Your Weirdest Film by TheSomnambulist

There's a bunch for me that kinda fit into that parameter of weird, but weird is a nice way of saying completely fucked.

The first time I saw FIGHT CLUB, I walked out of the theater with this weird look on my face that said "what the fuck did I just see?" Any David Lynch movie, if it's good or bad, will have moments that make me go "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK" because it's so random and bizarre.

FREAKS is deservedly one of the most bizarre and fucked up movies made. The plot itself is laughable and melodramatic, but just seeing all these circus performers and the big reveal at the end just destroy any sense of normalcy in it.

But off the top of my head I can't name a movie that was so incomprehensible and bizarre and surreal that it made absolutely no sense and could be in a surrealist art show.

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Thursday, August 9, 2007 10:32 AM

JWHEDONADDICT

First would be BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. What was weird about it was that it was so cheesy, so unfunny and so bloody awful (the Fran Kuzui, Kristy Swanson, and Donald Sutherlandness of it), yet so unbelievably fresh and funny and wonderful at the same time (the Jossness of it...and that it led to a really great TV series that will stick with me until the day I die). Weird!

SERENITY...after seeing the trailers, why the FUCK did no one but us run to the theater?!!! Why weren't people more curious as to why we're so passionate about it?

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(For Joss)

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Thursday, August 9, 2007 10:36 AM

I was thinking Lynch would get a mention or two

So Freaks eh... You saw that too... That is weird and disturbing. I watched it all the way through once, and I won't be doing it again...

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Thursday, August 9, 2007 10:39 AM

jwhedonaddict - yes it is weird why more people didn't rush to go see SERENITY.....

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Thursday, August 9, 2007 10:51 AM

FREDGIBLET

Donnie Darko, kind of a stock answer but I don't see a lot weird movies.

The Fountain could qualify except I turned it off after about 15 minutes.

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Thursday, August 9, 2007 10:54 AM

WINDIE

Twelve Monkeys - Had that what, Why, Where and duh feeling first time I watched it.

Think it is pretty good now after another watch but at the time I just went wibble.

Why have they taken the sky from ME

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Thursday, August 9, 2007 11:17 AM

LITTLEALBATROSS29

My weirdest movie would have to be ...
Entre tinieblas ( Dark Habits )

It's a Pedro Almodovar film ( in Spanish with subtitles ) about a bunch of nuns who are either on drugs or just insane .

It was incredibly funny and weird as most of Almodovar's movies are.
Definitely worth a viewing !!!

I guess Eating Raoul would be my second vote

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Thursday, August 9, 2007 12:47 PM

HERA7

Strangest film?

John Boorman's 'Zardoz' starring Sean Connery.
Definitely a wacky, strange, trippy film, yet fun too.

Hera7

Mechanic & Cook
"So thats where that bolt went to."

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Thursday, August 9, 2007 1:39 PM

TRAVELER

Battle of the Worlds.

It had Claude Rains in it. It was Italian and he was the only actor I recognised. It was not bad. Just a Grade B science fiction movie. The premise was good, just poorly written. I was surprised Mr. Rains was in this film. His career must have taken a dive. He just kept chewing on old cigar stubs, belittling everybody, and praising calculus. Oh and was very pleased with himself every time he was right and everybody else was wrong.

If I am allowed I have a second one, the "Kill Bill" series. I enjoyed them as a spoof. Gotta love the fight scene in the resturant with the "88". It looked like Monty Python created that scene.

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Thursday, August 9, 2007 2:40 PM

Various weird ones that spring to mind...
Head (featuring The Monkees)
Tetsuo - the Iron Man
Ring (the original Japanese version)

The weirdest one I've got on DVD I suppose is Being John Malkovich...

Select to view spoiler:

particularly the bit where JM does the very thing you're waiting for him to do...

Now I'd like to see the novel Blood Music by Greg Bear made into a film... the Outer Limits episode The New Breed had a very similar premise, but copped out pathetically before it really got anywhere. Blood Music takes it to its extreme conclusion.

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Thursday, August 9, 2007 2:55 PM

Oh yeah. MALKOVICH was definitely a screwed up movie, but in a good way.

"I have seen the dark side. I have seen things NO MAN should see!!!"
"Really? For most people it's a pleasant experience."

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Thursday, August 9, 2007 2:58 PM

SWEETSERENDIPITY

Mine would have to be Freeway with Reese Witherspoon and Keifer Sutherland. A twisted take on 'Little Red Riding Hood' with a teenage juvenile delinquent on the run from a social worker traveling to her grandmother's house and being hounded by a charming, but sadistic, serial killer/pedophile. Definitely strange, but I love it!

Deb

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Thursday, August 9, 2007 3:09 PM

MISSTRESSAHARA

Brazil definately falls into that categorie. All the time I'm watching this (I was a teen at the time) I was either going wtf or freaking out. And the end... you don't normally see endings like that.

There are plenty I can't even remember but there are two that still to this day makes me say "What the hell did I just watch? I just don't get it or understand the premise." Those would be the Matrix sequels. Seriously to this day I don't get who the twins or the person they worked for were or what their significance to the film meant. Or the whole Keeper or whoever of the Matrix. When people try to explain it I say "That makes no sense."

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Thursday, August 9, 2007 3:11 PM

KC5F

That's easy - Zachariah - "A head of his time." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068011/ Described by one person as "the geniuses of the Firesign Theatre adapt Hermann Hesse's 'Siddhartha' into a comic musical western."

Hey, you guys like westerns with fiddle (and other) music, right? Somehow, though, life in this movie isn't quite like Joss shows it on the outer planets!

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Thursday, August 9, 2007 3:21 PM

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Originally posted by KC5F:
Hey, you guys like westerns with fiddle (and other) music, right?

Oh yeah, that reminds me, The Man Who Fell to Earth starring David Bowie... there is a scene where he's in a car going past where a village of hillbillies was about 150 years previous. He can see them, and they can see the (future to them) car going past and are freaked out having no idea what it is, the scene accompanied by some nice old fiddle and banjo music.

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Thursday, August 9, 2007 8:24 PM

SINGATE

Naked Lunch without a doubt. I saw this one about 15 years ago and to this day have no idea what the hell was going on in that film.

Honorable mention to Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park. What the fuck was up with that one?

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Thursday, August 9, 2007 11:27 PM

BAPTISMO

Bad Boy Bubby

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Thursday, August 9, 2007 11:56 PM

MANWITHPEZ

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I've seen a lot of weird movies...and I don't discount movies just because they're weird...but Oddishon, or Audition. That was one stange f'n movie!

And, don't watch it just because I mention it here. You might save yourself some therapy bills.

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Friday, August 10, 2007 9:40 AM

IREMIST

Let's see... mmmmm.
Wierd movies I love.... UHF with Wierd Al(go figure) and the Original Charlie and the Choc. Factory.

Wierd movies I hate.... The Toxic Avenger and Six-String Samurai. Oh, and any Porno involving the Amish, (dont ask!)

They can't even run thier own lives, I'll be d@mned if they'll run mine....

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Friday, August 10, 2007 10:04 AM

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Originally posted by Iremist:
Oh, and any Porno involving the Amish, (dont ask!)

Sorry what was that?!

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Friday, August 10, 2007 10:44 AM

WHOOPS

There was a weird film that i saw when i was a kid its weird because i never got to see the end. Plus i cant remember the title of the film. But it had these people on a car in this car park and there was something that was trying to get in to kill them. Its so weird.

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Friday, August 10, 2007 10:52 AM

CHRISISALL

Toxic Avenger 4: Citizen Toxie.
And I was even IN it

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Friday, August 10, 2007 10:57 AM

WHODIED

Angels and Insects.

Entomology and incest in a Victorian setting.

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Friday, August 10, 2007 11:05 AM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Toxic Avenger 4: Citizen Toxie.
And I was even IN it

StuntmanChrisisall

Hey I saw that!

it was weird. Stunts were cool though

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Friday, August 10, 2007 11:24 AM

ALLIETHORN7

Lessee...
You mean besides "Plan 9 From Outer Space" or "Santa Clause Fights the Martians"?
I remember one... what was the name... erm, ahh... Oh, I think it was... Remembering is harder then I thought it would be... damnit, sixteen bloody years in all, and I can't even remember that...
Aw, Hell.
"Pinochio" and "Bambi" left me scarred for life... maybe I just don't want to remember?

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Friday, August 10, 2007 12:10 PM

SCHOOLBOYSWINK

Quote:
Originally posted by Hera7:
Strangest film?

John Boorman's 'Zardoz' starring Sean Connery.
Definitely a wacky, strange, trippy film, yet fun too.

Hera7

Mechanic & Cook
"So thats where that bolt went to."

I would have to vote for Battle Royale. It is an Asian film, but I can't remember which particular country. (For those who've not seen it: It's about the government putting all these kids on an island to hunt each other with random weapons. It's like the short story "Most Dangerous Game" on a SEVERE dose of opium.) There are a few flashbacks, but other than that they don't really characterize any of the kids, who are all wearing more-or-less matching school uniforms. So by the time you figure out who anybody is, they are dead. There are also those great movie moments where a pocket-knife wound is immediately fatal, but then a guy takes a machine gun round to the leg and is walking on it within a couple hours.

This is only the wierdest movie I've actually sat down and watched. It doesn't count in the running any of the crap I just happened to see staying up all night watching crap movies on the Encore networks of DirecTV. Though speaking of those movies...

ZARDOZ!?!?!?!? Holy mother of the lead singer of Twisted Sister, I thought I was the only person who'd ever seen that movie. I try to describe it to my friends, and they DO NOT believe me. The beginning is like somebody combined a post-modern art piece and an inerpretive dance routine (with horses) and shot it during a Black Sabbath concert. And yes, it is RUTTING WIERD!

"When you can't do somethin' smart, do somethin' right!" -Jayne Cobb quotes Shepherd Book

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Friday, August 10, 2007 12:34 PM

KAYNA

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Santa's Slay
Turns out that Santa is actually a demon who lost a bet to an angel. Now the terms of the bet have expired and he's on a killing spree. In the first ten minutes he killes someone with a candy cane.

Quote:
Originally posted by SchoolboysWink:
Holy mother of the lead singer of Twisted Sister...

That would be Dee Snider, who made a rather wierd movie of his own. It's called Strangeland. He's some kind of psycotic sadomasochist. My brother has a copy.

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Friday, August 10, 2007 1:18 PM

TRAVELER

Quote:
Originally posted by singate:
Naked Lunch without a doubt. I saw this one about 15 years ago and to this day have no idea what the hell was going on in that film.
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Good call singate. I forgot about this insane piece of work. I am not sure if this one was a drug induced nightmare or a science fiction good over the edge film.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

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Friday, August 10, 2007 1:51 PM

KARLELANVITAL

For me the weirdest movies would have to be either Slava Tsukerman's Liquid Sky or Lynch's 77 classic Eraserhead.

Karl Elan Vital
Lost but not forgotten...

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Friday, August 10, 2007 3:57 PM

STINKINGROSE

You folks are bringing back flashes of serious wierdness on a few of these.
I *loved* Being John Malkovich.
I remember The Man Who Fell to Earth. It was definitely bizzare.

Tempopo was kind of whacked, but I still liked it.(Japanese food and fetish film, sort of.. definitely wierd...)

Clockwork Orange is right up there for strangeness.

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Friday, August 10, 2007 5:15 PM

Oh yeah, NAKED LUNCH. I forgot about that.

I once took a film studies class that focused on David Cronenberg from the new head of the film department Christine Ramsay. She showed every one of his movies, and you can tell that while there was a definite shift in his work, David Cronenberg has and will always be a fucked up director.

He started out making typical genre flicks that were really gory. He was dubbed the Prince of Blood, and one of his films SHIVERS actually inspired an article called "You Should Know How Bad This Movie Is, You Paid For it." and it was about how this film was funded by the tax credit set up by the Canadian government to finance Canadian made film and that the author was pissed that this Invasion of the Body Snatchers rip off that turned everyone in this apartment building into parasite infested sex fiends. In that first half of his career, he also made VIDEODROME which not only predicted so much of what our society has become but also beat THE MATRIX by about fifteen years in dealing with the notion of what is reality in a sci-fi context. It's my favorite movie of his. He also did THE DEAD ZONE and THE FLY, so for a time being he did go Hollywood.

Then he made DEAD RINGERS.

You wanna see fucked up? How about a movie about two twin gynecologists, both played by Jeremy Irons, who both obsess over a "mutant woman" who has a triple chambered uterus (I think). It was a good thing he made THE FLY and that it was a big hit. Otherwise, no one in the world would have funded that movie. I still don't know who decided to finally pick up the tab.

After that, he moved away from the genre movies and started making these arty, bizzare movies that were more insane one after the next.

NAKED LUNCH is actually supposed to be a metaphorical bio-pic about the author William S. Burroughs and how he became an author. If you've actually read the book, you know that it is truly unadaptable. So Cronenberg decided to just tell the story on how he became an author and just fill the movie with various references to the book as well as his other books.

Movie still doesn't make any sense, IMHO. Just wanted to clarify however slightly what the movie was supposed to be.

The whole period of the 90's and the first half of this decade was I guess his "arty" period. A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE I think is his first commercial hit in about twenty years. And even though it's creepy at times, to me it doesn't really feel like a Cronenberg movie. There aren't any of his normal touches in the movie, so I actually think it's a little overrated.

He has a new movie coming out this fall called EASTERN PROMISES.

http://www.movie-list.com/trailers.php?id=easternpromises

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Friday, August 10, 2007 5:44 PM

STORMWIND

ADAPTATION by Charlie (and donald!) Kaufman. Isn't that fucked up? Just a very odd lets-break-the-fourth-wall-several-times-over movie. And a good acting job by Nick Cage as well, damn the man can be patchy.

Oh and BUBBA HO-TEP. Its about Elvis and a black JFK fighting off an Egyptian mummy in a texas nursing home. Wierd wierd crap!

I don't wanna explode!

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Friday, August 10, 2007 6:20 PM

KAYNA

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Quote:
Originally posted by Stormwind:
Oh and BUBBA HO-TEP. Its about Elvis and a black JFK fighting off an Egyptian mummy in a texas nursing home. Wierd wierd crap!

An ass sucking mummy at that. A little slow but Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis are great in that movie.

For kinda artsy wierd but good, has anyone here ever seen Bent? Clive Owen as a gay man in a Nazi concentration camp. I think the most people on screen at any one time is about four. It's a quiet kind of movie.

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Friday, August 10, 2007 7:39 PM

TENTHCREWMEMBER

Could you please just make it stranger? Stranger. Odder. Could be weirder. More bizarre. How about uncanny?

I was gonna say Bubba Ho-tep, but seems I was beat to that punch...so, let's see...

Weirdest Kung Fu Movie - Fantasy Mission Force
(it has Jackie Chan in it, which is why I own it, but he made the film to repay a favor. It has, among other weirdness, 2 Scottish Asians and a final battle involving Mad Max style car gangs with swastikas painted on their vehicles, which had nothing to do with what little plot it did have)

Weirdest Movie in a good way - Shaun of the Dead
Weirdest Movie in a bad way - Kentucky Fried Movie

That's my wooden nickel's worth...

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Friday, August 10, 2007 8:04 PM

BROWNCOAT2007

OMG!!! I thought I was one of the only two people in America to have seen Battle Royal!!! I freakin' LOVE that movie, but, weird?? Yeah... a bit... I heard that someone is adopting it and making an American version at some point, release date is 2008-ish... As to Shaun... damn funny movie, damn good one too... Gotta love all the references to... pretty much EVERY cult zombie movie ever made

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Saturday, August 11, 2007 5:57 AM

KAYNA

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You knw that Battle Royal is also a manga and a novel right? If you want some more character development then go read those.

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Saturday, August 11, 2007 6:31 AM

THATWEIRDGIRL

Is it weird that I don't think most of these films are 'weird'?

Strange or unusual or campy doesn't equal weird. I'll give you Brazil. Maybe Baron Munchausen...that could be clouded with watching it with my dad. Audition is bizarre. Um, I can't think of any movie I'd classify as weird. Sorry, Ric.

I know folks that have seen Battle Royale. It's more well known than you think.

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Saturday, August 11, 2007 7:10 AM

Campy? Phantom of the Paradise!

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Saturday, August 11, 2007 7:13 AM

THATWEIRDGIRL

Quote:
Originally posted by Cruithne3753:
Campy? Phantom of the Paradise!

Weird? No. Awful is more like it. Ugh.

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Saturday, August 11, 2007 7:55 AM

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Well I did say campy. Might just dig it out...

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Saturday, August 11, 2007 8:13 AM

GLADIATOR32

'Samurai Commando' was pretty odd. Basically, the Japanese military invent a cloaking device, that rather than hides their tanks and helicopters, accidentally transports them back in time to the Samurai era. So the general uses his modern tools of warfare to become this emporor-type person. So then the military send another unit back in time, who team up with this random samurai group, and stop the renegade general's plan to drop a nuke to the core of the Earth, or something equally random like that.

It's a good laugh, but a bit weird nonetheless...

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Saturday, August 11, 2007 8:31 AM

MUTT999

Anyone else remember The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension!? That was pretty weird. Phantasm is also a weird cult classic of sorts.

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Saturday, August 11, 2007 8:57 AM

LWAVES

Yeah I remember Buckaroo Banzai. Remember liking it as well.

Titanic.
I was expecting a movie about a boat sinking but all I got was a lousy romance.

Seriously though, anything by Lynch is in there, with Mulholland at the top. Unless Inland Empire is weirder when I see it next week.

Tideland by Terry Gilliam is one of his weirdest.

"I don't believe in suicide, but if you'd like to try it it might cheer me up to watch."

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Saturday, August 11, 2007 8:59 AM

BUCKAROO BANZAI was kinda weird, but not really. The only thing I took from that movie was that it was kinds of a trail run for BACK TO THE FUTURE, because both movies were co written and produced by Neil Canton. And a lot of stuff that was in BUCKAROO BANZAI (the technologically advanced car, BB=88, Chris Lloyd, a bunch of other stuff I can't remember off the top of my head) was re-used in the BACK TO THE FUTURE trilogy with better effect.

And I agree with one of the previous posts in that a lot of films that have been mentioned couldn't be really called weird or fucked up. Like the majority of the films mentioned here might have weird characters or odd moments in them, but they follow a traditional three act structure with regular characters and stuff. Like the Coen Bros. Yes, they have oddball characters and moments in their films, but with the exception of BARTON FINK, they have pretty straightforward plots and structures.

To me, a truly weird, completely fucked movie is one where after you see it, the first thing you say to yourself or the person you went to see it with is "WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST WATCH!!!????" I've only gotten that with David Lynch, VIDEODROME, DEAD RINGERS, DONNIE DARKO and to some degree THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.

Also, if you want to see small doses of fucked upedness, enroll in an avant garde film studies class. You will be shocked with some of the bizarre shit that you will see in that class. And you'll be even more flabbergasted with the idea that some of these guys like Stan Brackhage actually made something of a living with these kinds of movies. These five to thirty minute films of just sometimes incomprehensible shit. But I have to admit, these guys do have balls, because if you want to be an avant garde filmmaker, you'd probably see more money from a part time job at McDonalds than you do with these little masterpieces.

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Saturday, August 11, 2007 9:06 AM

VIOLYNS

Star Wars Christmas Special.

*shudders*

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Saturday, August 11, 2007 9:28 AM

BROWNCOAT2007

Well... yeah, good friend at colllege who introduced me to the series gave me the book, was all, this is really REALLY good, I think you'd like it... I fell in LOVE with it, then he's all, "heres a movie based off of siad book" and I'm all "Ooooo SHINEY!!!"

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Saturday, August 11, 2007 11:02 AM