Weird moments in mainstream cinema

[Mark Steels Stockbroker]

Some of the Roger Moore JB films were all over the place.

[Paaaaul]

<PEDANT> It has the face of the adult, possibly homeless, guy you saw earlier in the film sitting with his dog and playing the banjo. They'd presumably fallen asleep together and fused as one within the pod. _{And it's from 1978}

A little earlier in the film, you see a pod growing next to the guy and his dog as they sleep. It gets kicked by Donald Sutherland as he pushes past having failed to wake the guy. As Sutherland runs off, the pod starts to ooze as it has been damaged. This causes the pod to create the man-dog.

[clingfilm portent]

I suppose Gremlins 2, but that's really a try-hard attempt at a "weird film".

Is it fuuuuuck

[monolith]

The blowjob dream in the original Ghostbusters. Hard to believe that was a family film.

As a child I thought he was having a nightmare and the ghost was trying to hurt him.

I also didn't know what the word "Asshole" meant when it is said in the film and asked my child minder. She got pissy with me when I persistently asked in front of one of her kids (who she presumably didn't want to hear the word "asshole"). Assholes.

[Kishi the Bad Lampshade]

The sword demonstration from Far from the Madding Crowd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGWUt0wgHg0

I like when you think he's going to be all brooding and elegantly swift but then he just runs at her screaming YAAAARGHH

[Noodle Lizard]

I suppose Gremlins 2, but that's really a try-hard attempt at a "weird film".

Gremlins 2 is an incredible film, ya bumboclaat.

[GeeWhiz]

[UBER-PEDANT] The noise of the dog / man isn't a bark, but a dispiritingly perky banjo twang. Almost the most unsettling aspect of the whole encounter. Urrrgh.

[Dr Rock]

The bit in the cave in Dagobah in ESB confused many a kid, who took things literally. I remember some at school arguing about it, I think some thought Luke had fought a robot Vader there, and thus all part of Darth's plan or something.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

Theatre of Blood: the last Robert Morley (and poodles) scene; the woman's hair-curling machine death; Arthur Lowe's head on a milk bottle.

Though not weird as such, Michael Hordern's character getting hacked to death by the drunk tramps in the old building, in that film, is pretty shocking.

[Brundle-Fly]

That was the first thing that sprung to mind. I was that chap at the cinema in 1994, thinking: 'Well this has certainly gone off in a direction I really wasn't expecting. Ulp! ....'

EDIT: I remember having a conversation with a friend a few years after, someone who would maintain an annoying world-weary persona where nothing excited or moved him, and everything was old hat. I was saying much the same as above - that I can't remember being so wrong-footed by a film, and how weird, yet thrilling, that feeling was. His reply was along the lines of: 'Ahh, I kinda saw it coming!' I'm sorry, what? You big lying bollocks!!!

It was Tarantino's nod to Deliverance (1972) apparently. Well, that's what he said in an interview at the time.

Talking of Deliverance , the duelling banjos is quite a weird moment. I'll expect you're all wondering what happened to the hillbilly kid (Billy Redden) from that sequence? Wonder no more.

https://boingboing.net/2013/11/04/deliverances-inbred-banjo-bo.html

[Mark Steels Stockbroker]

Gremlins 2 is an incredible film, ya bumboclaat.

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