cidade de deux btw

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yeah i thought this would be unclear. idk there is ANIME and then there is NOTANIME and 99% of anime watches like it is anime, and the other 1% does not. that's what i meant. you watch something like INU YASHA!!! or idk, love hina or something and all you can think is "man this is so fucken anime", but this was never a thought i or the other people i talked to had about mindgame. it has a distinctly different tone/aesthetic i guess? idk it just WATCHES DIFFERENTLY. it's a little hard to explain.

hm okay i guess i hear what you're saying. i could be wrong, but i get the impression that all the really corny animes are the ones that are better known in america even though there is a massively wide selection in japan (probably mainly consisting of perv stuff). so even though mindgames seems like one of a kind, i think there is actually a lot of less known stuff like that.

so i just watched the movie the adventures of the baron munchausen it was definitely visually stimulating, but tbh, the storyline and characters sucked.

i found out that the guy who directs it is the one doing the imaginarium of dr parnassus, which i've been looking forward to for a long time. he also did tideland. not i'm almost nervous for the imaginarium of dr parnassus to come out... has anyone eles heard of it?

Yeah, it's the one with Heath Ledger, Depp and five billion other guys, right?
Terry Gilliam's cool. He did 12monkeys too and think someone mentioned Brazil before :P

Yeah, it's the one with Heath Ledger, Depp and five billion other guys, right?
Terry Gilliam's cool. He did 12monkeys too and think someone mentioned Brazil before :P

yeah that's the one. brazil is on my 'to watch' list.

i saw delicatessen last night (insomnia = lots of movie watching).
it was pretty good. this one gave me an uneasy feeling like tideland though. it was better in a sense that not everyone was really messed up lol. the main characters were something like a breath of fresh air!



i'm a little less interested in watching we are the strange after reading your post, captain nugget... :\


edit: whoops that whole post was not supposed to be a quote 

Yeah Brazil's a cool movie, but it's kinda slow at some points. Kinda feels abit too
much Monty Python sometimes.

Also man. I totally forgot The Fisher King. Now that's a great movie. Anybody seen it?

I have the Fisher King, and the first time I watched it I was fairly underwhelmed at the story, the uncomfortable characters and the weak ending. There are parts where they do some special effects to enhance the feeling of dementia from Robin William's character, but at the time I didn't think it was anything notable or groundbreaking.

bonehead, I'm not watching any of your recommendations unless you personally garuntee I won't walk away somewhat disturbed...

since panda and others have suggested brazil, i'll probably still watch that one lol.

Haha. Well Fisher King isn't as disturbing as the others, but it's still a bit dopey. Brazil is pretty dopey,
but not in a disturbing kind of way I think. Good enough for ya? 

@Blitzen: Man, I gotta see it again sometime soon. Robin William's pretty cool in it. Was long time
ago since I saw it, but I think I really enjoyed the chemistry between him and Jeff Bridges.

Oh yeah Jan Svankmajer movies are pretty freaky and I need to get around to watching some (I kind of watched some short films of his on TV once, then I found him on the internet like 'o that was the guy'), and like every movie of his is online but it would feel more natural if it just came on TV during some weird art show, it's hard to be in a mood enough to actually google it and watch it on youtube

Edit: I remember when I was younger I made sort of stop-motion Action League Now movies with whatever toys we had, but if I was still doing that and wanted to be all arty about it I'd probably end up making something like Jan Svankmajer's stuff (and instead of action figures I'd raid antique shops for weirder and creepier stuff for characters and props)

are we just listing good movies or still mostly for visuals?

 the cremaster cycle series is alright to look at but story wise they're really meh. drawing restraint 9 is made by matthew barney as well and it has the same frustrating 'we're about to do something' feel throughout without actually doing anything.

el topo and the holy mountain, are two by alexander jorodowsky that have some neat images. don't bother reading anything into them though, you'll only be disappointed when you find out the director is genuinely mentally retarded. like cross sheppard with doktormartini and you have him seriously.

the qatsi series are all visuals but stick with the first one. i've not seen the second but the third was really really bad and i figure the second was a stepping stone towards it. also it's not the challenger don't worry.

zardoz is a pretty cool movie visually and in terms of story line but i might have been distracted by a half naked sean connery

Fitzcarraldo is pretty incredible

el topo and the holy mountain, are two by alexander jorodowsky that have some neat images. don't bother reading anything into them though, you'll only be disappointed when you find out the director is genuinely mentally retarded. like cross sheppard with doktormartini and you have him seriously.

El Topo did have great images but I don't know if it fits into the same category of visually stimulating as the other movies people have been mentioning.  I think it's a different kind of visual.

zardoz is a pretty cool movie visually and in terms of story line but i might have been distracted by a half naked sean connery

Bwahaha, I saw this not too long ago and man. What the hell is he wearing?! How the hell did they make him wear it?!?
I didn't see the whole thing cause there was puke coming out of my mouth everytime Sean Connery appeared on camera
so when that big rock head thing started to spit out weapons I went "Uuugh?!" and turned it off.

I think Sin City was pretty cool when it came out. Too bad every other movie is like that now.

El Topo did have great images but I don't know if it fits into the same category of visually stimulating as the other movies people have been mentioning.  I think it's a different kind of visual.

i thought the category of horrible CG came about because people didn't know any better

and by every other movie is like that do you mean graphically or do you mean the current trent of purposefully campy so they can appeal to a wider audience?
sin city was as cool as watching a bad movie run through a filter. i don't know how watching more bad movies run through filters could make it worse though

sunshine and event horizen are both bad movies but they fit in with a lot of the other recommendations.

i google imaged those two. i'll probably watch them. i love space stuff (go international year of astronomy!! <3)
also that sunshine movie has a picture of ...what i assume is the sun. it reminds me of venus under this crazy telescope i got to use at the uni i went to. it was seriously the trippiest thing i've ever seen.

so yeah, i'll probably watch it for htat reason alone.

Yeah the Mist was great. It feels like a small movie until the mist clears and then it's like
  Super epic kind of :P