I must admit that this movie has more than first believed

Rating: 1/10 (31 May 2002)

After trashing this movie big time I still could not stop thinking about it and I started to regret that I did not pay more attention while watching it. My first impression was that this movie is absolute pointless crap, but after reflecting a bit further and reading Martin Andersons thoughts I must admit that there probably are a story or plot or whatever to call it. Realizing this made the movie a bit more interesting. I do now understand that people are facinated by this movie and even call it the best movie ever made. I still personally think this is a crappy movie by all means. Why conceal a story underneath such a thick LSD cloud? Why deliberately make it so complicated? Why must all the important signs be so tiny? I do not like to do that amount of detective work to get the point of a movie. Besides, even after seeing the "point" of the movie I figure it is still not very interesting as a story and I still consider this movie way too long, dull, and surreal in many ways. Even with the "point revealed" I still see around 70% of it as pure nonsense. This movie could have been excellent if it was not made so deliberately overcomplicated and to be honest, psyco. And there are way to much symbolism for anybody to chew. An interesting idea destroyed by its lack of sharpness and clarity. I still hate this movie despite the fact that I am tempted to see it one more time now as I think I might know what is going on. That is scary!!! I guess the reason some people love this movie so much is caused by the releif they excperience when they break the riddle. I guess that people solving the riddle totally by themselfes might feel the same satisfaction as others have solving other kind of puzzles. A great puzzle for the fans of those things, but not a great movie. Certainly not what I call quality entertainment. Breaking into the core of this movie is too hard work. The fans even admit that you should see it 3 times. No way, I rather play a computer game. Oh well. Now I can finally forget about this movie