Originally Posted by: PonyOneMy all time favorites include Apocalypse Now, Clockwork Orange, Rushmore, Bottlerocket, Sin City, Sexy Beast, Donnie Darko, A Human Comedy, Suicide Club, Katsuhiro Otomo's "Memories," and The Salton Sea.

I loved Sin City... maybe it's not a good indicator that I though it was funny... well I mean the violence is so over the top I don't see how you can't. But damn, that was a slick movie. I loved how unabashedly gory it was.

I thought that Rushmore and Bottlerocket were hilarious; great dry humor flicks. A Human Comedy made me cry... such a sweet movie. Suicide Club is just awesome for how bizarre it is... it's right up there with Sin City in over-the-top violence, but, the over the top violence involves Japanese schoolgirls so it's cuter and more amusing.

Katushiro Otomo's Memories are three animes, each about 45 minutes long, based on shorts comics he did (he's the guy who made Akira, Ghost In The Shell, and some other big ones), but directed by his friends instead of by him. The first story, Magnetic Rose, is one of the creepiest, haunting and touching pieces of film I've ever seen; it's about a group of space salvage workers who go around and take scrap off of abandoned and derelict space ships a couple hundred years in the future, who end up on an enormous space station that seems to be haunted. The main character is Heinz, a German guy who you end up discovering lost his five year old daughter in a tragic accident, and who figures out that the station is more or less using his memories to try to kill him (best line: as he's shooting everything up, "MEMORIES ARE NO ESCAPE!" it's really powerful in the context of the film). The second story is about a guy who's a chronic doofus/screw-up who's always sick that works at a pharmeceutical company in rural Japan, who takes an experimental pill to try to relieve his allergies. He ends up taking the wrong pill (he couldn't remember whether it was the red pill or the blue pill :D) and it turns him into a walking stink bomb. But the stink bomb is a nerve toxin. It's a nice offset to the depth of the first story. They carried the DVD at Blockbuster and still probably have it, and definitely carry it at Best Buy.

One of my favourite Japanese films is Kaze no tani no Naushika (Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds), an '80s Studio Ghibli animation. Actually quite a powerful movie.

And don't worry, you're not the only one who thought Sin City was funny in parts. I cracked up in the part where Jackie Boy is crawling along the ground with the swastika-shaped throwing knife in his ass, muttering, "This isn't funny!"