I just finished watching The Final Countdown and it was much creepier than I remember. Mind you, it’s not intended that way (I think), it was just my response to the movie, one I didn’t have the first time around.
What movies really threw you for a loop and were weirder than you expected?
I was really, deeply, disturbed by the opening scenes in “The Truman Show.” I mean shaking and nauseated and lightheaded when the narrator was introducing baby Truman. It just horrified me. I think I’m alone in that reaction.
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I expected more of some kind of slasher movie, it just turned out to be disturbing.
Free Willy
::shudder::
I just saw Oldboy, directed by Chan-wook Park. I thought I was in for a little of the ol’ ultraviolence, but this movie was just sick. sick, sick. I made the mistake of watching it with this guy on our second date. :eek: Ah well.
Although they’re now a favorite genre, I didn’t even know black comedies existed when I first watched Serial Mom at thirteen or fourteen. It was a rather rude awakening.
I remember in 1990 when Misery with James Caan and Kathy Bates came out. IIRC, the trailer that was on TV projected it in a humorous vein, and both I and my girlfriend kept waiting for the punchline.
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“Funny Games.” Yech. No fun, no games, just 90 minutes of viciousness.
Grizzly Man. I was expecting a colorful documentary with a sad ending. What I got was a disturbing look at a guy that was running headlong for self destruction.
Harold and Maude really crept me out.
The plot outline was something like “Harold meets Maude and his life changes.” I did not expect them to have sex. The movie was good if you omit that part from your memory.
The Island of Dr. Moreau (Marlon Brando version). That movie opened a whole new perspective on people for me. 28 Days Later was basically the same movie, only with slightly better special effects. I don’t think it worked as well.
oh gosh while I liked Chances Are, the whole incestual implications made me go hmm?
Nurse Betty. I was expecting a silly comedy, not a movie with scalpings.
Happiness. And I expected it to be pretty weird from the start.
Even though it’s totally campy, we just watched They Live the other night and that movie is very creepy. All those subliminal messages and camouflaged aliens…I was ooged out and I’ve watched that movie many times.
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I’ve come here to chew bubblegum and kick some ass…AND I’M ALL OUT OF BUBBLE GUM!!!
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And along those lines, that make-out scene with Marty and his future mom in Back to the Future just squicked me out! :eek:
Also, I was never able to look at the first two Star Wars movies quite the same way again once I found out that Luke and Leia were siblings
The ads for Falling Down made it look like some sort of comedy. I kept waiting for it to be funny. By the time I had become certain that it wasn’t a comedy, or even a black comedy, I didn’t have time to adjust my perspective before things got really serious on the screen. I was kinda pissed because I had been misled resulting in confusion.
I’ve seen it since and it is a pretty good movie, but the first time creeped me out in a weird way. I like movies that set you up for a major hit of cognitive dissonance–I hate ad-agency idiots who do.
Howard Hawks Monkey Business. Cary Grant is a scientist who invents a youth serum. Both he and his wife (Ginger Rogers) overdose on it and regress to childhood. In keeping with Hawks’s more-complex-than-it-looks approach to moviemaking (Gentlemen Prefer Blonds, anyone?), the slapstick situations gradually reveal themselves to be a pretty thin mask over the bizarre and disturbing innate-savagery-of-man theme that darkens the picture. For me, at any rate.
Also, the unfathomable subtext of the subject of this recent thread of mine still have me shaking my head. Violently.
Dave kind of freaked me out, too. OK, the president is incapacitated, and a look-a-like is brought in to fill the gap, and instead of nodding and accepting orders, he just starts making policy without any political experience whatsoever. Cute, right?
No, actually that’s pretty screwed up.
OK, I liked it a little. It was pretty cute.
Hmm. Well, considering *Dave *is roughly a remake of The Prisoner of Zenda, it’s odd that there’s no such disconnect in that movie. Maybe we accept the arbitrarity of a monarch’s rule moreso than a president’s.