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Well, I didn't go see it until 2002, but otherwise I gotta agree with you. This film has some downright gorgeous, colorful, interesting scenes. It's like an impressionist painting come to life (if impressionism was a 21st century art movement). And let's face it, some people just don't like movies in which things don't get neatly explained by the time the credit roll (a la Leave It To Beaver). And this movie leaves EVERYHTING to interpretation. It's a good old fashioned mind fuck. If it had come out in 1966 you'd be tempted to go see it on acid. Kinda like a R-rated "Through The Looking Glass". And like "Almost Famous", Crowe's choice of music was impeccable. I mean "The Monkees' Porpoise Song"? I LOVE that song! "Good Vibrations"? You mean it was never really about surfing? Freakin brilliant! Of course, I still don't know what the hell this movie was really about, but I'm the guy who wondered why there wasn't more baseball in Catcher In The Rye.
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