All right, now that we're talking about movies again, let's turn each other on to some of these:
- The best movie you thought you'd hate Mine are:
- Perfect Blue – my first exposure to intelligent anime. Come to think of it, this is definitely a "best weird movie," too.
- Fight Club – I'd been avoiding it for years because of the violence.
- The Truman Show – I mean, Jim Carrey's mugging plus clichéd preachments. Well, that's what it could have been.
- Basquiat – a depressing ending to a story of mixed accomplishment and really bad judgement, complicated by mental illness – but the scene where he hallucinates a work of art he has just designed, and smiles – it explains so much. (Maybe this belongs on the other list.)
- The best weird movie you know of Mine are too many to list, because I love weird stories. But here are a few:
- Tampopo – Hard to describe. If Monty Python didn't have Graham Chapman in it, or any crossdressing, and if they were Japanese and could all cook... No, that's not it.
- Spirited Away – one of Miyazaki's weirdest and most successful stories.
- Cat Soup – but I warn you, it's chilling as well as cute.
- The Triplets of Belleville – frogs and hand grenades. What more do I need to say?
Your turn now.
gently feral
