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05-19-2002, 07:37 PM
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Cheap Cerebral Paralysis
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What's the weirdest disc you own?
I'm not necessarily talking about the weirdest MOVIE you own; just a disc that you saw, and you saw it was cheap, and you figured "What the hell? This is worth a five buck gamble", so you bought it.
Me, I have "Syd Barrett's First Trip." It's a film of Pink Floyd's first lead singer, who still thinks he's from the planet Gazambo, as he takes mushrooms for the first time. It's got some godawful synth music, and, well, basically, it's watching somebody getting stoned. It's just really strange, and easily available from FYE for eight bucks!
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05-20-2002, 12:46 PM
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I saw the title for this thread and thought......ooh......my kind of thread. I am into bizarre films that make sense of their own.
I guess the weirdest movie(I am figuring a lot of people would find it weird) I own would be "The Pillow Book". I guess these are rather odd or not mainstream films: The City of Lost Children Dark City Brazil - Criterion Collection The Talented Mr. Ripley Fargo Flash Gordon Hedwig and the Angry Inch Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me The Vanishing. Me, Myself, I Wet Hot American Summer Donnie Darko The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection Seconds Mulholland Drive Romance
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05-21-2002, 02:08 PM
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It's not neccessarily "weird", but...
Django/Django Strikes Again double disc set!
I've never even SEEN a Spaghetti western, yet this was so cheap at K-mart ($6.99 for 2 movies) I grabbed it! It looks "weird" next to the rest of my collection which is mainly action & horror!
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05-21-2002, 10:32 PM
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mine would have to be john carpenter's "they live". the movie is a killer action flick and weird too, but the strangest thing is the dvd has been selling on ebay for up to $85! well, it is a really nicely done oop dvd. goes well with my oop "prince of darkness" dvd, which is also another good, strange horror film--now going for $50 on ebay. the weird part is i remember only paying like $15 for these when they came out.
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05-22-2002, 02:36 PM
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"The Brothers Quay Collection", and "Institute Benjamenta: Or this Thing We Call Human Life"
"The Brady Bunch Variety Hour" "Manson" "Rabid Grannies"
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05-22-2002, 04:39 PM
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"The Brothers Quay Collection", and "Institute Benjamenta: Or this Thing We Call Human Life"
Manigrasso, you really are Goth Gotherson!  I've got the two Brothers Quay DVDs as well and they are pretty weird. Here's the rest of the weirdest stuff in my collection: Even Dwarves Started Small Careful, Tales from The Gimli Hospital, and The Guy Maddin Collection Hands on a Hard Body David Lynch Short Films Collection Grey Gardens |
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05-22-2002, 07:33 PM
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Cheap Cerebral Paralysis
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Neat!
I have the collected shorts of the Brothers Quay myself. That's some very technicaly accomplished animation, although I'm still trying to figure out most of it.
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05-22-2002, 11:46 PM
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Most people think my entire collection is strange. It's hard to say what the weirdest movie I own is though, since I consider things like The Pillow Book pretty standard fare.
Maybe Begotten?
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05-23-2002, 04:55 AM
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05-23-2002, 05:25 AM
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Heh.
"Frankenhooker"  -Flash
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05-23-2002, 02:19 PM
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Dr. Shrinker,
The Brady Bunch Variety Hour was released by Rhino. I don't think it's out of print; most sotres I go to have a copy. It's not a big seller, but it's around. Rhino also released Pink Lady & Jeff, which might rival the Brady Bunch Variety Hour as the most insulting program to ever be hoisted upon the American public. An Asian pop-singing duo-WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO SPEAK ENGLISH!!!-and Anglo comic Jeff Altman (pretty sure he's American, but may be Canadian-you know how crafty those bastards are). Jeff Altman is also the neighbor in Easy Money with the hot sunbathing-topless wife, the guy who offeres Rodney "a little tootski." So they'd do these inane sketches, where Pink Lady would have to learn their lines & jokes pho-NET-ic-al-ly, then Jeff would say something, and they'd laugh like geisha girls, oblivious to what he just said. They'd have guest stars like Jerry Lewis, and they'd end every episode in a hot tub, and if Jeff got too fresh, he was chased around the stage by a fat bodyguard/sumo wrestler. Fun for the whole family, if the whole family's on crack. The Brady Bunch Variety Hour has only two episodes, but it's as bad as you remember, or heard about it being. THe whole conceit is that Mike gave up being an architect, moved to a new home which looks suspiciously like a bad set on a soundstage, and started a variety show with the family. So you'd see what was going on in "The Brady's real life," and you'd see them doing numbers for the show. Seeing the Brady kids gyrate to "Love to Love Ya Baby" is a surreal experience like no other. The clothes make pimp suits looks conservative, and when you need wacky, there's always people falling in the pool! All of you must get both: I demand it of you! KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!!!! Or MIke Brady. Or Jeff Altman... Also Dr. Shrinker, Rhino has also relased a set of various Sid & Marty Krofft series on what I'd guess you'd call a "sampler" DVD. I'm not sure, but one of the eps on the disc might very well indeed be a "dr. Shrinker. Might as well look for that, too. edit: I just looked it up at cdnow.com. The Sid & marty Krofft boxset DOES INDEED include an episode of Dr. Shrinker. If you didn't already know that, go for it!
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05-23-2002, 06:20 PM
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I have Frankenhooker too, but again, I don't really even consider it that odd a film.
side note I have the Frankenhooker "Talking box" VHS version too. "wanna date?" /side note
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05-23-2002, 06:30 PM
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Cheap Cerebral Paralysis
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Yet another weirdie...
So I was at my local record store, Pure Pop (have you ever noticed heavy-duty music geeks and the stores that cater to them have truly ghastly taste in movies? It's like they literally know only Hollywood and stuff they've read about in interviews with various musicians :barf: ) and I found a movie with a truly great title, "Disco Godfather", aka "Avenging Disco Godfather."
Imagine "Shaft", "Reefer Madness", "Roller Boogie", "Can't Stop the Music", "The Chinese Connection", "The French Connection" and "The Exorcist" all run over with a lawnmower and then edited together and adapted by a eight-year-old to get the script. This thing is so abysmal it makes Ed Wood look talented. It has Rudy Ray Moore (yes, Dolemite himself) playing the title character...and wearing skimpy powder-blue velour jumpsuits! With rhinestones!  The acting is only outmatched by the cinematography in terms of lack of talent, and the fight choreography (yes there's "martial arts") is worse.Funny as hell, naturally, and certainly a great double-take title to leave in your collection! And only $8 too!
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05-23-2002, 06:44 PM
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theta,
PUT YOUR WEIGHT ON IT!!! There's also a Rudy Ray Moore Box Set, which includes Disco Godfather, as well as Dolemite, The Human Tornado, Petey Wheatstraw (The Devil's Son In Law), a live conert "Rude," a documentary on the man, the myth, the legend, and a concert film of Moore performing R&B classics (which is what he was doing before stand-up). I saw Moore performing live at BB King's on 42nd Street, NYC. My friends and I kept screaming at him to "Put Your Weight on It!" At one point, he finally looked at us, pointed right at our table and told us to "Put some weight on it!" We damn near shit ourselves. It was like a blessing from the Pope, if the Pope was dressed like a pimp. A truly seminal experience.
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05-24-2002, 12:31 AM
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Ha !
I forgot about the talking box one.... -Flash
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05-24-2002, 02:41 AM
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Mani, you are my hero! That is sooooo frekin' cool!
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05-28-2002, 04:10 AM
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My weirdest is Monsters Crash the Pajama Party Spook Show Spectacular (yep that's the title!) It's 3 hours of clips from old 50's spook shows, where they would have haunted houses and such and a schmuck in a Frankenstein's monster mask would come out and try to scare people. It was put out by Something Weird video, and it doesn't have a "real" menu screen, just some weird drawings that you click on and it starts to play one part of the disc or another. It also has a feature on it called Tormented made by Bert I. Gordon in 1960, but I haven't found that yet!
I was given a Borders gift certificate, and couldn't find anything else I wanted at a decent price. I think it was about $15, but hell, it wasn't MY money!
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05-29-2002, 12:20 AM
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This is a really a Software topic....
Peace......
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05-29-2002, 02:20 AM
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05-29-2002, 02:58 AM
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Either:
Repo Man (traded a ps2 game for it, i never even seen the movie, the movie is just plain weird.) or Dream - This Is Me/He Loves U Not DVD Single (for $8.99, this wasn't worth it, but hey as long as Ashley keeps dancing, i'm keeping this title.)
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05-29-2002, 05:14 AM
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05-29-2002, 01:02 PM
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Air Bud
it came inside a cereal box in a slip case for free. It has no chapter stops and I watched 5 seconds of it, and it is worse than VHS quality. In a word, it is pure shit. And thus weird. billyslits, Are these titles you listed available in Region 1?: Even Dwarves Started Small Careful, Tales from The Gimli Hospital, and The Guy Maddin Collection I'd love to possibly have them in my collection. Prancer, I too have most of those titles you listed, but I wouldn't cosider them weird. They are somewhat well-known movies film (as is my Air Bud I suppose). I'm thinking we are supposed to listr "obscure" films like the ones manigrasso and billyslitts listed for example. I wish I could, but I don't have any that obscure, as much as I would like. |
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05-29-2002, 03:55 PM
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Marq writes:
"billyslits, Are these titles you listed available in Region 1?" Yes, Even Dwarves Started Small and all of the Guy Maddin films are available in region 1 and they are highly recommended if your taste leans toward absurdist comedy. They're very strange but well worth owning. Besides, as a Canadian, it is your civic duty to support Guy Maddin's work. Last edited by billyslits : 05-29-2002 at 03:59 PM. |
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05-29-2002, 05:26 PM
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I don't know if it falls under the weird title, but it is a bit different from the rest of my movies.
Six-String Samurai It's a great movie and I recommend it to everybody. |
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05-29-2002, 06:12 PM
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I also found the Guy Maddin collection and his other films (whom it IS my duty to support, considering that most Canada doesn't themselves): http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...041315-5779058 Again it indicates that all the films are in Full Frame. Does this really hinder the discs, billy? |
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05-29-2002, 06:25 PM
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Marq, I've seen Even Dwarves... projected and the DVD is in the proper aspect ratio. As far as, Guy Maddin's stuff goes, I've only seen Twilight of The Ice Nymphs in the theatre but, since Maddin works in the language of older silent, expressionistic films, the 1.33 ratio is entirely appropriate, acceptable and, most importantly, director-approved.
If you're limited on cash and interested in Guy Maddin's work, I'd purchase The Guy Maddin Collection and/or Careful before buying Tales from the Gimli Hospital. Careful, while not my favorite of his favorite of his films, does include a great (Tom Waits-narrated) documentary about Guy Maddin and the Collection features Heart of the World and Archangel which are, in my opinion, the two best things Maddin's done. Last edited by billyslits : 05-29-2002 at 06:33 PM. |
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05-29-2002, 07:18 PM
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UHF! love this movie glad its on DVD the commentary is the most clever one ive heard in a while (Al poping up on 'screen' a few times is killer
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05-30-2002, 12:27 AM
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Fata Morgana Heart of Glass I also have the Quay Brother collection. I'm surprise that a few people have this disc. I wasn't aware of these guys until I saw Street of Crocodiles in a film class (I was hooked immediatly). One of these days I'll have to check out Institute Benjamenta |
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05-30-2002, 12:44 AM
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Weirdest....
Um, lesse...I assume that would mean the movies that I always watch by myself because none of my friends and/or family is willing to sit and watch them with me. That list currently includes:
the Bare Wench Project The Blair thumb Cannibal! The Musical Evil Toons Killer Klowns From Outer Space Return of the Killer Tomatoes Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday The 13th Terror Firmer Thumb Wars Thumbtanic And I have other titles that I intend to add to it. It's kinda nice have DVDs that no one will bother you to borrow... http://www.dvdprofiler.com/mycollect...p?alias=Evil_S
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05-30-2002, 01:58 AM
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Wow!
I LOVE "Cannibal! The Musical!" I actually first saw it taped off Cinemax, and for some reason, a short song sequence was deleted from it. It's not on the DVD...:rar:
I also love "Six-String Samurai." Geez, I've either heard of, own, or want to own most of the movie under discussion here...
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05-30-2002, 04:14 AM
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Unique.
Just like the other 768. 
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Re: Weirdest....
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05-30-2002, 04:16 AM
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Unique.
Just like the other 768.
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I messed up on my post above this one.
 This part wasn't in your post that I quoted:Whenever I'm at the store and see one of those "thumb" DVDS. I think it's one of the most retarded ideas ever. Noticed you have more than one. Are they actually any good? Also what's Evil Toons? |
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