I find MMT immensely enjoyable. Ringo on the bus with his aunt, Jolly Jimmey, etc. It even has a bit with Victor Spinetti. Throw in the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band doing Death Cab For Cutie and you’ve got a show. (Which leads to a sort of intersection with the Monty Python universe.)
You just have to roll with the whole silliness of it all.
There are good bad films and bad bad films. MMT is a good bad (shortish) film.
Nothing but trouble. I mean, Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase?
I questioned my sobriety which ironically was questionable at the time.
Yep, this was my first thought.
Just thought I’d point out that I went to see Eraserhead in a snowstorm. It was only playing the one night, and I didn’t want to miss it. When I told friends (who were familiar with the film) about this later, they decided that I was insane.
I never really thought of Fantastic Planet as all that strange, which probably tells you more about me than the film. If you thought it was strange, you should check out a later animated science fiction film by the same director, Rene Laloux. It’s Gandahar, released in the US as Light Years. If that pedigree isn’t enough weird for you, the American version was re-dubbed (not simply captioned, as Fantastic Planet was), with a script by Isaac Asimov (!!). Christopher Plummer does one of the voices. Plummer had already shown he would shill for science fiction when he played The ERmperor of the Universe in Star Crash. By the time he played General Chang in Star Trek VI.
My vote for two good weird movies: Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the Eighth Dimension,(a bizarre mashup of sci-fi/comic book style weird as a beard plot with a great cast especially a completely bonkers John Lithgow as villain) and Liquid Sky (about punk/New Wave denizens, plus sex, death, endorphins, and aliens—definitely YMMV but I loved that New Wave milieu and the clanking/dissonant sound track, though some I’m sure would call the whole thing migraine inducing…)
My vote for bad weird movies, The Lobster, others have mentioned here and the less said the better, the mental equivalent of fingernails on a blackboard. And 200 Motels, a completely mishmashed Frank Zappa concert movie, with too many WTF moments that go nowhere yet are not wild or funny enough to justify them (and I’m a Zappa fan, too).
Jodorowsky was born in Chile, true, but hasn’t lived there, I think, since 1953, when he moved to France. El Topo was filmed and produced in Mexico, where Jodorowsky lived for several decades from about 1960 on. He moved back to France in 1990, where he has lived since. While he was born and grew up there, I don’t think you could really call him a Chilean director since his film career came after he left.
The only other Jodorowsky movie I have seen is The Holy Mountain, which is nearly as strange as El Topo. Being both weird and never commercials successes (and often disturbing) Jodorowsky’s movies are generally hard to find.
It took me forever to find Santa Sangre.
Alas, it was not worth the wait. Maybe I would have felt differently if I hadn’t heard such good things about it.
You should’ve searched this message board first. That way you would’ve found out what the movie was really like.
Brazil is always the first film that comes to mind when there’s talk of the weirdest movie ever. The Cook, The Thief, et al is a very close second. Hours of my life that I’ll never get back. . .
I saw it on DVD, and in fact it was the second movie I got from Netflix. The extras included some professionally-shot footage of Waters & Co. making the movie; I wondered where it came from until a while back, when I found out that John Waters had a friend who worked for the PBS station in Baltimore, and at the time, that station had proposed a program about “local personalities.” The program never launched, but that was where it came from.
This is it for me as well.
One not mentioned yet that really weirded me out when it suddenly ended. It was pretty weird before that too, just within more normal parameters.
It ended up being a completely different kind of film by ending that way than it would have been if it had ended in any way I was actually thinking it might go. Used to longer movies, its mere 95 minute run-time makes the ending seem to come way too soon.
Angels and Insects. (incest in the 1800s)
Andelusian Dog (Salvadore Dali)
Saragosa Manuscript (We counted stories within stories to level 9c)
I was going to post this. You just like it because Groucho plays God.
There was a TV movie adaption of The Singing Detective it was pretty weird, although the TV series was weirder.
Come to think of it both movie versions of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy were pretty weird too.
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A non-existent 2nd version is by default weird.
YouTube has, in its entirety, Dog Star Man. Good Luck.
Note: The link goes to the middle of the movie, I can’t get it to go to the start, but it doesn’t really matter.
Sissy Boy Slap Party A short that’s very odd but funny.
All of Guy Maddin’s output is likewise peculiar. Here’s a trailer for one of his many features. He seems to have watched The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari about 10,000 times and has never got over it.
You nailed it, Divemaster.
I’ve seen virtually every movie mentioned so far in this thread, but Hausu (1977) stands head and shoulders above all of them. I own a DVD copy and nobody, but nobody, I’ve shown it to has come up with a suggestion for a movie that is weirder.
I just watched Terry Gilliam’s The Man who Killed Don Quixote, definitely odd/off kilter, but not nearly as weird as Brazil (I’ll give Brazil another thumbs up, probably Gilliam’s best, and full of creepy dark humor.)