Vote for your favourite weird movie
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Topic: Vote for your favourite weird movie
Posted By: BaldFriede
Subject: Vote for your favourite weird movie
Date Posted: February 23 2016 at 09:02
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These are some of the weirdest movies I ever saw. I gave the English titles of them. Vote or name your own favourite weird movie. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: February 23 2016 at 09:13
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defenition of wierd? i like wierd humor and the like, like Dr who -------------  
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Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: February 23 2016 at 09:27
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Of the movies listed, I have seen "Eraserhead" and "The Holy Mountain". I didn't like "Eraserhead" at all and while I did love the end of "The Holy Mountain" it couldn't quite redeem the rest of the nonsense. -------------  Time always wins. |
Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: February 23 2016 at 09:34
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From this list I've only seen Zardoz. ZARDOZ IT IS! ------------- - From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. |
Posted By: Skalla-Grim
Date Posted: February 23 2016 at 09:42
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From these, I haven't seen "The Holy Mountain", "The Pointsman" and "Even Dwarves Started Small" yet. The others are all very interesting, at least, though "Weekend" didn't really live up to my expectations. I like "The 4th Man" and "The Phantom of Liberty" very much. My favourite is "Zardoz", one of Boorman's finest. The "flying stone head spills rifles" scene is one of my favourite film scenes ever. If you like weird movies, I recommend to you the films of Japanese director Shion Sono, who is one of the most creative filmmakers today. ------------- "4/4 - That's 5/4 minus one." - Don Ellis (1934-1978) |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 23 2016 at 11:12
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^ A really weird Japanese film is Funky Forest (a must see for the twisted and is available with subs on youtube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFVC_Ktge7Y" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFVC_Ktge7Y I love Zardoz. It's a film that has become associated with my identity at the forums I have belonged to over the years. A James Bond and Zardoz mash-up video that is very well done: Also Holy Mountain, The Pointsman, a Zed and Two Noughts (my favourite Greenway is Drowning by Numbers), and Weekend. A quirky film that is a particular favourite film of mine is The Bothersome Man (a Norwegian film from 2006). Probably due to my own feelings of alienation it really appeals. |
Posted By: JD
Date Posted: February 23 2016 at 12:07
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Have only seen Eraserhead and The Holy Mountain, so I'd have to choose Eraserhead. A truly bizarre and disturbing visual experience. An excellent first film by David Lynch. ------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 23 2016 at 16:50
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I should have added "Themroc" by Claude Faraldo, but it did not come to my mind when I created the poll. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 23 2016 at 17:36
| ^ And another strange film that involves cannibalism, Porcile aka Pigsty (Pasolini). |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 23 2016 at 18:07
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I'm afraid I grew up watching both Eraserhead and Zardoz, which were usually on bills with Barbarella, in the balconies of some of the rattiest, stickiest, depraved and smoke-filled theaters in S.F. So my vote goes to the 'Head for sheer originality and high strangeness. Good times. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: February 23 2016 at 18:29
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Fargo. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: February 23 2016 at 20:21
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I immediately searched for "Eraserhead" and found it, so it received my vote! "Zardoz" was a fine, disturbing movie as well! Let's hear it for dark, disturbing movies!
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Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: February 23 2016 at 21:16
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My favorite Weird Al movie is UHF, by the way ------------- Time always wins. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 24 2016 at 03:15
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I voted for Jodorowski, but let's face it, Greenaway is just as weird. Could never stand Lynch... All I can think of is that his weirdness is just posturing. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 24 2016 at 04:22
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Well, I will give my vote to "Weekend". Any movie in which a cannibal who recites Lautréamont all the time appears and in which the last lines are "What is this we are eating"? "The rest of the English tourists from last week. A bit of your husband is in it too". "Then please give me some more" already has my sympathy, and this is just one of the many weird things in it. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Piffol_Four_Times
Date Posted: February 24 2016 at 06:54
| I've only seen 2 of those films (Lynch and Greenaway), and I didn't like either of them, in fact I thought they were both awful and a waste of my time. |
Posted By: Prog Snob
Date Posted: February 24 2016 at 06:59
The only one of these I've seen is Eraserhead. It would be unfair to vote until I've seen at least a few more, so I'll do that and then vote...for Eraserhead.  Kidding, of course. I'll return though. ------------- 
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Posted By: Guy Guden
Date Posted: February 24 2016 at 08:04
| Did you decide on just choosing one title from each respective director? |
Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: February 24 2016 at 08:19
This movie. Awesome. This movie is: awesome. ------------- - From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. |
The Dark Elf wrote:Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 24 2016 at 09:43
Yes, else for example "El Topo" ("The Mole") by Alejandro Jodorowsky would have been on the list as well. And a lot more of Luis Buñuel, Peter Greenaway or David Lynch. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: VOTOMS
Date Posted: February 24 2016 at 10:00
| Eraserhead and Holy Mountain already got some votes, so I'm goin with Arrabal. Viva La Muerte! ;) |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 24 2016 at 10:35
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Plenty of weird films out there....old and new......from that list I suppose I'll pick Eraserhead....but regarding Lynch I would choose Mulholland Drive or Inland Empire . Videodrome by Cronenberg is one of my favorite weird ones not on the list. With Greenaway I would go with The Cook, The Thief ,His Wife and Her Lover. some others I liked..... Donnie Darko Pan's Labyrinth Naked Lunch The Reflecting Skin ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 24 2016 at 10:41
I don't really consider "Pan's Labyrinth" to be weird. It is a bit out of the ordinary, yes, but not that weird. I should have mentioned "Naked Lunch"; I just didn't think of it. I have never seen the other two. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 24 2016 at 11:24
IMO it's weird....some films are just weirder than others. By your def Donnie Darko probably wouldn't be that weird and Reflecting Skin is a weird horror film that always struck me as very strange. To me Zardoz is sci-fi and not all that weird. But all of these mentioned in the thread are on so-called weird film lists.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 24 2016 at 11:36
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Reflecting Skin is weird, like the scene with the frog. I loved that film. Actually, I love all the ones you mentioned Dr. Wu. A recentish horrorish film that is kind of strange, and I loved, is Under the Skin. There are so many weird and wonderful films. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 24 2016 at 13:04
I've been wanting to see Under The Skin.....hasn't come on my cable channels yet...  ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 24 2016 at 13:09
I just watched "The Reflecting Skin", and I don't think it is weird at all. The movie is from the perspective of the boy who does not understand everything that is going on, so for him what is happening is weird. But it all makes perfect sense. The only mystery is why those four guys in the car like to kill people, but maybe they get a kick out of it. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 24 2016 at 13:23
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Weird is a relative term. I found it unusual and off-beat when I saw it back in the 90s and it made a big impression on me (liked it enough to watch it several times). Generally, all that really matters to me in film is if I enjoy something. I wonder if, perhaps, you're going into watching the film with these expectations of weirdness and so in looking for weirdness and analyzing it, you find it less unusual than you would if you experienced it with no preconceptions. I just thought of another one that may not fit your idea of weirdness, but I consider weirdly satisfying, the French film Baxter. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 24 2016 at 13:43
Blowing up frogs actually is an old children's game, so I did not consider that scene to be weird at all. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 24 2016 at 13:48
| Not a children's game in my neck of the woods, so certainly weird to me. I also find decapitating people for not sharing the same beliefs quite weird. It's relative. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 24 2016 at 13:55
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favorite wierd movies.. the first that enters my mind. Classic... man.. one of the greatest.... ummm.. altered state of mind..movies I've ever experienced very appropriate but years later.. older wiser and sober... still a great movie... in my top 20 alltime ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 24 2016 at 14:17
In the short story "Nur noch ein Kapitelchen" ("Just one more little chapter") by Siegfried Lenz, one of the most important German authors of the 20th century, from his book of short stories "So zärtlich war Suleyken" (which would translate as "That's how endearing Sulejki was") the character General Wawrila says to the character Hamilkar Schaß: "Spring auf meine Hand, du Frosch, ich will dich aufblasen" ("Jump onto my hand, you frog, I want to blow you up"). That collection of short stories was published in 1955, and I read it as a kid (that story actually was in one of my school books). So Lenz seems to have been familiar with blowing up frogs; he probably did it himself as a kid. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 24 2016 at 14:33
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Weird is a relative term...so it all comes down to what one means by it in relation to film. As I said above all of those films and many more are weird in my book compared to normal film making that usually ends up on the big screen.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 24 2016 at 14:37
| Maybe it shouldn't, but "Jump onto my hand, you frog, I want to blow you up" made me laugh out loud. In Australia kids were licking Cane toads, so perhaps blowing frogs shouldn't be that odd an idea of fun to me. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 24 2016 at 14:41
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Big screen movies are usually absolutely boring. There are some exceptions, but as a rule of thumbs it is true. They have to be if they want to be commercially successful; the majority of the audience want streamlined movies. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: VOTOMS
Date Posted: February 24 2016 at 15:18
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Agreed that Eraserhead isn't Lynch's weirdest. Lacking some Cronenberg in the list tho. Other hand, I don't have Donnie Darko and Pan's at my "weird" movies list. Have you guys heard of Tetsuo Iron Man or any other from Tsukamoto? BTW, check this german movie now, kinda Liquid Sky meets space dada: |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 25 2016 at 04:26
most of Jodo's filmography (not very extended, he concentrates on French-comics) could fit in this poll Jodo's Santa Sangre definitely belongs here as well, as would most of Peter Greenaway's movies as well (Belly of the Artchitect, Drowning By Numbers (my fave  ), Baby of Macon, the Cook, the Thief, his Wife and... ) |
Posted By: Guy Guden
Date Posted: February 25 2016 at 05:39
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Thank you BaldFriede for your reply to my question. Should we consider the films of Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg? Performance ( Cammell & Roeg ) Demon Seed ( Cammell ) White of the Eye ( Cammell ) and Roeg's Walkabout Don't Look Now The Man Who Fell To Earth Bad Timing Track 29 etc... and then there's Kenneth Anger. or Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Thank you for an interesting forum. Best to you. |
Posted By: Prog Snob
Date Posted: February 25 2016 at 06:57
That's exactly how I understand it. I feel like they're predictable and uninspired. I could watch a movie like Lost in Translation over and over and the empath in me is completely moved by it. It's like, I want them to get together at the end. Watching action movies do nothing for me, absolutely nothing. There are a select few that I find enjoyment in but for the most part, there's nothing about them that move me. -------------
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