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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 11:44 pm
by lucimay
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.
"You don't know what I have to do to get it."
Makes
this pic a little more sinister.

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.
Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 3:25 am
by Holsety
Reave the Unjust wrote:I think most of these have already been mentioned but here's 5 of my oddest:
A Clockwork Orange
Pi
Repo Man
Bad Boy Bubby
Pan's Labyrinth
I just saw bad boy bubby, and it is the strangest film I have seen.
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 2:26 am
by jelerak
you tube clips from Freaks...
We accept her...
youtube.com/watch?v=pQkYGhmdMig
youtube.com/watch?v=oPhN47BLdIw&mode=related&search=
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:30 pm
by Cagliostro
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....
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 4:13 am
by Edge
jelerak wrote:you tube clips from Freaks...
We accept her...
youtube.com/watch?v=pQkYGhmdMig
youtube.com/watch?v=oPhN47BLdIw&mode=related&search=
Thank you! I was starting to wonder if I was the only one here who'd seen Freaks.
Not that there's a chance in hell of me clicking those links, but thanks!

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 5:13 am
by Holsety
Just saw part of the Dekalog. Very interesting, basically a TV miniseries of stories relating to the 10 commandments (1 epi for each commandment).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decalogue
I saw episodes 2 and 6. 6 was interesting but 2 was truly excellent. I suppose 2 wasn't that dark when all was said and done but...
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 5:12 am
by Holsety
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.
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:17 am
by Zarathustra
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.
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:54 am
by Sunbaneglasses
I love me some Time Bandits, delightfully weird. Terry Gilliam is one of a kind.
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:20 am
by Holsety
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.
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:56 am
by Montresor
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.
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 9:00 am
by bloodguard bob
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.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:16 pm
by Holsety
I just watched Ichi the Killer...
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.
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 1:28 am
by Rigel
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).
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.
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 4:39 am
by Lord Zombiac
tales from the Gimli Hospital
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:54 am
by Cambo
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]
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 12:52 pm
by I'm Murrin
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).
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 2:40 pm
by [Syl]
On the subject of Oldboy:
Confirmed: Spike Lee directing Oldboy remake
Yes, that Spike Lee, not the unknown brother of Ang.
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 4:10 pm
by Cambo
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
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,
forced incest revenge
is not something I've encountered in any other film
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 4:59 pm
by sindatur
The house of Yes is pretty bizarre and fairly coherent. Starring Parker Posey, who's always fun to watch.