No doubt about it, the movies on this list are weird. They either don’t seem to have a point, or just don’t play out the way most movies you see do. For most mainstream audiences, they are stupid and pointless, but to film lovers, they are masterpieces.
5. Dr. Stranglove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
To be fair, pretty much any Stanley Kubrick film could have made this list, but this ones my favorite out of his. About nuclear war, this is the definition of a dark comedy. It features an ex-Nazi in a wheelchair, some crazy generals, and some of the best lines in any movie “We can’t fight here, this is the war room!”. Like I said, these movies aren’t for everyone, but I just can’t imagine someone not liking this movie.
4. American Beauty
I don’t even know where to begin on this movie. It reminds me of a hybrid of the comedy “Office Space” and “Fight Club”. After seeing this one last night, I just knew I had to make a list including it. So this one is about an “average” family in the suburbs, who have been tamed by urban life. Each character in it has an entirely different role and weirdness to them. Just watch it to see what I mean.
3. Donnie Darko
A psycho student, time travel, a perverted motivational speaker, and a person in a bunny costume named Frank all are part of this cast. If that isn’t weird enough, put in an ending that will confuse you until your brain hurts from trying to put things together. Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention the conversation that some of the high schoolers had about Smurfs.
2. Pulp Fiction
I’ve lost track of how many of my lists this movie has been on. But it seems like every topic I decide to do, Pulp Fiction always comes up. The characters aren’t the stragest part of this movie like the other movies, but it’s the way this one is told and the dialogue that just doesn’t fit at all but still fits perfectly with it. The message is what messes up most people when they see this one, they think it’s just a bunch of mindless brutal violence, but just watch and research it later, the whole thing will make sense.
1. Fight Club
There is no genre that this film can’t fit into in some way or another. It has comedy, romance, drama, thriller, action, and even sports. The dialogue and characters seem to make no sense, and you have no clue what the point is until the end, where there is a vague idea. It’s my #1 favorite movie of all time, and there is a reason for that. But like Pulp Fiction, a lot of people see it as stupid, mindless violence.
