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Archive through February 02, 2004

The TVClubHouse: Archives: Movies & Library 2003 -2004: Movies: May 2003 - April 2004: Movies that were just too dang weird!: Archive through February 02, 2004 users admin

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Bastable

Wednesday, October 01, 2003 - 4:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh...I saw that movie as a warning about the dangers of drugs. I was grossed out, but I think that was the point. I saw it probably two years ago and I still remember how the message was all about how drugs can take you over and make you do horrible things. (If I recall correctly, the director was indeed forced to edit that paty scene down for theatrical release; the original version is on the DVD.)

Pannie

Wednesday, October 01, 2003 - 7:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Eliz87 and TVDuck pegged four movies I saw and concur with: "Magnolia" (those poor FROGS!!), "Beloved"(huh??), "Being John Malkovich" (was that his nightmare?), and "Eyes Wide Shut" (better kept that way).

'12 Monkeys' was dang weird as well as "Memento", but I really liked these two films anyway.

Kimmo

Thursday, October 02, 2003 - 12:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Just a question...When saying something is "too dang weird," does that just mean weird, or so weird you couldn't watch it?

Hummingbird

Thursday, October 02, 2003 - 2:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It just means they were too dang weird! Some of these movies were good weird and some were bad weird -- but all of them were offbeat and different.

Boberg

Thursday, October 02, 2003 - 8:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
"Beloved" I so agree, too dang weird. I only watched it because it was connected with Oprah..then wondered, "what in the world was Oprah thinking" and "well maybe I just don't get this movie..but I sure ain't watching it again!

Fabnsab

Saturday, October 04, 2003 - 1:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I just watched "Secretary" with James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhal. Pretty darn weird. Mind you, I sat there and enjoyed it and was actually touched at the end but it definately belongs in this thread.

Azriel

Saturday, October 04, 2003 - 6:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I just got back from seeing 28 Days Later. That is one weird and stupid movie! Is this movie showing in the States?

(This isn't the Sandra Bullock movie )

Pannie

Saturday, October 04, 2003 - 7:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Question: Have anyone seen "Swimming Pool"? It's playing in Portland, OR., and I may get to travel up there for work and see a film after hours. I'm not sure if it's worthy to see or just too dang wierd. Anyone know?

Fabnsab and Azriel Are Secretary and 28 Days Later new movies? Spader is on the small screen now (The Practice, I believe). 28 Days sounds like the lunar cycle - at least it isn't a Sandra Bullock movie <wink>

Azriel

Saturday, October 04, 2003 - 10:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Pannie, 28 Days Later just came to the movie theaters in Singapore this weekend. It's a British movie so that's why I wasn't sure if it was released in the US.

Here's the website for the movie

28 Days Later

Naja

Saturday, October 04, 2003 - 1:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I was all set to rent 2 weird movies from this thread yesterday, Salo and May...And May was all rented out and they don't even carry Salo at my Blockbuster. Ah well, I got Edentity, and I would call it weird and good.

Carrie92

Saturday, November 08, 2003 - 12:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Anyone see Mulholland Drive? I totally didn't get it. Definitely too dang weird.

Fabnsab

Saturday, November 08, 2003 - 2:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Pannie, I think Secretary came out last year, sometime. It was on cable- one of the movie channels.


(This isn't the Sandra Bullock movie )
Azriel, thats too funny because when i heard about this film, I said it sounded like a sequel to 28 days. I think that may have actually hurt the film. It didn't sound new to those who don't pay close attention.

Bbfanatic

Saturday, November 08, 2003 - 10:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i agree about mulholland drive carrie. i didnt get vanilla sky.

Hummingbird

Saturday, November 08, 2003 - 6:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I believe Mullhold Drive has been mentioned more than anything else here. That one was weird and boring.

Mamie316

Sunday, November 09, 2003 - 8:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Vanilla Sky was very strange. Magnolia was also very odd, the whole raining frogs thing...I don't know

Lycanthrope

Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 12:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I gotta add 'Aswang' to the list. I referenced it in the 'creepy movie/scene' thread. Has anyone else seen this? It was made in the early 90's and it was the very first movie ever screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 1994(under the title The Unearthed).

The basic plot centers on a young, unwed pregnant woman who enters into an agreement with a family who want to adopt her baby. The catch is she has to pose as the wife of the man in the family for a little while so people will think it's his child. She goes to live at his mansion with him, his mother, his crazy sister, and their Philipino housekeeper. Weird, creepy, and sometimes sickness ensues from there as this is no normal family. They are Aswang...

Meemo

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 12:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i don't know if this has been mentioned but i thought Freeway with Reese Witherspoon and Kiefer Sutherland was pretty "dang weird"

Blacksheep

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 2:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Happiness (1998) directed by Todd Solondz
Kissed (1996) directed by Lynne Stopkewich

both are just "dang weird" - though, I do admit I liked them both, partially because they are somewhat demented - Neither are "family" entertainment

Also if anyone happens to look these up, do not dismiss Kissed just because of the subject matter - it is a weird but very interesting film

Need to find info on films, great database site:
The Internet Movie Database - http://www.imdb.com

Cba79

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 11:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This list is a hoot! I can't believe how many of these I have seen (and own on DVD!). I have to agree with those that are listed above --- especially Event Horizon, Reqiuem for a Dream, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

I would like to add a few of my own:

Donnie Darko
In the Mouth of Madness
The Thirteenth Floor
The Ninth Gate
Pi (written/directed by Darren Aronofsky before he made Reqiuem for a Dream)
Gattaca

Mamie316

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 11:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Donnie Darko was very strange but I really liked it.

Hummingbird

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 1:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Was Gattaca the one set in the future with Ethan Hawks and Uma Thurman? If so, I agree it has the weird factor. I saw something on the Academy Awards show that year about the set design. The stairway in the building where they worked was designed to mimic the DNA double helix shape. I always meant to watch the movie again just to look for stairway.

Hummingbird

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 1:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hawk, Hawks ???

Mamie316

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 2:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hawke

Hummingbird

Friday, January 23, 2004 - 1:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I don't want to read the entire thread to find out if anyone has previously listed "Dead Man" with Johnny Depp and Crispin Glover. I just saw it on the IFC cable network. What a strange movie!

Cba79
Member

07-11-2001

Monday, February 02, 2004 - 10:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Just saw the Butterfly Effect this weekend and will definitely have to add that title to this list!

Weird....and disturbing. Not for everyone.