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Donald Sutherland in a comedy? Very different film. Southerland is supposed to be a famous director making his last film when he has a heart attack. He asks for a chinese "comedy" funeral. Well he doesn't die but the funeral is getting bigger and bigger with corporate sponsers, televised, ... says something about modern China although I am not sure what. Definitely says something about corporate for profit culture. Odd but very funny in its weird way.
a romantic comedy with a real twist towards weird, even strange. Funny though. Are the lovers brother and sister or not?
Coen brothers concoct a fiendishly clever kidnap caper that's simultaneously a comedy of errors, a Midwestern satire, a taut suspense thriller, and a violent tale of criminal misfortune. Acting was truely outstanding.
How can a movie about curling ( you know, where they slide stones on ice) be funny? I don't have a clue but its FUNNY.
I picked it up because Paul Reiser and John Goodman were starring. I almost canned it because it started to look like just another "erotic" movie which has one theme. I continued to watch, it couldn't be a sleazy B grade T&A movie with these stars. It didn't hurt that Liv Tyler was the sex interest. In any case, it is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. Until you see it, you will not believe that I was nearly rolling on the floor in tears of laughter during the shootout. Whats funny about a shootout? Watch. Certainly a different part of or for Reiser.
Grandma Peggy dies when she trips over her lover's wooden legs going to the bathroom. Beau Bridges plays the lover, Delta Burke plays his wife and close friend of Peggy, Olivia Newton-John plays as Peggy's lesbian folk singer lover. Lots of Texas accents and humor. I loved it. I swear some of these people could be relatives.
absolultely unique - 10 directors, really 10 short films with uniting theme of no dialogue per se and the sections are based on some opera aria. erotic definitely; thought provoking; funny; weird, even strange. a very young Bridget Fonda's debut - her segment raised many questions.
What can I say? The movie is about a drug shipment stolen from the mob. The drug is a Mexican form of viagra and its being smuggled in cows. Stupid, kinda gross, funny, funny, funny
I don't know how to classify this movie. Its has a B-movie feel. All the characters are trailer trash. The mother will do anything to get her son into college. The son and his buddy are dumb and constantly get into trouble. If you think criminals are not that stupid, read . Its funny but you mostly set there watching and wondering if these stupid crimes could go undetected.
This one is odd, weird, funny, and surreal. Great acting by Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock as hitmen for the mob and Renée Zellweger as a waitress in shock in a world of her own after seeing her husband's murder.
Some of the funniest scenes I have ever seen. Jim Carrey plays Charlie Baileygates, a motorcycle cop. In denial about his wife's affair, he's a nice guy who goes around trying to do the right thing but is taken advantage of every step of the way. Instead of confronting people, he takes the abuse, balls it up, and hides it in the pit of his stomach. His psyche can only take so much, though, and soon his alter-ego Hank pops out to do everything Charlie would never do. The movie is flawed by unnecessary horrendous and offensive language used by his sons.
Absolutely fascinating: a handful of people in the San Fernando Valley are having one hell of a day. TV mogul Earl Partridge played by Jason Robards ( ) is on his deathbed; his trophy wife played by Julianne Moore( , ) is popping pills with alarming frequency. Earl's nurse played by Philip Seymour Hoffman ( ) is trying desperately to get in touch with Earl's only son, sex guru Frank T.J. Mackey played by Tom Cruise ( ), who's about to have his carefully constructed past blown by a TV reporter played by April Grace ( ). Whiz kid Stanley (Jeremy Blackman) is being goaded by his selfish dad into breaking the record for the game show What Do Kids Know? Meanwhile, Stanley's predecessor, the grown-up quiz kid Donnie Smith played by William H. Macy ( ) has lost his job and is nursing a severe case of unrequited love. And the host of What Do Kids Know?, the affable Jimmy Gator played by Philip Baker Hall ( ), like Earl, is dying of cancer, and his attempt to reconcile with his cokehead daughter played by Melora Walters ( ) fails miserably. She, meanwhile, is running hot and cold with a cop played by John C. Reilly ( ) who would love to date her, if she can sit still for long enough.
OK. The waters have parted. The world is coming to an end. This is a wrestling movie, for god sake, that although truly bizarre, is truly FUNNY. Who would have believed it possible? The heros are waste disposal workers during the day and wrestling fans at night. Martin Landau playing the part of Sal Bandini, an old-time wrestler, was worth the price of the DVD alone. Lots of funny scenes if you like physical humor.
One of the funniest films out of Australia. The castle is a ramshackle suburban tract house so close to an airport that planes fly mere yards above the roof. Worse than that, it's built on a toxic landfill and right beside humming high-power lines. But it's home. When the owners of the airport serve Darryl notice that his home is being compulsorily purchased, Darryl hires a small-time lawyer and pursues his case all the way to the Australian Supreme Court. If you can find it, watch it.
Joe Pesci and Danny Glover win a contest and get to go on a free fishing trip. The fishing trip doesn't go smoothly. Their car gets stolen, there's a hurricane, and many other catastrophes plague them. It is really funny. There are scenes that kill me.
Norton stars as an insomniac who joins ever conceivable support group (testicular cancer, tuberculosis, incest, ...) who meets Brad Pitt who is a soap salesman. They come up with fight club as a therapy. Really BIZARRE. Really engrossing. WEIRD, maybe too STRANGE. A little too uncomfortable after 911.
Kurt Vonnegut's novel Breakfast of Champions centers on suicidal car dealer Dwayne Hoover (Bruce Willis), his drug- and television-addled wife Celia (Barbara Hershey), his cross-dressing sales manager Harry (Nick Nolte), his dim secretary and mistress Francine (Glenne Headly), and Vonnegut's alter ego of sorts, pulp writer Kilgore Trout (Albert Finney). Eccentric! A great adaptation of Vonnegut's novel.
Bizarre fits it. Crawl down a tunnel and you get sucked into Malkovich's mind and share his experiences for 15 minutes. You see what he sees, hear what he hears, feels what he feels. Must have been an odd experience for Malkovich to play himself. What is odd is the personal interdynamics. An amazing puppetier trying to survive with street performances, a wife who fills the house with pets, pets, pets. They both fall in love with the same woman who is only interested in having sex with them while they are in the head of Malkovich. What will Malkovich do when he realizes he is sharing his self with others? Really enjoyed the movie but like most on this list, it will either fascinate, repel, or bore you. It fascinated me.
Not funny and not a cult hit but a mainstream hit. Although the acting is magnificent, and the psychology of the disfunctional is correct, I still think its odd. I do recommend it.
A spoof with wonderfully exaggerated stereotypes. It has something to offend nearly anyone if you are the type to be offended by movies: there is the cop obsessed by his thin penis who harasses the gigalow; the heavy, no huge, compulsive eater, the narcoleptic, the Tourette's, the giant, and the onelegged customers; the classic pimp; his dad the bathroom attendent and mother, Bankock Betty. Its funny. It reaches my low sense of humor. Where else can you see a sword fight scene where the hero has to defend himself with his girl friends artificial leg.
Yes, its a teenage film building to the graduation prom, but its handling of sexual obsession with male virginity is hilarous. Real belly laughs. Decent nudity. Great one liners.
The Big Lebowski is every bit a Coen movie, how many movies can claim as their hero a pot-bellied, pot-smoking loser named Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) who spends most of his time bowling and getting stoned? And where else could you find a hairnetted Latino bowler named Jesus (John Turturro) who sports dazzling purple footgear, or an erotic artist (Julianne Moore) whose creativity consists of covering her naked body in paint, flying through the air in a leather harness, and splatting herself against a giant canvas? Who else but the Coens would think of showing you a camera view from inside the holes of a bowling ball, or an elaborate Busby Berkely-styled musical dream sequence involving a Viking goddess and giant bowling pins? The plot--which finds Lebowski involved in a kidnapping scheme after he's mistaken for a rich guy with the same name-- is almost beside the point. What counts here is a steady cascade of hilarious dialogue, great work from Coen regulars John Goodman and Steve Buscemi, and the kind of cinematic ingenuity that puts the Coens in a class all their own.
Miguel Ferrer (still probably best known as the weaselly, overambitious executive in RoboCop and as an FBI agent in Twin Peaks) stars as Joe Boone, the subject of a documentary by two young filmmakers (rap star Mos Def and John Livingston), whose previous film was a three-hour documentary about New York City's drinking water. Now they're following Boone around Los Angeles as he discovers that the man a client has hired him to find--a man the client says is having an affair with his wife--turns out to be his own partner. \ It gets addictive. Its weird. Its really funny if you have patience.
Captures craziness of Hunter Thompson's book, characters are fueled by a suitcase of mind-bending drugs. It is funny. It is weird. Neat cameo appearances by Cameron Diaz, Christina Ricci, Gary Busey, ...
The scariest movie I have ever seen. No its not a horror genre movie. Its real. What it says about the Balkans and its people scares me silly.
Odd and weird plot. Sam Neill as a colonel in the KGB or perhaps a secret agent for Australia, or .. Judy Davis plays the leader of Australia's Communist Party in the early 1950s who has a son by Stalin or by Sam Neill's character. Mock documentary style. Funny and definitely weird.
not what I expected from a Stanley Tucci film: a couple that can't have sex unless he is watching. Kari Wuhrer has a body well worth watching. Supposedly a romantic comedy. Not really but weirdly riveting. Fascinating. Actoring was good. Premise??????
Cult classic. Funny. Visually powerful movie version of Tank Girl comic strip. Not for everyone but I loved it. The Year is 2033. Earth has been clobbered with a comet, civilization has been destroyed, and it hasn't rained in 11 years. Nearly all the water on the planet is controlled by the evil Water and Power company, which is in turn controlled by the even more evil Kesslee (Malcolm McDowell). Who stands in the way? Some mysterious mutants called the Rippers and, of course, Tank Girl. Lori Petty plays Tank Girl, the wisecracking, defiant heart of the movie, as kind of an inner child gone wild.
Its not for everyone but I loved it. Hilarous! Quirky! Weird! There were scenes where I thought I would bust a gut laughing. An experience. Four ensembles with as the unifying character having the bell hop's day in hell. There is a the witches coven, two funny kids, a jealous husband and a hollywood party. Appearing: , , , , , , , , and .
I detest the horror genre in general. It combines enough adrenaline scary stuff with sex to grab the male hormone system of teenagers. But Army of Darkness, although filled with the classic elements, is a fantasy tale of good vs evil combined with a campy parody of chain saw movies. Not for children.
Is the main character a nut case or is he an alien visitor? Kelsey Grammer plays the best friend. The really unique character is an escapee from a mental institution whose's entire thought processes are lines from TV. Really funny! Worth seeing if you can find a copy. Its going to be a love it or hate it movie for most people. Too bizarre for many. I liked it.
A more realistic vampire movie. People are food and the eating is not neat. Funny. The vampire is very tasty in her own way. She decides to go after the mofia for Italian food.
Cindy Williams of "Laverne & Shirley" plays a Beverly Hills housewife of a stock broker murdered in the apartment of a Hollywood hooker played by Markie Post of "Night Court". Funny, interesting interactions between the two women as they try to solve the murder.
The homeless, the disturbed, mixed with the holy grail. Really bizarre. Really interesting. Acting : wonderful. Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges.
I have seen this Robin Williams classic rated poorly. I believe its because it is classified as a comedy and it really isn't (exactly). Robin Williams plays THE car salesman who must sell 12 expensive cars in 1 day or loss his job (and lots of other things). High pressure. Wonderful performances by the supporting cast including Fran Drescher (the Nanny) and Tim Robbins ( and ) . Its riveting. Its bizarre. Watch it.
I loved this film. It is a satire of the American way of debt. Rosalie juggles 37 credit cards and bill collectors. After she buys a computer for her daughter, Rosalie learns that when you owe a $100,000 its your problem but if you owe a $1,000,000 its the bank's problem. Then she goes international.
Aki Kaurismäki's perversely minimalist Finnish comedy or depressing slock. A factory girl resolves to take a revolutionary stand, arms herself with a packet of rat poison, and sets out for revenge. How you react to this film may well depend on how much real life one has seen. One who grew up very poor could easily react very differently from one who has never seen hopelessness from lack of choices. I think its a fine picture but should your main reaction be - its ugly, depressing, ... then don't waste your time. Consider it an "art" film and blow it off. The video includes a quirky music-video rendition of "Those Were the Days" by Kaurismäki's house band, the Leningrad Cowboys.
My favorite music video. A group of dreadful musicians from Finland's tundra, they're so bad that they decide to head for the U. S. --where people will listen to ``anything''--and they set out on tour through the modern wasteland of small-town America. The movie can be hard to find. Their CDs:
Its a series of skits, parodies loosely arranged around a spoof of Cat Women on the Moon which was a stinker of a B movie. Decent babes. Some real belly laughs. All fairly amusing.
Bureaucratic-nightmare-comedy about a meek governmental clerk named Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) whose life is destroyed by a simple bug. Not a software bug, a real bug that gets smooshed in a printer and causes a typographical error unjustly identifying an innocent citizen, one Mr. Buttle, as suspected terrorist Harry Tuttle (Robert De Niro). When Sam becomes enmeshed in unraveling this bureaucratic glitch, he himself winds up labeled as a miscreant. Chilling, fascinating.
a wonderfully fantasy produced by Terry Gilliam and the screenplay was written by Michael Pain, both of Monty Python's Flying Circus fame. Its a wonderful excursion through time. With Sean Connery, John Cleese, and Shelly Duvall. An odd combination of keystone cops and monty python. Enjoyable. Well worth seeing. It is probably too intense for very young children.
Love the music. Campy. A real cult classic. If you haven't gone to a midnight showing filled with fans in costume, you a missed a real experience.
A black comedy set in a postnuclear wasteland. The dog is telepathic and the sharper of the two. Starring the then unknown young Don Johnson.
Bizarre is a good description. But a real cult classic.
Bizarre, sick, very funny.