Most bizarre movie
 

I'm new to this forum and am curious as to what you guys think is the absolutely most f@#ked up movie ever made. I would have to say "Freeway 2:Confessions of a Trickbaby" and "The Doom Generation" would top my list.

the most f**ked up movie ever made was Magnolia or Alien Avengers i f**king loved magnolia but alien avengers was just stupid!!!

something by David Lynch?

What about the famous "Stanley Kubrick"? R.I.P.
A Clockwork Orange???
Eyes Wide Shut
Full Metal Jacket
The Shinning....

I Still have not figured out A Clockwork Orange.. Any ideas?

I'm a huge, huge Kubrick fan.

A Clockwork Orange was (in my estimation) an attempt to look at society's role in human morality. Nature vs. Nurture. That's the basic underlying theme and everything that goes on top of it is detail that supports that theme.

The nude statues and obsession with milk are references to how people have taken sexuality and made it something secular and mainstream. I forget if it was Kubrick or Burgess who said they could forsee pornography as becoming household paintings in the future. Why not? Sexuality has been cheapened and turned into a crass commercial object by consumerism. Our morality is defined by our cultural setting.

The morality of the character is defined by the lack of police action..... no one is dictating how you should behave, so rape and violence is rapant.

The morality of the people who decided to brainwash the youths of the street is dictated by the desparation they feel at the growing crime rate.

Everything in the movie is a SYMBOL. A Clockwork Orange is one of, if not THE most deeply symbolic movies I've ever seen. The point is - does our society affect our morality, or does our morality affect our society.

I'll talk more later..... I'm gonna be late for work....

You know Brodieman...Your the first to actually make sense of this movie..I work in the library here at my college and on one of the days we got out early for snow i borrowed the movie...
I started watching it..i must say i caught my attention like all of Kubricks movies do. It seems as though, like you said, sex isn't taken the way it should anymore, and i couldn't agree with you more. Remember when sex used to be sacred and private. Now, we have kiddie porn, girls gone wild, and hot lesbian action on WWE (:rolleyes: ). It is truly and indepth look at how our society is, and to a lot of people (including me) it would seem confusing because a lot of us don't see what is really going on.

I hope that made sense

without a doubt, the most bizzarre that i've seen, is 'the holy mountain' [1973], by alejandro jodorowsky. this one wins out for a number of reasons.
1] it doesnt progress quite like anything i've seen before; it starts out with a string of several disconnected 10-15 minute character introduction sequences.
2] at times it's clear where it is going, but it never fully makes sense.
3] the characters themselves: they include:
-the leader of a cult of neuters. he is trying to create "the sanctuary of a thousand testicles".
-the owner of a toy company that produces toys demonizing the "enemies of the nation."
-the son of a wealthy industrialist, whose father makes all of his business decisions by feeling the sex of his dead, stuffed wife. if it is wet, then yes. if dry, then no.
-an art dealer who sells marqui de sade-esque human funiture and human art objects.
-a mute jesus christ lookalike
anyway, you get the idea. each of the characters is basically a criticism of something: hippies, government, business, christianity, etc.
3] a reenactment of the conquest of the americas, using frogs and lizards. [frogs in conquistador getups and lizards in incal-warrior garb being exploded on camera.]
4] a plot that involves a group of villians attempting to overcome their weaknesses so they can kill the gods of "the holy mountain", and steal their immortality. the feats that they are driven to in this quest include drowning a thalidomide baby, and being suffocated by a bull's semen.
5] a joke ending.

yeah, i'm having a hard time thinking of something weirder than this on such a large scale. maybe if jodorowsky had been successful in his attempt to film 'dune' without getting the rights i'd chose that instead.

Read the book, I found it a lot more meaningful than the movie.

then go post in a literary forum, book-lover!

Just kidding. :D I'm an english major and a whole-hearted supporter of "reading the book AND the movie" but in this case,

WE'RE AT A MOVIE FORUM. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE MOVIE. :yup:

Yeah, I just meant that reading the book, you understand the story and the symbolism better, maybe i shouldn't have said meaningful..

I'll just go and cry in my booklover corner now :bawling:

personnally i think a bizarre movie would have to be:
Resevoir Dogs.

The movie is so short and incomplete, the ending is violent and qwerky... But still, the whole movie is kinda dodgy...

i just remembered another bizarre and over-the-top thing from 'the holy mountain'. there was a robot in there, basically just a giant rubiks cube with some flashing lights and dials, that gave birth to other robots through a giant, rectangular, mechanical vagina after a team of men "manipulated" it with a 6' metal phallus....

No one can even claim they've seen the weirdest movie ever until they've seen "Pink Flamingos". The plot of the movie is about a trailer trash old woman trying to be the most disgusting person ever. There's a part in it where a guy is doing it with this girl in a chicken hut...with chickens...and he rips their heads off during the act. For serious, weirdest and dumbest movie ever.

The weirdest movie I have ever seen is "My Life as a Dog" which was made in Sweden back in the 1980's. I don't know how I even came across this movie, but wow. I don't know if I missed anything, but this movie made absolutely no sense to me.

i think Magnolia is an absolutely fabulous movie, with lots of intertwining tales and the most random ending to a film ive ever seen. It just totally came out of nowhere.

Simply Irresistable, Sarah Michelle Gellar as a chef who can suddenly cook fantastic food that makes you feel what she's feeling with the help of a magic crab....wierd.

Watched Little Otik yesterday, a very weird yet very brilliant film from Jan Svankmajer. I just wish I had immediate access to his other works, but, regretably, Little Otik is the only DVD release of his here in the UK.
Very bizarre film.

Freaks (1932) by Tod Browning.

I'm glad I saw it. I will never watch it again. I do not want it in my house.

Naked Lunch (Cronenberg)

eXisteNz (Cronenberg)

Mulholland Drive (Lynch)

Howard the Duck was decidedly odd, but my vote goes to Dead Man, starring Johnny Depp and with an unbelievably excellent supporting cast who must have, to a man, lost a bet to have had to appear in that weirdness.

Dead Man is a brilliant film, I didn't find it particuarly weird.