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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-04 01:19 PM
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What's the most neurotic movie you've ever seen?
Barring pretty much all Woody Allen films, I'd have to go with "Punch Drunk Love." That film made me really nervous, which I am sure was the iuntention.
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-04 01:20 PM
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1. Happiness by Todd Solondz.
That or Magnolia.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-04 01:21 PM
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2. Amen to "Happiness". I'd throw in "Welcome to the Dollhouse" as well.
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-04 01:23 PM
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4. It was a compelling movie.
But I'm not sure I want to sit through it again. Pretty harrowing.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-04 01:26 PM
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6. "Happiness" is a difficult movie to sit through.
It has the most chilling portrait of a pedophile I've ever seen. Very unsettling.
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-04 01:36 PM
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9. Agreed.
Also Neil LaBute's "In the Company of Men" and "Your Friends and Neighbors."
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-04 01:40 PM
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10. Definitely 'In the Company of Men'
for a less harrowing take on neurotic, there's always the entire output of Hal Hartley.
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-04 01:42 PM
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11. The last scene of "Company"
is one of the biggest mind-fucks in cinematic history.

Funny thing is, LaBute is a devout Mormon. I guess he gets all his evil urges out in his scripts. :evilgrin:
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-04 01:46 PM
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12. In the Company of Men
That's the one about the guys who put one over on that woman, right? I forgot the last scene... wouldja PM me and remind me?
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-04 01:22 PM
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3. Also Mulholland Dr., or anything else by Lynch.
"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" unnerved me quite a bit as well. Fabulous film, though.
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-04 01:27 PM
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7. Wild At Heart
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-04 01:48 PM
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13. Good flick...
Just keep clicking those heels together....peanut
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-04 02:02 PM
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15. When Bobby-Peru's Shotgun Misfired...
it was oddly funny, but in a twisted perverse sick kind of way... the kind of way that makes you feel bad about yourself for finding humor in it in the first place.

-- Allen

PS: My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have not told you the type of dog which I have. Perhaps you even picture Toto, from "The Wizard of Oz." But I warn you, my dog is always with me. WOOF!
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-04 01:23 PM
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5. All of Woody Allen's.... aside from that I agree on Punch Drunk Love
I despise Adam Sandler, so why I even watched the hour of it I did is beyond me... irritating as hell.
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-04 01:31 PM
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8. I was about to say anything with Woody Allen :) n/t
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dancing kali Donating Member (485 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-04 02:01 PM
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14. Since you've eliminated the obvious...
I would have to give my vote to anything by David Lynch.
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