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Weirdest movie ever?


So many of them. One that's been haunting me lately is a slice of avant-garde from '68 called "The Swimmer." Burt Lancaster plays the titular main character, clad, from start to finish, only in tight swim briefs. It starts out as a cocktail hour frolic -- even jet set age icon Joan Rivers (giving the viewer the chance to see her before she submitted herself to a thousand facelifts) makes an appearance -- before descending into Lynchian depths of surrealism. Movies that start as one thing and then become something else entirely often flounder. For example: "Hancock". "The Swimmer," on the other hand, is an example of a film pulling off this difficult trick with ease.

It's recommended for those who want a really strange experience.

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Gozu (2003). I don't even have to think about it. That movie was the weirdest shit I have ever seen. During the whole end credits I was just sitting there staring at the TV trying to comprehend what in the world I had just watched.

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Me too. To this day I still try to make sense of it. If I'm caught in traffic, and my mind wanders, invariably it often wanders to something like that. I sit in my car, waiting for the traffic to move, trying to impose on that movie even a scintilla of sense. I often have to reel myself in from giving that movie too much thought because, after all, that way lies madness.

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Are you me??? I just watched that movie this evening! It's indeed a weird film. Kind of pretentious. I can't say I liked it.

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I can't say I liked it either. But I never forgot it. I liked the second "Guardians of the Galaxy" movie ... but can barely recall a thing about it.

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Mother! (2017) - it bombed and rightly so. I am not big on allegorical movies.
Black Swan (2010) - I still don't know what was real or not.

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Another movie I have no interest in revisiting -- yet -- but a film that, unlike countless other films I've watched, made an impression on me.

Plus Jennifer Lawrence's mug, which is practically the only thing we see for much of the film, has never been more striking.

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I liked "Black Swan" for precisely that reason.

I take it Aronofsky is not one of your favs?

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Videodrome and Naked Lunch are up there for me. I love weird movies.

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Neither movie cares a lick about holding your hand.

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Cronenberg is great at that. I love his stuff. The only one I can't get into is Cosmopolis. Besides that I've liked pretty much every one of his films.

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Videodrome is so 1980s Toronto. I love looking at it for that reason alone.

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If Cronenberg and Cameron were in a cage match, who would win? I wouldn't tangle with either given my delicate American sensibilities.

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Doesn't Cameron have a temper? Cronenberg strikes me as a bit more mild-mannered. Then again, looks can be deceiving.

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They both seem a little spicy. Cronenberg seems like Wolverine and Cameron is like Cyclops. Cronenberg would use his inner beast and Cameron would use some sort of technology he pioneered.

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Cronenberg would kick Cameron's ass!


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The Forbidden Zone, with music by Oingo Boingo.

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And Knick Knack himself.

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The 4th Man

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The new Romanian movies are very weird

And maybe the French too

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That's cause there's too damn many gypsies in them!


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Brain Damage is some weird shit.

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Bad Taste

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