They cost millions and theyre very, very odd.

We take a look at 12 expensive and eccentric Hollywood films from the past 40 years… Every so often, though, a truly bonkers film slips through the Hollywood studio system often by accident.

It was, he added, a rather cynical approach to movie-making.

The Exorcist IIbegins with a possessed girl setting herself on fire and gradually grows more weird from there.

There are dreams involving African children and locusts.

Theres a demon called Pazuzu, and James Earl Jones in a funny hat.

An impressed George Lucas offered Lynch the opportunity to directReturn Of The Jedi,which he turned down.

As it turned out, Dune was far from the sci-fiStar Warsbeater that producer Dino DeLaurentiis was hoping for.

Not if the word gets out, they wont.

Viewed today,Dunes a fascinating, often absorbing movie, in spite of its flaws.

But then theres Stings performance which, really, is probably best forgotten.

As seems to be a regular occurrence in Terry Gilliam films, there was tension behind the scenes.

As fellow ex-Python once put it, Up untilMunchausen, Id always been very smart about Terry Gilliam films.

You dont ever be in them.

Go and see them by all means but to be in them, fucking madness.

Just be sure not to watch that particular sequence before bedtime itll give you nightmares.

Budget:$80 million

What?

ABatmanmovie, widely considered to be among the franchises best, eccentric?

It is a Tim Burton movie, after all, and itsBatman Returnseccentricity that makes it so great.

), but the film was a hit, and its effects were even nominated for an Academy Award.

The offending genitals were later removed by computer boffins during post-production.

What we werent prepared for, though, was just how crazy the whole enterprise would prove to be.

It also makes very little sense.

Tom Hanks plays an aggressive Irish novelist in the 20th century and 19th century doctor with distractingly huge teeth.

Not everything inCloud Atlasworks, necessarily, but were still glad that it exists.

But what setsJupiter Ascendingapart as a work of oddness isnt its special effects, but its plot and dialogue.

Were also treated to such extraordinary pieces of dialogue as:

Sean Bean: Bees dont lie.

Mila Kunis: I love dogs.

Tuppence Middleton: Feel my skin!

Random lizard-dude: Sire, somethings gone wrong at the clinic.

Sean Bean again: You know, bees are genetically designed to recognise royalty.

Thanks, Mr Bean that fact is sure to come in handy at the next pub quiz.