The Most Confusing Movie Endings Explained

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  • There are plenty of great movies that leave things on a bit of an ambiguous note to keep the viewers thinking after the movie ends. After all, an ending that wraps everything up can be great in the right movie, but life is usually a lot more confusing than that.
    Filmmakers like the Coen Brothers thrive on ambiguity, and their endings to films like Barton Fink and No Country for Old Men are still being discussed to this day.
    We think we’ve figured out what’s going on with some famous final scenes, so let’s take a look at the explanations of some confusing movie endings.
    #Movie #Film #Hollywood
    Inception | 0:00
    The Dark Knight Rises | 1:16
    Birdman | 3:14
    Vanilla Sky | 4:55
    Barton Fink | 6:21
    No Country For Old Men | 7:47
    Mulholland Drive | 8:47
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  • @Looper
    @Looper  7 років тому +221

    What other confusing movie endings should we feature next?

    • @vzangel
      @vzangel 7 років тому +26

      Enemy

    • @ktg6492
      @ktg6492 7 років тому +4

      Looper paper town

    • @kronosx7
      @kronosx7 7 років тому +9

      the fountain

    • @kronosx7
      @kronosx7 7 років тому +5

      Been a while since I've seen looper but he basically kills himself to stop the little kid from growing up to be the crime boss.

    • @rembtz83
      @rembtz83 7 років тому +4

      Magnolia

  • @droidfanor4068
    @droidfanor4068 5 років тому +373

    Film directing 101: Make a confusing ending and everyone will think you're a genius.

    • @mauchamtalukdar07
      @mauchamtalukdar07 3 роки тому +15

      Well that's Nolan....

    • @Jpro2000
      @Jpro2000 3 роки тому +6

      That is so funny and true

    • @quasar960
      @quasar960 2 роки тому +2

      Directors don't do that.... writers do.... hmmmm

    • @jordansweet8054
      @jordansweet8054 2 роки тому

      True.

    • @outsidethepyramid
      @outsidethepyramid Рік тому +1

      These enigmatic storylines are just a cheap tactik to try and get people talking about the films

  • @HunterVex.
    @HunterVex. 7 років тому +1589

    Pay attention to Inception... DiCaprio always has his wedding ring on in dreams. He wasnt wearing one in the final scene!!

    • @Thunda1986
      @Thunda1986 7 років тому +25

      Thats an old one

    • @will_of_europa
      @will_of_europa 7 років тому +98

      Nice I never caught that

    • @TheRealNormanBates
      @TheRealNormanBates 7 років тому +97

      Yup. I think it was Collative Learning with Rob Ager who made the point that the spinning top was his wife's totem, not Cobb's. So Nolan was playing a bit of THE PRESTIGE on the audience with a bit of sleight of hand.

    • @kaylabruce5055
      @kaylabruce5055 7 років тому +58

      Oh! That would make sense because you can't use someone else's totem right? That would make Cobb's totem his wedding ring. So, in the dream he has it on but outside of it he does not.
      Either this means that he made it out and everything is cool or it means that Leo forgot to put the ring prop back on.

    • @Nikagor
      @Nikagor 7 років тому +13

      thanks for pointing it out, I was jsut about to go on a rant, that didn't eyplain crap, observant people knew that the top never was his totem to begin with, he explaines it ind etail, that you can neither tell anyone about it nor that you can use another one.

  • @thisistheescapeplan
    @thisistheescapeplan 6 років тому +25

    The ending to birdman (at least the way I think of it) is that he did in fact successfully commit suicide, she looked down and saw his body, but as she was raising her eyes to the sky, she saw his soul. I think it adds more of a poetic feel to it

    • @outsidethepyramid
      @outsidethepyramid Рік тому

      These enigmatic storylines are just a cheap tactik to try and get people talking about the films

    • @denylamber7462
      @denylamber7462 11 місяців тому +1

      when she looks up, she find those birds he saw

  • @N7Tigger
    @N7Tigger 7 років тому +366

    Half of these you just said "The director said the ending is whatever you think it is." You didn't explain shit.

    • @23wtb
      @23wtb 7 років тому +18

      Because these are "Lady and the Tiger" endings. The explanation is that there's no closure, no final answer, no definitive end. The story stops and you have to simply accept that that's all you get. They're not puzzles to be worked out, no hidden meaning to suss out. Zip, click. Done.

    • @verydistinguishedshorts6730
      @verydistinguishedshorts6730 6 років тому

      that's not entirely true, the only one like that was inception, and the last one was just meant to confuse you, the entire movie was meant to make no sense, there's meant to be no explanation

    • @KarstensCreationsKC
      @KarstensCreationsKC 5 років тому +1

      Stating that it 'is what you want it to be' IS explaining WHAT kind of ending it is.
      It doesn't spoon feed you the actual supposed ending, it explains that it is MEANT to be ambiguous, therefore it IS an explanation...it just seems like it was NOT the sort of explanation you WANTED to hear.
      :)

    • @yissssss
      @yissssss 5 років тому +1

      And the other half weren't confusing at all. It was just people who watched the movie overthinking the ending and coming up with weird theories.

    • @michaelaflores7282
      @michaelaflores7282 5 років тому

      um calm down sir i love it

  • @EnterTheSoundscape
    @EnterTheSoundscape 6 років тому +24

    Inception is pretty easy to decipher.
    1. Cobb wouldn't have seen his kids faces if it were a dream.
    2. The top wouldn't have wobbled if it were a dream.
    3. It's implied with the gun placed on the table that he shot himself to escape limbo and wake up on the plane along with Saito.

    • @johnhostetler2167
      @johnhostetler2167 Рік тому

      Also he never wears his ring in the real world but he always wears it in the dream and in the final scene he isn't wearing a ring so it's the real world

    • @samueldwumfour5535
      @samueldwumfour5535 Рік тому

      But what if it’s Mr Caines dreams so he can see whatever Caine wants him to ?
      Sending Adraine or whatever her name is to make him dive deeper

  • @cuevacuev13
    @cuevacuev13 7 років тому +411

    I swear to god if I hear someone question the ending about Inception one more time Imma throw a shoe at them

    • @cuevacuev13
      @cuevacuev13 7 років тому +22

      I'm aware. What annoys me is people who still don't understand it. What's not to understand? Yes the ending is a little open ended and up for interpretation but overall the rest is pretty straight forward. So if I see it on another list of "ENDINGS FINALLY EXPLAINED!" or "FILM ENDINGS NO ONE UNDERSTANDS" I'm throwing a shoe at someone.

    • @megholland6175
      @megholland6175 6 років тому +5

      You have to admit that if you watched it for the first time then it is confusing if you don't take in what the film is trying to do . but I totally understand why you want to throw shoes haha

    • @1212Maps
      @1212Maps 6 років тому +5

      I fully understand cuevacuev13. That said, can you help me out with this? What's the ending of Inception all about anyway?

    • @pinkusfloydus9373
      @pinkusfloydus9373 6 років тому +4

      J De ..
      That the beauty of movies and Music, different interpretations.
      I get, at then end, he sees his kids.. And no longer cares.. He is with them regardless of dream or not..
      I wish I didnt care...

    • @joycewible8816
      @joycewible8816 6 років тому +7

      cuevacuev13 Who throws a shoe? Honestly!

  • @ren1724
    @ren1724 4 роки тому +2

    I actually really appreciate the thought that went into the points this video made apprised to the other videos floating around. Much more detailed! Nice.

  • @aydndemirors6606
    @aydndemirors6606 7 років тому +9

    i love you guys!! and the only reason i'm this overflowing with joy is that you included movie titles and their exact spots on video. this is just professionalism. as a person who didn't watch most of these movies and is totally scared of getting any sort of spoilers, i thank you from the bottom of my heart

  • @Grandpa_72
    @Grandpa_72 7 років тому +534

    What about "The Room" I wanna know the hidden mean behind "Oh hi Mark!" :V

  • @Hobosdkcheese
    @Hobosdkcheese 7 років тому +564

    The Dark Knight was not complicated. Donnie Darko? Fight Club? Memento? Do movies that actually have answers for fucks sake.

    • @philippechevrette6922
      @philippechevrette6922 7 років тому +50

      Donnie Darko is pretty hard to explain in one video, but I agree that Dark Knight is so fucking easy to understand

    • @mochammadrizaldy1576
      @mochammadrizaldy1576 7 років тому +2

      Hobosdkcheese it was the dark knight rises, not the dark knight.

    • @bossmugga1
      @bossmugga1 7 років тому +15

      Donnie Darko is the only movie that has an ending without an actual explanation.

    • @kriskater
      @kriskater 7 років тому +2

      Hobosdkcheese donnie darko forsure man

    • @manko6739
      @manko6739 7 років тому +8

      I thought fight club and memento ending are self explanatory. But i agree that donnie darko ending a little bit confusing. I had to pause every text that show up and read it plus watch it 3 times to understand..

  • @CJLOVE23
    @CJLOVE23 5 років тому +7

    Vanilla Sky is my favorite movie. I literally ball my eyes out the minute he looks up at the vanilla sky and says “Let them up there read my mind” and then he looks down and Penelope Cruz is standing there so beautifully lit and the beautiful Sigur Ros song starts playing. Ahhh I’m getting chills just typing it out. If anyone needs ANY kind of explanation for Vanilla Sky, let me know. I can tell you everything. I’ve seen it at least 10x and the original just as much

    • @sachinforever6958
      @sachinforever6958 3 роки тому +3

      Hey just seen this..n my mind really twisted with so many questions...who was sophie really is??is it Penelope or is it Cameroon?n y did sophie avoided david after accident???did sophie loved him or not??n who is ellie??y cameroon diaz hit him n though she said she thought he was a vandal she wasn't shocked to misunderstood him as a vandal looked like she was really intended to hit him..n so many:/

  • @walladim
    @walladim 7 років тому +36

    The ending of Inception is the reality. In his dreams, he is wearing his wedding ring and in the real world he is not.

  • @amy101_dolphin9
    @amy101_dolphin9 5 років тому +9

    7:11 Only person that noticed that bird fall into the ocean? Even the timing is perfect!

  • @Coolrockndad
    @Coolrockndad 7 років тому +58

    Without a second thought "2001" is a must for confusing endings!

    • @kilgoreplumbus1360
      @kilgoreplumbus1360 7 років тому +8

      The Star Child at the end is the next stage of sentient evolution.

    • @Coolrockndad
      @Coolrockndad 7 років тому +1

      Yes, I do know that. I wanted to know why it wasn't on this list.

    • @kilgoreplumbus1360
      @kilgoreplumbus1360 7 років тому

      Then not confusing at all then?

    • @Coolrockndad
      @Coolrockndad 7 років тому +4

      For me no but for most yes. :-)

    • @sgtrock2214
      @sgtrock2214 5 років тому +1

      Yeah, 2001 should have been here instead of batman. But because people wanted to give batman more thought than it deserved, and it's more contemporary and on peoples' minds, or because this youtuber didn't see 2001 or was not able to explain it.

  • @doc-holliday-
    @doc-holliday- 7 років тому +522

    If you were confused by the ending to batman you should probably just give up on life, it gets a lot harder then that.

    • @tiggerpup_nz
      @tiggerpup_nz 6 років тому +58

      *THAN* It never fails to amuse when someone puts down others intelligence, then can't figure out simple grammar.
      "Then" makes absolutely no sense where you put it. Think about the words you use, grammar isn't the hardest thing on the planet to learn, life gets a lot harder than that.

    • @nickmendez3707
      @nickmendez3707 6 років тому +5

      Tiggerpup there was nothing about intelligence 😂 stfu you fuckwit 😂 he's talking about life being difficult 😂 you sir fucked up

    • @ragnarkukbryt2234
      @ragnarkukbryt2234 6 років тому +2

      You sound like someone who doesn't watch rick and morty...

    • @SouthParkCows88
      @SouthParkCows88 6 років тому +3

      Lmao right? A simple ending.

    • @cleobinx
      @cleobinx 6 років тому

      Doc Holliday lmao

  • @13dirtblack
    @13dirtblack 7 років тому +12

    "Mulholland Drive" needs to be understood in relation to his previous film "The Straight Story" an uncharacteristically normal film with broad appeal. It's main audience was aging Americans and became incredibly popular in that demographic. This demographic is also rather uninterested in keeping up with every film genre and current film being made and their directors like the yonder generations are. They saw a nice movie by a nice man who also made a new movie. They were advertising "Mulholland Drive" this way.
    I remember when I went to see it in my local theater, it was filled with nothing but whitehaired nice people thinking they were going to see another nice movie. When the film took its inevitable turn, I looked around and saw an entire theater filled with horrified people who all thought they had lost their minds. I suddenly realized what Lynch had done.

  • @RandomGameCritic
    @RandomGameCritic 7 років тому +44

    Every single one of these examples were either not explained or not confusing.

  • @krystallovesclassics508
    @krystallovesclassics508 3 роки тому +6

    My sister and I watched Vanilla Sky for years trying to understand it, We eventually gave up and I believe we made the right decision.

  • @emilypatriciagarciacanals4588
    @emilypatriciagarciacanals4588 4 роки тому +3

    The bird man ending has to be the ending that has made me the happiest of all the movie endings in all my life, I love the way of how when Sam see’s her father flying through the sky, making her enter into a delusional reality that her father is still alive flying with super powers and making her bond with him even more stronger than before gives me a smile all the time whenever I think about it, it’s always makes me happy to see the fact that he has succeeded on making himself a real super hero to the eyes of his daughter and to see that she now is on the same direction he was

    • @johnhostetler2167
      @johnhostetler2167 Рік тому

      Why would that make you happy? He was delusional and he made his daughter delusional, he was also depressed and killed himself, so why's would you be happy that his daughter is on the same delusional path to kill herself

  • @sciblastofficial9833
    @sciblastofficial9833 7 років тому +48

    Bird Man's ending was her looking to heaven...

  • @MissSTATEboy
    @MissSTATEboy 7 років тому +141

    If anyone was confused at the end of the dark knight rises, quit watching movies. That didn't need to be explained.

    • @honeyjoytaki
      @honeyjoytaki 5 років тому +9

      Blackhawks88 y'all pretentious movie buffs need to calm down

    • @dirgramsey6132
      @dirgramsey6132 5 років тому +1

      But jumped out where? Middle of the ocean? No one saw him? He swam back wearing the bat suit? It purposely left ambiguous. It shouldn’t of been but it was.

    • @NintendoW11
      @NintendoW11 4 роки тому

      Well aren't you an uppity little twat smear?

    • @pengwing9009
      @pengwing9009 4 роки тому

      He jumped of off helicopter with a nuclear bomb of 6 miles? And he survived. I want to believe he died. That makes more sense. Or he jumped next to that bridge.

    • @papadrag7833
      @papadrag7833 3 роки тому

      @@dirgramsey6132 he can glide pretty far distances at pretty fast speeds

  • @pleasestopalready
    @pleasestopalready 6 років тому +5

    Mulholland Drive seems to be the one on the list with a pretty straightforward explanation.
    It is basically 2 diametrically opposed experiences of a naive aspiring actress named Betty who comes to LA (the City of Angels) to seek her dream career.
    In short, one perspective illustrates an abusive and exploitative meat grinder industry and city, whereas the other is a sugar coated wonderland of her dreams, with the emphasis on the word dreams.
    Although initially full of hope and ambition, she eventually became emotionally ground down, and committed suicide as illustrated in the final scene.
    The negative plot line was her reality, perhaps increasingly distorted by increasing booze and drug usage, whereas the fairy tale plot line were her final fevered narcotic driven suicidal dreams of a world built from the remnants of her shattered hopes.
    Makes sense to me.

  • @invisiblejaguar1
    @invisiblejaguar1 7 років тому +21

    2001: A Space Odyssey had a pretty complicated ending.

    • @notsureiL
      @notsureiL 4 роки тому

      Not if you listen to Kubrick's own explanation.

  • @1fromoutside
    @1fromoutside 4 роки тому +5

    thank you for remembering the incredible Vanilla Sky

  • @poisenbery
    @poisenbery 6 років тому +64

    Birdman: She looks up because she know's he is dead and no longer suffering.

  • @LordBloodraven
    @LordBloodraven 5 років тому +30

    2017: Batfleck's the wave of the future.
    2018: That's cute.

  • @RickaramaTrama-lc1ys
    @RickaramaTrama-lc1ys 7 років тому

    I enjoyed the info==Thanks.

  • @youngsir3657
    @youngsir3657 5 років тому +5

    I'm shocked Total Recall (original) didn't make this list as my family and I still debate the ending to this day. "Blue skies on Mars..." C'mon!!

  • @stevenpdx
    @stevenpdx 6 років тому +20

    It seems no one at Looper actually watched Mulholland Drive.

    • @dhr.neuteboom4536
      @dhr.neuteboom4536 5 років тому +3

      LOL! I was thinking the same. Masterpiece!

    • @marksoberay2318
      @marksoberay2318 4 роки тому +1

      Agree phenomenal film, i saw it 8 times it actually gets better

  • @michaelroditis1952
    @michaelroditis1952 7 років тому +9

    i totally disagree on the dark knight and especially on bird man. About birdman, everything at the end scenes were perfect. The husband-wife, the father-daughter and the friend-to-friend relasionship are all better than ever. The same is true about the woman that wanted to destroy his play. Also all the paparatsi are all over him and finally the all known scene where he jumps out of the window and the girl watches him fly. Let me point out that she wasn't surprised or scared but she just smiled, totally what I would do if I watched my father fly. All that's true because it actually isn't, it's all in his mind. He was thinking how it would be if he had survived the shot but, news flash, he really killed himself on stage.

  • @grouchywithoutcoffee
    @grouchywithoutcoffee 6 років тому

    I love your explanation for mulholland drive. All David Lynch movies and side projects are like that. Well maybe not Straight Story, but i think he did that movie to throw his fans a curve ball.

  • @raydaveed
    @raydaveed 6 років тому +2

    I love Birdman so much. Never seen a film like this. It's not simple but not a hassle either very well written.

  • @jinayvora9704
    @jinayvora9704 3 роки тому +3

    I love how the actor of birdman is also chosen for the character of vulture in spiderman

    • @wjrgbtsklvq8926
      @wjrgbtsklvq8926 2 роки тому

      The actor of birdman and vulture is known for being good as a flying character, thats why he is in a lot of roles where he is flying.

  • @RandMiller325
    @RandMiller325 6 років тому +11

    Mulholland Drive honestly is UNDERSTANDABLE (with some scenes that just can be said to be "Lynch being Lynch"). Though he will NEVER explain any of his films, he did have that insert that came with the DVD's that were like (I believe 9...) "things to look for while watching Mulholland Drive'. Though everyone should take away what they got from it (and some got none...) I do think there is a pretty solid story there.

  • @treadstone1138
    @treadstone1138 7 років тому +1

    You should check out the Peter Sellers movie Being There. Was always curious about that ending.

  • @sonofthaemas
    @sonofthaemas 7 років тому

    Wasn't this video already uploaded by Looper a while ago? I recognized it because I saw the scene from Birdman as the thumb nail, the explanation to the ending is the only one that stuck with me after it and I still remember it without even seeing the movie. Idk I could have future vision or be insanely high but I need to know if this video is a re-upload.

  • @RawhideProductions1
    @RawhideProductions1 7 років тому +59

    Mulholland Dr is about a woman (the blonde) who comes to Hollywood to make it as an actress. She is going to get a job in a movie but the director's lover (the brunette) gets it instead. She's disgruntled so she hires a hitman to kill the brunette. It turns out she loves the brunette and feels guilty so she kills herself. The first two thirds of the movie are her dreams that take place between when she pulls the trigger and when she dies. The last third is the back story (in the real world) of how the suicide induced dream came about.

    • @mikhailbisserov8017
      @mikhailbisserov8017 7 років тому +1

      Close to how I interpret that movie. P.S. Never tried to understand it though. I was merely re-watching it for the third time as an atmospheric lesbian movie, when suddenly understood what the movie is about. ))

    • @CristiVon
      @CristiVon 7 років тому +2

      The oniric world of David Lynch

    • @MrJerichoPumpkin
      @MrJerichoPumpkin 7 років тому +6

      good! You got really close, but mixed up some details from the dream sequence with the reality sequence. The blonde is a third rate actress, in love with the brunette. The brunette, chooses to marry a director for career purpouses. Blinded with jealousy, the blonde has the brunette killed, then, overtaken by guilt commits suicide. All the first part of the film is the blonde dream before she actually dies. Also there are to consider a ton of tie-ins with Twin Peaks mythos, but that would take a really long time

    • @eliasmygdalis9484
      @eliasmygdalis9484 7 років тому

      Now give us an explanation for Lost Highway. :)

    • @Rihcterwilker
      @Rihcterwilker 7 років тому +2

      Just adding some little but important details, there is the symbolism of the blue box, kind of representing the "portal" to the real word, and that the dream sequences is how she sees herself, as a good actress that is loved by everyone. The "no hay banda" part is directly saying that everything until the theater part was not real, so they decide to open the blue box and see the real, sad world.

  • @ciarangleeson4776
    @ciarangleeson4776 7 років тому +13

    Not exactly confusing. They just kinda make you think.

  • @zipkiktoo7023
    @zipkiktoo7023 6 років тому +1

    To look for "an explanation " in the some of these movies is like to ask for an explanation for a musical piece. Movies are not just about the story, they also take us to an emotional journey.
    Mulholland Drive is one of my favorites. It shakes the viewer, and seeks to disturb. The confusion about what is happening adds to it. Like looking at a Goya painting, or at Guernica after being told your mom is dead.

    • @mel2000
      @mel2000 2 роки тому

      Musical pieces don't have a plot. And most people prefer their movies with a plot or at least a coherent journey.

  • @Samura1gamer
    @Samura1gamer 7 років тому

    i loved the explanation on mulholland dr

  • @kyliemartin7824
    @kyliemartin7824 6 років тому +16

    I hate when movies end on a cliffhanger

  • @Terry.W
    @Terry.W 7 років тому +5

    Best way not to be confused by a movie ending. ...leave the theatre half way through the film..

  • @IWillHarvestYourToes
    @IWillHarvestYourToes 5 років тому

    I wish every narrator on YT would have an amazing voice like this guy...

  • @Ash_LynxTheAmericanboy
    @Ash_LynxTheAmericanboy 3 місяці тому

    ❤Vanilla Sky OMG…I just still can’t get over with this movie till this date. I know there are more popular and legendary movies alongside BUT…Let me tell you this piece of artwork is still (till this date sadly) underrated. Watched it years ago but my love for it still remains the same. The overwhelming emotions took over in the end that my brain couldn’t comprehend. I do recommend it…Highly.

  • @Jam3zGe51990
    @Jam3zGe51990 7 років тому +49

    How isn't 'Enemy' on this list?

    • @lanahwhite2308
      @lanahwhite2308 5 років тому +2

      Totally agree. Was completely lost.

    • @TheDiggyDas
      @TheDiggyDas 5 років тому +4

      split personality disorder cured by killing off one of the personalities. Similar to the plot of Identity.

  • @lurkerrekrul
    @lurkerrekrul 4 роки тому +10

    Film snobs love to praise movies with ambiguous endings. "The writer/director is so brilliant! By not having a definitive ending, it allows you to create your own and challenges your perceptions!"
    I'll let you in on a little secret: Writing satisfying endings is hard. So when an ending is left open/ambiguous, probably about 90% of the time it's because the writer/director couldn't think of a good way to end it, so they said "Fuck it. I'll just leave it open and people will think I'm some kind of genius."
    There was an episode of the sitcom Still Standing where the parents find a bunch of pictures drawn by their youngest daughter. where none of the characters have hands. They agonize over what this symbolizes and when they finally ask her about it, they ask if it's because she feels powerless and that was a way to show it. The little girl shrugs and says "I'm just not good at drawing hands." The only difference with open film endings is that the people behind them are happy to take credit for it being some clever decision that they made.

  • @Keemac00
    @Keemac00 7 років тому +2

    why did so many people find inception confusing??!!! It was beautiful and completely made sense if you paid attention. It's definitely not a movie to just watch from halfway in but if you actually pay attention it all makes sense as far as the ending goes, The ending was perfect it led us to believe that he died because his item was still moving but at the very end before cut to black the piece started to wiggle and slow down meaning he actually was still alive .

  • @darketernal3
    @darketernal3 5 років тому +2

    Inception - You never wake up into a new dream, you always just end up there mid stride.
    Birdman - You'll notice the hing point at his "attempted" suicide after his play. Suddenly everything turns around. In reality, he is actually dead and everything from the stage suicide forward is him coming to terms with passing on. Seeing his daughter finally accepting him with all his "powers" puts him at rest, even if it is all in his mind before he dies.

  • @byghostlight0
    @byghostlight0 7 років тому +5

    Lynch films arent supposed to be explained but felt.

  • @tiggerpup_nz
    @tiggerpup_nz 6 років тому +5

    Cloud Atlas?
    Although, when I watched that we didn't read the synopsis and thought it would be fun to watch something we didn't know anything about. We picked the wrong movie to do that to. Waited the whole movie to figure out what was happening, and we ended up more lost than your missing sock.

    • @kenbibi7631
      @kenbibi7631 6 років тому

      If u understand about the Eastern religious mythos, it won't be hard to understand what Cloud Atlas is trying to say... It's about consciousness in a cyclical reality bounded by flesh, (Reincarnation)...

  • @oliverhussen1037
    @oliverhussen1037 7 років тому

    Lost Highway explained would be great!

    • @inkswamp
      @inkswamp 4 роки тому

      What's really cool about this movie is that the mystery man character is supposed to be Fred's jealousy personified and if you listen to the conversation they have at the party scene, it can be read as a man talking to his own sense of jealousy. "How'd you get into my house?" "You invited me."

  • @KnickKnack07
    @KnickKnack07 7 років тому +2

    I remember I was really confused by the ending to The Brady Bunch Movie! I mean...sure, they have the $20,000...but it was too late. The house was already up for auction. So Dittmeyer could simply outbid them!
    I was all so confusing!

  • @unk77nown77
    @unk77nown77 7 років тому +21

    no country for old men wasnt confusing and what they talked about wasnt the ending

    • @MLedZeppelinZoSoA
      @MLedZeppelinZoSoA 7 років тому +1

      unk77nown77 look at that fucking bone

    • @esmith9005
      @esmith9005 7 років тому

      yes. And "more violence"? Texas and US murder and gun crime rates are half of what they were a couple of decades ago. Shooting rates are way less than ever today, and even if the setting is 2005 that was way way down from the early 1990's so the sherrif thinking 2005 (novel) or 2010 (film) violence was more is absurd answer

    • @turbo8628
      @turbo8628 5 років тому +2

      Pretty sure no country for old men is 1980

    • @ne12bot94
      @ne12bot94 4 роки тому

      Huh? I hope so , there better be part 2 the clear whole thing up.

  • @Jeye.
    @Jeye. 7 років тому +5

    Didnt yall already make this?

  • @enigmag9538
    @enigmag9538 4 роки тому +1

    I absolutely loved Vanilla Sky. Watching it with the commentary was great too.

    • @siumahin9049
      @siumahin9049 4 роки тому

      ironic this movie on the list, because the ending actually is the only thing not confuse about this movie

  • @markpaterson2053
    @markpaterson2053 3 роки тому

    Yeah, that's exactly how I saw Birdman's ending. I'm not that quick, so I was surprised so many people didn't get it.

  • @whatswithgus
    @whatswithgus 7 років тому +7

    I'm surprised that 2001: A Space Odyssey wasn't on this list. Perhaps too many people would be thinking...never mind the ending! Explain the whole film!!
    (But I love the film.)

  • @edwardfletcher865
    @edwardfletcher865 7 років тому +117

    please do a video explaining LOST the polar bear the big statue all of it.

    • @kronosx7
      @kronosx7 7 років тому +22

      The island is real, the church at the end is a timeless purgatory that they all meet up at at the end.

    • @edwardfletcher865
      @edwardfletcher865 7 років тому +1

      kronosx7 so they were alive on the island and all that really happened but they all died on the island and met up in the church after they died? nothing on the polar bear or statue and was that community real or no?

    • @kronosx7
      @kronosx7 7 років тому +8

      I don't remember the statue but the polar bear was an animal that escaped from the darpa initiative and they didn't all die on the island, remember the sideways reality where it kept flashing to scenes from them off the island? That all happened to, they all died at different points in their life but the purgatory is timeless so no matter when or where they died, they all showed up there at the same time.

    • @kronosx7
      @kronosx7 7 років тому +6

      Some of them died on the island for sure, Jack definitely did but some of them also got the plane working and escaped. Hurley became the islands caretaker so he probably did too.

    • @edwardfletcher865
      @edwardfletcher865 7 років тому +1

      kronosx7 I'm gonna have to watch the entire show again now lmao but thank you

  • @addman45
    @addman45 6 років тому

    So the No Country For Old Men dream - here's my take. I think Tommy Lee's character is thinking about death - specifically about his own death. He does mention first that his father died young, and that he is the older man. In the dream the two of them are riding towards the mountain pass and the father passes Tommy by on their way to the pass. Tommy says that he wasn't told, but simply knew his father was going on ahead to start a camp fire for warmth, and then also describes the white torch being carried by his father.
    The mountain pass itself is death, or the place people go when they die - and because the Father only lived about 30 years, he reached the pass sooner than Tommy - both in the sense that he died many years earlier in the story, but also in the sense that he completed life's journey quicker and in the metaphor his horse moves faster.
    Tommy is therefore thinking about what it will be like to meet his father again, something I think he is closer to doing than he lets on.

  • @ChristopherFrameOfficial
    @ChristopherFrameOfficial 6 років тому

    Mullholand Drive - death (discovery of how one needs a lot more than talent to make it in hollywood) of a dream (to be a star) as told by a dream influenced by past reality (first half of the movie) of the dreamer (who lost her chance to be a big star to jealousy and is now reduced to putting out a hit for the sake of hate) and being left to nothing else but the realization of growing old and dying (being accosted by the old people who were previously supressed). Theres a whole flip flop flop flip of our memories interpreted by dreams interpreted by reality and what is selected from both to comprise our conscious memories and waking dreams. Bottom line, she tried, didn't make it, realized there was nothing left for her, ended it.

  • @jimmy-breeze
    @jimmy-breeze 7 років тому +12

    no fucking 2001: a space odysey? literally the most confusing movie of all time since it came out 50 years ago?

    • @itzsho9367
      @itzsho9367 7 років тому +5

      didn't that movie come out 16 years ago?

    • @breakingpoint252
      @breakingpoint252 7 років тому

      Magic Bagel what? no!

    • @The757packerfan
      @The757packerfan 7 років тому +1

      lol, 2017 - 16 = 2001. He was making a joke.

    • @senatorsmeagol131
      @senatorsmeagol131 7 років тому +1

      yeah but did anyone ever "explain" it ? I mean I don't think there is any explanation of this film, you just experience it, you watch it again and again it's like a mushroom trip

    • @RyRidge
      @RyRidge 5 років тому

      Yea there's a supposed Explination by Kubrick. So the Man lives the rest of his life in that Room, that Room is basically a Menagerie or a Zoo for a Human. The Art being French Renaissance but wrong, kind of like a Zoo enclosure. He's being Kept there by Beings of Pure Light and then when he dies he is reborn and sent back to Earth as the Strarchild. That's supposed to be Kubricks Idea. Idk if that's 100% true tho...

  • @shadipics708
    @shadipics708 4 роки тому

    Here I am learning and enjoying English from you....

  • @25748410
    @25748410 5 років тому

    Another Di Caprio Movie with a confusing ending is The Shutter Island..it has a split ending like Inception...we never know whether the lobotomy was done to keep him quiet about the secret procedures or he really was a lunatic

  • @FingerboarderZero
    @FingerboarderZero 7 років тому +5

    Birdmans ending gives me the chills when im just thinking about it. it is PERFECT!

  • @martynbealing79
    @martynbealing79 4 роки тому +3

    I loved vanilla sky it affected me like no other film other than donnie darko

  • @rolfsinkgraven
    @rolfsinkgraven 7 років тому

    nice one

  • @mgrabo84
    @mgrabo84 7 років тому +1

    3:45 im in love with that bug eyed face

  • @chhrisis
    @chhrisis 4 роки тому +5

    “Bat fleck is the future” lol 😅

    • @NoctemAeternusMusic
      @NoctemAeternusMusic 4 роки тому +2

      I don’t know why that’s funny. It was an accurate statement. Batfleck had starring roles in two different films and a cameo in a third one.

  • @xtremeniga
    @xtremeniga 6 років тому +13

    TECH SUPPORT!!!!!!

  • @chefscorner7063
    @chefscorner7063 8 місяців тому

    At 11:05 - 11:09, can anyone tell me the movie this clip is from. It looks pretty awesome, but I can't find any further info on it. Thanks in advance.. ;)

  • @karl4998
    @karl4998 5 років тому

    Thx for adding no country for old men. It was really weird

  • @GamerCrewUK
    @GamerCrewUK 7 років тому +4

    Danger Dolan, is that you???

  • @evilmasterstudios
    @evilmasterstudios 5 років тому +3

    “Batffleck is the wave of the future” Well... that comment didn’t age well did it?

  • @dreamlandnightmare
    @dreamlandnightmare Рік тому

    At the end of Birdman, I always thought she was looking up at the sky to see a meteor/comet about to strike the Earth. Some of the film's dialogue references an extinction event and the seemingly random shots of animals washing up on the beach portend a cataclysmic event. Some of the film's themes also deal with the meaningless and transient nature of existence. "The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance" also can allude to the ignorance of the fact that such an event can happen at any time.
    Also, Mulholland Drive makes perfect sense if you treat most of the first two acts as Naomi Watt's character's dream influenced by her desire for Hollywood stardom crushed by the dark reality of Tinsel Town.

    • @themoviechef9413
      @themoviechef9413 7 місяців тому

      why would she smile at a meteor coming to destroy the planet? also there’s only ever jellyfish washing up on beaches, which isn’t random, it linked directly to Riggins story of his suicide attempt to his wife

    • @dreamlandnightmare
      @dreamlandnightmare 7 місяців тому

      @@themoviechef9413 Acceptance of the brevity and meaninglessness absurdity of existence.

  • @naturesquad9174
    @naturesquad9174 6 років тому

    It Comes At Night is edited in a way that really worms it's way into your subconscious like few films do. I honestly couldn't sleep well after watching it because my mind wouldn't stop trying to connect the dots

  • @OKKOwood
    @OKKOwood 7 років тому +3

    Did I time travel? -laughing emoji- Cuz im pretty sure I watched this video a few months ago...

  • @goofy6918
    @goofy6918 7 років тому +89

    i will rant if shutter island isnt on this list...

    • @oliiiking6530
      @oliiiking6530 7 років тому

      GoofyWillows ...

    • @agent7142
      @agent7142 7 років тому +17

      is it ranting time

    • @houston137
      @houston137 7 років тому

      GoofyWillows
      Exactly what I was thinking.

    • @spacekami9387
      @spacekami9387 7 років тому +24

      isn't that hard to understand

    • @SuperAvocadoo
      @SuperAvocadoo 7 років тому +5

      Why? Because you need to watch the same damn list in every related video you watch?

  • @Melayahm01
    @Melayahm01 4 роки тому +1

    I was confused by the end of Inception until I watched it again recently, and the clue is in sound. After the camera cuts to black, with that hint of a wobble, if you listen whilst the credits are running,, you can hear the top still spinning, and it goes on spinning all through the credits, far too long,, like it could in a dream. which indded was it's function

    • @danlotroth9231
      @danlotroth9231 2 роки тому

      And as he has his dream come true n family , why worry if he's happy to walk towards such

  • @MintyCanRead
    @MintyCanRead 7 років тому +1

    "...some leave their last scene amBIGuous to keep audiences THINKing..."
    The narrator's odd inflections are unsettling me. I mean, I'm Australian, so it's not the accent. It's the way he stops and starts and emphasises unexpected parts of words.

  • @whinemax
    @whinemax 7 років тому +111

    The Dark Knight Returns? Do you assume that your audience is made of a mentally challenged crowd?
    How about you do 'Enemy' instead? You know, a movie in which you probably need an explanation to understand it's brilliance?

    • @saulowinchester8056
      @saulowinchester8056 7 років тому

      hi,

    • @mochammadrizaldy1576
      @mochammadrizaldy1576 7 років тому +15

      Kreddi The Dark Knight Rises not The Dark Knight Returns

    • @rjarana
      @rjarana 7 років тому +4

      Preach man. Sad to think people thought the Nolan movie endings on this list were confusing. I guess any open ended ending in a movie must be confusing.

    • @troylittrell6199
      @troylittrell6199 7 років тому +3

      rjarana, not "k pax", not "the tall man". i'm just saying.

    • @BlackavarWD
      @BlackavarWD 5 років тому +2

      They probably had to find movies they thought they could explain. Some movies were too hard for them.

  • @pbenjlo
    @pbenjlo 7 років тому +14

    What about Donnie Darko?????

    • @ballerrabbid9105
      @ballerrabbid9105 6 років тому +3

      Pop.Up I think most people are more confused about the entire movie than just the ending. It's a strange movie, but anyone who really wants to know can look up enough of the director and writers explanations.

  • @avefidelis
    @avefidelis 6 років тому

    Your thumbnail is a picture of Gollum, but I didn’t see any of the movies from JRR Tolkien’s books.

  • @drxcreatures
    @drxcreatures 6 років тому

    There were some people on the IMDB message boards who explained the Lynch movie very well. I guess Looper didn't try digging for information. LOL

  • @wandi336
    @wandi336 7 років тому +37

    Predistination..hands down

    • @jamesmason4062
      @jamesmason4062 7 років тому +7

      experiments in time travel gone horribly horribly wrong. Look up time travel paradoxes, best explanation is that, we ( humans) cannot time travel with out avoiding extremely disturbing and perplexing paradoxes that should leave even our sharpest minds to just let the whole thing go, we just are not made for it. That movie is a very good fictional example of why.

    • @codeXenigma
      @codeXenigma 7 років тому +2

      With Predestination it wasn't so much the ending that confused me. But how did it all begin. How could that impossible story of started if he was his own parents?

    • @GalaxyNewsTelevision
      @GalaxyNewsTelevision 7 років тому +4

      +binary day that's the point of the entire film. Predestination is about the bootstrap paradox, to explain it the best I can; Say a young man is given a gold pocket watch by an old woman, later in this man's life he builds a time machine where he goes back in time so he can give the watch back to the woman when she was younger, this would mean the watch has no origin and isn't logically possible, making the watch a paradox.

    • @annoying5andy
      @annoying5andy 7 років тому

      it wasn't that confusing. the part where Jane and John met and fizzle bomber's death pretty much explained that his/her life was the perfect orchestra of a never-ending loop. connect the dots and you'll find the possibility of the loop.

    • @codeXenigma
      @codeXenigma 7 років тому +2

      How is it not confusing, explain pls.
      I loved the film, thought it was really clever, how he designed everything in his life, how everything that happened was of his own making.
      But what is never explained is how it all started. How was it possible he existed. With Saccharin3D idea of the watch, it could have had another beginning, that became part of a loop. Someone else could have given the woman the watch, she gives it to the time traveler and he travels back to give it to the woman, who then starts the loop by giving it to the time traveler. But with Predestination, there is no other way it could have ever begun. Because he is both parents and the child.

  • @marrinangaming8262
    @marrinangaming8262 7 років тому +18

    interstellar ?, drive ?

    • @Sanscripter
      @Sanscripter 7 років тому +4

      DRIVE = he dies doing the one thing he can do: driving.

    • @Baychimo
      @Baychimo 7 років тому +4

      Interstellar wasn't confusing, just silly. Overhyped trash.

    • @marrinangaming8262
      @marrinangaming8262 7 років тому +5

      Baychimo
      sure u keep telling urself that

    • @Baychimo
      @Baychimo 7 років тому +2

      The only confusing thing about it, was the fact that most of the "science" in it, was complete trash. Plus the whole plot, of course. Which part of the movie didn't you understand?

    • @Nick-bh5uk
      @Nick-bh5uk 6 років тому +2

      The science of Interstellar wasn't "trash". Actually it wasn't anything too special either, typical relativistic tropes you'll find in a lot of films where the director wants to play smart. Sure the whole wormhole and tesseract thing wasn't science but since we don't know what actually happens in singularities you can give it the benefit of the doubt. What WAS trash is the fact that after 2.5 hours of full scientific nerdgasm the movie is conveniently tied up using the card: "the power of love is the essence of the universe", which is utter wank

  • @schizoidboy
    @schizoidboy 7 років тому

    I'm reminded of a line from the movie Waking Life. This movie was already explained to be a dream so anything that happened in it is open to interpretation, however, there is a line from a director whose name escapes me when he quotes two other famous directors talking about a movie, one was William Wyler. The other director's movie cost him two million and he said it was a dream within a dream, whereupon Wyler said to him "you just lost two million dollars." I see no virtue in making a movie ending so confusing that you need to have someone explain it to you.

  • @CBFmedia
    @CBFmedia 7 років тому

    an interesting theory i read about Birdman was that Riggan actually did kill himself on stage. The whole film appeared to be taken in one shot, but after he kills himself on stage, continuity is broken and other shots are edited in. The continuity is broken as Riggan's life ended. What that final scene was, in essence, was a fantasy or perhaps "heaven" where everything is how Riggan wanted: daughter's love and acceptance and world-wide fame.

  • @okrajoe
    @okrajoe 7 років тому +16

    I never understood any of Barton Fink.

    • @rohmarts
      @rohmarts 6 років тому +1

      So sorry.

    • @dukenukem8381
      @dukenukem8381 6 років тому

      rich evans lives in the walls

    • @captainathens
      @captainathens 5 років тому

      okrajoe Sucks man that movie was Dank as fujck

  • @punisherspirit1288
    @punisherspirit1288 7 років тому +9

    Surprised the Life of Pi wasn't on here. It ended with a question. Was the story of fantasy, survival, and self becoming real? Or was the story of logic and survival real? It really makes you think because scientists don't want to here religion involved into logic, while religious folk understand science but put beliefs and faith into perspective and defy all logic.

    • @jamesshunt5123
      @jamesshunt5123 6 років тому +4

      Life of Pie wasn't exactly confusing. The ending part actually was brilliant. The hero told an amazing story but when asked by his interviewer whether the animals that supposedly shared the life boat with him really were animals or rather animal manifestations of actual people that had survived with him he told a far more believable version of the story with people. At the beginning of the movie the protagonist believes that the animals in his father's zoo have souls and are sapient and sentient beings, including the tiger. He wants the tiger and the other animals to be what he believes they are. Divine creations. His father quickly demonstrates what a vicious and dangerous animal a tiger is. The boy still can't let go of his belief that animals aren't different from people and that influences his story.
      The boy also struggles with which faith he should accept and follow. He switches faiths three times I believe and finally settles on Muslim. This is another clue to the amazing story he told. He chose that one much like his faith.
      The paradise island that just magically appeared is another clue. Even he doubts it was really real.
      When finally asked which of the two stories is the right one he asks the interviewer which one he prefers. If my memory serves me right the interviewer found the amazing one with the tiger way more colorful and memorable. "And so it is with God" the protagonist concludes.
      To me this is a clear case of what attracts people to religion. That everything they are and experience all have some higher meaning and is way more magic than just the cold, logic world of science.
      As such the protagonist told a "better story" that still was a fabrication and a lie. Much like religion.

    • @helloinspiration
      @helloinspiration 6 років тому

      If it confuses you, try reading the book. The truth is a little clearer.

  • @skynet4496
    @skynet4496 7 років тому +2

    Why did you repost this? I was thinking what did I get deja vu???

  • @madisonbadger9454
    @madisonbadger9454 7 років тому

    Brilliant

  • @21kburd
    @21kburd 7 років тому +15

    You guys really seem to be going in tge " screencrush " direction by recycling old videos and using new titles so you can continue to just keep pumping out as much content as possible. Quantity over quality I guess.

    • @21kburd
      @21kburd 7 років тому +2

      I absolutely love this channel but if you're going to keep recreating the same videos, I have no reason to keep coming back to it.

  • @rjmacready505
    @rjmacready505 7 років тому +5

    In Birdman he could have just been standing on a ledge.

  • @Jenddy
    @Jenddy 5 років тому

    Please do INTERSTELLAR NEXT!!

  • @sciblastofficial9833
    @sciblastofficial9833 6 років тому +1

    Inception ending appendix: Anyways, this is to add on the Inception ending. Christopher Nolan said that you could pick your own ending and yours is right, but there’s one more thing. The main guy Cobb, forgets that it is a dream or reality. In short, he doesn’t care if he is in a dream or not.

  • @ItsAndyYo
    @ItsAndyYo 7 років тому +3

    Primer

    • @Electricshrock
      @Electricshrock 6 років тому

      Mostly because you couldn't hear half the dialogue

    • @jeepster4u2003
      @jeepster4u2003 6 років тому

      Up Stream Color also. I think of Shane Carruth moves as de-facto interactive movies; you can interpret them anyway you like.

  • @andrewquartey6960
    @andrewquartey6960 7 років тому +27

    Three words
    The Bee Movie

    • @Davidovar34
      @Davidovar34 4 роки тому

      It's actually two words: Bee Movie

    • @thegang9348
      @thegang9348 4 роки тому

      @@Davidovar34 yh but he used 3 words lol

  • @2016709889
    @2016709889 2 роки тому

    Vanilla sky. It’s obvious, after the wreck, he goes into a coma. His brain takes over and takes different things he’s heard before the wreck, and things he’s subconsciously hearing in the hospital room (while in a coma). His brain makes this elaborate story in his mind, like a dream he can’t wake up from (because of the coma). But then his brain turns the story into a nightmare, he eventually get it under control and calms himself (and makes it all make sense) by coming up with the story of him being in the future frozen (his brain made up the story because before the accident he heard about the dog waking up from being frozen in a lake). It’s a story on how we have the strength within, to heal, and how fascinating the brain is. When he wishes his wish (probably to live with the girl in a fake world) and then jumps off the building, he will actually wake up from the coma (because his belief he would wake up will kickstart his brain to get himself out of the coma) he will be awake in the hospital with the girl by his side. Then the horror will be that in his head the world will be fake, but it will all be real. It was only a coma, but deep down he will think he’s living a made up world. I don’t know how anyone can not get that point. The director doesn’t know this either, because they copied this movie, it’s a remake from a few years before, so you can’t trust what the director thinks. He sees it at face value, and not the hidden message. The message on how the brain is capable of creating such an elaborate story. Have you ever dreamed something that made perfect sense, only to wake up and you realize it didn’t make any sense at all?

  • @OhplsAndrew
    @OhplsAndrew 7 років тому

    7:11 That bird looks like it was just dropped in that scene, lol.