Your Weirdest Film
POSTED BY: TheSomnambulist
UPDATED: Saturday, August 18, 2007 12:02
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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.
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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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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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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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A boy and his dog is the strangest film you will EVER see. Post war apocolypse with a disturbing twist.
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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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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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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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Loudon Wainwright III - "Strange Weirdos" off the "Knocked Up" soundtrack
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Nobody's mentioned "The Triplets of Belleville" yet, I believe. Weird and wunnerful.
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