You beat me to that one! The other one I was going to mention with it is another Korean film, called R-Point. Sort of a ghost/war film, and i won't say any more cos I'd spoil it....!Emotional Leper wrote:Oldboy
Keep an air-sickness bag at hand. You might need it. It's worse than any other movie I've ever seen. If you could combine "Clockwork Orange," "One Flew over the Cookoo's Nest," "Ichi the Killer," "The General's Daughter," and probably a snuff film, you might approach the disturbing that is Old Boy
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*nod*Matrixman wrote:Menolly mentioned A Clockwork Orange. It's a morally troubling film, so much so for me that I just haven't had the heart to watch it in a long time. Honestly, something like Eraserhead disturbs me less.
A Clockwork Orange is about as dark, strange, weird as I get. I can watch it every few years, and actually enjoy it (and I much prefer the X-rated cut over the R-rated cut), but it also disturbs me no end.
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I'm with Menolly on freaky films. I don't care to watch something that is intended to disturb and confuse me. Occasionally, something slips past my guard.
Frailty, with Bill Paxton and Matthew McConnahy (sp) had us squirming throughout, and the ending . . .
Then there's Memento. I don't often reccommend human catastrophe, but this was so well done.
That's as weird as I get. I haven't seen most (any?) of the movies listed here, and if I did, I conveniently forgot.
Frailty, with Bill Paxton and Matthew McConnahy (sp) had us squirming throughout, and the ending . . .
Then there's Memento. I don't often reccommend human catastrophe, but this was so well done.
That's as weird as I get. I haven't seen most (any?) of the movies listed here, and if I did, I conveniently forgot.
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Oh yes! Frailty is an awesomely creepy movie.
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Darkest, strangest, weidest movies you have ever seen.
hey Menolly - I saw Pan's Labyrinth recently on dvd - it's enchanting in parts, but also has a couple of truly brutal scenes that are definitely not for the feint of heart; one scene in particular freaked me out a bit .. that's my opinion on the film anywhoI was going to ask if anyone classified Pan's Labyrinth in this group. I still haven't seen it, and understand it is not all dark. But enough has been posted about how dark it is overall that I have hesitated to see it so far.
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Sadly the only one on your list I've seen, but this is a great one.Syl wrote:Requiem for a Dream
I don't know if I'll ever go for a second viewing, but still amazing. I just wish people would stop using that music for other stuff...
Memento, ya.
I don't know whether I would consider Ninja Scroll dark, or just stupidly violent, but I have a soft spot in my heart for it.
Would Usual Suspects count? I'm a big fan, but I dunno if it makes "weird."
Another odd movie that I remember is Orlando from 1992: www.imdb.com/title/tt0107756/
Based on a novel by Virginia Woolf (which I haven't read), the film stars Tilda Swinton as Orlando, an apparently immortal human who goes through a series of adventures in different time periods - all while switching genders!
Of all the "weird" movies I've mentioned seeing, I'd say Orlando is my favorite. It was directed by Sally Potter, who I thought did a great job. The cinematography by Aleksei Rodionov was also fabulous. Swinton was superb. The movie was smart and funny without being too obtuse.
Based on a novel by Virginia Woolf (which I haven't read), the film stars Tilda Swinton as Orlando, an apparently immortal human who goes through a series of adventures in different time periods - all while switching genders!
Of all the "weird" movies I've mentioned seeing, I'd say Orlando is my favorite. It was directed by Sally Potter, who I thought did a great job. The cinematography by Aleksei Rodionov was also fabulous. Swinton was superb. The movie was smart and funny without being too obtuse.
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Yeah, saw it twice, and that was enough for me. As for the music, you mean things like this?Holsety wrote:I don't know if I'll ever go for a second viewing, but still amazing. I just wish people would stop using that music for other stuff...
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Syl wrote:Yeah, saw it twice, and that was enough for me. As for the music, you mean things like this?Holsety wrote:I don't know if I'll ever go for a second viewing, but still amazing. I just wish people would stop using that music for other stuff...
i have no idea what either of you are talking about (thats right, i can't be bothered to scroll up and find out either!) but DUDES i love that Toy Story Requiem!!!
i've watched it three times now! 
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
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If you liked Toy Story 2 and you liked, or at least saw, Requiem for a Dream, you can't hep but love that clip. I laugh myself silly every time I see it. I'd really like to buy the guy that made it a beer.
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"You don't know what I have to do to get it."
Makes this pic a little more sinister.
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