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Cartilage Head:
There are too many pages to bother looking at, so sorry if theis have already been recommended.
Paprika
A really trippy and actually pretty awesome anime movie about, basically, a research psychologist that enters people's dreams. It goes much deeper than that, but that is the most basic way to describe it. It has all kinds of insane imagery and plays on really clever ideas. To me, it is a groundbreaking surreal-drama piece.
Plus it was directed by Satoshi Kon, the creator of Paranoia Agent. I think that is enough reason to see it.
idiosyncratic:
I would recommend Ishmael and, the sequel, My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. I just finished these two books and I thought they were both terribly interesting.
Ludovician:
I'd like to take this opportunity to recommend a book called The Raw Shark Texts by Stephen Hall. It's a psychological shitstorm of a great book masquerading as a thrilling page-turner. Basically, a man wakes up in his own house with total amnesia and an apologetic note from himself with a few simple instructions on how to get started on his path to regain his memory. It might seem like it's just going to be one cliche after another, but I highly recommend it to any Readers who take pride in their status as Reader.
And while I'm here, I suppose I'll recommend a few more of my favorite titles.
Books:
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (One of the first stories of cyberspace, and probably the closest thing to great literature with a story about a video game)
American Gods and Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (Dark fantasy in a modern setting)
Nearly any book by Stephen King - don't knock him if you haven't read him. He's amazingly popular, so he must be trash, right? Wrong. Firestarter's a good classic, Bag of Bones is a terrible title for a terrific story, and every one of his short story/novella collections is amazing - try his most recent, Everything's Eventual for some truly scary reading.
Movies:
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Robert Downey Jr. (as in Iron Man) and Val Kilmer (as in Doc Holliday in Tombstone) are dark and funny.
Oldboy. A man is imprisoned for 15 years and suddenly released. He's given five days to find the man responsible, to discover his reasons, and to take his revenge. If you can deal with the fact that it's got English subtitles because it's a Korean film, and if you've got a strong stomach and an open mind for controversial subject matter, if not so much actual violence, SEE THIS MOVIE.
Leon: The Professional. Jean Reno's noble assassin versus Gary Oldman's psychotic dirty cop, both in the greatest roles of their careers, and for Oldman, that IS saying something.
TV Shows:
Dexter. A serial killer kills serial killers. Serially. Sounds like it might just be a morbid gorefest, and while it's morbid as hell, there's nearly zero gore. It's mostly about Dexter's carefully constructed life and relationships, and I could honestly recommend this to ANYONE.
Arrested Development. I heartily recommend this to people who enjoy laughing.
This is my first post on these forums, by the way.
Inlander:
--- Quote from: Ludovician on 03 Jul 2008, 01:45 ---Dexter . . . there's nearly zero gore.
--- End quote ---
You're . . . you're kidding, right? Do you, perhaps, work in an abattoir? Or some other situation which would lead you to regard excessively mutilated bodies, frequent scenes of on-site blood splatter analysis, not to mention, in one episode, a room covered ceiling-to-floor in blood, as "nearly zero gore"?
Dimmukane:
Oldboy has already been mentioned several times. By me. If it hasn't gotten anyone to watch it by now, they're probably not going to watch it.
Anyway, I just watched Solaris. Solaris. The only thing I didn't like was the pacing in the first half hour of the movie. But the rest is fantastic.
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