The Top 5 Most Bizzare Movies

So, i've seen lots of movies. Some were good, some were bad, and some were just plain bizzare. I mean really weird. So weird that i've compiled this little list here. Obviously, the higher it is, the weirder it was. Now, there are cases on the list where weird doesn't automatically mean bad, and this isn't about how good they were, just how weird. I will try to avoid spoilers. So here we go: the top 5 most bizzare movies.

5. Blade Runner
Ridley Scott's classic sci fi noire masterpiece is set in the dystopian future of... 7 years from now, where robot slaves called Replicants do labor for humans. Some Replicants escape, and detectives called Blade Runners track them down and incapacitate them. This is actualy one of my favorite movies, and this is a case where weird meant good. Why weird? The genetically engineered dwarves in that guy's appartment alone could land this in a top 10 list, but when you also factor in some of the... behavior, lets call it, of the two main replicants and of course the infamous drunken haze of Deckhardt (played by Harrison Ford) you get a pretty bizzare result. If you've seen the movie, you know what i'm talking about.



4. Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
First off, this wasn't technically a movie. It was an internet musical that Joss Whedon (i find a way to work him into pretty much every list i make) made durring the writers strike to kill a little time. And it won an Emmy despite, once again, being released only online. You can actually watch the whole thing on Youtube. Anyway, this tragicomedy centers around Doctor Horrible (played by Neil Patrick Harris), a wannabe supervillain, as he tries to get into the Villainous League of Villainy (or something like that, it's been a while since i watched it) and deals with his nemesis Captain Hammer, a superheroe who's really a total jerk, and there shared love interest, Penny. It was absolutely hysterical. Why weird? The mere premise, for starters. It's a comedy that ends tragickly, and characters burst into song at random times. And don't even get me started on the dream sequence WHERE HE'S HUGE! Once again, bizzare was good here, but it was bizzare none the less.

3. Apocalypse Now Redux
We all know Charlie Sheen, the guy from 2.5 men who goes on talk show claiming to be warlock. But too few of us know of his father Martin Sheen, a much better actor who starred in Apocalypse Now. In Francis Ford Coppola's classic masterpiece of the Vietnam War, Sheen plays an army Captain who is dispatched to Vietnam to retrieve the rogue Colonel Kurtz, who is totally insane. The captain and his men keep going up river looking for Kurtz, and as they go further, the journey gets darker and more bizzare. The Redux part is that twenty years after the original film was released, the director re-released it with an hour of previously unseen footage, or another hour of weirdness. Once more, weird= very good here, because this movie is incredibly awesome, even though it is SO. DAMN. LONG. Why weird? The whole scene in the begining where he's drunk in his appartment, plus all the ridiculously surreal stuff involving surfing and playboy playmates in active war zone. I could go on, but then this section would be three pages long. Go figure. Bottom line: awesomely strange.

2. Monty Python and the Meaning of Life
It's not exactly a secret that Monty Python would tell some pretty weird jokes, but this is pinnacle of there weirdness. And yes, in this case, weird means bad. Don't get me wrong, for the most part I love Monty Python, but I was actually to weirded out or just insulted to enjoy this movie. To be honest, I actually hated it a little bit. The goal of the Pythons going into this was actually pretty much everyone, and this they accomplished. The movie was basically a series of bizzare sketches loosely tied together by an attempt to understand philosophy. Why weird? The most strange cold opening ever coupled with the fish scene, philosophical discussions, "biology class", nudity, religous rants, and of course an absurd amount of cross dressing (it may just be because i'm american, but i really don't get why british people see so much humor in a man dressed in women's clothing) My reccomendation: DON'T WATCH THIS! Also, there's no trailer below because all the trailers for this movie are incredibly innapropriate.

1. Romeo + Juliet
So, we just read Romeo and Juliet in English class, and my teacher decided to have us watch the 1996 remake of Shakespeare's classic play starring Leonardo Dicaprio. The overall story is the same: The Capulet and Montague families are engaged in a violent feud, which is defied by the two star crossed lovers Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. The two try to have a relationship and they both end up dying, but you already knew that. The twist: it's set in modern times, in the fictional California city of Verona Beach. The two families own rival corporations, guns replace swords, and there are gang wars between the families. Why weird? Where do i even start?! First off, it's set in today-land, but the characters still talk like in the play, all 1600s iambic pentameter style. Plus you have all the weird subtitles, drug use, bizzare directing, campy action scenes, and altered characters, the best example of that is Mercutio, who, in the play was just kind of a clown, but here he was made into a black drag queen. Also, the play goes from weird, slightly physcadelic party/comedy scenes to dramatic romance scenes at a moments notice. I'm still debating with myself whether weird means bad or good here. It is the combination of all these things that make Romeo + Juliet the single most bizzare movie I have ever seen.