Quirky movies I like. Whats yours?

[PRC74]

Four Rooms, Blue Velvet, Three days in the Valley. Got any others I can check out. I guess I have strange tastes. However I am just as happy as if I am in my right mind.

 

[bmhiii]

I don't know about "quirky" but I like "The People Under the Stairs" as a lesser known, weird movie. It's kinda funny to me...

 

[HUGHP]

Barfly w/Mickey Rourke & Faye Dunaway

 

[Bullseye 2620]

+1 for Hugh

Dang,

As soon as I saw the title for this thread, I said to myself, "nothing better than 'Barfly.'" Looks like Hugh got there first.

"Blue Velvet" is another great one.

I'd add to this list a quirky comedy called "Rancho Deluxe." You can rent it from Netflix, but it takes a while for it to arrive. Worth the wait.


Bullseye

 

[Bassamatic]

Hard times with Charles Bronson.
The first Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Any of the Saw movies.
The original Hitcher with Rutger Hauer.

I like tense movies.

 

[Dennis The B]

"Pulp Fiction".

I know it freely uses the "f" word, but the dialogue between Samuel Jackson and John Travolta is priceless.

 

[truckemup97]

"Raising Arizona" is a favorite of my wife and myself. It's become somewhat of a cult classic. Well worth a buck at the rental store.

 

[s&wchad]

I'm easily amused!

Apocalypse Now
Pulp Fiction
Snatch
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Under Siege - Not really quirky, but very entertaining. One has to admire the acting portfolio of Erica Eleniak… an amazing body of work!

 

[WONTLETYOU]

RESERVOIR DOGS. great cast, great movie

 

[dkees]

Another vote for "Raising Arizona".

Any of the Monte Python's

 

[Wyatt Burp]

Rancho Deluxe and The Big Labowski. Cool guns in Rancho deluxe. The Big L. and anything else by the Coens. What the hell is Sam Elliot doing in the Big Labowski? I don't know but he's great and it's weird funny.

 

[cmort666]

"99 44/100% Dead" with Richard Harris as a hit man who carries two Browning High Powers. Chuck Conners is hilarious as a psychotic killer missing a hand who has an attachment on the end of his arm for a MAC10, knife, vibrator, etc.

The scene at the beginning with the line around the block of wouldbe hit men attending "American Idol" style tryouts is classic.

 

[scottaschultz]

And yet another vote for Raising Arizona. I thought I would be the first, but now I hope I am not the last!

Scott

 

[Tom M]

I liked "Fargo".

 

[Texas Star]

Apocalypse Now
Pulp Fiction
Snatch
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Under Siege - Not really quirky, but very entertaining. One has to admire the acting portfolio of Erica Eleniak… an amazing body of work!

I presume that "body" of work is a pun?

Erika mentioned in the film that she (her character) was Miss July, I think, and I believe that July, 1989 was her Playmate appearance in real life.

I liked her on, "Baywatch", but she got burned out over people seeing ONLY her body, and left the show. Plus, her boyfriend on the show, Eddy, was a jerk.

My favorite quirky movie may be, "Blood Surf."

Some Americans go to an island near Australia, to make an extreme sports movie. The idea is to cut themselves, then surf among sharks. And they'll film this idiot stunt...

But the captain of their ship and his girlfriend hate a huge saltwater croc and go after it when it appears. It caused some real damage to the captain on a prior trip.So, he gets this Captain Ahab zeal to do it in, as if it was Moby Dick, i guess.

Three hot chicks: one Aussie, one US (she may be an Aussie faking a US accent), and a chick from maybe Tahiti.
Bad guy Mexican pirate villains. Tree trap, with a swinging limb studded with spears. Hero and heroine get the hots for each other. Croc eats all he can. Ends well for a very few.

I found it in a used video store. But you can probably buy it from Amazon.com or some such place on the Web. I paid the exalted sum of $3.99 for a VHS copy. It may be out on DVD, and is worth getting, if it doesn't cost over $15.00.

Stars Duncan Regehr, Taryn Reif, and Katie Fischer, among the notable talents.

Oh: the captain's girlfriend does a pretty good dance to a juke box in a bar before the group leaves for the mysterious island. I think I recall a Buck No. 120 knife, the model they called the General, with 7.5-inch blade. Couldn't quite make out a pistol. AK-47's.

Even better? It's called, "I'm Watching You", starring Jacqueline Lovell and Lori Dawn. Well, they're the two main hotties.

One is an artist who moves into a friend's LA studio while the friend is in Europe. Her neighbor is a model. They get acquainted. One poses, one paints.

Across the alley is a very famous artist who gets millions for his paintings. The guy's wife wants him dead. The model is doing the artist behind his evil wife's back. Difficuties, including murder, arise.

Will the two chicks survive and save the day? Will the pretty young artist get with the strange guy who's been calling her on the phone?

Memorable is a scene where the eccentric artist plays Russian Roulette with a Ruger GP-100 (four-inch barrel) and fires at a painting. Actually, I think he loaded the gun and his model shot it. Very good detail., Ruger should have sponsored this one! I don't immediately recall the other guns. I think the angry wife used a SIG.

Throughout the film, the two main babes get out of their clothes a lot, and they are pretty hot. Worth a look. Mine is, again, VHS. The actors and the plot are well above what many such movies deliver. Some video stores may have this one.

T-Star
P.S. I found "I'm Watching You" on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Playboy-Im-Wa...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=video&qid=1250518633&sr=1-1

"Blood Surf": http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Dvhs&field-keywords=Blood+Surf&x=16&y=16 I can't believe the low price! WELL worth it!

 

[Tam 3]

Secondhand Lions w/Caine and Duvall.

Regards,

Tam 3

 

[Allen-frame]

Quirky? I got Quirky.

1. Wilder Napalm w/ Debra Winger ,Arliss Howard and Dennis Quaid.

2. Off the map w/ Sam Shepard ,and Joan Allen.

3. Like Water for Chocolate.

4. Garden State w/ Natalie Portman and Zach Braff.

Bedazzled . Doc Hollywood.

Grand Canyon w/ Steve Martin ,Danny Glover and a totally great cast all around.

Baghdad Cafe ,with Jack Palance ,and C.C.H Pounder.

Sea of Love w/ Ellen Barkin and Al Pacino.

Added ; Siesta ,with Ellen Barkin. a must see.


I love quirky movies ,,,I could go on.

Regards ,,Allen Frame.

 

[DCWilson]

I'm in agreement with almost all of the nominations above. I think I am probably closest to the same mental space as Allen-frame, whose list has a lot of my favorites on it, too.

With respect to "Under Siege," I'll just mention that it gives Tommy Lee Jones the best line I heard in movies in decades. When Steven Segal asks him why an honored national security specialist would turn bad, Jones replies "Because I got sick and tired of coming up with last-minute desperate solutions to problems created by other @*#&$$#! people."

I've had jobs like that, but at least I managed to retire before I started stealing nukes.

I'll just add "Brazil" and what I think is Quentin Tarantino's best movie, "Jackie Brown." I realize that you have to bend the rules a little for that one. It's not so much a quirky movie as a fairly straight version of a quirky Elmore Leonard novel. And it has another great line from Samuel L Jackson as an arms dealer trying to market AK-47s -- "For when you absolutely, positively, have to waste everybody in the room."

Back in the early 1960s there was strange black comedy with Roddy McDowall called "Lord Love a Duck." I liked it as a teenager but aven't seen that in a while. Wonder how it would hold up.

 

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