What movie ending still confuses you to this day?

In the first scene of “American Psycho” when Patrick Bateman is at that fancy restaurant with his colleagues, he points out “Paul Allen” across the room and it’s not the Paul Allen (played by Jared Jeto) we see later on in the film. This key moment shows how naïve and careless almost every character in the movie is.

The ending of Donnie Darko isn’t even the “confusing” part! The rest of the movie is where the mystery lies

Predestination is a TRIP of a film! I highly recommend it.

I watched Donnie darko once only a few years ago after someone told me they didn't understand the ending. I told them after that the movie took place in a second reality and that he was seeing things from what had already happened and sacrificed himself in the third one.

No David Lynch movies but many of Denis Villeneuve. Interesting

Looper never decided to work with his future self. Throughout the film he was trying to close his loop.

_Silent Hill._ One of the few movies that Sean Bean survives. 😂😂😂

I almost quit when I heard, "He seduced his younger self, and she got pregnant."

You know, I always found something strange in Total Recall-when Dr Lall calls Bob and tells him “it looks like we have another schizoid embolism-then when he runs into the room she says that they “hit a memory cap”-no further mention of the schizoid embolism-until the middle of the film when Dr Edgemar visits him in the hotel and tells him that that’s what he’s going through. Then there were other things that were puzzling-the reactor at the end bears a strong resemblance to the picture of pylons Dr Lall had showed him in the beginning. The woman they create for him looks exactly like Melina in this dream. And the technician at Recall talks of “blue skies on Mars”-which is exactly what happens at the end. Yeah, the more you look at it the more likely it is that it’s a dream. Even when Lori(Sharon Stone) appears with Dr Edgemar her expression isn’t easy to read, but if you look real close you can see her eyes are moist indicating she’s indeed grieving what’s happened to her husband. Then after killing Edgemar-the walls literally crash in just as Edgemar said they would! Yeah-schizoid embolism is what happened.

I love movies like these.

Vanilla sky was the most devastating movie for me personally Unfortunately i watched it during the time when the girl I loved i proposed and she eventually said she'll take whole month to decide whether to Say "Yes" or "No" to my proposal I was so stupid that If it's love the other person don't have to think And when You have to think then it's not love just selection and sorting ur best option So yeah devastating effects of watching this Movie during unstable times but eventually enjoyed it more during those times ❤

Dropped the ball on Total Recall fact-checking. Director has gone on record stating that both angles exist as separate realities, thus both are correct.

The Thing! Would we ever get a definitive answer!

12:22 but he dreamt about melina before he even went to recall, ehh? Ehh? Not so cut n dry, lol

The telltale sign in American Psycho that Patrick Bateman never killed anyone was his _obsessive compulsive disorder._ There is no way he would stab a woman to have her bleed in his bed; chop a head off in his his living room, or allow his face and body come into contact with blood. This is a man who slides a coaster under a glass to prevent water rings on his table, insists that a spoon be put in the carton, and washes his gloved hands after making contact with a gay man. Then there was the fact that no one in the apartment woke up to a revving chainsaw in the middle of the night. No authorities were called after Patrick smeared a freeway of blood through his apartment foyer with his _Jean Paul Gaultier_ overnight bag. Patrick is to much of a compulsive neat-freak to play such a messy game like murder.

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Happier than ever that I never saw any of these.

In Tenet, think of Neil like Jake Gyllenhal’s character in Source Code… or like a time remnant from The Flash…there are probably many copies of Neil lying dead around the world from having stopped OTHER bombs from going off.

Time traveling rabbit gave him an out to an epic lifetime of disaster, loneliness, and self loathing. I had the theory it would be continued with Donnie grown up, while working hrough his pain, becomes obsessed over trying to undo his past. In order to prevent a complete time paradox develops the rabbit suit, goes back in time, then convinced his younger self to self eliminate but for a greater good! That's just a fun continuance that would be fun to explore.

I would also add southland tales. "The nines" is also a strange movie but kind of gets wrapped up at the end.

About Mother - one thing that confuses me about the whole thinking is that humans are NOT something separate, we are as much a part of the biosphere, and born of it, as something like ants or whales or grasses are. So if you think of "Mother Earth" as something like a conscious being that does create everything here, well, I suppose you could think of humans as the failed experiment. But she is still quite capable of wiping us out, because of course we are not her first creation destructive to what the biosphere had been like before that. It has happened many, many times before. And she also seems quite capable of handling any temporary setbacks like near wholesale destruction of whatever the biosphere was like, she just builds anew. Might take a few million years, but what is time like that to her... She is not a weak, or even a particularly nice mother in that sense. More like a ruthless mistress. I think portraying her as weak, and at our mercy, might be underestimating her in a big way. Mistaking a tiger for a little cuddly bunny. And one of her aims seems to be filling every possible niche with the life she has created. She is quite the expansionist. So... if humans have a reason, for her, might that be for getting HER creations off this one planet? We seem to be the first life form that might be able to do that, after all. Perhaps that is our purpose. For her.

One small correction. In Owl Creek, the man is being hanged not killed by a strange attack.

I still have no understanding of Tenet... ..

Thanks for not saying or putting the spoiler in text as the very first thing. I wish you would do all of your "movie list videos" this way. It's nice having time to skip a segment.

I love the movie Donnie Darko… it’s the first movie where we really got to see Jake Gyllenhaal shine as an actor. And he has so much intensity and depth he was the perfect actor for this part. also perfect for “ nightcrawler” 20 years later. I actually love the plot of Donnie Darko, and if you watch it enough times it’s actually pretty straightforward… It wasn’t even a “ life-sized, bunny rabbit” or even an imaginary friend, as Donnie claimed him to be with his therapist. Somehow the jet engine landed on him and it transported him to two weeks prior. Everyone thought Donnie was crazy. He wasn’t He was actually A genius, and a psychic, could see the future etc. He did “hallucinate”but his bunny rabbit is actually a real boy named Jack in a Bunny suit on Halloween running over his girlfriend after leaving grandma deaths basement to look for clues. The boy under the bunny suit is speeding and ends up. Just running over his girlfriend…. He’s dressed in that giant bodysuit and takes off the head shocked at what he’s just done… that’s when Donnie Darko kills him. Danny believes that it’s “The Rabbits” (I believe his name is Jack, ? And he’s brought up several times by other characters, including Patrick Swayze‘s character, who refers to him in past tense. But Donnie kills him not just because he killed the girlfriend, but he believes it’s his fault for everything that’s transpired. but really, the body is just a manifestation… A physical form or a ghost you could say because when the rabbit takes off his head in the movie theater, he has a bullet wound that went right through his eye (the bullet wound from Donnie shooting him)…. He’s guiding Donnie through the events they have already happened… Donnie just doesn’t remember it because technically Donnies already dead but he doesn’t know it yet. so he just follows his instructions to “save the world”… OK maybe writing it out like this it still sounds confusing lol. But trust me once you’ve watched it enough especially the directors cut the pieces all come together.. I’m not big on remakes especially since I think this is a bit of a masterpiece and cult classic… that being said… I think they could’ve done a prequel talking about Grandma deaths backstory since she turned out to be an intra-goal part of the plot

The part I don't understand about Jacobs Ladder is that, if he dies in Vietnam and he is just having visions than how does he know exactly how things in the future are, such as certain technologies?

I HATED Jacob’s Ladder when it came out because it was An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. I felt robbed by the ending.

Predestination better have given credit to Heinlein and his story "--All You Zombies--"

Total recall was based on a sci-fi short story that is as far from the film as “do androids dream of electric sheep” is from Bladerunner

Ok, so someone please explain to me this... In "Predestination," if he was both his own mother & father, than who were his grandparents? 🤔

The book for Total Recall is even crazier than the film. In the film, a construction worker named Quail chooses a memory as an agent and then it turns out that he was really an agent whose memory had been erased. But that's when the fun begins in the book, because Quaid demands a new, more pleasant memory of a more exciting life from his former employers and they agree. He is then placed with a psychiatrist to figure out what his own personal desires are. When he was young, Quail used to fantasize that as a child he came across minuscule rodent-like aliens that were going to launch a full invasion of Earth with their superior technology. However, young Quail was so kind to and accepting of the aliens that they decided to hold off on their invasion as long as he was alive. While finding the fantasy narcissistic, his commanders agree to plant the memories at Rekal. To everyone's shock, those memories turn out to be real as well.

The Directors Cut of Donnie Darko makes more sense and is actually really good.

After watching this video, I can confidently say I'm left more perplexed than I was before watching this video. 🤔 Thanks Looper...

It makes sense if you don't think about it!

You guys need to make a part 2 and put "The Little Things" on it... 😏😂😂😂

So happy to see Silent Hill here! 😃

Jacob's Ladder is based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead

This better be good. I’ve seen this movie 8 times

Being your own mother and father is wild.

*Paul Verhoven contradicts Total Recall's movie's story, because nowhere does it say Rekall's clients experience their fantasies within a dream. Even the company's guy explains it to Quaid as, "As real as any memory in your head.", and, "...a longer trip will cost you a little more, because it's a deeper implant.". Not a longer "dream". So, the company implants memories, for immediate recall, not, acted-out experienced dreams, according to its script. Therefore, Everything Quaid is experiencing is happening in real time. And I didn't even mention the fact that Quaid was experiencing pain (which you don't, in dreams).*

I’ve never been a fan of Ethan Hawke, but Predestination was an excellent film, and gave me a definite respect for his abilities as an actor.

You didn't have all the answers since you did not explain the Lobster plus most of this were not that complicated.

Thanks for the clarification because some of these are truly didn't get.😊.

Oh man, now I gotta go back and watch all these movies again. Good.

Here's a collection of spoilers for movies that are not really confusing by the end of the film... Hopefully you haven't wanted to see any of these!

Note how most of these "confusing" endings are time travel related... why do people seems to have such a problem understanding temporal causality?

ok i think i get get it.... but can you break it down and explain it to me like I'm 5 !?

enemy is a classic

Donnie Darko

Tenet was good, but the motivation for the villain is dumb AF 😮‍💨

SO basically, he pulled a Christopher Bowes: he used the Time Cube and the Crystal Coconut to become his own father and his own mother. Then, once he was born, he came out with a drinking horn.

An ambiguous movie ending doesn't necessarily mean it's confusing. It's only confusing if one lacks the capacity to think about the film after the curtain comes down and the house lights turn on.

Declare is not a replicant… do your research. Both the writer and Harrison Ford say that he is not a replicant. And he couldn’t be a replicant in 2049 because he’s an old man and several several decades have passed. He has a human that had a child with a replicant, Rachael.

the 2nd movie wasn't called enemy, if you're talkin bout jake g finding out he has a "double" that's an obscure actor that he tries to track down after attending a secret meeting of men to watch a women seductively stomp out a tarantula. then at the end of the movie there's a giant one in his room it's about commitment... he has a wife and DID/MPD and doesn't realize it. so he sees his wife as a giant spider at the end. it was never called enemy so idk what you are talking about.....

Donnie Darcko you say?

Before the movie Total Recall was released I saw the movie for free after the credits rolled the Nurse at the beginning of the procedure looks into the camera and says how was that? As we left the theater we were asked if we liked the ending

What's so confusing about the Donnie Darko ending?

All the good movies on this list are not confusing. Good story telling does a great job at walking u through the story, while treating the audience as more cleaver than most bad movies give the audience credit for.

Total Recall is obviously and clearly avdream

Not buying what they're selling on tennet. The battle at the end had them fighting each other. Reverse getting shot made no sense whatsoever. Then "breathing backward". Then reversing going forward or backward in time depending on what was convenient for the scene. Just so many plot holes.

How is Fight Club not a part of this list?

I'm surprised you went with Shudder Island over Inception

....at lobster still not confused wtf?

Here’s an explanation of Silent Hill, the film - it was dumb. They strayed too far from the source and ballsed it up. I’m not even going to touch Predestination.

Dang it!!! Still waiting for an appropriate explanation for Mullholand Drive

The most confusing thing about Tenet was why Nolan hired John David Washington

The director of American Psycho has apologised for making the film ambiguous. She’s on record as saying Patrick Bateman was definitely killing people and not delusional about killing anyone 🔪🩸 P.S IMHO Deckard is a replicant

Okay you didnt explain American psycho

I'm still confused with lost highway no matter how many times I've seen it

WHAT WAS CONFUSING ABOUT HEREDITARY ?! SERIOUSLY EXPLAIN

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Don't watch this video, just look at the movie titles and go watch the movies !

Donnie darko still doesn’t make sense but nice try

what in the bot comments

God Us was not a good movie or confusing. In the first scene when she met her double i knew they switched. I spent the entire movie praying that wasn't the big twist at the end only to be sadly let down.

Worst donnie darko explanation ever

Donnie Darko hasn’t been explained lol there’s no definitive answer. Stop

Tenant is always going to be confusing as even in this clip.. i literally can’t understand you. Worst “artistic” audio mixing ever. Don’t lie, y’all can’t understand most of what is said. Don’t wanna hear about the mask and time argument. Have to give this one of his films a boo sincerely sadly.

shutter island: in the end they bring him to the lighthouse like he expected for a lobotomy and/or experiments. hes probably a real cop given halucinogens through the cigarettes.

So in half of these movies the hero is also the villain, either related to a split personality or time travel. Not very original.

ffs. Tenet never happened. guy died in the beginning while captured on rails

confusing ? only for you

Tenet is Christopher Nolan's worst movie and also had the worst acting main character.

Get out was a garbage movie, Us was even worse!

1st lol

Predestination is a great movie

Just about all these movies sucked

Why do people keep giving Denis Villeneuve money to make pretentious dull films? Now he's making the Space Osama Bin Laden saga - yay soon we get Star Slug Stalin! Sigh. As fro shutter Island - how do people not realise the stupid twist in the first five minutes? Scorcese owes me the time I wasted watching that film back.

And yet, at the end... you explained nothing. Good one, Looper.

If you've been stumped by the ending of a movie recently, there's a good chance its on our list..... proceeds to show a 23 year old movie.

Ridley Scott, this old... fart. Once he said "Dekker is human, because the movie suppose to show that replicant (Roy) could be more human that the real human". Now he says something different :/ Also the book....I thought in book Deker is a human.