of me, and The Naked Lunch you just can't touch with a ten foot pole unless you're a space alien.
No problem girl...Have a good night!
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