Tell me an old and weird #movie or #film you think everyone should watch (and why).

@limebar define "old"... my definition may be very different than yours!

@lminiero
you have detected my trap for the young!

anything really, but let's just say nothing post 2000, let's go dogma 95 and earlier

@limebar Night Tide, because it's got a very young Dennis Hopper and a mysterious woman who may or may not be a mermaid, also it's free on YouTube.

@lydialurch thanks! looks interesting

@limebar House on Haunted Hill because it has Vincent Price in it.

@limebar Toys, 1992, directed by Barry Levinson, with Robin Williams & Joan Cusack.

American culture's distaste for earnestness and whimsy led to a deeply unfair response to this film. The level of surrealism was also probably turned up past most people's tolerance.

@synkr3tyk
i'm a military man, i like a military plate!

-ll cool j

@limebar
@gregvr , did you want to maybe say a word about Slacker?

@synkr3tyk @gregvr
loved slacker but have not seen in ages

@limebar I was about to edit the above to indicate (as requested) *why* I recommend it, but I see that I already mentioned whimsy, surrealism, Williams, and Cusack, which feels like enough of a sales job.

@synkr3tyk @gregvr
in my head, slc punk and slacker are joined at the hip but it has been so long that may be a false connection

@limebar Harold and Maude (1971). Everyone needs to think about the inevitability of death, and the inevitability of living.

@cuauh
love this movie
I am a Harold of sorts

@thejessiekirk
saw this recently! had a vincent price halloween month 2 years back
i remember researching that house in detail at the time...

it is available on peertube, btw, for others:
https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/19610b3f-8492-47e8-8672-118a42a8d775

@limebar one of my favorite movies of all time: A matter of Life and death (rebranded Stairway to heaven in the US). British film from the forties by Powell and Pressburger)

@sknob
this one? looks interesting!
https://video.pavel-english.ru/w/32afb0ba-6f74-4c75-81a3-c6d2867e6367

@limebar I would suggest you find a copy with a decent resolution. The cinematography is quite exceptional for the time.

@sknob found already

@limebar Brazil is fairly well known, but if you haven't seen it, you absolutely should. Nothing else prepared me for the sheer eye-gouging absurdity of middle age half as well as that movie.

Beyond that, it is simply a gorgeous and wonderfully creative movie, bursting with wild imagery and crazy visual ideas that come at you at an astonishing pace. I wish I could see it for the first time all over again.

@limebar Eat the Rich: 1987 flawed political collision of sketch comedians, Motorhead and cannibalism starring Lanah Pelay (of Pistol in my Pocket). It's all nauseatingly relevant, and amazing.