Your Weirdest Film
POSTED BY: TheSomnambulist
UPDATED: Saturday, August 18, 2007 12:02
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Originally posted by Cruithne3753:
Campy? Phantom of the Paradise!
Weird? No. Awful is more like it. Ugh.
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Well I did say campy. Might just dig it out... 
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'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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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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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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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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Star Wars Christmas Special.
*shudders*
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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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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...
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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.
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