Comments on: Top 5 Ambiguous, Confusing Movies

By: stacy

stacy — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:22:49 +0000

What about Donnie Darko?!

By: stacy

stacy — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:22:49 +0000

What about Donnie Darko?!

By: Joe F.

Joe F. — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:13:40 +0000

I can think of over a hundred films that are far more puzzling than the ones listed.
Most of the films from these filmmakers are known to be quite ambiguous: Alain Robbe-Grillet, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette, Phillipe Garrel, David Lynch, Chris Marker, Derek Jarman, Peter Greenaway, Béla Tarr, Sergei Parajanov, Michelangelo Antonioni Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Theo Angelopoulos, Jan Svankmajer, Miklós Jancsó, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Hsiao-hsien Hou, etc.

Note: If your going to say L'avventura, why not say La Notte and L'Eclisse? The remainder of Antonioni's modern malaise trilogy.

In my opinion, every great film needs a hint of ambiguity.

By: Joe F.

Joe F. — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:13:00 +0000

Note: If your going to say L'avventura, why not say La Notte and L'Eclisse? The remainder of Antonioni's modern malaise trilogy.

In my opinion, every great film needs a hint of ambiguity.

By: Cole Abaius

Cole Abaius — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:47:24 +0000

Ditto. Mulholland Drive probably belongs on the list – or other Lynch works – just because he makes metaphors, not storylines. Also good call on L’avventura.

And what about Ishtar? What was going on in that thing anyway? :)

By: Cole Abaius

Cole Abaius — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:47:00 +0000

Ditto. Mulholland Drive probably belongs on the list – or other Lynch works – just because he makes metaphors, not storylines. Also good call on L’avventura.

And what about Ishtar? What was going on in that thing anyway? :)

By: El Bicho

El Bicho — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:25:18 +0000

Huh? I am baffled by the visitors of RankAMovie because if those are the movies they find most ambiguous and confusing, they must not watch many movies, or they don’t know what the words mean because four of the five don’t belong.

I’ll give you Breathless, I guess, but Godard has certainly made less accessible films.

What exactly was ambiguous about Clockwork? It was very straight forward.

I would put on the list Last Year at Marienbad, L’Avventura, Persona, some of the last few films by David Lynch.

By: El Bicho

El Bicho — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:25:00 +0000

I’ll give you Breathless, I guess, but Godard has certainly made less accessible films.

What exactly was ambiguous about Clockwork? It was very straight forward.

I would put on the list Last Year at Marienbad, L’Avventura, Persona, some of the last few films by David Lynch.