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Archive through November 07, 2002

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Monday, October 14, 2002 - 8:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
~~a partial list:
"Easy Rider" (1969, Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda)
"Kalifornia" (1993, Brad Pitt)
"From Dusk Till Dawn" (1996, George Clooney)
"The Blair Witch Project" (1999)
"Pulp Fiction" (1994, John Travolta)
"The Haunting" (1999, Lili Taylor, Catherine Zeta-Jones)
"Tron" (1982, Jeff Bridges)
"Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (1964, Peter Sellers)

Mssilhouette

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 3:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
As one who's had the unfortunate luck of reading American Psycho the book after seeing the movie, let me say this about the book...Holy crap!!

The movie did it's best and only touched on 1/10th of the violence in the book. The book is extremely tedious in its detail of the 80's greed, narcissism, fashion and clubs. As well overly detailed about the characters torture and mulitation of his vicitms...mostly women.

Unless you have a really STRONG stomach. I strongly suggest you do not pick up the book! Seriously, if you couldn't handle the movie's violent acts, you have no business picking up the book.

As for the movie, if you strip away most of the violence what you get is really bloody psycho's version of catcher in the rye. Trapped in a 80's soceity that allows him to be this undetected killer even when he wants to get caught they won't let him. Hence the "This is not an exit" at the end.

Hummingbird

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 3:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The movie made you wonder if the murders actually happened. I thought in the end that maybe they were a figment of the guy's sick imagination. Am I wrong? Hollywood has stange values. They didn't mind showing horrible acts of violence against humans, mostly women in this movie -- but stopped short of killing the little kitty in the ATM machine. Guess they thought that would be just too much. Weird and awful movie.

Fabnsab

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 8:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Kstme, I just caught Freeway on cable for the first time. Good choice- thats a weird one. It was good though. Reese Witherspoon is so dang good in any roll.

Kstme

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 9:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Fabnsab...hate to admit how many times I've seen it! It cracks me up! Brook Sheilds is perfect too! Glad you agreed on it's weirdness!

Mssilhouette

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 11:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Um Hummingbird, the murders did happen. Basically Patrick Bateman (main character) was losing his ability to control his need/desire/insanity to kill. So it was spilling over into everything he did. In the book, but not as much reflected in the movie because of time constaints, you see how he degenerates into a being who could not control his impulses and the world that he lives in allowed him to be out of control.

Be happy at hollywood's little rewrites, cause in the book, the kitty doesn't exactly make it.

Hummingbird

Wednesday, October 16, 2002 - 9:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they saved the kitty. I just thought it strange that they showed such graphic scenes of violence to people.
I will NEVER read that book!

Hummingbird

Wednesday, October 16, 2002 - 9:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The Time Machine -- The new one with Guy Pearce.
I usually love time travel movies. This one started out good but then took a weird turn.

Hummingbird

Wednesday, October 16, 2002 - 9:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
*such graphic scenes of violence to people and then thought killing the kitty would be going too far. My point being that they had already gone too far.

Monkeyboy

Sunday, October 20, 2002 - 1:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
the royal tenenbaums (sp?, dont whats so wierd about it!!! maybe the incest...hehe

Hummingbird

Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 10:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The Cell with Jennifer Lopez. Crazy and stupid movie.

Webkitty

Wednesday, October 23, 2002 - 6:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I agree with the Royal Tennebaums, very weird movie. The Cell was weird but at least it had some sort of plot line I could follow.

Another weird one was Mullholand Drive. I didn't understand it at all until Ocean explained in to me in that thread. I haven't had a chance to view it again, but his explanation made SOME sense to me! LOL (still very wierd)

Being John Malcovich (sp) was quirky but I liked it.

Bananaclip

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 3:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Event Horizon (Lawrence Fishbourne)
Unbreakable (Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis)
What Dreams May Come (Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr.)

Abbynormal

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 4:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sex, Lies and Videotapes. Pretty weird.

Hummingbird

Saturday, October 26, 2002 - 10:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ditto to What Dreams May Come, Bananaclip.

Ketchuplover

Sunday, October 27, 2002 - 1:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Nice profile Jane

Aunt_Bob

Monday, October 28, 2002 - 12:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
From Dusk to Dawn...weird is an understatement...???what was with the vamps & ghouls???

Blair Witch Project...a little weird...but, just plain not Good, not Entertaining and definately NOT scarey.

Pulp Fiction...one of the weirdest movies ever made...BUT...I loved it...one of my favs.

The Devil’s Advocate...don’t like weird ‘devil’ movies.

2 Denzel Washington movies...Fallen...another weird ‘devil’ movie and The Bone Collector...even the title is weird.

Calamity

Monday, October 28, 2002 - 9:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I saw "Picnic at Hanging Rock" on cable when I was about 16 and still have no idea what happened.

Neko

Tuesday, October 29, 2002 - 12:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
REQUIEM FOR A DREAM!!!

This...was the freakiest more disturbing movie I've seen....AND I had the pleasure of watching it... IN SCHOOL!!!

Babyruth

Tuesday, October 29, 2002 - 12:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OOH! I loved that movie, Neko. Cool direction. Utterly fantastic acting by Ellen Burstyn. But, yeah, weird.



Hermione69

Tuesday, October 29, 2002 - 1:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Edward Scissorhands.

Neko

Tuesday, October 29, 2002 - 4:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I liked it too Babyruth, but it got so disturbing at the end that our teacher wouldn't allow us to watch it. LOL

But Ellen Burstyn was the mother correct?? Yes, she did extremely fantasic acting!

Actually, I think the acting from everyone was good...except you didn't really get into Tyrone's mind as much as Marion's, Harry's and Sarah..

Aunt_Bob

Wednesday, October 30, 2002 - 9:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hey Hermione...you reminded me...I forgot to mention "Edward Scissorhands"...when it first came out, I enjoyed it. Watching it again a while back...I found it...'dang weird'!

Fluffybbw

Friday, November 01, 2002 - 11:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
A.I., the movie was slow, boring, made very little sense, I did love the sets, but I really wanted my money and time back on that one. Eyes Wide Shut was another movie that made me go "Huh?"

Lycanthrope

Thursday, November 07, 2002 - 6:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
A Clockwork Orange was the weirdest movie I've ever seen.

I loved From Dusk til Dawn. All of Tarantino's stuff is a little weird, but that's what makes it so entertaining. As far as FDtD is concerned, Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez both wanted to make a "Mexican vampire movie", so they did. In the hands of mere mortals it wouldn't have come off so well, but I loved it and have it in my DVD collection.

Also weird, but very good is Fight Club