dreamcatcher is the weirdest movie ever

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this movie is weird, man. anus aliens, a guy named jonesy, psychic mentally disabled kids, morgan freeman with a grey crew-cut, the stiffest bizarro dialogue I may have ever heard, aliens with british accents...

now I will go back to watching it.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 05:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I just watched The Fluffer and it was not the weirdest movie ever. It was quite good, actually.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)

anus aliens?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 06:01 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, they call them "ass weasels" in the movie!

also they say "jonesy" every 5 seconds!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 06:35 (twenty-one years ago)

ok, but is it worth seeing?

(cause you could've described a troma flick)

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 06:44 (twenty-one years ago)

In the book, which isn't great, they call them "shit weasels". Why'd you think they changed it?

(The book is really fucking strange too.)

― David A. (Davant), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 07:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Weirder than Blow Up? Weirder than City of Lost Children?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 07:16 (twenty-one years ago)

what's so weird about Blow Up?

― hstencil, Tuesday, 11 November 2003 07:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I may be thinking of the wrong movie...I'm drizzunkity!...the one with mimes like totally disappearing/reappearing at random etc?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 07:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I avoid mimes, filmed or otherwise.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 11 November 2003 07:24 (twenty-one years ago)

the one with mimes like totally disappearing/reappearing at random etc
Kind of, but not really, related:

Someone should film House of Leaves. The book was pretty lame, but I'd like to see what someone could do with it visually.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 07:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Dreamcatcher was horrendous. I saw it dubbed in German, which granted doesn't help a movie, but this was beyond bad. Although "Jonesy" with a German accent is pretty funny. It's too much of a pastiche, I think, ultimately. It seems to be another S.K. supernatural thriller at first, then turns into a monster-alien flick, then back supernatural, sort of, with the bizarre looking Donny Wahlberg [is this really Marky Mark's brother? Really an ex-New-Kid? Oh time, how cruel!]. And then Donny's an alient too? Huh? Go figure, he looks weird enough. HOOOORRRRRIIIIBBBBLLLLEEEE film.

― Skottie, Tuesday, 11 November 2003 10:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I just watched The Fluffer and it was not the weirdest movie ever. It was quite good, actually.

-- Ned Raggett (ne...), November 11th, 2003.

Ned - ::puts hands on face - oh my! I cannot believe you wanted to see this! was this a rental or a cinemax escape ? but I've actually heard it got great reviews in high-brow publications, go figure

― Vic (Vic), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Worst movie I've seen in a while. English aliens!

― Chris Hungus (Chris V), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

was this a rental or a cinemax escape ?

Bought it cheap at a clearance.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh come on, the weirdest movie ever is "Watch the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid", or "Heaven and Earth Magic", or "The Nine Lives of Thomas Katz", or "Don't Touch the White Woman!", or... I haven't seen "Dreamcatcher", but I'm pretty sure it isn't even the weirdest Hollywood flick ever made.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw, I was really hoping this was a Garrett Morris movie.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Who's he? Anyway, it's a genuinely weird movie, what with General Custer's last battle with the indians taking place in modern-day Paris. Also, it stars Marcello Mastroianni as Custer and Catherine Deneuve as his lover.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

'con air' is the weirdest film evah. fact.

― enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Tuomas, you're right. It's not weird really, by weird standards. It is weird, however, given a relatively big budget and recognizeable stars. I really wonder how things like that get made. It must have sounded dumb even in the pitch meetings.

But Tuomas, more importantly, my brother is leaving tonight for a business trip in Vaasa. He may have a free day. Are there good things to see there or should one go to Helsinki if there's a free day? Thanks!

― Skottie, Tuesday, 11 November 2003 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't been to Vaasa for more than a decade, and I was only a child back then. It has a large Swedish-speaking minority, so there it may have more cultural variety than some other city of the same size. The only thing I remember about Vaasa is it's amusement park, but I doubt your brother is interested in that...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

This was the first book Stephen King actually sat down and wrote after being mangled in a road accident. It's pretty pissed off and unpleasant, maybe understandably. I haven't been that fussed about seeing the film, although Morgan Freeman's always a draw (Bruce Almighty notwithstanding).

Oddly enough, this is the second time Freeman has appeared in an SK adaptation where the character was originally white.

― ChrissieH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh well, thanks for the tip, Tuomas! I'll pass it on.

― Skottie, Tuesday, 11 November 2003 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

http://www.avclub.com/content/files/images/filename_2_8.jpg

― latebloomer, Friday, 9 November 2007 11:45 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.avclub.com/content/blog/my_year_of_flops_case_file_82

― latebloomer, Friday, 9 November 2007 11:46 (seventeen years ago)

^^^
best entry in that series in a long time

― latebloomer, Friday, 9 November 2007 11:47 (seventeen years ago)

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