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This is not quite the same as "movies that just make no sense whatsoever," mind you.

What happens is, some movies have rather muddly plots that clear up with repeated viewings and analysis.

Other movies have plots that initially make sense to you, where you just accept one thing after another, caught up in the narrative flow, but what was crystal clear becomes incoherent when subjected to close scrutiny, when you already know the plot and have time to look deeper into the internal logic.

For me, giant spider invasion was like this. At first, it seems a straightforward B monster movie. There's some rocks falling out of the sky, spiders hatch out of them, scientists babble about a doorway in space, giant spiders ensue, kill the queen, badda-bing. It's only later that I realized there's no real follow up to the "black whole" thing, nor would killing the queen solve all their problems (they still have lots of other spiders which will presumably grow to enormous size).

The movie Lifeforce also ranks really strongly here, and Rise of the Silver Surfer has a major rewatch-apparent plothole.

I imagine mass absorption was a bit impractical because the main computer is, lets face it, a main computer. It's not the most mobile thing. And anyway, who really knows what absorption entails? Maybe it's just a minor weapon of the main computer, and a "fused" human takes a lot of runtime to maintain, so you'd only want to do it for somebody with a lot of crucial knowledge.

Did you see any new robots being made? Perhaps the tools and resources needed for building additional robots where gone. Maybe those with knowledge of advanced robotics were among the first to go in the slaughter.

Why not? I mean okay, it was nothing new, the production values sucked, and it was a gimmicky little crappy scifi pastiche, but at least it was >>interesting<<. It wasn't another teen morality play, or a pointless rambling exploitation film about bikers, or a dull, monotonous Coleman Francis flick. It had a point. It had a plot, as hole-ridden and uninspired as it may have been. There were mutants, robots, slimey carnivorous monsters, etc.

Eh. It didn't have a rape scene. That makes it automatically one star higher than A Boy And His Dog in my book.

I've got one! "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies". I have no idea what the hell is happening in this movie, no matter how many times I watch it.

Really? I still don't really get it. confused