It’s been a long time since I watched Brazil so I can’t remember plot-wise, but from memory they both visually share use of wide-angle but close shots during the frantic parts.
Strange Brew.
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Take off hoser
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Cosine
But what does counter culture mean in this case? A lot of the films listed are pretty mainstream. I wouldn’t really think of anything from a Hollywood studio as being counter culture. A few things from my day…
Style Wars
Wild Style
Paris is Burning
Hard Boiled
Akira
Pink Flamingos
Eraserhead
La Jetée
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If someone says Gleaming The Cube I’m leaving the thread.
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It has been a while for me as well, but off the top of my head:
- Broad indirect social criticism
- Mental illness as seen through a mystical lens
- People just trying to do their thing are thwarted by bureaucratic powers beyond their comprehension
- equipment fetishism
- questions about the structure of reality
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That’s where I was going with it. 
The finest representation of my fellow Canadians there is, outside of FUBAR, Trailer Park Boys and Letterkenny.
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What, no Big Green show?
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If they don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.
A national treasure.
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Canadians have a way with comedy that is both wholesome and perverse.
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Drugstore Cowboy
Love and a 45
Kids
Mystery Train
Marten
Reservoir Dogs
Raising Arizona
Alice in Wonderland (Disney)
Clerks
Office Space
THX1138
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I was about to disagree with you on the last point, however:
- Tom Green Show
- Kenny vs. Spenny
In addition to the shows I’ve already mentioned. Sounds about right.
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Well, even Letterkennedy, maybe it’s from an American perspective- but it has this odd wholesomeness to me, underneath the bawdy humor. Although, the SCTV Brooke Shields bit is extremely mean.
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It was renamed to “a brothers love” or something else easily forgotten. Why? I don’t know.
pardon me, “a brother’s justice”
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I’m struggling to think of a late '80s through '90s film that isn’t counter-cultural in some way.
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“sorority” babes at the slime ball bowl-o-rama.
another very odd one is hell comes to frogtown with rowdy roddy piper, I think it came out before “they live”
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Weird, I never heard that
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Seriously one of the greatest ever. Peter Sellers is sublime.
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