Odd, Strange, Weird Movies With Famous Actors
Elizabeth Taylor was in a handful of them in the late 60s and early 70s..
Check out "Secret Ceremony" which also has Robert Mitchum. It's strange, and might be confusing at first, but stick with it - it's pretty good. I wonder if it gets better (or worse) with a second viewing. |
Most movies with Johnny Depp? :) Several with Nicolas Cage too. I used to dislike Cage for his roles in s#itty blockbuster movies like Face/Off and such, but some of his weird roles made me rethink my attitude towards him and I now respect him as an actor above most other famous names. Seems he just accepts any role thrown at him. Strikes me as a weird strategy for such an established actor, but it has certainly led to some interesting results.
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Originally Posted by matt72582 (Post 2280790)
Elizabeth Taylor was in a handful of them in the late 60s and early 70s..
Check out "Secret Ceremony" which also has Robert Mitchum. It's strange, and might be confusing at first, but stick with it - it's pretty good. I wonder if it gets better (or worse) with a second viewing. LOVE Elizabeth Taylor, but even I have to admit that she made a bunch of crappy and mediocre movies...she only made maybe six or eight movies that were quality cinema. |
The Trial (1962), with Anthony Perkins, Orson Welles, and Jeanne Moreau. Good adaption of the Kafka novel.
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Casino Royale (1967)
Weird movie that's supposed to be a James Bond spoof, but which makes little to no sense throughout - more like some sort of acid trip - yet it has an all star cast! |
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Zardoz (1974)
Bizarre sci-fi (kinda) that stars Sean Connery! |
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Barbarella (1968)
Another bizarre sci-fi starring Jane Fonda and John Phillip Law. |
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Lord Love A Duck (1966)
I'm only putting it here because it starred Roddy McDowell and Tuesday Weld (with Ruth Gordon & Harvey Corman no less!) Still one of the strangest films I've ever seen as it doesn't seem to know what kind of film it wants to be (teen sex comedy, alcoholism & suicide drama, social satire, taboo family relations, beach movie, murder plot thriller, pathos, high school comedy). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXdUNZUP_os |
Originally Posted by heineken (Post 2280931)
Most movies with Johnny Depp? :) Several with Nicolas Cage too. I used to dislike Cage for his roles in s#itty blockbuster movies like Face/Off and such, but some of his weird roles made me rethink my attitude towards him and I now respect him as an actor above most other famous names. Seems he just accepts any role thrown at him. Strikes me as a weird strategy for such an established actor, but it has certainly led to some interesting results.
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Originally Posted by GulfportDoc (Post 2280946)
The Trial (1962), with Anthony Perkins, Orson Welles, and Jeanne Moreau. Good adaption of the Kafka novel.
Originally Posted by Captain Steel (Post 2280969)
Lord Love A Duck (1966)
I'm only putting it here because it starred Roddy McDowell and Tuesday Weld (with Harvey Corman no less!) Still one of the strangest films I've ever seen as it doesn't seem to know what kind of film it wants to be (teen sex comedy, alcoholism & suicide drama, social satire, weird family relations, beach movie, murder plot thriller, pathos, high school comedy). |
Originally Posted by Citizen Rules (Post 2280977)
I just seen Lord Love A Duck and yes indeed it is a strange, weird and different, very different film.
(He was also one of the salesman on the train in The Music Man and, although he was uncredited, his voice is very recognizable in the opening number.) He definitely had a contagious laugh! |
Originally Posted by Captain Steel (Post 2280980)
I always like to point out that Max Showwalter (who played Tuesday Weld's very weird father in Lord Love A Duck) was also the neighbor, "Pat Riley" who played the piano in the Twilight Zone episode It's a Good Life with Billy Mumy and his last appearance was as the grandfather of Molly Ringwald in Sixteen Candles.
(He was also one of the salesman on the train in The Music Man and, although he was uncredited, his voice is very recognizable in the opening number.) He definitely had a contagious laugh! |
Originally Posted by Citizen Rules (Post 2280981)
I don't remember Tuesday's screen father but I sure remember her mother!
Man, his laugh almost makes the sheer creepiness of the scene hysterical! |
Originally Posted by Captain Steel (Post 2280982)
In the post where I submitted Lord Love A Duck, I added a video clip featuring Max Showwalter & Tuesday Weld (in the infamous sweater scene).
Man, his laugh almost makes the sheer creepiness of the scene hysterical! |
Well, I'm finishing up The Being, a 1981 low-budget, debut horror-movie from first-time director Jackie Kong and skin-flick producer Bill Osco, that sports not one, not two, but three Oscar-winning actors, in Martin Landau, Jose Ferrer, and Dorothy Malone.
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Breakfast of Champions Just saying ;) |
First (and one of the best) things to come to my mind is Videodrome, my favorite movie of 1983, as recently ordered on my overall log.
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick (but were any of them "famous" in 1975)? |
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The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000)
Starred Robert De Niro, Jason Alexander and Rene Russo (Also Piper Perabo, Randy Quaid - so it couldn't have been all bad! ;) Janeane Garofalo, Carl Reiner, Jonathan Winters, John Goodman, Kenan Thompson, Kel Mitchell, James Rebhorn, David Alan Grier, Norman Lloyd and Jon Polito!)... Hard to believe, isn't it? |
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