Monday, April 14, 2014

5 Great Absurd Movies That You Need to See To believe

There is a lot of  movies that loves to tell a fictional story with realistic approach this day and it seems to be quite popular among the general moviegoers. The Bourne series, The Daniel Craig's James Bond, even The Raid that i've just reviewed were all taking some realistic approach to entertain the audiences and even a lot of video games this day claimed to be "realistic" so it can attract more gamer like COD. But in the end, they are as realistic as a Godzilla fart. I get why peoples love realistic entertainment, it's because they can relate to what happen in the movie with their own life, and i like it as much as the guy next door but i miss the time where movies can be bizarrely absurd without any regards to realism or anything like that. So here i am after wandering in the internet to find some of the most absurd movie premises, moment or overall experiences in it for your entertaiment. enjoy.

5. Sharknado


Sharknado....a tornado filled with absurdly hungry sharks that keep eating human despite the fact that they are flying inside a tornado. Someone actually had this idea, made a film about it and it successful. This is actually one of the infamous bad movie that you might heard off if you spent long enough time in the internet searching for the meaning of life. The movie was made by The Asylum which is famous for ripping off Hollywood blockbuster into low budget B movie like Alien Vs hunter which ripped off Aliens Vs Predators, War of the world which ripped off  Steven Spielberg War of The World and Sherlock Holmes where they made Sherlock solve a case which T-rex, fire breathing pterodactyl, and giant octopus are involved.

And the award for the best movie poster goes to...Sherlock Holmes! 

Sharknado is the most successful effort from the Asylum since the stupid tittle and the premise really attracts lot of curious peoples. It even managed to become trending topic in twitter just for how stupidly awesome the title is. The stupidity isn't limited to the title and the premise only, the longer you watched the movie the more absurdly stupid the movie will become. For examples, we finally learn the one and only weakness of a shark. A chainsaw.

The kryptonite sold separately

The CG is terrible, the acting is so cheesy, the plot makes no sense and apparently all we need to do the deal with a tornado disaster is a bomb (go watch it. you'll see what i meant). The crazy thing is, Sharknado got an 82% score in Rotten Tomatoes site. It even top  action masterpiece like the Raid 2 which only got like 80% score in that site. I'm not sure what happened inside the critic mind when they are giving the score for this movie. It is truly an absurdity how this movie got so popular back then.


4. Zardos




Yep, that's Sean Connery there, the guy who are quite famous as one of the most Charismatic James Bond in a red underwear and knee high boots like he was just back from some gay S&M club. That is also just the tip of the iceberg because the movie will get more and more absurd the more it goes by. How to make it more absurd you said? Lets add some flying stone head that say "Gun is good. Penis is evil" and make him vomit guns from it's mouth in  the first section of the movie.


And the vagina is God. Am i right peoples?

Zardos tells a story about...i am not sure what i watched, to be honest. It have something to do about a post apocalyptic earth where mankind divided into the immortals 'eternal' and the mortals 'brutal'. The connection between the two groups is through Brutal Exterminators, who kill and terrorize other "Brutals" at the orders of a huge flying stone head called Zardoz, which supplies them with weapons in exchange for the food they collect. Zed (Connery), a Brutal Exterminator, hides aboard Zardoz during one trip, temporarily "killing" its Eternal operator-creator Arthur Frayn. Zed then just wandering around doing non-sensical things.



Watching Zardoz is almost like eating a magic mushroom while you are having a high fever in some tropical rain forest. Everything you watched in this movie is beyond words to explain. The movie is a big flop when it was released but overtime it became a big cult hit for how absurd it is. It is definitely one absurd experience that you can watch as the substitute for hallucinogenic substance.

3. Enthiran/Robot

Enthiran or Robot in Hindi is a Kolywood movie from India about, well robot obviously. A scientist has created a robotic AI for military purpose which can think, love, kicking ass and dance, because, hei its  a movie from India. No Indian movie were made possible without one or two dancing musical moments. The robot then go haywire, make clones of themselves and cause a mayhem in the city Overall, It's basically The Terminator if it was made in India where the law of physics just doesn't give a damn .

Pictured above:  where law of physics doesn't give a damn.

Entrhiran is actually one of the most successful and also one of the best Indian action movie ever made. There is a lot of impressive things happened in this movie, especially the action bits of it. When i said impressive, it is in a really absurd way kind of impressive. The action scenes just didn't give a damn about realism at all and it is really fascinating to see the length they took to make the action scenes look cool at any cost.


Why is there only one car flew in slow motion but the other cars seems to go in normal time, how come the robots becomes a giant balls of dooms, giant snakes and a mirror seeker missiles and why did the robot ? The film didn't even gives a second to explain all that awesomeness that happens on the screen which makes this movie absurdly cool.

2. Birdemic



The Shock came from the fact that this thing exist and the terror came from the realization that you killed 70% of your brain cells after watching this movie

Well, that DVD cover is a real deal peoples, it isn't me trying to learn using photoshop for the first time. Someone really makes a movie about environmentalist birds on rampage because humans are responsible for global warming. Yes, it is a movie that is trying to raised the awareness about global warming by using killer "birds" as the reminder that global warming is bad and your parrot might be secretly banging your spouse while you are out. By the way, i'm using the word "birds" loosely here.

It's bird all right, i guess.

Birdemic is infamous for it's super terrible bird effect as you can above, it is even worse than sharkna. It is also quite infamous for the fact that the birds poop acids to kill peoples and it only attacked gas station and cars like the birds is some sort of green peace diabolical secret experiment.



This movie is absurdly bad and its not only the birds effect. It is definitely up there with some of the worst movies ever made like The Room and Troll 2 and that is why this movie is famous among the fan of good bad movie cult. The story doesn't make sense, the acting is cringe worthy, the moral messages is painfully cliche and the birds effect will blew your mind. Depending on how you see movie as an entertainment media, this movie could be a gem in a film making history or it could be a psychological torture that will drain your sanity. Also, if you are up for some masochistic experience, you should also watch the sequel too. It does exists, for some reason. 

Also in production, Birdemic 3: The Revelation

1.  Food Fight


Just when you thought that nothing can be more absurdly bad than Birdemic comes Food fight, an animated movie that takes place in the "Marketropolis" supermarket at night after everyone has left. The grocery store transforms into a city, and from every door of this city comes two types of characters: well-known marketing icons and new characters. It cost 65 million dollar and 8 years in the making due to some post production issues. It might not sounds that bad at first but after 30 Seconds of watching this movie, you'll see the disaster that only the cruelest human being can used as the method for execution.

65 million dollar in the making, ladies and gentlemen.

It is  really an awful movie by any means. Absurdly awful if you remember that this movie cost 65 million Dollar and had some well known actor behind it like Charlie Sheen, Eva Longoria, and Hillary Duff. If it was some kind of  indie movie from a film student it would be more acceptable but this is not that. 


To add salt to the gaping wounds, this movie is full of sexual innuendo and strange fetish. The main character is a humanoid dog who dates human with cat ear and the villain is over sexualized woman  who triggers every kind of sexual innuendo whenever she is in scene. It is painful to sit and watch this movie, that is why it is a great movie if you wanna used it to erase someone from this plane of existence.