Lost In Translation

self explanitory

lost in translation is a really good film (with a good soundtrack). I wouldn't call it overly weird, though.

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I didn't like it

I Heart Huckabees...wtf??? So stupid. I didn't laugh once.

I Heart Huckabees

Just like Garden State

I thought American Beauty was pretty strange

what? an older guy falling for a MUCH younger girl?

that's called reality, dear

i thought trainspotting was a little weird, and requiem for a dream. but any "drug" movies are odd.
maybe rocky horror picture show, but i found that more scary than weird. i was 8 when i watched it.

Don't see Last Days...they film it like it's a heroin comedown...reeeeeally slow etc.

i found "the prestige" really wierd..... a great film though

secretary with maggie gyllenhaal

Pan's Labyrinth

I Heart Huckabees...wtf??? So stupid. I didn't laugh once.

The protagonist, a 13-year-old girl named Aviva, is played by eight different actors (of different ages, races, and sexes) during the course of the film. In addition to Aviva, Palindromes also features an array of secondary characters.


The movie opens with a funeral for a young woman. The person who has died is in fact Dawn Wiener, the main character from Solondz's film Welcome to the Dollhouse, who went to college, gained a lot of weight, and committed suicide. Her brother Mark (Matthew Faber, reprising his role) reads the eulogy while Dawn's tearful parents remain in the audience. (Solondz had asked the original actress Heather Matarazzo to return to the role; however, she declined.)

Aviva is her cousin, who desires to have a child. She has sex with Judah, a family friend, and becomes pregnant. Aviva's parents are horrifed, and demand she get an abortion. While technically successful, in her dazed state it is implied via a fractured, emotional conversation with the doctor that Aviva can no longer have children. Not fully conscious, Aviva is unaware of this, and her parents, already fragile, lead her to believe all is well when she awakens, afraid to upset Aviva in her fragile state.

Aviva runs away from home. She befriends a trucker and has sex with him as well. However, the trucker abandons Aviva at a motel. She eventually finds her way to the Sunshine Family, which is a Christian fundamentalist foster home that cares for orphans and runaways.

While at the Sunshine Family home, she discovers a dark side to the foster father; he is a murderer of abortion providers. His next target is the doctor who had performed Aviva's abortion earlier in the film. The hitman the foster father uses is the same trucker that Aviva had previously befriended and had sex with.

Convinced she is in love with the truck driver, she flees the Sunshine Family to join him on his assignment. The attempted murder did not go as planned, as he ends up accidentally killing the doctor's young daughter in addition to the doctor himself, when she steps in front of the first shot. The trucker (whose name is revealed to be Bob) and Aviva both stay in a motel room. The police arrive and Bob commits suicide by cop.

The movie then skips ahead to Aviva back home with her parents, planning her next birthday party. During the party, she talks to her cousin Mark, who has recently been accused of molesting a baby. Then, the film skips ahead to Aviva meeting Judah, who now calls himself "Otto", and having sex with him. Once again, Aviva believes she is pregnant.

Pan's Labyrinth/Eraserhead. I don't watch too many weird movies, though.