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matt72582 02-08-22 12:32 PM

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.

heineken 02-08-22 07:25 PM

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.

Gideon58 02-08-22 07:27 PM

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.

GulfportDoc 02-08-22 08:34 PM

The Trial (1962), with Anthony Perkins, Orson Welles, and Jeanne Moreau. Good adaption of the Kafka novel.

Captain Steel 02-08-22 09:18 PM

Re: Odd, Strange, Weird Movies With Famous Actors
 
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!

Captain Steel 02-08-22 09:20 PM

Re: Odd, Strange, Weird Movies With Famous Actors
 
Zardoz (1974)

Bizarre sci-fi (kinda) that stars Sean Connery!

Captain Steel 02-08-22 09:27 PM

Re: Odd, Strange, Weird Movies With Famous Actors
 
Barbarella (1968)

Another bizarre sci-fi starring Jane Fonda and John Phillip Law.

Captain Steel 02-08-22 09:35 PM

Re: Odd, Strange, Weird Movies With Famous Actors
 
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

Captain Steel 02-08-22 09:43 PM

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.
Crybaby (1990) comes to mind - definitely an odd movie.

Citizen Rules 02-08-22 09:55 PM

Originally Posted by GulfportDoc (Post 2280946)
The Trial (1962), with Anthony Perkins, Orson Welles, and Jeanne Moreau. Good adaption of the Kafka novel.
I have tried twice to watch The Trial, last time I made it half way before quitting...and yet everyone seems to love it...so it must be a weird movie!

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).
I just seen Lord Love A Duck and yes indeed it is a strange, weird and different, very different film.

Captain Steel 02-08-22 10:07 PM

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.
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!

Citizen Rules 02-08-22 10:17 PM

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!
I don't remember Tuesday's screen father but I sure remember her mother!

Captain Steel 02-08-22 10:22 PM

Originally Posted by Citizen Rules (Post 2280981)
I don't remember Tuesday's screen father but I sure remember her mother!
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!

Citizen Rules 02-08-22 10:26 PM

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!
Oh yeah now I remember him! (I hadn't looked at the clip until just now)...Yeah that is a very strange scene:eek: Funny too. Good choice Captain for a very weird movie!

Wooley 02-08-22 10:47 PM

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.

7thson 02-08-22 11:27 PM

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KeyserCorleone 02-09-22 12:03 AM

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.

Captain Steel 02-09-22 12:11 AM

Re: Odd, Strange, Weird Movies With Famous Actors
 
The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick (but were any of them "famous" in 1975)?

gbgoodies 02-09-22 12:15 AM

George Clooney in Return of the Killer Tomatoes!.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PShKWD2NKUE

Captain Steel 02-09-22 12:22 AM

Re: Odd, Strange, Weird Movies With Famous Actors
 
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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