Post Your Top 10 Bizarre Films.
POSTED BY: Crackers
UPDATED: Monday, March 27, 2006 21:55
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In some random order...
Donnie Darko- rabbits and time travel
Pandemonium- poets... Colleridge... opium... need I say more? (oh, and John Hannah is nice to look at)
Beetlejuice- beautifully twisted
Edward Scissorhands- scissor hands...
Eternal Sunshine
Ed Wood
Spirited Away
Dark City
Brain Dead
Meet the Feebles- so very wrong
I think that's 10. I'm sure there's many more.
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The ONE bizarre movie I remember most clearly is CUBE. I've seen other bizarros, of course, out of the thousands??! of movies I've seen in my lifetime, but CUBE I remember so vividly..........very unsettling, disconcerting, disorientating....and well done.
Life is short, brutal, and unpredictable. EAT DESSERT FIRST.
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Add:
The brother from another planet.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087004/
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I know it's not really a film, but this thing is probably the most bizarre movie I've ever seen come out of The Movies (a PC game wherein you can make movies).
http://movies.lionhead.com/movie/23697
It's called "Come On".
Come on.
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when you say bizarre, I'm not sure if you mean good movies and bad movies, so I'll post a list of bizarre movies that are not necessarily "good" in MY opinion.
Donnie Darko- I love this film. I recommend for everyone.
12 Monkeys- Probably Terry Gilliam's only good film. Bruce Willis is very good in it too, and has one of the best endings I've seen. The end rivals Donnie Darko and Fight Club.
Brazil- I love neo-noirs like this, but I can't just help utterly hating this piece of go se.
Undead- Terrible, terrible Australian zombie/alien film that thinks it's cool by putting an awful script, awful actors, and a few so-called "cool" moves together and hoping it's good. It sucks. Avoid like the plague.
Fight Club- Brad Pitt acting well? Better believe it. This movie is a much watch by anyone, but especially males, as it questions the role of men in today's consumer society. Read the book by Chuck Palahniuk, it's what inspired the film, and is a better satire than the film is- which says a lot about how high of quality both the film and book are. See it already.
Hellboy- the trailer looked bad, but it turns out to be surprisingly good. Better than the comics in my opinion. Del Toro did a fantastic job on this film.
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy- need I say more?
Clockwork Orange- I've never been a fan of Stanley Kubrick, and I don't particularily like this movie as I find it boring. There are some exceptionally well done parts though.
Pulp Fiction- I admire Tarantino's work ethic of doing what he wants to, but I find this movie overrated.
"I aim to misbehave."
"Can't do something smart, do something right".
HOMER: "Oh Lisa, you and your stories; Bart is a vampire, beer kills brain cells. Now lets go back to that... building thingy... where our beds and T.V.... is".
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Only have one that hasn't been listed yet:
The Serpent and the Rainbow.
Supposedly based on true story of a guy who studied voodoo and Zombism. Can you get more bizarre than some voodoo guy nailing Bill Pulman's privates to a chair?!
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I make it a point not to watch "bizarre" films. However, in my younger days, I saw several -- all mentioned here by others. Most notably "Eraserhead" and "Brazil" -- as well as "Dawn of the Dead" (all three which I saw theatrically).
One film that many here may not have seen, though, which I found to be incredibly disturbing was a German-made film (w/English subtitles) called "The Wansee Conference". It wasn't "bizarre" like "Eraserhead" (which, in my opinion, of all the films I've seen, nothing can beat when it comes to "bizarreness") -- but it was disturbing in another way.
"The Wansee Conference" was a non-fictional account of the meeting at which the "final solution" was finally agreed upon by the Nazi's. From what I've read, much of the actual dialogue comes from the actual minutes of the meeting (the Germans were notoriously efficient record-keepers).
While the film comprises nothing more than a bunch of Nazi officials (rather, actors portraying them -- the film was made decades after the actual events portrayed therein) sitting around a table and discussing how to exterminate an entire race of people. What I found so disturbing about this film was the way they coldly and matter-of-factly talked about murdering millions of people as if they were ordering lunch. Even to the point of discussing the logistics, and how they could do it most cost effectively.
Very disturbing. Considering there is no action, no blood, no nudity or sex -- just a bunch of people sitting around a table and talking about how to commit genocide -- it is easily the most disturbing film I've ever seen.
edit: Here's a link to a review: http://www.artsjournal.com/popcorn/archives/2005/04/video_virgil_th.ph
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Originally posted by cartoon:
I make it a point not to watch "bizarre" films. However, in my younger days, I saw several -- all mentioned here by others. Most notably "Eraserhead" and "Brazil" -- as well as "Dawn of the Dead" (all three which I saw theatrically).
One film that many here may not have seen, though, which I found to be incredibly disturbing was a German-made film (w/English subtitles) called "The Wansee Conference". What I found so disturbing about this film was the way they coldly and matter-of-factly talked about murdering millions of people as if they were ordering lunch. Even to the point of discussing the logistics, and how they could do it most cost effectively.
Very disturbing -- just a bunch of people sitting around a table and talking about how to commit genocide -- it is easily the most disturbing film I've ever seen.
edit: Here's a link to a review: http://www.artsjournal.com/popcorn/archives/2005/04/video_virgil_th.ph
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I agree with you that this is a very disturbing film, although I have not seen the German film, but the English remake from several years ago. One thing that struck me is the portrayal of Reinhardt Heydrich as the cold calculating monster he really was, but at the same time cordial, almost a gentleman. Also that he and other members of the conference were so nonchalant about the whole affair - even eating a cooked meal while discussing the extermination.
Along these lines however, there is another film I consider more sickening, that is "A Painful Reminder: Evidence for All Mankind." This film is made up of the footage taken by allied forces at liberation of the camps, including footage taken by the Soviets. This footage, after being perused by by allied leaders, was deemed to distressing for the public and was quashed with no intention for it to see the light of day. If you are able to stomach this film I highly recommend it. But be warned, I'm 39 and this film made me cry and want to vomit - it is very distressing. Yet I think this film should be a must see just so we can see what humanity can be lead to when just a few leaders can turn peoples and cultures against themselves. This is one part of our mosern history that should never be forgotten or we will be in danger of repeating it. We have already been witnesses to this with people like Pol Pot, Iddy Amin, and others. Also of more recent the genocides of Rwanda/Burundi and the Balkans. Another recent film which gives this potrayal of these events and similar are below if you wish to peruse them.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376816/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395169/
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I may have already seen that. If not, I've seen something very similiar (I can't recall the title). I've seen a lot of stuff on that subject matter, and it's very disturbing, indeed.
Funny thing I have to mention about that -- you mentioned that you're 39 and it bothered you. Well, I'm not quite a kid, myself (actually, I'm closer to Adam Baldwin's age), and I have to relate that I saw a lot of this kind of stuff when I was a teenager and I never blinked an eye. It wasn't until I got into my 30's that it actually started bothering me. I can't explain why I was desensitized to it as a kid, but it bothered me with the passage of time.
BTW, I haven't seen the British remake of "Wansee", but I recommend you trying to see the German version if you like that sort of thing. I taped it off TV when it was initially on in the late 1980's (or early 1990's), so it's in my library somewhere, but I haven't seen it in years.
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