Weird Friggin' Movies

[Bluemoon_Rising]

Just saw Eraserhead. Is there anyone on this board you can explain the damn thing to this philistine? What's the big deal over this artsy-fartsy piece of crap?

List your choices for weird movies as well.

[n_carolyne]

One of the strangest films I've ever seen was "Romeo Is Bleeding." I think it had Gary Oldman in it. Another odd work of cinematography was "Boxing Helena." It's about this doctor who loves this woman who can't stand him, so he kidnaps her then amputates her arms and legs to keep her there. Straaaaaaange movie.... especially the ending.

Let's seeee....... That's all for now... I can probably think of more later.

[Wyatt_Junker]

The Ninth Configuration.

William Blatty, pre-Exorcist fame.

[JonECat]

Army of Darkness or any of the Evil Dead Series, although strange in a good way.

[ThomasMore]

Your mistake was in watching anything made by David Lynch. Everything he does is psychotic, to wit:

Eraserhead (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0074486)

Dune (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0087182) (Which cinematically destroyed Frank Herbert's classic SciFi novel.)

Blue Velvet (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0090756),

and the bizarro 80's TV series,

Twin Peaks (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0098936).

As for Boxing Helena (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0106471), no surprise, it was made by Lynch's daughter Jennifer Chambers Lynch.

The worm-eaten apple didn't fall far from the infested tree.

[Dash_Riprock]

I read all of Frank Herbert's Dune novels (Chapterhouse Dune doesn't count). It's simply too ponderous to put to film. The first movie, with Sting, was a disgrace. The second one, made by the Sci-Fi Channel, wasn't that bad.

[Bluemoon_Rising]

The Elephant Man is brilliantly done, a masterpiece. It's one of my all-time favorites. But that's the only thing I've seen of his that I like.

[The_RANDy_Corporation]

Eating Raoul

and I concur w/ the analysis on Dune

[nosferatuscoffin]

Since we are on the subject of weird-ass movies, as a long time connoisseur of cheesy movies, I will present a list that will probably drive you to suicide if you ever see them. These are all ones that MST3K did, but it does not take away from the fact that they are potentially, lethal weapons.

Worst movies ever made:

1. Manos, the Hands of Fate. Impossible to explain. Must be seen to be believed. My IMDB review is here (http://us.imdb.com/CommentsShow?0060666-241)

2. Monster A-Go-Go. Features THE worst ending in movie history. A charred remain of some obscure director's project.

3. The Wild, Wild World of Batwoman. The most confusing movie ever made and the worst attempt at camp ever attempted.My IMDB.com review ishere (http://us.imdb.com/CommentsShow?0061191-20)

[Radical-Conservative]

<font color="orange">A Clockwork Orange </font>
And
Dr. Strangelove

[Wyatt_Junker]

The Toxic Avenger

Motel Hell

The Kentucky Fried Movie

[SouthernReBelle]

Kentucky Fried Movie ROCKS...


Saw Brazil. That was freaking stupid.

Heather

[DaiKaijuGojira]

"Mothers Day"

"Frankenstein conquers the world" (FrankenJap)

"Squirm"

"Night of the Lepus" (Killer rabbits)


"Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2" (Dennis Hopper lowpoint)

"A Gnome Named Norm" (Jerry Orbach special)

"A man Called Rainbow?" (Sylvester Stallone's debut?)

[ThomasIsUnderrated]

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The_RANDy_Corporation said:
Eating Raoul



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Randy,

How weird! About a minute or so after reading this thread, I went to do an old crossword on Yahoo! Guess what? One of the questions was "Eating ______" (1982)! I had never heard of the movie.

[n_carolyne]

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The Toxic Avenger

Motel Hell

The Kentucky Fried Movie

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Now those were some bad movies!! http://freeconservatives.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon16.gif

Since the subject seems to have switched to stupid horror flicks, how about the movie "Pumpkinhead?" Anybody seen "I Spit on Your Grave?" That's an unusual one. "The Evil Dead" was pretty campy.

"A Clockwork Orange" was actually pretty neat, although a little strange. It was dealing with ole Pavlov's classical conditioning.

[nosferatuscoffin]

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n_carolyne said:
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The Toxic Avenger

Motel Hell

The Kentucky Fried Movie

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Now those were some bad movies!! http://freeconservatives.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon16.gif

Since the subject seems to have switched to stupid horror flicks, how about the movie "Pumpkinhead?" Anybody seen "I Spit on Your Grave?" That's an unusual one. "The Evil Dead" was pretty campy.

"A Clockwork Orange" was actually pretty neat, although a little strange. It was dealing with ole Pavlov's classical conditioning.

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I Spit On Your Grave was a classic. The woman getting revenge on her attackers in spades. The bathtub scene is classic.

But, as I said before, anos and Monster A-go-go will steal years from your life.

[DaiKaijuGojira]

The Basketcase movies.

Those are weird! I liked the first one.

The creature's name was Belial. Ugly little spud too.

[DaiKaijuGojira]

"Ghoulies" movies.

They went to college in the third one.

[wolfplus3]

Stupidest flick I ever saw was called "Hardware".

Looked like it was made in the single room apartment in an abandoned Arizona motel. Something about a sentinent robot building itself from scraps or something like that. Never left the room (the camera), never got any kind of sense of plot, I watched the damn thing all the way thru thinking "they gotta make sense sooner or later". No dice, and 1 &amp; 1/2 hours of my life wasted.....bleeeehhhh.

[Radical-Conservative]

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Wyatt_Junker said:
The Toxic Avenger

Motel Hell

The Kentucky Fried Movie

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Rocky Horror Picture Show

[dPrasse]

I'm not as well culturedas you all , i guess ...
Howard the Duck was the worst I've gone to see ...but I was there just to see Miss Thompson ....... she could've ruffled my feathers way back then !

[Peachdiane]

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Bluemoon_Rising said:
Just saw Eraserhead. Is there anyone on this board you can explain the damn thing to this philistine? What's the big deal over this artsy-fartsy piece of crap?

List your choices for weird movies as well.

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I'll add more as I think of them but:

The Willies with Sean Astin. It's got two brothers camping with their cousin trying to frighten each other by telling stories. Poodle in the microwave, dead rat in a tub of kentucky fried chicken, old man having a heart attack from a carnival ride, etc.... it was just so offbeat you had to laugh. I couldn't believe I wasted $$$ on it though

I Love You to Death with Kevin Kline and River Phoenix. Wife finds out her husband's cheating. Being Catholic, divorce is out of the question, so she and her mother and her best friend decide to kill him. They hire incompetent professionals as they beat, poison, and shoot the husband who remains oblivious to their attempts.

The Brood A daughter comes back from a visit with mom and she's covered with bruises and welts. The wife's mother and father are attacked by deformed children, and the husband begins to suspect a connection with a psychiatrist's methods. Saw this when I was 9 and it was so weird and creepy I never forgot it.

[TheRealLobo]

Alright, now you guys got me thinking of a movie I saw as a kid that I can't remeber the name of, but it scared the sh*t out of me.

This young-ish couple inherits this house in a weird town. The husband does I believe.

There is a scene with a couple of rednecks types gravel skiing. (Kid holding rope tied to back of truck, rope breaks, kid goes into barbed wires fence).

There is a lighthouse scene I can't remember.

The house has a woman (crazy aunt?) locked up in the attic.

Someone (the crazy aunt?) is looking through a peephole at the young couple at one point.

Any of this helping anyone remember this movie?

It was probably a late 60's.

There was also a scene with a guy using a welding torch with a welder's mask on, and he takes the mask off to talk to the youngish couple, and he has a badly disfigured face.

PLEASE post the name of this if it jars any memories.

[Rink]

a movie i thought was stupid was 'tremors', worms underground in a desert location? and people fighting them? LMAO

One movie that did scare me and did give me some measure of nightmares was Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Birds"

Good gawd I watched that movie in its entirety (no editing of gruesome scenes), watchin them birds eating dead peoples eyes, UGH!

That guy can and did make some very creepy movies, but that, OMW that took the cake.

[nosferatuscoffin]

I remember back when I was a kid and staying over at a friend's house for the night, that movie was on their TV. Well, in the middle of it, a bird came flying out of their fireplace and started flying around the house. The father had to bag it and take it outside.

Talk about a weird coincidence.

[Bluemoon_Rising]

I like Kubrick's Strangelove, but Clockwork. . . . Don't get me started on that overrated rag.

Just saw Love Lisa and Punch Drunk Love. Mainstream weird, but still weird! Examples of Hollywood's latest fascination with "character-sketch" surrealism--along the lines of films like Magnolia, The Hours, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, etc. .

[Wyatt_Junker]

Whadja think of Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut?

Cool parties, eh?

[Bluemoon_Rising]

Haven't seen it, Wyatt.

Is it any good?

[Wyatt_Junker]

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Haven't seen it, Wyatt.

Is it any good?

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Kubrick is pretty much the polar opposite of say, Jerry Bruckheimer, whom I despise. Kubrick respects his audience, allowing them some open space where everything need not be made known whereas Bruckheimer thinks you're dumb and gives you production overkill where imagination isn't allowed. Nothing worse in movies, writing or stand-up comedy where the obvious is rendered in painfully obvious images. Then you, as the viewer/reader, have no need to participate seeing that your imagination never needs to be brought to the work. Its all done for you. All the heavy lifting. Bruckheimer uses so much novacaine that you can't feel the movie. You walk out feeling numb and dumber for the experience.

Eyes Wide Shut has a ton of tangential, unanswered sub-plots. Kubrick allows you to make up your own decisions on each of them. And it is for this reason, I presume, that not many people liked the film either. Bunch of passive, lazy victims of hyper-consumerism, their attention spans so abbreviated that only a bit of tit and ass will allow them to feel real and alive again. Only a movie with shiny 'sploshuns and ultra-fed graphic work on steroids will do anymore simply because people don't want to think. They don't want to be stretched. Challenged. Etc. They just want a good time. Nothing wrong with a good time. At least occasionally, but that's all they want, all the time. A good time: tits and ass and sploshuns. Over and over. I call it TAS syndrome. First the tits, then the ass, followed up by mushroom clouds. Sometimes the ass will come first. Deep moviegoers will call that foreshadowing. But never does the violence precede the sex. The sex comes first. First tits, then ass and finally bloodshed. First create or cause an erection. Stimulate it. And then bring about proper denouement in a pile of corpses. That's Bruckheimer in a nutshell.

Kubrick doesn't deliver on any of those things. He teases the shit out of you. You're never sure when the erection comes or if it will at all. He keeps you twisting. There are no traditional prince and princesses. There is no pageantry. There's very little in the way of psychological pandering.

If you watch EWS, notice the masks worn throughout. Notice the use of veils and secrets. The story of telling by not telling. Of keeping things hidden and remaining. Notice the several endings that could be. Nothing gets hammered out. The audience is respected. The audience, it is assumed, has a brain, at least in this flick.

[n_carolyne]

Eyes Wide Shut was strange, and I felt like I'd watched a porno afterwards. It made me feel dirty. I've got some more:

Jacob's Ladder
Angel Heart (Lisa Bonet getting it in the end was way strange......)
The Hunger

[Timberwolf]

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TheRealLobo said:
Alright, now you guys got me thinking of a movie I saw as a kid that I can't remeber the name of, but it scared the sh*t out of me.

This young-ish couple inherits this house in a weird town. The husband does I believe.

There is a scene with a couple of rednecks types gravel skiing. (Kid holding rope tied to back of truck, rope breaks, kid goes into barbed wires fence).

There is a lighthouse scene I can't remember.

The house has a woman (crazy aunt?) locked up in the attic.

Someone (the crazy aunt?) is looking through a peephole at the young couple at one point.

Any of this helping anyone remember this movie?

It was probably a late 60's.

There was also a scene with a guy using a welding torch with a welder's mask on, and he takes the mask off to talk to the youngish couple, and he has a badly disfigured face.

PLEASE post the name of this if it jars any memories.

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Sounds familiar to me, too, but I can't come up with a title...as for other weird movies, The Fog and The Manitou rate right up there.

[Bluemoon_Rising]

Agree with you about Kubrick; he's the thinking man's director. Clockwork is the only film of his I've seen that I didn't like. I was first critical of 2001, but latter changed my mind.

What do you think of Tarantino's stuff? I respect Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction.

[Wyatt_Junker]

The ultra-violence concept *where it is done to gaudy extremes in order to blur with comedy* - anasthetizing audiences until death becomes a punchline has ancient roots, starting with Nero. (In fact, I remember watching Pulp Fiction in the theater and during the scene where Travolta accidently blows the head off the guy in the back seat and his head explodes, I can still recall people in the audience laughing at the white molars clinging to the back of Samuel Jackson's afro with all the glee of Caligula's disciples.)

I prefer a more reasoned approach to movie gore. Not that it can't have comedy, but being tangential with it or employing shock tactics doesn't impress me. The gimp, the timepiece shoved up the ass, etc. etc. Random non sequitors. I like my violent humor to at least go somewhere and not just be stuck in endless vignettes.

An example would be Falling Down with Michael Douglas. I laughed through the entire movie and felt somewhat justified in the process. And it had real storyline glue: white male rage. All the everyday shit that pisses you off: waiting in lines, pressing one if you speak Spanish, inflation, even traffic all made for a kind of rage with purpose. And the effect was hilarious.

Tarantino tries more of an arcane method that is alright. I just don't belly laugh. He just knows how to collate information. He rips off ideas from other movies, incorporating them with minor changes. Deliverance, Shaft, Foxy, Dolomite, Godfather etc. Its like putting a bunch of classic, expensive caviar in a blender and making a very rich milkshake. It makes you sick. There's no plot. Just scenes. Just a bunch of loosely tied shit(memorable scenes) that you can tell your friends about later. "Hey, did you see the scene in Reservoir Dogs when that dude ate that guy's ear!?!" Its like frat boy chit chat in-between trips to the keg.

[Maggie_T]

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Bluemoon_Rising said:
Haven't seen it, Wyatt.

Is it any good?

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Blue, STAY AWAY FROM THAT TURKEY.

That's one of the films I love to hate. It's the most boring, mediocre, idiotic bomber of a film, and all I can say is that Kubrik must have been suffering from Alzheimer when he made it, though doctors never seemed to have noticed. As for the acting, I've seen better acting in school performances. Yes, I'm talking about the great Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. http://freeconservatives.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif

My advice? You'll be better entertained watching paint dry.

[Bluemoon_Rising]

Wyatt, that would be a no vote for Tarantino, done with style. Yes, he does steal, but those two films work for me. The rest of his stuff to date, in my opinion, is trash. Beyond those two films, I've lost interest in his work.

Falling Down is brilliant, a favorite of mine. Good Eye!

[wolfplus3]

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Timberwolf said:
Sounds familiar to me, too, but I can't come up with a title...as for other weird movies, The Fog and The Manitou rate right up there.

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Both of these movies are from books by Graham Masterton, a prolific horror writer. He is also the author of the only book that has ever bothered me, "Master of Lies". It has an idiot ending, but the first parts of the book are disturbing without being overly grotesque.
He has written many such novels, for a good nights read I'd suggest "Dream Warriors".

[Peachdiane]

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TheRealLobo said:
Alright, now you guys got me thinking of a movie I saw as a kid that I can't remeber the name of, but it scared the sh*t out of me.

This young-ish couple inherits this house in a weird town. The husband does I believe.

There is a scene with a couple of rednecks types gravel skiing. (Kid holding rope tied to back of truck, rope breaks, kid goes into barbed wires fence).

There is a lighthouse scene I can't remember.

The house has a woman (crazy aunt?) locked up in the attic.

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Hi Lobo, how you doing? Been keeping you and Mrs. Lobo in my prayers http://freeconservatives.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif I saw this movie too, long ago and can't think of the name either. I even did searches and it's driving me nuts! http://freeconservatives.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Rink, don't get me started on birds! I'm staying FAR away from that movie. If you want, I'll tell you a real life hawk story.

Wyatt, the only Kubrick films I watched were Full Metal Jacket and A.I. but I thought some of Bruckheimer's were ok. You didn't like "Remember the Titans", "The Rock", "Top Gun" or "Con Air?" http://freeconservatives.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon127.gif

I guess different strokes for different folks... Some people want drugs, some want sex, some overeat, etc. Me, I buy DVDs! http://freeconservatives.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon2.gif I like movies where I don't have to do much thinking. I WANT that novocaine!

[CatKozTX]

The two movies I love to hate are The Postman and Ishtar.

Ishtar is so damn bad, I laugh just thinking about it.

The Postman was pure crap. I kept waiting and waiting thinking it HAD to get better at some point. I can't believe I actually sat through the whole thing! http://freeconservatives.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blah.bmp

[DesertFox]

Pulp Fiction had some of the slickest scenes I've seen anywhere. That ultralong fix on the unmoving face of Bruce Lee as he talks with the bossa-the-street was extraordinary. All the tiny things that register on his mug during the exchange, and all the things that he doesn't allow to show on his mug -- flat out brilliant.

That's also the only flick where the black dude who won the Oscar for Pulp Fiction really got to show his stuff. I don't even know his name, but few of his flicks make adequate use of his talents.

Moon, you're the onliest nonlib besides me I know who likes that flick.

[dPrasse]

Peach says " I like movies where I don't have to do much thinking. I WANT that novocaine! " ....

ok , for novocaine type movie ...
watch Blazing Saddles .. that movie is soooooo politically in correct .....
Alex Carris slugging a horse , a black man in a KKK hood asking " where da white women at ?" .. white railroad formen trying to teach black gandy-dancers Camp Town Ladies song ....... a drunk Gene Wilder being asked by a black Sheriff ." are we awake?" .Wilder asks back ." Are We black ?" http://freeconservatives.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif . Gene Wilder being called the Deputy Spade by the towns folk .....

oh my oh my ! never , ever could this movie be made today !

dP
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[Maggie_T]

Prasse, I hear you. Blazing Saddles is a hoot. I'm surprised they haven't burnt it yet. It's VERY un-pc. They even showed it on HBO a couple of weeks ago.

[Bluemoon_Rising]

Jeez, I'm not alone! Ishtar is in fact my candidate for the worst (i.e., A-list) movie of all time! The Postman, like that overblown, overrated rag, The English Patient, is for artsy-fartsy no-nothings. Oops! I might have stepped on toes.

[Bluemoon_Rising]

Fox said:
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Moon, you're the onliest nonlib besides me I know who likes that flick.

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Ditto! You're the first conservative I've run into who liked it besides me. The film is smart, sleek, brilliantly narrated. The black guy's name is Samuel Jackson. With respect to Tarantino's other stuff, trash is probably too harsh a word. It just that he seems to be stuck on a pop-culture-exploitation-sleek kick. Pulp Fiction and Dogs hit the mark brilliantly, but its time for Tarantino to move on, show us something else besides more decidedly lesser retreads with altered plots, although Jackie Brown comes close, makes a respectable showing.

Another film, inspired by Taratino's fresh, stylized take on film noir is Get Shorty. Great flick!

[JonECat]

Blazing Saddles, Great Movie. A Classic One-Liner and Sight Gag in every other scene. The Baked Bean/Campfire still slays me to this day.

If you're having trouble with movie titles http://www.imdb.com might be a good place to check, you could search by time period, title, star, director and so on. I use it to find Movie Lines personally.

[Wyatt_Junker]

Anyone see this?
http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_7_3/images/movie-american-psycho.jpg
Its madness I tell ya.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/720000/images/_721892_psch_300.jpg

[Bluemoon_Rising]

No . . . though I've considered it. What I've heard about the book sort of gives me the willies. Any good?

To all those talking about Blazing Saddles--I agree. It's a riot! However, my favorite Mel Brooks flick is Young Frankenstien, pronounced Frankensteen. http://freeconservatives.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rotflmbo.gif

[Timberwolf]

Frau Bleucher!!! (horses neighing in the background)

Eyegor, help me with the bags.

Ok...you take the blonde, I'll take the one in the toiban.

My, what large knockers.

Why sank you, Doctor!!!

[Wyatt_Junker]

His dissertation on the musical nuances of Huey Lewis are spot on...as he's simultaneously disemboweling a hooker.

Actually, I think he riffed on Phil Collins during a threeway prior to wholesale slaughter. For a dialogue teaser on that very scene CLICK HERE (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0144084/quotes), but be forewarned! Its about mid-page.

His Huey Lewis &amp; the News critique was when he gave his co-worker a major headache.
http://www.amuse-pictures.com/psycho/review/img/re.jpg

Its actually a movie I like to forget, if you know what I mean. Kind of like Leaving Las Vegas. I was glad I watched it(I think), but will never wish it on anybody nor would I want to ever see those films again.

Its actually a very good movie similar to The Great Gatsby in a lot of ways. Although, minus the blood.

But, for a first-timer, there are some real gems in there.

[PreciousLife]

Being John Malkovich (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120601/)

Weirder than weird

[dPrasse]

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Prasse, I hear you. Blazing Saddles is a hoot. I'm surprised they haven't burnt it yet. It's VERY un-pc. They even showed it on HBO a couple of weeks ago.

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good to see that Classic movie is stillmaking the rounds !
I think I'll break out my dvd and watch it Saturday night after the Cubbies are done thrashing FL ....

JonECat , yes , the campfire scene is good ....
the horse with a rope around its neck on the gallows .......

yep ..must see TV !

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[BEST45CAL]

Wild At Heart
Lost Highway
Romeo Is Bleeding
Full Metal Jacket
Shadow Of The Vampire
Sid And Nancy
The Matrix
Being John Malkovich
The Big Lebowski
Fargo
Mars Attacks!
Se7ven
Twelve Monkeys
Strange Days
Johnny Mnemonic
Virtuosity
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
True Romance
Kalifornia
The Crying Game
Bad Lieutenant
Barton Fink
Edward Scissorhands
Heathers
Blue Velvet
Something Wild
River's Edge
At Close Range
Brazil
Cat People
Electra Glide In Blue
The Car
Rollerball
Taxi Driver
Carrie
Westworld
Deliverance
Planet Of The Apes
Duel
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Birds
Jason And The Argonauts
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?

[Bluemoon_Rising]

Okay, will give American Psycho a look and let you know what I think.

[Wyatt_Junker]

Be careful.

Its like one big Ginsu infommercial. A lot of flashing stainless steel, annoying cammed applause and money worship.

After watching it, my wife asked me how I felt.

And I told her, "Positively stabby, my dear. And you?"

She was more reflective.

"Hell, I can't even watch the surgery channel, but this was doable", as she turned to me with a maniacal grimace.

*** There's a scene though that takes the concept of premeditated murder to a whole new level. I call it the Huey Lewis &amp; the News and Then Some. Heh heh.

[lazyeyd]

american psycho was wierd, but it was a good movie.

[SouthernReBelle]

I loved 1941 with John Belushi (BOW TO THE MAN) and Blazing Saddles. http://freeconservatives.com/smilies/beerchug.gif

Since I'm having a really crappy week, I'm going to watch John B. in action. I need some good laughs.

heather

[dPrasse]

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I loved 1941 with John Belushi (BOW TO THE MAN) and Blazing Saddles. http://freeconservatives.com/smilies/beerchug.gif

Since I'm having a really crappy week, I'm going to watch John B. in action. I need some good laughs.

heather

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did you get that autographed John B. pic ? that was a stilll from 1941, wasn't it ?
John B made many "classics" http://freeconservatives.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon16.gif

[JonECat]

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Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? HELL NO!

Germans??

Forget it he's rolling...

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[SouthernReBelle]

Hi Dave..

Yep, I got it hanging up in my AUTOGRAPH Hall of Fame. I LOVE JOHN BELUSHI..

he was a sexy man..

heather

[Bluemoon_Rising]

Wyatt said:

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There's a scene though that takes the concept of premeditated murder to a whole new level. I call it the Huey Lewis &amp; the News and Then Some. Heh heh.

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Be on the look out for it. . . . Still trying to get up the stomach though.

[Wyatt_Junker]

So, what did you think of my referral Blue?
http://www.movieline.com/reviews/images/american_psycho1.jpg
Here's my card. Its eggshell bone, with Arial 23 font. The card is made of vellum and imported from France. They're semi-slick to the touch. Here, keep one.

[Bluemoon_Rising]

Actually, I will be viewing it tonight. I will get back to you on Saturday.

[Wyatt_Junker]

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Bluemoon_Rising said:
Actually, I will be viewing it tonight. I will get back to you on Saturday.

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Be strong.

Avoid overeating.

[dPrasse]

Just saw a bad late night movie ..
the movie by Super Dave Osborne ....

[Bluemoon_Rising]

Okay Wyatt. Watched it last Saturday. I would have replied sooner, but . . . uh . . . I wasn't sure what to make of it.

American Psycho gave me psychological indigestion. I was plagued by images that I could have done without for days. They even invaded my dreams.

It was not as graphically violent as I had been lead to believe, i.e., the gore was off camera. We saw the rage and the violence in the killer's eyes (e.g., in the axe murder), the splatter of blood, but not the mayhem itself directly, thank you.

Okay, it was still graphically and psychologically violent, shocking, but of a different order than I expected. Never having read the book, I was not aware that the killings didn't actually occur in the real world, just in the mind of the killer. The first real clue to this (I think, because I will not watch it again to be sure.) occurs when the killer is dragging the chopped up remains of his business associate out of his building right in front of God and the security guard, with blood seeping and trailing from the bag the body's bundled in. Have you read the book? Are the murders real or imagined in the book? Is this strictly the vehicle used by the filmmakers?

I skipped past the sexually explicit portions altogether. Sexual banalities and violence are the worst to behold. I didn't need those images in my head and saw what was coming.

Okay, so the film's makers expose the shallowness and inherent viciousness of raw commercialism, but what does any of this have to do with Reagan's passionate love for individual liberty and his contempt for big government? Are we to believe that politicians and bureaucrats are any better at curbing the baser of human instincts via state regulation? But to be fair to the film, it didn't dwell on that too much at all. The insinuation was fleeting . . . and unwitting.

There were some smart scenes with clever dialogue in the film, but it did not work for me as a whole. The theme gets lost along the way.

[Bluemoon_Rising]

Yep, dPrasse, that's one awful movie. I watched it too, because the Super Dave vehicle makes for great slap stick, but the joke wears thin beyond anything longer than a half-hour show that doesn't try for anything more. I should have known better. Ah well, the deadpan stupidity of Super Dave is still funny in and of itself.

[dPrasse]

I'd much better suffer the whole Super Dave movie than watch American Psycho , he he he ..... no thanks .... once in awhile , i see enough gore on the farm and "bad images" to rid my mind of ........i don't pay to see that stuff .....
( i don't watch it for free , either /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon16.gif ) .....

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why not watch Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Birds' heheh just as bad

[Bluemoon_Rising]

Well, you got that right. I'm an ex-soldier. Don't need to see anymore either. I was hard pressed to get through Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, which I like, and avoided The Silence of the Lambs, which is one of the best thrillers ever made, for several years before bringing myself to see it. I didn't watch the Tarantino flicks until the late 1990s. Of course, Silence turned out to be a psychological thriller . . . not too graphically violent. A movie really has to have something going for it for me to give it a look if it's bloody.

[Wyatt_Junker]

I was wondering when you were going to find the time for a lil' home improvement.
http://www.filmmonthly.com/Video/Articles/APsycho/Nailed.jpg

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lazyeyd said:
american psycho was wierd, but it was a good movie.

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The book was better, as in most cases, but the movie stuck to the book pretty well. I found the book hysterical, but then again, I am sick.

The WORST movie EVER was the lesbian-feminist-trash known as "I Shot Andy Warhol." Awful, awful movie. If you EVER meet a woman who likes that movie... just run before she cuts your privates off.

[Bluemoon_Rising]

It had more to do with finding the stomach than the time. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif I had to reach deep.

[Bluemoon_Rising]

wolfplus said: "I watched the damn thing all the way thru thinking "they gotta make sense sooner or later". No dice, and 1 &amp; 1/2 hours of my life wasted.....bleeeehhhh."

Yep, thought the same thing all the while watching Eraserhead. Same result too--nothing.