I guess I'm just not that amused by displays of mental illness

You pretty much summed up exactly how I feel. Only watched it because I saw some smart people saying how interesting it was. Got through it, even though it took me 4 viewings to finish it because I kept falling asleep. And the only thing I got out of it was that these people are bat sh!t insane. Only interesting thing for me was playing it forward and backwards together.

It's not the theories presented in this movie that are of any interest to me. But what interests me about this documentary is just that the movie itself could have inspired so many people to dig so deeply into it, on these bizarre Quixotic quests to derive some kind of meaning where there isn't any. It's kind of fascinating and at times even impressive the kind of logical leaps are made in this film by the various presenters of their theories. However if you found it to be too self-indulgent, no one is putting a gun to your head. Simply turn it off.

It's disturbing because these idiotic lunatics function on a daily basis and they're not severely beaten every time they open their mouths. It's a horror movie.

thanks for this post I stopped the dvd and have now decided not to force myself to finish

honest, you helped me decide, not being sarcastic