I am currently going through a bit of a Gondry (director) phase, and as beautiful as his films are, they're a very surreal and the endings are unclear.
So... out of curiousity, what is the most obscure/weird/unexplainable film you have ever watched?
I watched one once called "The I Inside"...
I loved it, but I've never seen it since, and it was 6am... but I remember it was very confusing but intriguing.
Versus.
That film was beyond weird, and I swear, I couldn't have made up that script if I tried. My boyfriend and I love watching foreign films, and I've got a list as long as my arm of the ones that don't make a lick of sense. most of them or either Japanese or Korean strangely enough.
I watched a Korean film called "I'm a Cyborg but That's Okay"
... my gosh, that was weird.
>>5 One of my friends has seen that. He saved it to his Sky because he loved it so much.
Amazing haha. I haven't seen it but one day I will.
i dont really watch many films, but the most confusing one i've seen was The Prestiege... and knowing my luck, i've spelt it wrong
'Chocolat' it was a French film that didn't really make sense and had these random scenes that didn't fit at all. And then the ending was just 'Huh? people dancing in the rain? Okay...'
Not even my philosophical father could make sense of it, whoever can, deserves a medal.
Unless it's one of those things that you cannot but too much thought into or you will not understand it, I managed to butcher the plot of one of my own stories doing that...
Time Cop. I played a lovely game of spot the plot holes, even though it completely confused me :S
Avatar, just because I don't get how such a bad film makes so much money
also fear and loathing for drug induced narrative
>>12
Fear and Loathing is even weirder when you consider that a lot of it may not be fictious.
I did a double-take when I saw F&L. Then I realised that you meant the film rather than the fanfic author who named herself after it. Heh.
Is a avatar really that bad? I haven't seen it yet but all my friends say its good?
so many plot holes it was unbelieveable, none of the characters were developed enough for me to care about the ending and everything about it seemed so cliché, it was like watching some anti america propaganda movie
>>19 I'd be completely lying if I said I disagreed with you. It takes my spot for most cliched movie, the 3d is hardly anything new. The graphics were okay but not particularly mind boggling, and overall it is just way way way way way too over-hyped.
Plus the only reason I can fathom as to why it is the best movie is 1. too much money was spent on it and 2. the director just happened to be the guy who did Titanic (another film that was a wee bitty too long and kinda bored me halfway through)
Seriously, the only movie I hold in more loathing is Twilight!
Anyway, on-topic, there was one film once but I can't remember. Something about an over-protective mother killing her daughters boyfriend, except he was alive two scenes later. Then the kid was shown with her eyes sown shut just to be perfectly fine when she met supposedly dead boyfriend. And at the end daughter kills mother who kills daughter just before she dies, and the boyfriend is never mentioned.
Oh, and did I mention at one point that the mother had sex with a clown or something :S
I think the issue with Avatar is that the plot is nothing new, it's the same plot as Dances with Wolves, Fern Gully, Pocahontas etc etc. We've seen it all before.
That film sounds beyond weird, I suppose it's probably European or Japanese right?
Definitely European, since Japanese films are weird in a good way...take Spirited Away as an example ;P
>>23 Star Wars was effective, it's the god of all things sci-fi (well, it may compete with Star Trek but...) Avatar's just taken an over used plotline in a society where the audience is always looking for something new and quirky. (at least in Scotland anyway)
That's one of the reasons I liked Percy Jackson so much...they took an unoriginal idea and modernised it to fit this day and age, creating an unique and entertaining movie. (And not to mention that Grover was just plain cute for a half goat ;P)
Weirdest film i've ever seen would be "The earth vs the spider"
It seemed like a "What if" On spiderman, like, instead of becoming a cool superhero, he turned into some kind of giant creepy spider. xD
And i watched fear and Loathing blazed out of my mind on friday, and absolutely loved it xD
Definitly among the weird though O_o
Cradle of fear - almost no plot, incredibly bad special effects but a fun, British horror nonetheless...and all done on a shoe string budget and a 3rd payment basis.
Blue Velvet is weird...like Lost Highway I believe it is done by Lynch...
Yeah...I only liked one song of theirs...'nymphetomine' I think it was called...and I only liked the parts where the woman sang...the guy sounded... odd. And banshee-like. Hmmm, hope CoF fans don't get made at me...
:)
the wierdest film i watched was called "Titanic" it was very gay
@All the Avatar talk
It's rubbish. Really it is, however, I do wish I'd seen it in Imax, it might have been fun to watch then. I saw it in 'Digital 3D', i.e. I put some glasses on in a normal screen, and it wasn't in 3D all the way through! WTF!? Why would you make a terribly cliche movie who's only saving grace was the "stunning 3D" visuals and not put it all in 3D? Saying that, there are parts to Avatar that are good, e.g. a sentient Mother Nature entity, but they don't save it. Heck, I prefer Titanic to Avatar and I'm a dude (ok, I know that means nothing). Titanic actually had some characters I liked, i.e. the blokes who never stopped playing the music. ROCK ON!
As for weird films:
Casshern - just confusing in the way its presented
Lupin III: The Secret of Mamo - just...what the heck is going on here?
AVATAR WAS GOOD NOOB and you took the titanic off me ggrrrrrr
>>34 Avatar bored me to death! Over used plots! Boring characters! And way too much money spent on it! Need more reasons?
The Happiness of the Katakuris... It was billed as 'the Sound of Music with zombies' on the back of the DVD box, so I just had to watch it. According to Wikipedia "The film is a surreal horror-comedy in the farce tradition, which includes claymation sequences, musical and dance numbers, a karaoke-style sing-along scene, dream sequences and Hitchcockian symbolism." 'twas weird as hell but amazing. (It's Japanise, by the way)
>>9, "The Prestige" with Hugh Jackman and Christan Bale. I had to watch that one about six times before I understood what was going on. Also "The Illusionist" with Edward Norton and Rufus Sewell kind of followed the same track. It was a lot like "Prestige" but I didn't have to watch it as many times.
Actually I think the strangest film I've seen would be "Event Horizon," with Sam Neil, Laurence Fishburne, and Jason Isaacs. It was both creepy and very strange, but one which I will never voluntarily watch again. Now I can't watch "Jurassic Park" without cringing (because once you see "Event Horizon" you will NEVER see Sam Neil in the same light) and it sucks since "Jurassic" is one of my favorite movies.
Other than that... Can't think of any.
~Alamax
The Matrix needs simplification?!
Bloodrayne
I liked the video games but the movies just sucked. It was just awkward to watch. The cameraman couldn't keep the camera steady and the effects were worthless too. It just looked fake and like an amateur movie.
I know I'm probably killing myself by saying this but, I could do a better job
@43- You have only yourself to blame for watching something directed by Uwe Boll.
("Hey, Kojima, I've been thinking-"
"Oh hell no!"
"Hey, Mr. Sams, I-"
"Get out.")
Haha I couldn't believe Avatar caused such a stir on here. I have now seen the film and I agree with Iaculus, its ALRIGHT but its not exactly a great plot. All I watched the most of it for was for the guy in it... ah. So don't hate me i'm a girl I'm allowed to get bored and comment on fit guys and girls.
I was going to say Labyrinth, but decided against it.
Not only because it has the epic David Bowie in it,
but also because it was the good kind of weird. So I'm
going to say the movie Deja Vu.
It was so confusing. I put it together in the end, but you should get the ending like that! snaps fingers as visual
My cousin still hasn't gotten the point of the movie, and she was sitting right beside me!
I watched a Greek film called 'Dogtooth'
So bizarre...
but pretty good!
This isn't a weird film exactly, I'm just a bit stumped by the end and I didn't want to make a new thread; I've just watched 'The girl who leapt through time' and, while I really enjoyed it...chiatsu saying
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER!!!!!!
"I will wait for you" really threw me. Surely his time is in the far future (what with time travel devices, and, by what he seemed to imply, post-apocolyptic.) So surely she'd be long dead by then? And he can't go back when she's older cause a) he said he'd 'wait' and b) he has no more leaps left. So confused...
No idea about the title (it was shown around 4 am). It's about a little girl who talks to the cut off heads of her barbiedolls and think they talk back. Her mother already died and her father later from drugs overdose. And she also plays with his body.
In the end, a train near their home crashes and she is picked up by a woman. It was a very weird film...
Okay, I know it's popular and all that, but Donnie Darko. It is SO messed up! That rabbit (Frank?) creeps the hell out of me!
>>49 the film sounds like it might have been 'Tideland'
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0410764/
Dead Snow was simultaneously the weirdest and most awesome film I have ever seen.
It's a Norwegian horror flick set in the mountains with...NAZI ZOMBIES. Seriously. It is so, SO worth watching, even if it is one long zombie cliche after another (except it isn't, because it has a guy who is so incredibly badass, he runs over a bunch of zombies with a snowmobile with a machine gun duct taped to the front of it, as far as I can gather.) Plus because I'm a girl I got to hide behind my boyfriend when it got a bit too gross - at one point a guy stitches his own neck back together - and wait for him to tell me when it was over.
"Plus because I'm a girl I got to hide behind my boyfriend when it got a bit too gross"
That's not due to being a girl. That's due to being an irritating stereotype.
Ponyo. It is the cutest weird movie you will probably ever watch.
It's about a magical fish that turns into a human (yes, sounds like the little mermaid) but here's summat that might make you wanna watch it :
It is directed by Hayou Miyazaki-yes, the man who made My Neighbour Totaro and Howl's Moving Castle.
Okay, my inane rambling and shamless advertsing of sorts is out.
where the wild things are..... fucked up movie
>>53 True, but I will gladly be an irritating stereotype when it comes to people sewing their own necks together, that sort of stuff freaks me out and I'd rather avoid it like the plague. It's an excuse and I'm sticking to it, although it's probably my own fault for picking a movie with Nazi zombies purely because it had Nazi zombies. Next time I'll go all out and pick an irritating stereotype movie i.e Twilight (except I won't, because I prefer actual vampire movies.)
>>54 I keep meaning to watch Ponyo, it looked amazing but nobody would go see it with me :(
also a weird but hilarious movie in a sort of twisted way is 'Cabin fever'.
>>57
It is sort of hilarious, but most badly made 'horror' films are.
I recently watched 'Sunshine Cleaning' that's got an odd theme, though is almost heart warming.
Oh and of course the classic 'Being John Malkovich'.. what the hell?
How about Little Miss Sunshine? That's freaking hilarious! How her grandfather dies and she does that stripdance for him on the stage- while being around 6 years old.
'Black death' is a strange film. It just seems to go nowhere and have no 'moral' at the end or anything, it's quite odd
I's have to say "The Box" so weird, didn't even seem to work, definitly an experince to watch somthing so strange!
'Eraserhead'. I've never seen a weirder movie, ever. It was like watching someone's feverish dream, which was exactly the intention of it, I believe. It wasn't scary, just really creepy and unsettling.
Can't remember if I have posted already but, Lost Highway (by David Lynch) and a horrible film called Crash (not the one about racism, one about people getting turned on by car crashes.)
I actually ... really liked Crash ...
>>65, really? Haha, each to their own I suppose XD
The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Weirdest movie ever.
For those who don't know it, it's about a transvestite professor that's making a man in a Frankensteiny way... Also he's an alien.
The Fountain and Carolina ( which is also a book)
Ah, my favorite film of all time. I have to agree The Rocky Horror Picture Show is as strange as they come. However, who could resist a sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania?
It's a tie between 'The Attic Expeditions' (which I bet no on here has even heard of, but it's actually really good it just really messes with your head. I've watched it around 15 times over the last few years and shown it to several people...still don't get it, neither does anyone else) and 'Martyrs' (a French movie that I won't even bother to explain except that they misuse the word martyrs...not sure how you can do that, but they managed it). I recommend both, but be prepared to be scratching your head afterwards.
Oh and Deadgirl was weird, but also disturbing. Guys turn zombie girl into sex toy...wouldn't recommend if you're squeamish.
"Let the Right One Come In" is definitely the weirdest film I've ever seen. I actually enjoyed it, but I can't decide if the ending was happy or horrifying.
Anyway I'm looking forward to the remake.
I saw David Lynch's 'Blue Velvet' on Saturday...
What the hell?
It was a good film, but there are points where your mouth is hanging open, and you fear it will never close again. So very weird.
There was a film I watched when I was like eight...there were about twelve people trapped in a room with four doors. Old lady and some dude go through one door and are torn apart by spiky spinny thingy. Second door two lovers go through, make out and then turn into skeletons. Third door, evil mirror clones murder everyone else except guy and girl. Girl kills guy, escapes, gives gold thing to some people, and is then shot by them.
For the days when my parents didn't care what I watched.
There was a film I watched when I was like eight...there were about twelve people trapped in a room with four doors. Old lady and some dude go through one door and are torn apart by spiky spinny thingy. Second door two lovers go through, make out and then turn into skeletons. Third door, evil mirror clones murder everyone else except guy and girl. Girl kills guy, escapes, gives gold thing to some people, and is then shot by them.
For the days when my parents didn't care what I watched.
>>71 The movie was rather good, though they left a few things out that I'd wanted to see in motion. Check out the book if you get a chance. (The ending is happy AND horrifying. Happy because it's happy, horrifying because of the implications.)
Weirdest movies:
I'm A Cyborg, But That's Okay
Donnie Darko
Mirrorworld (I think that was what it was called)
Deathbed: The Bed that Eats People (still trying to find a copy in the local rental places)
and a French movie in which a guy has no short term memories and his boss abuses that so she can have passionate sex with him in her office without him even knowing. They are literally screwing within the first five minutes. God bless the French.
I'm not sure about the weirdest movie I've ever watched but I know that the stupidest was the twilight movie.
>>75
I adore 'I'm a Cyborg, But That's Okay' even if it is one of the weirdest romance films I've watched.
Mine is either,
Secret Window (I was just like WTF through this whole movie)
or Shutter Island... I know they have like the same plots.
I think the Thief and the Cobbler. I'm still trying to figure out if it copied Disney or vice-versa.
>>79 Technically it was made before the Disney's 'Aladdin' but as it took 20 years to make, it copied off Aladdin and Aladdin copid off it. The Nostalgia Critic called it a film of inbreeding.
You can see the review here: http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/28714-the-thief-and-the-cobbler
And this was the original version:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E62ibzd8WX4
>>73 I think that was Cube: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123755/
That is a pretty weird movie, but it felt gimick-y to me.
Um. Thinking of really weird movies is hard. >o<
Dead Alive is pretty awesomely weird. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103873/ A repressed guy who lives with his mother brings her to the zoo where she's bitten by a monkey that, somehow, gives her the zombie cootehs. She then proceeds to infect her doctor, nurse (the two of which have a zombie baby that the MC punts across a park, at one point), and various other people. At the end, he defeats a horde of zombies in house with a lawn mower. it's awesome.
Fido (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457572/) is another really good one. It's like a parody of Leave It To Beaver, except that the Zombie Apocalypse has come and gone and the 'in thing' at that time is to have zombie slaves. it's really awesome!
I Drink Your Blood (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067229/) is also awesome. A band of satanist hippies move into a barn in a quiet mid-west town. And, this little grandpa gives the hippies meat pies to welcome them to town. But, little do they know that the meat pies are made of rabies infested roadkill. And, somehow, when the hippies eat the rabies, they become super powerful zombie hippies! >o
... I like zombies. Can you tell. :D
a clockwork orange is totally messed up.
The weirdest movies I've ever watched were:
The Rocky Horror Picture Show. That movie makes nooo sense to me! Its this dude named Brad and chick named Janet about to get married and on their way to like honeymoon or something their car breaks down so they go to this mansion they passed down the way to use the telephone. Its raining outside and when they go to the mansion the butler dude opens the door and has them come inside and everyone is dancing. Then the master comes out (Dr. Frank Furter) and he creates a man but then the man he creates as a sex toy ends up liking Janet so they end up screwing each other and the Dr. gets mad and as punishment they make Janet and Brad put on a show and at the end the Dr. and the man he created die. Well are sent into oblivion....
The other weird movie I saw was called "Edward Scissor Hands". I only watched like half of it and it was just strange. Just... strange...
Caligula! I was watching it on Netflix and all of a sudden a group of 20 or so Romans jump in the water with some 70 year old (Caligula) and they all start to...'enjoy' each others presence.
Very much.
Also, Vampires Suck. Seriously, WHAT THE HECK?! I don't mind the Twilight bashing but...really!
Tommy Wiseau's "The Room".
It caused my brother and I massive amounts of "LOLWUT".
The weirdest? "Nowhere" from the Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy by Gregg Araki.
It wasn't funny weird, it was Mindscrew!weird.
I really like the film "They're Made of Meat" though. It was a funny weird compared to "Nowhere".I would also recommend "Save My Earth" by Bejay Kim, it's definitely of the mindscrew variety, but I liked it much better than "Nowhere"
Zerophilia.
It's about a dude that changes into a girl when sexually aroused. Cue shenanigans and all that philosophical malarkey centering around gender and sexuality and all that.
A bit of a mindscrew throughout but... still nice.
Oh. Human Centipede. I never saw it but... I... I heard about it. >_>
hmmm... Wierdest movie I've ever seen??? wow. tough.
I've Seen Brazil. yup. weird. made no sense.
blue velvet... pretty much anything done by david lynch with the exception of dune perhaps..
Rocky horror picture show? Yeah, goofy, wierd..etc.
another odd film i didn't quite get was Boxing Helena. Wha..?
probably the strangest movie i've ever seen though was Naked Lunch.
Watched it 3 times. first two times because i couldn't remember if i'd actually seen what i thought i'd seen or if i'd fallen asleep and dreamed it. and the last time just because i couldn't stop saying WTF???
it was even weirder than Zardoz or Scanners.
hmmm... Wierdest movie I've ever seen??? wow. tough.
I've Seen Brazil. yup. weird. made no sense.
blue velvet... pretty much anything done by david lynch with the exception of dune perhaps..
Rocky horror picture show? Yeah, goofy, wierd..etc.
another odd film i didn't quite get was Boxing Helena. Wha..?
probably the strangest movie i've ever seen though was Naked Lunch.
Watched it 3 times. first two times because i couldn't remember if i'd actually seen what i thought i'd seen or if i'd fallen asleep and dreamed it. and the last time just because i couldn't stop saying WTF???
it was even weirder than Zardoz or Scanners.
"Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter".
No joke. Real film. A terrible (so BAD it's good) B-movie about Jesus Christ going around...I think it was Toronto?...killing the vampiric infestation.
Funky film to the max.
For a good, weird, film I really enjoyed "Run, Lola, Run" where the main character Lola relives the same 20 minutes three times in an effort to prevent herself and her boyfriend from dying. Favorite part--> how to win roulette: SCREAM at the wheel.
Weirdest movie ever: Primer. It had something to do with a time machine and paradoxes and the two main characters dying at the end due to... too much time traveling, or something. A VERY strange, very intellectual movie that I still don't understand.
Also, I have to say that Inglorious Basterds was an odd one for me. But it's Quentin Tarentino. Weird comes standard.
Dang it, I was hoping I'd be the only one to mention it. XD
But I'll just link everyone to the hilarious review that this guy called Nostalgia Critic gave for The Room anyway. It's really worth checking out (if you don't want your brains fried by the terribleness of the movie):
>>93 You have now addicted me to Nostalgia Critic. XD
And now, I have to second... third... fourth(?) the motion about The Room. It is definitely the worst movie I have ever seen, even if I only watched the clips he included. How in the world did that get out into the real world?
Human Centipede.
I did see it and actualy gaged! I don't recomend it. What twisted little world of a head did this get dreamed up in, some sick f@*k's thats for sure.Crazeyness.
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Rocky Horror Picture Show by far. That thing had me saying what the fluff and I was craving meatloaf after that for some reason. IT was good but it was also pretty weird. O.o
Rocky Horror Picture Show by far. That thing had me saying what the fluff and I was craving meatloaf after that for some reason. IT was good but it was also pretty weird. O.o
Rocky Horror Picture Show by far. That thing had me saying what the fluff and I was craving meatloaf after that for some reason. IT was good but it was also pretty weird. O.o
Rocky Horror Picture Show by far. That thing had me saying what the fluff and I was craving meatloaf after that for some reason. IT was good but it was also pretty weird. O.o
Rocky Horror Picture Show by far. That thing had me saying what the fluff and I was craving meatloaf after that for some reason. IT was good but it was also pretty weird. O.o
Rocky Horror Picture Show by far. That thing had me saying what the fluff and I was craving meatloaf after that for some reason. IT was good but it was also pretty weird. O.o
Rocky Horror Picture Show by far. That thing had me saying what the fluff and I was craving meatloaf after that for some reason. IT was good but it was also pretty weird. O.o
Rocky Horror Picture Show by far. That thing had me saying what the fluff and I was craving meatloaf after that for some reason. IT was good but it was also pretty weird. O.o
Rocky Horror Picture Show by far. That thing had me saying what the fluff and I was craving meatloaf after that for some reason. IT was good but it was also pretty weird. O.o
Rocky Horror Picture Show by far. That thing had me saying what the fluff and I was craving meatloaf after that for some reason. IT was good but it was also pretty weird. O.o
Rocky Horror Picture Show by far. That thing had me saying what the fluff and I was craving meatloaf after that for some reason. IT was good but it was also pretty weird. O.o
Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure... This movie's awesome for all the wrong reasons.
Drag Me to Hell. It's got humor in all the wrong places. And it's twisted. :O
~TMRomance
The Yellow Submarine. I mean... Blue Meanies?
Attack of the Red Tomatoes...I watch it and laugh. According to my dad it was scary back when he was a kid.
I'm a bog fan of Jane Austen, but i'd never read Mansfield Park and i watched the movie with a friend who also adores her work.
Don't get me wrong i love, love, love good movies that take place in the 1800s. But i watched it and was like, WTF???? the entire time...
Though i suppose it wasn't as strange and Jane Eyre, which i found out is also a book but not by Miss Austen. I watched it, with the same friend, and we were litterally the whole time asking eachother what the hell just happened.
Perhaps the books are better??
^Big Fan
my bad.
It's a hard contest won but... I think I'll go with "Tideland".
>>111
You watched the movie Jane Eyre but didn't read the book? Huh. Well, the movie is a good rendition, and I thought the book was pretty straight-forward. There're a lot of plot twists, though, so it probably just didn't compress well to the viewer who never read the book.
Weirdest film... hmm, it's a tough battle, but I'm going to go with "Tideland".