Interesting/quirky movies

Dead or alive:Hanazaisha

From imdb-
"Tagline: WARNING: This motion picture contains explicit portrayals of violence; sex; violent sex; sexual violence; clowns and violent scenes of violent excess, which are definitely not suitable for all audiences."

It's a pretty unusual movie that was directed by Takashi Miike, the Virgo that directed audition.

Everything Is Illuminated

great movie

really? 🙂 awesome. it's the kinda movie i LOVE. not many people i know "get" it, though.

hmmmm...yes, i think i know...the almost-final scene in the bathroom?

grosse point blank
a life less ordinary

oh eternal sunshine is one of my favorite movies ever.. adaptation was fantastic as well

hmm... opinions are like arseholes, and yours just happens to be a very wrongly misshapen arsehole

though mark wahlberg was pretty funny in it

i had such high expectations going into it... so many great reviews, great word of mouth... and it just fell on its face for me. i dunno, i had a hard time getting through it... reminded me of A Dirty Shame. or vice versa.

maybe i should've watched it drunk

oh, i liked amelie... even though it seemed to be a bunch of urban legend strung together. it was definitely cute.

also, Mindwalk comes to mind as a pretty interesting movie.

as does Pi, which i'm surprised hasn't been mentioned... though it is really famous by now.

oh man, i'm too squeamish for requiem (yes, same director) and trainspotting... both made me gag while watching. haven't seen the others, though i've always wanted to see delicatessen and city of lost children.

any terry gilliam movie (other than the monty python films, he did the adventures of baron munchausen, fear and loathing, brazil, time bandits..) is quirky as hell.

here're som pretty interesting mainstream films..

high fidelity
dogma
thank you for smoking
garden state
kiss kiss bang bang
brick
tristram shandy: a cock and bull story (UK)
kinky boots (UK)
city of god (brazil)
sweet sixteen (scotland)
igby goes down

i dunno... i'll need visual confirmation and a payment of 100 dollars to revise my original statement. you can PM me for my paypal information. unfortunately till then, my comment stands.

just noticed the filters amended the tristram shandy title.. hahahahahaha

smegma_sniffers12@grannyfanny.com

smegma_sniffers was already taken 😢

"Trainspotting"

Yes.

"sweet sixteen (scotland)"

I thought I was the only one who watched it.😛

"City of God- though something about the ending bugged me. I'll have to rewatch it."

Oh come on, it had one of the coolest endings ever!
The mini-series, Cidade dos Homens is pretty great as well.

I tried to download it before, but there were no subs.😢

Memento

What's that?

Kewl.

What a conincidence, this forum reminds me of the book 'lord of the Flies" in places...
😛

ghost world is based on a comic book.. great movie, but i didn't like the ending.. it kind of came out of left field.

memento struck me as more of a gimmick film than anything great film-wise... though i did like nolan's batman begins film a whole lot

oh man i saw bits of ichi. can't stand that gorey stuff

Has Being John Malkovitch been mentioned in this thread? Cos I think this was one quirky movie that totally rocked. Brilliant acting from all the cast too. Brillo willo.

The Machinist
Paranoia: 1.0
Noise
May
..quirky psyche thrillers / i like alot of the lower-budget/ independent films..

yeah antibling, in the movie he was an extreme insomniac lathe operator. Bale felt he needed to loose an ((excessive)) amount of weight to play the part; there was no other way'...starving himself for 63 pounds!!..scaring everyone he knew, but he loved the part and played it brilliantly!

'thankfully he's all back to healthy again, a great movie..! s~

There's also "Underground" which is a pretty cool flick, and extremely surreal at times.

Labyrinth (David Bowie version)
Amelie
Ghost World
Office Space
Spun
Hedgwig and the Angry Inch (haven't seen this one yet)

wow, was just thinking of 'Underground'...have that flick, watched it many a times, it is very cool, highly stylish, deliciously dark..'Same genre as QOTD, actually love those kinds of films...'but i always thought actor 'Scott Speedman' was a Cancer all this time..'lol

-i also really liked:
'The 24th Day'

Plot Outline: Tom (Scott Speedman) and Dan's (James Marsden) one-night stand turns into an intense power-play between captor and captive. (this was extremely well written; acting was first-rate.)

'Underworld' with Kate Beckinsale & Scott Speedman; that was my movie..'okay, day-dreaming, lol!

Yama, were you referring to Underground or Underworld ? I haven't seen Underworld , but Underground (Emir Kusturica) is probably my fav. movie of all time (and I think it's gonna be awhile before another movie comes along to overtake it). What I loved about the film is how it deals with the sometimes surreal nature of reality and how it is so personally construed. Although Yugoslavia no longer exists on a map, it stills exists for many, (and will always) in their minds. I know people who still refer to themselves as Yugoslavian (Albanian, Croat, and Serb alike) even now. It's so difficult for some to deal with the "reality" of things when what is their minds is the most powerful and everpresent; and what is really painful is the knowledge that what you "live" internally no longer, has ever, or will ever correspond to what in actuality exists and the forlorn longing for what you know inside to materialize. Why did you like the movie Yama?

The atmosphere, it conflated the surreal and the painfully real(using metaphors, mostly).

Plus, it featured one of the funniest scenes I've seen.

Kusturica def. has a twisted and bizarrre though ingenious sense of humor..he's a master of the tragi-comedy. Which scene?

The one in which Crni attacks the movie-cast.

Yeah, that is crazy...I love Kusturica, love, love, love him! Have you seen any of his other movies? Do you like the music of Bregovic as well?

Welcome to the Dollhouse

12 Monkeys
very weird and quirky sci-fi thriller. Another outstanding performance by Bruce Willis, with Brad Pitt comically and brilliantly taking it over the edge of insanity...

Tagline: The future is history.

"Yeah, that is crazy...I love Kusturica, love, love, love him! Have you seen any of his other movies? Do you like the music of Bregovic as well?"

Haven't had the pleasure yet, and yes, I do like Bregovic's music(Prawy Do Lewego is probably my favorite song of his...Such awesome energy🙂).

Prawy Do Lewego is probably my favorite song of his...Such awesome energy).

Yeah, that's a really good one. He is brilliant. It's amazing how he can combine so many contrasting elements and come up with something entirely different. I really like some of his more famous songs like Ederlezi, Caje Sukarije, Kalasnjikov and War, but I also like some of his lesser known (and more experimental) stuff like Train.

Harold Crick I can swear the dude is typical Virgo, followed by Ana Pascal as Aqua and Kay Eiffel as fish.

? Stranger Than Fiction
? Babel
? Little FISH

These movies are surprisingly good with the first rate qualities.

MOBSTERS - an interesting, very decent under-rated mob movie. Tells of the rise of four of the most infamous gangsters of the '20's. Has alot; action, romance, loyalties and the power of both self-determination and self-preservation. The acting seemed real and honest, not over the top -stars Christian Slater as Charlie "Lucky" Luciano & Richard Grieco as Bugsy Siegel. Very well acted!