Beau is Afraid was the last one I recall. I think it was mostly the latter half of the movie where I started to get a bit confused and needed the ending explained to me.
What movies made you look up some kind of explanation afterwards? I feel like I have done it several times in the past for more surreal movies but can’t think of any other examples.
It can also be a TV show.
Primer. Watched it twice in a row. Then went online to read about it too.
As soon as I read the title of this post, I knew that Primer would be one of the first comments.
You are not alone, that is the hardest time loop movies to wrap your head around.
Relevant XKCD
I’m gonna have to open that on a monitor.
Mainly because it’s so accurately done. It truly shows how insane it can get and it’s made worse by all the people violating their own “rules” repeatedly
12 Angry Men. Gen X kid here, not my style, B&W a fair bit before my time, too old.
My god. Put it on for a lark before bedtime on a worknight. Far too tired, stayed up all the way through, suffered the next day. Worth it.
If OP had asked, “Name a movie you couldn’t put down?” or “What’s a movie that sucked you in and you had no choice to stop?” Yeah. That one.
I didn’t grasp the implications of the final scene with Aaron and the workers until I checked the plot write-up on Wikipedia.
I think this movie is virtually impossible to understand in 1 viewing.
I was going to say this, but I figured I could just scroll until I found where someone else inevitably said it.
By the end, I was just letting the drama wash over me and not even trying to sort out which version of who was doing what in which timeline.
And honestly, I suspect that that’s the best way to appreciate it anyway.
Came here for this, glad to be beaten to it. I’ve seen this movie three times and I’m still not sure I could actually explain it.
Ha, me neither. Love everything about the movie though. The fact that Shane did everything for this movie (wrote, directed, produced, acted, music, editing), it was made on such a small budget (7k I think), and shot over 5 weeks, yet it really doesn’t feel “cheap” when you watch it, is such an achievement.