Truly strange films

Shortbus.

Look it up. If you like sex in your movies, this is the one for you. Strange flick.

 

You're A Big Boy Now
Mulholland Drive
Angel Heart

 

The aforementioned Naked Lunch and Fire Walk With Me are high on my list.

I love me some Blue Velvet, particularly Dennis Hopper's character.

Momento was so brilliant that I have a tough time putting it into the strange movie category.

I haven't seen Gummo mentioned yet?
Gummo is quite alarming. That's about all that I recall about it.

 

It certainly takes a strange turn ... or two.

 

Those were exactly what I was thinking as I was scrolling down. Also, "Stay" (with Ryan Gosling, Ewan McGregor) was f'n nuts. Apparently everyone in Hollywood loved the script, but the whole thing is just insane.

If you ever want to watch something that'll blow your mind, check out "Waking Life."

 

Watched "Clockwork Orange and "Blue Velvet" back to back the first year I was out of high school. Enjoyable evening.

 

Robert Preston had all the good lines in SOB.

 

That would be Nelson from the Simpsons, one of my favorite lines ever from that show. I know somebody already beat me to it, but Brazil definitely deserves to be on this list. I would also add "Dark City" and "Equilibrium" to the list. Both very trippy, both very good.

 

I watched A Scanner Darkly a couple months back. Strange, but interesting. And, without a doubt, Keanu Reeves' finest acting performance. One year in college I spent the majority of the semester stoned and watched, at least three time, and never in a lucid state, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Still don't know what the fuck happened. It was in that same time frame, all baked out of my mind, that I got really creeped out by Ducky in Pretty In Pink. Convinced he was a stalker.

 

The one exchange of dialogue I remember in that movie, not because I ever saw it straight through, but because it was always in the Showtime promo they would put in between movies:

Mulligan: "Is she going to be able to do the scene?"
Preston: "Is Batman a transvestite? Who knows?"

 

I love any movie that makes Hollywood look stupid. This movie did have a bit of a freak show quality to it with the cast including Larry Hagman and Loretta Swit. And hearing Julie Andrews use cuss words is worth the price of admission alone. Robert Preston rocks. "Sheister?, dear lady a sheister is a lawyer. I am, a quack.

 

Two movies that I did not understand, and have watched them only once:

1) Barton Fink

2) I Love the Huckabees


(For sure, maybe I should give each of these a second go. It took two times for me with "Glengarry Glen Ross", which is now one of my all-time favorites.)