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It’s Friday, I am sane and bored. Need reccomendations!

October 21, 2011 10:06 am GMT -5

Hey SpaceGhetto,
So, it is Friday, and I just want to watch some fucked up movies.  What are some movies that are so weird, fucked up, and demented that after watching, I will never be the same.  I saw this one movie recently and it was fucking weird, ever watched Crash?  Not the one with Ludacris, and Brenden Frasier, but this one:

Hey SpaceGhetto,
So, it is Friday, and I just want to watch some fucked up movies.  What are some movies that are so weird, fucked up, and demented that after watching, I will never be the same.  I saw this one movie recently and it was fucking weird, ever watched Crash?  Not the one with Ludacris, and Brenden Frasier, but this one:

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  5. I’m usually left mute or disturbed for a while by other type of films, such as “Traffic” or “Michael Clayton”, Those with high shock value but nothing else to present (as I think of “Srpski Film”, “Irreversible”, “The Idiots”) are disposable for me. Cronnenberg’s “Crash” is a dark soft porn flick with very good music by Howard Shore, but it doesn’t have any meaning for me. Those may serve as a (sometimes doubtful) source of joy while watching, but if they don’t leave you with a weird taste, they do nothing. Now, “The Machinist” is pretty damn rad, mainly for Christian Bale’s work, but also photography and Roque Banos’ music. Maybe you should try “The Wrestler” if you haven’t seen it, for a heartbreaking story. I can also recommend Peter Weir’s “Picnic at Hanging Rock”, and out of newer things, my favorite movie about drugs: “A Scanner Darkly”. Absolutely amazing in every respect, and totally rewatchable.


  6. meh, scanner darkly got me thinking but it didn’t leave me with as bad a mind fuck as Repo or the Machinist. Natural Born Killers is a really good one in that it’s got 2 things: absolutely savage brutality, and it’s a fucked up love story.

    If you want to dip down to hell and then come back out laughing, watch Requiem for a Dream and follow it up with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

  9. I know them both, I treat “Requiem..” as sort of a bugbear for kids to stay away from drugs. Saw it in the cinema but it evoked quite the opposite feelings than it is intended for; instead of being repulsed I felt rebellious and “I’m not scared of your overdrawn drama, I can go and do drugs right now”. I was more depressed over Aronofsky’s “Wrestler”, even though I cannot identify with the character, I was just really dejected by his story. Much more piercing than “The Black Swan”, which has the same schematics, but is about rich, elitist mental bullshit problems, not about a hard working guy from the streets. “The Machinist” is I think my favorite depressing film right after “Seven”, I’ve only watched it twice. It leaves a scar. And of course “Fear and Loathing..” is a great comedy. I dunno why I felt deeply moved by “A Scanner Darkly”. Somehow Bob Arctor disastrous descent into addiction and darkness serves as a more of a warning for me, than “Requiem..”.

    I love the way media is shown in “Natural Born Killers”.

  14. Nah, that Lars von Trier film. Well, I won’t discuss that pretentious attention whore’s film, because I forgot most of it and am unwilling to rewatch it — I must have thought it wasn’t worth remembering since all I can recall is there were actors fucking in it. It may be enough to cause stir in Cannes, but it ain’t enough to cause stir in my head.

  16. The imgur hotlinking doesn’t work here (press F5 and you should see for yourself it doesn’t); the SG image host link is in the column on the.. left.

    Don’t wanna hurt anyone’s feelings, and Trier is technically a very good director, I just don’t like his pretentiousness, inconsistency in his ideology, ideologies actually. He would write a very strict set of rules of “how films should be made” (that past “Dogma” of his, which is against my beliefs in the first place — telling people how art should be made is ridiculous) and then it shows clearly it was all just to cause a great commotion around his work because he breaks every single rule of that dogma he wrote, in his later films. He’s a Marilyn Manson of the film industry, some might like it or enjoy it, for me it’s simply dishonest. How can you be honest with people if you can’t be honest with yourself, I ask, and one thing art should be in my eyes is honest, from the heart.

  17. noted: imgur links are no-go, thank you. my feelings aren’t hurt. and i don’t swear by every film von trier has made. but the idiots.. it may be an infatuation i have with mental illness and it’s involvement with society/everyday life; all director boner arrogant nonsense aside, the idiots had more going for it than mere shock value. 

  19. I’m invading this thread with this:


    And even though “Crash” in my opinion is just a guilty pleasure, literally an auto-erotic movie, I admit there’s something mesmerizing about crashed cars. I’ll make a full post of these one day when I have some more in my image collection.

  20. They mentioned other Aronofsky movies but not Pi, which is much more fucked in my opinion.

    Jean Luc Godard has one called “Weekend” which is thoroughly unenjoyable but it has more “WTF?” moments than anything I’ve seen, so there you go.

    I’d agree with Videodrome.

    Anything by Satoshi Kon, like Paprika.

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