What are the strangest films you've seen?

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In my opinion, it has to be "Salo o le 120 giornate di Sodoma". The movie is very artistic, but you have to view it with the right mind. What about the rest of you?
 
2001: A Space Odyssey

Euh, wtf? I prefer 2010.
 
any of those charlie kaffman movies, ya know like being johnmalcovich and whatnot
 
Koyanisquatsi

Not even sure if I spelt it right.
Also, the two sequels... which are even harder to spell.
 
Loke said:
2001: A Space Odyssey

Euh, wtf? I prefer 2010.
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2001 is the best film ever made IMO, pure brilliance

2010 was...ok


The strangest film.........hmmm.....ERASERHEAD by far.
 
The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover.
Hilarious and strange film.
 
Naked Lunch is very strange. Great movie too :)
 
Un Chien Andalou. By far the strangest film I have ever seen.
 
Warbie said:
Naked Lunch is very strange. Great movie too :)
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Haha, read the book, it's even stranger.

And I think I may have to change my answer to what Stigmata said.

For those of you who haven't seen Un Chien Andalou, look it up on youtube..
 
Slacker said:
For those of you who haven't seen Un Chien Andalou, look it up on youtube..
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I saw that while studying film at my first university - much fuss was made about the eye scene. I was too young, or too drunk, to see what the fuss was about :)
 
Warbie said:
I saw that while studying film at my first university - much fuss was made about the eye scene. I was too young, or too drunk, to see what the fuss was about :)
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The way that scene played out was masterful.

SPOILER ALERT

SPOILER ALERT

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Although the moon and the eye don't match up on film, it's still a neat visual effect. And when the film cuts from the moon back to the eye, it cuts two or three frames into the actual slicing of the eye, so even if you're ready to cover your eyes, it's already too late :p

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NO MORE SPOILERS

I have yet to see 2001 when I'm not in a state of delusional, amnesiatic sickness, so I don't remember whether I liked it or not :(
 
I still have to finish 2001 :O.

And I think there was some rumor circulating around that the eye-slicing scene was actually real? Not totally sure about that.
 
A sheeps eye if I remember correctly.
 
I agree on 2001 as well. But not because of the random weirdness towards the end: I find it strange that anyone thought 3 hours of people walking everywhere really slowly was a good idea.

Yes, if I found myself watching again, I would fast-forward to the Hal bit :p
 
There was that one video with Lemonking's mom...
 
At the Paris premiere, Luis Buñuel hid behind the screen with stones in his pockets for fear of being attacked by the confused audience.
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:LOL:
 
Vanilla Sky...

After i watched that, i literally didnt know what to do. laugh, cry, walk, sleep...bugger me that movie was MESSED UP.

*edit* Oh yeah and Fight Club. THAT is one of THE most messed up films of all time, but its so ****ing cool when you make sense of it at the end.
 
kupoartist said:
I agree on 2001 as well. But not because of the random weirdness towards the end: I find it strange that anyone thought 3 hours of people walking everywhere really slowly was a good idea.

Yes, if I found myself watching again, I would fast-forward to the Hal bit :p
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You anger me.

Anyway, it's tough to say. Anything by Charlie Kaufman is kinda weird and always great. Takashi Miike has a knack for making disturbing films, although none of them are really much good.

It's hard to say for sure the strangest movie I've seen, but the one that sticks out the most as defying all conventions of film is Gerry. It was an interesting experiment, but I can't say it worked particularly well.
 
Donnie Darko, Vanilla Sky, Memento, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. All require a few watches to fully get the gist of the story.
 
Jeez, these strange movies are pretty weak. Try "Izo" or "Happiness of the Katakuris" by Takashi Miike. The only other one I agree with on this list is "Eraserhead." Beyond that these selections are more meh than strange.
 
Icarusintel said:
Jeez, these strange movies are pretty weak. Try "Izo" or "Happiness of the Katakuris" by Takashi Miike. The only other one I agree with on this list is "Eraserhead." Beyond that these selections are more meh than strange.
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Most people only watch comercialised American films.
 
I watched the whole of the Cremaster Cycle in one sitting - five films, seven hours. Visually extraordinary, but to my shame I didn't really understand what most of it was about. I don't think anyone would, without reading up extensively about it first... I did start to nod off in the last couple of films. Hot day, dark cinema...
 
David Lynch's stuff is consistently some of the strangest.

But yes, you gotta love that Luis B. :thumbs:
 
Belleville Rendez-vous. Seriously, I watched it alone in the house in the middle of the night, and it's actually really odd, especially near the end. And 'Akira', but I'm sure there's wierder anime out there. Also the original silent version of 'Metropolis'. It was a restored version and some scenes were still missing but there was a constant creepy feel of 'wtf?' the whole way through.
 
joule said:
Donnie Darko, Vanilla Sky, Memento, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. All require a few watches to fully get the gist of the story.
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Am I the only one who totally understood Clockwork Orange the first time I saw it?
 
Eraserhead was a damn strange film. The scene where the deformed lady sings and stomps on giant sperm was... unique. Lost Highway was another large oddity.

And while Blue Velvet wasn't so much strange as it was disturbing (thanks in due part to Dennis Hopper), it did have what I think is one of the strangest scenes I've ever seen. SPOILER The bit near the end where Jeffrey enters the apartment and sees the two dead men, with one standing completely upright.
 
Blue Velvet wasn't really that consistently strange, but yeah, it had some reallly surreal moments (the guy lipsyncing to Roy Orbison comes to mind). I haven't seen Lost Highway yet, but I'd really like to.

Also, Wild at Heart (another Lynch flick) is really over the top and strange. For a reference point, there's a scene where a women smears lipstick on her face while screaming at the top of her lungs for about five minutes with no cuts.
 
Lost Highway is in a similar vein of Mulholland Dr., but it's far darker.

As for Wild At Heart...

GOD DAMN IT.

I had the chance to buy that when I was up in New York (since none of the uncultured git-driven shops that I know of around here sell it), but I blew all my cash on music instead. That is the one Lynch film I have yet to see. All I've heard is that Willem Dafoe has his head blown. Literally.
 
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