The Ultimate Quirky Movie

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

I'll set the scene:

You're wearing your horn-rimmed glasses and faded green, button down, second-hand shirt. You've alighted from your cruiser bike, complete with basket, exhausted from a 4 hour shift at the coffee shop. All you want to do it plop down on your orange naugahyde easy chair and drink a PBR which you'll enjoy fully aware of all ironic implications. You turn on the TV, reach for your stack of VHS tapes and cue up this movie:

[Richardo]

1. I've only seen two of them - and Harold & Maude is the quirkier...

...plus it's one of my all-time favorites.

[Debi]

2. Drop Dead Georgous

[ghostsofgiants]

3. Argh! Can't choose!

[KyndCulture]

4. Attic Expeditions.

[XemaSab]

5. Office Space

:bounce:

[Hugin]

10. Seconded.

;) :thumbsup:

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

11. Damn!

How'd I miss that one! Clearly I have no grasp of hipster culture.

[Blue Belle]

18. I think everyone has lived this movie...

in some form or another.

[Clintmax]

47. This is my vote also!

Love that movie! :bounce:

[Frank Cannon]

53. Office Space gets my vote

That Gary Cole character is 80% of all the bosses I've ever had.

[Blue Belle]

6. Election...

Tracy Flick is by far Reese Witherspoon's BEST Role...

[blondeatlast]

7. Other: Clay Pigeons

The blacker the comedy, the better--and Jeanine Garafalo was terrific in it.

[nytemare]

36. I second that and see you a "Mars Attacks"

:D

[blondeatlast]

83. Hey--bring the ice cold sodas--I'm up for a double feature!

I'll pop the popcorn.

[Beaverhausen]

8. Baghdad Cafe or Me and You and Everyone We Know

[SeattleGirl]

31. I'm with you on Baghdad Cafe

I love that movie.

[blondeatlast]

9. I can't vote again, but another "other;" Repo Man." nt

[Ikonoklast]

12. Cecil B. Demented

Gotta love John Waters. I think he -invented- quirky.

[Catchawave]

13. Fargo !

Always the first thing that pops in my head when I see "quirky" and "movie" together :hi:

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

15. Damn, AND I forgot Big Lebowski.

This poll sucks.

PS: Okay, edited with the addition of Lebowski. Apologies to whomever chose Tango & Cash. Thanks for humoring me.

[Blue Belle]

17. Oh and "Dazed and Confused", "Empire Records", and "Kingpin".

Plus just about anything Directed by Christpher Guest or Wes Anderson.

[khashka]

21. Definitely Fargo!

Actually pretty much anything by the Coen brothers. Fargo, Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona, etc....



Khash.

[ET Awful]

70. And I guess that was your accomplice in the woodchipper?

:P

[nutsnberries]

14. ...and i'm in a swanky mode? well then, there's only one choice

~soon i'll be drinking beer & dancin' on a rooftop with josh and ivan. B-)

[texas1928]

22. What a weird movie.

SHEESH













































TAG YOU'RE IT!!!!!!!!!!







:P

[nutsnberries]

33. it is and i love it.

SWANKY MOOOOODDDDDEEEESSSS !!! :toast:

[lizziegrace]

16. The Accidental Tourist n/t

[Ravenseye]

19. Buckaroo Banzai

[hunter]

32. I'll second that.

Just 'cause I like quirky science fiction.

[Hobarticus]

66. "Evil! Pure and simple from the eighth dimension!" Thirds, here...

This movie is a classic. My frriend and I would quote this movie ad naseum in high school, and no one knew what the hell we were talking about.

[Ravenseye]

69. Why is there a watermelon there?

I'll tell you later.

[Hobarticus]

80. Big Boo-TAYY! Big Boo-TAYYYY! n/t

[khashka]

20. Are you kidding! Welcome to the Dollhouse?

That ain't quirky, it's an unrelieved trip through hell!

Good movie, though....

Khash.

[bertha katzenengel]

23. Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael

Trust me -- get it.

[Dukkha]

24. Napoleon Dynamite

GOSH! IDIOT!

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

28. ROFL

Nice, though one could argue that the person in the post intro might think him or herself "above" a movie like Napoleon Dynamite. Fucking hipsters....

[Broken_Hero]

38. yep, ND for sure...:)

"Stay at home and eat all the friggen chips Kipp"...

"Do you think I got to where I am today, by dressing like Peter Pan here?"....

Movie was great, subtle, dry comedy...

[skyblue]

85. Vote for Pedro.........

Saw this about 6 times!

[Duer 157099]

25. Dogma, what about Dogma? n/t

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

30. Bah, IMHO Kevin Smith peaked with Chasing Amy.

I enjoyed Chasing Amy and Clerks but other than that, I'm not much of a fan.

[On the Road]

62. Not Even Dogma?

I thought that was his best.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

73. Hey, to each his own...

Dogma was okay by me. His dialogue always sounds so stilted to me, like "Hey, I can hear Kevin Smith talking THRU this character." IMHO, that trait was worst in Dogma. But if you dog it, cool!

[Throd]

26. "The Loved One"

From 1965, featuring among others John Gielgud, Jonathan Winters, Liberace, Rod Steiger, Milton Berle, Paul Williams, Roddy McDowell and a whole bunch of others I can't recall at the moment.

Dark, hilarious and bizarre. Everything I look for in a movie.

[djeseru]

27. The Royal Tenenbaums.

Sixteen Candles. Quick Change. Most Cohen Bros. films.

It's all good. :)

[Common Sense Party]

29. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

[ceile]

75. Seconded!

[Patiod]

79. Tom Stoppard is in another league altogether

R&G is the first really good, professional show I every saw (not including Broadway musicals).

Amazing stuff.

[tuvor]

34. Eraserhead, damnit!

"Oh, you ARE sick!"

[Strong Atheist]

57. That movie was not quirky it was ....

.......

something else.

I fled after the first half hour...

[LaraMN]

35. I've always liked Benny and Joon,

but I think that might have more to do with the Depp factor than anything...:loveya:

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

40. I haven't followed his career much...

I loved him 21 Jump Street and I figured anything after that would be a disappointment.

[Arkham House]

37. The Trouble With Harry

This is Hitchcock's best film, funny, brutally so...lovely Vermont location...plenty of double entendres...Shirley MacLaine's first film...nothing like it, and I'm the only one who's ever heard of it, or so it sometimes seems...

[DBoon]

39. Repo Man

[Benfea]

41. This poll is invalidated by the absence of "Repo Man"

Also, you missed "My Life As A Dog."

[Hatalles]

42. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Wes Anderson films are just a whole lot of fun to *look* at. :D

[enigmatic]

43. Stranger Than Paradise (1984)

My third favorite film of all-time:

http://www.notcoming.com/reviews.php?id=205

[Tikki]

67. I so love that movie...

maybe, my favorite all-time...and more Jarmusch....Mystery Train (1989)...Night on Earth (1991)...


Tikki

[enigmatic]

86. The final story in Night On Earth

Is probably my favorite piece of any of Jarmusch's films. Whjat beautiful piece of filmmaking..

[Random_Australian]

44. Actually, I've just thought of one all the weirder.

From French, it translates as "The Fantastic Planet"

[Up2Late]

45. "Brazil" or "Naked Lunch"

I can't decide, I'm thinking "Naked Lunch" has to take the cake. Not much is weirder than what happens to his typewriter, about half way though the film.

"Naked Lunch" (1991)
<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102511/>

"Brazil" (1985)
<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/>

[terrya]

46. "Happiness"

[mikeytherat]

48. 200 Motels

"Centerville - a nice place to live!"

mikey_the_rat

[Strong Atheist]

49. Alegro Non Tropo. nt.

[sciouscience]

50. eXistenZ

oh, QUIRKY. I thought you said TRIPPY, my bad. but Cronenberg's good!

[Bridget Burke]

59. I had some pretty odd jobs in my Temping days...

But nothing like working at the Trout Factory.

[Strong Atheist]

51. Not ultimate, but a quirky movie: Secondhand Lions. nt.

[wildhorses]

52. the cook, the thief, his wife, her lover

perhaps quirky is not the best word to describe this flick but ....close enough

[LostinVA]

54. Benny and Joon -- and it's a greatly underrated movie

Great cast, too...

[underpants]

55. ___ ***** _____ BOTTLE ROCKET _____ *** ____

How is it that none of you freaks mentioned Bottle Rocket.

Sheesh.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

60. Ahem.....

Rushmore is SO much better. That's how. :P

[underpants]

61. No it isn't

Rushmore is sorta Oh I see funny not really a laugh out loud funny movie. Your opinion is wrong.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

64. The criteria is "quirky" not funny.

And that is a scientific fact!

[genie_weenie]

56. ZARDOZ

Sean Connery in a diaper...

[ET Awful]

71. But Zardoz wasn't quirky, it was just BAD.

:P

The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!

[genie_weenie]

74. Whoa, Whoa, Whoaaaa

I'll let you retract your previous post. ZARDOZ is by far the greatest, idiosyncratic movie E-VAR!

Only a BOY AND HIS DOG comes close...

:evilgrin:

[ET Awful]

78. LOL A Boy and His Dog . . . BUAHAHAHAHA

a young hormonal Don Johnson using a psychic golden retriever to get chicks in a post apocalyptic wasteland . . . . :rofl:

I actually have that one on DVD somewhere :P

[genie_weenie]

81. can... not... resist.. You sure have good taste

I know, I know only a paraphrase

[Bridget Burke]

58. "The Woman Chaser" with Patrick Warburton...

Here's a review--which does not reveal the true extent of weirdness:

www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2000/08/04/DD45891.DTL&type=printable

(No, it's never been released on VHS or DVD.)

[On the Road]

63. I Would Have to Say "Memento"

followed closely by "Following" (another Christopher Nolan) and "Fight Club."

Depends on what kind of quirkiness is meant. There is a lot of it to go around.

Of those listed, I would vote for "Harold and Maude."

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

65. I don't know that I would put

Fight Club and Memento in the quirky category...even Dancer in the Dark is pushing it.

[jane_pippin]

68. Welcome to the Dollhouse. It's so perfectly depressing and hilarious.

I love it. Way ahead of it's time too, I think. (Ya hear that Napoleon? Fuck yeah you do.)

[MrScorpio]

72. The Magic Christian

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064622/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxrdz0xfHE9dGhlIG1hZ2ljIGNocmlzdGlhbnxmdD0xfG14PTIwfGxtPTUwMHxjbz0xfGh0bWw9MXxubT0x;fc=1;ft=20

[myrna minx]

76. Down by Law , Rubin & Ed.

or Blue Velvet.

[pableaux]

77. Tampopo

I actually voted for The Big Lebowski, but I thought I'd throw this movie out there for consideration.

[Patiod]

82. After Hours

Captured exactly what I thought of Manhatten whenever I visited friends there after college -- it always seemed to be 3:30 am and I was somewhat lost, surrounded by weirdos, no money, and no way of getting home.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

84. The Happiness of the Karakuris

http://www.lovehkfilm.com/panasia/happiness_of_the_katakuris.htm

Plus anything by the Coens, Wes Anderson, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and most Matthew Bright. (Although from your list I'd pick Harold and Maude.)