Syl wrote: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.
YES!!! "you don't know what i have to do to get it." the eyebrows!!!! and and... "I DON'T GIVE A sH*t you F**King loser!!"
i think the guy deserves an oscar!!
and a beer!
and keep dante away from those two for godsake!
ps...i need that blue hat!! its sweeeet.
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 ~
I'd like to nominate Happiness for this thread. I wouldn't say "dark" as much as "uncomfortable." I've never been more uncomfortable watching a movie, mainly because of the constant "should I be laughing at this" to "God! why am I laughing at this"
Best Jon Lovitz acting ever in the first 5-10 minutes.
I have the feeling I've mentioned this somewhere here before....
Life is a waste of time
Time is a waste of life
So get wasted all of the time
And you'll have the time of your life
Just saw a David Lynch movie called Inland Empire. Utterly bizarre film...possibly genius, possibly...not.
Some other people who had seen it before said it takes a view watches to start making sense; and since they pointed out some links between a number of utterly bizarre scenes, I believe them.
Malik23 wrote:As long as we're mentioning David Lynch, why not Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me?
Does 12 Monkeys qualify? Hell, it's another Gilliam. It should be on this list.
Jacob's Ladder isn't all that dark, but it's definitely weird.
Hmm, I prefer La Jetee to 12 Monkeys but to each his own.
EDIT-Perhaps I should explain myself just in case people don't know, la jetee is the original version of 12 monkeys. It's sort of told in slideshow form but I think it's pretty good.
Holsety wrote: Hmm, I prefer La Jetee to 12 Monkeys but to each his own.
EDIT-Perhaps I should explain myself just in case people don't know, la jetee is the original version of 12 monkeys. It's sort of told in slideshow form but I think it's pretty good.
100% agree there. La Jetee is a much better film than 12 Monkeys (which was a good, but not great, Gilliam film, I think). It does so much more with the premise and has a 1000 times the pathos, even though it barely runs for 30 mins.
Anyone mentioned Caligula yet?
Or how about In A Glass Cage? Definitely the bleakest movie I've ever seen. Great too.
Forgot about these when I posted before. Enjoyed them but wouldn't recommend them to normal folks.
This ones just wierd, Otesánek (Little Otik), like Eraserhead meets Delicatessen.
Also, Gummo from a co-writer of KIDS.
"...and if you do not listen, then to hell with you."
I was able to stomach most of the violence against the men in this movie, actually, but I walked out for a few minutes after a certain thing gets done to a female character. Call me sexist or old fashioned if you want.
I just watched Mulholland Drive. This has got to be one of the strangest coherent movies I've ever seen (I've seen stranger, but they weren't coherent).
I'm probably going to be lynched for this, but I think it could've played just fine with just the last section. The first two hours were intriguing, but I found myself getting bored during them. The last section, however, was much better (probably because it had more narrative cohesion). Spoiler
Having read some of the theories about it online, I have to agree with the dream analysis. It fits too well for any other explanation to be necessary.
"You make me think Hell is run like a corporation."
"It's the other way around, but yes."
Obaki, Too Much Information
The Vengeance Trilogy (Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, Oldboy, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance)
The last part of Sympathy for Lady Vengeance managed to be incredibly graphic and stomach churning without actually explicitly showing the violence (much). And Oldboy...well, it was just plain f**ked up.[/spoiler]
^"Amusing, worth talking to, completely insane...pick your favourite." - Avatar
I love those films, but I don't find them all that strange or messed up - no more than most films with violence. The Kind-Hearted Ms. Geum-ja (the original title is much better, no?) is kinda sweet and tragic. I guess the dream sequences were pretty weird (him as a dog).
Yes, that Spike Lee, not the unknown brother of Ang.
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
-George Steiner
Murrin wrote:I love those films, but I don't find them all that strange or messed up - no more than most films with violence. The Kind-Hearted Ms. Geum-ja (the original title is much better, no?) is kinda sweet and tragic. I guess the dream sequences were pretty weird (him as a dog).
Sympathy for Mr Vengeance I guess was relatively straightforward. Lady Vengeance got me with Spoiler
the cold and calculated butchery of the murderer- the way everyone lined up and made sure not to kill him outright so everyone got a turn
As for Oldboy....well, Spoiler
forced incest revenge
is not something I've encountered in any other film
^"Amusing, worth talking to, completely insane...pick your favourite." - Avatar
"you don't know what i have to do to get it." the eyebrows!!!! and and... "I DON'T GIVE A sH*t you F**King loser!!" 
