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Wierdest movie yet!

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Lionheart

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Man, I just saw the wierdest movie ever!

Southland Tales.


Its one of those you cannot turn off, but you keep trying, but keep turning it back..

Such a wierd wierd ending..


How on earth did I ever 'not' hear about this!

:kilroy:


Bill
 
I went and just read the reviews and comments. They were so weird in themselves that I couldn't help but add it to my list of movies to see. :)

Here's one of those ones that I would never recommend to anyone but I liked it as being one of those time travel movies that made my head hurt trying to grasp the thought behind it. It's called "Primer" from 2004. Very low key and very odd.

FAC
 
meh, that movie's not bad. but if you want to see a really good (but strange movie) the one you need to see is:

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if you're one of those people who don't like subtitles this isn't for you, unless you speak korean. you're going to have to watch it at least twice, there are some very subtle things that go on you won't pick up on the first time. hitchcock would have loved this movie
 
I have watched that kind of movie that I have to play and rewind and play and rewind and watch it the second time, to really know what is really going on!

The Two Sisters are somewhat bloody and very graphic! I am scared of blood... too much blood... and yes, I agree that movie is really grim... and weird ...

I myself enjoy Asian movies, Jet Li and Jackie Chan... action...

There are two old movies I watched reacently not a Jet Li and Jackie Chan... I think it is a Korean movie or something else, it is "2009 Lost Memories" and "Yesterday".... These are really cool movies I love the advanced technologies featured in both movies....

Eli
 
the only scene i can remember that is "graphic" is the one where she wakes to her mother's ghost who is trying to tell her something. otherwise, what little blood their is, is self inflicted, it's not that much, and only near the end.

i like the martial arts/action movies too, i have a good collection going of wushu and sword films, as well as period films depicting edo/mejii era japan.
i have some really cool ones in my collection. and know many of the good ones out there that i don't have yet. if you ever want to know some titles just tell me what you're interested in, i can reccomend some, and would love to learn about any titles you are familiar with.
 
There are some very old, black and white Samurai movies that I have watched that I found to be brilliant. Great to watch how they lived back then in the Japanese houses and how they all interacted in the villages. One famous set of films is based on a Samurai that is blind and goes from village to village doing good deeds to suffering people, and roughs up the bad guys. Great series.

Jackie Chan is cool! Great guy....



In the very wierd movie I saw last night, mentioned above, it takes place in the future, involves the 4th dimension, tons of people getting shot all over the place, and a cool super Zeppelin. It is just SO DANG WIERD!!!!!! It will be a cult movie. I will probably have to buy it and see the scenes I missed when I kept trying to change the channel but kept returning... lol..
 
Lionheart said:
There are some very old, black and white Samurai movies that I have watched that I found to be brilliant. Great to watch how they lived back then in the Japanese houses and how they all interacted in the villages. One famous set of films is based on a Samurai that is blind and goes from village to village doing good deeds to suffering people, and roughs up the bad guys. Great series.
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Those are the Zatoichi films you're talking about, Lionheart. They used to show them every Saturday morning on IFC. You might also like the Musashi Trilogy starring Toshiro Mifune as Miyamoto Musashi. The most famous and critically acclaimed Samurai movie (at least in the West) is Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai, which is one of those movies constantly referenced by filmmakers like George Lucas and Steven Speilberg. Quentin Tarantino is more a fan of Hong Kong action films.

JAMES
 
You want weird movies, try "Eraserhead" by David Lynch. Lynch is famous for making oddball movies, and oddball TV shows. Twin Peaks was one of my favorites back in the early 90's.
 
Eoraptor1 said:
Those are the Zatoichi films you're talking about, Lionheart. They used to show them every Saturday morning on IFC. You might also like the Musashi Trilogy starring Toshiro Mifune as Miyamoto Musashi. The mot famous and critically acclaimed Samurai movie (at least in the West) is Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai, which is one of those movies constantly referenced by filmmakers like George Lucas and Steven Speilberg. Quentin Tarantino is more a fan of Hong Kong action films.

JAMES
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Ahh... Thanks James. Yep, I have seen the 'Seven Samurai' a couple of times. I didnt know it had a huge following. Great movie.



Twin peaks is indeed another strange one, Paiken, lolol...
 
Lionheart said:
Ahh... Thanks James. Yep, I have seen the 'Seven Samurai' a couple of times. I didnt know it had a huge following. Great movie.



Twin peaks is indeed another strange one, Paiken, lolol...
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Seven Samurai has a huge following among film afficianados, and the type of people who end up going to film school and becoming directors and film critics. The general public are more hit and miss with it. A big chunk of the American movie audience simply will not patronize movies that are not in English. I've been called a film snob, but the truth is I love all kinds of junk food movies. I've seen every zombie plague/vampire soap opera ever made.

I loved the first season of Twin Peaks, and maybe half of the second season. After that it went downhill very quickly IMHO. David Lynch got caught up making Wild at Heart and wasn't really hands on anymore.

Agent Dale Cooper was a better, stronger man than me; if I'd come back to my hotel room and found Sherilyn Fenn...

See full episodes of Twin Peaks HERE: http://www.cbs.com/video/?showname=classics/twin_peaks&showtype=classics#video

JAMES
 
you're right about kurasawa, and how most of western audiences don't "get it" also about all the big names love kurasawa. the magnificent seven, and for a few dollars more, are both interpretations of his work.
my personal fav is the one everyone seems to hate. his take on shakespear's king lear, ran.

zatoichi made a zillion movies over about a 20 yr period and some of them are really great. purists frown on beat takeshi's version but i like it.
also, rutger hower's blind fury is a spin on it as well.

i have seen many of mifune's films, he was such a cool actor. i don't remember seeing him ever do anything badly. even a few films that were stinkers, he still did an outstanding job. his range was beyond most modern day actors. you all know that was him as the submarine cmmdr in belushi's 1941?


lastly, a really cool director, if you want to see some cool asian cinema is kim ki-duk. i really like his stuff. also jae-young kwak. sadly, 2 of his films have already been ruined by hollywood.
 
I've got a profoundly creepy movie to throw in here. Let the Right One In. Let just say, if you're a teenaged bully tormenting a twelve-year-old boy, you'd better be sure his new little girlfriend isn't a vampire...

Home page HERE: http://www.lettherightoneinmovie.com/

ATTN: cheezyflier,

I didn't hate Ran; but I did like Kagemusha and Throne of Blood better.

JAMES
 
Eoraptor1 said:
I've got a profoundly creepy movie to throw in here. Let the Right One In.
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Now that was an awesome flick. Such a beautifully bleak atmosphere:medals:.

Two weird/awesome movies I would highly recommend are "Pi" by Darren Aronofsky and "Brazil" by Terry Gilliam.
 
bushpilot said:
Two weird/awesome movies I would highly recommend are "Pi" by Darren Aronofsky and "Brazil" by Terry Gilliam.
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OH MAN! Brazil was wacky! Major big time! lololol... It is truly a cult film. That rates as a high ranking wierd movie. Monty Python in the 22nd century, London is like Berlin in post WWII but in the future, and that poor guy just gets mutilated with all sorts of bad luck. Loved his threewheel car, lol...

Horrible movie, yet I can watch it over and over, lololol.... Loved those wild, grim monitors with type writers on them. Something from another dimension.


Bill
 
Yeah, it one of my favorites and one of those rare occasions where hundreds of wacky ideas thrown together make a complete and great movie. I love the production design too, like those computers that look like something out of 40's with tinytiny monitors which have magnifying glasses in front of them:icon_lol::icon_lol:. And all sorts of strange tubes and plumbing going everywhere:bump:. And it has that truly grim ending (which was originally butchered by studio bosses):kilroy:.
 
Ahhh Brazil! Great whacky movie. LH, his car was a Messerschmitt made car. Robert DeNiro as Tuttle, or was it Buttle? Just too cool!
 
Some screenshots from the movie Brazil.

Note the typewriter computer terminal and see what I mean. A mix between Thomas Edison prototypes and Blade Runner.

Roger that Tim on the car.



Bill
 
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