Weirdest Film
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One of the films that I Iike is the early Science fiction film "Metropolis"
It was a masterpiece, but when Georgio Moroder (Disco King) redid an extended version with a modern sound track it was a total travesty.. or was it simply going back to the tradition of playing music to enhance silent films?
Yet it works so well.
These are examples:
Even Adam Ant got serious!
It was a masterpiece, but when Georgio Moroder (Disco King) redid an extended version with a modern sound track it was a total travesty.. or was it simply going back to the tradition of playing music to enhance silent films?
Yet it works so well.
These are examples:
Even Adam Ant got serious!
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I have a 4 hour flight in 9 hours. My Nexus 7 is ready with Eraserhead, Inland Empire, Lost Highway, Naked Lunch and Oldboy (original Korean version). I'm ready for anything!
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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls was weird in that Russ Meyer, the director, seemed to get bored with it about three-quarters of the way through, when it morphed from a film about an all-girl rock band into a horror film.
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Sting wanted to do the fight scene naked, so be thankful.
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Trust (and others by Hal Hartley) . I really like them and they're quite strange
View: https://youtu.be/fkNpYZaKE6A
View: https://youtu.be/fkNpYZaKE6A
Profpointy
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To be honest, might have been slightly less disturbing than the winged pants
Whilst I acknowledge Dune is a bit of dud really, I do have a soft spot for at least the look of the film, so reluctant to rubbish it entirely; it has its moments.
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Now that's on odd film butI tend to the pretentious tosh view I'm afraid.
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Yeah,I think I would agree, but certainly weird. Maybe should start another thread on pretentious films. Rich pickings to be had there... How about Les Bicyclettes de Belsize ?
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Yes, but no doubt he would have wanted to dye his pubes ginger. Could you handle that?
Dune started off pretty well but degenerated. It struck me as a difficult book to film since so much of the plot revolved about a sect who were so good at reading body language they were practically telepathic. How do you get that across?
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... not by plodding voice-overs, that's for sure
One that's quite mainstream but still as mad as frogs - Under the Skin - with Scarlett Johanson as the spooky alien man farmer/hunter. The critics went nuts over it, but it left me undecided TBH, and I'm as pseudo-intellectual as the next man.
I read the book after seeing the film just to compare. Unusually the book is a much more conventional narrative than the film.
I read the book after seeing the film just to compare. Unusually the book is a much more conventional narrative than the film.
