#jon malkovich

[shanahazuki]

New York, NY - 2/12/24 - Amelie Zilber attends the premiere of the Apple TV+ thrilling series “The New Look” at Florence Gould Hall. “The New Look” will make its global debut on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, February 14, 2024. -PICTURED: Amelie Zilber -PHOTO by: Marion Curtis / StarPix for Apple -Location: Florence Gould Hall

New York, NY - 2/12/24 - Ben Mendelsohn and Juliette Binoche attends the premiere of the Apple TV+ thrilling series “The New Look” at Florence Gould Hall. “The New Look” will make its global debut on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, February 14, 2024. -PICTURED: Ben Mendelsohn and Juliette Binoche -PHOTO by: Marion Curtis / StarPix for Apple -Location: Florence Gould Hall

New York, NY - 2/12/24 - Ben Mendelsohn, Juliette Binoche and John Malkovich attends the premiere of the Apple TV+ thrilling series “The New Look” at Florence Gould Hall. “The New Look” will make its global debut on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, February 14, 2024. -PICTURED: Ben Mendelsohn, Juliette Binoche and John Malkovich -PHOTO by: Marion Curtis / StarPix for Apple -Location: Florence Gould Hall

New York, NY - 2/12/24 - Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Exec Producer), Ben Mendelsohn and Todd A. Kessler(Creator, EP, Writer, Director) attends the premiere of the Apple TV+ thrilling series “The New Look” at Florence Gould Hall. “The New Look” will make its global debut on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, February 14, 2024. -PICTURED: Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Exec Producer), Ben Mendelsohn and Todd A. Kessler(Creator, EP, Writer, Director) -PHOTO by: Marion Curtis / StarPix for Apple -Location: Florence Gould Hall

New York, NY - 2/12/24 - Darina Al Joundi attends the premiere of the Apple TV+ thrilling series “The New Look” at Florence Gould Hall. “The New Look” will make its global debut on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, February 14, 2024. -PICTURED: Darina Al Joundi -PHOTO by: Marion Curtis / StarPix for Apple -Location: Florence Gould Hall

New York, NY - 2/12/24 - Eliott Margueruon attends the premiere of the Apple TV+ thrilling series “The New Look” at Florence Gould Hall. “The New Look” will make its global debut on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, February 14, 2024. -PICTURED: Eliott Margueruon -PHOTO by: Marion Curtis / StarPix for Apple -Location: Florence Gould Hall

New York, NY - 2/12/24 - Eliott Margueruon attends the premiere of the Apple TV+ thrilling series “The New Look” at Florence Gould Hall. “The New Look” will make its global debut on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, February 14, 2024. -PICTURED: Eliott Margueruon -PHOTO by: Marion Curtis / StarPix for Apple -Location: Florence Gould Hall

New York, NY - 2/12/24 - Maisie Williams, Ben Mendelsohn, Juliette Binoche, John Malkovich and Glenn Close attends the premiere of the Apple TV+ thrilling series “The New Look” at Florence Gould Hall. “The New Look” will make its global debut on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, February 14, 2024. -PICTURED: Maisie Williams, Ben Mendelsohn, Juliette Binoche, John Malkovich and Glenn Close -PHOTO by: Marion Curtis / StarPix for Apple -Location: Florence Gould Hall

[burningexeter]

Here's a fairly solid amount of all the different kinds of media that I think both can fit well in and could share the same universe as the Where The Magic Happens Trilogy, which you can both read and see below for yourself:

�� Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich

• Jordan Peele's Get Out (2017)

• Nicholas Meyer's Time After Time (1979)

• George A. Romero's Knightriders (1981)

• Paramount Pictures' Friday The 13th (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 & FVJ)

• New Line Cinema's A Nightmare On Elm Street (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & FVJ)

• Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead Trilogy & Ash Vs. Evil Dead

• HBO's Tales From The Crypt (Lower Berth, Television Terror, Deadline, Yellow, Showdown, King Of The Road, Half-Way Horrible, You, Murderer & Horror In The Night)

• Wes Craven's The People Under The Stairs

• Jerry Bruckheimer's Beverly Hills Cop (1, 2 & 4)

• Brett "Jesus Christ!" Ratner's Rush Hour Duology

• Ridley Scott's Matchstick Men

• Jon Favreau's Cowboys & Aliens

• Joe Cornish's Attack The Block (2011)

• John Hughes' Planes, Trains and Automobiles

• David Mirkin's Romy and Michele's High School Reunion

• Doug Liman's Go (1999)

• John Carpenter's Big Trouble In Little China

• Joe Dante's Explorers (1985)

• Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones (1, 2, 3 & 4), Close Encounters Of The Third Kind & E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

• Lee Isaac Chung's Twisters

• Colin "Wasted Potential" Trevorrow's Safety Not Guaranteed

• Matthew Vaughn's Layer Cake (2004)

• Michael Davis' Shoot 'Em Up (2007)

and last but not least,

• Michael Dougherty's Trick r Treat & Krampus

[forlornea]

LOOKING FOR MUTUALS!!!

it's been a few years since I've been on tumblr but I really miss the sense of community that I used to have here so please follow me so we can be mutuals!!!

My name is Lorna, I'm 19 and I'm in university. I speak fluent English, Irish and French.

Edit: I am Irish, I'm from Galway but I'm studying in France next year so anyone from Ireland or France (particularly Brittany) please be my mutual!

Some books and book series I like: Everything Jane Austen (particularly Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey and Emma). Everything Henry James. Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro... Jane Eyre, Villette, Wuthering Heights. A Song of Ice and Fire (ASOIAF). The Wheel of Time (though just starting out with this one). The Secret History, My Brilliant Friend and the rest of the Neapolitan books by Elena Ferrante. All the Sally Rooney books!!! I also really like George Saunders' "Tenth of December". Eva Luna and House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende... Why have I forgotten every book I've ever read just now?

Movies I like: Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Dog Day Afternoon, The Godfather 1 and 2 (can you tell I like Al Pacino), Aftersun, Before Sunrise, the Holdovers, The Remains of the Day, Being John Malkovich, The Truman Show, Amélie

Poets I like; Mary Oliver, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Frost, ... not a massive poetry person but aspiring to be. Mostly I read random poems I stumble upon, rather than collections.

Some TV Series I like: Severance! (Have been obsessed since I first watched it in June). Silo (currently watching). Game of Thrones (up until season 4ish... I'm a book purist and a hater past that), The Good Place, FLEABAG!!!! Wheel of Time. Girls (the Lena Dunham one because I presume there's others by the same name?). Gilmore Girls (but I also have a lot of gripes about it? Also; the creator is a zionist)

Music: Chappell Roan (who is finally getting her flowers); I particularly love "California" and "Pink Pony Club". Tracy Chapman. Phoebe Bridgers. Carole King. Joni Mitchell. Florence and the Machine. Johnny Cash. Mitski. etc etc. I listen to a lot of film soundtrack as well; Lately, I really like the Eternal Sunshine soundtrack by Jon Brion, the Severance soundtrack by Theodore Shapiro, the Amelie soundtrack (La Valse d'Amélie has been in my Spotify top 5 for 3 years or something)...

Anyways! follow me so we may be friends!

[justforbooks]

With his shrewd eyes and his forks of corn-yellow hair, Julian Sands was a natural choice to play the valiant, romantic George Emerson, who snatches a kiss from Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) in a Tuscan poppy field in A Room With a View (1985). “I wanted him to be real, not a two-dimensional minor screen god,” he said. “I liked him in his lighter, sexier moments, less so when he was brooding.”

Sands, who has died aged 65 while hiking in mountains in California, was dashing in that film, but he could also project a dandyish, effete or sinister quality. He was blessed with a mellifluous voice and a lean, youthful, fine-boned face, even if, as a child, his brothers insisted he resembled a horse. (He agreed.) In James Ivory’s film of EM Forster’s novel, he was pure heart-throb material. His participation in the notorious nude bathing scene was no impediment to the picture’s success.

Prior to that, he had played the journalist Jon Swain in The Killing Fields (1984), Roland Joffé’s drama about the bloody rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. The picture marked the beginning of his friendship with his co-star John Malkovich. “I’d been cautioned by Roland to keep my distance from John because he was an unstable character,” Sands recalled. “And John had been told by Roland to stay away from me, because I was a refined, sensible person who didn’t want to be distracted. In fact, we bonded instantly.”

Malkovich directed Sands in a one-man show in which he read Harold Pinter’s poetry. First staged in 2011, the production had its origins in an occasion six years earlier when Pinter, suffering from oesophageal cancer, had asked Sands to read in his stead at a benefit event in St Stephen Walbrook church in the City of London. The writer “sat in the front row with his stone basilisk stare”, Sands recalled.

Not all his work was so highfalutin, and a good deal of it fell into the category of boisterous, campy fun. In Ken Russell’s Gothic (1986), he played the poet Shelley, who indulges in sex, drugs and séances with Lord Byron (Gabriel Byrne) and the future Mary Shelley (Natasha Richardson), and is prone to recite verse naked in thunderstorms.

In a similar vein but far less deranged was Impromptu (1991), which brought together other notable 19th-century figures including George Sand (Judy Davis) and Frederic Chopin (Hugh Grant). Sands, who played Franz Liszt, described it as “Carry On Composer”.

Born in Otley, West Yorkshire, he was raised in Leeds and Gargrave, near Skipton; he later described his childhood as “part conservative and part Huckleberry Finn”. His mother, Brenda, was a Tory councillor and leading light of the local amateur dramatic society, while his father, William, who left when Julian was three, was a soil analyst. Julian made his acting debut in a local pantomime at the age of eight.

At 13, he won a scholarship to Lord Wandsworth college, Hampshire. He moved to London to study at Central School of Speech and Drama, and while there became friends with Derek Jarman. He played the Devil in an extended promotional video that Jarman directed in 1979 for Marianne Faithfull’s album Broken English. The role had been intended for David Bowie, who dropped out at the eleventh hour. “You’re devilish,” Jarman told Sands. “You can play it.”

The actor’s first film appearance came in an adaptation of Peter Nichols’s stage comedy Privates on Parade (1983), starring John Cleese and Denis Quilley, from which his one line of dialogue was cut. There was more rotten luck when he won the lead in a new Tarzan movie, only for the financing to fall through. It was eventually filmed as Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984), with Christopher Lambert donning the hallowed loin-cloth.

On television, he starred with Anthony Hopkins in the miniseries A Married Man (1983). In Oxford Blues (1984), he was a rower butting heads with a Las Vegas parking attendant (Rob Lowe) who has tricked his way into a place at Oriel College. He was in The Doctor and the Devils (1985), inspired by the Burke and Hare case. “I had a roll in the hay with Twiggy which took about 15 takes,” he said.

Following A Room With a View, he agreed to play the lead in Ivory’s next Forster adaptation, Maurice (1987), before abruptly dropping out and fleeing to the US. In the process, he left behind his wife, the journalist Sarah Sands (nee Harvey), who described him as “restless” and “dramatic”, and their son, Henry. “I’m not the first person to create stability and security and then dismantle it even more effectively than I created it,” the actor said.

Once in America he took on an array of film parts. In Warlock (1989), he played the son of Satan, wreaking havoc in modern-day Los Angeles. Investing this pantomime villain with lip-smacking brio, he was likened by the Washington Post to a “hell-bent Peter Pan” and nominated for best actor in the Fangoria Chainsaw awards. He reprised the role in Warlock: The Armageddon (1993).

As an entomologist in Arachnophobia (1990), he was called upon to have as many as a hundred spiders crawling all over his face. Alternating these mainstream projects with arthouse ones, he played a diplomat in pre-war Poland in Krzysztof Zanussi’s Wherever You Are ��� (1988) and a monk in Night Sun (1990), the Taviani brothers’ adaptation of Tolstoy’s short story Father Sergius.

For the Canadian horror director David Cronenberg, he starred in the warped and witty Naked Lunch (1991), which disproved those who had declared William S Burroughs’s original novel unfilmable. Just as outré but less accomplished was Boxing Helena (1993), directed by Jennifer Lynch, daughter of David. Sands played a surgeon who keeps a woman captive by making her a quadruple amputee.

After starring as a young classics teacher in his friend Mike Figgis’s film of Terence Rattigan’s The Browning Version (1994), Sands worked a further six times with that director, appearing in his movies even when he was an unorthodox choice for the job in hand. One example was the part of a menacing Latvian pimp in Leaving Las Vegas (1996).

Later roles include a mysteriously unblemished Phantom in Dario Argento’s version of The Phantom of the Opera (1998), Louis XIV (whom Sands described as “the first supermodel”) in Joffé’s Vatel (2000), a crime kingpin named Snakehead in the Jackie Chan vehicle The Medallion (2003), a computer security wizard in the comic caper Ocean’s Thirteen (2007), a younger version of the businessman played by Christopher Plummer in David Fincher’s take on The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011) and a sadistic paedophile in the gruelling wartime odyssey The Painted Bird (2019).

On television, he was a Russian entrepreneur in the fifth season of 24 (2006) and the hero’s father, Jor-El, in two episodes of the Superman spin-off Smallville (2009). For the BBC, he played two very different actors in factually based one-off specials: first Laurence Olivier in Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore (2005), then John Le Mesurier in We’re Doomed! The Dad’s Army Story (2015).

His recent work includes Benediction, Terence Davies’s haunting study of Siegfried Sassoon, and the thriller The Survivalist (both 2021), which found him back in the company of Malkovich. One of several titles still awaiting release is the drama Double Soul (2023) starring F Murray Abraham and Paz Vega.

Sands never stopped wandering, walking, running and climbing. “I am on a perpetual Grand Tour,” he said in 2000. Asked in 2018 about his eclectic career, he explained: “I was looking for something exotic, things that took me out of myself. I think I found myself a little boring.”

He was reported missing while out in the San Gabriel mountains, north of Los Angeles, in mid-January 2023. His remains were found in June.

In 1990 he married Evgenia Citkowitz. She survives him, along with their two daughters, Imogen and Natalya, and his son.

🔔 Julian Richard Morley Sands, actor, born 4 January 1958; died circa 13 January 2023

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[cctinsleybaxter]

They do in Alien Vs Predator which I still contend is a predator movie and not an alien movie (you could replace the xenos with multiple predatory jon malkoviches it'd be the same plot and a better film), but no the main drive of the franchise is that Weyland-Yutani Corporation (the big bad) wants an alien on earth so they can weaponize it and the good guys have to keep them contained to space

Started getting all this news pushed on my feed like 'omg guys they finally released the plot synopsis for the next alien franchise entry Alien: Earth' and the synopsis is just 'the aliens are on earth'

[howardhawkshollywoodannex]

The Killing Fields (1984) is one of the New York Times 1,000 Best Films.

Critic Leslie Halliwelll gave the film three stars out of four and wrote “Brilliantly filmed, but probably too strong for a commercial audience to stomach, this true adventure tosses one into the horror of modern war and leaves one reeling despite its comparatively happy ending.”

My rating - middling, although Halliwell’s review makes me want to see it again.  The film won three Oscars, for Haing S Ngor, the photography and the editing.

The film was directed by Roland Joffe, who was born in London and has 27 director credits, from four episodes on the telly 1973-74, to this, his first feature, through a 2018 American tv movie, and a project in pre-production.  

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[filmhabits]

The Survivalist - Trailer

Starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, & John Malkovich

Releases October 1, 2021 (Theaters & On-Demand)

[moviesandmania]

THE SURVIVALIST (2021) Post-pandemic thriller wraps production

THE SURVIVALIST (2021) Post-pandemic thriller wraps production

The Survivalist is a 2021 American thriller set a year and a half after the fall of civilisation from a viral outbreak. Directed by Jon Keeyes (The Harrowing; Element; Phobia; Doom Room) from a screenplay written by Matthew Rogers, the movie stars John Malkovich and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. It was produced by Keeyes, Jordan Yale Levine and Jordon Beckerman under their Yale Productions banner. “We’re…

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Bruce Willis month 3 - Red

Bruce Willis month 3 – Red

It’s been a while since I’ve looked at a movie based on a comic series, which feels strange considering this started off as a comic blog. Red, released in 2010, is loosely based on a 3 issue miniseries by the same name back in 2003. Red was published by Homage Comics, written by Warren Ellis and drawn by Cully Hamner. On that note, Homage Comics is owned by DC Comics. Because of this movie, a…

[la-pheacienne]

I had totally forgotten all the hate poor Cosette got when the Les Miserables movie came out. Also, unless I'm misremembering, didn't Gavroche put a mouse in Eponine's hair because she was being a bully to Cosette in the books?

I honestly don't remember that? I remember Eponine generally being a little bitch to Cosette as a kid but I don't remember specific facts. Does anyone?

Ok I will just say that I didn't like the musical. Everything felt off except some specific moments. Apart from that it was just off. I didn't like the fact that for example, the biggest moment between Cosette and Marius was spoiled by Eponine singing in parallel with them. Like, this is the main love story of the book, you need to give it a lot of weight and a value of its own, like it had in the book. Also Eponine was kind of sexualised imo and Cosette was kind of miscast.

The only version of Les Mis that I sort of approve of is the one with Gerard Depardieu and Jon Malkovich, well, because of Gerard Depardieu and Jon Malkovich. But I don't like Marius there very much. Eponine is great tho.

Generally this book can't really be adapted in a way that it satisfies everyone and does justice to all the main characters. For that you need to read it.

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Weird Movies You Might Actually Enjoy

I am in my 40s now and have been watching and recommending movies for a quarter of a century. I have seen thousands of films and television shows over that time and one thing that I have often been asked is "what is the weirdest movie you have ever seen?" What is weird to one person might not be so odd to another, but I admit there have been a lot of films that I have watched that I liked due to it being so strange. The weirdness is the appeal. With the current film under review being 2001: A Space Odyssey (which has a very odd beginning and ending), I thought I would share some movies that I have seen that are both weird and very enjoyable to the point I would recommend them to others who might not be into weird films. SPOILER ALERT is in effect, so, in no particular order....

(Note: I am going to try and avoid art house and horror films because they are unsettling in a more graphic way and the weirdness is not really meant to be enjoyable but to terrify or assault your senses. If that is what you want, then check out the works of Alejandro Jodorowsky or Dario Argento)

Being John Malkovich (1999)

Directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman, this was bound to be a weird one. It is the story of a former puppeteer who takes an office job filing with his amazing dexterity. The position is on a half-sized floor in a giant building where everything is scaled down. If that wasn't strange enough, he finds that there is a door in his new office that leads into the mind of Jon Malkovich. One can take over the actor's brain for a short period of time before they are unceremoniously kicked out and land on a highway outside of New Jersey. At some point during the film, Jon Malkovich finds out and takes a turn going into his own conscious. The film is kind of amazing, utilizing the acting talents of John Cusack, Katherine Keener, Cameron Diaz, and (of course) John Malkovich. The film earned three Oscar nominations including Best Screenplay and Best Director. The movie carries a 94% Rotten Tomato score and a 90 Metacritic score, showing that the film is really a crowd pleaser. The perfect film to dip your toe into the world of weird media.

Brazil (1985)

A British dystopian black comedy, this film was created and directed by one of the minds behind Monty Python. The story is of a bureaucrat who looks into an incident in which a citizen is taken away and executed because of an administrative error. This government representative is promoted for covering up the mistake but is hounded by a freedom fighter who lived near the man who was killed. He goes through an existential crisis about doing the right thing and accepting his placement and accidently becomes part of the freedom movement. Or does he? There is a lot of ambiguity throughout the film about what comes of the main character, but it doesn't really matter because the visuals and the soundtrack are amazing. Lots of weird dream sequences make the film hard to comprehend at times, but really very enjoyable in my opinion.

The City of Lost Children (1995)

This was my first experience with work by director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and it definitely was not my last. This is a French language film so I thought the subtitles would bother me, but the story is so engaging that you soon forget that you are reading. The acclaimed director went on to make the beloved film Amelie in 2001, and is, in my humble opinion, one of the best world building directors of all time. This is the story of a strong man in a circus and a little orphan girl who traverse a world where a mad scientist is stealing children to help him find a way to get to sleep without nightmares. Most of the characters are along the lines of circus side-show performers (little people, quadruplets, conjoined twins, strong men) and make a fascinating story. The movie includes Ron Perlman speaking the French language which makes some things kind of funny in an unintentional manner. There are also some cross language jokes that are surprising and make you feel smart for getting it. I will admit that I have shared this with a couple of people who absolutely hated it due to the subtitles and theme of stealing and harming children, but I still think it is fantastic and worth a watch.

Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind (2004)

Combine the writing style of Charlie Kaufman and the acting of Jim Carrey in his prime and you have a very strange movie. This film tells the story of a man who wants to forget his ex-girlfriend, so a team of scientists go into his mind while he is sleeping and erase any memories that involve his ex. This is problematic because the patient decides he doesn't want to forget her mid operation and tries to fight the process in his mind. The patient jumps around in his own memories with his visualization of his ex, trying hard not lose his memory. Charlie Kaufman does a lot of writing about people being trapped in their own brain and this mental state is apparent in his screen plays. This film won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and absolutely deserved it. Following a character through their lifetime of memories is fascinating and the film is very cinematic and extremely well-acted. High recommendation on this one.

Dune (1984)

Yes, David Lynch directed a version of Dune back in the 80s and it was crazy. I have never experienced a film that had so much ADR narration because the movie was too complicated and needed to be explained. I don't think there is any way that a viewer would understand this film without some kind of knowledge of the source material. The costumes are crazy, the characters are out of a nightmare, Sting plays a villain, Patrick Stewart is a warrior, and people control weapons with their voice. Pretty weird. Even more strange is David Lynch's description of a sci-fi world. The new version that came out is pretty strange and is cut into at least two parts. This is a rather strange director trying to pack the entire story in a little over two hours. The visuals are amazing, especially if you are familiar with the Frank Herbert novel, and the music is fantastic, so there is plenty to experience. Just don't expect to really understand everything.

Swiss Army Man (2016)

This is a fine film starring Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe about a man who is stranded on a deserted island and finds a dead body that washes to shore. The body can speak slightly when air is pumped into it, unfortunately it then passes that air out through flatulence. The stranded man uses the properties of the dead body (stiffness, bloating, posability) to live in the wild and eventually the two become friends. There is some question as to whether the stranded man is fantasizing the whole thing, if the body is a zombie, or if this is just a strange situation where the body wasn't fully dead and is useful for getting off the island. The film is pretty funny if you just buy into the full premise but will not be fun if you try and point out plot inconsistencies. A strong suspension of disbelief is needed to really enjoy this fun film.

Lars and the Real Girl (2007)

There is something very Canadian about this film which stars Ryan Gosling and a full-sized sex doll. This is a modern adaptation of Pygmalion in which a socially incapable man is traumatized and only begins to address his issues with a fake woman. Lars lives in a very small, isolated town in Wisconsin and the town population realizes that the doll (named Bianca) might be helpful, so everybody just plays along. This film has some of the most awkward scenes of any movie I know, especially when Lars is first introducing the doll to people. The doll starts out as a house guest but eventually travels with him on errands and even accompanies him to church. There are some really funny parts, and I don't want to spoil things, but Ryan Gosling really shows off his acting talents. Really highly recommendation.

Enemy (2013)

Another interesting Candian film, this time directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, about doppelgangers who run into each other. One of the physical twins is a married actor and the other is a history professor. The professor becomes obsessed with the actor and starts to stalk him. The two finally meet and trade places in which things go pretty poorly. The weirdest thing about this is the constant reference to tarantulas and the very ending sees one of the two walk into a room expecting his significant other and instead finds a room sized spider. He sighs in resignation and the movie ends. This actually became a little bit of a meme because it doesn't really make much sense. This is another well-acted film that is set in a world that is just slightly different from reality, making it creepy. I really like it.

The Lobster (2015)

I don't even know where to begin with this one. This is a British film that was nominated for Best Screenplay at the Oscars and at the BAFTAs. The acting is purposefully kind of bland, but the story premise and setting is just absurd. The film takes place in a dystopian world in which everyone has to have a partner once they turn 18 or they are sent out to farms in which they are given 45 days to find a partner, or they are turned into animals. The lead is played by Colin Farrell, and he is sent to one of these farms when his wife leaves him. He understands the severity because his brother was turned into a dog and follows him around. He tries to bond with different women but finally runs away into the forest in desperation and meets a group that live unpartnered out in the woods. He does not like either condition and ends up stuck between two worlds, all the while trying not to be caught and turned into a lobster. It is exceptionally weird and fascinating. I did not really like it the first time through because it was too much, but I have grown to really enjoy this film.

There are a lot of other weird films that are exceptionally gory or artistic to the point that they are incomprehensible, but the films listed about really struck me and I would be glad to watch any of them again. Give one of them a try if you are looking for something weird.

[rubberducktaskforce]

shitty tma au's

au where everyone is trans. thats the only difference

au where jon has an Evil Twin or something?? like the distortion eats his twin and he ends up needing to kill that twin. or something.

happy ending au where melanie has a gun and kills jon before he can cause the apocalypse and Everything Is Fine

au where jon Fully Leans Into the archivist thing and goes all-out evil mode

au where annabelle gets fed up from everyone being stupid and just fills them all with spiders

au where everyone in the apocalypse is either monster or monster fucker

everyone is john malkovich. like in "being john malkovich." no i will not elaborate

feel free to add more

[ladyknightskye]

Ok, now we have RED as a Halo fan fic AU on my list. Linda will absolutely be the Jon Malkovich character.