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olieoliver
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Post Number: 2075
Registered: 2-2006
Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 6:39 am:   Edit Post

OK guys/gals lets have a little fun.

Now I don't watch a lot of TV, maybe a couple hours every week (if that), but last night I couldn't sleep so I thought I'd see if there was a good movie on cable.
I decided on "BUG" with Ashley Judd & Harry Connick Jr. DUDE!!! that was one of the weirdest freakin movies I've ever seen.

So here is the fun part, What are your top 3 weird movies?
Mine, in no particular order;
(These are not necessarily BAD, just weird.)


A Clockwork Orange
Blue Velvet
BUG

OO
(Someone took the brown acid while writing these scripts)

(Message edited by olieoliver on February 16, 2009)
white_cloud
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Post Number: 614
Registered: 11-2007
Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 7:43 am:   Edit Post

Eraserhead - totally disturbing!

Wwwwwwwwwwwwwwweird!

John.
alembic76407
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Post Number: 598
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 8:38 am:   Edit Post

Brewster Mcloud,
The Big Lebowski
this is Spinal tap

All three weird but great movies

David T
funkyjazzjunky
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Username: funkyjazzjunky

Post Number: 345
Registered: 5-2007
Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 9:14 am:   Edit Post

Re-Animator
Dark Star
Godzilla versus Megallon
eligilam
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Username: eligilam

Post Number: 151
Registered: 2-2006
Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 9:50 am:   Edit Post

Naked Lunch
Salo: 100 Days of Sodom
Pink Flamingos
olieoliver
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Username: olieoliver

Post Number: 2083
Registered: 2-2006
Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 9:57 am:   Edit Post

I need to get out more, other than the three I mentioned. I haven't seen any of these movies.

OO
olieoliver
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Username: olieoliver

Post Number: 2084
Registered: 2-2006
Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 10:00 am:   Edit Post

Oh by the way my daughter said I should mention "Easy Rider". I don;t know what she's talking about, that movie's not weird IT'S COOL!

To each his/her own I guess. LOL

OO
I guess it's shows that there's not much going on at work today. :-)
flaxattack
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Post Number: 2171
Registered: 4-2004
Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 10:38 am:   Edit Post

i watched bug for the first time last night- ashley judd crush- man that was a weird flick.

i would have to add - aquiree the wrath of god to the weird list- werner herzog is just weird to begin with-
rraymond
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Post Number: 345
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 10:57 am:   Edit Post

Weird is what David Lynch does best! How about:

Eraserhead
Blue Velvet
Mulholland Drive

I did a paper on "Blue Velvet" for a college English course. Turned out the teacher was a David Lynch and "Blue Velvet" freak, too. Got an "A" for the paper and course! College was definitely WEIRD.
cozmik_cowboy
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Post Number: 408
Registered: 10-2006
Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 11:15 am:   Edit Post

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me - or any other Lynch!

Gothic - there are several with this title - I refer to the 1987 Gabriel Byrnes/Julian Sands/Natashia Richardson flick (definitely not to be confused with Gothika)

Six-String Samurai - absolutely not to be missed!

David T - The Big Lebowski?!?!?!? That's not weird - just the greatest movie ever made!

Peter
olieoliver
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Post Number: 2087
Registered: 2-2006
Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 11:40 am:   Edit Post

I hear on Ashley Judd flax, Hooowwwllll! and when she kissed that other chick toward the start of the movie, WHOA! BUT it sure didn't end up like I thought it would.

OO
cozmik_cowboy
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Post Number: 409
Registered: 10-2006
Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 11:58 am:   Edit Post

OK, Olie, no spoilers - and please tell me this is on one of the Encore or HBO channels tonight!

Peter
olieoliver
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Post Number: 2089
Registered: 2-2006
Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 12:18 pm:   Edit Post

OK Peter I won't spoil it for you. No Encore or HBO but it is on Showtime (SHOBEY)tonight at 9 PM.

OO
cozmik_cowboy
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Post Number: 410
Registered: 10-2006
Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 2:02 pm:   Edit Post

Hmm - "Uh, Dear, I need to increase the cable bill by adding Showtime so I can watch a weird movie with Ashley Judd making out with another chick"....nope, that ain't working. Guess I'll have to put that one on the "watch out for" list.

Peter
olieoliver
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Post Number: 2094
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Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 2:05 pm:   Edit Post

I won't mention the nude scene then.

OO
benson_murrensun
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Post Number: 99
Registered: 5-2007
Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 2:08 pm:   Edit Post

I love BAD movies. Really bad ones. One of the worst is The Terror with Jack Nicholson and Boris Karloff. Another is The Brain That Wouldn't Die. A really funny one is Lust In The Dust.
slawie
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Post Number: 58
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Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 2:09 pm:   Edit Post

Tin Drum
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe
Anything by John Waters

slawie
olieoliver
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Username: olieoliver

Post Number: 2095
Registered: 2-2006
Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 2:14 pm:   Edit Post

I wouldn't say my 3 were bad, just weird.

OO
darkstar01
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Post Number: 138
Registered: 6-2005
Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 3:27 pm:   Edit Post

the seven faces of dr. lao.
classic.
lbpesq
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Post Number: 3536
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 4:30 pm:   Edit Post

Robot Monster
Eating Raoul
flaxattack
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Post Number: 2174
Registered: 4-2004
Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 4:40 pm:   Edit Post

the scene with dennis hopper yelling mommy is a classic-
olieoliver
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Post Number: 2098
Registered: 2-2006
Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 5:24 pm:   Edit Post

OK, I've scene (pun intended) all 3 of those.

Dr Lao, Robot Monster and Eating Raoul. Yep all out in left field.
edwin
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Post Number: 408
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Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 5:31 pm:   Edit Post

The drummer from my band in high school, David Atkins made a pretty weird one: Arizona Dream. He also made Novocaine with Steve Martin, which is also good, but not as weird.

Edwin
olieoliver
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Username: olieoliver

Post Number: 2100
Registered: 2-2006
Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 5:34 pm:   Edit Post

Haven't seen either one of thsoe Edwin, but I am going to the dentist tomorrow. Maybe he'll have it. :-)

OO
olieoliver
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Post Number: 2102
Registered: 2-2006
Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 5:43 pm:   Edit Post

Flax, imagine seeing this after you watch BUG,
What The...

OO
darkstar01
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Post Number: 139
Registered: 6-2005
Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 5:55 pm:   Edit Post

i saw bug... didn't think it was that weird, but being a complete horror movie nerd, that's not surprising. you want weird, watch black sheep (not the chris farley one), about zombie sheep in new zealand... that one's way out. and awesome.
olieoliver
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Post Number: 2105
Registered: 2-2006
Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 5:59 pm:   Edit Post

REALLY! Wow, I'm almost afraid to watch that one then. LOL

OO
fmm
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Post Number: 258
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Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 6:29 pm:   Edit Post

Buckaroo Banzai
mike1762
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Post Number: 257
Registered: 1-2008
Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 6:39 pm:   Edit Post

Natural Born Killers: a 1994 satirical crime film directed by Oliver Stone about two mass murderers and the media coverage given to them. It is based on a screenplay by Quentin Tarantino that was heavily revised by Stone with writer Dave Veloz and associate producer Richard Rutowski.

Wild at Heart: a road movie and includes bizarre, almost supernatural events and off-kilter violence with sometimes overtly heavy allusions to The Wizard of Oz and strong references to Elvis Presley and his movies that found their way into screenplay as Lynch was writing it.

Mad Max: a 1979 Australian post-apocalyptic action thriller film directed by George Miller and written by Miller and Byron Kennedy. I was working as a projectionist when this film was released. I had such a hard time following the "thread" of the story that I was convinced that I had assembled the movie out of order (movies were usually delivered to me as six small reels which I would splice together on 2 larger reels).
dela217
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Post Number: 941
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 6:43 pm:   Edit Post

Slawie mentioned John Waters. That just about sums it up!

Pink Flamingos
Female Trouble
Mondo Trasho
darkstar01
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Username: darkstar01

Post Number: 141
Registered: 6-2005
Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 6:54 pm:   Edit Post

i loved natural born killers, but i thought it was kind of interesting to note that quentin tarantino insisted his name be removed from the film due to how much stone changed his original screenplay.
some more crazy movies: firecracker, starring mike patton. not very good, pretty awful actually. but definitely weird.
freaks!!! come on. gooble gobble gooble gobble, one of us. classic.
brazil. or any terry gilliam in general. the fisher king, 12 monkeys, etc.
i saw a movie recently called 'wristcutters: a love story', that's not terrible, but not so great either. BUT, it has tom waits in it. and that's enough for me.
cozmik_cowboy
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Post Number: 411
Registered: 10-2006
Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 4:44 am:   Edit Post

"the scene with dennis hopper yelling mommy is a classic"

I have heard - I don't recall where - that the original idea was, instead of nitrous, to have him sucking helium. Some suit told Lynch no, doing her while yelling "Mommy" in a high voice was just too sick.

Peter

"It never got weird enough for me." - Bill Murray as H.S. Thompson in Where the Buffalo Roam
svlilioukalani
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Post Number: 47
Registered: 6-2008
Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 4:56 am:   Edit Post

My Boy Bubby; don't know who made it, but it makes a David Lynch movie look like a cartoon. This is a class of weird nobody has gone too. Yes, including Blue Velvet.
jacko
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Post Number: 2119
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 4:57 am:   Edit Post

Mike. Wild at Heart isn't weird, it's where my band found it's name ;-)

I'll submit for consideration Razorback. A giant pig is terrorising the Australian outback. it doesn't get much weirder than this.
bracheen
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Post Number: 1422
Registered: 11-2003
Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 5:41 am:   Edit Post

I can't believe no one has mentioned Killer Klowns from Outer Space. My daughter managed to find it on DVD and gave it to me a couple of years ago. That one tops my list. I'll also jump on the Blue Velvet bandwagon. Great movie!
dadabass2001
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Post Number: 1011
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 5:53 am:   Edit Post

Putney Swope
a twisted 70s satire of race in the Advertising industry.
"I feel like an Oreo cookie."
"You look like a piece of sh&t!"

(I worked in a theater in the late 60s -early 70s)
Mike
cozmik_cowboy
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Post Number: 412
Registered: 10-2006
Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 5:56 am:   Edit Post

It doesn't make my "Top Three Weird" list, but, on a clown note, if you're in the mood for an evening of twisted sickness, check out Vulgar. For more kinky weird, try Crash (the 1996 James Spader/Holly Hunter one, not the 2004 Don Cheadle/Matt Dillon vehicle).

Peter
lbpesq
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Post Number: 3538
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 6:59 am:   Edit Post

Putney say: "Borman 6 girl got to have soul!"

BIll, tgo
kilowatt
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Post Number: 95
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 9:38 am:   Edit Post

I was also thinking about the Killer Clowns film. What a crazy one that was. I was also going to say " The Incredible Two Headed Transplant".

Pete
eligilam
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Username: eligilam

Post Number: 153
Registered: 2-2006
Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 12:00 pm:   Edit Post

Cozmik, ditto Vulgar and Crash. The former was depressingly bad and hopelessly bizarre and nihilisitic...the latter was just plain wrong, although it does have the Wachowski Matrix brothers in the credits.

In the Lynch catalog, to my mind, the only film of his that comes close to Eraserhead for pure WTF factor is Mulholland Drive. Fun exercise: while watching MD, keep a pen and paper at hand and try to jot down the plot points. At the finish of the film, try to connect the points into a chromatic, cohesive whole. It CAN be done!
tom_z
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Post Number: 561
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 12:33 pm:   Edit Post

How about "The Loved One." Satire on the funeral business, 1965. Pretty strange plot, and as I recall, almost hallucinogenic in style at times. . . or maybe that was just me. :-)
xlrogue6
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Post Number: 140
Registered: 8-2002
Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 12:37 pm:   Edit Post

Another swell clown movie is "Shakes the Clown", with Bob Goldthwaite. Once you see Florence Henderson in this one, you'll never look at Carol Brady the same again.
flaxattack
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Post Number: 2176
Registered: 4-2004
Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 12:45 pm:   Edit Post

how many syllables mario?
lbpesq
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Post Number: 3542
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 1:29 pm:   Edit Post

I ain't gonna rock the boat ... I'M GONNA SINK IT!
wideload
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Post Number: 134
Registered: 6-2003
Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 3:38 pm:   Edit Post

All this and no mention of "Cold Dog Soup", one of the quirkiest comedies of all time??!? Really, you guys gotta get out more often!
Larry
byoung
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Post Number: 1175
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 6:27 pm:   Edit Post

Tommy.
The Serpent and the Rainbow.
Did I mention Tommy?
mike1762
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Post Number: 258
Registered: 1-2008
Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 7:11 pm:   Edit Post

I tried to watch "Cold Dog Soup" not too long ago... I lasted about an hour before giving up.
darkstar01
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Post Number: 142
Registered: 6-2005
Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 8:09 pm:   Edit Post

oh man, i mentioned terry gilliam, but failed to bring up The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. now that's a weird one...
lbpesq
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Post Number: 3543
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 6:52 am:   Edit Post

Dogma. Weird AND great!

Bill, tgo

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