Movies

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Napoleon Dynamite. The first time I watched it, I came out of the theater wanting my money back. By the third, I was hoping there would be a sequel.

Splice. It was a surprise screening, we didn't know what movie we were watching and none knew about it before hand.

At some point when they hybrid starts seducing the main character the girl beside me as just "what the fuck is going on with this movie??"

As a movie I don't revving l recommend, but the experience was great.

The strangest was Flow (2024), a Latvian animation film about a cat trying to survive during an apocalypse.
There's not a single line of dialog in the whole movie, since there are no humans.

I watched it 3 times. Seriously, go check it out, it's absolutely awesome.

Bubba Ho-Tep is the winner for me. Elvis, still alive and kicking in a retirement home, needs to team up with JFK (who the CIA dyed black) to stop an Egyptian mummy that is eating the souls of the elderly.

I knew exactly what I was in for, and I had an absolute blast. I took my father with me, and his response was, "What the hell did I just watch?"

Still wish we'd actually gotten the prequel Bubba Nosferatu: Curse of the She-Vampires.

Strangest has to be The Quiet Earth. I don't remember what exactly caught my attention years ago when I downloaded and watched it

Kung Pao: Enter the Fist

I've never seen sooo many people walk out of a theater before.

I just watched Zardoz with Sean Connery last night. I'm pretty sure it got a mainstream release back in 1974. My buddy described it as "an acid-trip."

The Gods Must Be Crazy

See, I liked Southland Tales, too.

But, for me, and I've seen some pretty strange theatre releases:

Baise-Moi (2000): It was banned, for glaringly obvious reasons. But, the theatre got an injunction and we went to one of the only showings.

Happiness (1998): Todd Solondz makes everything awkward.

The Cell (2000): Tarsem's Jennifer Lopez starring sci-fi mind trip.

House of 1000 Corpses: Rob Zombie. I'm not a horror-movie person, yet, somehow, I saw this.

하녀 (The Housemaid, 2010): one of the wildest endings I have ever witnessed. Bar none.

Irreversible (2002): My first film by Gaspar Nöe.

Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990): This is what happens when you can make literally whatever you want. And, you're one of Japan's greatest filmmakers.

Freddy Got Fingered, my mom took me. OMG.

The Room

Eraserhead

Asteroid City.

WTH was that even?

If you haven't seen this movie... Run! Save yourself!

The Greasy Strangler

Upstream Color. I was so hyped for the 2nd feature from the director of Primer, that I went to a premiere with Shane doing a QnA at the end. Despite him talking about it, I have no idea what the movie was about, and I have yet to figure it out. It was more like an experimental film student thesis than a movie.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller version) 2013. It is also my favorite movie. It is strange because the whole movie or most of it is his imagination.

2001: A space Odyssey.

Probably the weirdest mainstream movie I’ve seen. It was bloody awful, too. Perhaps it’s not fair, because I watched it on an airplane, because apparently some people like it. It’s an absolute trip, about 5 lines of dialogue in the whole thing and about 90 minutes of content that should have stayed on the cutting room floor.

I’m sure there’s other movies that are weird (and many that are bad) that I’ve seen but this one sticks in my memory.

I got dragged to the theatre to see the second Twilight film, and that was fucking bizarre

The first two that come to mind are Titane and Moebius.

I went into them both mostly blind and loved them both! If you like dark and strange movies, I would strongly recommend them.

Edit: I just remembered the Takashi Miike films Gozu, Visitor Q, and The Happiness of the Katakuris which I believe all had brief theater stints.

Fantastic Planet.

Ever since watching that, I immediately think everything I watch/play that is super weird must be French. And a lot of the time, that ends up being true. 🤣