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What's the strangest movie you've seen?

Postby Devionsa » Wed Dec 02, 2020 4:03 am

Basically the title. Name the strangest movie you have watched, provide a synopsis and give some explanation as to why you think so.

For example, the weirdest movie I've seen has to be Rubber. It's a fantasy movie about a rubber tire that comes to life and discovers that it has telekinetic powers and goes on a sociopathic murder rampage. The strangest part is that the tire and it's life is being observed by an audience who are later made to go away by "unethical" methods. And the script is being written while we watch the movie.

Now you go.
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Postby An Alan Smithee Nation » Wed Dec 02, 2020 8:52 am

The Saragossa Manuscript (1965), it's a weird Polish film from a weird Polish book. It's a frame story that begins in the Napoleonic wars, but then inside that there is a story, and inside that a story several layers down. A really good film in my view, but it takes a few viewings to get a handle on what is happening.
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Postby Devionsa » Wed Dec 02, 2020 10:44 am

I've heard of it before. Guess this is a sign that I need to watch it soon.
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Postby Feyre » Sun Dec 06, 2020 10:15 pm

The first movie that come to mind is Donnie Darko
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Postby Island Abdia » Sun Dec 06, 2020 10:24 pm

The strangest I've probably seen is Jacob's Ladder. It's this soldier who comes back from war and has crazy hallucinations and people morph around him. Definitely worth the watch.
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Postby Elsa De Arendelle » Thu Dec 10, 2020 4:02 am

Gummo (1997) lol
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Postby Xmara » Sat Dec 12, 2020 12:39 pm

I can’t think of any especially weird ones off the top of my head, other than the Bee Movie. Looking back I wonder if that movie was really a mass hallucination.
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Postby Cannot think of a name » Sat Dec 12, 2020 9:07 pm

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Postby Atheris » Sat Dec 12, 2020 9:10 pm

End of Evangelion, no competition. It is downright the strangest movie I have ever seen and the only one that consistently said "what the fuck" more times than my parents when they first saw me.

Totally recommend it, but it only makes (even then vague) sense if you've seen the rest of the anime.
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Postby Kuuj » Sat Dec 12, 2020 9:13 pm

The Human Centipede, Teeth, and Donnie Darko are some of the strangest movies I've ever seen.
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Postby Anollasia » Sat Dec 12, 2020 9:32 pm

2001: A Space Odyssey

It's actually quite coherent until the scene with the flashing lights. From that scene onward I don't know what is going on. The part before that with HAL is great though.
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Sorry to Bother You by Boots Riley. It's a fantastic film and would totally recommend it, but the third act is so bizarre that no description would give it justice.
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Postby An Alan Smithee Nation » Sun Dec 13, 2020 12:15 pm

The Hourglass Sanatorium is very weird and not particularly enjoyable.
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Postby The Cosmic Mainframe » Sun Dec 13, 2020 12:17 pm

Anollasia wrote:2001: A Space Odyssey

It's actually quite coherent until the scene with the flashing lights. From that scene onward I don't know what is going on. The part before that with HAL is great though.

The sequel novels (2010, 2061, and 3001) explain a lot.
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Postby Freiheit Reich » Tue Dec 15, 2020 9:19 am

A three way tie:

Eraserhead (1977). It is also the worst movie I have seen in its entirety.

A Page of Madness (1926) a weird Japanese silent film about a insane asylum was very weird

L'Age d'Or (1930): a weird nonsensical surrealist film but I gave it a 2 (instead of a 1) because the part where the father shoots his son over a minor prank was done in a way that was darkly humorous.

All three of these films are weird, lack a coherent plot, and get high reviews by critics that must have been tripping on acid when they watched them. These three films truly bite.
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Postby Anollasia » Fri Dec 18, 2020 2:45 pm

The Cosmic Mainframe wrote:
Anollasia wrote:2001: A Space Odyssey

It's actually quite coherent until the scene with the flashing lights. From that scene onward I don't know what is going on. The part before that with HAL is great though.

The sequel novels (2010, 2061, and 3001) explain a lot.


I haven't read the books. I imagine they would make more sense than the film.
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Postby Cannot think of a name » Fri Dec 18, 2020 3:45 pm

Tetsuo the Iron Man, I feel like that's a mainstream enough weird movie that someone would have brought it up by now.

Hardware, that was a weird one but still accessible (unlike Begotten).

There's a movie called "Can Dialectics Break Bricks" in which a kung fu movie is re-dubbed in French to be a discussion about the nature of art and commerce.

I can't remember the name but in college I had to watch a movie of a bunch of Yoko Ono's friends bare asses on treadmills for some reason.

The Taste of Cherry is an Iranian film where a dude spends a day trying to find someone help him commit suicide. There's another Iranian movie where a filmmaker introduces the guy who pretended to be another filmmaker until he was caught and arrested to the filmmaker he was impersonating.
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Postby An Alan Smithee Nation » Fri Dec 18, 2020 11:28 pm

Cannot think of a name wrote:I can't remember the name but in college I had to watch a movie of a bunch of Yoko Ono's friends bare asses on treadmills for some reason.


It's called Bottoms or sometimes Film Number Four. Decades ago I knew an American poet who claimed to be one of the arses in it.
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Postby Feyrisshire » Fri Dec 18, 2020 11:31 pm

Cannot think of a name wrote:Tetsuo the Iron Man, I feel like that's a mainstream enough weird movie that someone would have brought it up by now. .


I was going to mention it but despite of the overall weirdness and creepiness the surreal aesthetic is actually appreciative like how much effort they went through.
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Postby Herador » Sun Dec 20, 2020 1:47 pm

Eclectic Trees. No link, but it was on Netflix circa 2011? I think? It was a bunch of weird stop motion shorts that my smooth brain couldn't comprehend.
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Postby Calimama » Wed Dec 23, 2020 5:03 am

I haven't really watched many movies that I would classify as strange per say, I guess the closest would be Mulholland Drive.
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Postby Unidox » Tue Dec 29, 2020 7:26 pm

Gandahar (a.k.a. The Light Years) let me set the scene: I was 10 and thought I was renting a cartoon like Thundercats.
From there my mind was ablaze. Watching The Time Masters didn't help settle things. In the movies that followed were Krull, Zardoz, A Boy and His Dog, The Doom Generation, Meet the Hollowheads, The Holy Mountain, Baxter, Kaboom, Valhalla Rising, Inland Empire, Wild Tales, Tale of Tales, Wrong, Neon Demon, Rubber.

Next movies on the list to watch: Funky Forest, Stalker (1979), Fantastic Planet.
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Postby Cannot think of a name » Wed Dec 30, 2020 7:43 am

Unidox wrote:Gandahar (a.k.a. The Light Years) let me set the scene: I was 10 and thought I was renting a cartoon like Thundercats.
From there my mind was ablaze. Watching The Time Masters didn't help settle things. In the movies that followed were Krull, Zardoz, A Boy and His Dog, The Doom Generation, Meet the Hollowheads, The Holy Mountain, Baxter, Kaboom, Valhalla Rising, Inland Empire, Wild Tales, Tale of Tales, Wrong, Neon Demon, Rubber.

Next movies on the list to watch: Funky Forest, Stalker (1979), Fantastic Planet.

Fucking Zardoz.
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