Perfume is the weirdest movie I have ever watched

[graywarrior]

WTF?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

1. It was a very strange novel.

I read the book some years ago. Interesting but weird.

I probably would not see the movie because I refuse to see movies where people are raped or assaulted or killed in large numbers, especially women.

[oedura]

20. The movie is pretty tame.

There's no really explicit sex or violence in it.

[ghostsofgiants]

2. You have tame taste in movies then.

:P

Decent film though. I enjoyed it.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

3. I think it comes with getting older.

I just don't want to see gory or violent shit that gives me nightmares or scares hell out of me.

I can understand violence as part of a plot, but if everyone dies in the end, or lots of people get killed, I suspect there is no real plot to it. cf. The Dark Knight (complete waste of time IMNSHO).

And I'm not a prude. I don't freak out over bad words or consensual sex in movies. I've seen Saving Private Ryan and I thought the blood and guts was relatively mild compared to what I've seen in murder trials at the courthouse, which are thoroughly gross. The reality channel is gross and horrific, and I don't want to see fictional movies that make me wanna barf.

I just don't like to see stuff that bothers me. I tried to watch Million Dollar Baby the other night on AMC and I could not. First off, I think boxing is pointless and morally disgusting. And when Hilary Swank was in the hospital with a trach tube, she was talking :wtf:

People with trach tubes cannot talk, I thought. And I couldn't understand her anyway. So I turned it off.

[graywarrior]

4. I think it was more about what people will do to be loved

There were so many hidden meanings in that movie and implications of violence. The ending was astounding.

[tigereye]

5. but the end was pretty interesting...

I just got it to see Alan Rickman and because it sounded wonderfully weird. And it was - that's for sure.

[fizzgig]

6. that was a damn bizarre movie

it wasn't bad, just bizarre

[bif]

7. Stranger than a David Lynch movie?

Like "Eraserhead"?

[RoyGBiv]

11. Different kind of strange ...

Lynch often seems to be weird for the sake of being weird.

This was a weird story all around.

It competes with the strangeness level of something like Eraserhead on the strength of the closeup of Dustin Hoffman's nose alone. Try that in HD.

[sarge43]

13. Not as filled with symbolism or visual metaphor. Pretty straight forward story telling.

Let say something like Frankenstein - attempting to create perfection and things don't go well.

[nomorenomore08]

14. Jeez... I watched "Eraserhead" twice in a fairly short time period, about five years ago,

but I haven't gotten up the courage to watch it again since. That movie, somehow, is just so viscerally *discomforting* (that's the only word I can think of) that I even find stuff like "Last House on the Left" or "Cannibal Holocaust" easier to watch.

:scared:

[graywarrior]

21. I saw that when it first came out and I'm still disturbed over it

[FloridaJudy]

8. Oooo...is Rickman in it?

Hello Netflix queue!

I read the novel, which was truly weird and haunting. Few novels can ever evoke the sense of smell like that. I also saw it as a rousing condemnation of the class system. YMMV.

[sarge43]

10. Yes, our man is (why I rented it) Small but important part. n/t

[sarge43]

9. I liked it.

That music was brilliant. It described the indescribable - an overwhelming sense of smell, what that boy was experiencing.

[WannaBeGrumpy]

12. Alan Rickman

that is all

:loveya:

[Inchworm]

15. Oh yea?

Happy Valentine's Day!

I love youuuuuu!

:*

:yoiks:

[IntravenousDemilo]

16. At one point I thought of turning the book into a musical.

But the rights would be prohibitively expensive now.

I liked the movie as well, by the way.

[supernova]

17. Read the book

It's extra special demented.

It is an exquisitely beautifully written book about the most abominable things. I had to put it down several times because it made me work overtime trying to conjure up all the smells the writer mentions.

[nytemare]

18. The first "Crash" is a strange one, too.

Not the Oscar-winning Crash.

Both were very odd and dark.

I agree with another poster, it wasn't bad, just really weird. Really.

[Forkboy]

19. I keep hearing this from people, but then I remember my idea of weird might be different.

:evilgrin:

I'll have to check this out. I like trying any movie that throws a challenge at the viewers.