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Weird Movies, What Are Your Favorites?

 
Saddletramp  (OP)

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weirdos

chuckle
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I'm surprised there hasn't been more Tim Burton stuff mentioned...Big Fish was absolutely brilliant...but weird!
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movie called "Kids" very disturbing
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Lost Highway, really anything from David Lynch
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Yeah I love David Lynch's stuff...
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Didn't he do Blue Velvet? That was weird.
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Lost Highway, really anything from David Lynch
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Yeah I love David Lynch's stuff...
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Didn't he do Blue Velvet? That was weird.
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Yes
"And how can a man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods..." ~ Horatius

"Because he told the truth, and once you've heard the truth, everything else is just cheap whiskey..."

"We don't rent pigs!"
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Apocalypse Now was supposedly a mess while they were shooting, Brando was overweight and whacked out, but he still gave one of his best performances...

Despite all of the problems and weirdness Apocalypse Now is a classic...


"And how can a man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods..." ~ Horatius

"Because he told the truth, and once you've heard the truth, everything else is just cheap whiskey..."

"We don't rent pigs!"
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Miss Meadows - tap-dancing vigilante.

Zombeavers -- Hilarious "horror."

Tremors - Kevin Bacon classic.
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dead ringers
gates of heaven
midnight express
solaris (original)
the lathe of heaven
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dead ringers
gates of heaven
midnight express
solaris (original)
the lathe of heaven
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Midnight Express and Solaris I've seen...both weird!
"And how can a man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods..." ~ Horatius

"Because he told the truth, and once you've heard the truth, everything else is just cheap whiskey..."

"We don't rent pigs!"
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Being John Malokvich, Boxing Helena, and espically Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
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Being John Malkovich - yeah. And Fear and Loathing - it was weird and SO depressing!
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dead ringers
gates of heaven
midnight express
solaris (original)
the lathe of heaven
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 47992061


Midnight Express and Solaris I've seen...both weird!
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Midnight Express - terrifying. And real.
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Off topic but . . . BEST movie ending ever - in my humble opinion of course . . .


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I don't know what got me on the kick, but I started thinking about weird movies from when I was a kid the other day and then of course I had to order them on Amazon to see them again...

Time Bandits and Brazil...

Brazil being the weirder of the two, but Time Bandits was one of my favorites as a kid...

Runner ups:

Wizards
Heavy Metal
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Dune
and American Pop...
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+2 on Dune and Heavy Metal

Mad Max 2
Brain Donors
Time Bandits
Top Secret!
Real Genius
The Monster Squad
Invasion USA
Masters of the Universe
The Running Man
Big Trouble In Little China
Starman
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Chopping Mall
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THX 1138
Akira
The Wizard of Oz
12 Monkeys
Sweeney Tod
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
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Yeap OP,
Brazil is great, but so are the rest of Director Terry Gilliam's films like
Erik The Viking
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Other greats:
Videodrome
The Fall (1996 by director Tarsem)
The Cell (also by director Tarsem)
They Live
Goodbye Uncle Tom
The Adventures of Mark Twain
Pi
Cloud Atlas
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Lost In Translation
Napoleon Dynamite
Shutter Island
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weirdos

chuckle
 Quoting: Citizenperth


I'm surprised there hasn't been more Tim Burton stuff mentioned...Big Fish was absolutely brilliant...but weird!
 Quoting: Saddletramp


Totally agree there OP, Big Fish is an epic film!
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The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
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What Dreams May Come - Robin Williams

Tommy - The Who (I don't know why I like it, it's such a strange movie.)
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Oh Man, I love What Dreams May Come. Visually stunning and hits me in the feels every time, as does Grave Of The Fireflies.
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I don't know what got me on the kick, but I started thinking about weird movies from when I was a kid the other day and then of course I had to order them on Amazon to see them again...

Time Bandits and Brazil...

Brazil being the weirder of the two, but Time Bandits was one of my favorites as a kid...

Runner ups:

Wizards
Heavy Metal
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Dune
and American Pop...
 Quoting: Saddletramp


Jacob's Ladder

Bubba Ho-Tep

There are others. Just can't think of them now.
 Quoting: Dick Tracy


BUBBA HO-TEP! FUCKING YES HAHAHA AHAHA!! HILARIOUS MOVIE!!

Also "Buttcrack" by Troma. Hey it's got Mojo Nixon playing a Baptist Priest hahahhaha!
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The Magic Christian

Free on Youtube..



The Magic Christian is a 1969 British comedy film directed by Joseph McGrath and starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, with appearances by John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Raquel Welch, Spike Milligan, Christopher Lee, Richard Attenborough and Roman Polanski. It was loosely adapted from the 1959 comic novel of the same name by U.S. author Terry Southern.
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Another movie from that Era with an ansemble cast, "Candy". Great flick.
Also "Something Funny Happened On The Way To The Forum".
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Shortbus
Gummo
Mother
Rubber
Blind Beast
Be loyal to truth...
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Good bump, oldie but goodie thread.

Dollman (1992)
Weird AF


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I don't know what got me on the kick, but I started thinking about weird movies from when I was a kid the other day and then of course I had to order them on Amazon to see them again...

Time Bandits and Brazil...

Brazil being the weirder of the two, but Time Bandits was one of my favorites as a kid...

Runner ups:

Wizards
Heavy Metal
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Dune
and American Pop...
 Quoting: Saddletramp


Jacob's Ladder

Bubba Ho-Tep

There are others. Just can't think of them now.
 Quoting: Dick Tracy


BUBBA HO-TEP! FUCKING YES HAHAHA AHAHA!! HILARIOUS MOVIE!!

Also "Buttcrack" by Troma. Hey it's got Mojo Nixon playing a Baptist Priest hahahhaha!
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Bubba Ho Tep

jay


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Oh yeah, how could I forget
Fritz The Cat
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Attack of the Killer Tomatoes 1978
Class of Nukem High 1986
Laserblast 1978
Masters of Menace 1990
Nunzio 1978
Prince of Darkness 1987
Squirm 1976
The Blob 1958
The Car 1977
The Sword and the Sorcerer 1982
Vampires 1998





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