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Weirdest movie ever?

posted 6 years ago by AngularTurnip (3334)
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So many of them. One that's been haunting me lately is a slice of avant-garde from '68 called "The Swimmer." Burt Lancaster plays the titular main character, clad, from start to finish, only in tight swim briefs. It starts out as a cocktail hour frolic -- even jet set age icon Joan Rivers (giving the viewer the chance to see her before she submitted herself to a thousand facelifts) makes an appearance -- before descending into Lynchian depths of surrealism. Movies that start as one thing and then become something else entirely often flounder. For example: "Hancock". "The Swimmer," on the other hand, is an example of a film pulling off this difficult trick with ease.

It's recommended for those who want a really strange experience.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Blue Velvet 1986. You can't beat the In Dreams scene - so stupid yet so funny, yet compelling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtjiVTSs8pc

[–] AngularTurnip (3334) 6 years ago

Good stuff.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 6 years ago

The Lobster

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

[–] MIchiganJFrogg (-35) 6 years ago

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[–] actionkamen (23176) 6 years ago

Well, the OP's example was Hancock and The Swimmer...

[–] MIchiganJFrogg (-35) 6 years ago

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[–] actionkamen (23176) 6 years ago

Never seen those movies. Maybe because I'm not a horror fan.

[–] MIchiganJFrogg (-35) 6 years ago

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[–] AngularTurnip (3334) 6 years ago

Just "The Swiimmer." I liked "The Swimmer" because, I felt, it started as one movie only, by the end, to have become a different movie entirely. "Hancock" too tried to start as one movie and then become a differently movie ... only, I felt, unlike "The Swimmer," it did this very poorly.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 6 years ago

For a genre-bending movie, I recommend Colossal (2016). It starts as a typical rom-com chick-flick, ends as a giant monster movie, but all in all is pretty much still a chick-flick. So weird...

[–] AngularTurnip (3334) 6 years ago

Thanks. I'll have to seek that out.

[–] RussellNash (2087) 6 years ago

Mulholland Drive (2001). I love it and have seen it many times. I’ve read many good interpretations online, but I still don’t fully understand it.

Enemy (2013) is quite weird.

Nothing but Trouble (1991). I’m probably the only person in the world who loves this movie. It’s weird as f***, and Red Letter Media once described it as “a cross between The Goonies and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”.

[–] easyrider (26) 6 years ago

How about 'Mom and Dad' with Nicolas Cage??? You think you can actually top that one??

[–] mike (327) 6 years ago

Being John Malkovich (1999) was pretty darn weird.

[–] davodikum (6007) 6 years ago

Zardoz

[–] AngularTurnip (3334) 6 years ago

"The Penis is evil! The Penis shoots Seeds, and makes new Life to poison the Earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the Gun shoots Death and purifies the Earth of the filth of Brutals. Go forth, and kill! Zardoz has spoken."

[–] kspkap (13185) 6 years ago

“A Clockwork Orange” An absolutely disgusting piece of crap. Nothing but gratuitous violence. It was so disturbing to the point of making me feel a shower was needed to wash off the filth! The actor Martin McDowell has always been a weird sort IMO. Look at the movies in which he’s been casted.

I also wasted my time on “The Swimmer”. I could not wrap my head around it...and I don’t care to try again!

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 6 years ago

Wow! I'm amazed to hear you say that. I think it was a brilliant masterpiece, 9.5/10. But then that's why they make chocolate and vanilla.

😎

[–] Padeen (6459) 6 years ago

Love (2011)

Will someone please explain this to me. Weirdest movie ever.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1541874/

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

The Brood 1979 especially the "birth" scene.

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