What was the last movie you've seen?

[Sano]

Harry Potter and The Deathly Hollows Part 1

[KalessinDB]

When are we getting a REAL sequel to this?

God only knows how many HM-friendly animated shorts are out there.

Not a sequel in terms of the story, but another anthology of segments done by different animators.

"Story" - that's cute. I once described it as "the sum of all evil, wanking itself"

Don't get me wrong, great movie, but very little story.

On topic, just saw Daddy's Home in theatres, then came home and am randomly watching Wild Hogs because it was on the channel I tuned to.

[DeadPark]

i just watched "THX 1138". Seriously, if you have watched it before and actually know what the hell it's about can you please explain it to me, because i have absolutely no idea what it is i just watched. I like old Sci-Fi movies, and they're usually a little hard to follow. but this... THIS was on a whole new level of hard to follow. I've never before watched a movie where i have ZERO understanding of what just happened...

[Nemoide]

i just watched "THX 1138". Seriously, if you have watched it before and actually know what the hell it's about can you please explain it to me, because i have absolutely no idea what it is i just watched. I like old Sci-Fi movies, and they're usually a little hard to follow. but this... THIS was on a whole new level of hard to follow. I've never before watched a movie where i have ZERO understanding of what just happened...

I guess you'll have to watch Eraserhead or Tetsuo: The Iron Man next. If you thought THX-1138 was hard to follow...

THX is more "arthouse" than Lucas' other films but I don't remember it being difficult to follow. My memory was that it was a fairly straight-up dystopia story in the vein of 1984 or Brave New World.

[Forlorn Drifter]

I don't think I'll ever "get" Eraserhead. I just can't figure it out.

[Cronozilla]

i just watched "THX 1138". Seriously, if you have watched it before and actually know what the hell it's about can you please explain it to me, because i have absolutely no idea what it is i just watched. I like old Sci-Fi movies, and they're usually a little hard to follow. but this... THIS was on a whole new level of hard to follow. I've never before watched a movie where i have ZERO understanding of what just happened...

Super Spoilers for THX-1138

Future humanity is controlled through suppression and distraction to be utilized as a workforce. By whom and for what, is unknown, but the instruments of control are androids.

Two people violate the mandates and refuse suppression and are penalized. One goes on the run and is able to outrun the mechanism in place for control by overextending the financial threshold set in place for his capture.

Once he escapes, it's shown that these humans lived underground, and there appears to be no civilization otherwise.

The only thing that makes no sense in the movie is the whole hologram becoming a real person thing. But it just raises questions. There's no further exploration of those ideas, so who knows what was actually going on there.

What happened, why are people underground, why are there android cops? etc etc etc? Who knows. But we can speculate (which is why the movie is interesting, if everything was entirely laid out, it'd probably be fairly boring considering how common these ideas are now).

The most fitting possibility is:
Humanity wiped itself out, and in the end days (years?) a subterranean facility was created to shield some vestige of humanity from extinction to allow the human race to live on. Utilizing a group of ideals so that the current folly (extinction level nuclear war, perhaps?) cannot occur again.

We experience the breakdown of this institution, because while avoiding things like irrational fear and anger leading to extinction are great ... you can't save humanity at the cost of making everyone un-human.

[DeadPark]

Thanks for the help guys.

i guess my problem was that i wanted answers to WHY any of this was going on. but from the sounds of it, there aren't any answers to most of the "Why?" questions.

As Nemoide put it, it was very "Arthouse" and i wasn't prepared for that. i knew the movie by name only, and knew nothing about it going in.

[Ack]

I guess you'll have to watch Eraserhead or Tetsuo: The Iron Man next. If you thought THX-1138 was hard to follow...

Eraserhead is a man struggling to deal with relationships and coping with marriage and fatherhood.

Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a man struggling with his homosexuality until he finally embraces it.

[TSTR]

I guess you'll have to watch Eraserhead or Tetsuo: The Iron Man next. If you thought THX-1138 was hard to follow...

Eraserhead is a man struggling to deal with relationships and coping with marriage and fatherhood.

Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a man struggling with his homosexuality until he finally embraces it.

Eraserhead I got. Tetsuo I've never thought about like that but it makes sense.

[KalessinDB]

I once watched Visitor Q back when a couple friends and I made a habit of watching bad movies regularly.

It was terrible AND made very little sense.