Your Weirdest Film

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THESOMNAMBULIST

Thursday, August 9, 2007 8:02 PM

Ok we have had the list for Best and Worst films, but I was just wondering what has been the weirdest film you have ever seen.

For me it'll be 'Oh Lucky Man' I don't often find things weird but that film I do. I must admit I haven't seen it since I was ten, but it made a huge impression on me.

Anyway. Onto you all. Do tell I'd love to know if there is a common pattern.

Cheers

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REDLAVA

Thursday, August 9, 2007 8:07 PM

Mulholland Drive is probably the weirdest one I can remember seeing.

REGINAROADIE

Thursday, August 9, 2007 8:10 PM

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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JWHEDONADDICT

Thursday, August 9, 2007 8:32 PM

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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THESOMNAMBULIST

Thursday, August 9, 2007 8:36 PM

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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THESOMNAMBULIST

Thursday, August 9, 2007 8:39 PM

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

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FREDGIBLET

Thursday, August 9, 2007 8:51 PM

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.

WINDIE

Thursday, August 9, 2007 8:54 PM

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.

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LITTLEALBATROSS29

Thursday, August 9, 2007 9:17 PM

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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HERA7

Thursday, August 9, 2007 10:47 PM

Strangest film?

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

Hera7

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TRAVELER

Thursday, August 9, 2007 11:39 PM

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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CRUITHNE3753

Friday, August 10, 2007 12:40 AM

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...

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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.

REGINAROADIE

Friday, August 10, 2007 12:55 AM

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

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"Really? For most people it's a pleasant experience."

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SWEETSERENDIPITY

Friday, August 10, 2007 12:58 AM

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

MISSTRESSAHARA

Friday, August 10, 2007 1:09 AM

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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Friday, August 10, 2007 1:11 AM

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!

CRUITHNE3753

Friday, August 10, 2007 1:21 AM

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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.

SINGATE

Friday, August 10, 2007 6:24 AM

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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Friday, August 10, 2007 9:27 AM

Bad Boy Bubby

MANWITHPEZ

Friday, August 10, 2007 9:56 AM

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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IREMIST

Friday, August 10, 2007 7:40 PM

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....

THESOMNAMBULIST

Friday, August 10, 2007 8:04 PM

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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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WHOOPS

Friday, August 10, 2007 8:44 PM

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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CHRISISALL

Friday, August 10, 2007 8:52 PM

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

StuntmanChrisisall

WHODIED

Friday, August 10, 2007 8:57 PM

Angels and Insects.

Entomology and incest in a Victorian setting.

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THESOMNAMBULIST

Friday, August 10, 2007 9:05 PM

Quote:
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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ALLIETHORN7

Friday, August 10, 2007 9:24 PM

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 10:10 PM

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!

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KAYNA

Friday, August 10, 2007 10:34 PM

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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TRAVELER

Friday, August 10, 2007 11:18 PM

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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.

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KARLELANVITAL

Friday, August 10, 2007 11:51 PM

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

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STINKINGROSE

Saturday, August 11, 2007 1:57 AM

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.

REGINAROADIE

Saturday, August 11, 2007 3:15 AM

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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STORMWIND

Saturday, August 11, 2007 3:44 AM

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!

KAYNA

Saturday, August 11, 2007 4:20 AM

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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TENTHCREWMEMBER

Saturday, August 11, 2007 5:39 AM

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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BROWNCOAT2007

Saturday, August 11, 2007 6:04 AM

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

KAYNA

Saturday, August 11, 2007 3:57 PM

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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THATWEIRDGIRL

Saturday, August 11, 2007 4:31 PM

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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CRUITHNE3753

Saturday, August 11, 2007 5:10 PM

Campy? Phantom of the Paradise!

THATWEIRDGIRL

Saturday, August 11, 2007 5:13 PM

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

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

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CRUITHNE3753

Saturday, August 11, 2007 5:55 PM

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

GLADIATOR32

Saturday, August 11, 2007 6:13 PM

'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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MUTT999

Saturday, August 11, 2007 6:31 PM

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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LWAVES

Saturday, August 11, 2007 6:57 PM

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.

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REGINAROADIE

Saturday, August 11, 2007 6:59 PM

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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VIOLYNS

Saturday, August 11, 2007 7:06 PM

Star Wars Christmas Special.

*shudders*

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BROWNCOAT2007

Saturday, August 11, 2007 7:28 PM

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!!!"

CRUITHNE3753

Saturday, August 11, 2007 9:02 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by lwaves:
Titanic.
I was expecting a movie about a boat sinking but all I got was a lousy romance.

Scarface

I was expecting the tale about a guy who does amazing things with a scarf, but all I got was the grim exploits of a dodgy drugs dealer...

ECGORDON

Saturday, August 11, 2007 11:22 PM

The Bed-Sitting Room

It's not on dvd yet, probably never will be, but I recorded it when Turner Classic Movies ran it a few years ago. I had seen it back in the early 70s when I was a video operator at a small cable company before they went satellite and added HBO, Showtime, etc.

Directed by Richard Lester in 1969 based on a stage play by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus. It stars Ralph Richardson, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Michael Hordern, Rita Tushingham and featuring the film debut of Marty Feldman. Set in England after a nuclear war (which lasted all of ten minutes), it is an absurdist comedy in which much weirdness happens, such as people mutating into dogs, birds and inanimate objects.

CRUITHNE3753

Saturday, August 11, 2007 11:40 PM

Forgot about The Bed Sitting Room!

Years since I saw it it, AFAIR, the post apocalyptic landscape seeming to consist of vast heaps of broken crockery... the family living on an Underground train endlessly going round and round on the Circle Line even though all of Britain's electricity being generated by one guy on a bicycle, yes...

God Save Mrs Ethel Shroake!

DONCOAT

Saturday, August 11, 2007 11:46 PM

My vote goes to The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T.

A totally weird attempt to make a Dr. Seuss live-action musical. This IMDB trivia entry is revealing:

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According the Theodor Geisel/Dr. Seuss, the film's director, one of the 150 boys vomited on the piano while filming. This caused a chain reaction and they were left with 150 vomiting boys. Geisel said that the film's reviews were similar.

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WHOOPS

Sunday, August 12, 2007 12:10 AM

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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

iv seen Battle Royale too its a great film havent seen the second one yet but i will try and get around to wathching it.

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BUTTERS

Sunday, August 12, 2007 12:25 AM

Ichi the killer, one of the best and at the same time weirdest films ever made, something to offend everyone in this classic.
check out other Takeshi Miike films if you want real full-on mad shit.
also look for 'Versus'a time travel zombie samurai movie what more could you want?

MANWITHPEZ

Monday, August 13, 2007 12:40 PM

By now, I have to say I'm bit surprised the neither Shakes the Clown or Wilder Napalm have made the cut.

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Monday, August 13, 2007 1:02 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Butters:
Ichi the killer, one of the best and at the same time weirdest films ever made, something to offend everyone in this classic.
check out other Takeshi Miike films if you want real full-on mad shit.

Yes, Miike is truly one of the weirdest directors out there, and most disturbing.

Battle Royale was awesome.

Three Extremes, if you don't know what asian horror is like, you may not want to watch this film. It contains scenes of a woman eating dead baby fetus in order to look younger.

Weirdest tv series: When They Cry, there's nothing like cute little kids killing each other in very violent ways to creep you out.

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Monday, August 13, 2007 3:00 PM

For me I'd say Night and the City...Not because the plot was weird, just that you could make a movie with great actors and have it be so damn bad...DeNiro's character is supposed to be irritating and he succeeds so well that when he gets shot, many of the audience( including myself) applauded, because at least he shut up for a minute...didn't last long though since he survived. Seriously this movie is the worst I have ever seen.

Ok fun weird...Laser Mission a terrible direct to video movie with Ernest Borgnine and Brandon Lee...the best part of this movie is there is a buxom blond twit who bounces through the movie and is such a distraction there are moments Brandon can't do his lines he's so distracted

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PIZMOBEACH

Monday, August 13, 2007 4:54 PM

Suicide Club - very well made, and very, very weird. You want to stop watching, you can't stop watching. Includes a Japanese Eddie Izzard type character that comes out of no where.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_Club_(film)

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Monday, August 13, 2007 4:59 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by pizmobeach:
Suicide Club - very well made, and very, very weird. You want to stop watching, you can't stop watching. Includes a Japanese Eddie Izzard type character that comes out of no where.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_Club_(film)

I just watched that movie again yesterday, how could I forget!!!!

A Tale Of Two Sisters a was very wierd as well.

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Monday, August 13, 2007 5:44 PM

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Originally posted by zerokiryu:
A Tale Of Two Sisters a was very wierd as well.

Great movie!

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JONGSSTRAW

Monday, August 13, 2007 7:17 PM

#1...Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.....Sheryl Lee, how'd ya do it girl?

#2...Gone With The Wind.....what's a "darkie?"

ZOID

Monday, August 13, 2007 9:10 PM

Anything by Ken Russell.

Strangely (perhaps), anything by Kubrick. Anybody who says they truly understand the final 20 minutes of "2001: A Space Odyssey" is either deluded, lying or high. Hell, even Clarke didn't know what it meant, and he wrote the screenplay/novel as it was being filmed. All that inhaling/exhaling throughout the 'open the pod bay doors, HAL'; how nerve-wracking was that?! And as much as we all might love AB in "Full Metal Jacket", the film had its share of Weird ("What is your major malfunction, Private Pyle!"). ...And don't forget "A Clockwork Orange", my droogies and "Eyes Wide Shut" (a.k.a, "What Do Scientologists Get Up To In Their Spare Time?").

So, Ken Russell = trippy-weird and bad...Stanley Kubrick = trippy-weird and good (L. Ron Hubbard Religion-As-Tax-Shelter propaganda films notwithstanding).

Unremarkably,

zoid

P.S.
"Battlefield Earth", by L. Ron Hubbard, starring John Revolta and spouse (flaunting her oral talents) is not Weird, it is just perfectly unintelligible. That's not the same thing.
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NVGHOSTRIDER

Monday, August 13, 2007 9:18 PM

Cemetary Man. Inconsistant mood. Strange plotline. And Rupert Everett boning down on a hot chick. Makes sense at the end but definately wierd.

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809275013/info

REGINAROADIE

Monday, August 13, 2007 9:45 PM

As a lifelong disciple of Kubrick's, yes I agree that his movies are really bizarre and fucked up, but they are in a good way. Not only can you understand them, but you can get a whole bunch of different understandings in his movies. They're like ink blots. Different people see different things in them.

At first, I was like "EYES WIDE SHUT isn't a L. Ron Hubbard Religion-As-Tax-Shelter propaganda film. BATTLEFIELD EARTH definitely is, but this isn't." But then I realized that was a the beauty of the film to some degree. You see it as that, and I see it as a glorious swan song that hopefully very soon will be considered the classic that it is.

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007 12:23 AM

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

Hey I love this film. It's one of my favourites. I used to have it on video but lent it to a friend who never returned it, and now he moved elsewhere so I'm never seeing that again.

I just loved the way they filmed the food, and the best bit had to be the old master of eating noodle soup going around noodle bars with his student (a would be great noodle soup eater in the making.) Very funny film and one that makes you hungry as you watch.

If I remember correctly the director was shot and killed I believe in his hotel room, I think that's right... It was a long time ago so...

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THESOMNAMBULIST

Tuesday, August 14, 2007 12:33 AM

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Originally posted by 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.

Hey no need to apologize... I was more interested in seeing if I could see a pattern in peoples choices. Funnily enough I think I can but I'll come to that later.

Brazil I think is wonderful. Munchausen for a cartoonist is a treat and loads of fun.

So did Battle Royale not have much of a release in the US? Over here it's huge. Most of my friends have seen it and it's sequel. It's very popular this side of the pond.

I saw 'Oh Lucky man' when I was ten or so and for me at that age it was weird, I've probably become immune to a lot of weirdness over the years, but recently there has been a slew of horror films that are just weird because they have absolutely no resolve or point, but that seems to be a current trend and I find that weird...

But anyway... Nice to see you around again TWG.

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007 12:43 AM

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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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Have this of DVD. D'you know I tried convincing my best friend that this film even existed. And he gave me a deadline to find it and if I didn't he would regard me as just some fraudster. Anyway I did find it and when I showed it to him he was surprised at how many current actors were in it! Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Goldblum, John Lithgow and Peter Weller.

I think the official title is:

"The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers across the 8th Dimension" it was Directed by W.D. Richter who wrote Big Trouble in Little China.

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007 12:49 AM

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Originally posted by zoid:
Anything by Ken Russell.

Absolutely. But maybe that is because he is an incompetent hack of a director... or he just smokes the carpet!

and good to see you again.

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007 10:15 AM

reginaroadie wrote:

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As a lifelong disciple of Kubrick's, yes I agree that his movies are really bizarre and fucked up, but they are in a good way. Not only can you understand them, but you can get a whole bunch of different understandings in his movies. They're like ink blots. Different people see different things in them.

At first, I was like "EYES WIDE SHUT isn't a L. Ron Hubbard Religion-As-Tax-Shelter propaganda film. BATTLEFIELD EARTH definitely is, but this isn't." But then I realized that was a the beauty of the film to some degree. You see it as that, and I see it as a glorious swan song that hopefully very soon will be considered the classic that it is.

Kubrick has to be considered a Western master of Weird, if one takes the long perspective of his body of work. His concentration on the biological aspects of his characters -- i.e., breathing, blinking, nervous gulping -- is downright claustrophobic, and evokes a visceral response without the use of gore.

And I wasn't really serious about "Eyes Wide Shut" being a propaganda film; but there is no available emoticon to indicate my wry sense of humor. I apologize. It was more a commentary on the cast than the filmmaker. You know, "Those darn Scientologists! Always getting up to the kinky games after they knock off work!" sort of wryness. ...Not that they do, mind you. I mean, who knows what Scientologists actually do? Maybe I should ask Tom. He undoubtedly has studied this subject for a number of years and knows more about it than I possibly could... (insert emoticon which reflects my intent to tweak Tommy's nose, just a bit, for being such a dick on national TV)

The good thing about Kubrick's works is that they are still accessible, though Weird, as you pointed out. David Lynch's works, otoh, are what I'd classify as Bizarre: They may be enjoyable and memorable, but quite frequently they are also indecipherable; they are frequently like memories of bad dreams. Others may not make that distinction between Weird and Bizarre, so I'd nominate his "Eraserhead" as the most Bizarre Western-made film I have ever seen, very dreamlike in its disjointedness.

Which brings me to the Eastern films, specifically Japanese movies. These are neither Weird nor Bizarre, in my estimation. The Japanese world-view is so different from that of the West, as to fail to correspond. I love anime. For the artwork. The plots make no sense whatsoever. Ergo, Japanese films are Alien, not Weird.

Remaining in the East, Chinese films are not particularly Alien. I quite often find myself moved to tears at the end of Chinese-made films; "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "House of Flying Daggers"... It never even occurs to me to be moved by a Japanese film. There is something exquisitely beautiful, true and emotionally common to our Western experiences in Chinese-made films.

They even have a Weird one, which nevertheless manages to pull it all back together (more or less) by movies' end, leaving this viewer feeling emotionally moved, uplifted: "Kung Fu Hustle".

(The Life of) Wryly,

zoid

P.S.
Speaking of Scientology, since you brought it up

: How...strange...is it that Nicki Kidman is starring in the remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", keeping in mind the ideological subtext of the original?

Okay, so I'm no good at emoticons. They just don't accurately reflect my complex intentions. So, let me say that I apologize to anyone I may have misled or offended whilst poking good-natured fun at Scientology. I truly harbor no ill will toward its adherents (practitioners?). Everyone's got their karmic bills to pay, and if Scientology gets you through the deep, dark hours of the soul: Go for it. Peace.
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SHAMELESS

Tuesday, August 14, 2007 11:53 AM

Has nobody seen La Chien Andalou?

It doesn't even have a plot.

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007 12:04 PM

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Originally posted by shameless:
Has nobody seen La Chien Andalou?

It doesn't even have a plot.

Yeah that's the surrealists - they were about non linear images and nonsense. Lynch is very influenced by the surrealists.

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007 3:39 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by zoid:
Which brings me to the Eastern films, specifically Japanese movies. These are neither Weird nor Bizarre, in my estimation. The Japanese world-view is so different from that of the West, as to fail to correspond. I love anime. For the artwork. The plots make no sense whatsoever. Ergo, Japanese films are Alien, not Weird.

In an interview Takashi Miike gave to IGN, He said that some of the people he works with have told him "He went too far" or "He did too much".

http://movies.ign.com/articles/532/532760p2.html

Um...I don't know what anime you're watching, but all the anime I watch makes perfect sense to me, and I watch a LOT of anime.

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007 3:58 PM

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Originally posted by manwithpez:
By now, I have to say I'm bit surprised the neither Shakes the Clown or Wilder Napalm have made the cut.

I loved 'em both!
A world of clowns (some alcoholic), and brothers a burnin' on eachother over Debra Winger (hottness all around!)

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CHRISISALL

Tuesday, August 14, 2007 4:08 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by zoid:

They even have a Weird one, which nevertheless manages to pull it all back together (more or less) by movies' end, leaving this viewer feeling emotionally moved, uplifted: "Kung Fu Hustle".

There's a movie you MUST see, Zoid...The mis-leading title is "2002", and it is another strangely affecting Hong Konger- you can get it here:
http://www.hkflix.com/xq/asp/filmID.1972/qx/details.htm
Best $10 I ever spent.

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13

Tuesday, August 14, 2007 4:21 PM

Right now, I've got to go with Takashi Miike's Master's of Horror entry, the extrememly screwed up Imprint. 60-odd minutes of weird pacing, THREE different backstories for a main character, and the most utterly rutted up Siamese twins to ever appear on screen. Plus some well-done torture, Billy Drago gesticulating a lot, (makes me giggle) and a girl with inexplicably blue hair. Torture-porn it is not, but messed it is.

For example...

When I saw that, probably the greatest WHAT IN THE SWEET BALDHEADED CHRIST IS GOING ON? moment I've had with a movie.

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007 4:30 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 13:
Right now, I've got to go with Takashi Miike's Master's of Horror entry, the extrememly screwed up Imprint. 60-odd minutes of weird pacing, THREE different backstories for a main character, and the most utterly rutted up Siamese twins to ever appear on screen. Plus some well-done torture, Billy Drago gesticulating a lot, (makes me giggle) and a girl with inexplicably blue hair. Torture-porn it is not, but messed it is.

For example...

When I saw that, probably the greatest WHAT IN THE SWEET BALDHEADED CHRIST IS GOING ON? moment I've had with a movie.

Yes, it was awesome!!!

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Wednesday, August 15, 2007 12:04 AM

Alien is a good description for foreign movies. They aren't really weird just outside my reference.

Lynch and Kubrick. I see Lynch as making films that I walk out of thinking, "What did I just see? Now I have to watch it again to figure out what that was." Kubrick on the other hand leaves me saying, "That was long. Mostly good, but I don't know if I'll watch it again any time soon."

Sometimes I'll even think, "That was weird."

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Thursday, August 16, 2007 2:42 PM

bad weird: the cook the thief his wife and her lover. what an awful misogyinist damaging movie that had no message, plot, or point.

good weird: harold and maude. you're never too old, or too young for sex.

THESOMNAMBULIST

Thursday, August 16, 2007 3:00 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by mima:
bad weird: the cook the thief his wife and her lover. what an awful misogyinist damaging movie that had no message, plot, or point.

good weird: harold and maude. you're never too old, or too young for sex.

Oh dear. I hugely enjoyed The Cook the Thief His Wife and Her Lover. I didn't ever feel it had much humanity granted, but I saw that as mysanthropic rather than specifically mysogynist.

But you are right. It had no message. His films generally don't. Just heavy with symbolism.

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PIZMOBEACH

Thursday, August 16, 2007 4:21 PM

I didn't see Fellini mentioned, though I would add "wonderfully" "beautifully" and other words to the "weird" part. Casanova was particularily "unique."

"The sea in the film was created from cut-up black trash-bags; Fellini wanted to put high emphasis on the plasticity of Casanova's life and journey."

Donald Sutherland in the lead may tweak some Buffy fans, but it's a must see weird-ish film imho.

http://www.moria.co.nz/fantasy/fellinicasanova.htm

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Thursday, August 16, 2007 5:24 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by mima:
bad weird: the cook the thief his wife and her lover. what an awful misogyinist damaging movie that had no message, plot, or point.

Well practically all of Peter Greenaway's films are pretty weird. Like in a Zed and Two Naughts, the two main characters are twins who were born conjoined and were separated soon after, but decide at one point they want to be surgically reattached, and are obsessed with making time-lapse films of dead things decaying.

REGINAROADIE

Thursday, August 16, 2007 6:06 PM

I saw this clip on YouTube, and it reminded me of this thread. Bruce Campbell talks about one fan encounter he's had a while ago. It's the first thing up, so you don't have to wait for it.

It reminded me of this thread because I think a truly weird, fucked beyond all recognition movie would cause this reaction.

And on a totally unrelated note, I've never seen the BUFFY movie, so I'm not a Donald Sutherland hater like you're apparently supposed to be. I've always seen him as a fairly respectable actor. And anyone who fathers Jack Bauer (fictional or real) has to be a badass.

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ORPHEUS

Friday, August 17, 2007 2:05 AM

Best foreign (outside of the US) weird film: The Taste of Tea. 2004, Katsuhito Ishii, brilliant film. But any movie where this scene (

) and this scene (

) has really got something weird going on.

Best American weird film: I'm a huge fan of Terry Gilliam, the Coens, Peter Jackson, Sam Raimi, so it takes a lot to make me call something weird. But Errol Morris' Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control probably takes the cake. It's a documentary about a robotics engineer, a topiary gardener, wild animal tamer, and mole rat enthusiast. And the longer the film goes, the harder it is to tell which guy is talking about what, until you realize each man's passion is eerily similar.

Worst American weird: That's easy. Vulgar. Imagine if Kevin Smith tried to remake Blue Velvet. It'd be sorta like that. And still really kinda disturbed. If you really wanna see the trailer, here's a link:

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Friday, August 17, 2007 4:14 AM

You know, I don't actually watch a lot of "wierd" movies. Some of these sound quite interesting. I'll have to try and dig up a few of them.

Now for something completely different.
Shoot or be Shot, starring Willim Shatner as a crazy man who hijacks a film crew (who are planning on making somthing that would fit on this list) and forces them to film his screenplay.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0253688/
It made me laugh quite a bit.

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Friday, August 17, 2007 11:50 AM

A boy and his dog is the strangest film you will EVER see. Post war apocolypse with a disturbing twist.

ILUVYOSAFFBRIDGE

Friday, August 17, 2007 3:15 PM

I will say Pi. I don't know the shortcut keys to make the symbol, but it is worth seeing. It is some seriously effed up cinema, but is pretty engrossing.

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Friday, August 17, 2007 3:30 PM

Cruithne3753 wrote:

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Well practically all of Peter Greenaway's films are pretty weird. Like in a Zed and Two Naughts, the two main characters are twins who were born conjoined and were separated soon after, but decide at one point they want to be surgically reattached, and are obsessed with making time-lapse films of dead things decaying.

Greenaway should really have been a games designer. He is obsessed with making games and telling a story through games.

The Draughtsman's Contract
Drowning By Numbers
The Cook the Thief His Wife and Her Lover
Belly of an Architect
and a Zed and two Naughts, all are littered with tiny visual clues as to what the story is doing, and where it is going. Formula, numbers, word play, time lapse it is all there... The best one for this is Drowning By Numbers which has the numbers 1 - 100 painted or marked out somewhere through the entire film and before you know it you become fixated on trying to find them all. I've never managed to find all one hundred numbers. I think I managed like 30 or so.. Pretty feeble really.

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REGINAROADIE

Friday, August 17, 2007 3:55 PM

I counter Pi with REQUIEM FOR A DREAM. After seeing that movie, you'll want to swear of medicine of ANY kind, let alone the illegal stuff.

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GRIZWALD

Friday, August 17, 2007 5:31 PM

Nobody's mentioned "The Triplets of Belleville" yet, I believe. Weird and wunnerful.

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Friday, August 17, 2007 7:28 PM

i've got to say, mirrormask. its a kick ass film, but its a weird kick ass film

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Friday, August 17, 2007 7:31 PM

oh yeah, and city of lost children, its french, its scary and its got clones and trained fleas that kill people, weird, I THINK SO.

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Friday, August 17, 2007 7:35 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by reginaroadie:
I counter Pi with REQUIEM FOR A DREAM.

From which "Lux Aeterna" on the soundtrack has been used on practically every (or at least it seems like every) movie trailer ever since...

KAYNA

Friday, August 17, 2007 7:46 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by bigwolf18:
i've got to say, mirrormask. its a kick ass film, but its a weird kick ass film

I love Mirrormask. Neil Gaiman is one of my favorite writers today. If you want some kind of wierd but wonderful fantasy in written form give some of his books a try. Good Omens with Terry Prachett about the somewhat botched biblical apocolypse or Neverwhere (which I've heard started life as a BBC production, must see if I can dig that up anywhere) about the place where you will find the people who slip through the cracks in the world.

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Friday, August 17, 2007 11:22 PM

What a GREAT thread!! So many of these movies are making me go "Oh yeah! Man was that some weird shit!"

But speaking of weird shit, I cannot believe nobody has mentioned Jodorowsky's "El Topo" and/or "The Holy Mountain" yet!

Way back in the day, my first boyfriend used to drag me to see these movies, over and over, and if you paid me money I couldn't tell you what the f*** was going on in either of them.

Japanese movies may be alien, but if the criteria is to think "What the hell did I just see....?" then "Spirited Away" and "Princess Mononoke" qualify--in a good way.

I thought "Memento" was completely bizarre when I saw it. What a great movie.

"The Magic Christian" was...well, yeah.

"Arsenic and Old Lace"--c'mon! Maybe traditional structure, but old ladies poisoning old gentlemen and burying them in the basement? The uncle who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt? That's not weird?

Some of the others people have mentioned:

"Dead Ringers" -- Oh MAN! If you are not female and have seen the movie....well, be glad. If you are female and have not seen the movie...think twice, then think again.

"A Boy and His Dog"...YES! YES! That has got to be one of the greates sci fi movies EVER! "And quit calling me Albert!"

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Saturday, August 18, 2007 3:35 AM

Ok, how about some classic mainstream wierd.
The Heathers
Some outsider high school kids knock off the popular students and it make it look like suicide. Suicide is then considered a cool fad. It may have a plot and a story but it's still wierd.

And I'm going to put down Smokin' Aces just because I can't figure out if I liked it or thought it was a total piece of crap. And I'm usually quite opinionated about movies.

And Erg, I LOVE Arsenic and Old Lace. It's one of my favorite movies.

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Saturday, August 18, 2007 7:49 AM

Donnie Darko

GRIZWALD

Saturday, August 18, 2007 12:02 PM

Arsenic and Old Lace is a great play. Makes a great high school drama production if your students have the stamina (it's long and demanding). 'Course I loved the Cary Grant cinematic version...

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