Name some movies you didn't get the plot on the very first viewing?

[Braznor]

Mission Impossible

I'll admit I was confounded by this flick when I viewed it the first time, but then I grew to love it and then hated the sequels for their cliched simplicity!

And then again, I understood Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A space odyssey at the very first viewing and loved every moment of it.

 

[PingSpike]

I was going to say M:I. I think I expected a more by the numbers movie so I didn't really pay attention the first time through. I only saw M:I2 and I liked it as a simple action movie but it wasn't even the same genre as the original!

 

[gamepad]

Toy Story.

 

[kranky]

Eraserhead.

 

[Molondo]

Southland tales..

 

[ksheets]

Godfather/Godfather 2...its not that i didnt get the plot..theres just so much going on in each scene
Ive probably watched them 10 times now and i seem to discover a new insight each time i watch lol

 

[SpunkyJones]

Elmo's Potty Time.

 

[Chiropteran]

Last of The Mohicans. I got really confused with all the different tribes of Indians and groups, I couldn't keep track of which were "good" and which were "bad" at first. Only after a second viewing did I really get the movie.

 

[dbk]

The Fountain...wtf

 

[MotionMan]

The Sting - It is all but impossible to understand what really happened until you watch it a second time.

MotionMan

 

[clamum]

The only one I can recall is The Fountain.

 

[nanette1985]

Originally posted by: SpunkyJones
Elmo's Potty Time.

Really? I watched it once with my kids and was underwhelmed. Should I watch it again?

 

[DrPizza]

Pink Floyd's The Wall

I still know people who have watched it multiple times and never figured out what the heck the plot was, or what the wall actually was.

 

[jjones]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Pink Floyd's The Wall

I still know people who have watched it multiple times and never figured out what the heck the plot was, or what the wall actually was.

The first time I saw it, it was, shall we say, a psychotropic experience. I understood it perfectly!

 

[Miklebud]

No Country For Old Men

 

[Ionizer86]

The Prestige and Memento

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: dbk
The Fountain...wtf

seriously

 

[Gothgar]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage

Originally posted by: dbk
The Fountain...wtf

seriously

I thought I understood part of it... but I was mistaken.

 

[legoman666]

Originally posted by: Gothgar

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage

Originally posted by: dbk
The Fountain...wtf

seriously

I thought I understood part of it... but I was mistaken.

I just thought it was stupid.

 

[Fenixgoon]

donnie darko

 

[Jessica69]

Originally posted by: MotionMan
The Sting - It is all but impossible to understand what really happened until you watch it a second time.

MotionMan

You're kidding, right? Wasn't that hard since it was explained completely at the end of the movie.

 

[ChaoZ]

Fight Club. I had to think about it to figure out what was going on.

 

[Saint Michael]

Ghost in the Shell 2. I haven't watched it again, so I still don't get it. On the other hand I wasn't paying much attention when I watched it.

 

[imported_wicka]

I think it was Ocean's 11 where I basically understood the plot, but in every subsequent viewing I just noticed more and more. There's a lot of depth to the heist that is difficult to notice at first.

 

[Epic Fail]

Magnolia