OZARK'S NOT QUOTE TOP 250 MOVIES III
CINEMA OF THE BIZARRE (or WTF!!!!!):
Every once in a while there comes a movie which leaves you with your mouth agape and the feeling of was I not supposed to understand WTF just happened, hold on I'll watch it again. Top 250 case in point would be something like Mulholland Drive. It takes a writer/director like Lynch to suck in the audience into his insanity, there is meaning and plot hidden there in his twisted hints. Movies that missed out on 250 status:
Donnie Darko (2001) - Time-travel and premonitions of impeding doom trouble young Jake Gyllenhaal
eXistenZ (1999) - Cronenberg's virtual reality sci-fi throws it's stars Jude Law and Jennifer Jason Leigh around inside a mind altering video game.
Lost Highway (1997) - Another Lynchian masterpiece which has Bill Pullman questioning what is real or not in his own life as he receives a mysterious blank videotape and becomes the suspect in his wife's murder.
But it isn't just the mind-benders that this category can cover it also takes in films like Six String Samurai. A movie just born out of bizarre notion, an alternate reality, a comic book brought to life. Here are a few films that tend to break the mold and try something different:
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) - Elvis is alive, and living in an old people's rest home along with a black man who believes he is JFK. Together they must stop an ancient mummy from killing all the residents of the home.
Miracle Mile (1988) - Outside a city cafe around midnight Anthony Edwards receives a call on a pay phone that claims that a nuclear strike will hit the US in less than 90 minutes, does he choose to believe it or not?
Streets of Fire (1984) - Walter Hill's rock and roll fable has a gang kidnapping a rock singer and the only guy who can save her is her ex-boyfriend.
Every once in a while there comes a movie which leaves you with your mouth agape and the feeling of was I not supposed to understand WTF just happened, hold on I'll watch it again. Top 250 case in point would be something like Mulholland Drive. It takes a writer/director like Lynch to suck in the audience into his insanity, there is meaning and plot hidden there in his twisted hints. Movies that missed out on 250 status:
Donnie Darko (2001) - Time-travel and premonitions of impeding doom trouble young Jake Gyllenhaal
eXistenZ (1999) - Cronenberg's virtual reality sci-fi throws it's stars Jude Law and Jennifer Jason Leigh around inside a mind altering video game.
Lost Highway (1997) - Another Lynchian masterpiece which has Bill Pullman questioning what is real or not in his own life as he receives a mysterious blank videotape and becomes the suspect in his wife's murder.
But it isn't just the mind-benders that this category can cover it also takes in films like Six String Samurai. A movie just born out of bizarre notion, an alternate reality, a comic book brought to life. Here are a few films that tend to break the mold and try something different:
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) - Elvis is alive, and living in an old people's rest home along with a black man who believes he is JFK. Together they must stop an ancient mummy from killing all the residents of the home.
Miracle Mile (1988) - Outside a city cafe around midnight Anthony Edwards receives a call on a pay phone that claims that a nuclear strike will hit the US in less than 90 minutes, does he choose to believe it or not?
Streets of Fire (1984) - Walter Hill's rock and roll fable has a gang kidnapping a rock singer and the only guy who can save her is her ex-boyfriend.
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