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Archive through July 04, 2003

The TVClubHouse: Archives: Movies & Library 2003 -2004: Movies: May 2003 - April 2004: Movies that were just too dang weird!: Archive through July 04, 2003 users admin

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Lycanthrope

Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 12:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I've never seen Nowhere or Razor's Edge.

One really strange movie that I just thought of from reading another thread is called "Ravenous". I saw this movie a few years ago, and it really stuck with me for a while. Guy Pearce and Robert Carlysle in a post Civil War movie set in a remote western outpost. The guy that played the principal in Ferris Bueller's Day Off is also in this. Cannibalism plays a huge role, and the special effects rival the goriest I've ever seen.

Spygirl

Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 4:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here's my list:

Magnolia (I mentioned before and easily tops the list; Director is Paul Thomas Anderson - he also did Boogie Nights)
Bringing Out the Dead (Scorsese)
Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick)
The Shining (Kubrick)
Being John Malcovich (Spike Jonze)
Moulin Rouge
Fight Club (David Fincher)
The Game (David Fincher)
Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)
The Royal Tenenbaums
The House of Yes (Parker Posey & Tori Spelling are in this - weird)

Brenda1966

Tuesday, June 03, 2003 - 11:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I LOVE House of Yes, Spygirl. So, darkly funny. When I flip channels and run across it I'm glued to the screen.

JBean - I saw Rules of Attraction. I like the camera work. I didn't find the characters as appalling as most critics did. I could relate to the anti-romance aspect a bit, but probably didn't really "get" the movie.

Froggiegirl621

Tuesday, June 03, 2003 - 1:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm with you Brenda - I also LOVE "The House of Yes"! Parker Posey is one of my favs. She always picks such quirky roles to play.

Jedisan

Tuesday, June 03, 2003 - 3:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Exiztenze (sp?) Not sure if anyone said this one yet...
with Jude Law and Jennifer Jason Leigh. REALLY weird.


but i kind of liked it too!


Hummingbird

Sunday, June 08, 2003 - 9:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I've never heard of that one Jedisan but the mention of J.J.Leigh reminded me of another really dang weird one -- Last Exit to Brooklyn.
She played a real loser and the movie was weird and bleak. Hated it. But I like some dang weird movies.

Hummingbird

Sunday, June 08, 2003 - 9:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Regarding cannabalism, Lycanthrope, seems like I remember that subject vaguely as part of The Cook, His Lover, their Duck , ect. which was mentioned earlier. Could be wrong as I've seen too many weird movies.

Marefromny

Thursday, June 12, 2003 - 9:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The Fisher King
Rush

Kaili

Thursday, June 12, 2003 - 9:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The Recruit- I just rented it last week. Pretty good actually.

Sweetbabygirl

Sunday, June 15, 2003 - 5:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Okayyyyyyyy. Nothing on television last night, so I watched Tom Green's Freddy Got Fingered.

WTF? Which crackpipe was Green smoking, to think that anyone would pay $$ to see this mess? Outside of a few laughs (and a very offensive bit regarding child sexual abuse), this was the WORST movie I have ever seen!!

Hummingbird

Sunday, June 15, 2003 - 10:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sweetbg, but was it "too dang wierd"? It is listed in the "Worst movies of the year thread.

Sweetbabygirl

Monday, June 16, 2003 - 5:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
For me Humm, yes, it was too dang weird!

I didn't know about the "Worst Movies" thread; thanks for the heads up.

Hummingbird

Tuesday, June 17, 2003 - 5:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Looks like "Worst Movies of the Year" has been sent to the archives. We'll have to start up another one in Dec. or Jan. for the worst ones of this year.

Tishala

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - 12:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow. I OWN most of the movies you guys are talking about! LOL. But *not* Freddie Got Fingered.

What about Pillow Book? or even Prospero's Books? Ma Vie en Rose? Y Tu Mama Tambien? Delicatessen? One Hour Photo?

Great, if strange, films.

Hummingbird

Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 5:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Frailty! That one is really weird. The ending is a complete suprise. This is one of those movies that leaves you wishing you hadn't watched it. Weird and disturbing.

Happymom

Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 2:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I can't remember the name of this disgusting, disturbing very bad too dang weird movie. I think Jeremy Irons was the star and played twin doctors, at least one of which was a gyn. There were medival gyn.tools in it, I think one twin killed the other. Anyone know the name of this movie? I think it was released in the late 80s, maybe.

Happymom

Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 3:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The movie I just mentioned is called Dead Ringers.

Hummingbird

Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 4:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow! I had completely forgotten that one. Genevieve Bujold was in it also. I have probably misspelled her name. Both twins were gynecologists and one twin was dominant over the other. The dominate twin would date women until he was tired of them and then pass them on to his brother without telling the woman there were two of them. This weird movie was taken from a true story about twin gyns who were found in a filthy apartment, dead of mysterious circumstances. They had been descending into maddness and had lost their medical practices or something like that. If I remember the movie, the weeker of the two killed the other one and then himself. Good contribution to the dang weird catagory!

Faerygdds

Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 6:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I saw that movie... it's actually based off of a book called "Twins" that was written by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland... I read it when I was in high scool. The book is MUCH more creepy than the movie -- if you can imagine THAT! It was definitely more graphic! Technically it's a horror novel and is not based on a true story! Definitely wierd, but NOT true. Now if Wood and Geasland saw a story about twin gyns and decided to "build" a story around them, I'm not sure... but I KNOW it's not a true story.

Just a little info. BTW.. if you like a good horror read -- you can probably find this book at a used book store for super cheap. Garaunteed to make you cringe at least once. :)

Hummingbird

Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 9:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The book was fiction taken from a real story about twin gynecologists as mentioned above. I read the account of the true story in Esquire magazine after the book came out. I'll see if I can find info on Google to prove my point. I know that the actual movie was fiction. The real story was creepy too.

Hummingbird

Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 9:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Okay, I found it. I'll print the link in a minute.

In his masterfully disturbing existentialist horror Dead Ringers, David Cronenberg's focus is decidedly psychological rather than dramatic. The story of the Mantle Brothers, identical twin gynecologists, is based on the actual case of Stewart and Cyril Marcus who were "found gaunt and already partially decayed in their New York apartment amidst a litter of garbage and pharmaceuticals." The autopsy showed that Stewart had died several days before Cyril (the headline in one of New York dailies ran "twin docs found dead in posh pad"). It took Cronenberg seven years and three aborted attempts to enlist Hollywood's financial backing before he completed it mostly independently. Marcus twins became Mantle (deliberate play on "mental"), and the setting was moved to Toronto.

This all happened fifteen to tweeny years ago. I remember it well.

Hummingbird

Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 9:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here's the link on Drs. Stewart and Cyril Marcus.

http://www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca/warch011.htm

Weird and creepy story!

Hummingbird

Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 9:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Tweeny? Someone please correct my typo.

Faerygdds

Friday, July 04, 2003 - 1:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Like I said... the move may indeed be loosely based around the idea inspired by the doctors deaths, but that does not mean that the book nor the movie is a true story.

Check out this link (thank you for providing me the names with which to search.
http://64.49.206.179/press/archive/27.html

<snip>
The outline may seem familiar to anybody who was reading the front pages of New York's newspapers 13 years ago, when the deaths of two gynecologists who were identical twins, Dr. Stewart L. Marcus and Dr. Cyril C. Marcus, shocked the medical profession and the city. In July 1975, the Marcus brothers, who had been specialists at Cornell University Medical School and its affiliate, New York Hospital, were found dead in the Manhattan apartment of one of the brothers, victims of barbiturate addiction.

Despite the broad parallels with the $8 million Toronto production, in which Mr. Irons co-stars with the Canadian actress Genevieve Bujold, production executives insist that theirs is a fictional treatment that stands at two removes from the real-life events in New York. To begin with, the basis for the film is the 1977 novel ''Twins,'' by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland, whose story line bears little relation to the Marcus tragedy other than the element of identical twin gynecologists addicted to drugs.
<snip>

Hummingbird

Friday, July 04, 2003 - 8:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think we have basically said the same thing here. I never said that the movie was true. The whole storyline about the actress(Bujold)is complete fiction. The similarities include not only the obvious, but also the stories of the Marcus twins sharing girlfriends. There are many references to the fictional version and Marcus tragedy being similar. I suppose only the authors know if they were influenced by the factual event. Anyway, I thought the background story in the Esquire artical was interesting at the time and worth bringing up again at the mention of the movie. Had no intention of starting a debate.