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What's Your Favorite Underappreciated Movie?
Moses Lawn asks: "With the impending re-release of Spirited Away, I've been wondering about this. There are a lot of movies I love that no one else seems to know about. Some of them disappeared from theaters within a week, some came out years ago and seem to have been forgotten. Here are a few of my favorites: The Hot Rock, The Pope Must Diet (formerly 'The Pope Must Die'), They Might Be Giants, and The Big Hit. Maybe you like these, too. Maybe you think they stink up the joint. So what are your favorite forgotten movies?"
Army of Darkness. It introduced me to the world of Bruce Campbell.
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Can anyone think of any anime that actually made it to theaters and was promptly forgotten? I want to say metropolis, but I know that did well.
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What Mr. Jackson was doing before he got interested in Hobbits.
668: Neighbour of the Beast
The original one with the crappy special effects and terrible acting and
nah it sucks
so does star trek
and dune is terrible
oh and pretty much every anime
and the matrix
if you do anything important this year, be sure one of them is watching this Steve Martin classic.... that and "The Thing"
Eraserhead
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'nuff said
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Starring Bobcat Goldthwaite, a movie about a talking horse called Don who is good at playing the stock market.
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0095326
You're doing it wrong.
"You crossed my line of death!" BOOM! Play global war with the whole family!
Oh, wait.. no.
I would guess, that under-appreciation varies from place to place. Some American stinkers never even make the theatres elsewhere on the planet and I guess that only a really small number of foreign films have any kind of success in America. My favourite film at the moment is Rushmore, a relatively popular film in English-speaking countries, but not even dubbed to German as far as I know. The Filthy Critic has been an invaluable guide to find Films that would otherwise not have been noticed by me and avoid others that I might have watched.
A little advice: Trust your friends recommendations. Last week I saw Bugsy Malone after a friend insisted. The description sounded horrible (basically a prohibition-era gangster musical with an all kids cast), but the film was really good.
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Irréversible
And for domestic stuff, Frida is underrated.
1. Donnie Darko
2. Iron Monkey
3. Boondock Saints
God is Good
With Rutker Hauer (I can't spell his name, sorry). I'd bet any amount of money the Doom developers got ideas from this movie, especially the name "BFG".
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I would have to say "The Boondock Saints." No one I talk to seems to know about it, but after I show it to them, they instantly love it.
Trainspotting
Featuring the sexy Ewan McGregor, Ewan Bremer, Robert Carlyle, and Kelly McDonald. Trainspotting is a fairly accurate movie (and book) about a group of junkies, "rude boys" and nutters who spend their lives in Scotland doing drugs, getting drunk, etc. Meanwhile, Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) realizes he's tired with is life of heroin, drinking, stealing, and wants to change it. The movie is very well acted, very funny, and from what I heard fairly accurate since it was written by a Scotsman.
So that's my forgotten movie - Trainspotting
Gotta love the final scene where the house falls off the cliff!
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I still watch this movie on a regular basis. The use of singing as a time keeping device. The Candy-Bar crew. Hell, just the concept of a Vatican Secret Service is enough to make one giggle.
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By far one of my favorites. I waited for a long time for the sequal, "Buckaroo Bonzai vs. the Crime League" (or something like that) but it never materialized ;-(
Another favorite of mine was a movie that Bruce Lee orginally wrote called Circle of Iron. However, since he died, his part was played by David Carradine. Also an excellent movie.
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are!
-- DuckWing
Anyone remember that scifi movie Supernova? That was a really cool movie. A freaky horror plot, a good cast, a cool ship, and everything else that makes great scifi. Unfortunately it only showed once a week in my area at Sunday night at 22:00, and this was the only theater out of 20 around here that even bothered showing it. It was posed to be a major success ... but what happened?! Like, nobody ever saw it. Not just here; most places. Anyway, I definitely recommend renting it.
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Mystery Men and Hackers
If you have not seen this anime movie, you must! Although it is anime, it is very real and will keep you thinking about it for weeks
surreal movie... but very entertaining
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It's up the top of my list of "introduce it to people & see how they react" type movies
Fans of Blade Runner and/or the Matrix might appreciate Dark City, directed by Alex Proyas (director of The Crow). Dark City didn't get much buzz while on the screen, but it is an interesting film that touches on concepts of memory and personal identity, like the two aforementioned classics. In some senses it agrees with Cypher (Joe Pantoliano in The Matrix) that the taste of the steak is all that matters.
Let's get drunk and delete production data!
Peckinpah: Straw Dogs, Wild Bunch. (violence)
Wilder: Sunset Blvd, Double Indemnity. (film noir)
Everybody should check out the AFI Top 100 List.
The movie "Glengarry Glen Ross" with Kevin Spacy, Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, and Ed Harris. It's not that popular since there is no action, lots of talking, but come on - Pacino's tirade at the end is so funny! I don't know of any other actor who could make "you company man!" be a worse insult than "stupid fucking cunt."
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Hackers and Hackers 2. Hackers is a cult classic for all hackers, even the ones who don't know what a PBX is. Hackers 2 I consider more of a "documentary." Both are great. Also American Beauty was beautiful.
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Joe Vs. The Volcano, hands down.
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Brokedown Palace is an awesome movie. Without revealing much, two girls go to Thailand for their high school graduation, only to be arrested for smuggling drugs. I really don't want to say much, as it's much better if you don't know anything ahead of time. I guess I'd classify it as "Drama," but it's extremely good. By the way... It's made by one of the major entertainment companies (I can't remember which, and I'm not sure where it is right now...); it's not some obscure movie. But every single person I've mentioned it to has never heard of it. Strange...
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Huh. I think it's interesting that of the four underappreciated movies listed, two of their titles have been referenced by bands (They Might be Giants is, of course, a band; The Hot Rock is the title of my favorite Sleater-Kinney album).
Here's the IMDB summary: An NYPD cop is 'killed' in an accident. The death is faked, and he is inducted into the organization CURE, dedicated to preserving the constitution by working outside of it. Remo is to become the enforcement wing (assassin) of CURE, and learns an ancient Korean martial art from Chiun, the Master of Sinanju. Based on the popular pulp series "The Destroyer," by Richard Sapir and Warren Murphy.
You just can't beat a movie whose entire soundtrack is an AC/DC album :)
"You done taken a wrong turn."
-Bill McKinney, in Deliverance
The Mouse that Roared starring Peter Sellers and Peter Sellers and Peter Sellers...
If we are talking critically, Tommy Boy definitely has to rank up there (I believe it had something akin to 1 and a half stars). If we are talking about a movie that fizzled at the box office, and then became a cult hit I think Rocky Horror Picture Show (love it or hate it) takes the cake. Other movies that might rank up there as well are Stargate, High Fidelity, Better Off Dead, Empire Records, Fierce Creatures... The list might go on ad infinitum.
The story is simple and sweet, and although it uses cliches a bit, it has a good sense of history and how absurd (or maybe not that paranoid) back in the 60's.
If you're bored one night, try to pick it up. I think you'll know what I mean after you see it.
Brought to us by Danny Boyle, the same director who did Trainspotting, The Beach presents a great existential look at human nature in the modern world. While Trainspotting showed the human adaption to the nihilism of the modern world, The Beach is about the escape from the modern world.
It really is a beautifully done movie. The scenery alone makes it worth while. That french actress is also perhaps the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. New Order did their first new song since 1993 for this movie, as Boyle is a good friend of the band. This is fitting, since New Order presents the same type of aesthetic as does Boyle.
Some drawbacks, Leonardo DeCaprio is the lead. I think he did well, but I missed many of his other movies like Titanic so maybe he deserves everyone's hatred. I think the movie failed at the box office because of him. He fits the role though I think...
IT=ts not as good of a movie as Trainspotting. But, that book was a little less complex than the Beach. Given that, I think its a great movie adaption.
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Wim Wenders film: Wings of Desire
Two and half hours of truth, beauty and love. Of course any film by him is really good, but highly overlooked.
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absolutely brilliant - if only I could find it at a reasonable price....
you wanna laugh your ass off? rent these:
fandango, directed by kevin reynolds
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0089126
penn and teller get killed, directed by arthur penn
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0098073
Brazil is arguably the most poignant and relevant piece of work to come from (some of) the people who brought us Monty Python.
Animation/graphics by Terry Gilliam. Leads include Robert de Niro in a surprise role, and Michael Palin as the arch-evil government interrogator (Ministry of Information Retrieval officer).
Definitely a canonical hymn of the individual's struggle against the machine.
Shamefully, some US releases of the film omitted a decisive final scene (which totally changed the meaning of the film). Hopefully the uncensored version has since become available.
20 years old now, but still a major classic.
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"Do you have that dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?"
See this movie.. It's a moral imperative...
Oh, and Hudson Hawk, Big Trouble in Little China, and Kids In The Hall: Brain Candy...
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It was mentioned here on /. before it was released. But, as some of you may know, it had a very limited release. It was very awesome :-) Also, Boondock Saints and Office Space have cult followings in my area :-p
1. Brainscan
2. eXistenZ
I can't speak for how well it did in theaters, since it was just a bit before my time, but very few people I know have ever seen it. Personaly, I find it to be one of the most accurate takes of the Arthurian legand to date, and simply one of the best.
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Also, anyone else still love Milo and Otis?
Brother is a mafia-type movie about a ex-Yakuza gang member who came to america and started a new gang. Its a great movie, and my friends and I all place it up there with other gang classics like godfather (1) and goodfellas
Ice Pirates. Space Herpies!
The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the 8th DimensionGeeky, yet delightful.
Zardoz John Boorman and Sean Connery. Yeah!
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I am not sure if it is because it came out when I was young, or because it was cool effects for the time, but this movie was def. one of my favorites growing up. I am sure not many people have seen it, but to me it is a cult classic. even if it is my own cult. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0091059
Val Kilmer-- before he was Iceman, Lasers, Popcorn, Nerds, oh and still very acurate comentary about the US military.
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I respectfully submit anything by Morty Fineman.
"Manos" The Hands Of Fate. Hands down deserves absolutely NO awards whatsoever, besides what I think to be the highest percentage rate of cast suicide due to release of said film.
starring Bill Murray and Andie McDowall. Not really unknown but I find my myself watching it over and over and over and over and over and over and over
"Laugha whila you can, Monkey Boy!!!"
This is one of the best sci-fi films ever...
Now available on DVD!
It's amazing the film quality and homemade special effects/gadgets...
Enjoy!
Lots of these are going to show up on the list I'm sure, but don't be confused, if anything it's overappreciated. ANIME!!!! Uhg, gimme a break.
FWIW, The Hot Rock was based on a novel by Donald E Westlake, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay of The Grifters . I read a number of his caper novels (including The Hot Rock) years ago, and they were hilarious.
Hopefully not too off-topic...
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Equilibrium, I mean, come on. I realize people like to whine that it's unoriginal or crap, cause of the similarities to 1984/Farenheight 451. It's still an amazing movie.
"Ah, look at the size of they boy's heed! It's huge! It's like sputnik! Well I'm not kiddin', that's a huge noggin! It's like an orange stuck on a toothpeck! It's a virtual planetoid! A bit spherical, but pointy in parts. Ahh, that was a bit over the line, wasn't et? He's gonna cry himself to sleep on 'es huge pilla!"
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Call me crazy, but I'd have to pick UHF...
Most of the other movies are somewhat appreciated (eg Army of Darkness is pretty popular).
There is just something about UHF's pure 80's weirdness, the movie features Weird Al, lame jokes, and some pretty crappy 3-d animation- how can you beat that?
here is Eberts review...
Well I dunno... maybe the movie does suck, but it has Michael Richards, and some pretty classic moments.
...well is was good when I was 9
Killer Klowns from Outter space
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Freddy Got Fingered, its a great movie! Tons of funny genius planned shit.. just gotta watch it 100 times before you 'get it'.
All time favorites would have to be Evil Dead Series which would include Army of Darkness.
1. The Fifth Element
2. Dark City
3. Life Force
And I agree with a poster who mentioned Army of Darkness - Great flick !!!
Barb Wire is the most awsome mainstream movie ever!
It is, sadly, underappreciated because so many people in the US are so sexist. The world needs female superheroes too!
Eve Fairbanks says I drive a hybrid!LOL
God, I love this picture. Kurt Russell as a John Wayne-wannabe bluffs his way through a hysterical 1982 adventure. See it. A definite pick-me-up.
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It's a bit long, but this is a fantastic, hypnotic sci-fi movie. William Hurt is great and the premise is cool. I've been waiting for this one to come out on DVD for ages. Movie info
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http://us.imdb.com/Title?0112685
From Troma, the same people who brough you Toxic Avenger and Tromeo & Juliet comes the third installment in the Nukem High series. In the first movie high school students are mutated by waste from the nearby nuc plant, which cheap cheap cheap special effects.
This movie continues the tradition, with a great running narration.
"Now we will attack the Mad Iron Clad Lad with deadly lead pipes cleverly disguised to look like PG wiffle bats."
and
"The secret base is diguised as a sugar factory, which also cut down on set costs."
Classic stuff. Go rent it!
this was an interesing one about some kids who find a "monster" in an pond.
Oh yeah, and Neverending Story is pretty cool.
I like the type of movies that have very original stories, and sort of question the nature of reality.
Best In Show (Funny)
Time After Time (HG Wells meets Jack the Ripper)
Iron Giant (a great animated film)
The Big Hit: I've seen better film on teeth.
The Bastard's Can't Go Wrong Underrated Film List:
* Bachelor Party (Bad USA Up All Night movie done right)
* Fear of a Black Hat (Rap mockumentry... damn funny)
* Fandango / A Perfect World (yes, they have Costner, but he's damn good in both... shoot me)
* The Italian Job (majorly appreciated in the UK, hardly anyone knows of it here in the states)
Hardly anyone saw Fallen when it came out but everyone I've shown it to loved it. It has one of the best twist endings ever and a solid script across the board. The Big Hit is another one I would have mentioned. Brilliant. I've watched it a dozen times.
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"The strong will do what they want, the weak will do what they must."
-Thucydides
Whenever I catch this classic on TNT at 1 AM, I inevitably end up staying up late to watch it all the way through. It's cheesy and goofy, but eminently rewatchable. Now if only the rumored re-release on DVD comes through....
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Richard E Grant and the crap Doctor who getting up to all sorts of adventures in the countryside. Famous for the drinking game associated with the movie which is best played with an ambulance on the way.
Repulsion
Critically acclaimed, but it was compared to Psycho too readily when it came out, although IMO it was a much more cerebral film.
Personally I think Roman Polanski is a pitiful human being, but this film was absolutely brilliant. It gave me (and still does) chills without all the over-the-top blood and gore that's associated with the 'horror' genre.
Basically it's about a young sexually repressed woman's (Catherine Deneuve) descent into madness and homocide.
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It's to bad he wasn't still alive so he could watch his crappy novel become a crappy movie and fail miserably despite a decent budget and big actors.
After a film is fairly successful, there comes a nice little sequel. Don't get me wrong...some suck. I happen to treasure Short Circuit 2 and Escape From L.A.. They play alot more with the characters in a fun way. Johnny 5 has got great lines. Check out the scene where he dresses up as a Pueto Rican gang member and chants "Los Locos Kick Your A..." :-) Also, I love how Kurt Russell played action hero in Escape From L.A. The joke's on the police force who gives him a pretty scary array of weapons and toys to play with like a nuclear submarine that he crashes. No matter how silly sci-fi can be, there's always some great cult humor for us fans!
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Brainscan is AWESOME stuff. I mean the dog @ the end? Come on! Most of my friends kicked it to the curb but I bout the DVD way back in the early days and still watch it preaty often! Gato
people I saw it with all thought it sucked.
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"You have been recruited by the Star League to defend against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada."
"You're my Juliet... *kiss* my Venus... *kiss*...Do you want me to talk dirty to you now?"
"Do you smell something?"
"Like what?"
"Like a Xa--forget it."
Great early nighties Sci-Fi.. Most of humanity was nearly wiped out and we servive in these energy domes to fend off mutunts.. alright, doesn't sound so good now that I discribed it, but it was definently under appreciated.
Say Anything - John Cusack and Ione Skye. A great romantic comedy directed by Cameron Crowe.
Mortal Combat - Based on the popular arcade game, best movie ever made based on a video game. Don't bother to see the 2nd, they rushed it out and it horrible, but the first was great.
The Ruling Class has Peter O'Toole as the insane heir to a large estate and title in England. He thinks he is Jesus Christ, the god of love. You can imagine where it goes from there. Good luck finding it at the local Blockbuster.
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Too bad it's not available on DVD. (Yet! I just learned (via IMDB) that this film, released in 1990, is coming to DVD in May. Yipee!)
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Screw UHF... I just remembered how great Office Space was, if you haven't seen it- rent it!
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Not in any particular orders...
Animal House
Real Genius
Buckaroo Bonzai
Ice Pirates
Wizards (extra cool...)
Kelly's Heroes (not a true war flick, more of a buddy movie, can't miss it on tv)
Brasil (the original movie version, not the chopped up versions)
Time Bandits
And New Order also had a reprise of "Blue Monday" (of sorts) on Power, Corruption and Lies called "The Beach." Trainspotting featured the creepiest riff on "Temptation" as well.
Still, I can't agree on this one. "The Beach" is a rotten movie. If you want an unappreciated Boyle flick pop on over and see "Shallow Grave". "I don' 'ave da time."
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Don't know if this qualifies as forgotten but it's the perfect movie. And also I loved Hudson Hawk but have been too embarrassed to say so until now.
Local Hero - 1 big star, 0 explosions great performances.
Breaking Away - 1 future star, great story, bikes.
There's more, but when people say "whatchawannawatch?" I suggest these. They likely haven't seen them, and they come away with a smile.
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1. Donny Darko 2. Office Space 3. Better Off Dead
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Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell's finest work. I proudly own this one.
Great documentary and soundtrack.. a must for anyone interested in the Seattle rock scene in the late 80s.
On second thought that might not play so well here...
"My God, this must be a truly remarkable corn chip, to be so widely and confidently touted."
I dared a roomate to watch it one night. The entire time he was viewing this video the only words that came out of his mouth were "What.. the.. fuck?" in a half-scared, half-interested tone.
Not to be watched with the kids.. or the parents. Do not view Totsuo: Iron Man while intoxicated, do not view Totsuo: Iron Man while near a weapon (you may shoot your TV), do not taunt Tetsuo: Iron Man.
You've been warned!
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The Butcher Boy without a doubt has to be my all time favorite, relatively unknown movie.
It revolves around a boy named Francy Brady (Anti-hero?) who grows up in a home with a mother who constantly tries to commit suicide and a father who drinks like a fish.
He has one friend throughout the whole movie, and his arch nemisis's (the nugents) constantly remind him that he is low class trash. The best part in the movie is when Francy starts having delusions of the Virgin Mary (played by Sinade O'Conner) They start out completely fake as a way to gain attention at the catholic orphanage he's put in, but they eventually evolve into full on delusions in which Francy starts to have really weird conversations.
Good movie, gotta rent it sometime.
In 1999, Mike Leigh's 'Topsy Turvy' was released just before Christmas. Maybe you can blame it on Y2K (remember that?), but it vanished within a few weeks, grossing only about $6M in the US. This is a great movie! It is what a historical piece should be. It may be a little out of today's normal geek range, but if you were around in 1882, Gilbert & Sullivan is what you would be listening to. Give it a chance and rent the DVD.
If you could have your memory of a movie erased and get to watch it again, as if it was for the first time, which would it be?
Let's build a snow man!
SHUT THE F*CK UP! *blam*
Written by the same chap (Richard Curtis) who wrote British TV's Blackadder series, 'Notting Hill' & 'Bridget Jones Diary'. I love this movie but understand that it is not for everyone.
~ Boondock Saints. Already mentioned, but really good. A sequel is in the works, fyi.
~ Way of the Gun. If you liked the Saints, you'll probably like this one.
~ The Cube. Weird, but interesting.
~ Mean Guns. Not a great movie, but hilarious in it's own way. Picture Christopher Lambert as an assassain and Ice-T as a Mob boss. Nothing really goes for this movie except for the humor I found in it. It's a guns blazing movie with a mambo soundtrack.
~ Dark City. Also mentioned, but worth a rental, IMHO.
~ New Rose Hotel. Not produced all that well, but a decent flick. Based off of William Gibson's short story of the same name.
~ Evil Dead Trilogy. Another repeated mention.
~ Fallen. Really enjoyable suspense with Denzel Washington.
~ The Ref. Great comedy with Denis Leary.
~ Kevin Smith's works. Go in chronological order with these, I'd say. Different people have different favorites, but I haven't really met anyone who hated em. Course, I live in Jersey where they are based. (Not that I live in Jersey by choice mind you.)
~ Desperate Measures. Suspense with Andy Garcia and Micheal Keaton. I liked it.
Any repeat mentions I personally check out. Means there's something there worth seeing.
I must have seen it over 100 times, and used to do my Physics homework while watching it. I aced the class too :)
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Countrymanv cm.htm
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Countryman is about a rastafarian super-hero, of sorts, named Countryman. From holywood.com, "A peaceful Rastafarian fisherman becomes an unwitting player in an international political scheme when an airplane crashes into a nearby swamp. Later, when violence breaks loose, he displays an almost magical ability in hand-to-hand combat." With a soundtrack featuring Bob Marley and many other big names in reggae, Countryman is THE all time classic reggae movie. Unfortunately it's difficult to find.
Homegrown
This review from http://www.lycaeum.org/books/reviews/review.22710
"Homegrown is set in the lush "green triangle" of northern California, where the scenery is breathtakingly gorgeous, the dope is potent and profitable, and everyone - everyone - is in on the business. The film revolves around three growers: Jack, the overseer (Billy Bob Thornton, the guy behind Sling Blade), Carter, the botanical whiz (Hank Azaria, best known (to me, at least) from the Simpsons), and Harlan, the aspiring kid in it for the free samples as much as the money (Ryan Phillippe). They are camping out, attending their crop, when their boss Malcolm (John Lithgow in a wonderful cameo) shows up in a helicopter for a surprise inspection only to be shot by the pilot. The trio are left with a body, a lot of pot, and a possible murder rap. The plot evolves wonderfully as they sort out Malcolm's business and family connections and try to cash in on 1500 pounds of killer weed. Along the way, they meet a variety of wonderful characters: Lucy (Kelly Lynch), revolving girlfriend and manicurist (and I'm not talking about nail polish, either), Danny (Jon Bon Jovi), the super-smooth buyer, Sierra (Jamie Lee Curtis), the matriarch of the farming community, and Judge Reinhold as a decent, upstanding crooked cop who is smart enough to recognize pot as the fountainhead of prosperity in his community."
These guys aren't the biggest names in movies, but they are all big names. With a lineup like this, I'm suprised this movie wasn't more popular. I guess it was stigmatized by being about growing weed.
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Absolutely a funny movie. Guy Ritchie+Tarantino+mel Brooks. The movie has some of the best dialogue in it that I have heard in a flick in a long time. And although cheesy at times the two main characters were good actors. And where else do you get to see a Gay Wilhem Defoe? In drag no less. [A Russian gangster comes into the bar] Murphy MacManus: So you're Chekov, huh? Well, this here's McCoy. Find a Spock, we got us an away team. Murphy MacManus: There are many forms of evil. We urge you lesser forms of filth not to push the boundaries into true corruption, into our domain. Murphy MacManus: We're sorta like 7-11. We're not always doin' business, but we're always open. Conner MacManus: Jesus! He brought a six-shooter! Murphy MacManus: There were nine guys. What were you going to do? Laugh the last three to death? Rosengurtie: Rule of thumb!? Do you know where that expression comes from? In the early 1900's it was legal to beat your wife so long as you used a stick no wider than your thumb. Conner MacManus: Well, you can't do much damage with that...maybe it should have been a rule of wrist then. Puto
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a great film (get it on DVD). However, it was the second largest money losing film from 1980 to 1991 (according to "The Book of Lists the '90s Edition").
Directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Eric Idle, Uma Thurman, and Robin Williams (except he didn't want to be named in the credits).
I put the 'fun' in fundamentalism
Boondock Saints (which isn't a great movie by any means, but it did deserve a better theatrical release than it got. Bottle Rocket because it is funny, beautiful, and compared to many of my friends, true.
Fantastic cast, characters, and story.
Well acted and directory.
They found I had a certain "moral flexibility"
The world called out for a hero and all it got was me...
The Changling
I'm not sure if this qualifies as underappreciated, but do yourself a favor and find it. George C. Scott is amazing in this truly atmospheric and chilling ghost story.
from that movie is Spacey telling Lemmon "will you go to lunch!?" Classic!
Lump lingered last in line for brains, and the ones she got were sorta rotten and insane.
The Iron Giant came out in 1999, and I saw a few TV commercials for it, and thought, oh, a kids movie, another boring animated cartoon. Then a couple years later, I was with some friends to watch videos, and one of them insisted we watch The Iron Giant, and wouldn't relent until it got voted in. When we finally watched it, it was way better than I expected. Somehow it got lost among all the other movies out there, but I think it's one of the most underappreciated movies out there. If you haven't seen it, I definitely recommend it.
A small budget, science-fiction movie from New Zealand...the special effects were low-rent, but it has a great story, great acting and a real "Sense of Wonder". The Quiet Earth is one of my all-time favorites.
Limiting my list to ones I like so much, in contrast to most people, that I own copies:
About A Boy
The Big Lebowski
Falling Down
Heathers
Human Traffic
Kelly's Heroes
Office Space
The Opposite of Sex
The Prophecy
Ronin
Sliding Doors
Nearly all of these require an explanation every time I have company.
Some people have a way with words, and some people, um, thingy.
Der Name der Rose
Mediterraneo
can't find the DVDs anywhere. but the worst movie of all times, Josie and the Pussycats, seems worthy of a DVD release.
bah
This is a Disney 'cotton candy' movie, light and entertaining.
Where else can you get Leprechauns and Sean Connery at the same time?
The Way of the Gun , written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie (who also wrote The Usual Suspects) is one of the most underappreciated modern crime movies. It also happens to have some of the most intricately choreographed and expertly filmed on-screen gunfights I've ever seen, as well as one of the most original car chases you'll ever see in a movie. I highly recommend it.
Top Secret, starring a young Val Kilmer as Nick Rivers, an elvis-style heartthrob who scored a pop hit for his song "Skeet Surfin' USA" about skeet shooting whilst surfing. Invited to an East German "cultural festival", he rapidly gets entangled in espionage, and winds up trying to help the French Resistance bust a captured physicist out of the sinister Flurgendorf Prison. Will our hero foil the Germans? Will he get the girl, or will she return to her childhood crush? Will somebody tell me what the French Resistance is doing in East Germany in the 1980s?
Some of the jokes are a bit dated now, what with Germany getting re-unified and all. But it's still a hysterically funny farce. Recently released on DVD!
Both were great movies which didn't get as much attention deserved to them.
Darren Aronofsky did an excellent job with the direction Requiem and PI. Good roles by the actor on fleshing out believable characters. Malon Wayans role in Requiem was the best I'd ever see him do. He took me completely by surprised when I saw he was in a drama and that he could actually do drama well.
Cube was good writing and excellent use of using a single room set, and one of the best low budget film examples.
It didn't last long in the theaters because it couldn't be easily classified. Mainly because:
It certainly has components of all of those genres, but it doesn't fit into the pigeon hole of any one of them.
You actually have to think about the movie. And it's cheap at Amazon. Check it out.
UHF doesn't suck. It's great and really a classic. Now, go have a drink from the firehose.
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Ok, so I already posted one (Until the End of the World), but The Mission has a great cast (Jeremy Irons and Robert De Niro), beautiful cinematography, a fantastic score (Ennio Morricone), and a story that is a captivating meditation on Christ's exhortation to turn the other cheek. Timely viewing. :-)
So long, and thanks for all the Phish
It's the best adaptation of a book that I have ever seen. I came to it by first hearing the beautiful soundtrack (composed by John Williams), then reading the book by JG Ballard and finally watching the movie. Ballard is an incredibly visual writer and what astonished me was the fact that the images on the screen were so close to the pictures in my head from the book and music.
Tom Stoppard's screenplay captured the essence of the book, the potrayal of the good, the evil and the stupid in the British, Americans, Chinese and Japanese. The scenes changed from the book were done so in an intelligent way.
Empire of the Sun is a difficult, long and somewhat sombre movie to watch, but ultimately worth it. I preferred Empire of the Sun to Spielberg's Schindler's List and think it a better anti-war movie (and better movie alround) than Saving Private Ryan.
What is the inverse of the Matrix?
If you can find a copy of it, this is an odd comedy. It stars Crispin Glover, and has a cult like multilevel-marketing business (ala Amway) and a dead cat in a cooler. What more could you ask for?
Without a doubt the best precursor to 'Wise Guys', 'Casino', 'Sopranos' etc. was 'The Pope of Greenwich Village'. Great story, great characters - what's not to like?
Absolutely a funny movie.GuyRitchie+Tarantino+mel Brooks.
The movie has some of the best dialogue in it that I have heard in a flick in a long time. And although cheesy at times the two main characters were good actors.
And where else do you get to see a Gay Wilhem Defoe? In drag no less.
[A Russian gangster comes into the bar] Murphy MacManus: So you're Chekov, huh? Well, this here's McCoy. Find a Spock, we got us an away team.
Murphy MacManus: There are many forms of evil. We urge you lesser forms of filth not to push the boundaries into true corruption, into our domain.
Murphy MacManus: We're sorta like 7-11. We're not always doin' business, but we're always open.
Conner MacManus: Jesus! He brought a six-shooter! Murphy MacManus: There were nine guys. What were you going to do? Laugh the last three to death?
Rosengurtie: Rule of thumb!? Do you know where that expression comes from? In the early 1900's it was legal to beat your wife so long as you used a stick no wider than your thumb. Conner MacManus: Well, you can't do much damage with that...maybe it should have been a rule of wrist then.
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
I've seen both at least 10x and they just get funnier.
The Stoned Age came our around the same time as Dazed and Confused but is the much better movie IMHO. Best soundtrack of all time as well
Don't leave your mind so open that your brain falls out. Don't close it so much that you cut off the blood.
The Big Hit was good, but I think my all-time favourite "underrated" movie was:
:)
The Boondock Saints
It rocks
As for underrated TV shows, my all-time favourite is Vengeance Unlimited, with Firefly being a close second. I heard a rumor that Firefly is coming out on DVD! woo!
I showed Better Off Dead to my friends a few years ago. They hated me for it at the time. I think they still hate me for it.
Personally, I love the movie. I bought the DVD when it came out.
I think the best scene from the movie is when "the opposition" infiltrates the Tomato Camp. He's dressed up like a giant tomato while sitting around a campfire roasting hotdogs on a coathanger discussing war strategies. He says, "Could someone pass the ketchup?" They say "Huhhhh?" And roll over him!
Yell & scream & rant & rave... it's no use... you need a shaaaave ~ Bugs Bunny
This is my favorite movie that almost no one else liked. What can I say I loved "Fargo" too!
It seems like we are never gonna get a DVD release of it. I thought it was particularly well made for a made-for-tv film. I pray for the day for the dvd - I can watch that movie repetively
That gets my Vote. Gotta be Kurt Russell's best role other than Snake Pliskin in the original Escape from NY. Of course the sequel to THAT sucked.
Lump lingered last in line for brains, and the ones she got were sorta rotten and insane.
This is a silent film with Buster Keaton and probably his best. It's still seen on cable from time to time.
Nate
Serious:
The Spanish Prisoner.
Steve Martin in a Drama, David Mammit wrote and Directed. Man, a great, complete movie. Very much worth a look.
Stupid yet great:
Welcome to Woop-Woop.
Stars the lead guy, the jerk, from "The Thing you do."
Theif hides out in the Outback in order to escape the American Law. Gets stuck in a town in which inbreeding is common and whose main export is dog food. Definatly worth checking out at 4 am. The best part is the Giant Kangaroo.
I do not control the Sig, the Sig controls me.
One of the top 10 funniest and ACCURATE movies ever made; it should have made hundreds of millions of dollars. It does have a place however, in the Geek Hall of Fame.
It has it all: Recycled plot from Star Trek II, seemingly random villain who is so insanely cool in his S&M getup that he doesn't need any motivation, and his pseudorandom Nosferatu Reman space-thugs that were completely pulled out of the writer's ass.
Well, OK, it doesn't have Jeri Ryan and Jolene Blalock in a hot lesbian sex scene. But we do get to see Patrick Stewart in protective eyewear for no readily apparent reason. Woo-hoo!
A Midnight Clear
...so many good movies listed (but Space Truckers? Poor, poor, sick bastard ;). A Midnight Clear is not exactly Brazil, Hudson Hawk or Buckaroo Bonzai... but those of you who like FILMS should see this one! It's on par with Shawshank IMHO!
Oh... and far from under appriciated (per its sceen showing at the Oscars) is A Fish Called Wanda!
"1984" was ment to be a warning, not a guidebook. You hear that Kim Jong-il!? BushCo?!
Electric dreams is about an architect who tries to organize his life with a computer. His computer becomes sentient (due to an overdose of information from the company mainframe and subsequent dousing with wine) and they both fall in love with the woman (a cellist in the local symphony) upstairs.
It's got some laughs, lots of old computers, and rather decent 80's music.
It's hard to find now, but since I work for a video chain I was able to get one old copy from their warehouse recently.
-Adam
Pi
A movie about a math problem.
Who can forget the crew (even the dead but cryo-preserved skipper) arguing with the AI of a planet-buster thermonuclear bomb
warning: gratuitous anti-MS jab
(probably Microsoft Bomb (tm)). Trying to convince it not to blow up, when that's the sole and total purpose of existence. Just because it couldn't detach from the bomb rails.
They just don't write 'em like that, and more's the shame.
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
Gun Crazy, a.k.a. "Deadly is the Female." Peter Bogdanovich has reportedly called this one of the greatest films ever made. I don't know if I'd go quite that far, but no fan of 1940s-style film noir should miss it. I have no idea why it isn't better known. Look for the famous bank robbery scene shot entirely in one take from the back seat of the getaway car.
Absolute riot.
The Adventures of Buckeroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.
It's a definate original. If only they had been able to make the planned sequal.
Equilibrium is one of my favourite in 2002. This is another fan site with lots of materials http://www.freewebs.com/equilibrium-movie/
Personally, I prefer Dark City over The Matrix. DCs visuals are a bit less in-your-face (but no less sweeping in their scope), as was its treatment of the concept of what defines your reality - your memories & perceptions or the actual truth - and which is ultimately more important.
Absolutely must be watched at night, just like The Crow.
Then again, on the completly other end of the movie genre universe there's Real Genius. A sometimes overlooked comic masterpiece.
And if that wasn't overlooked enough, and in keeping with our mention of The Matrix, there's always The Night Before, a real gem that hasn't made it onto DVD yet, darn it.
Another one that hasn't made it onto DVD but typifies life in corporate America in the 1980s is Head Office.
You have to love a movie with lines in it like:
...Pi.
The two worst movies of my childhood are:
1. Mom and Dad Save the World
Pretty much all I remember about this one is going to a drive-in in Bucks County, PA (setting of Shyamalan's Signs ) for my 8th (?) birthday. The cute little mushroom thing in the sewer that gets all scary with sharp teeth STILL freaks me out.
2. Stay Tuned
After Three's Company , Stay Tuned is John Ritter's magnum opus. With a cast rounded out by the ever-funny Eugene Levy and Jeffrey Jones, this one is surely a winner. Unfortunately, Principal Rooney is currently facing child sex charges. Weird, huh.
Does anyone remember Until the End of the World? It was weird, but I just couldn't stop watching it. I can't remember exactly what it was that held my interest - perhaps the feeling that I didn't know where it was all going or where it would end up. I think I'd like to go rent it again...
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
No, not that new POS, the original
James Caan, Moses Gunn, trees blowing up, all-knowing computers...classic.
Amazing movie really.
Just wait till some crappy band steals your nic.
Besides that, I should mention Cube and Brotherhood of the Wolf. The latter manages to go under several genres from costume drama to steampunk.
And for more Finnish specialties, every geek should check out the Star Wreck parodies.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
But the sad truth is that animes remain an underappreciated art form and never have the chance to make it to American theators. Movies such as Vampire Hunter D could have made excellent releases, but they never got the funding behind them. Sufficent to say, it's not wonder animes fail in the states. Unless they make money, they don't get support from the big players. And unless they get support from the big players, they don't make money.
Oh well, looks like it's back to scouring ebay for some anime DVDs.
YOU SUCK BALLS!
definitely not under-appreciated in this crowd... but despite its disney-nature, it was also the best looking thing I'd ever seen. Its the reason I went into computers in the first place.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
Yell & scream & rant & rave... it's no use... you need a shaaaave ~ Bugs Bunny
As long as you mention the frozen cat in the cooler, you should also mention that they get lost in the desert and have to drink the cooler water as the cat thaws. Great stuff indeed.
Andy Warhol sucks a big one!
Lasers Controlled Games!
As I right this there are 127 comments and not one mentions the most underappreciated movie of all time
UHF
How can you go wrong with Wierd Al?
"OOhhh, you're a lucky, lucky, lucky little boy. You get to DRINK FROM THE FIREHOUSE!"
This is my list of all time favourites and underappreciated movies in random order; The Boondock Saints, American History X, Léon, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Divorcing Jack and just about everything Kevin Smith has ever made :)
I should add one more, danish film, although I guess most of you haven't seen it. I Kina spiser de hunde is absolutely fantastic, read the comments on IMDB.
Sorry about typos, if any... I'm Icelandic.
Yeah...Time Bandits.
A great movie but didn't seem to catch on very much probably because it was in French and the voice over pretty much sucked. The French version with subtitles is much easier to watch because the your not constantly distracted by the strange sounding voices that don't match the actors.
Earth Star Voyager:
While the computers and special effects are quite dated, this still rates as one of my favorite movies of all time.
Try finding this one at your local (or even non-local) video store. Amazon.com has never heard of it. Blockbuster.com lists it as unavailable for purchase or rent.
Since Boondock Saints got lots of coverage (I own 3 diff dvd versions) allready in the comments...
Just one of the Guys
Loverboy
The Brainsmasher
Made
12 Monkeys
Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Of course some of these are mainstream or even popular movies, but are still underappreciated in my mind. Not to mention guilty pleasures like Demolition Man or Conair.
A brilliant piece of work, and an even more amazing soundtrack. PI.
Also not bad "Cube".
Jon - TheSpork
You haven't lived until you've seen a muppet utter those words.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
Artificial Intelligence. Seems like I'm the only guy that really enjoyed that movie.
Pitch Black: great sci-fi fun.
Predator: "Dey are using da trees." Hooya!
Dark City (Alex Proyas) is pretty cool. Great design and such, and has Jennifer Connelly in it (mmmmmmm)
Tron, since it's just so class. I am terrified of the new one, since the graphics in the original were perfect. I really liked that, and if they had made it now it would have been overdone. Though maybe the original will tone down the new one somewhat.
Mallrats, since while the others are very appreciated, Mallrats isn't. It has a fanbase, but most people really underrate it. Brodie is Smith's finest character, and it is a genuinely funny teen movie, focusing on the geek/stoner lifestyle, which fits perfectly for me.
Barton Fink (Coen Brothers). An earlier one, cult maybe, but not enough people appreciate it. I think it's a truly superb piece of cinema.
I'm sure I could come up with many more, but unconsciosness prevails.
I loved Shaolin Soccer, released in the US as Kung-Fu Soccer (which is a rather unsuitable title, it's not a kung-fu movie). Very funny, and a very good movie in general.
It's one of my favourite movies (my number one is Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain).
Can't forget Robert Redford in Sneakers. Actually a good computer cracking movie! If you haven't seen it...why not?
Mike
Quotes:
"You are nothing! If you were in my toilet I wouldn't bother flushing it. My bathmat means more to me than you!"
"You think you deserve it because you want it? It doesn't work like that. You have to earn it. You have to take it. You have to make it yours. But first you have to decide what you really want."
"What I am concerned with is detail. I asked you to go get me a packet of sweet-n-low, you bring me back equal. That isn't what I asked for, that isn't what I wanted, that isn't what I needed, and that shit isn't gonna work around here."
"Your job is unfair to you? Grow up, way it goes. People use you? Life's unfair? Grow up, way it goes. Your girlfriend doesn't love you? Tough shit, way it goes. Your wife gets raped and shot, and they leave their unfinished beers . . . stinking longnecks just lying there on the . . . So be it, way it goes."
"What I am concerned with is detail. I asked you to go get me a packet of sweet-n-low, you bring me back equal. That isn't what I asked for, that isn't what I wanted, that isn't what I needed, and that shit isn't gonna work around here."
Check it out!
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C'est arrive pres de chez vous / man bites dog .
some film academy students follow a serial killer and make a documentary about him for their endproject, soon they get involved themselves. it's very dark and very funny.
What movies will your friends hate you for making them watch?
I'm still apologizing for "The Other Sister".
A friend once made me sit through "The Pledge" and I think it's easily the worst movei I've ever seen.
Yellow Beard - some monty python folks, cheech and chong, medalaine(sp?) kahn etc.
:-)
;-) And the soundtrack would be great to have a copy of.
Little shop of horrors - the original black and white, the musical was made from this, them the second movie. Jack Nicholson had a bit part before he made it big.
Attack of the killer tomatoes
Excellent movie, made back in 1974.
It's about the taking of a New York subway train, and it's just damned cool.
--agenthh
I caught this recently. I can't stand Ted Hughes as a writer or a person (man, did he do a number on old Sylvia), but I found this to be a powerful movie with a great message for kids and redeeming of old Ted even if it is a bit of an adaptation of the book. It has everything. Buddy flick. A FUCKING BIG ROBOT. 50s paranoia about everything. And the animation is masterful. Not a big animation fan at all but this one sticks out in my mind.
Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
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Hero becasue though people heard about it, come on guys it's so much better than Crotch Tiger Horny Dragon
Grave of the Fireflies because I know some US people don't like it because it shows them another side of war that they don't want to consider.
I also remember a clip from a movie that everybody pretty much called "fuck fu" (adult stuff but with wire-fu) back in the days from the stileproject. I think it's underappreciated because it was really really funny. Anybody knows the real link / name?
My life in the land of the rising sun.
"People don't like fire poked ... poked in their noses."
Regards,
John
Falling You - beautiful
I read the book, and loved the movie. True, Dicaprio was prolly the reason why it bombed, but he did a great job, AS DID Boyle- it was a good take. That scene when they go back to "civilization" that looks like spring break gone wrong with punters puking in the streets... gives me the heebee jeebees.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
If you want to see a movie that, to me, has the same message as 1984 but told with a twist ... well... just see this one. The ending is really funny!
Yell & scream & rant & rave... it's no use... you need a shaaaave ~ Bugs Bunny
DeForest Kelley, Giant Mutant Killer Rabbits, $10 special effects budget.
What else DO you really need ?
Learn to Improvise
Too often I hear lines from there being used by all sorts of ppl.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Forbidden Planet
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Dark Star
Time Bandits
My Dinner With Andre
Buckaroo Banzai
City of Dreams
Beauty and the BEast (Cocteau)
12 Monkees
Smiley's People
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Those are the classic no-names ever created. How can you not love movies with increadibly over-the-top stupid fight scenes?
"Dead Heat" had the zombified cop and the zombified henchman doing the traditional gun battle in a hallway, ending up inches apart with guns blazing.
"They Live" had the best overdone fight between friends I've ever seen.
Bruce's stuff is downright popular in comparison!
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
Is there a more underappreciated movie than Dirty Work (norm mdconald, artie lange)
Keep a copy of this in your car and unleash upon unsuspecting friends during a slow night. They'll thank you!
Don't ask me how they fucked up "Screwed" w/ norm, chappelle, AND devito.
I would imagine that most people who read this site would *love* this documentary.
Other nomonees: I'd agree on The Big Hit but have to add What Dreams May Come, The Whole 9 Yards. Also the 13th warrior, but that might just be because it reminds me of the good ol' days of everquest.
I do security
My vote has to go to John Carpenter's 'Dark Star'. Ultra low budget and very fuunny, it is unlike anything else I have even seen by Carpenter. It would not surprise me if it was the inspiration for 'Red Dwarf'.
Four guys on a small ship for 20 years in deep space looking for unstable planets with the ever complaining Pinback, the alien beachball and of course a deep philisophical argument with a bomb.
If Godzilla did not exist, man would have had to create him.
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Donnie Darko.
Why? This film not only has made me think each time I've watched it, but continues to do so afterwards. Only a couple of hours ago one of the songs from the soundtrack came up on my playlist, and simply hearing the song has once again thrown me into a state of contemplation regarding the movie itself.
It is truly a shame so many people have never even heard of let alone seen this film. Underappreciated? Highly. The best film I've ever seen, and one that I never grow tired of watching.
- - Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand. - -
Grosse Pointe Blank. Classic. John Cusak rules.
/me regrets having left the bulk of his DVDs (including Grosse Pointe Blank) at his old place.. :(
Great soundtrack, too.
If all the world's a stage, anyone who says they want better lighting spends far too much time in a dark theatre.
As a sequel to the original, I really think the acting was quiet extraordinary. Wonderful makeup, lighting, and sound effects.
My favorite underappreciated movie is actually a freaky French movie called City of the Lost Children. Very cool! Oh, any my second favorite is the Jesus movie. :)
"Support Bacteria - Its the only culture some people have" - Circa 1985
A good guys flick with action and comedy.
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Russle Crowe was great in it, and the fight scenes were REALLY well filmed. Instead of this quick-cut crap they try to pass off as "fast action!" these days at the movies, this REALLY felt like I was rushing in for a fight.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
It doesn't get any better than Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie.
:-) /Ex
It's got romance! It's got aliens! It's got scientists! It's got a robot trying to tunnel to earth from a spaceship!
And they take out the hubble! what's not to love?
A Kids In The Hall flick. Hilarious (if you dig the KITH humor and men dressing up like women). It's about a drug company designing a drug that grabs your happiest memory (chemically) to keep you in a happy "high".
A must see...
It's like it's 70 degrees in your head, all the time.
If water were beans, I'd be 70% beans.
The work of the mad stop-motion master Mike Jittlov. I'm surprised I haven't seen it already from someone else...
..... that the fifth element was a good movie. It may not have broken any new ground as far as cinematography or special effects is concerned, but it certainly had a killer sound track and was just plain FUN to watch. In fact i think i'll go watch it now.
The Blade Itself
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. A carefully metered, sometimes charming, and ultimately tragic clashing of east and west, old and new.
For every one person I've met that liked the movie, I've met one other that hated it, and 10 others who never even heard of it.
with Jeff Goldblum Order some pizza and bring a 12-pack. Well, not exactly. Seriously, it is a great movie.
Please excuse my English. I am American.
>>The black stapler sells for $9.99, the same exact model in red sells for $49.99
Not true.
The red one is priced about the same as the others.
Though $30.00 for a stapler seems like a lot of money. What does it do? Spellcheck before stapling?
Huh?
Wizzards - Ralph Bakesomething
I was looking to see if anyone else saw this movie. It's an excellent (albeit disturbing) movie.
Ah, a cable staple that lent itself and its charms to one's slightly drug-induced gray matter. Yes...
Even the Director of SuperNova had their name removed from the credits.
I liked "24 Hour Party People". It is a psuedo-documentary about Tony Wilson's contribution to music. It starts with the beginnings of Joy Division and then the morph into New Order. Finally, it closes during the era of Happy Mondays. It is very funny and well done. If you are interested in any of them bands, I think you will enjoy this movie.
The Tools Of Ignorance wanna be a tool?
Oh man. I'm really surprised I had to wait until 1/2 way through page 2 before someone mentioned this one. Absolutely Must See. Great cast.
"You keep on using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means."
Lump lingered last in line for brains, and the ones she got were sorta rotten and insane.
Suicide Kings is the most underrated movie I've seen, though the idiot director ended up choosing the wrong ending for the final cut. The $20k no-violence one was better, and I'm not saying that because I prefer romantic endings.
Session 9 (horror)
Ginger Snaps (horror)
Donnie Darko (dark fantasy)
Nadja (horror, vampire flick)
Lord of Illusions (horror)
In the Mouth of Madness (horror)
They Live (Sci-fi. Not underappreciated around here, I imagine.)
Bush is a cylon.
why? because its going to happen. no matter what. whatever you do. people will blindly give their rights away in the name of 'safety'.
Don Johnson in a no-budget cheesy science fiction romp, and...it worked!
The fact that it was based on Harlan Ellison's short story certainly helped, but when you consider that this is the movie Arthur C. Clarke once called "The only science fiction movie ever made," you know you're onto something good. And maaaaannnn is it good!
"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." -- Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
It's an interesting request to remember what you have forgotten, but I remember these standing out in my youth. Haven't seen them in decades and have no idea if they stand up.
Colossus: The Forbin Project - Intelligent Computers
Phase IV - Intelligent Ants
Brewster McCloud - Bud Cort builds wings
Has to be Kentucky Fried Movie
"This requires total concentration."
"Aries should expect the unexpecte...urrghhh"
Linux - Because Mommy taught me to Share.
I don't know why everyone hated that movie. I think if you go back and watch it again you will realize it is a work of genius.
Better off dead
The Sure Thing
Say Anything
High Fidelity
any others?
Lump lingered last in line for brains, and the ones she got were sorta rotten and insane.
"The popcorn you're eating has been pissed in - movie at eleven."
Remember this one with Fred Savage who played a video game addict. He goes to the Nintendo tournament to play a deathmatch with Super Mario 3. This movie was basically an infomercial for Nintendo products, but back in my NES addiction days I really liked it. Also, this movie gave a sneak preview to the long awaited SMB3.
Already more than 300 replies, and not a single one visible. Sheesh.
And this is an absolutely stunning art work - really beautiful, from the use of color, composition, perspective, and detail. At least as good as what the old Disney studio could do without the Disney feel.
I'm really disappointed in the horrible marketing job - this film was marketed as strictly a kids film, and if anything it works much better as an adult film. Just because it's animated...
For my money one the my favourite under-rated films was Dogma with Ben Afleck and Matt Damon. A very good film picking apart the Catholic faith. Having Alanis Morriset as god was good as well.
It's got to be The Apartment with Jack Lemon (I think...) Lots of laughs, and good drama also. Anyone heard of it? I think it got an Oscar in the 60's. The Pink Panther movies are great also. Those, and Young Frankenstien...
"See you, space cowboy." -Spike
The Blob.
I watched this movie as a kid and it seemed quite scary at the time. It's quite a classic scary movie involving the unknown, perhaps alien lifeforms, maybe some government experiment, etc. I think I started out watching the original from 1958, but there was a remake in 1988. More intriguing than most of the hack n' slash "scary" crap that is put out today.
Okay, this requires a LIST(tm):
Big Trouble in Little China: SE
Brainstorm
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Buckeroo Banzai: SE
Bulworth
Cecil B. DeMented
City of Lost Children
Cousine, Cousine
Cousins
Dominion: Tank Police
Father Goose
Fearless
Gargoyles
Gentleman's Agreement
God of Cookery
Highlander
Johnny Dangerously
Kiki's Delivery Service
Leon: The Professional - the Uncut International Version
Lifeforce
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Mysterious Island (1961)
The Navigator (Buster Keaton)
The Nightbreed
Nightmare Before Christmas
Payback
Prince of Darkness
Princess Bride: SE
Pump Up the Volume
Real Genius
The Return of the Living Dead
Run, Lola, Run
Say Anything
Silent Running
Sneakers
Some Kind of Wonderful
Spirited Away
Still Breathing
They Live
The Thing (1982)
Time Bandits
Wag the Dog
What Dreams May Come
Wolf
Li (Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea)
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
Dr. Detroit
The Dragonslayer
What's New, Pussycat?
The soundtrack to this movie is as powerful as the movie itself.
The soundtrack completely blows if you haven't seen the movie, but after it's just.... well it's just like watching the movie again - some of the best audio for a movie I've ever heard / seen.
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delicatessen is my all time favorite. a dark comedy, by director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, who was also responsible for Amelie. it's a story about a future where food is scarce, and even people are chopped up for food.
1967... Cool Hand Luke.
THE classic movie of all time. I LOVED that movie. :)
It's also a great tearjerker, too. Me, my wife and my son were all dewy-eyed at the end the first time we saw it.
Little factoid: the voice of the Iron Giant is Vin Diesel. Really.
Everytime I hear of a good movie (and after checking IMDB to see if it has a 7+ score), I put it in a list I keep so that one day, when I have a car and a real job and can actively seek them out (my local videostores don't have them), I get them. Please note that some are not underrated like you asked. Fucking Amal Say Anything Irréversible Punch-drunk Love remains of the days Odishon/Audition Eraserhead Texas Chainsaw Massacre Battle Royale Exotica Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Flirting Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys Igby Goes Down Crying Game Blue Velvet Ken Park Rabbit-proof Fence The Comedian I was able to find Exotica a couple of weeks ago. It's a great watch or pretentious flawed crap depending on how (and how deep) you look at it. But I'm glad I watched it personally, it kept me gripped all throughout.
An American classic.
One deserving of a sequel. A GOOD sequel.
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Definately.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
--Aristotle
Now that's pathetic acting even for Sly Stallone. Or was it the script? Must be hard to make a movie about professional arm wrestling. Heck, either way, the movie is still strangely addictive.
Actually, I'd have to pick 'Vampires' as one of my faves, and it's a much more recent John Carpenter film. While 'Ghosts of Mars' had some good bits, it -did- suffer from some pacing problems and visibly off effects. Ah well. Nobody's perfect...
Howard the Duck
I love this movie !
The Wicker Man
The Magic Christian
THe Name of the Rose
Videodrome
Slaughterhouse 5
Ugetsu Monogatari
In The Realm of the Senses
Tokyo Decadence
Highway 61
Tampopo
Andy Warhol's Trash, Heat, & Flesh
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Sid & Nancy
Rosemary's Baby
Liquid Sky
Mr Hulot's Holiday
All of these make my top 50 list
aem
-a.e.mossberg
This movie is one of my all time favorites, but when I mention it, people are like "The wizard of whatsit?" Made by the special effects Guru, Mike Jittlov, this movie's got just about everything. I highly recommend tracking down a copy for your viewing pleasure :)
Also, check out Mr. Jittlov's web-site at
http://www.wizworld.com/
How about Orgasmo? Nothing beats a movie about a Mormon turned porn star turned crime fighter flict.
And "I Married a Strange Person"? A twisted but insightful animation (American).
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Starring Peter Reigert (Boone in Animal House) as an oil company exec sent to Scotland to buy up an entire seaside town for a refinery site. Weird local characters and a cool story.
Requiem for A Dream OR The Big Kahuna
A great little indie flick. Classic stuff. It's available on DVD but I'd love to see it on the big screen.
;)
Hell, I'd love to see lots of films on the big screen. MST3K: The Movie, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, the 60s Batman film, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, all kinds of cool things.
Too bad one can't like rent out a theater for a screening or something similar so we chould show these flicks as they were ment to be seen, on the big screen!
--Reverend Raven
Desperate days demand dire deeds.
I'll tell you later.
The Director's Cut features all 600 guys plus the director himself!!
The ultimate anti-feelgood movie.
It's frightening to watch Cronenberg build the "average everyday guy" and then tear him apart by exposing him for what he really is: the "average everyday guy".
Alito: A vote for Alito is a punch in the eye to put that bitch back in her place!
Great movie. I have yet to find more than a few people who have seen it, and appreciate it.
While we're at it, I have yet to find someone who truely appreciates Fight Club on the same level I did.
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I'm so happy someone mentioned this movie. As soon as I read the topic for this Ask /., "Iron Giant" came to mind. I love this story and the animation was great.
Damn shame how it was marketed though. Everyone I've gotten to sit down and watch this movie thought it was great and they were surprised that it was good for adults too. (Well, those who even remembered the slight marketing there was.)
-sig
Starring: John Turturro, John Goodman, Michael Lerner, John Mahoney, Judy Davis, Jon Polito, Steve Buscemi, Tony Shaloub,
Richard Portnow, Christopher Murney, David Warrilow.
Read a great reviw of it here:
http://www.cinepad.com/reviews/barton.htm
lounge around on the blue couch
Actually this one never made it to the movie theaters, but it is excellent. I never thought I would cheer a hardcore Labor guy, but Harry rules!
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-- Let's go do some crimes.
-- Yeah! Let's go get sushi and not pay.
-- Put it on a plate, son. You'll enjoy it more.
-- Couldn't enjoy it any more, Mom.
If Chaos Theory has taught us anything, it's that we must kill all the butterflies.
Pink Floyd: The Wall is certainly a favourite of mine. The reason I mention this is to point out that I can truly appreciate even quite disturbing films before I say what I have to say about Requiem for a Dream: I never want to see it again. I mean, sure it's got great directing, acting, cinematography, music, everything. It's hugely powerful. I was in a reasonably good mood before watching it, but I was more or less miserable for the next couple days. And that makes it the only movie I've ever seen that was depressing enough for me to want to avoid in the future.
One of the best movies I've ever seen. A teacher in high school recommended it to me, and I'm glad he did.
I hope to see the director's cut very soon.
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0086203
Early 80s, Animated, great soundtrack.
Anyone remember this one? I loved it as a kid.
anybody seen "amongst friends"? three best friends from privledged long island get involved in low-key organized crime. the movie starts off with the narrarator lighting and taking a hit from a bong.
Why did I lurk so long before registering for a Slashdot account? I could have had a Slashdot ID of less than 100000.
Monster High
Toxic Avenger
Attack Of the Killer Tomatoes...
what, these -are- appreciated? nevermind...
Oh, you mean the movie where Marky Mark lays a 16 yr old Japanese girl at the end of the movie?
:)
I always thought that movie was a rip-off of Gross Pointe Blank, save for the statutory rape
A witty saying proves you are wittier than the next guy.
Nuff Said.
A classic above classics. Winner of 9 2002 Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Starring Jonathan Pater (Best Actor) and Rob Malda (Best Supporting Actor). Directed by 1993 Oscar Winner Linus Torvalds.
"Two fists up" - Ebert and Roeper
"****" - The New York Times
"That is one HUGE ass!" - Los Angeles Times
Rated G: General Audience
Is there a way to rate a story as flamebait?
Great movie. If only they would put this out on DVD!
The bicycle movie. I really wish this was still being made. This movie was very nice. Jumps and stuff plus the soundtrack was nice.
Tampopo
Delicatessen
Who can forget the flying poodles, or suction cup turtles?
Linux is to the internet as Duct Tape is to the Universe.
(stolen quotes from IMDB)
Oh, the Pope warned me never to trust the CIA!
If Da Vinci was alive today, he'd be eating microwave sushi, naked, in the back of a Cadillac with the both of us.
How's my driving?!? 1-800-I'm-gonna-fuckin'-die!
God, I miss Communism. The Red threat... people were scared... the agency had some respect and I got laid every night.
Check out the rest.
---- El diablo esta en mis pantalones! Mire, mire!
Hillarious movie shot in Texas. Kevin Costner before he was a big star. Also starring Judd Nelson and a great supporting cast. The soundtrack is great. Check it out!
"We'll see the Donkey Lady!!!"
"We'll get diseases......"
Wow, I can't belive you all forgot Mallrats. It only made like a thousand dollars on opening night and was promptly forgotten, except by cult movie fanatics. Wow, what a great movie!!
Hudson Hawk
Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead
Suicide Kings
Rebound: The Legend of Earl The Goat Mannegault
Boondock Saints
Supertroopers
Tank Girl
Three Legged Freaks - The cat and spider behind the dry wall.
Vampire Hunter D
Tremors (orginal)
OK, it's a completely off-the-wall fiction about A Scientist, A Model, and Her Husband-A Baseball Player. Odd. Wild. Fun. Quirky. And utterly engaging!
"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." -- Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
Stalker, a Russian flick from 1979 by Andrei Tarkovsky (The guy who brought us the original Solaris, before it was recently butchered and dumbed down for english audiences, unfortunately). Very Cool. Kubrick fans will love it.
Read about it http://us.imdb.com/Title?0079944
amazon women on the moon is moderately funny.
just enough 'before they were stars' actors to keep it interesting and just enough 50's sci-fi movies and porn references to qualify as geeky
Funny, good plot that wasn't supid, and it had lots of violence. Awesome soundtrack, too.
This guy is way out there
161 Comments and not a single one modded above 2. Maybe those movies were forgotten for a reason, hm?
"My Neighbor Totoro," a beautiful, heartfelt masterpiece. I can't wait to have children so that I can show them "Totoro" followed by "Spirited Away."
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An old movie that moves an unexpecting viewer to tears.
The geeks (including me!) came out of the woods for this! 400 comments in a few minutes, not even the moderators had time to mod up anyone, the best comment is at 3 right now!!
Well, my vote goes out to hudson hawk, a really funny movie that very little people remember now (sh*t, that makes me sound old!).
Everybody has a purpose in life, maybe mine is to lurk in slashdot.
Let me guess - you were born in 1970 or 1971? Everyone my age, as far as I can tell, loves that movie. Everyone else HATES it. I'm in the former camp, let me tell you.
sulli
RTFJ.
If you have the DVD (and this is /., so thats a pretty safe assumption), you have to watch the deleted scenes. There is a lot more dialogue with Rosengurtie.
And there is a scene w/ where the guys get a call from there mom, that is completly cut out of the movie... best line from the movie would have been: "Yeah ma... I respected the hell out of her".. in reference to when he dropped Rosengurtie like a pile of bricks.
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"I am insane, and you are my insanity"
--Bruce Willis, 12 Monkeys
and the Silent Night Deadly Night series...brother and I used to rent them at X-mas when we were in high school...freaked out my wife (then gf)
I wuld have to go with this little movie called Gone with the Wind, as I feel no one understood the real importance.
Absurd quasi-spy comedy with John Ritter and James Belushi. I can do almost entirely without Ritter, who falls flat in the comedy department (this may just be the writing) but -- and this is why it's "almost" entirely -- actually works really well when he's given a chance to react realistically. Belushi is good as an impossibly competent spy -- makes James Bond look like an amateur (and this is definitely the writing). There's wonderful randomness in this movie, sort of like Buckaroo Banzai (my solid favorite) without a sense of direction. This deserves a DVD release.
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.. if you liked Office Space, you owe it to yourself to see it.
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0247745
You know. For kids.
Just because it works, doesn't mean it isn't broken.
The action isn't exactly John Woo style artistry, but that is because it is treated with a degree of humor, which is befitting of the movie, because it is hilarious.
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals."
Boondock Saints
OK, take Heavy Metal (the original). Then condense it to a single animation team, and have someone write a complete epic story, instead of short stories by different authors. Then double the wonderment and involvement. Wow!
"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." -- Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
Wonder Boys: terrible reviews, great movie. It's a dark comedy about writers living in Pittsburgh.
also:
Logans Run
The Hitcher, with Rutger Hauer
Scanners
Commando
"Nice tuxedo. Nice tuxedo to DIE IN!"
What do you mean trout doesn't make good underwear?
Seen it a hundred times at least. Can't get enough of it :-D
I love it cause it's EEEVVVIIIILLLLLLL!!
Equilibrium : It did get some attention here, however it was a limited release. Nice story, kinda slow but some cool concepts and special effects. Robojox : I've alyways liked mecha. and this is the first and only decent movie I've seen which has featured such large mechas. Was cool.. but then again not too many people heard of it.. leave alone watch it Fantastic Four : This movie had been pulled out before it was released, and hence only bootlegged copies are available. An incredibly strong story line which delighted all FF fans. Dark moon rising : An interesting flick featuring a concept car with fancy gizmos and starring tommy lee jones. The scene with the car jumping from one building to another... was fun. Fire, Ice and Dynamite : funnyyy.. :D and entertaining
Best of the Best :
A fab martial arts flick, a bit more grounded and realistic.
better stop here....coz the list is long... very long..... lotsa movies that go direct to video ... miss out on the attention other major releases get. it's like they've decided the fate of the movie... and snatch the decision away from us
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Seems like out of now 450+ messages, ONE has been modded to score 3...
/. Good job y'all... We need to find more topics like this.
wow; moderators are probably busy putting in their viewpoints instead of modding up others'
This is the first time I see something like this happen on
My life in the land of the rising sun.
It's reaaly great if you haven't seen it.
Mortal Kombat
This Jon Cusack movie from the late 80s is absolutely hillarious, yet very few people have seen it. I mean, how can you go wrong when 2 asian characters learned English by listening to The Wide World of Sports... very funny.
"I want my 2 dollars!"
I think my principles are reachin' an all time low
George Romero's Dawn of the Dead, usually considered superior to his Night of the Living Dead... and that is commonly thought of as just a slasher flick.
And... Godfather 3... that's right. I said it!
What is music when you despise all sound?
One of the best movies ever... Strange Brew.
The Conqueror-John Wayne as Temujin Kahn.
Rhinoceros-Town is plagued with rhinos.
Subway-Thief robs girl, escapes to subway.
Diva-Diva is recorded. Long motorcycle chase ensues.
Ishtar-How come everyone on Amazon likes it?
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead-All the world's a stage...
Tampopo-Japanese Noodle Western.
After Hours-Rough night in New York.
Into the Night-Rough night in L.A.
I drank what? -- Socrates
"Tonight only, at the Pit...Everyone Gets Laid!"
Classic college movie. Comedy Central used to play it back in the day. Just don't see it around much.
"I wonder if I could trade the kid for a ratchet."
All it takes is nukes and nerves.
And there's Cube 2 comming soon...
The acting isn't great, the plot is about the same but the dialog is priceless.
It's all about the:
Coffee.
Chocolate, oh yeah and we need BIGGER GUNS!
"What you want me to do? Put out an APB on someguy 7 feet tall, looks like the Devil, Answers to the name of Lucifer. Yeah and you! Probably got big horns and tail too...
- DenialX
with Bruce Dern. Cool movie and most folks I mention it to have never seen it.
is my pick for last year's underappreciated movie.
The Catcher in the Rye updated to modern times.
Directed by William Peter Blatty (The Exorcist author), based on his book "Twinkle Twinkle, Killer Kane".
A mind blower.
This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it. - Dorothy Parker
Pedro Almodovar's first really big movie, and one of his funniest still. Not quite as twisted as some (tie me up, tie me down; and Matador!) but hilarious!
"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." -- Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
Everyone seems to have forgotten about the oh so funny Kids in the Hall movie. FOR SHAME! Get your finger outta my face don! Get your finger outta my face don!
"'Yrch!' said Legolas, falling into his own tongue."
It changed my life. It's a little difficult to understand, but once you do you just can't stoip watching it. I see many paralells between my life and Pink's. WAtch it and lixsten to it (especially while on drugs). Very very moving
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The man who brought us Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums made his debut with the Wilson brothers in this highly quotable, subtly humorous cult classic.
IMDB: Bottle Rocket
IMDB: Wes Anderson
IMDB: Owen Wilson
On the run from Johnny Law.. ain't no trip to Cleveland.
Jason Fisher
The Explorers
Great movie made in 1985 starring River Pheonix and Ethan Hawke about a couple of kids who figure out (through one of their dreams) how to travel to space in a homemade spaceship and visit aliens.
Ice Pirates
Really funky space adventure film starring Robert Urich. Used to come on HBO almost daily in the mid-eighties. Great flick.
Cloack and Dagger
Really neat spy movie starring Dabney Coleman and Henry Thomas (from E.T.). I'm sure plenty of people have seen this gem of a movie but I'll be damned if I can find any amongst my group of friends.
The Stuff
A movie about killer yogurt. If that doesn't make for great stuff (har har) nothing does.
The horse is dead. Either fuck it or walk away, but please stop beating it.
At the beginning, I had a lot of hope for the Mozilla project. I thought it would kick Microsoft's ass like you can't believe. But it took forever for anything to materialize out of it. When stuff finally started to happen, it was much too complicated.
The Mozilla browser is based on so many layers of stuff that it boggles the mind how the thing even works. Actually, it doesn't boggle the mind because it really doesn't work all that well. Every time I tried out Mozilla, with a little hope that this time it would function better, I was disappointed.
Mozilla is bloated, huge, ugly and complicated. Its three zillion layers of features, languages, protocols and other elements make this perhaps the most complicated piece of software in proportion to what it does. In other words, I used to think that emacs was much too complicated for what it did... but Mozilla is so much worse! It's simply supposed to give you access to endless piles of advertisements and spam all over the Internet. It's not supposed to become "The Everything Program." I mean, hell, if it had to be that, then the Mozilla project should add:
features of every word processor ever released plus more,
utilizing 6,000 new layers of unnecessary complexity,
of every spreadsheet ever released plus more, utilizing 6,000
new layers of unnecessary complexity,
features of every presentation maker ever released plus more,
utilizing 6,000 new layers of unnecessary complexity,
programming language ever invented plus a virtual machine for
every architecture and chipset ever invented, all of which
include all the features of every integrated development
environment and virtual machine system ever released plus
more, utilizing 165,000 new layers of unnecessary
complexity,
computer aided engineering, finite element analysis, computer
aided machining) environment that includes all the features of
every CAD/CAE/FEA/CAM environment ever released plus more,
utilizing 671,051 new layers of unnecessary complexity,
features of every video game engine ever released plus more,
and supports every video game data file ever invented, even
from game consoles, in order to play any video game inside the
web browser utilizing only the data files and no other
executable... all of which would, of course, utilize 6,000 new
layers of unnecessary complexity,
features of every operating system ever released plus more,
utilizing 6,000 new layers of unnecessary complexity,
features of every video editing suite ever released plus more,
utilizing 6,000 new layers of unnecessary complexity,
features of every photo editing studio ever released plus
more, utilizing 6,000 new layers of unnecessary
complexity,
includes all the features of every vector drawing and
animation program ever released plus more, utilizing 6,000 new
layers of unnecessary complexity,
includes all the features of every enterprise multi-tier
database solution ever released plus more, utilizing 6,000 new
layers of unnecessary complexity,
Talk about a great Fantasy flick! The original film blew my mind as a young boy, and basically drew me into the worlds of the Fantasy genre.
:P Shame shame...
First of all, this movie drove home one of the most important points that our society lacks nowsdays: Reading can kick ass. Bastian loved books, having read many of the classics. After stowing away in his school's attic, he was immersed into a world of fantasy and imagination as he followed the adventures of Atreyu, The Rock Biter, The Man and his Racing Snail, the Nighthog and his Stupid Bat, and the Childlike Empress (who is still as hot today as she was then).
And you can't tell me you didn't want your very own Luck Dragon!
This is a flick that has all but been forgotten, and kids today are suffering for it. They're so dilluted in their Telletubbie, Barny the Dinosaur, Dora the Explorer happy fun world that they lack the immagination that TNS brought to the table. They're being overprotected by parents (and politicians) who don't think that fantasy violence is good for them, and the only violent scene in the entire movie is when the Gmork (?sp) and Atreyu did battle! Come on! That's good versus evil, a concept every child should know!
This is a movie that I'll most assuredly be passing on to my "geekspawn" when they come of age, and is a movie that everyone should watch at least once. It's too bad society has all but forgotten this great picture. It's a great lead in for kids to get used to Fantasy ideas, which will lead them to great films like The Princess Bride, Willow, and the LotR Trilogy.
And I'm disappointed that noone else here mentioned it
Blog Prophyts - Right On, Man
A great movie. Bill Pullman, Ben Stiller, Kim Dickens (swoon). Funny, suspenseful, good soundtrack.
"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face, it's just a goddamned piece of paper!" - George W. Bush Nov. 2005
And Pitch Black sucked. (I thought it would be cool. I was wrong.)
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0083929
They aren't immortals from Earth, they come from the planet Zeist, and are really rebels exiled to earth!
MacLeod has put a shield around the earth to replace the depleted ozone layer, and evil men inside The Shield Corporation are covering up the fact that the ozone layer has restored itself!
Birdmen on flying skateboards try to kill MacLeod (for some unknown reason) and accidentally restore his immortality!
Virginia Madsen is a terrible actress!
Christopher Lambert is worse!
Not sure who Sean Connery's agent was, but I hope he was fired!
Wicked man - few have seen it - I saw it when I was like 11 with my step brother - I don't recall much but it's funny (IIRC) and horrorish - fantastic "stuff" really ;)
A movie completely filmed inside a few differently colored cube rooms. Cool just because of that.
Meh.
Under Siege with Steven Seagal and Tommy Lee Jones should definately have a spot on this list. The knife fight at the end is worth the price of admission. Note: I think Seagal often get's discounted because his later movies are technically in the action/drama genre but, have political overtones which detract from the movie and make them suck.
"I'm just an itsy, bitsy, teeny, weenie, lowly little cook." - Casey Ryback
(across the eighth dimension) Peter Weller, Jeff Goldblum et-al.
Although a lot of my favorite forgotten movies have already been mentioned (Boondock Saints, Requiem For A Dream, The Hudsucker Proxy), Magnolia has to be by far my favorite.
If you're ever looking for a movie like it, Hard Eight is very similiar (though not nearly as deep a meaning). It even has the same basic cast. The only difference are in the stars. Magnolia's Tom Cruise and Julianne Moore are swapped for Hard Eight's Samuel L. Jackson and Gwenyth Paltrow.
The coen brothers original movie Blood Simple is incredible! Well worth the rent. Their others are also incredible. (of course)
-Sean
Where are the moderators? Oh, wait, that's me... must post, though!
People don't seem to be getting the point of the question: UNDERAPPRECIATED movies. For reference, check out Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival. The poster had the right idea. It's cool that I hadn't heard of 3 of the films they mentioned. As far as my own underappreciated films, they are:
Metropolis (the anime)
Battle Royale (disturbingly violent genius)
Grave of the Fireflies (already mentioned, prepare to not just cry over a film, but grieve)
Le Samurai (Woo's inspiration for The Killer)
"Now gluttony and exploitation serves eight!" - TV's Frank
One wild flick! Glad someone else remembers it!
Blog Prophyts - Right On, Man
Either all the movies mentioned here really suck, or there's some sort of shortage of moderator points. I'm only seeing 3 comments scored over 2 (out of the 350 posted so far)
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
I really liked Memento and I think it is underappreciated in the geek community. I don't know if there is a movie that has done this previously, but it was pretty cool how he recursively programmed himself to kill Teddy. Pretty short stack, but he made good use of it :)
Was to be a Bruce Lee movie; he died before filming. David Carradine, who was to play the protagonist, took over Lee's role(s), and the lead was re-cast to Jeff Cooper, a very different martial artist, portraying the Everyman probably better than Carradine would have. Plenty of fighting to watch, and a truly Zen conclusion that will, I guarantee, disappoint non-philosophers. What is it you seek? What is at the end of your journey? What do you do with it? You'll put a brick through your TV if these questions aren't of deep interest to you -- but if they are, A Circle of Iron is required viewing. Another one that needs to come out on DVD.
good sci fi rendition of a 1950s short story (same author as starship troopers?)
I'm a big retard who forgot to log out of Slashdot on Mike's computer! LOOK AT ME.
I greatly enjoyed Big Trouble in Little China....a great flick. It had everything--Kung Fu warriors, cowboys, magic, Gods, monsters, love interests--what a film! And it was funny to boot! That's one very underappreciated movie.
Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc
c'mon, danny aiello and bruce willis singing, it was awesome!
you just can't make this stuff up.
I thought about putting Strange Brew on thiss list, but it's been a long time since I've seen it.
P.S. Is it just me, or is no one modding this list because everyone wants to post to it?
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Never saw Supernova, but hated Event Horizon. I guess I thought it was gonna be sci-fi, but it's really just horror. Plus I have a thing about eyes being poked out. *shudder*
On a side note, I actually enjoyed Pitch Black. I know most people hated it, but I thought it was kind of fun.
Logan's Run - Lastday. Year of the city - 2274. Carousel begins. What happens when everyone must die at the age of 30 - and when Peter Ustinov lives in the Capitol building with hundreds of cats.
This movie was the shit for Sci-Fi until Star Wars came out the following year, consigning Logan's Run to its current fate of discount DVD bins in record stores across the land. First use of "laser holography" in film. Featuring Basil Exposition as Logan, and Duncan Idaho as his best friend. (For that matter Dune is underappreciated, but I don't want to start a flame war...)
I remember seeing this when I was about 8 and I think it was the first time it occured to me that our civilization might not last, and in fact might be violently replaced in some way.
A pilot, in those days, was the only unfettered and entirely independent human being that lived in the earth.-Mark Twain
The Stoned Age was okay, but I prefer Dazed and Confused.
Highly amusing 50's 'greaser' movie with Salma Hayek and David Arquette. Apparently made for TV originally, but has high productions values, considering.
I want my TWO DOLLLLAAaaaars...
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I've never been able to look a paperboy in the eye with out smiling since I saw that flick
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
Sigh. I'm dating myself again. OK, it's outdated; the Cold War is over, the telephone company isn't a monopoly, etc. But it wouldn't take a genius to adapt the story to a new monopolist and a new world (dis)order. And the President would still be a Texan...
I truly hope Weird Al is eventually recognized as the creative genius that he is...
Michael Richards' debut as the spastic, stuttering janitor, Stanley Spadowski!
On a more serious note, 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' is the culmination of Terry Gilliam's surreal interpretations, and probably one of the most accurate film translations of a piece of (fiction?/literature?) ever...One of my favorite movies, and if you thought this movie was just about drugs, you're taking it too serioualy...
"It's a mutha beautiful bridge!"
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True Lies IMHO is a perfect 10/10 movie that only gets ranked a 7/10. This movie has action, drama, comedy, and even a romance for the women.
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This movie has a good script, good acting, and excellent editing and directing. Not to mention you can watch it with your girlfried/wife and she won't want to immediately leave the room.
Boondock Saints seems to be popular in some circles, and unheard of in others... but my crowd loved it!
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That movie rocked..
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The life of a Repo Man is always intense!
The car. The rodregres brothers. The parents who give ottos college fund to televangelists..
I have the soundtrack on CD. It kicks
Is it out on DVD?
Good flick
The key word here being underrated...
Beau Geste (the original)
A Bridge Too Far - although famous, it is underrated anyway
Desperado - impossibly cool, even if it lacks the indy charm of the prequel
The Eagle Has Landed
Jackie Brown - pales in comparison to the T-man's earlier work, but still a good movie by itself
Soldier In The Rain - the most criminally underrated movie EVER
The Spanish Prisoner
The Tailor of Panama
Borrowed from IMDB ...
'Hell' is the name of the hero of the story. He's a prisoner of the women who now run the USA after a nuclear/biological war. Results of the war are that mutants have evolved, and the human race is in danger of extinction due to infertility. Hell is given the task of helping in the rescue of a group of fertile women from the harem of the mutant leader (resembling a frog). Hell cannot escape since he has a bomb attached to his private parts which will detonate if he strays more than a few hundred yards from his guard.
And who can forget the greatest line in movie history: I came here to kick ass and chew bubblegum... and I'm fresh outta bubblegum...
1 Scent of a Woman 2 Donnie Darko 3 Das Boot I think Al Pacino did one hell of a job in Scent of a Woman and not that many people have seen it. Donnie Darko was just an all around good movie, if you like that kind of mysteria. And come on, Das Boot, how can you go wrong there. pgp4privacy
Beautiful movie- a visual tone poem. Produced by Francis Ford Coppola, directed by Goddfrey Reggio, with music by Philip Glass. Unbelieveable. Rent it from your library and sit in a dark room with a good sound system.
"The Stupids" is the best flic you never watched
ok, this is a DAMN funny movie... and no one saw it. I actually saw it in the theater, it was there for 3 days. It is FREAKING FUNNY!!!!!
--dan
OK, so it was nominated for a billion awards. More people have seen it than most of the movies in this list.
But how many have watched it...twice? Three times?
As popular as it was, I call it underrated because not enough people know how UTTERLY BRILLIANT it is! The massive 5% zooms, the monochromatic scenes (except for one item), the jokes that you don't realise were jokes until the next day, the mood, the characters, the...oh man, the everything. Having watched it about 10 times on DVD, I'm only BEGINNING to see the real detail that went into this work of art.
"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." -- Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
Tremors is brilliant, funny, gory and almost romantic. See it, piss yourself, see the sequel. Watch it with mates and beer, you WILL be quoting the movie for years to come.
If you thought Rutger Hauer was a great villian in Blade Runner, watch this flick. You'll come away from the flick wondering "What the hell was he?".
The Moore-Murphy Law: The number of things that will go wrong will double every 2 years.
Alright, I am a Kevin Spacey fan. The Negotiator is one of my very favorites. And K-Pax should defiently be on everyone's must see list.
Then as someone already posted, 5th Element [imdb.com] is worth a view too.
From: http://us.imdb.com/Plot?0126814
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"A butcher [who has created a new language] discovers that the rotten meat he has been dumping into a septic tank below his shop has turned radioactive [balonium]. A maniac named Abdullah [butcher's assistant] has killed the [corrupt] mayor, then brought him back to life as his slave [with an egg-beater arm attachment] to kill everyone in the town. Interplanetary aliens appear and help the butcher fight off the radioactive meat and Abdullah. This may sound like it's from about six different movies, but it's actually the same movie..."
I seem to remember that it was the aliens who resurrected the dead mayor and the town whiz kid inventor used his homemade cyclotron attached to his car to defeat the aliens, but I may have lost track of what was going on at some point.
http://www.bigmeateater.com/prodinfo.html and http://home.ica.net/~paulc/canux/review/bigmeat.h
Really it was just Rocky on bikes, sorta like 8-mile, but it was great fun to watch :)
Costner with a tache?!?!
Big Man on Campus with Bob Maloogaloogaloogaloogalooga takes my vote for one of the most underappreciated comedies of all time.
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High Fidelity is in a tie with BMoC in my eyes, High Fidelity manages to mix a solid storyline, excellent music, and phenominal acting into one great movie.
Pi is one that doesn't get much limelight, and is required watching for any geek.
Just too many to narrow it down to one
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Perhaps Steve Martin's best movie, with an exceptionally funny script. Just put that up there around #7 or so.
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Pi, absolutely. And Requiem for a Dream.
Colossus The Forbin Project.
Oh, another great one that I loved--the Sylvester Stalone flick Oscar. A true throwback to the way movies used to be made in the 1930s...deeply complicated, a dozen plots at once going on, and funny as all get-out. Tim Curry's best performance (okay, one of them) and probably the funniest I've ever seen Stalone. This one came and went right quick, but I did manage to grab it on video tape.
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Spent a good portion of this very evening trolling websites for obscure and underated films that I hadn't seen yet ... and then Slashdot to the rescue. There's some great recommendations listed and reading the posts reminded me of a lot great films I'd simply forgotten about over the years. I'll toss in a couple more that I haven't seen mentioned yet:
/. effect noticed yet on imdb.com or netflix.com ;->
The Ninth Configuration (aka Twinkle Tiwnkle Killer Kane) - Brilliant and soooo quotable
Anything by HandMade Films - many already mentioned here
Trancers and sequels - pure camp Sci Fi and early Helen Hunt appearances
Breaking the Code - geek cred, touching well acted made for TV movie about Alan Turing
PS: I'm disappointed there's been no
Shallow Grave was Ewan McGregor's first movie with Danny Boyle, the director of Trainspotting. Dark and funny. British humor at it's best.
I wanted to chime in with the rest. This is truly a great film. It is quite sad it didn't do better in the theaters because I loved it. I only saw it after being prodded by a friend several times who kept telling me to see it.
Forget the whales - save the babies.
I watch this movie at least once or twice a month. It's creepy but cool sci-fi. It feels a little fast some times but it's a groovy flick.
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... wonderful (I think I'm turning gay here) where she does something very very nice for a blind man - which is immensly thoughtful - that scene struck well with me - (and yes it does involve her mouth, but no, it's not rude :) )
It's a fantastic film - I forget it has subtitles it's that well done - it's a cute film (dare I use the word) romantic and clever - I'd put this in my Top 50 films possibly (and for an Action / Comedy / Sci-fi kind of guy, that's damn good)
Definately one of the better non action / comedy sci-fi films out there - check out the comments on IMDB of course (I watched it twice and noticed many smart little things in it)
There's also a scene which is just
8/10+
A wonderful, quirky movie that no one got to see dut to limited release. Think, Shelock Holmes and Dr. Watson a hundred years later.
Ive never seen Real Genius, but Lebowski really is hilarious and you can watch it forever without getting old.
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals."
it plays like its from the UK, but filmed and located in the US. Its a rockin good time. Rent it today and i bet you'll go out and buy it.
For me, this is the mother of all silly karate movies. I watched this countless times on HBO when I was in high school. Kill and Kill Again (the sequel, I believe, to Kill or Be Killed) knows what it is -- campy, with a lot of karate -- and plays it up beautifully. (It also has barely any killing, making the title a nice in-joke. For instance, the biggest crowd-fight scene ends up with the mob of, oh, a couple dozen bad guys tied up in a parachute, wriggling.)
This movie delivers one of my favorote lines of all time: "Usually when I hit a man, he stays hit."
You know, I just realized that one of the reasons I like Iron Chef so much is that Chairman Kaga reminds me of Steve Chase, the lead good guy in this movie.
Sigh...what I wouldn't give for a double-feature of A Circle of Iron and Kill and Kill Again.
'nuf said :-)
I mean Really... does anything have to be said. Badass series, worth all the money. Also another nod to Boondock Saints
It was actually shut out of the Oscars because Palestine wasn't/isn't considered a nation by the Academy. You can find out more about it here, at their distributer's site.
--sdem
The ending... In the uncut version he's not rescued but has gone mad and halucinates the whole 'Happy Ending' Its done so well... A real sledghammer between the eyes ending.. Loved it.
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I second the motion on Hudson Hawk. I take a lot of flack on that one too.
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"Medically speaking, there is no accounting for taste." However, these are two of the funniest movies I have ever seen.
... Another absolutely hilarious slapstick comedy. Never before have I seen anyone sing opera out of their bungholio. Any time you can include new stichk and not just rehash old stuff, I'll give kudos.
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) (original) was so funny I literally bepissed myself in the theatre from laughing. Not only does this movie contain slapstick humor but a subplot of subtle humor. For example, in the "Blue Note Bar", you see framed pictures of Michael Dukakis and the Hindenburg on the wall. Look for the subtle humor. It is very well done and deserves higher marks.
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Given the current situation - I highly recommend it.
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How about "Ravenous"? Hilarity, gore, and cannibalism!
It's a horror/(accidental?) black comedy from 1999 with Guy Pearce, David Arquette and Robert Carlyle. Lasted all of two weeks in theatres and awaits discovery by cult-hunting film geeks such as yourselves.
Features an excellent parting line: "That was... really... sneaky..."
I can't decide whether or not I'm trolling. ;-) Great cast and script. Will Smith's first serious acting effort, which he pulls off well. .. but I've always been a little embarassed about liking this movie, I thought it was really deep when I saw it at the age of sixteen or so, but I'm afraid if I watch it again (at the age of 29) I'll realize it's all a bunch of crap.
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The film that 1984 should have been... A true masterpiece of cinema; recently re-released on a 3 DVD special - including the Gilliam cut.
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"Creation of the Humanoids", the flick that Woody Allen ripped off in "Sleeper" was great for its time.
"Meet John Doe" and "The Lady Eve" are pretty good, but the best from the good old days is "Something for the Boys" -- it's got it all: music by Cole Porter and stars Phil Silvers and Carmen Miranda as (non-identical) cousins. This one is completely unavailable and out-of-print last I heard.
I enjoy Harmony Korine films. Most of my friends can't handle them, but I consider them an exercise in mental fortitude :)
I second that. Kurt Russell in most anything is a hit. I also especially liked him in John Carpenter's "The Thing."
I'd have to say that Gattaca (mentioned earlier also) is quite a fairly uknown but powerful movie - it's quite depressing if you've got half a brain and realise it WILL be the future in 200 years, but none the less it's powerful and interesting - 8.5/10 - this is a serious movie however bear that in mind.
If there's something which I will try to recommend which is also uknown (at least to some non US or non sci fi / comedy channel surfers) would be the show (and movie) of MST3K or Mystery Science theatre 3000 - possibly one of the most clever shows to grace television ever.
Look it up on IMDB comments all you like, it won't spoil it for you at all - most people who've seen this will swear by it as greater comedy than the Simpsons, Futurama and South Park rolled into one........ (hot damn)
Ha... ha. ... hahahaaha... hahahaHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
I'm in a weird mood. That was just the reaction I had when thinking about that movie. It is so classically 80's.
Forget the whales - save the babies.
Not forgotten at all .. Trainspotting is a classic with a soundtrack that still sounds good!
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2. Donnie Darko
3. 12 Monkeys
Yes they are all sci-fi, and you can watch each one over and over again and still be entertained and stimulated.
Being There -- the story of Chance the gardener is probably my favorite, least known film.... But don't forget The Fisher King, Brazil, Time Bandits, Jabberwocky, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Hudson Hawk, Big Trouble in Little China, UHF(!), In God We Tru$t, The Ladykillers, The Seventh Sign, Raising Arizona, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover, The Player, Looking for Richard, Dick Tracy, Soldier, Remo Williams The Adventure Begins, Things Change, F/X, and of course, the one, the only, the fabulous -=Blues Brothers=-
Rififi-- this is the father (mother?) of all heist films. It was recently rereleased in the theathers. It culminates with a 30 minute break-in scene completely without dialogue.
If I only had the power to suggest everyone see one movie and everyone would watch it, I would pick They Live!
Almost everyone I know are, or have been asleep as they live their lives. We all need to wake up, especially with all the crap happening in the world (that we just let happen in the world). In our own little ways we need to fight for a better life and world.
Apathy sucks us down if we let it.
-------- Docrobot
Remember this cheesy one? I loved it when I was a kid dreaming of being an astronaut. Featured a robot with AI that makes Commander Data look like a chimp.
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No one saw it because world spread like wildfire that it sucked. And it sucked. Sci-fi horror has this incredibly bad habit of just putting people in space and then making shit up.
Along those lines, if you like Supernova, try Event Horizon. Plan 9 has nothing on this. Go into space to investigate a ship that passed into and back out of a wormhole, and... Lo and behold, it was really back FROM HELL! What a shame. Even calling is Sci-Fi is a joke. Someone is not Sci-Fi because it is set in space.
Cemetary man is a hilarious and dark comeday about a man that runs a cemetary where all the dead keep coming back to life as Zombies, and if you do no remember Gymkata, cheesy karate/gymnastic movie. State of Grace with Sean Penn as a cop infiltrating the Irish mob of NYC with Ed Harris and Gary Oldham, John Turturro, John C. Reilly. Man it is just an all start cast on an extremely underrated flick! Here is the imdb link for it: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0100685
for Cemetary man: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0109592
Was just IMDB'ing this recently - your post has inspired me to add it to my list...........
Not an 8 or 9/10 but a worthwhile watch indeed - quite clever.
I'm surprised someone hasn't mentioned Red Dawn.
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There's a standard list of movies that I'm shocked when I hear people haven't seen them:
Marvin's Room
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Sling Blade
LA Story
Waiting for Guffman
Hollywood Shuffle
Bottle Rocket
Kentucky Friend Movie
it's not going to stop until you wise up, no it's not going to stop. so just give up.
The intricacies of their plan to screw over the mark are just wonderful; and you only really appreciate how intricate it gets right at the end.
Any movie ending that makes you reconsider whole sections of the rest of the movie is good... The Sting, Usual Suspects, Fight Club (though the ending is the main thing in Fight Club's favour).
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Geeky enough to keep it interesting, yet hollywood enough to suck you in. My personal favourite.
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Whistler: I want peace on earth and good will toward man.
Bernard Abbott: Oh this is ridiculous.
Martin Bishop: He's serious.
Whistler: I want peace on earth and good will toward man.
Bernard Abbott: We are the United States Government. We don't do that sort of thing.
Martin Bishop: You're just gonna have to try.
Bernard Abbott: Ok, I'll see what I can do.
Whistler: Thank you very much. That's all I ask.
Um that and..
2001 (but most folks know that)
FUBAR - The Movie is a mocumentary about the lives of two trailer park metal heads. It features the antics of Terry and Dean, their friend Tron (who isn't allowed to see Terry and Dean anymore) and of course great songs like Terry and Dean's own Woman is a Danger Cat. Well worth the price of a rental.
What Future?
For me it has to be that classic Kiwi road movie Goodbye Pork Pie. I guess it helps when you know some of the locations from your home town rather than somewhere on the other side of the world. While watching it for the first time you had to wonder how many bits they can take off a Mini and keep it running. A couple years after the movie was made I found myself flatting in the director's house, Geoff Murphy. They actually used three Minis in different states of disassembly to make the film. Geoff kept the good one, which I drove once !
While Waiting for Guffman is great, Best in Show is at least 5 times better. All of the characters are so rediculous. My friend and I once watched it 5 times in four days, and I'm still not tired of it at all.
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals."
"In the far future, mankind is spreading out in the galaxy, in great colony ships. But before a region of space can be settled, it must first be made safe from the scurge of "unstable planets". So a new breed of space men is required to destroy them. The crew of the space cruiser Dark Star, are just such men - hardy, dedicated... bored. They've been on their mission for over a year now, and they're getting a little frazzled around the edges. Plus, their ship isn't exactly in top working condition. Oh... and their commander was killed when his seat exploded during hyperspace. They're also out of toilet paper. Did I mention there's a mischievous alien on board?"
Si vis pacem, para bellum! For evil to succeed good men need only do nothing!
The Frightners, starring Michael J Fox and directed by Peter Jackson. A horror movie that's got plenty of funny moments and pretty good special effects.
"Do not enter this area without consuming j23."
"Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy more and be happy."
"Please open the door, we only want to help you."
"Thats not very large, when I did Algebra it was a bottle 'This' big."
THX-1138 Its a seminal cyberpunk film and George Lucas's first film (started as a student project)
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It's as good as Fight Club, but never really got to be that big.
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No, Thursday's out. How about never - is never good for you?
could you find someone brave (read: thick) enough to say that. Wow
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals."
With Robert Mitchum, the guy who was smoking Mary Jane back when only Black musicians did it.
....
This guy and girl go into a Mexican bar full of Banditos. In one minute the Banditos are trying to hang the guy and rape the girl. Then they freeze as a PRIEST walks in. It's Mitchum with a carpet bag. He puts the bag down, opens it and
Well, you'd kill me if I told you. Go see the movie.
It's Christmas everyday with BitTorrent.
... but of course! How can you go wrong with classic Dr. Seuss? He wrote lyrics for the musical portions, managed the set design and co-wrote the script. The movie is just awsome.
High Noon in outer space. With Sean Connery, natch. Great movie, nobody's seen it. And, while I'm here: A Life Less Ordinary (yes, I'm the guy that liked it) and Long Kiss Goodnight. All to often, movies with three words in the title go unappreciated.
My good looks paid for that pool, and my talent filled it with water.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Amazing movie, actually was a musical first. Beautiful film, I love it to death.
Oh, and I don't know how underappreciated it is, but Ghost World.
Strange, but excellent movie. Tom Stoppard wrote it. It's basically the story of Hamelet told from the perspective of two lesser characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
But of course, it isn't at all about what Hamlet is about. It simply uses Hamlet as a backdrop in order to tell it's story. For a few years, it was absolutely my favorite movie. It still ranks very high.
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Now that that was a real hacking movie.
Jin Ro, which I think is translated "The Wolf Brigade." It is beautiful and made by the folks who made Ghost in the Shell. If you haven't seen it, it is great.
I cast my vote for La Cité des Enfants Perdus (The City of Lost Children). I highly suggest seeing it if you haven't already. However, I don't know if there is an English dub for it (I do know there is an English subtitled version of it though), as it is a French movie. It also may very well be the strangest movie I have ever seen.
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A classic John Cusack - Tim Robbins affair with Sam Moore and Junior Walker as The Swanky Modes! I never hear about this except from a few select friends. Does no one know?
Great moments: Roscoe's rap ("The chicken and the waffle thang"), Jello Biafra (of the Dead Kennedys) as the arresting FBI agent, and a wonderful soundtrack. Plus, on the DVD we learn that it's an unknown Courtney Love on the incriminating videotape (who knew?). Gotta love those commentary tracks...
so stupid its funny. Everyone I've made watch this movie has ended up loving it. You don't think much of it the first time you watch it, but you're left with a desire to watch it again, so there must be some subliminal messaging going on. "Damn that Hansel, he's so hot right now"
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Sam Raimi going for the oh so subtle punchline by placing A Farewell to Arms on top of the pile of books that weigh down the bucket trapping Ash's severed hand. Check the one liners in this one http://us.imdb.com/Quotes?0092991 I think it's the superior of the 2
Just kidding. ;-)
How about the most OVERRATED movies? My pick is the obvious choice: Titanic.
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Simply an amazing movie.
Without giving too much away, "what if a gun had a soul and decided not to kill."
Heart warming and heart breaking. Wonderful animation.
Also don't forget "The Secret of Nimh" and the book called Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of Nimh.
- Zav - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods...
Truly one of the weirdest films I've ever seen
If you're not a Liberal in your 20's, then you have no heart.If you're still a Liberal in your 30's you have no brain.
It's about a couple of scientists who develop a device that can record and playback brainwaves. It isn't virtual reality, per se, but recorded reality. They want to use the technology to help mankind but the government has other ideas.
It's very difficult to explain this movie. You just have to see it. It's gripping and raises all kinds of interesting ethical questions and even though it's twenty years old, it holds up very well.
Highly recommended. Check it out. I'm sure you'll love it.
The Science behind "The Core" is stunningly dead on.
Read this review
"The core of the earth has stopped spinning," celebrity scientist Conrad Zimsky (Stanley Tucci (news)) ponderously tells a roomful of government brass.
A perfect soap-opera beat later, a general responds, with all the dramatic heft of a guy in a cheap suit staring in dyspeptic dolor at a gravy stain on his tie, "How could this have happened?"
I am of course, talking of my ass. This movie looks like it sucks so bad.
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And where else do you get to see a Gay Wilhem Defoe?
Haven't you seen Platoon?
American Movie, a documentary about a Wisconsin horror movie director with no money and an even less grip on reality. It's hilarious.
OddManIn: A Game of guns and game theory.
Further:
Tremors -- best monster movie ever
THX 1138
Gattaca
Software Wars
Dark City. Very similar themes to the Matrix, but more toned down, less attitude.
Although, how is an under-appreciated movie, to be moderated up, as it is obviously not well known? Heh.
This is really a great movie, a moving and very intelligent dystopia, that oddly enough, was produced as a 'showtime original movie' [which are usually softcore porn or bad action flicks]. Someone with vision somehow managed to get the money to produce this, however.
It's really good. As a story, it's better than Brazil, if you can overlook the cheap production values and low-budget special effects.
It's also one of those rare cases where the movie is actually better than the literature on which it's based. It's based on a Kurt Vonegutt(sp?) short story that was only a page or two, more an allegory than a full fledged story. Whomever wrote the script ran with the ideas of the story and turned it into a length movie. It's a truly beautifull, subversive, and deep story, that no one has ever heard of.
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The Wizard of Speed and Time, Mike Jittlov's master work, is an excellent movie, and (sadly) completely self-referential. Mike made a movie about a SFX wizard named Mike Jittlov who's making a movie, but who gets screwed by his producer ... and got screwed by his producer (who played the producer in the movie). There are lots of wonderful appearances by strange character actors and actresses, and even Angelique Pettyjohn, who some of you might remember as Shahna from the TOS episode "The Gamesters of Triskelion".
We call it art because we have names for the things we understand.
But then you'd have to know about it in order to under-appreciate it...
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"The Music of the Spheres" was the title.
This was on "Night Flight" exactly once. It was a mixed-languaged (half english half french) thing from the some major canadian film school/university.
It was odd.
It was surreal.
And for about half an hour after watching it I could speak french...
And I wasn't stoned or nothing...
ASIDE: do you remember "Night Flight" from back in the last days before the all-night infomercial?
Innocent people shouldn't be forced to pay for inferior software development.
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Star Wars EP 1 and 2 were rather underappreciated... er... wait
I didn't like it either...
Nevermind.
Absolutely. Darren Aronofsky is definitely the one to watch.
Python's ultra-classic, The Holy Grail, has to be included here. Yeah, it's not underappreciated, but it still deserves mention. I've seen it hundreds of times, and it just never gets old!
And Saint Atilla raised the hand grenade up on high, saying "Oh, Lord, Bless this thy hand grenade, that with it, thou mayest blow thy enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths, and fruit bats, and breakfast cerials, and...
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Stop groveling! If there's one thing I can't stand, its groveling. It's always Forgive me this and forgive me that and I'm not worthy. What are you doing now?
I'm averting my eyes, oh Lord.
Well knock it off! It's like those miserable Psalms, they're so depressing...
I won't bore you with anymore quotes. You probably know it all, anyway. But it has to be mentioned, just because ^,^
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Well ... to start with here's my collection Now ... the movies (owned or not) which deserve special mention; ... what with my dick and all" Jeanine Garofolo(sp?)
... but this should do for now.
Memento - if you haven't seen it WATCH it now!
Clerks - hell anything by Kevin Smith
Snatch - hell anything by Guy Ritchie too!
Johnny Mnemonic - Keanu breaking into SciFi
Big Trouble - "I'd arrest him but my hands are full
The First $20M - Good geek movie "This guy eats binary and shits C++"
There are more
Sure we wang, can.
Iron Monkey... that movie's choreography made Crouching Tiger look like the Power Rangers.
Jeremy
If you'd like a really strange movie this is it.
Excellent music, aliens who vapourize people, flying cars, time traveling missing people, Gov't conspiracies, what more could you ask for?
Plate of shrimp.
One of my favorites is Benny and Joon, kind of simple, but I guess my love for it transferred over from my childhood.
Pi is also a wonderful movie. Just go see it.
One I haven't seen is in a while is "Breathless", inaccurately translated from "A Bout de Souffle", a french film from the fifties or sixties.
Go rent all three of these movies, if you can find them. With the recent popularity that Darron Aronofsky has gained, it should be easy to find Pi, at least.
Did we all just run out of mod points simultaneously or something? At the time of this posting, there are 743 comments on the article, while only 3 comments have a score of 3 or above! I smell something very fishy going on here...
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With a soundtrack from Queen, and everyone bleeding a different color against a cotton-candy nebula sky, it can't be beat.
"Are all your men on the right pills? Maybe we should execute their trainer."
(on banner) "All creatures shall rejoice..."
(on the next banner) "Under penalty of Death..."
THX 1138 was George Lucas' first movie
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Just read some of the comments at amazon. I cant really say more.
Barton Fink is a pretty cool movie too
See Subject Pi is cool too.
I believe TBMG took their name from this movie. Excellent flick, by the way. George C. Scott as a retired judge who's convinced he's Sherlock Holmes, his brother wants him committed (so he can take his money) and brings in a female psychiatrist named - you guessed it - Watson. Scott convinces her to follow him around New York City with a group of very eccentric people, loking for Dr. Moriarty. Very cool. Scott is one of my all-time favorite actors.
By the way, I submitted this story last night. Today I go to the video store, come back, and it's here with 400+ comments. Wow.
What if life is just a side effect of some other process and God has no idea we exist?
I own a copy, and I watch it all the time.
The best thing about it is that it has held up amazingly well in the ~11 years since it was made... the only thing about it that dates it are the scenes where you can see Windows 3.x is the OS on one of the computers.
~Philly
Pump up the Volume
Pirate radio, can't go wrong with that.
I don't really remember if the Goonies ever really got much attention, but that movie rules so much that it should be listed regardless.
The Salton Sea with Val Kilmer is currently one of my favs. If you like twists, give it a looksie. Trailer
Ghost World with Thora Birch is great for the cynic in ya. Trailer
The 13th Floor is also worth checking out if you're a sci-fi fan.
What about Ravenous? This movie surprised the hell out of me when I got around to watching the DVD a couple years ago. Crazy period-piece/horror/dark comedy with a soundtrack that somehow fit perfectly. Also, for me it was just self-aware aware enough for it to work perfectly, and I'm a big fan of movies admitting they're movies.
Green-voting, republican-registered, socialist-libertarian.
It's an animated film, about a young jazz musician who dosen't know that he is a vampire because his father gave him a secret formula to make him sun-resistant.
Then the German vamps & the US mobster vamps get interested, because they all know that whoever holds his fathers formula will have power in the vampire world.
It's a well crafted film with a great sense of humor and has more than a little to say about some of the bumps in Cubas history.
Not really underappreciated by the world at large, but I'll bet many on slashdot haven't seen it.
It's a documentary about 2 surfers traveling the world looking for great waves. It has a great narrative and photograpy. It's not like a documentary though...much more entertaining than that (the narrative is pretty humorous). Just an easy film to watch. I don't surf and I watch it whenever it comes on A&E. Watching this movie will bring you peace...netflix has it so you have no excuse not to see it. I pity the fool who doesn't use netflix...
...I'd do it myself if I actually the time. It would great for someone to take the movies listed here and compile them into a nice list for people to download. I already have a list of movies to rent or buy on my Palm Pilot that I keep handy. These movies would make a nice addition.
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Democracy isn't about no one telling you what to do. It's about everyone telling you what to do.
Requiem for a Dream is easily mine. The directing style of Darren Aronofsky is brilliant, imho. It's not very often a movie truly disturbes me, but this movie managed to leave me feeling sick by the end.
Also good are Momento and The Virgin Suicides. I'd recommend them whole heartidly to anyone who hasn't seen them.
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Great soundtrack, appropriately depressing, and so they don't air it nor let you rent it anymore.
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
Operatic tearjerker, sung in French with subtitles. Vintage mid-1960s. I doubt any of the /. readership ever even heard of it, although the theme music ("I will wait for you") is heard from time to time to this day.
Lots of Steve Martin and Carl Reiner goodness and some amazingly funny one-liners.
"Cleaning woman? CLEANING WOMAN?!?!?!"
Oscar is an intentionally (and successfully) funny Sylvester Stallone film. Great ensemble cast: Peter Riegert, Chazz Palminteri, Kurtwood Smith, Vincent Spano, Marisa Tomei (in a pre-Cousin Vinny role), Harry Shearer, Tim Curry (!), and even cameos by Kirk Douglas and Don Ameche. Witty writing (based on a French farce), and great Elmer Berstein score, too.
The thing about this movie is, there's so much going on, it's hard to keep track of everything the first time through. Like The Princess Bride, it's much funnier the second time.
You won't find it in your video store. You won't find it on Amazon.com. You'll find it on Ebay, but you'll pay a fortune for it; it's become a bit of a cult classic. (The marketing campaign was terrible, and no one knew how good it was until it had fallen off the radar screen.)
Highly recommended.
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Starring Peter O'Toole.
http://www.reel.com/movie.asp?MID=1386
michael caine, noel coward, and the greatest car chase of all time, good enough that the car in question had a special edition made with the movie logo on the grill
the movie that made the mini!
I hope the remake doesn't screw it up...
-- it's ridiculous how many people misspell ridiculous... (damn, damn, damn...)
umm, the whole thing is in his head, even the rescue.
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Great movie and Sci-Fi is showing the sequel in a week.
Six String Samurai
I mean, with lines like "Only one man could kill that many russians", what more do you want?
-BlueLines
--BlueLines "The cost of living hasn't affected it's popularity." -anonymous
Demolition "Tonight you will join me for dinner at Taco Bell" Man
"Greetings and salutations. Welcome to the emergency line of the San Angeles Police Department. If you prefer an automated response, press one, now."
"Simon Phoenix knows he has some competition. He's finally matched his meat. You really licked his ass."
"You can take this job, and you can shovel it."
But best of all were Sandra Bullocks legs on a cinema screen!
Never underestimate the dark side of the Source
Gene Hackman is brilliant as a surveillance geek, and the story is near perfect.
I'm gonna do what I want and I'm gonna get paid -- Tom Waits
Tampopo is a classic Japanese film, which I've only recently had the joy of seeing. The bulk of the movie is about making ramen. Seriously. And it is *fantastic*.
There are many other brief scenes interspersed throughout the movie, tied together with the common theme of food. Among the best of these are scenes involving a particular couple who are very in touch with the more 'sensual' aspects of world cuisine. The final of their scenes together features the death of the gangster husband/boyfriend, who is gunned down by an unshown assailant. This is absolutely the best death scene I have ever witnessed in a movie.
Our gangster protagonist lies dying in his moll's arms:
Him: "Have I told you about it?"
Her: "What?"
Him: "About hunting wild boars in winter."
Her: "..."
Him: "There's nothing much for them to eat, so they dig up yams. That's all they eat.
When you shoot a boar, you immediately slit its belly and take its guts and grill them over an open fire. The intestines are full of yam. Yam sausages, you see! You grill them and then slice them and eat them hot."
Her: "..."
Him: "Sound good?"
Her: "Yes. They'd be nice with soy sauce and horseradish."
Him: "I would have loved to eat them with you."
Her: "We'll do that some day. We'll go hunting boars in winter."
Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo are the most underappreciated works of art in the world. Considering how deep they are and the socioeconomic injustices they portray in this dark, doomed world, people should be ashamed for not recognizing the brilliance of Ozone and Turbo.
.smell my feet.
Most blood ever. Great flick for a group of college age friends.
One of the funniest movies I've ever seen.
Man, great animated flick.
The guy who desogned the city sets for "The Fifth Element" did the art for one of the stories. You'll know it when you see it.
"He should be ripped into itty-bitty pieces, and buried alive!"
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Heh.
I'm not sure if it was intentional, but the monsters of the Buffy episode Hush (Season 4) seemed very much patterned after The Strangers, but I had to wonder how many people would have noticed since I'd heard very little about Dark City until some DVD buffs recommended it to me.
STOP MISUSING APOSTROPHES, YOU MORONS!!!
This movie is damn funny and is one of my favorites of all time.
Funny, I was just telling people about this one over dinner tonight. It definitely deserved a better reception than it got from the public.
Anyone second that? :)
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Bruce says that Evil Dead 2 was his favorite. They had more money than ED1, but not so much that they had to give in to the studio's whims.
..."): Linda's head and the chainsaw, the laughing deer head, the monster in the basement's eye popping out, and everything involving the severed hand. The cinematography was innovative, with the weird angles and flying Bruces, and has yet to be duplicated.
And there were tons of memorable scenes in ED2 (versus the only one in AOD, "klaatu verata
Bruce Campbell, one of the most charismatic actors of our time, was in his finest hour to date.
Another fave. When Pauly gets his revenge on the cop... classic!
I'm gonna do what I want and I'm gonna get paid -- Tom Waits
I saw a TV-edited "Vegas in Space" with a group of mostly stoned friends. I'd say it's like "Ed Wood in drag, only moreso", but man, that does not do it justice.
"Better than Chocolate" literally changed the sexuality of someone very close to me (literally, ask her, and she'll tell you the reason she's with a woman now is that movie). I guess that's gotta mean something.
The TV movie version of "Dr. Strange" is surprisingly good for being a late-70s adaptation of a comic book character your "man on the street" wouldn't recognize.
"pi" (the title is the greek letter) rocks on many, geeky levels. It didn't get a wide release, so few people have heard of it. Has a cool web site, too.
Speaking of movies with huge geek appeal... "The Right Stuff" was appreciated in its day but swiftly forgotten. Too bad. It's a great movie about the early days of the US space program.
I love musicals. They're a lost art at this point. The film adaptation of "West Side Story" is particularly magical IMO. I'll admit to a fondness for "Camelot" as well.
"Ghost World". Should be enjoyed by outcasts everywhere. Plus I think it's very easy to appreciate Scarlet Johannsen.
"Brazil". Surreal movie, just like everything else Gilliam does, but a special favorite of mine. Technicians seem to be the only people who know how the world works.
Anything with Ron Jeremy can be enjoyed as a comedy. Or science fiction, 'cause 1.) the Hedgehog is a funny guy and 2.) If you look at a movie with Ron Jeremy any other way, it's proof that there is no god.
Playboy's Sexy Shorts/Inside Out/Forbidden Fantasies et al. - Playboy makes some pretty good soft porn. If your lady isn't into "Anal Snow Bunnies volume 7", these shorts manage to cram a plot, characterization and lingering foreplay into 10 or 15 minutes while managing to be more explicit than the Skinemax "Friday After Dark" fare.
Mystery Men - A dark comic book movie that doesn't take itself too seriously. I think it's great fun, particularly the Greg Kinnear character.
"Braindead" - particularly the walk in the park bit. You'll either puke or piss your pants.
"Lost Boys" - A different take on Vampires. Very 80s movie, but it's still a good choice if you haven't seen it.
I can delve deeper into underappreciated porno (stuff with real budgets, plots, etc), but I'm tired and I've typed enough.
-- I wanna decide who lives and who dies - Crow T. Robot, MST3K
The Tall Blond Man with one Black Shoe "do do do do do do do do-do-do-do do"
The Petrified Forest - Humphrey Bogart and Bette Davis
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury's most accurate predicition of the future
Deathrace 2000 -- Stalone getting 2nd billing to David Carradine in this wonderfuly-horrible 1975 film
Six Sting Samurai
Bound
The Big Hit -- agree with the author on this one
The Game -- great movie I hardly ever hear about
The Killing Fields
Brazil
12 Monkeys
The Fisher King
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Waking Ned Devine
Flight of the Navigator -- childhood favorite
Tigerland
Jesus' Son -- about a heroin addict, not Jesus and a kid. =)
Shower -- Chinese movie
Panic -- William H. Macy as a reluctant hitman, 'nuf said (haha)
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I remember watching this movie when I was probably 10... it was on all the time on HBO. For some reason I liked it, but I haven't seen it in like 20 years.
Another great animation. The book is incredible and the movie is respectful of the book. Very good.
-Sean
Starring Michael Douglas. A funny and sad story about a laid-off engineer. I think most /.ers could relate to the way Douglas' character thinks. Not many people know about this movie, but it's one of my all-time favorites.
From the guys that created South Park, a mormon turned pron star superhero ...so you know its got to be a real cerebral flick.
Wait... that's not out yet. damn it.
Kip Hawley is an idiot.
I dont know why this one did not succeeed. It is a great movie and it has famous stars in it.
I think it was because it made people uncomfartable. It starred robert deniro as a scared cop and bill murray as a self-obssessed gangster. People were probably shocked by deniro not playing the gangster.
But both deniro and bill murray were great. And so was uma. Oh well. Make sure to see it if you can.
With John Turturo. This is the funniest movie ever produced, without a doubt.
Joe vs. the Volcano
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them
I wish they made the promised sequal.
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In the barren landscape that is the fantasy movie genre, this stands out in my mind as a great movie that not many people know about. I'm hoping Disney brings it to DVD eventually . . .
1. Edge of Darkness. This 1943 movie is about Norwegian resistance fighters in a small village fighting against the Nazis. This is a great movie with a terrific cast, including Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston, Judith Anderson, and Ruth Gordon.
2. Targets. Peter Bogdanovich's directorial debut and Boris Karloff's last American film, Targets is about a sniper modelled on the Texas tower sniper. Karloff plays an aging horror film star who retires because real life is far scarier than his movies, and the sniper proves him right.
3. True Stories. David Byrne directed and wrote the music for this yarn about the quirky folks in a Texas town celebrating its 150th anniversary. The characters were inspired by "true stories" in various newspapers, and though chaotic, the movie hangs together nicely.
Dudes
John Cryer's finest work.
I was forced to watch Boondock Saints 2 years ago on divx and when i first heard the name i was like "WTF" but quickly changed my tune. If you liked Snatch/Lock Stock, you'd love this movie. I had to buy the Canadian DVD since it was out there for over a year before we got a release. I don't think it was ever shown in theatres. Has Willem Defoe in it, but it doesnt show up in the bio of him for it in the Spiderman DVD extras. I guess he wasn't proud :(
Then we have Equilibrium, i was forced to settle for VCD quality since it was release in so few places for only maybe a month.(Sadly not a single place near me) I'm waiting for a DVD release date but somethings tells me i shouldnt hold my breath. It's a hybrid between 1984 and Brave New World. It could be argued the fight scenes rival Matrix's in some respects(my friends think they were better). But yea, if you can get a hold of it, check it out. It's worth it.
"There is no real right or wrong, just what the majority accepts at the time."
Well, I loved Princess Mononoke, but it's not that I'm strictly about "artsy". Indeed, I feel that Mononoke has some great action and really like the fact that I can enjoy it at more than an artistic level. The first time I saw it I was packing up my apartment to move and not really paying attention. The cool action sequences kept me in the mix enough to not turn it off. But, I digress...
:).
I enjoyed Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040. It may have tried to give itself a bit of artistic legitimacy, but it was basically about cute girls in tight outfits beating the crap out of big monsters. I also liked Scryed, Ah! My Goddess, and Real Bout High School. I'd definitely consider those more pop entertainment than artistic achievements.
OTOH, I didn't really care for NGE, even though most people who like anime would call that heresy.
You're right. If you like it (and that seems to be the case), nuts to me. I'm certainly no film critic, and I tend to hate film critics myself.
I've just always felt that D is one of those anime whose success over here was more largely determined by its ubiquity in video rental stores and Wal-Marts than its actual quality. The explanation for its availabilty, to me at least, probably lies in your point 2.
I am sorry if I was a little harsh in my derision of one of your favorites. I certainly don't blame you for defending your choice. My bad
Game... blouses.
Buckaroo Banzai
Across the 8th Dimension"
A movie with a bit of everything!
Runner-Up: "The Wizard of Speed and Time"
Plus ca change, plus c'est les memes choses.
by Kurosawa. One of the most gorgeous and touching movies I've seen.
www.whyaduck.com says it all. 8)
Not a plug, as I'm not related to the site -- There is a point here. I hope you can find it, because I think I've lost it. But, I probably lost it years ago...
No, Beowulf clusters can't imagine in Soviet Russia.
A measly 5.8 at IMDB, but such a wonderful movie.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
What are you people talking about? I've seen the movie 3 or 4 times over the last 15 years (all in the US-- on the big screen and VHS) and this alleged "uncensored" version is the only one I've seen.
Maybe if you stopped renting movies at Blockbuster you wouldn't have these problems?
The Usual Suspects floored me when I first saw it. It's a _good_ story.
The Ref. This Dennis Leary flick kills me.
Oddly enough both are Kevin Spacey films.
Last, Reservoir Dogs. It comes across almost as a theatrical play.
"Remember, any tool can be the right tool." -- Red Green
...is a small independent film about a guy from Wisconsin who moves to NYC and tries to "blend."
movie's great - and the soundtrack - featuring Ed's Redeeming Qualities (no relation) is just as good.
To have ambition was my ambition.
I can't find this movie anywhere. Great concept, big eco-pods holding the last remnants of the biology of earth. Sad ending, I was young, I cried.
But I loved the helper robots (I think they were chimps fitted into boxes) and the cool little ATVs that the crew raced around in. I think the main dude had a big ol' blonde afro...
Kip Hawley is an idiot.
This movie was panned by critics when it came out 20 years ago but was remarkably true to the characters. Robin Williams played Popeye and there was Bluto and the burger-loving character (heck, I can't remember his name). But the star of the show was Shelley Duvall as Olive Oil. Shelley should have won an Oscar for this role. She was the cartoon Olive Oil brought to life; voice, figure (or lack of it), mannerism... she had it all down pat and every scene she was in was enjoyable to those of us who grew up watching the cartoons.
Plus the location of the filming was remarkable in its ability to seem other-worldish. I have it on tape somewhere in my collection and haven't watched it in years but it's my favorite "unsung movie".
No one ever had to evacuate a city because the solar panels broke!
Firefly on DVD? I'll be all over that like a fat kid on a smartie.
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I loved the Evil Dead "trilogy" (quoted because the first and second movies are not sequels of eachother, but more akin to a remake).
Army of Darkness rules too. With respects to the one-liners in that one, nothing beats Evil Ash saying "I'll get you and your good looks" to Good Ash (apparently, that was adlibbed by Bruce Campbell, as he played both characters).
Thanks again for reminding me of such a great movie; haven't seen it since my freshman year at college.
But Maaa! Everyone else has a
This has got to be one of the most hilarious movies ever made. One of my all time favorites.
...the hell's angel-style motorcycle dude...
...the motorcycle dude catching the fly...
...the motorcycle dude picking off the rabbit...
...the two convicts screaming about leaving the baby on top of the car...
..."Son, you got a panty on your head."...
Some info for those not familiar with it:
IMDB link
Mike Jittlov's Website
If anyone actually reads this post and replies with a request for more information, I'll be glad to answer any questions. Cheers, Mzilikazi
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You read my mind...
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
My vote goes for the Wizard of Speed and Time
Ghost Dog has been on my favorite movies list since I first saw it. Yet, strangely, noone I know has ever heard of it unless I've forcefed it down their throat.
How can you go wrong when the main character is a big black mafia hitman who thinks he's a samurai?
The movie borders on the surreal sometimes, but never actally crosses the line to the unbelievable. The acting, music, timing, scenery, everything is just perfect for the movie, and every time I watch it, I pick up on one or two details that slipped my notice earlier.
A definate must-see if you're looking for a good movie.
Ghost Dog: Way of the SamuraiIt contains a lot of commentary on the politics of filmmaking ("you need a permit!" and unions), in addition to being a great love story and containing some cool stop-action animation.
Also he wrote "Merry Birthday" in order to avoid the copyright fees.
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
Excellent insect "documentary", pioneered alot of
small scale filming. Very funny narration by a
ficticious scientist explaining his theory that
in the end only man and insects will survive to
do battle for the world.
sadly, pretty hard to find these days even though
it won an oscar for best documentary feature of
1971.
For me without a doubt the most unappreciated (in the box office at least) movie was True Romance.
It came out at the same time as another Christian Slater movie, which was a romance so I never went to see it in the theater because I got it confused with the other movie (Untamed Heart). I imagine a lot of people did the same thing.
But True Romance is a great flick. Written by Quentin Tarantino and starring Gary Oldman in one of my favorite of his performances (and I think he may be the most underappreciated living actor).
-Dav
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I don't know ..... I just love that movie :8)
"If it walks from the refridgerator
Yeah, this was Seagal's last good movie. My favorites of his are Above The Law and Out For Justice (wasn't that the one where he beats the living shit out of everyone in the bar, using a pool cue and the cue ball?) No Sleep Till Brooklyn!
Oh yeah, guilty pleasures.
What if life is just a side effect of some other process and God has no idea we exist?
I much prefer - On the Beach (1959)
Vulgar
A truly underappreciated movie.
So many quotable lines. What an excellent film.
....and so, too will be this post because I didn't check in at Slashdot soon enough.
Nevertheless, I do think there is something to be said for some of the quiet films that have been made about working-class American families. Some got good reviews in their time, and some even won Oscars, but now they seem forgotten.
Without further ado, my faves in this category are:
1. The Straight Story - true story about a guy who heals old hurts between he and his brother by riding a John Deere lawn tractor from central Iowa to southern Wisconsin.
2. The Milagro Bean Field War - a story those of us who live in the west only wish was true about local landowners giving rich white-bread developers the finger.
3. Ulee's Gold - a Dad whose kids have gone wrong, perhaps because of his quiet nature. There's some strength behind that quiet and perhaps that will ultimately pay off.
4. Ruby in Paradise - I believe this is Ashley Judd's premiere film. A nice southern girl with a shithead family heads off to the Panama City to start her new life.
5. Mississippi Masala - A young Denzel Washington plays a commercial carpet cleaner who falls in love with the daughter of an Indian hotel owner who has been exiled from Zimbabwe. Difficulties ensue.
So, these movies all end well, have family themes, and my affection for them points me out as a big sap.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool. -Richard Feynman
A neglected film noir classic from 1950, starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame.
Swingers..
Donnie Darko..
American Psycho..
blarg.
Chevy Chase, Martin Short and Steve Martin, Need I say more?
as far as underappreciated movies go..... id have to say "The Flying Guillotine" was one of the best... its a cheesy kungfu movie that has something to do with a hat that has a saw blade on it that cuts peoples heads off.....
as far as underappreciated anime goes..... anybody ever seen "Perfect Blue"? great anime....
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What about Dr. Strangelove? If you haven't seen it, I'd definitely reccomend it. It is a bit old though, still good though.
Great, old, sci-fi. Seem almost like the predacer to the matrix to me.
forget it.
A few classic NZ movies:
Peter Jackson's 'Brain Dead' (aka Dead Alive).
Also, Bad Taste (classic!).
The Quiet Earth (starring Bruno Lawrence and hardly anybody else).
Never Say Die (wow there's been a lot of movies with this name - I'm referring to the hilarious NZ one starring Temuera Morrison).
it's with bill murray and very underappreciated, i laughed the whole time eventhough it was very basic humor, also one of murray's lesser known movies.
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Cabin Boy... I got a copy of it taped off of HBO, all fuzzy and such, now the tape has wear spots in it... very few people like it, even less love it... David letterman at his best and Chris Elliot even better... I still laugh my ass off over it evey time I watch it...
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." -Anon.
The subject isn't the film title, but a joke film title from the movie that I consider a rather underappreciated film: Robert Townshend's Hollywood Shuffle. Not only is the film hilarious, but it is one of those rare comedies that uses the humor to make a point--and it does it without getting preachy or too high-and-mighty. It's interesting too because it contains many of the soon-to-be members of "In Living Color."
--Rick "If it isn't broken, take it apart and find out why."
Supernova was WAY too predictable. Ok effects, ok direction, ok BUT predictable story. Totally by the numbers.
Anarchists never rule
Okay. It's basically a cult movie, and you aparently can't even find a copy barely nowadays, but it is a fun little movie and I love all those hidden subliminal messages.
Miller's Crossing is a simply beautiful movie. It's got some hilarious lines, and wonderful 30's-style gangster banter:
Eddie Dane: Where's Leo?
Leo's tug: If I tell you, how do I know you won't kill me?
Eddie Dane: Because if you told me and I killed you and you were lying I wouldn't get to kill you *then*. Where's Leo?
Leo's tug: He's moving around. He's getting his mob together tomorrow night. Whisky Nick's.
Eddie Dane: You sure?
Leo's tug: Check it. It's gold.
Eddie Dane: You know what, yegg? I believe you.
But for my money, I still think their best, and similarly most underappreciated movie is Barton Fink. Really the perfect movie. Ridiculously long tracking shots -- the cinemetography is by Roger Deakons and top-notch. You might remember some of his other credits (Shawshank Redemption, Sid and Nancy, Fargo, Lebowski, Hudsucker, Beautiful Mind, etc.)
I remember watching the film quite stoned one time and for the first time realized that the entire movie is based off a famous piece of literature. Like O' Brother, which is very obviously based on the Odyssey (says so in the credits), Barton Fink is a much more subtle, surreal version of Dante's Inferno. There are a couple of references to Hell, like when Chet first appears at the bellhop counter, the phrase on the hotel stationary: "A day or a lifetime," and when they're in the elevator and he says the floor number "six" 3 times.
It's taken numerous watchings to even begin to unwrap the complexity of this movie. Watch it at night when it's very quiet, and turn the volume up loud to hear the muffled voices echoing through the pipes. Remember this when Barton finally gets the girl and we see the long tracking shot go from Barton to the bed, into the bathroom and down the kitchen sink, his own voice then echoing through the pipes.
Both of these classics will be released on DVD on May 20 of this year.
The Warriors - a 70's gang flick that has been one of my favorites for *decades*.
Killing Zoe - caught it on Sundance one night and got immediately sucked in.
Heaven Help Us - a mid 80's flick that I watched a bunch of times when I was young.
Oscar - yes, a Sylvester Stallone movie made the list, but I swear that movie has some hilarious moments.
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Original, not that cheezy Bridget Fonda remake ("Point of No Return" I think) or even cheezier USA show. Caught it on Showtime about 10 years ago, good flick. Haven't found it on DVD yet. Another good film by the same guy is "The Professional", had Natile Portman in it too.
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"Greetings Professor Falken. How about a nice game of chess?
Definitely a must-see for anyone who comes to /.
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How could a movie with a title like that fail to attract a crowd?? Especially since it's a campy Western with plenty of music? I first saw this one on TV, but it has just the right tone.
Our hero arrives in town wearing immaculate white leather, strolls into the run-down bar and orders a glass of milk. When he gets the only possible reaction from the bartender and the other patrons, he adds 'With a hair in it'. Hard to find, but well worth renting.
Event Horizon has terminal "stupid people" disease. IN many ways it was very creepy, but when the woman atstonaut went after her kid (stupid, stupid, stupid) it killed the movie for me.
Anarchists never rule
Well, I knew it as Spaceship as a boy, but IMDB seems to think it's called Creature Wasn't Nice, The, which doesn't quite have the same ring to it. As far as I know, my friend Jake and I are the only people in the free world that have seen this movie.
Anyway, this film is both moronic spoof and brilliant parody at the same time.
Want to know what life would really be like on a spaceship far from home with a crew of only five? How about a crew talent show to stave off the boredom! Featuring a dramatic reading of the log by Captain Jameson: "Monday....had breakfast. [long pause] Synthetic flapjacks!"
Tired of the same old man-eating aliens? How about a big red man-eating pile of goo that can only communicate via song-and-dance numbers?
And who could forget Dr. Starke, the Science Officer obsessed with scientific discovery, to the exclusion of basic awareness of his surroundings. When offered a slice of pie for dessert, he snaps, "Science is my pie! Curiosity, my sweet tooth!". When the computer informs him that he's discovered a previously uncharted planet, he exclaims: "they'll have to call it...the Starke Planet!". A perfect parody of the 1950's-era B sci-fi movie scientist, right down to the lab coat.
Bravo, Bruce Kimmel. Bravo.
Liberal (adj.): Free from bigotry; open to progress; tolerant of others.
If you like bisexual/lesbian vampire movies (and who doesn't?), check this one out. Ancient fabulous babe vampire in the modern world, working as a hired killer. When she's not doing that or having sex, she hangs out at goth clubs where her friends are really impressed by her teeth.
Swordfighting, sex, asskicking, sex, and menstruation was never so sexy! Plus a nice surprise ending.
What if life is just a side effect of some other process and God has no idea we exist?
I don't know why this went through the theaters so quickly, but it was an excellent film. Yes, it's yet another old radioshow/comic book adapted for the big screen, but those have a tendency to be rather well done. :-) (See also: Spiderman, Batman (the first one), Superman, X-Men, etc.) Highly recommended rental.
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Hmm, that's the version I saw, but I was in Canada at the time. *shrug*
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great movie....
Kurt Russell as Jack Burton: That is not water.
Victor Wong (III) as Egg Shen: Black blood of the earth.
Jack: You mean oil.
Igg: I mean black blood of the earth.
http://www.vanillaafro.com - take me seriously and I will shoot you
Strange Brew is one of my alltime favorites. You do own the DVD, right? :)
A group of us were so into this in the 6th grade, that not only did we call everyone hoser, and say 'beauty Clark' all the damn time, that two of us even dressed up as Bob and Doug for Halloween.
- My favorite error message: xscreensaver, running on an old Sparc 5 w/ 8bit color: bsod: Couldn't allocate color Blue
John Carpenter's "They Live". The Hoffman Lens beat The Red Pill by a decade.
Seastead this.
Fresh is a stunning film, evoking a gamut of emotions. If you're going to watch it, write down this question - "Why does the boy cry at the end of the film?" (There's quite a debate about this...).
The Shawshank Redemption - #2 or #1 on IMDB (depending on the direction of the wind that day), this is my favourite film of all time. Even though it is enormously popular, I believe there's too many people that have not seen it!
Shallow Grave has been mentioned by others here, it is quite funny and definitely a thought-provoking film.
Mute Witness is an involving thriller.
Dancer in the Dark is a touching musical - see why Bjork earned the Palm D'or for her performance in this.
I've seen other people mention some others I love, such as:
- Empire Records
- Office Space
- Buckeroo Banzai
- Being John Malkovich
If you see nothing else on my list, see Shawshank.This signature intentionally has just seven words.
...Batman!
I watched it subtitled (German accents are so cool), but it was still really cool. Sweet electronic music, too. It's a Sony Pictures Classic. I don't want to give anything away, but it definitely makes you think about your life and how the smallest things can affect you (i.e. chaos theory).
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Comeon, who didn't play guerilla war when they were growing up in the 80's. Heck I think I played last night. And for once there wasn't a Happy Happy Joy Joy ending.
-- taking over the world, we are.
Ed and His Dead Mother
Rocket Man
especially in our current political climate. Pretty damn funny and clever, with Dustin Hoffman the standout
972 comments and only 3 are rated 3 or higher?
Anyway, the answer is 'The Wedding Singer', put out during Adam Sandler's 'funny' period. Lots of kicking 80's tunes and references. And my wife and I danced to 'Grow Old With You' at our wedding.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
> Three Legged Freaks - The cat and spider behind the dry wall.
Actually, that would be Eight Legged Freaks. Sort of obvious given the giant spider theme.
I did a review of it here
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THX-1138 is definately most underrated. Retire the cup.
An amazing film, the most suspenseful film I've seen in years. Expatriates without money or work, stuck in a central american hell hole vie for the only job that will pay them enough to leave: driving tankers of nitro across ungraded twisty teetering cliff road. The last hour is agonizing, will they make it? Will it go boom? Read more at Criterion's website www.criterionco.com
TRON: Undeappreciated at birth, confused the parents and jazzed the kids until "The Last Starfighter" came out and then it hit the dustbin...at least now it's getting the attention it truly deserved. It's a keystone film.
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Flash Gordon: Wacky, wacky, wacky. Hope you like satire, tongue-in-cheek acting, excellent babes in vinyl outfits and a campy soundtrack from Queen. I use lines from it all the time - "I accept FULL responsibility, in the Emperor's name!"
Casino Royale - I'm sorry, but it's chock full of sight gags, 5 James Bonds, bad puns, tricks on the Bond lore, seminude Bond girls with huge patooties and is just too damn weird to follow at times, but I love it. Excellent score from Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass. (Example site gag - running away from East German bad guys, one heroine lifts up a manhole cover to escape, only to hear Tom Jones singing "What's New Pussycat" down there...do
A crazy movie with an all-star Hong Kong cast. sort of Kung Fu Monty Python. One of my all-time favorites.
No, not the worthless anime rip-off, the original '27 silent film. It has just been digitally restored and quite a bit of lost footage has been added. Sadly about a quarter of the film is considered lost (probably for good) but what remains is breathtaking and probably more relevant today than when it was made. Even if you've never seen it, images from the film have permeated pop-culture for decades.
I wasn't even going to bring up Metropolis. I figured a bunch of people would post it (thus proving it really isn't underappreciated at all). But some 800 +1 or better posts later, no mention.
And as an aside, if you haven't seen a Zatoichi ("The Blind Swordsman") film, check out IFC's "Samurai Saturdays". They're great fun.
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Okay... She's got the cleavage dress, now where's the cleavage?
A rolling stone is worth two in the bush!
... if we're talking underappreciated nz gems here.
and repeat the greatest one-liner of all time...
And I'm all out of bubble gum!
Plus I got it wrong. Not that it matters. You all know how it goes.
Actually, as far as one liners go, that's a classic, but most of the good one liners are in Army of Darkness.
"First you want to kill me, then you want to kiss me. Blow."
"Give me some sugar, baby."
"Who wants some? You? You want a little?"
"Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun."
"Klatu Berata Necktie!"
"You loved me once. Honey, you got REAL ugly."
"Hail to the king, baby."
I think the true test of a movie's one liners is how many of them made it into a Duke Nukem game.
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No not the -whole- thing! Just after he's caught and tortured.
If you watch it enough times, you can almost pinpoint the moment his mind snaps! Or I could be wrong. Or it may be intentionally ambiguous.
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I don't know if it ever hit the theaters, but I found it at the video store shortly after it was released. I'm a Vonnegut fan, and this film kept the spirit of the story. Starring Sam Gamgee and General Chang.
What makes this film so frightening are the masses of people that apparently think the premise is a good idea.
A Government Is a Body of People, Usually Notably Ungoverned
Flatliners. This is one of my favorite movies. Keifer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin, and, uh.. That other guy. He's famous too, I swear.
:)
Also, someone else mentioned later on Wim Winders' "Wings of Desire". Few people that I know have seen it, but it's one of the most beautiful movies i've ever seen. Ever. Period. The movie "City of Angels" with Nicholas Cage and Meg Ryan was a cheap, awful ripoff of it. Go rent the real thing; you won't be disappointed. And hey, it has Columbo in it.
C'mon Luc Besson, Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, and NATALIE PORTMAN!!!!
KICKIN ASS!!!
I loved this movie, got both of them on dvd as i assume most of you do too
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It was hilarious when we got a roommate who actually was an unemployed writer. :)
"You think that's funny? Would you like to know smartass? Would you like to know why I can't drive this kind of car? I'll tell you why. I'm used to luxury cars. Have you ever heard of a luxury car? You know what luxury means? Have you ever heard of Cadillac? Cadillac Eldorado? That's what I drive. I drive cars that shift themselves. My cars shift themselves. They're luxury cars. They shift themselves." -Billy Brown to Layla as they're trying to get out of the parking lot
Clue
Drowning Mona
Gattaca
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Mars Attacks!
October Sky
Oscar
Pi
Star Trek - Generations
Here's the story. Gilliam made the movie his way. The studio got scared, and refused to release it. Gilliam showed it at a film festival without their permission (Sundance I think?) and it took the big prize, but the studio still didn't want to release it. TG took out a full page ad in Variety that said "Dear [studio executive], when are you going to release my film, Brazil?".
The studio recut an ending without TG's participation. Totally changed the ending to be all fuzzy and happy. Ripped out nearly an hour of footage. Completely sanitized it of whimsy, substance, subtlety and meaning.
Fortunately, Gilliam's version was already released overseas and doing well at this point, so the studio caved, and went with his version in the US too. Their "Love Conquers All" version was only shown on TV, and is now included on the DVD. the "LCA" version sucks, but it's interesting to see what studios think a good movie is.
Liberal (adj.): Free from bigotry; open to progress; tolerant of others.
Charming Scottish village repels the attack of a giant corporate robot intent on sucking their brains (and Oil). Well, kind of. :)
Check it out, a real winner
Somewhere in the film they fly a helicopter near a World Trade Center that is still under construction. Gave me the chill...
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Human Nature is a hilarious Charlie Kaufman movie that fell short of Being John Malkovich and Adaptation , but it is good in its own right. Beware that many people don't care for it. Some of them might try to take it too seriously and miss all the fun. Rather than seeing it as a movie that falls short of its philosophical pretenses, I saw as a satire of philosophy and anthropology. Kaufman rubs people the wrong way because too many elements of his movies seem designed to look too clever. Imo, it's more goofiness that really does manage to be shrewd than empty intellectual pretentiousness, but I can see why others disagree. I did not laugh harder at a movie until I saw Adaptation . Others, however, might get it and simply not care for it. Ymmv.
Jim Jarmusch film with Johnny Depp and Gary Farmer, an excellent supporting cast, and haunting soundtrack by Neil Young. Actually, all Jim Jarmusch films fall into this category; Ghost Dog with Forest Whitaker also comes to mind.
this was an awesome movie. soccer, martial arts, and evil team. the soundtrack was very good as well.
They swim a long distance. Anton pulls up in the water. Sensing his brother is no longer beside him, Jerome also pulls up. They tread water several yards apart.
ANTON: "How are you doing this, Vincent? How have you done any of this?"
JEROME: "Now is your chance to find out."
Jerome swims away a second time. Anton follows once again.
Eventually they stop and tread water again. The ocean is choppier now. The view of the lights on the shore is obscured by the peaks of the waves.
ANTON: "Vincent, where's the shore? We're too far out. We have to go back!"
JEROME: "Too late for that. We're closer to the other side."
ANTON: "What other side? How far do you want to go?! Do you want to drown us both? How are we going to get back?!"
JEROME: "You wanted to know how I did it. That's how I did it, Anton. I never saved anything for the swim back."
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I saw that movie. It's a generic version of the book "1984." A duplicate of the storyline but with their own twists. In the book 1984, controlling information was everything, and it came out well before this movie. They both also paint a bleak picture of reality and both end with the main character becoming satisfied with his horrible world by way of torture.
Except that Brazil isn't as good at illustrating the point.
When I think of one, I think of the other. And then I think "heaven forbid!" Why would I want to watch a movie about how bad the world could suck MORE? Isn't it bad enough? Sure, the movie was trying to make a point, but it was already made! In fact it was made so clearly, that we call places with too little individual freedom "Orwellian" after the author!
I guess I'll leave it to all of you who just can't get enough of seeing the world as a hollow empty place devoid of happiness. Me, I prefer to learn that lesson the first time and move on to more uplifting pursuits.
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Maybe many of you have appreciated it, its a Slashdot kind of flick, but I've never known anyone who liked it.
This is a relatively new one from NZ. Kinda weird, kinda funny. The agoraphobic sheep dog was a hoot, runs around the pasture under a cardboard box.
I can tell you the meaning of life,
but you have to promise not to laugh.
It was originally a Danish serial but released as a movie here in the states. Plot is kinda hard to explain... It's like a horror/comedy/soap opera in that takes place in a hospital with crazy ppl running around. It's just nutty but my fav.
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I've never seen so few +4/+5 modded postings... Can't we all just agree that Cabin Boy is a great film?
I know the secrets of the video game champs
Every young geek from the eighties grade school fantasy... (the one with Ethan Hawke btw...)
I have to say it though--anime is an over-rated art form, at least amongst some crowds.
Don't get me wrong, I do prefer the sharper animation style, and some anime movies stand out in my mind as bordering on greatness. The problem, in my eyes, is that the script (or possibly the translation) in most anime seems to be aimed at adolescents.
Then again, maybe I'm just a grumpy old fart.
C'mon......what male has watched that animated movie and NOT gotten a boner?
[SIG] Remember Mattel handheld games?
"There are no good white basketball players, my friend."
"Klaus is a moron who only knows what he reads in the New York Post."
"We will end the ceremony by singing our [East Germany's] national anthem."
"Whether you make it or not, that plane has to take off with Dr. Flammond at 0800 hours. But we recommend you be there at least 45 minutes before departure, especially at this time of year."
"Martin! Thank God you're here - I've been here 20 minutes already!"
"There is Sauerkraut in my Lederhosen."
"Our doctors did what they could, but it took them two hours just to get the smile off his face."
"Time Bandits"
If you haven't yet, find this movie and enjoy. There is no sanctuary.
"It's here, but no one wants it." - The Sugar Speaker
I've only seen a few anime films in my time. One of them (The Ghost in the Shell) I liked immensely. On the other end of the spectrum, a friend loaned me Dragonhalf recently and I couldn't get through more than about fifteen seconds of it. The high-pitched, squeaky voices drove me insane. My friend loved it, though.
Even though I didn't know that it was in some special category at the time, I was an addicted watcher of Speed Racer when I was a kid. It wasn't until I saw a clip of it on Cartoon Network that I realized it was anime.
I would love to see more animated films with the quality of Final Fantasy and a story line that appeals to someone over 18. Actually, that's not a good way to put it, because my wife and I really enjoy the animated films that Hollywood keeps cranking out like Shrek and Monsters, Inc.. But I sure would like to see something like Matt Wagner's Grendel on the big screen, particularly War Child.
There's just something about the medium of animation that allows artists to do things that can't be done well in live action yet, such as zero-G work (though they're getting better at it). And, at that, the latest installment of Star Wars was mostly animated.
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Amelie - Romantic French Comedy. If you haven't already modded me down then there's a good chance you'll love its charm and well-executed story.
Shaolin Soccer - Possibly the best movie for the year 2001. Its got a beautiful blend of perfectly combined action and comedy. I consider it must-see.
From Y! Movies: A satirical documentary that portrays Iraqi President Saddam Hussein as a personal hygiene fanatic who likes to fish with grenades.
Less is more !
If I had the points, I'd mod you up... but instead I'll elaborate:
First of all... there is definately some intelligence to the corny humour. A satirical look at comic books, perhaps? Curses!
Throw in the fact that the hero's weapon is an orgazmorator... a laser gun which causes the target to experience an instant orgasm... well, it's definately good for a few laughs.
Seriously, in a lot of shows which use lower-grade humour (dick and fart jokes) there often hides a lot of high-end wit. Check out some Kevin Smith movies: Dogma, if you aren't religiously easy to offend... the delivery is odd but there are a lot of good points/questions, and perhaps Chasing Amy otherwise.
Just because a movie uses a sexual innuendo as the main punchline doesn't mean there isn't some intelligent humour as well.
The Iraq war reminds me of a surprisingly good movie called 'The Beast of War' I saw a while ago.
It's about a lone Russian tank and its crew being hunted by the Afghan resistance. I'm no big fan of war movies, but there's something about this one...
It only receives a 6.8 on IMDB, but look at the reviews.
Forget that it was from Disney. Imagine it was Japanese.
Best Buy can have you arrested
Used Cars: Early Bob Zemeckis effort. Jack Warden in dual roles as competing used car lot owners. Kurt Russell, Frank McRae (which reminds me: also check out Cannery Row), and even "Lenny" and "Squiggy."
Some favorite forgotten movies of mine are:
Orlando
They Live!
Bugsy Malone
These three couldn't have made much but have to be the best flicks I've ever stumbled upon.
Lair of the White Worm Alternately funny and creepy, we used to have this as a midnight feature on campus every Halloween
Year of the Dragon Interesting, the clash between Asian and Western cultures, and John Lone does great work
Angel Heart This film has incredible atmosphere
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Even compared to such classics as The Philadelphia Story and other classic screwball comedies, this one tops them all IMHO
- Jack
Excellent movie about wars, media and a president who wants to distract attention.
Ultimate geek movie, starring Alec Guinness as the man who invents a fabric thta repels dirt and won't wear out.
A true B movie classic. I even have it on DVD
if you want "No More Hiroshimas" then I say "You First. No More Pearl Harbors."
Independant film about 4 twenty-somethings in Calgary, Canada who wager that whoever stays indoors the longest get a month's pay from each of the others. Calgary's downtown buildings are almost entirly connected with bridges and tunnels. Of course the real conflict (in my opinion) is the lead vs. the downtown.
personally, I enjoyed the visuals. The directing style is very fresh and smart. The first truly original film I've seen in quite awhile.
This film is currently running on IFC or sundance channel, I'm not not sure, but I've seen it on one of those. Or you can probably find it in the Sundance section of your local video store.
This was probably one of the best movies I've ever seen. Beautifully shot and acted.
One of those movies you don't have to be afraid of looking at too closely because you're afraid to find fine something that spoils the experience.
There are lots of really good movies in the sundance channels' collection. Those are largely independent so they don't have the advertising dollars and special effects, but they have amazing plots.
Based on upvotes, Ageism is the only "-ism" Slashdotters care about and think isn't SJW
This movie is so simple, yet so funny for some reason.
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Repo Man is on of the wackiest movies ever made: punk rock, repo men with a code of honor, UFOs disguised as automobiles, men in black, and a $cientology-joke (diarhetics)!
Another underappreciated movie is Conan the Barbarian. I'm a big fan of Robert Howard's original stories (not the Sprague de Camp / Robert Jordan crap), and this movie really gets the mood right. Also has a fabulous soundtrack.
Batlock...
Akira, from my personal experience. Not too many of my clique are Anime appreciators (and I'm not much of an Anime fanboy either), but no one I've tried to expose to the movie ever sit through it. Personally, I think it's flat-out amazing, graphically and in terms of the story. It doesn't have the same conclusion as the graphic novels, but hey, perhaps I'm just a sucker for forward-thinking post-apolcalyptic sci-fi.
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...We accept you, we accept you, we are one!
"To those who are overly cautious, everything is impossible. "
"rotoscope" animation, whatever that means. It's this bizarre psychadelic thing about consciousness and dreaming, with a series of explanatory but sort of satirical monologues.
This film also portrays cartoon ethan hawke nipples, so it has a little something for everyone.
It didn't even get nominated in the animation category -- they must not have filled out the paperwork or something.
I *really* dug this movie. And I wasn't even stoned.
The best film George Lucas ever made.
My name is Carlos Montoya. You share files of my music. Prepare to die.
You killed my father. Prepare to die. Perfect
No lie, that film has it all! action, very cheezy special effects, superficial love interest, kung fu combat, and a david vs. goliath story line -- I LOVED it!
Great white North eh?
Girl: ROCCO!
Rocco: WHAAAAAT?!?!?!!?
Girl: (quiet) Where's my cat?
Rocco: (drops bag) I killed your cat you druggie bitch!
Girl: What? Why?
Rocco: Because I thought it would bring closure to our relationship.
Girl: You killed my....
Rocco: Your what bitch? Your what? I'll kill myself! I'll shoot myself in the head if you can tell me that cat's name! Your what, your precious little.....
Girl: ssssss Skippy! It was skippy!
Rocco: Jesus! What color was it bitch!?
Might I also mention this movie has Ron Jeremy, of all people in it? he plays a perverse Italian mob underboss. One of the coolest movies I have ever seen.
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Real Genius -- " This, this is Kent. This is what happens when you get too sexually frustrated."
Empire Records -- "The fat man walks alone"
Four Rooms, Legend of 1900, & Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead -- Tim Roth is one of the best and underrated actors in Hollywood.
Last, but not least
Romeo is Bleeding -- One of Gary Oldman's greatest performances.
I could go on, but
Film makers are the reason we pull our feet back when something brushes against them.
How could I forget....
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The Year of Living Dangerously
LA Story
1984
The Fifth Element
The Razor's Edge, the best movie Bill Murray ever made.
Amazon women on the moon !!!
It's 'the kentucky fried movie' with much better jokes and quality
Purple Rain
With Prince, I usually won't admit that one
Hudson Hawk
Who Framed Roger Rabbit..
Probobly my favorite movie of all time
Pump up the Volume
Christian Slater as a Pirate radio operator
And finally
Pink Floyd: The Wall
There is nothing (except the end of 2001:A Space Oddessey) that has been so visually compelling that I have ever seen. Those animation sequences just blow you away.
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire.
Here's a couple that come to mind in less than 30 seconds...
Run Lola Run and The Professional are two highly action packed flicks that are great guy movies. Guaranteed to keep ypou entertained. The Professional is especially riveting. The whole movie is action packed from the get-go. It also has that special "evil genius" villain quirkiness only Gary Oldman can deliver on screen.
Both really good movies to own on DVD and keep in the archives.
"It is essential that justice be done
Nerd Movies
Music Movies
10. Steel Magnolias- yes, a chick flick, but if you're from the south it's rather funny. 9. Hudson Hawk- laugh out loud funny AND it's all about a guy who just wants a good cup of coffee- what geek can't identify w/ that? 8. Empire Records- Lucas is a great character, it's a funny movie, and somehow no one has heard of it. 7. Groundhog Day- What isn't great about this movie? 6. Chasing Amy- I'm a Kevin Smith fan from way back, but even if you aren't this should be an enjoyable movie. 5. Brazil- yeah, this one's pretty awesome. 4. The Hudsucker Proxy- Seen Fargo? Liked it? See this. Didn't Like Fargo? See this anyway. 3. The Cube- I've got to give them props for trying to make a math movie. It just doesn't happen often enough... 2. Pi- Independent film about a crazy mathematician. The math isn't so swift, but the attitude is right on. 1. Donnie Darko- Did this one go straight to video or something? I feel very lucky to have happened (ok, my neighbor insisted) upon this movie.
With that in mind I'll try to make my little list things that I suspect most Slashdotters haven't seen (no guarantees, I am a geek too):
If you've seen them, good for you, I hope you enjoyed them as much as me. If not, cheek 'em out - these are great flicks every one.
Information doesn't want to be anthropomorphized anymore.
The Big Hit was a great movie ... how could anyone NOT like it??? a few others that i will share titles with are "Suburbia" "Very Bad Things" and "Airheads"
Im sure these are a bit more mainstream but you never really heard anything about any of them... all great movies
I live in Japan so I don't have to look, let alone look hard... They usually jump at me and try to grab my wallet when I walk through video/game/etc stores.
My life in the land of the rising sun.
It's not just a game...it's an entirely new game system.
I agree, but I'm posting anonymously because moderators can suck my dick. Trolls suck, goatse sucks, anyways life's good.
Try http://movielens.umn.edu, it's a University experiment which recommends you movies based on the ratings you gave other movies.
Actually, I would mention a lot of the Ealing Film Comodies. For Guiness, there was also Kind Hearts and Coronets where he plays an entire family. A great movie but not well known outside the UK. Others in a similar vein include Passport to Pimlico about a district of London, discovering that actually it wasn't part of England, Genevieve a comedy about the London to Brighton vintage car ralley, The Mouse that Roared (mentioned already about a small and broke country deciding to attack the US, lose and then benefit from the aid) and many more.
In no order - 1. Student Bodies 2. Ice Pirates 3. Better Off Dead 4. Assault of the Party Nerds (or geeks get laid) 5. Real Genius (said before) 6. Evil Dead I,II, Army of Darkness 7. Darkman (why is this not rated higher?) 8. The Punisher There is more but I need sleep...
You are dying. Probably this event is way off in the distant future. Still, it is there.
Perhaps the recognition of this fact can jolt you into action. You *can* improve the life of your neighbors. Will you act? Why not?
BANG!
Sorry, couldn't resist that one.
I absolutely agree that Buckaroo Banzai is a classic. I'd probably put it in my top 5 of all time.
Since Kurt Russell movies have been mentioned in this thread, let me throw Soldier into the ring. Besides being a great popcorn sci-fi action flick, I think it's one of Russell's best. He manages to convey tremendous depth of character despite having about 20 words in the entire movie. Also, the transitions from battle to battle throughout his military "career" are wonderfully done.
Off topic- has anyone ever noticed how whenever Kurt Russell and John Carpenter do a DVD commentary together they spend about 5 minutes talking about the movie and the rest of the time just bullshitting? I, for one, absolutely love it.
-Cybrex
Boundless Expansion, Self-Transformation, Dynamic Optimism, Intelligent Technology, Spontaneous Order- BEST DO IT SO!
By far my favorite movie. Terribly under-appreciated.
You're nothing; like me.
The Hudsucker Proxy is one of those movies that you either really like or really hate. I am the only that dug it in my family, but I can say that about Signs (the pantry scene is worth the price of admission alone), Blade Runner (a visual masterpiece), and Ed Wood(not sure why I like it, but I do).
--Joey
Had some of the most accurate gunplay ion movie history. From what I remember it kinda died when it was in theaters. Hell I didnt even know about it tilla friend told me about it.
Brewsters MillionsI loved this movie as a kid and think it's very underated. Who can forget him pitching his heat in the basebal game and having everyone knocked out of the ballpark.
Hold up, wait a minute, let me put some pimpin in it
Information doesn't want to be anthropomorphized anymore.
i think i was watching bravo [or, the canadian lesbian sex channel] some time in early 2002, when they showd fritz the cat followed by meet the feebles. even if you are boycotting the *aa, this is worth watching. thats how good it is...both of em
GENERATION 26: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation.
Ah yes. Many have tried to top this XXX classic, from the Dark Brothers (Purveyors of Fine Filth) in the 80s to the recent Vivid-cum-Jenna Jameson juggernaut, but none have come even remotely close to reaching the utter depravity of this film. Some may mention Deep Throat as the seminal film that set the form for top notch porn, but DDD is the perfection of the form. Even the total body of work by 70s temptress Seka is mere dilletantry compared to this towering tour de force.
Perfect Blue or Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise. I think both are a bit under rated to US Anime fans.... Especially Perfect Blue.
Wind is a beautiful movie; espescially if you're into sailing. If you're not, then maybe the movie will make you want to try ;-)
And it features Jennifer Grey which is always a plus.
I've seen Red Dawn somewhere here, and I enjoy that one for this definite role playing theme. I mean, come one, they weren't serious were they?
In my opinion, Scientology is a cult you should avoid.
It rules
Think, write, think, edit, think...then post.
Wow, 1123 comments already and it's around 2:20am here so I don't have time to read the article...hell I didn't even read the summary, is there an article?
I really need to get some sleep so I'm just going to jump in with some favorites (in no particular order...)
The original Lord of the Rings. OK, maybe it was cheesy but my dad took me to see it when I was quite young and it means a lot to me. It was the first gory movie I ever saw. Taking your child to see a gory movie is probably not a good idea unless the gore is pink. This was the perfect movie to help me get adjusted to gore in movies (I still get queasy whenever I see blood though.)
Another significant movie in my life was Wargames. This is too obvious for me to comment further on it...except that I know if my computer had I spark plug I'd have pissed on it many times by now. This movie made me buy my first 300 baud modem.
Pump Up the Volume. Yeah, it was a teen movie and all that, but it really had an effect on me. Once I saw it I couldn't stop thinking of starting a pirate radio station for a long time. Actually, I still think about it. This movie is a good part of the reason "Radio" is part of my nick now that I think about it.
The Heathers. "What's your damage?" "You repay me in puke?" "Fuck me gently with a chainsaw." I guess I was probably a late bloomer, but this movie was the one that taught me an appreciation for dark comedies.
I know I'm leaving out many movies, but these were the first that came to mind.
A film by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro who also made Delicatesen. Jean-Pierre Jeunet is perhaps best known for "Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain" (Amelie from Montmartre) and Alien IV but The city of lost children is, in my opinion, the best film he has done so far (I'm waiting eagerly for his next film).
One of my favorite movies that few people know about is "PI". Genius. If you haven't seen it, I highly recomend it.
— darco
A great western/comedy. Henry Fonda and Terence Hill are great together. Don't bother seeing any of the other movies with Terence Hill; those are cruddy.
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I don't want a pickle; I just want a Motor-Cycle! A four foot cop arrived with a five foot gun!
It looks like /.ers don't want to listen about movies - they just want to talk! No one is willing to forego posting in order to moderate! Two postings of over a thousand have Score:5!!!
How amusing!
Aside from Film Noir (watch The Salton Sea or The Man Who Wasn't There) I've always loved those road movies about rebellion and chaos. True Romance, Natural Born Killers, and my favourite movie of all time, Love and a .45 . Great soundtrack of wild texas music, including the Reverend Horton Heat, a bad man who means well, Renee Zellweger in her sexiest role ever and a lot of speed. Also a couple of notable cameos including Peter Fonda as an old hippy (you have to see it).
Best character names, Dino Bob and Creepy Cody, a couple of tweaked out speed freak loan sharks chasing our hero and heroine....
"Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality." -- Dalai Lama
The stereotypical cheesy space opera. But ignore the all-American-hero and the damsel-in-distress for a moment, and we have an epic exploration of the human condition and our relationship with technology - an illustration that no matter the lengths of our technological and intellectual development, we will always be humans with human problems and shortcommings. This is a classical example of a great story being Holywoodised. Not to mention the stunning special effects. Check out those rayguns, and the interaction between the forcefield and the Monster from the Id; this was well before its time. And Leslie Nielsen in the starring role is just plain ironic.
If I seem short sighted, it is because I stand on the shoulders of midgets
"Don't you know the Dewey Decimal System?!?!?"
Two great B films that, for me, turned out to be masterpieces. Fantasticly funny and sometimes creapy these two did it for the. The 3rd of the trioligy was not as good but at least it was an end to the story....
Kids in the hall: Brain Candy is a great movie! :) Check it out, yo
The problem is how do you define "underappreciated". There are zillions of movies that were made out of the main stream, and became very successful in some communities ("Donnie Darko" as an example). There are main stream ones, that were good, yet not understood ("Hudson Hawk", probably "Solaris"). So it all depends on what is expected from the movie. But my vote goes to "Shaolin Soccer" ofcourse :)
Equlibirum, Dagon and Donnie Darko.
End of rant.
"GNU's not Unix....it's Linux" / Kami "kokamomi" Petersen
This movie rocks my world - never gets old. I was only able to live the life (or a computer programmer at a place *just* like anantech) for 1 year - but it *so* fits! Course, I didn't get to sleep with Jennifer Anniston..... Dammit!
Personally its not God I dislike, its his fan club I cant stand (bash.org)
Definetely Magnolia.
For a some good reviews of the movie go to Everything2
As one of the writers "Wonko" states:
A long, sweeping masterpiece of a movie that lures you in with an unconventional prologue and then squeezes you and squeezes you, like a wet sponge, until finally plunging you back into the water at the end.
It has to be memento...A plot that twists your sense of time and space and warps your mind...And to top it all off, a killer climax.
Somehow, not a lot of people I know share my enthusiasm for this movie...maybe slashdotters would disagree
IMDB link here.
My parents bought it a video sale "way back when". Not terribly deep, but fun.
A)bort, R)etry or S)elf-destruct?
- American Psycho [My Review][IMDB]
- Swordfish [My Review][IMDB]
- Akira [My Review][IMDB]
- Ninja Scroll [My Review][IMDB]
- Equilibrium [My Review][IMDB]
- Battle Royale [My Review][IMDB]
- Starship Troopers [My Review][IMDB]
I actually do have a site up with some movies (at about 150 at the moment) I really enjoyed watching and writing reviews. Most of them might be well-known, but I think there might be some quite unpopular stuff, too.I called it: Jilted Generation.
Comments welcome!
Inconceivable!!!
.. that no one seems to have watched:
Bedazzled (The original with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore)
Empire Records (Liv Tyler.... Yummy!)
The Fisher King (Robin Williams was great!)
LadyHawke (Rutger Houer and Michelle Pfiefer)
Pitch Black (Vin Diesel and Claudia Black)
All of these were really good and never made it big at the box office.
Wherever you go, there I am...
Orgazmo by Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
Shaolin Soccer.
C'est arrivé près de chez vous. This movie is realy my favorite movie ever.
Brazil
THX-1138
The first Star Trek Film ("Star Trek: The Motion Picture")
Probably one of the most underrated movies ever : Yor, the Hunter from the Future.
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nico
Nico-Live
Dragon-Half... Ha! Now that's some funny @#$%... To any anime fans who have never seen this, I recommend you go find yourself a copy. There are only two episodes, BTW.
Ack!
Plan 9 from outer space, a horribly done movie, but it's one of those movies that's so badly done it's great. If that makes any sense at all. Cuz I know the movie sure doesn't.
It is underappreciated because as far as I can tell only geeks can quote that movie. I have talked about that flick to some non-geek regular type people and damn near noone I know (non-geek) has ever seen/heard of that fine piece of cinima.
damn shame too...
I'd also like to make note of an under-appreciated film. Star Trek X. IMHO it was on par with II (Wrath o' Kahn) but if I remember corectly it cost them 55mil to make and grossed after 2 weeks 22 mil. This could be the first Star Trek flick to post a loss. (If I have my numbers wrong please let me know, Im trying to do this from memory and could not find em on short order)
I think it was the crappy release date, 1 week different from LOTR:TT. Fucking stupid on the part of the studio. Nothing (not even titianic IMHO) could compete in that release slot.
Great action flick with normal guys as heroes. Bikes, bombs, and bullets, what more could you want?
Even by me. I'm just that kind of guy. Though I have seen The American Friend 9 times. Gets my Oscars for best Patricia Highsmith adaptation, best Denis Hopper role, best cameos by Nicholas Ray and Sam Fuller and best actor's name - Satya de la Manitou.
--- Yx3 = Delilah ---
I remember seeing the movie short after I saw the Matrix. The Matrix had superior special effects etc. but 13th floor didn't need the budget, special effects et al. It just took my breath away with the simplicity and a great script
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A cameo by Sean Connery, lots of little people, and a great closing credits song! :)
"Just tell him ya did it! That's what he wants to hear anyway..."
I used to read alt.cult-movies so picked up Tetsuo: Iron Man and Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (was it called that?) way back.
Awful movies. Overrated "shaky camera", black and white, headache inducing music. Ok, so you want to show him changing into a robot and its a horrible experience, but try and make it watchable (the first one).
Second one was a sub-par action movie...
Ok, so I can see how if you like wierd stuff you might like it. I like weird stuff. I didn't like it.
Christopher Walken is the man... that's all I have to say about that.
Yes! Harold and Maude is the only movie you'll ever watch that includes footage of an E-type Jaguar converted to a hearse. It's just a shame they had to drive it off that cliff :-(
It's one of the very few movies I've ever watched which has had me convulsing in uncontrollable fits of laughter -- that bit with the hand and the cleaver was hysterical.
Whoever cast Ruth Gordon in this movie deserved an Oscar for doing so -- it was probably her best ever role.
This is definitely one of my top five movies of all time.
A Clockwork Orange was pretty cool too -- you can't beat a bit of the Ludwig Van and some ultraviolence eh?
I remember seeing this and wanting to build a cloudclimber of my own to fly...
currently, browsing at a threshold of 3, i see
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i have never seen such a low ratio before
perhaps the story should be retitled
Ask Slashdot: Why Is There No Consensus On Your Favorite Underappreciated Movie?
or
Ask Slashdot: Why Do You Want To Share With Us Your Favorite Underappreciated Movie? Why Don't You Use Some Of Your Moderation Points Instead? Please?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Exploding chests, acid blood, egg laying face sitters and all that Geiger stuff. The little man getting FUCKED by greedy corp. bastards. Scared the shit out of me the 1st time. My honorable mentions would be The Hunger and Full Metal Jacket.
"To deny our own impulses, is to deny the very thing that makes us human." - Mouse
A great movie that I seldom hear people talk about. Great idea and a great ending, if you're able to get ahold of it you really should see it.
I can't believe nobody has mentioned this one yet. That's where my .sig came from.
In no particular order, my top movies (including a few sleepers) are:
:-)
A Clockwork Orange
Harold and Maude
Tremors
The Blues Brothers
And what about all those cool TV programmes from my childhood and mispent youth that seem to have vanished into the ether...
The Prisoner
UFO
Captain Pugwash
Clutch Cargo
Diver Dan
Bring em all back I say!
You remember, with Winona Ryder and Christian Slater.
Wondering where the hell I have been.
Any Pokémon movie sequel that tanked.
I didn't see anyone mention that... "crash and burn!" also: boondock saints bowfinger waking life Steve
Final Fantasy: TSW probably should be considered the most under-appreciated of all time. sigh. It broke Square, that's for sure - and that sure is a shame.
My life in the land of the rising sun.
As was to be expected, most of you just mentioned hollywood films.
But there are very very good films from other countries too.
If you want to feel really good there is nothing better than a French movie e.g.
Amelie,
My mothers'castle
The fame of my father
(I don't know if the last two where ever released in the US)
And if you want to see something really disturbing, you can't beat Canadian film.
e.g.
Leolo
or
Jesus of Montreal.
If you ever have the chance watch Leolo...it is an experience you will likely never forget.
imdb links
:)
Hudsucker Proxy
The Public Eye
cheers,
pol
European Linux user, living in Antwerp
Vicious Lips -- remarkably watchable for an Albert Pyun film -- but then, how could a SciFi movie with so much trash and big hair be anything but?
And then of course, there's Brainstorm, an early '80s movie about braintaping, and one of the few movies where I didn't think, Hold on, they come up with a technology like that, and they don't use it for X? (in this case, taping someone dieing, having good sex, using it for torture etc.). Quite positive portrayal of geeks, as well.
One of my favorite is definitely Stalker from Andrei Tarkovsky.
Quite basically the plot is there's this multiplayer immersive game called "Avalon" - players try to gain access to higher levels
Rumor is there's a hidden level, to access it, you need to kill a "ghost" while being accompanied by a level-10 "bishop" in your team - which only briefly appears as a little girl after you finish a level -- kill the girl and gain access, fail to kill the girl, and become a brain-fried zombie in the real world.
It's an excellent movie, way-ahead of the Matrix-thing before the Matrix did.
If you can get yourself to watch foreign movies - get this one! The final outcome - which I won't reveal - is absolutely terrific!
is a great movie that only a few people i know, know about. It rocks! You fellow slashdot people must have seen it.
Never touch an Irish man's Guinness!@#
No mention of "Vanishing Point" (the original from circa 1967?) The disturbing and involving "Marat/Sade"? The psychedelic (maybe?) "Celine And Julie Go Boating"? The confusing "Greaser's Palace" (Jesus returns as a song-and-dance man?) The probably-can't-be-shown-in-the-US-anymore, not-for-the-faint-of-heart "El Topo"?
... it's ... where I hang out.")
Not to mention B-movie cheese like "Warp Speed" (warning! contains Adam West!) and "Raiders Of The Buddhist Kung Fu" (sample quote: "He's an Immortal! Let's Kill Him!")
I mean, if you don't know of these, it's probably pointless to mention the Z-grade takeoff "Flesh Gordon" (quote: "This is the Tower Of Murder
Nor "Truck Stop Women", softcore badacting partly financed by (then-not-yet) Sen. Phil Gramm.
I mean, honestly, folks, try harder.
Luc Besson's The Big Blue (1988) (NOT the horrible USA version!).
Giuseppe Tornatore's Italian Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988) is not underappreciated, but very few people I know have seen it.
12:01 is very similar to groundhog day, (based on the same story?) but with a much more sci-fi story. And it had Helen Slater in it... mmmmm, Helen Slater...
It's a shame that it was a TV movie and was completely eclipsed by Groundhog day.
Oh well.
A latent existence
I'm surprised no-ones mentioned this, just goes to show exactly how underrated it is.
Its Ridley Scott's first film, bit of a boring plot about 2 napoleonic soldiers who cut chunks out of each other now and again, but you watch the film for the lighting. Ridley must have had the actors hanging around for weeks waiting for the right conditions to film.
Check out the dawn duel scenes, the images are practically works of art. Check out the Russian Front scenes, I felt cold just watching it (not to mention the glorious purple sky).
My favourite would be Mimi wo sumaseba/Whisper of the heart (produced, written and storyboarded by Hayao Miyazaki, by the way...).
This movie is what made me watch "Wallstreet" (Another excellent Douglas original)
Fantastic!
that'll be because she was a teenager when the film was made.
Nice full frontals in the original - during the bath scene if they've cut it.
H P Lovecraft, the only private eye in 1947 LA who doesn't use magic, is hired to retrieve a stolen book called the "Necronomicon"...
Unicorns. Landladies who practice voodoo. Zombies as cheap labor. Death of a thousand papercuts. And David Warner gets to utter the immortal line:
"It is NOT a squid!"
The Swimmer is one of my obscure favourites, as it's quite surreal.
Burt Lancaster seeing that practically everyone in the neighbourhood has a swimming pool, decides he's going to swim home. So he sets off in nothing but his swimming trunks and does a length of all the pools in all the gardens of all the houses he calls on, spending some time with all the people he meets and even having a small romance along the way.
At first he's treated as an eccentric friend, but as the film goes on things start to fall apart and people become increasingly hostile towards him until... But that would be telling. Go watch this movie.
It's a very very strange movie which is pretty much an allegory for the death of the 50s' American Dream. It's pre-Lynchian.
In some ways it's kind of related to Falling Down except without the guns and most of the violence. Lancaster's swimmer and Douglas' D-FENS are both undergoing breakdowns for similar reasons.
Classic movie, I recommend you watch it.
Oh, and see if you can spot Joan Rivers...
"Information wants to be paid"
I first saw Bad Taste years and years ago, when it was a budget VHS rental, what a blast that movie is.
:p
It's a spoof zombie / alien horror, follows the exploits of a team of government agents sent into a small town which has been invaded by the aliens (creatures who outwardly assume human appearance, but are really arse faced, vomit eating hunchbacks).
The film ends with barry, the scientific member of the team, battling through to the alien boss with a chainsaw, but is too late to prevent those left alive from getting away, in their mansion - spaceship.
The other underappreciated movie i think, has got to be the 'Better Tommorow' series, by Jon Woo and starring Chow Yun Fat.
This series shows the adventures of two sets of brothers, Ho and Kit, and Mark and Ken, the action scenes and photography are extremely well done, and the relationships are well crafted, especially with Ho and Kit, Ho is a gangster whilst Kit is an aspiring police inspector, leading to lots of friction.
If you like action films, and you haven't seen ABT series, then you are missing out IMO, any of my friends who ask for a video, I give them one of those and have trouble getting them back
I think there is such a thing as the "perfect movie": one where there is no way to improve it except to change the whole idea of the film. In other words, nothing better could have been done with the concept/story, even if that concept or story is not something I'm particularly interested in.
Alien, Fifth Element, My Cousin Vinney, the original Planet of the Apes, The Quiet Man, 7 Samurai (not particularly forgotten, that one), The Princess Bride, The Cincinnati Kid, Soylent Green, The Sting are some of the perfects in my book.
TWW
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
They've got action, comedy, costume drama, Oliver Reed, Charlton Heston, Raquel Welch, Spike Milligan (and loads of other cool cast members), fight direction by Bill Hobbs, a screenplay by George MacDonald Fraser, pretty locations in Spain (which don't look much like France, but hey) .... and generally more coolness than you can buckle a swash at :)
The lame DVD releases of these films should be construed as crimes against humanity! Where's my special edition?!
1. Used Cars. Classic black comedy, (All star cast) Spielberg produced it before he was mega-famous.
2. Shogun Assassin. 420 people being killed in a bloody fashion can't be wrong! (Vegetables being used as weapons!)
3. Tapeheads. John Cusak and Tim Robbins as wannabe music video producers. Michael Nesmith had a hand in this one.
4. Head. The Monkees only feature film, great laughs.
5. The Magic Christian. Peter Sellers at his best with Ringo Starr as his adopted son trying to corrupt everybody in sight with money. Rachel Welch also stars in a bikini wielding a whip! A MUST SEE MOVIE! (Soundtrack by the Beatles)
6. Wizards. An animated cult classic with Donald Sutherlands voice and an R rating for violence and cartoon nudity.
7. Hatari. One of John Waynes later films directed by Howard Hawks about people capturing animals in Africa for zoos. The things that stand out (besides the all star cast) are the capture sequences, (some of the most dangerous stunts ever captured on film) and in almost every scene somebody is lighting up a cigarette. Talk about anti-PC!
8. Forbidden Planet. Made in 1959 it still has some of the best special effects ever made. Plus you will weep at the loss of pure knowledge at the end.
9. Repo Man. Another very dark comedy, I still get a kick how the networks cut it up just so they can air it.
10. There is no number ten. I am torn between too many good movies such as: The princess bride, Caligula, (The XXX rated version) A clockwork orange, The boys from company C, Howard the duck, the original Rollerball, and so many others.
I only hope that these movies are preserved for future generations.
Gotta Love seeing a Blow Up beach ball as a creature. Also an ode to Dr. Stranglove at the end when they guy surfs into the atmosphere.
Dark Star can it show my age to know this one?
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - BF
Not exactly forgotten perhaps, but strangelovely few people I've talked to have seen this classic - now even relevant today with mad generals on the loose throughout!
Favourite quote: "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room!"
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1. Donnie Darko
2. Transformers: The Movie
3. Plan 9 From Outer Space
4. Super Mario Brothers
5. Haiku Tunnel
Interesting that only 2 comments are modded up to 5 out of 1340 comments in this article - this is much worse than the usual distribution of scores. Is it because these group moderation systems are not suited to this kind of discussion? For instance, if I suggest a movie which is *really* unappreciated, nobody is going to mod up my post, as nobody else will have heard of it. I know this is offtopic, but something's a bit wrong when out of 1340 posts the only serious suggestion to get top mod points is "Adventures of Buckeroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension". Just to contribute something on-topic - I reckon Dark City deserves a mention.
toot toot mofo !! :-0 :-)
You can't deny that this is the MOTHER of all forgotten-movie collections ...
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
w/John Cusak, by far the best '80s brainless teen comedy
Its got Shannon Tweed, Bill Maher.. and was filmed at my University of California at Riverside. IMDB
Actually, he did that out of college. In college he did a student film that won a college award entitled "TXH-1138:4EB Electronic Labrynth". It was about 15 minutes long. He of course made the feature film based on this original short.
Anyways, THX is an excellent film.
--- witty signature
'Black rain', a yakuza flick with Micheal Douglas. Also with MD: 'The Game', which was cool but needed to end a couple of minutes sooner. Then there's 'Batteries not included', about cute little flying saucers you'd want as a pet. And 'Crying Freeman', the live action version of the anime/manga; some way cool john-woo style action, with a lead character who dies 1/2 an hour into the film :)
-- Waht? Tehr's a preveiw buottn?
It has to be Steven (Blade) Norrington's uber-stylish monster robot flick. Try to get hold of the UK cut as it has more "extreme" moments with Dante (Brad Dourif).
This film has more in-jokes, references and homages than most parody film even try to get in.
-- I like the cut of your thinking, young man. - me.
Or don't you guys watch documentaries?
DROS - Open-Source Robot Software
..in some generally underappreciated genres
5. Death Machine - Stephen Norrington
4. The irrefutable truth about demons - Glen Standring
3. Manhunter - Michael Mann
2. Strange Days - Kathryn Bigelow
1. Reanimator - Brian Yuzna
Being well balanced is overrated. -- John Carmack
The whole qatsi triologi, but special kudos for Koyaanisqatsi.
At least under-rated in the Australia (the coalition of the willing):
Bowling for Columbine
"What if the day you thought would never end, didn't?"
1997's The Wrong Guy starring Dave Foley
[boostventilator]
The Boondock Saints http://us.imdb.com/Title?0144117 I don't think this movie ever made it to the theaters, but IMHO, it should have.
ok from my archives of forgotten and obscure movies these are my faves
The Naked Lunch. -Judy Davis etc many more names. to quote Nelson from the simpsons "I can think of two things wrong with that title"
Barbarella. -Jane Fonda. you've gotta love a shagpile spaceship.
Lair of the White worm -Grace Knight. Where Madonna got the cone Bra idea.
Logans Run. -Who Dosen't like a bit of Micheal York running around in black spandex.
Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy -Those Amazing Special effects!
and well twin peaks -the whole series, see season two with Moulder in drag. What more could you ask for?
Powell and Pressburgers finest - my tip for the finest film ever made - and no one has seen it or heard of it, it seems...
I'd . . . uh . . . bust some caps.
BUST SOME CAPS! Give that man a gold star!
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Definitely one of the better psychological thrillers.
A.
It was on TV a while back; I hadn't read about it but happened to turn on in the first few minutes, and couldn't turn it off. It has the feel of a stage play, which is usually bad news for a film, but in this case you get the immediacy, the liveness and danger of something happening right there in front of you. It's chilling, but not in an overt, graphic way - instead, it makes you think (and the most frightening things are those in your head). It's about dignity, repression, integrity, injustice, memory, mind control, and the power of the human will. There's a lot of depth and subtlety to both characters. And it has the most terrifying torture scene I've ever seen, where you see nothing but her face.
I don't understand why the film has been so ignored; it's not available on DVD, and on video only in the US (here in the UK I had to find a TV and VCR that would handle NTSC). Well worth looking out for.
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"Complex but lighthearted thriller about computers and cryptography, government and espionage, secrets and deception and betrayal."
The cast is perfect... Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Ben Kingsley, David Strathairn, Dan Aykroyd... even River Phoenix was good. I could watch this movie every day!
...oh yeah, and Tron too.
Better off Dead.
'nuff said.
MjM
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Great soundtrack, strange and wonderful
On y va, qui mal y pense!
"Clockwise" - John Cleese
The obsessively punctual headmaster of a small school (Cleese) misses his train to an important event. Hilarity ensues as he desperately tries to make up for lost time.
"Without a Clue" - Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley
What if Sherlock Holmes were real, and Watson chronicled their adventures in the form of novels? That's the premise of this movie, but with a twist - Holmes (Caine) is a bumbling actor with no deductive skills whatsoever, hired by the "real" crime solver Watson (Kingsley.) Watson fires "Holmes" for incompetence but is forced to hire him back when Scotland Yard refuses to deal with anyone but Sherlock Holmes.
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I highly recommend Soapdish, which I don't think enough people have seen. Kevin Kline, Sally Field, Robert Downey Jr, Whoopi Goldberg, and many other of your favorite actors. It's hilarious.
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How about Pushing Tin? Admittedly not as good as High Fidelity, but funny as hell nonetheless. I especially enjoyed all the fictitious TRACON controller scenes. And that old Gov't Issue building is perfect.
A group of women take revenge on rapists. Very bloody. Lots of fun.
A Gun For Jennifer
Dog is my co-pilot.
Five space cowboys on robotic horses, and a cowboy computer h4cX0r. YEAH!
A caveman dreams of being us, the incalculable power and riches. We dream of being Q, then what?
THE IRONY!
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...who actually enjoyed Battlefield Earth !
Then again, my wife is a bit frightened by the fact that I usually know, have seen, and have enjoyed the movies they play on MST3K
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."--Benjamin Franklin
Dark City. I loved this movie. Too bad it is usually described as "a Matrix clone" even though it came out a year before.
Also, The 13th Floor. It came out around the same time as the Matrix, and having a similar plot (going into a computer reality) lost out to the blockbuster. Otherwise it probably would have done very well.
Hi, I'm not quite sure how many of you know this movie, but give it a try. Jeremy Piven at his best, a really fast and entertaining movie. My favorite scene is the one in which they throw meatbeals on the vegetarians. :)
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Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a Schwarzenegger-type character in the "movie world" (i.e. the movies the people in the movie watch) who gets stuck in the "real world" where the rules are more realistic, providing all sorts of send-ups of action movie chiches.
/. If the government wants us to respect the law, it should set a better example.
We cannot forget about the two great Rowdy Roddy Piper movies - "They're Among Us" and "Hell Comes to Frogtown" These are two of the best rainy Sunday afternoon movies I have ever seen. Funny, not too serious, moderate action, and babes with big boobs! What more do you need? I rank these two right behind "Tremors" as great examples of well done schlock.
Such a terrific movie for the amount of fan fair it recieved, which is really odd considering it has "hollywood's sweetheart" Drew Barrymore acting and executive producing. Every other hunk of crap she's put out in the last 10 years has been advertised/talked about entirely too much and she finally has a very good one and its almost ignored.
It's a combination of science fiction and drama. The dvd is really nice because you can read the Roberta Sparrow Philosophy of Time Travel, even though it is fuzzy and best to zoom in if your player supports that function.
It also has a very good score along with a couple or nice songs added. Fits the movie very well.
Been the good conspiracy theorist I am, I believe there is a cover up! If you look at the listing at the IMDb You will notice that there is no mention on the first page of Drew Barrymore or Noah Wiley, both who play supporting but crucial roles in the movie(along with Drew's producing) and even though it has a good rating of 8.3 and is #90 on the top 250 of all time at the IMDb they have a pretty bad flame for the one comment that is visible on the first page and has been there for almost a year.
If anybody knows how to obtain a VHS (NTSC) or DVD of If I had a Million, please give me a shout. I suspect that the film itself has disintegrated and the movie is indeed lost. It has a fabulous scene of WC Fields leading a convoy of used cars in a seek-and-destroy mission against bad drivers - "Take that, you great snorting road-hog!"
The Mighty Orbots was a short lived TV cartoon only slightly less inane than The Transformers. However, it had remarkable industrial design.
Yes its a Chevy Chase movie but don't hold that against it. A sweet, dry and subtle swipe at small town America that was marketed all wrong, from casting clownish Chevy Chase to the poster/cover art. Definitely worth a look.
Absolutely hilarious comedy.
Worth it just for Arsenio Hall's "Having a bad day" segment at the beginning of the movie.
And of course "Bullshit! Or not?" was a great segment too.
Just overall, a great comedy.
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The Legend of 1900 was made by the same dude who made Cinema Paradisio. It was his first english language film.
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The thing costed $9 million to make, looked absolutely magical, and is VERY rentable on DVD, however it only ever made $250k in the box office.
Tim Roth stars across Pruitt Taylor Vince, probably the best actor in the world, too
The Legend of 1900 is a fable about a man who was born, and lived his entire life on a steam ship. Unfortunately, it came out in 1998, and the world was already getting sick of Titanic.
"Look at me, I invented the stove!" -- Ben Franklin
Sorry... I've got to say it...
"Cuddle? Fag!"
I know it may be a stretch to call any Coen Brothers' movie 'underappreciated' but I think that Miller's Crossing doesn't get the appreciation it deserves both among Coen films and among films in general.
It is the most compelling, well-crafted movie I know.
Harry Knowles wrote an appropriately appreciative review.
Jeff Goldblum's best movie ever was Mr. Frost. Great psycological thriller. Very well written. I highly recommended it.
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An amazing movie, The reason it wasn't released in the theaters in the US is it was scheduled to begin advertisement and such for release a few days after the Columbine incident. In result because of the movies content and "promoting" vigilantism it got canceled from being shown in theaters. Also as some fans may know, Troy Duffy is currently working on a sequel titled The Boondock Saints: All Saints Day. They will be releasing live behind the scenes footage soon on the website: http://www.theboondocksaints.com Due out in 2004
Sorry to say so, but I thought eXistenZ sucked.
Good movie with a great message: "You are who you choose to be."
I keep an Iron Giant toy on my desk as a reminder.
I wish they would re-make it as a live-action movie, particularly if they could get Harry Connick Jr. to play Dean again (who else could play a beatnik junkyard owner) and Vin Diesel to do the Iron Giant's voice again: "HoooooGarrrrrrth!"
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"These laws they're passing won't even compile anymore, let alone execute." - anon
Antitrust. Nuff said
Big Trouble in Little China Need I say more?
Excellent car chase flick from the early '70s.
Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn...
It's anime, but incredible, lots of great fighting (that's what you want to see right?) with very little filler material (DragonballZ is about 95% filler) and still has a decent plot, storyline and characters.
Question everything
I don't know if they are underappreciated, but here are some favourites that I think deserve to be seen:
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HORROR/THRILLER
Angel heart
Candyman
Hellraiser
Lord of Illusions (no price for guessing I'm a Clive Barker fan
The Vanishing (the Belgian original, available on DVD from Criterion, not the terrible Hollywood remake)
Sleepy Hollow
Brotherhood of the Wolf (the monster SF/X is pretty bad once you get to see the monster. That is a letdown, but once you get over that, very enjoyable, it's better the second time you see it. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon in pre-revolution France!)
The Name of the Rose
The Young Poisoners Handbook
Memento
The Others
The Ring
Rear Window
COMEDY
Delicatessen
Black cat, white cat
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
Chicken Run
Oh brother where art thou
Pleasantville
Beetlejuice
Young Frankenstein
SCI-FI
Gattaca
Dark City
The Fifth Element
DRAMA
Ridicule (French film)
Regeneration (British WW1 film, based on the book with the same name. Was given a more action oriented name in the US, even though it is set not on the front, but a hospital for traumatised soldiers.)
The War Zone (Most. Depressing. Film. Ever. Not a war film, about incest.)
ACTION
L.A. Confidential
Seven Samurai
DOCUMENTARY
Bowling for Columbine
Buena Vista Social Club
Being bitter is drinking poison and hoping someone else will die
great flick, from the conceptual p.o.v., if not cinematic;-) but isn't all scifi that way;-)
my fave scene was when connery, trying to aclimate
himself to the boredom of immortality, asks the computer to show him the evolution of automotive design. it responds with a rapid slideshow of still pix of cars thru the years, and he's dissatisfied...he wanted to see evolution, not history, as visualized by morphing from 1 model to another...
it wasn't until 1990 that his vision came to pass in the chrysler minivan ads, which showed the original boxy design morphing into the more streamlined 2nd gen...i think that was the 1st use of morphing in nat'l advertizing.
You can't even get it on video, which is odd since it's a Belushi and Ackroyd movie. I think it didn't do well because Belushi played the straight man with Ackroyd as the crazy one. This flip-flop probably startled those who had come to expect the reverse.
This movie has one line that has become a permanent part of my repertoire. When asked if he's hungry, Capt. Vick replies:
"I could eat a baby's butt through a park bench."
Probably the most underrated movie of 1995. David Caruso is fresh from his stint with NYPD blue, and Nick Cage does a great job playing a bad guy here.
I concur. This is an excellent film noir/crime drama which happens to have some really funny parts. You usually can't go wrong with an ensemble cast made up entirely of character actors. Two other amazing films that came out fairly recently that seem to have slipped by the wayside were Heist (written and directed by David Mamet) and Sexy Beast (which starred the ever loveable Sir Ben Kingsley, one of the finest actors to have graced the screen in some time).
Amazon Women on the moon!!! I flipped when I saw this one. Best Scene is when the doctor loses the baby in hospital, then pretends his hand is the kid, and tries to get the mom to breast feed it!!
I guess Neil Armstrong and his crew were no match for these chicks, 'cuz NASA stopped sending people there!!
It's certainly been very overlooked over in the US of A.
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No, it couldn't be? American servicemen and intelligence officers, brutally killing defenseless prisoners? They would never..
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How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
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Always a fun movie to watch. It was originally just a short 10 minute bit played at sci fi conventions, but the author made a full length movie out of it, which was basically the making of the 10 minute bit. Really well done.
This is a thinking person's martial-arts movie, written by Bruce Lee shortly before his death. Stars David Carradine as a blind flute-playing zen-like traveller (seen that before!), Jeff Cooper as the aspirant, Chistopher Lee, and Eli Wallach in great supporting roles.
Only available on VHS, as far as I can tell.
Live in the Future; It's Just Starting Now!
I'm not usually fond of Val Kilmer but I do like this movie! A very geek flick.
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Bartleby, an independant movie released last year with Crispin Glover is one of the best of underapreciated movies I've ever seen. If you thought "Office Space" was funny and subversive, you don't know what you're missing. Bartleby is far more subversive than that (rather bland) movie and insidiously funny. I don't know why this movie didn't get more press.
In addition to being very funny, the movie is also and adaption of Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener", and a brilliant one at that. "Bartleby the Scrivener" is about as depressing a story as you can find. To realize the potential for humor inside that story was a stroke of genius.
The one problem with the movie is that, the last 5 minutes are pedagogical. But that's not so bad either. If you didn't want to figure out the deeper meaning of the story when you read it, the movie explains it to you. If you don't need to be taught, you can simply turn the movie off at the last scene. That's a much better system than those movies that try to hammer home their point throughout the movie, destroying the narrative flow in order to say something.
It's too bad the movie didn't get wider public notice. The one consolation is that it will be shown to high-school american lit. classes for years to come.
I actually LOL when I watched that movie.
I gotta see if I can rent it. Maybe I'll just buy it.
fantastic flick about a 17th cent. jesuit priest among the north american aborigines...chilling, if not p.c.;-}
interestingly, every reenactor i talked to (especially the injuns;-) at the battle of bushy run not only knew of it, 1 guy said he watched it weekly;-)
...with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Reese Witherspoon. It's a really nice movie, and the classical story of dangerous liaisons in a modern setting.
Because of this movie I really got to like classic literature. It shows that those stories are not outdated, an can be enjoyed.
the pun is mightier than the sword
OK there is the film "Brain dead" or "Dead Alive" It is the one with the Rat Monkey and the greatest line "I kick ass for the Lord!" It also has a disturbing yet hysterical seen where the main character fights a zombie baby in a park. It is the best 85 minutes you could waste. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0103873
The original PG-13 version disappeared from existance some time ago. Funny as all hell.
"Happy as rats, they are. They tapdance not, neither do they fart."
"This is my Lava lamp collection" "Oh! They're still active!"
- "That's just the kind of fuzzy-headed liberal thinking that leads to being eaten."
Edward Woodward shines in Breaker Morant, about the courts martial of 3 Aussie officers during the Boer War. The lawyer who taught the law of land warfare course when I went through Fort Benning's Infantry School used to use it for examples of what's permissible and what is not.
"Love is a familiar; Love is a devil: there is no evil angel but Love." --William Shakespeare ('Love's Labors Lost')
The movie is my alltime favourite. It hasnt had much air time but there are a lot of die hard fans out there!
Who are we trying to kid here? I don't really think that more than four or five of the films that I've seen posted deserved any more appreciation than they actually got. The ones which are truly worth appreciating usually get the appreciation (read: PI, Wings of Desire, et al) that they so richly deserve, either critically, or box office, or by being nominated for awards here and there, whereas the cult classic-type films (Evil Dead, etc.) really shouldn't be appreciated by the masses. If those films were, they would no longer /be/ cult classics.
As for the rest of the films mentioned, they either don't deserve to be here because they're actually /over/appreciated, or they just plain suck, in which case they don't deserve to be appreciated at all. I've seen the freaking /Matrix/ posted here more than twice, for crying out loud! That movie won oscars. It is therefore, by definition, not underappreciated.
If we're talking about B-movies that we love anyway, or maybe because they're B-movies, I'll take any of these three any day of the week:
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
John Carpenter's They Live
or
Hell Comes to Frog Town
If, however, we're talking about very good films that just kind of went away instead of being noticed in the face of schlock like xXx, then give me
the Way of the Gun
Heist
Sexy Beast
or
SLC Punk!
I really enjoy discussions of this type, but, please, let's decide what it is that we're actually discussing here.
G took out a full page ad in Variety that said "Dear [studio executive], when are you going to release my film, Brazil?".
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Sid Shienberg (sp?). Terry's explanation of what he realized he had done after placing that ad is hillarious as well.
The domestic release was handled by Universal, the foreign release was handled by Fox. Interesting to note Terry (finally?) came back to Universal to do 12 Monkeys as a director-for-hire instead of both writer/director.
The three-disc Criterion set is excellent for the entire story of Brazil, even down to the commentaries of both versions (TG does the uncut version, some film critic who followed the entire Brazil event history talks on the LCA version). Terry still takes pains to distance himself from that butchery of his film.
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"That was a really cool movie."
Speculatively bought on DVD, something which provoked forehead slapping after I watched it twice. The narrative is stilted, and some sections plainly make no sense, special effects are lovely, but they tried to build interplay between the characters that just didn't happen...by the end of it the only person I wanted to survive was Angela Bassett because of my recommendation below.
Event Horizon should have been titled 'Hellraiser in space!'...Virtually the same plot with the addition of past history and the confrontation of people with the bad choices they made. However, the ship rocked.
My recommendation is 'Strange Days'. I don't know how it did at the box office, and it's strangely dated because it was set prior to 2000, but it had a wonderful plotline and Angela Bassett kicking bottom.
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Too cynical to live, too stubborn to die.
*BLAM*
"... is it dead?"
I really figured I'd look in here and see about 30 posts for this one, but if they're there, they're below my threshold.
Slay a dragon... over lunch!
1. Bladerunner 2. Man Bites Dog 3. Requiem For a Dream And let's not forget "Six Feet Under"
... of course.
Gattaca is very good, great story, great performances - I never saw it hyped much. And, in the vein of Flight of the Navigator, I have to mention The Last Starfighter. Easily my favorite movie as a teen.
For me it would have to be The Wicker Man. Although the director's cut is really the version to watch
Great movie to watch, think, and ponder the existance and the meaning of it all. Combination of animation and filming, it's one of the most memorable and unique movies that I have seen, and strongly recommend it.
Sadly, it's becoming more of a reality every day.
Karma: Food Fight (Mostly affected by Date Plate).
Anyone remember that one? I thought it was a riot.
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Katherine Black (from airplane), Howard Hesseman (Johnny Fever from WKRP) and Crispin Glover (from back to the future). Directed by that inimitable force for good, Trent Harris. An odyssey over the burial of a dead cat.
Great quotes include 'my cat can eat a whole watermelon' and 'andy warhole sucks a big one'. I own two copies of this flick, and practically know it by heart. Am I a cultist? I think more a connoisseur of forgotten gems. Is it the best movie ever? Maybe not, but it's one of the funniest.
It's only about 90 minutes, so how can you go wrong? Check it out!
My cat can eat a whole watermelon
where Trainspotting is an incredibly humerous and elegant movie, while at the same time making it very clear that addiction isn't all that it's cracked up to be, 'Requiem For A Dream' is a pathetic, whiny movie which uses gross effects for the same purpose.
The music is ok, though. And Pi is very good too.
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
Another: "10,000 Fingers of Doctor T" Hans Conreid as a deranged piano teacher tormenting a small child who's caught in a dream narrative with the longest keyboard ever constructed.
I am not sure if you could find this or not. It was very 80s. A guy spills his drink on his computer and it develops intelligence. A wacky romantic comedy ensues. Music by ELO and Culture Club!
Angleyne: You can't bend that girder - it's unbendable! Bender: Well I don't know anything about lifting, so that ju
Most underappreciated Steven King movie ever!
They're killer trucks damnit!
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
I must leap to the original poster's defense here. I am firmly anti-Scientology, and there was nothing Scientologish about this movie. It was pretty true to the satirical tone of the original SF novels by Hubbard. The things people say are bad about Battlefield Earth were deliberate, and done for (IMO, successful) comedic effect. OK, so there were a couple of things wrong with the plot, but the overall style and tone of the film was successful, intellligent comedy - the kind that is sadly understood by very few people. If Hubbard were alive today, I'm certain he'd have the same irreverent and satirical attitude to Scientology that he has to all the events in his SF novels, and which came across very well in Battlefield Earth.
Young Don Johnson in post WWIII. His dog sniffs out women for him.
Shows what happens when a 13 year-old-has convictions...
This movie was easily the best SF film of 1997, but it's a quiet little mystery-drama without much in the way of FX. It was based on a Danish book, and didn't do well in Europe because people resented the fact that it was done in English. Because it didn't do well in Europe, it wasn't promoted here, and disappeared without much notice. Thank $deity for DVD.
Smilla is Julia Ormond's best role -- she's a complicated character. Gabriel Byrne is understated and cool, as usual. Richard Harris is really creepy.
One of his first. Back in the early days of HBO when they replayed the same 10 or so movies every day for weeks, my brother and I used to watch this relentlessly. Aussie commando team during WWII mission in China.
Mel Gibson, John Phillip Law, Sam Neill.
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I actually bought this a few years back on Amazon. Only available on VHS.
I think "The Living Daylights" is one of the best James Bond movies ever. It is sadly under-appreciated mainly, I think, because of the inexplicable unpopularity of Timothy Dalton who was very good and Connery-esq in the 007 role.
You can get many Ealing comedies from play.com, as 4-disc sets here and here.
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Lots of people are listing big hits, it's just that they're big hits that came out 15-20 years ago :)
No it's not.
Go watch the movie again.
"I am here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. (pause)
And I'm all out of bubble gum"
I think that maybe Duke Nukem changed it a bit, but that's the original quote.
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Yeah, I actually like Tank Girl. It's not meant to be taken seriously, and there's just something about Lori Petty that turns me on. (Probably that she's female. ;-)
The Pophecy:
Christopher Walken just plain rocks, and when you see him play a totally billy bad ass Archangel Gabriel, you believe it! Eric Stoltz and DeNiro don't do a half-bad job acting in this flick, either. Too bad the sequel sucked.
Just be sure to wear the gold uniform when you beam down -- you know what happens when you wear the red one.
One of my favorite films; most people have never seen it. Written and directed by Trey Parker (co-creator of South Park), it's kinda like Oklahoma!, but about cannibalism. Here's the IMDB listing.
Might be that I've overlooked something, but has anybody mentioned Strange Days yet?? Or maybe this was the blockbuster it deserved to be in the States (I'm in Europe, where it wasn't).
Anyway, it was a very cool movie, with a very good plot (so don't go by what you see on imdb), a very good cast (including a very rocking performance by Skunk Anansie), and from the looks of it, a sufficient budget.
But I guess it didn't make it because you would have to think while watching the film... Same goes for Memento, by the way.
PHEM - party like it's 1997-2003!
Let me go through a few movies: "Killer klowns from outer space" it's about killer klowns from outer space.
The Fantastic Planet is a French animated sci-fi movie that my sister and I used to stay up late to watch on Night Flight (dubbed in English, of course). Beautiful, unusual animation and a compelling story of a planet where humans are treated as vermin by the planet's giant alpha-species.
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The sexiest movie ever made.
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The all time best stupid movie.
"Pain con't hurt."
"I used to f**k guys like you in prison!"
There are many, many underappreciated films. But, I find most of the films mentioned (Wenders, Gilliam, Lynch) have a cult following, so they're appreciated.
However, I have yet to find someone who appreciates Summer of Sam -- a movie I found quite remarkable. I suspect this is because people assumed it was about the serial killer, and not the "summer". Maybe it's the anacronism of a punk listening to The Who, or the indie look of Spike Lee joints.
People can argue it's bad acting, but I think it was the people they were portraying.
This is what I found the film to be: personal conflict set in a time where we don't think of conflict. The characters cannot connect their lifestyles with their values. The main character is frustrated because he wants kinky sex, but cannot indulge with his own willing wife, because she's the future mother of his children. She knows her husband cheats on her, and cannot satisfy him.
His old friend has embraced an over-the-top punk persona, including affecting an accent. His girlfriend is the former neighbourhood tramp. These are all people desperately wanting to be someone else. Why? Because they want to be modern, but they're trapped with old values.
Perhaps it's the same conflicts which motivate the serial killings. The movie begins with the characters feeling like they're on top, and in control. They start to demonstrate their failings, and the killings start.
Self-loathing, and the fear that they may be the next victim, eat at each of the characters. Add some summer heat, the constant sound of a dog barking, and things escalate to mob violence.
I like the movie when it came out.
Like Star Wars it was about a disaffected teenager who discovers adventure in space.
It had the mentor type. It lacked a strong female lead.
It had some some cool special effects, though the technology is cheesy now.
The Last Starfighter essentially killed the F/X CGI industry for about seven years. Its CGI was was extremely expensive and unrealistic. Its F/X company had even bought a Cray super-computer (About the speed of Pentium on a good day). Most of the major F/X houses went bankrupt that time. the revival was thought to be the movie Abyss by ILM. The gellatinous alien was so realistic that many thought it was a model rather than CGI.
The basic premise is that a rare violin is on the auction block. As we are shown certain people bidding on the violin, the story takes us in the past to where the violin was significant to their heritage and why they wanted it so badly. I was particilarly pleased to see them use the actual languages of the times (with subtitles) and not a woman with a Chinese accent, for example.
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A spoof of Casablanca and the other Bogart flicks, starring Humphrey Bogart, Gina Lollabridgida, Robert Morley, Pete Lorre, Janet Leigh and just about every great character actor available. Written by John Huston and Truman Capote, directed by Huston. Example from Peter Lorre:
"Time, time, what is time? Italians squander it, Swiss measure it, Americans say it is money and the Hindus say it does not exist. I say time is a crook."
The revolution will NOT be televised.
Am I the ONLY one that ever saw that movie? Man!
-- Bob
I am surprised that I haven't seen this one yet. Written by Tarantino, but unfortunately not directed by him. Starring, Chistian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Brad Pitt (in his pre-12 Monkeys performance), Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, and Balkey. You can't ask for a better cast.
Manm, there are so many phenominal scenes in this movie.
"The Stuff" - this film was great, the populous as mindless consumers, paul sorvino as an wacky colonel, and a private dectective that teams up with an advertizing exec to save the word.
Until the End of the World - done by Wim Wenders
Naked Lunch - with Roy Scheider (not so much a gadget film)
Videodrome - Deborah Harry
and my #1 favorite movie of all time..
Brainstorm (1983) - with Christopher Walken. When visiting Kitty Hawk, I had my wife take pictures of me by the same bust of one of the Wright brothers featured in one of the "memory bubbles"
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It's an amazing movie that never really saw a theatrical release. I remember seeing the posters for it around town, and the release date kept being moved back. Then, after a few months the poster disappeared. A year or so later I rented it on DVD and was blown away.
I'm sure there's an interesting distribution story behind this movie, other than the financial backers of the movie making Anderson change the name from Sydney to Hard Eight. I don't really mind the new title, but Anderson still vents over it.
Lair of the White Worm, Buckaroo Bonzai, and Bowling for Columbine. Lair of the White Worm is a very funny near cult classic from Britain based, I believe, on a Bram Stoker novel. The cast also includes some surprises. Buckaroo Bonzai is a hands down classic. Bowling for Columbine is, although currently controversial, an interesting look at a gun culture. All Americans should see this, especially considering the viewing it gets outside of the US.
... is Trinity.
AKA Lo Chiamavano Trinita.
Insanity is the last line of defence for the master diplomat. But you have to lay the groundwork early.
Nausicaa of the Vally of the Wind. Out of print, but sometimes available on DC.
r4lv3kThe best dragon movie evar. No pussy dragons that
just want to cuddle and tear out their internal organs (Dragon Heart) or some geek-turned-dragon just so he can spout math at some faggy wizard (Flight of Dragons).
No.The Dragon in Dragon Slayer was all about eating virgins and torching villages which is how it should be.
And yeah, I was born in '71 :)
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I've always liked this movie. "Little people need big names to give them weight!" >
If you like Rutger Hauer movies
then you will probably like this one
Salute of the Jugger
I haven't seen it mentioned yet & IMDB only gives it a 5.6/10
Help! help!, the termites are eating my DRAM!!!
Apparently they are talking of doing a remake of Kind Hearts and Coronets with Will Smith in the Dennis Price role and... Brace yourself... Robin Williams performing the Alec Guiness characters.
We finally have conclusive and definitive proof that there is no God.
Zhang Zi Yi, the chick from Crouching Tiger, can do more than punch. Great movie about personal loyalty and rural China. Must rent.
Another flick from the Master, Zhang Yi Mou (Raise the Red Lantern)
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Probably the next best thing since Matrix. Hardly a single journalist raved about this film to even a fraction of an extent compared to Matrix. I don't recall it making any top ten lists for best movies of 2002, nor do I remember it winning any kind of award. Heck, I don't think it was even reviewed here on Slashdot.
- IP
Patricia: You mean you were diagnosed with something called a brain cloud and didn't ask for a second opinion?
Patricia: Nobody knows anything, Joe. We'll take this leap, and we'll see. We'll jump, and we'll see. That's life, right?
Patricia: My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement.
Joe walking in to his office, noticing his shoe is falling apart:
DeDe: What's wrong?
Joe: I'm losing my soul.
DeDe: Yeah.
Joe seeing the giagantic moon rise on the ocean for what he things will be the last time:
"Dear God, whose name I do not know, thank you for my life. I forgot how big . . . thank you for my life."
And lots more
Vote Quimby.
Rikky and Pete is a fantastic movie, with some geek charm to it (Pete is a mechanical genius). Is it a film with a deep meaning and a strong moral message? Nope, it's just a great slice-of-life film. I dare you to find it anywhere though.
Do not touch -Willie
The line "I'm here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, etc." was originally in the movie "They Live" by John Carpenter. Roddy Piper says the line, and claims he made it up. I've only seen "Army of Darkness" on TV so I had not heard the line in that movie, but it's definitely in "They Live".
That's a good underappreciated movie, as is "Black Moon Rising" by the same director.
I had a different reaction. When I see a great movie it always makes me feel good, even with something disturbing/depressing like Requiem. I seem to be overjoyed that a film has been put together so well that it actually brings out such emotion in me. There are countless films that only provide as mere entertainment and do nothing to stir the mind or soul. Those are the depressing ones.
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...called 'Eurotrash'. To understand this concept, please see 'The Beach'.
While it does have some cult following due to the original Vampire Hunder D, this anime film didn't even make it to theaters in my city (the web site had a "tour dates" listing...). Good thing for DVD.
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Ahh fine cinema.
I am the Lorvax, I speak for the machines.
"Like got to a dairy and see how miwk is pwoduced."
"The popcorn you're eating has been pissed in. Film at eleven"
Vote Quimby.
...is BY FAR the most under-appreciated geek movie (or just plain movie) ever. Amazing soundtrack. Great actors. Futuristic technology. Exploding Indian nuclear satellites. Travels from San Francisco to Moscow to Japan to the Australian outback to Lisbon and on and on. Spies and assassins. Addiction to dreams.
There's even a five+ hour version that is supposed to improve on the theater release (which is quite great anyway). Wim Wenders has a website (can't recall his URL) and people are constantly pestering him to get this movie released on DVD there. Not sure if it's out yet, but it sounds like it will be soon.
Starring the brilliant Oliver Platt, and the Jerry Lewis. Strange, suspenseful, and very funny. A film for anyone who ever wanted to be a comedian.
I mean, its about geeky people who can't fit in with anyone else. I would think this would be slashdot gold. lemme throw in some others-- "Basic Instinct": Man, i sprayed my shorts after the first scene. whew. "the unbearable lightness of being": this stars juliet binoche and danial day lewis. "Ghost in the Machine": i'm sure everyone knows about this film. anime greatness "the beast":Jason Patrick is a Soviet tanker during the invasion of Afganistan. they all die. kind of ironic now. "Whore": Theresa Russel is a cynical hooker with a heart of gold. She talks to the camera the whole movie so it gets annoying but it's about hookers so i'll watch. "Brazil": do i actually have to tell u about this movie? "the cook, the thief, his wife, her lover": this movie is just weird. the whole "Blue, White, Red" series. there all French and I don't care. "Howard the duck":nah, this movie is just sleezy, sorry "Thunder heart" this movie stars val kilmer and is about a murder on the Sioux reservation. "Amercan Psycho": 80's greed epitimized i could go on and on and on...
Lou Gossett Jr., James Woods, Oliver Platt, Heather Graham. Good story, good fighting, good twists. This movie kicks ass. Get some beer, some buddies, and watch this movie - you'll have a blast! My runner up is Bram Stokers Dracula - but you have to have a lot more beer to get into the finer points of this comedy (yes, it is a comedy).
Jim - your name is Jim...
Fail Safe is kind of a more serious look at nuclear warfare. I didn't get a chance to see the 2000 CBS live version featuring Mr. Clooney. I wish they sold the DVD here in the US. They do for UK and Germany.
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Ron Howard: "So we're going to use smoke and cutaways right?"
ILM: "No, we aren't going to cutaway at all... we're going to see the transformations on screen. It will be all done on a computer."
Ron Howard: "I don't get it."
"Oh dear, she's stuck in an infinite loop and he's an idiot" -Prof. Farnsworth (Futurama)
Without a moment's hesitation, I put "Hamburger: the Motion Picture" at the top of my list. Now, I must admit, I go for FUNNY movies rather than the SCARY ones that some of the other posters seem to like. And for number two on my list, "Stewardess School". Almost nobody has ever heard of these, but I think they are close to the funniest movies ever made.
Teen Angel - a Ghost Story
The Sukeban Deka movies. Japanese girls in school uniforms doing kung fu with yo-yos. Even better than it sounds.
"Brewster McCloud", directed by Robert Altman and starring Bud Cort and several actors from M*A*S*H (which was Altman's previous film.)
"Lisztomania" by Ken Russell. A rock opera about Franz Liszt.
"The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane", starring Jodie Foster and Martin Sheen.
"Carny" starring Jodie Foster and Gary Busey.
"Yor, The Hunter From The Future" You gotta love a movie that combines cavemen, dinosaurs, robots and other science fiction gadgetry. The rock music score is great too.
"Metropolis" by Fritz Lang, restored with music by Giorgio Moroder back in the 80's.
"Bird Of Paradise" with Dolores Del Rio as a native girl who falls in love with a white man and ends up jumping in a volcano.
"I, The Jury" with Armand Assante and Barbara Carrera.
"The 10th Victim" with Marcello Mastroiani and Ursula Andress.
"The Stunt Man" starring Peter O'Toole and Steve Railsback.
Education is the silver bullet.
But the first that comes to mind is Hudson Hawk - good flick
(I think that's the title.) It's been about 20 years since I've seen it, and I've never seen in for sale or rent, but I remember enjoying it thoroughly. I was into the theater tech branch of geekdom at the time, and a movie about roadies just connected.
favorite quote: "Why is my life harder than everyone else's?"
It's been years since I saw any of them, but the Deathstalker series was pretty funny. The first one was kind of a like a Conan-comedy. In the 2nd one, they had a really small guy playing the part. In one of them, I remember he had to fight the WWF Queen Kong.
Super cheesy and super dumb, just the way I like them!
Really? I have the DVD, haven't gone through the special features yet. I love the movie. Something about a movie that comments on things only happening like that in the movies that makes it somewhat more special.
Especially the grim beginning, where they head up to the front of the church -- the visiting Cardinal goes to stand to denounce them for approaching the statue while the Father is preaching and he's stopped by one of the other Bishops. It's sort of got that 'we're such badasses that even the church won't mess with us' sort of quality to it.
No mortal could possess it! No kingdom could command it!
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0082348
I know everyone hated it, and it has been called the biggest flop (at least most expensive) in the history of movies - but i loved it. It's gotta be one of the funniest movie's i've ever seen. It just doesn't get any better than the Deacon. "..you can tell by the arterial nature of the blood comming form the hole in my head, that we're all having a real lousy day!" or, "It does look like shit! and it feels like cold shit!" Although i'd have to say the funniest line in any move i can think of at the moment (i know there are some better ones but i can't think of them), was from Pitch Black (wich i really liked too). "I thought you said it was clear?!" "I said it looks clear!" "..well how does it look now?" *shrugs* "looks clear.." Real Geneius was great. As was Flight of the Navigator, and many of the other that have been mentioned. Makes me wanna go out and buy a copy of them all :)
Almost 1700 comments and only eight modded above a +2? Now that is Underappreciation for you!
The Keep (1983) - Michael Mann (yes that one!) http://us.imdb.com/Title?0085780
Amazing soundtrack (if you get the Tangerine Dream one) very atmospheric and a great cast (not so great performances perhaps). I suspect that the editing room floor has some important bits of film since there are places where it doesn't scan right, but a cool film noone has ever heard of.
"The first thing to do when you find yourself in a hole is stop digging."
In particular "Multiple Maniacs" and "Pink Flamingos".
A good runner-up would be "Something Funny Happened on the Way to the Forum".
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"When romance fades, something else takes it's place." .. "Senility?" .. "Trust!"
Okay, well, that was three lines. Still...
"First there was this trouble between me and Hugh." ... "You and me? " .. "No, me and Hugh." ...
Well, now that I think about it, maybe it's all in the delivery; but it's still REALLY funny. Don't blame me if you can't get beyond the lead actress... ;-)
I absolutely loved Conan The Barbarian. The musical score to that movie is one of the best soundtracks ever.
If I had the resources, I would make a sequel worthy of the first. I would pretend the 2 other sequels never existed. They sucked so hard...
I also dug BTLC. That electric Raiden-like character was so freaking cool.
In the UK, it's always been "The Pope Must Die". We don't wuss out on stuff like that :-)
It's not you: I'm just this horrifically socially awkward with everybody.
Great movie that got sent direct to video because its a violent movie released just after Columbine
Not to the end of the list yet, but before I forget (and in case no one else mentioned it), "Slacker" should be there too... No, not "Slackers", but "Slacker", the flick by Richard Linklater. One-of-a-kind movie with some outstanding monolouges, and the best flow I've seen. I've written stories like that: once the actors get boring, follow one of them away and intercept a whole new plotline!
"Shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased. Thus we refute entropy" - Spider Robinson
Not the T.V. Show.. The Movie.. Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Paul Ruebin's death scene is a classic of all time. -philej
Word to me.
on IMDB and the whole trilogy at the site. KOYAANISQATSI is a life changing movie. It isn't preachy, you can get what you want from it.
I'm surprised I couldnt find this one mentioned. Scientists in the future 2076 try to go back in time to 1776 to get info on the founding fathers as all history in 2076 was degaussed. The accidently end up in 1976. All spare cast of big 70's names. Very tongue in cheek but keeps you rolling on the floor. Anyone who lived thru the 70's would appreciate.
Skidoo - starting Carol Channing (gogo dancing naked with Frankie Avalon!), Groucho Marx (last starting role, ever, as "GOD" - head of the Mob), Jackie Gleason (at one point shown tripping on LSD!), Mind you, I am talking about the more sane parts of the movie :-) Check out http://us.imdb.com/Title?0063612 for more details and see it if you can find it! - Yossie
The veritable peak of Valley Girl culture. Like, fer shurr, y'know?
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He went from Citizen Kane to Transformers?
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Great look at the comic book culture while putting the hobby into perspective with the real world.
Donnie Darko
The Stupids
Panama Deception
Year of the Pig
Hearts and Minds
Iron Monkey
"Fudge, Packer?"
Most of the movies on my list I saw in excess of 50 times each on HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, TMC, or (when it was around) Spotlight. Me and my younger sister had loads of time to watch flicks when we were young, as a result, we can shamelessly recite entire movie scripts with few errors.
Red Dawn - I still watch this whenever it comes on
Strange Brew - I own this one.
The Sure Thing - was just on a couple of months ago, I stopped working on a server build to watch it. Introduced me to "shotgunning".
Wierd Science - "He don't even got a license leeeeeesaaaaa"
Body Double - my sister, my brother, and myself found this movie one night at about 3am on Skinemax. It's not a bad flick... Honestly.
Conan the Barbarian - I still love this movie.
Buckaroo Bonzai in the 5th Dimension - We watched this movie over and over until we couldn't watch it any more.
Howard the Duck - we were all fans of the comic. Then this came along. We liked it back then, but no longer.
The Manhattan Project - Still a good flick, if a bit unrealistic.
Dreamscape - the first PG-13 movie ever. We used to daydream about stuff like this.
There's more than that, but these were the flicks that stick out.
Fifty watts per channel, baby cakes.
Ladyhawke, with Rutgar Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, and a young Matthew Broderick (whose one-sided conversations with God were inspired) is my favorite all-time fantasy movie.
Ralph Bakshi's Wizards (which I think someone mentioned earlier) is still my favorite animated movie of all time. (Sorry, Disney.)
And Vincent Price's Dr. Phibes movies are the best old campy horror movies ever!
TLR
A man no more knows his destiny than a tea leaf knows the history of the East India Company
The 13th Warrior was a very good adaptation of very clever but equally under appreciated Michael Crichton book. A fun flick!
"Love is a familiar; Love is a devil: there is no evil angel but Love." --William Shakespeare ('Love's Labors Lost')
Tawny Kitaen's finest pout movie has to be, without a doubt, this spooky honker was made in France and dubbed (badly) into English. I loved this silly thing, with Tawny runing around in various states of undress and looking like she just got out of bed from a long session with various large, buzzing implements.
The fight scenes with the suitably Amazonian bad girls in high heeled boots weren't half bad, either.
Blinker's Spy Spotter - British movie from the early 70's that ran on Spotlight in the early 80's. Good flick back then.
Fifty watts per channel, baby cakes.
I saw it when it first came out in the theatre, & I never thought it was overlooked, unlike your average foreign film like, say Klimat's ``Come and See".
Besides being an excellent movie, I like ``Miller's Crossing" for a very special reason -- it allowed me to state that ``Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer" was *NOT* the best film released in 1990.
``Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer", however, is underrated. What if they filmed a slasher movie (e.g., ``Friday the 13th") seriously, no tongue-in-cheek campiness, but an attempt to present a killer so believeable & frightening that you have to work to get the movie out of your head? That's what ``Henry" is, in a nutshell: a brilliantly done movie that affects you so much that you never want to see it again.
Geoff
I think I see a trend here. Maybe for them it really would be easier to muzzle the entire internet than to produce p
I don't want to sound like a queer or nothing, but Orgazmo is a sweet film.
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By the way, who knows which film my tag line is from???
Keep passing the open windows...
baraka is like watching a cinematic postcard of the history of the planet earth. it is the most visually stunning film ever made.
The Duel, Lone Star, Brewster McCloud are the first ones that spring to mind. Actually just about any John Sayles seems to be underappreciated, given how good they are.
Oh Mr Porter And any other Will Hay movie. Classic brilliant slapstick.
"Never trust a computer you can't throw." -- The Mac
Wait.... this is supposed to be funny? This could be a typical breakfast cereal commercial. Or maybe this is one of those "You shoulda been there.." situations?
A good test of a one-liner is that it stands alone, and doesn't require the context, eg, does not require the listener to have experienced the original movie, play, TV show, record, or whatever. AFAIK, most of the quotes mentioned require butt-loads of context. Ok so "Klatu Beretta Necktie" is funny, but only because Gort and me are buds.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
You're kidding, right? Half way through the movie's incomprehensible plot, we renamed it. It is now only refered to as: Space Booty: The Final Conquest.
This one gets my vote.
Humour in the same vein as Grosse Point Blank (if a little more bizarre) but even less well known. Shawn Wallace is great!
Earth Girls are Easy: Julie Brown " 'Cause I'm a Blonde, B-L-I-N-D." and Geena Davis. Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans in some of their earliest performances. Classic Valley Girl flick.
Better Off Dead: John Cusack, the French foreign exchange student, and, er, Booger. Every line in the movie is quotable.
"It's a crying shame when folk's be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like that."
"Go that way, real fast. If something gets in your way, turn."
"This mountain is pure snow. Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is?"
"I can't even get real drugs in this town! (...holding a can of whipped cream)"
"Lane, you're really bringing me (checks book _How to Talk to Your Teenager_) over, man."
"I want my two dollars!"
(ok, I may be a little off on some of these, it's been a while...)
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Here are 5 of my favourite underrated films:
Repo Man
Local Hero
Whisky Galore
The Lady Eve
Bullets over Broadway
Of course, underrated is a hard criteria to follow.
-aiabx
Just this guy, you know?
Yes, yes, yes. I bought the DVD for this movie years before I had a DVD player.
Too many funny scenes to pick a favorite, but when the giant and Dean meet, the giant smiles and says "Deeeaaannnn"...that just kicks my ass every time.
The phone that wouldn't hang up; Dean in the middle of the road; "That hurt"; "Check please".
And, of course, "No following" and "Superman".
Must go watch for 20th time.
Without a doubt, one of the best movies that disappeared from theatres in a hurry. An animation classic by all standards.
Fortunately, it got more attention when it was released on video, though the image quality of the DVD suffers at times...
"Follow your Bliss." -- Joseph Campbell
This is a classic piece of Danny Kaye humor.
Two picks. Pyrates, starring Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick and a couple that inadvertently stars fires with every sexual encounter (The Frank Gorshin line is worth the price of admission alone), and Let it Ride, with Richard Dreyfuss and David Johansen (aka Buster Poindexter) in an incredibly charming horse racing movie. Both are really great and fun flicks, despite their cheesy nature.
A Matter of Life Or Death (known as Stairway to Heaven in the US) is one of my all time favourite movies.
David Niven plays Peter, a poet and RAF Lancaster Bomber pilot who is returning from a raid on Germany. He's making a last radio call to relate his hopeless position. the plane is on fire, everyone has bailed out except him and his dead copilot. He doesn't have a parachute, but has decided to jump anyway rather than burn.
He speaks to June, a young American woman (Kim Hunter), giving his last message before he falls to his death.
Except he doesn't die, and meets June the next day on the beach where he was washed up, and she's already in love with him after hearing his voice the previous night.
Meanwhile, in the monochrome afterlife, the conductor sent to escort Peter to his place in heaven lost him in the fog, and is sent to persuade Peter to take up his rightful place in the afterlife.
(this afterlife appears to be run by the civil service.)
Peter is having severe headaches, and so June persuades him to see a doctor friend, who diagnoses a brain injury which needs surgery.
Will Peter live or die, and is the Conductor real or just a figment of his imagination?
It all depends on his earthly surgery and his heavenly appeal. Look very closely at the judge and the doctor performing his operation....
The ending is beautiful and has me close to tears.
It has some great quotes, too.
"This is the universe. Big, isn't it."
(when Conductor 71, played by Marius Goring as a ccamp French aristocrat killed in the Revolution, arrives from the monochrome afterlife to colourful Earth):
"Ahhh. One is so starved of technicolour up zere..."
"Information wants to be paid"
Great flick, 1st Michael J. Fox movie.. also stars the greatest film actor of all time, Eddie Deezen. how can you go wrong... on a side note.. the big hit? fucking christ that crack your on must be good.. 'hey lets make an action flick but anytime there is any.. ACTION ... lets make the camera all crazy so no one knows what the fuck is going on! CUT PRINT!"
for off-but-good action/comedy see Arnies one good comedy the brilliant LAST ACTION HERO
"Just keep your power gloves off her, okay pal?"
Am I wrong, or is Mystery Science Theatre 3000 one of the Funniest movies ever made?
Anonymous Cowards - Oh God, How I hate you
Best ever... Bar none.
http://www.koyaanisqatsi.com/index.php
I also recommed Waking Life...
http://www.wakinglifemovie.com/
Zorzella
I've always liked What's Up Doc?, Valley Girl, and Return To Me. (hmm, one/decade?)
Being a child of the 80s, my pick has to be from my formative years. Less Than Zero. Nowhere near the same storyline as the book, but a fine film in its own right.
Well, this movie did fairly well when it was released in the mid-1970's, but it is a movie more and more people should see: Network, written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet. For all of you who rail against the MPAA and the RIAA, for all of you who thought The Matrix had something to say about being uncomfortable in mass-market culture, Network says it all and says it all better (although it lacks guns and women in tight leather tops, so some people here will not be able to see the movie's merits).
Another movie that was surprisingly good and much overlooked was Fearless written by Rafael Yglasias (sp?) and directed by Peter Weir. This movie, about dealing with tragedy and the mental disarrangement caused by a near-death expereince is a wonderful and moving film that strikes home every time I see it. The only problem being that the DVD is available in pan-and-scan only, which I consider a crime. It is a great movie. See it.
J. Frank Parnell
: Radiation, yes indeed! You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-boxed do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense! Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. Ought to have 'em too. When they canceled the project it almost did me in. One day my mind was ready to burst. The next day nothing swept away. But I showed them. I had a lobotomy in the end.
Otto:
Lobotomy. Isn't that for loonies?
J. Frank Parnell:
Not at all. A friend of mine had one. Designer of the neutron bomb. Ever hear of the neutron bomb? Destroys people. Leaves buildings standing. And it fits in a suit case. It's so small no one knows it's there until blamo. Eyes melt skin explodes everybody dead. It's so immoral working on the thing can drive you mad. That's what happened to this friend of mine. So he had a lobotomy. Now he's well again.
Otto:
What kind of car does your friend drive?
J. Frank Parnell:
Chevy Malibu.
Otto:
This is really a nice old car. Why don't you let me drive?
J. Frank Parnell:
What do you mean?
Otto:
Well I don't know. I mean ah!. Don't you feel funny.?
J. Frank Parnell:
Why should I feel funny? The two hemispheres are fundamentally at odds. Hemisphere, Hemisphere. You know it's strange. I do feel-
Luggage of the Gods! (1983)
An airplane carrying several counterfeit paintings, worth millions to the counterfeiters, suffers a malfunction in the cargo hold, spilling the paintings, as well as all the luggage, near a colony of cave men that has existed unaltered in the middle of America for millenia. Two of the men from the colony find the crashed luggage and begin to assimilate themslves into modern culture using the luggage, and that's when the fun begins. When the counterfeiters come in search of their loot, they find a lot more than they bargained for!
Drunken clowns make me laugh. Robin Williams as a mime should have gotten Best Supporting Actor.
I thought Event Horizon was so-so... Worth watching once at least. Supernova sucked ass. (It had all the stupidity you normally see in bad Sci-Fi. And a bit of skin thrown in for good measure IIRC.
Pitch Black I did like though. Probably because I didn't exepect anything from it. I liked the details like how they had different filters for the different suns. So when the red sun was up everything was very red and so on.
Also since there were no really big actors (one of Vin D's earlier movies) you're not quite sure what's going to happen and who's going to die.
Favorite line (Chance meeting the President): "Mr. President, on TV, you look much smaller."
"Shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased. Thus we refute entropy" - Spider Robinson
I imagine both have already been brought up, but they are two of my favorite flicks that never saw much of the silverscreen (if any).
Get Virtual.
A funny movie about some big-city sales-whiz sent from Coca Cola corporate HQ to an Australian outback where the soda market is dominated by a local concern, and he has to try and get Coke sales going. It's not the typical fish-out-of-water-movie, although it sounds like ti from my description.
This one was defnitely underappreciated. I think the critics praised it when it was out, but I don't really know anybody who's ever heard of it.
Starship Troopers, the movie - wasn't satire, it was merely a bad science fiction action movie with decent special effects.
:)
Starship Troopers, the novel, couldn't be interpreted as satire unless one only reads English as a third language.
And I doubt that most Heinlein fans would care what anyone said about the movie, as it was so far removed from the novel as to only have the title and the names of the characters in common with it.
Just my opinion
dj
I thought the movie was truly awful. I had read the book and thoroughly enjoyed it. At the times I read the book, I didn't really know who Hubbard was nor did I know anything about "scientology". In fact it was not until deal with scientology and google that actually took the time find out about what scientology was. I still like the book.
Back to the first statement. The movie could have been much better. It barely followed the plot line. I was so disappointed by it that I barely remember what happened. The biggest glaring change that bothered me was the whole hanger full of planes at "Fort Hood". I was stationed at Hood (when the movie came out) and there aren't any hangers full of fighter jets there. (Helicopters yes, cargo planes yes, fighter jets no.) It should have been the "tomb" as described in the book.
Life moves pretty fast; if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. -FB
Boondock saints kicks mass ass. violent? yes. extremely, in fact. And the crossdressing cop we all know and love was a little over the top; but still an excellent movie.
Get Virtual.
Geena Davis was possibly the first female to take on classically male roles: a pirate, then a sweaty, dirty, swearing, spitting, stinking, horny, mean assassin. What's not to love? And the immortal Sam. L. Jackson lines: "When you make a assumption, you make a ass outa you and umption" and "Were you born this stupid or did you take classes?" Delicious.
Strange Brew, a fine movie all around. "It's a jelly"
Demolition Man, Sly's finest moment as an actor.
I think it will eventually get the props it deserves. Hopefully the human race will still be around...
The truth doesn't care what I think.
2? other sequals? AFAIK, there is only Conan The Destroyer, which we should pretend never existed. GAG. Are you thinking of RED SONJA, where Arnie plays Prince SomeBody-or-Other, a thinly disquised Conan clone?
The Tall Guy, English romantic comedy starring Jeff Goldblum. Rowan Atkinson plays the asshole everyone suspects Rowan Atkinson really is. Brilliant musical parody based on The Elephant Man lambastes Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Weber, and everyone else who has ever written a musical.
Ticket to Heaven, brilliant Canadian low-budget film about cults. Some seriously good anthropology.
Serial, Martin Mull movie about Marin County nuttiness, also some cults. Hilarious. Christopher Lee as a headhunter who is in a gay biker gang on weekends, Tommy Smothers perfect as a New Age preacher.
Gods and Monsters, Ian McKellum plaing James Whale in his last days, with Brendan Frasier as the young man with the monster face he becomes obsessed with. A film about loneliness and loss. One of the best films I've seen in a decade.
Hands down one of the best slapstick movies ever.
"My mother hung me on hook once... once."
Brain Candy, Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness, 1984, Loaded Weapon 1, Orgasmo
The Hudsucker Proxy
Buffalo '66
The Fisher King
Box of Moonlight
The End of Violence
Series 7: The Contenders
Salome's Last Dance
Goya in Bordeaux
Ringmaster
Trekkies
The Party
Zero Effect
Happy Texas
Return to Oz
I just watched this again yesterday. This was a unique and hilarious piece of animation that George Lucas took under his wing back in the early 80s. A must-see for every animation fan. Featured the voice of Lorenzo "Garfield" Music.
It's in Chinese, but I think Zhang Yimou got a 'near perfect' movie, and deeper, more philosophical and artistic storyline than 'Crouching Tiger'. "Hero" didn't win even for best foreign language movie in the Academy Awards.
This has been an overlooked movie starring James Woods, Oliver Platt and Louiss Gossett, jr. It con-artist movie revolving around boxing in a small southern town. Worth a view in my opinion.
I liked it.
My Ass hurts.
This is not really your average guy movie, but the girl geeks out there might enjoy New Waterford Girl. Might be hard to find since it was an independent Canadian film. Very quirky, humourous and fun.
I hope you're not pretending to be evil while secretly being good. That would be dishonest.
The Big Lebowski!
'Nuff said.
Judgement Night
Scary as f*** >:D http://www.cubethemovie.com/ David
Strange Brew, starring Bob and Doug McKenzie...YOU HOSER!
Recommended to me by a friend, great script, great directing. William Dafoe as a homophobic homosexual FBI agent. Sean Patrick Flannery is in it too. IMDB Listing Fan Site Buy the DVD Thanx Rayston
'The Arrival' was Geek Chic! Charley Sheen's character secretly hacked a neighborhood's satellite dishes to serve as an array of radio telescopes! How cool is that!
"So is the BSD licence even more 'free' (than GPLv2)? Yes. Unquestionably." --Linus Torvalds (TinyURL.com/2vugzl)
Opened my eyes to what a movie could be!
Boondock Saints (1999) is awesome -- I found it purely by chance back in June 2000, poring over some not-so-new Blockbuster VHS titles. Willam Defoe is absolutely hilarious as an over-the-top FBI agent, and Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus are both utterly believable as two Boston-dwelling Irish brothers out for vengence. Get the import version, if you can -- Fox removed a lot of the violence when they released it this past year for US consumption.
Donnie Darko (2001) is another keeper, too -- I only happened across it a few months ago because my girlfriend mentioned that it had been screening at a tiny indie NYC theater midnight on Fridays and Saturdays for over a year. Was so good I bought the DVD as soon as it came out.......... surprised I never heard of it before. Starring Jake Gyllenhal (the would-be Spiderman replacement for Toby McGuire).
This one I caught on Bravo one night (about 1/2 way through) and I searched and searched for it. Finally I found it on VHS and saw it through the whole way. It is perhaps one of the best "road" movies I have seen.
John Hurt, Terrence Stamp, and a young Tim Roth star. Terrence Stamp's character plays a criminal who turns state's evidence against his gang and gets sent to Spain on a witness protection program. After his boss gets out of prison, he sends John Hurt and Tim Roth to get Stamp and bring him back to England.
I don't want to spoil it, but all the actors do a superb performance and really develop their characters throughout the movie. Eric Clapton plays the intro music and Paco de Lucia plays a TON of flamenco over the different scenes (they are driving through Spain).
I forget...are we at war with Eurasia or East Asia?
need i say more ?!
When I first read the topic, I thought surely I would be able to find movies which no one else had seen that I would be able to mention. After just scrolling thru the first page of replies, I realize I'm hangin' with some of the finest geeks/movie connoisseurs in the world. Mad props to everyone. One film I didn't see mentioned however was Amazon Women on the Moon. I would list others but they have most likely been brought to your attention already.
I am a big fan of Zardoz, though it is a product of its time and has loads of detractors. It is an extropian cautionary tale about what happens if you get more life but don't really evolve yourselves. As for Buckaroo Banzaii. I can't get enough of it and wish the sequel and TV series had gone somewhere. The writer of the best-candiate spec. script for the sequel in recent years has this to say about Buckaroo Banzaii (at 1:10, and a few other geeky films).
--- I got news, you never gotta go. - Ted Nugent
Excellent steve buscemi flick.
Show me a man with both feet on the ground, and I'll show you a man who can't put on his pants.
Thanks! I thought it would never go to DVD...I'm off to find it :)
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Just making sure this one gets mentioned. The whole movie revolved around Griffin Dunne desperate attempts to get home from New York's Soho district. It's a bit like Adventures in Babysitting (another classic...especially the blues club scene) for grownups.
Some of my other favorites: Big Trouble in Little China, Repo Man, Duel (low budget Speilberg kicked ass), Das Boot, Deathtrap (makes your head spin), The Fifth Element, and yes, just about anything with Rutger Hauer in it.
Talby: They are a body of asteroids that make a complete circuit of the universe once every 12.3 trillion years. The Phoenix Asteroids... From what I've heard, Doolittle, they glow... glow with all the colors of the rainbow. Nobody knows why. They just glow as they drift around the universe. Imagine all the sights they've seen in the time they've been travelling -- the birth and death of stars, things we'll never see. The universe is alive, Doolittle. I thought it was all empty, but it isn't. In between the stars, it's seething with light and gasses and dust. There are little pebbles drifting around, planets no one on Earth has ever seen... No one but the Phoenix Asteroids...
You simply can't beat four completely pissed and mindless guys in beards and afros trying to find some solace in the universe.
Dark Star will be discovered.
a great comedy that no one really remembers; such a shame, as it contained Burt Lancaster's final film appearance as an oil company president who was more concerned with finding a comet that with finding oil. Peter Riegert (The Mask, Oscar) turns in another great performance as the negotiator sent to Scotland by Lancaster to buy an entire fishing village. Denis Lawson ("Wedge" from the original Star Wars trilogy)as the accountant/public house owner who is always making out with his wife Stella. The scenery of the scottish coastline is memorable, and the haunting soundtrack by Mark Knopfler is unforgettable.
The Boondock Saints is definitely in my top 3 favorite movies of all time. It's one of those movies you watch, and walk away from feeling fulfilled.. which is extremely strange. I would suggest you all watch it at least once to understand.
The greatest movie I have ever seen. Well, at least a close second to Mystery Science Theatre 3000
Anonymous Cowards - Oh God, How I hate you
...nobody has mentioned...
Being There (1979) Wow. Peter Sellers considers this his best work. Although the central idea gets some mileage, this is satire at it's best. An there's a little treat for you paranoid Illuminati fans at the end. Up there with Dr. Strangelove.
Bob Balaban directed this 1989 horror movie set in the early 60's. It was marketed as a black comedy, but the film itself is genuinely scary and unsettling. Watch the perfect, grinning 60's car-advertisement mom and dad eat human flesh and have slow-shutter-speed blood orgies, all through the eyes of their already emotionally damaged child. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0098068
As already noted- _Buckaroo Banzai_ /. crowd, but it's great too.
Another one that's better known, but has a similiar cult following without being widely popular, is _The Princess Bride_.
Also, two french films _City Of The Lost Children_ and _Delicatessen_ are fabulous. (even though the French are unpopluar right now)
two David mamet films: _House of Games_ and _The Spanish Prisoner_.
It's more widely known, but _The Usual Suspects_ was great.
Not all the Cohen Brothers movies got the kind of theatrical release that _Fargo_ did, yet everything from _Blood Simple_ to _The Man Who Wasn't There_ were great. I particularly recommend _Miller's Crossing_ and _the Hudsucker Proxy_.
Woody Allen's _Bullets Over Broadway_ probably isn't very popular in the
I'm sure more will come to mind later.
I hope anyone finds & enjoys some of these,
Cheers,
Fat Tony.
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Man, everybody hated that move but me! I thought it was an amazing film. The what Kubrik's use of color to tell the stories of passion, fear, love was incredible. He practically told that story through the use of his palate. That and Nicole Kidman naked!
Large company goes round aggressively, even killing programmers to further thier cause.
Enter Milo and his mate, open source Linux wizz programmer who gets offered a Job at big company.
Not a great film but for anyone who knows anything about Microsoft or any of the other big Tech companies it's a right laugh.
But no body upon nobody has heard of the film, well at least not anyone I've spoke to.
I'm seriously beginning to wonder if Microsoft sued or simply pulled the strings to make it less successful!
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if you haven't seen it, do so. It's about a guy who has a damaged hippocampus. (Can't make new memories.)
Great movie. Steve MArtin and Sarah Jessica Parker are awesome.
Awesome Cameo by Patrick Stuart;
PS: "Where do you summer?"
SM: "Excuse me?"
PS: "Where do you spend your summers?"
SM: "Here in LA."
PS: "He can have the chicken."
Wow there are already like 50000 responses to this and my threshold only lists 8 worthy ones. Is it now pointless to post? I guess we'll find out:
Ravi
When the axe came to the forest, the trees said, "Look out - the handle was once one of us."
I know there's a number of other people that think that "Better Off Dead" with John Cusack just ruled, but I also find so many people that never heard about it. (ominous whisper) "I want my two dollars".....
Never look down your nose at others. Someday, someone is bound to see your boogers.
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane - Andrew "Dice" Clay in one of the best guy movies ever. Do not watch this with your wife or girlfriend. "So many assholes, so few bullets."
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me - Starring too-cute Adrienne Shelly and a porn star. How can you go wrong?
Easy Wheels - Motorcyles, babes, wolves, hand grenades, and "Ernie" from "My Three Sons".
I live ze unknown. I love ze unknown. I am ze unknown.
One movie I remember that nobody I've talked to has heard of is "Eat and Run" It was a sci-fi/horror/comedy movie, but it all took part in a city. This fat bald guy was an alien who came to Earth to eat people. When he got done eating them he spit out the buttons from their clothes, since he couldn't digest those. It was hilarious in a "Spock's Brain" sort of way.
My motto is: Never give up - unless it's harder than you want it to be.
Any movie that plays with reality is great in my book. Plus Gretchen Mol was as beatiful as ever.
I don't mean to sound queer or nothin' but...
That movie had it all man. A mormon selling out and becoming a porn actor, cock rockets, the works. Just about as high-brow humor as is possible in a flic about porn.
"I'm from Utah"
"...oh, I'm sorry..."
A Fish Called Wanda: John Cleese, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin and Jamie Lee Curtis are hilarious in this jewel heist film. I've watched it countless times.
:-)
... bracken, small shrubs ... with a nineteen percent cut in salary, backdated to the beginning of time.
"I'm DISAPOINTED!"
Time Bandits: Another film with John Cleese and Michael Palin. Time travelling bandits stole a map from the "Supreme Being" and are travelling time looking for loot to steal. Unfortunately "Evil" is watching them and looking to get the map.
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Evil: If I were creating the world I wouldn't mess about with butterflies and daffodils. I would have started with lasers, eight o'clock, Day One!
[zaps one of his minions accidentally, minion screams]
Evil: Sorry.
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Supreme Being: I am the Supreme Being, I'm not entirely dim.
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Evil: Oh Benson, dear Benson, you are so mercifully free of the ravages of intelligence.
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Supreme Being: I'm going to transfer you to the undergrowth department
Randall: Oh, thank you, Sir.
Supreme Being: Yes, well, I am the nice one.
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Supreme Being: They'll think I've lost control again and leave it all to evolution.
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Evil: God isn't interested in technology. He cares nothing for the microchip or the silicon revolution. Look how he spends his time, forty-three species of parrots! Nipples for men!
Robert: Slugs.
Evil: Slugs! HE created slugs! They can't hear. They can't speak. They can't operate machinery. Are we not in the hands of a lunatic?!
I don't know... One could easily argue that all humor requires specific context, it's just that some specific information has become commonly distributed.
... victory" -- what's napalm
Examples:
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like
"If any of you f**king pricks move, I'll execute every last motherf**king one of you" (note: the sentence is different in the scene at the end of the movie) -- He's a potty mouth, what's funny here?
etc...
I'm honestly not trying to be a butt here. I just think contextual information has to exist for any joke. In my opinion, the best one liners, are the ones that make you laugh the hardest.
to make soup?"
I couldn't believe that came out of Steve's mouth.
- Hail to our fearless misleader! Fool speed ahead!
This was a great satirical black comedy that made fun of the zombie movies that take them selves WAY too seriously. Return of the Living Dead is the tale of a small town that is plagued by a hoard of running, screaming and brain-eating zombies after two men working for a medical supply warehouse release a toxic gas into the atmosphere. Wonderful movie!
Complex World.
Definitelly Dog Soldiers!
It's like "Pitch Black" or "Aliens", only campier and cheesier, lower budget, with a wonderful sense of humor, and rapid-fire intelligent dialogue. The film is full of wise cracks, visual and audio puns, tension and suspense, action, and rubber werewolf suits. It's absolutely brilliant!
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What you do today will cost you a day of your life
Night On Earth and Mystery Train are my favorites. Also anything my Wong Kar Wai, Kitano 'Beat' Takeshi and Atom Egoyan.
I just realised how much I miss moviecritic (the domain seems to be owned by macromedia these days).
The Warriors
Caaan Yoooou Dig It?
SLC Punk
- Hail to our fearless misleader! Fool speed ahead!
I definitely agree that They Might Be Giants is underappreciated. In a similar vein, I nominate Young Sherlock Holmes.
Or is Quest for the Holy Grail not obscure?
Visualize Whirled Peas
The current reality shows have NOTHING on that film. I love the scene with the cow blood + ... pool.
Title said it.
Falling Down is the only good Joel Schumacher film ever made. Great piece of anticapitalist propaganda
Gnuyen
props on Six String Samurai. but I'd say my favorite underated movie be Zoolander. Maybe I'm wrong but i didn't see much hype for this once it came out. The first time I watched it was on tape.. and damn its funny.. I own the DVD now.
Six String was obscure so you can't say underated really.. in fact it won the slamdance festival it was in.. so i'd say its rated well for what it was released to. Its just obscure.
Zoolander however was a major release and then not much came of it. Still I think its damn funny.
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I'm up to the final scene right now.
Though big business runs on big deals, many smaller projects are actually a lot more profitable. The most profitable movies of all time, in a ROI sense, have been low budget ones. Some notable ones are Stranger than Paradise, which I've heard cost under $30k to make, another $100k to market, but has made millions since, not to mention making Screamin' Jay Hawkins' a household name (well not quite, but...). Another is Sex, Lies, and Videotape, which also cost just a few hundred thousand dollars, and has made tens of millions.
Both these films and their directors were critically acclaimed, and have been highly hyped. Many young directors have done brilliant work, but nothing gets you noticed like making money.
DUNE the David Lynch movie qualifies IMHO.
Cool sountrack by Toto, very quotable.
Whatcha think?
Joan Rivers' film, The Girl Most Likely To, was at one time (1970s) the most played movie on television. It hasn't appeared for many years, but it's really what made her rich. It's about a girl who was geeky and ugly and picked on in high school. As if things couldn't get any worse for her, she becomes disfigured in a terrible car wreck. But after the required plastic surgery she emerges a total hottie, and uses her looks to get revenge on every man who wronged her, by luring them to their deaths.
Another low budget wonder is Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, a Russ Meyer film penned by Roger Ebert. The opening scene showing glances going around a room at a party is worth the rental, cheesy 60s film kitsch at its best.
Sure, it's kind of depressing - but Jennifer Connelly in the buff makes it worth it!
Excessive drinking is fine...in moderation.
"Box of Moonlight" - Sam Rockwell is great as a quirky loner and John Turturro as a man going through a midlife crisis was perfectly cast.
Excessive drinking is fine...in moderation.
hi all, first post ;)
2 movies stand out for me:
- Star Trek The Motion Picture (had a great epic feel to it, brilliant soundtrack)
- Return To Oz (dark view on Oz, with some brilliant bits in it! also a brilliant soundtrack)
As science struggles on to try to explain.
Oxytoxins flowing ever in to my brain.
Three flicks that I've never met another person who's even heard of them (in order of most recommended to least):
;)
Twice Upon A Time - utterly hilarious - very classic stuff.
Animalympics - a little more dated but still so memorable that scenes of it come wafting back to me every Olympics.
Shinbone Alley - An animated "musical" based on the Don Marquis stories about Archy, the cockroach that types stories by jumping on typewriter keys.
Personally, I'd say ignore some of the low votes they got on IMDB and check them out. I mean, we are talking about "underappreciated" films here anyway...
While all of these are animated, I'd say that 1 and 3 will mostly be lost on kids as their humor and darkness is aimed a little higher than that. Animalympics should work for almost any age level...
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A good friend of mine describes this movie (which is my favourite) as "Pinnochio meets A Clockwork Orange as seen by Tim Burton while dreaming in French". That's as accurate a description of this movie as any I've seen. :)
If you've ever seen it, you know.
You can't take the sky from me!
This movie does to you the viewer what it claims the Videodrome does to James Wood. A great demonstration that what you see - even on an artificial medium - is real.
Also gratuitous Debbie Harry.
You can't take the sky from me!
Comatoriums - fucking great.
"Are we gonna get the big table in here or do I have to cut down that fucking tree myself?"
"My Empire ... is... CRUMBLING!"
Mike Myers' Dr. Evil character owes a lot to KITH, IMO.
"Into the Woods" is a musical that ranges from hilarious to depressing, and has very good and catchy music.
"The Abyss" a great and thoughtfull science fiction adventure aboard an underwater mining rig.
"Undercover Blues" is another humerous one, about a couple with a newborn baby on vacation in New Orleans. They're actually government agents on maternity leave, and get drawn into investigating a crime in the area.
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Sadly Dragon Half was not popular in Japan (as anime). The Manga did quite well.
You guys forgot to mention one of the better non kiddy canadian projects back from the 80's. It was called "Rock and Rule".
Well I've wrestled with reality for thirty five years doctor, and I'm happy to say I finally won out over it.
Many/most anime we get here in NA are aimed at kids and teenagers.
Few companies I think are willing to take a risk on boring salaryman/sports stuff.
Well I've wrestled with reality for thirty five years doctor, and I'm happy to say I finally won out over it.
I don't know if it is underappreciated, but it's something...
Hey - try this:
The Onion AV Club's Films That Time Forgot (FTTF)
Just what you're looking for. (Not that any moderator's going to find this post after the flood that this story has spawned, but anyway...)
it's not about the karma, it's about the whuffie
Wrong is right A very interesting movie about polotics, terrorism and US secret operations. It was suppose to be a satirical comedy but to watch it now would be more strange or scary than anything. Also I liked Crazy People About an advertising writer played by Dudley Moore who loses it and decides "I want to level with America" He ends up writing brutally honest ads. Who can forget "Volvo, they are boxy but good!"
This movie started the "points" system for rewarding car-on-person collisions. There are also a number of great cameos. B-movie all the way. Saw it at the drive-in as a kid, rented it years later, and still liked it.
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Bongwater.
If you like that just perfect amount of jack black in your movies (a la high fidelity) then find a copy.
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Death is only the beginning
"What Dreams May Come" is one of my favorite movies of all time. If you haven't seen it yet, it's a great movie, you should go rent it.
dark star is a film by john carpenter and dan o'baddon (its kind-of low-buget... heh) about a "spaced-out space-ship"... but somehow it is undisputedly the best movie ever made
Cannibal is so awesome! I've seen it half a dozen times, and actually saw it performed live. Since i'm an actor I plan on performing in it someday. Too bad the script and libretto won't be finished until next year!
And HH is a great spoof, as is Undercover Brother. It is a "solid" send-up of blacksploitation films. Much better than most people give it credit for.
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Anyone else see this post-nuclear (sp?) holocaust film, starring Don Johnson? I just watched it a couple months ago. Definitely worth the price-gouging from Blockbuster. Even made my wife watch the last scene, just to see if she would get it. She did, but wasn't sure if it meant what she thought, I had to tell her "Yes it does mean that what you think happened, happened."
Surely, you jest...
Supernova was a complete mess.
I'll tell you what happened... the movie sucked. Everyone who saw it, and had an IQ over 12, hated it.
The movie was a complete and utter failure on every level. No fewer than THREE directors couldn't get that thing to work, not even Francis Ford Coppola, who shot a few days worth of material and re-edited the movie. It still sucked worse than a donkey repeatedly sitting on my head.
It has the distinction of being the movie that permanently destroyed the rule that no movie with James Spader in it can be all bad. This movie, was ALL BAD. Not a single redeeming factor. None.
Even though Roger Ebert used the following paragraph to describe how he felt about the Bruce Willis turkey 'North', it most appropriately sums up how I felt about Supernova:
"I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it."
Did I mention I hated it?
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The city of lost children
Donnie Darko
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Not that anyone else will read this far, but I did and I still didn't see my favorite underappreciated geek scifi movie:
Runaway
Tom Selleck as a robotics expert cop trying to stop Gene Simmons (of KISS fame) from creating an army of killer robots. Throw in a young (and much thinner) Kirstie Alley and its one great flick. And the climactic scene at the ending rocks!
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from a great guy (Mike Jittlov) comes a great film, that isnt afraid to be chock full of positive subliminal messages.
Well I've wrestled with reality for thirty five years doctor, and I'm happy to say I finally won out over it.
Kevin Costner and Kurt Russel (two great campy actors (even if they don't intend it that way)) star as the (implied) 2 illegitimate sons of Elvis who have turned to a life of Crime, and who get together to rob (what else) a casino. Also stars Kevin Pollack, John Lovitz, and inexplicably, Courtney Cox.
ps. Also Ice T.
--Damn! We're in a tight spot!
Very good flick! enjoyed it alot
Ok. Lemme see if I've got this.
:).
You ment it was Unbelievable, and fake in so far as it was so crontrived it rang false? As I said, that's a matter of opinion, and who can argue with that?
But now that we've established you're the axuilliary supporting head of the redundancy department of redundancy, repetition, and confusion, I think we've got it all squared away
--Jimmy has fancy plans; and pants to match.
"The Burbs"
Solaris, the 1972 version knocks the panties off George Clooney in the americanized 2002 version. Nothing beats good ol' soviet-era sci-fi.
An awesome dark comedy set in the dark ages. Definatelly forgotten, though I think it's Leigh's and Rutger Hauer's best work.
My favorite movie that nobody else seems to know about is Scorchers,
starting James Earl Jones, Faye Dunaway, Jennifer Tilly, Denholm Elliot and Emily Lloyd.
The funniest thing about it is that I rented it because I thought it was softcore porn (look at the cover in the link and you'll see what I mean). I took it back to my dorm and fast forwarded through the whole thing looking for action and there wasn't any (except for a preacher's bare ass at the very beginning while having sex with the town whore, but I digress).
But something made me sit and actually watch it, and it it just an amazing movie. If I met any of the starring actors, the first movie I would ask them about is this one, to see how THEY feel about it. It's very funny and very touching, and just so completely different than anything else I've ever seen. And it features Mahler's Adagietto, which is an absolutely marvelous piece of music.
Unfortunately, it will probably never be released on DVD, but you can pick up a VHS of it CHEAP online.
RP
Most people have never heard of this movie, but it is absolutly wonderful. It is an east coast inde movie. It's great, i swear! Two irish brothers killing mafia guys in the name of the lord? how much better can it get?
Imagine my surprise when, after raving about this movie, my friend "obtained" (rented) a copy. We sat and watched and I was thinking "something's not right" but watched anyway. I can't begin to describe my antics and wailing when I realized he had the sanitized version...
::g::
So I'm ordering the Criterion version tonight. It must be part of my collection, to show the masses into the light.
Why do I never get a fortune in my fortune cookies?
The problem with Event Horizon is that the studio advertised it as sci-fi. It most definately is not! It's a horror that just happens to take place in space. And a damned nasty horror film at that!
Everyone who I know that saw it ans was hoping for sci-fi hated it. Everyone who likes a good slasher flick and took it for what it was liked it. No-one loved it, it just wasn't that good. Luckily we all got free sneak-preview tickets, so no money wasted...
"Tomorrow's forecast: a few sprinkles of genius with a chance of doom!" - Stewie Griffin
This has Samuel L. Jackson, Steve Buscemi, and John Turturro. This is a classic.
DON'T walk RUN to your video store to get this one.
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The Beastmaster, with Rip Torn, Marc Singer and the Dad from "Good Times", and of course, Oto and Poto the wonder ferrets.
The system has failed you, don't fail yourself. --Billy Bragg
Peter Bogdanovich directed the big screen version. It has a stellar cast. It's one of the few movies that have actually made me laugh hard enough to get physically sick. It's out on laser disc, but not out anywhere on DVD. :(
Get off my virtual lawn, you damned virtual kids!
Brain Damage ! Amazing movie ! His other work is also great!
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0094793
Static Keith Gordon as an obsessive loner who works at a crucifix factory by day & is building a radio to talk to heavan by night. Quirky & marvelous. Schizopolis Discombobulated meta-movie about self-help gurus, failing mairrages, and rogue bug-exterminators. The Chocolate War Small, odd-ball 1980s new-wave film about a private school run by Benedictines, and the bullies who force the underclassmen to sell chocolates. WAX: Or, the Discovery of Television Among the Bees Possibly the first postmodern cyberpunk movie. Definitely the first to be reformatted as a massive hypertext document. Odd, hard to stop watching, & no one seems to have ever heard of it.
The Opposite Of Sex features Christina Ricci and Lisa Kudrow in a black comedy that centres on several non-standard relationships;
Swimming With Sharks has Kevin Spacey, Frank Whaley, Benicio del Toro and Michelle Forbes in a movie about a new Hollywood assistant that slowly and subtly moves from dark humour to outright nihilism;
The Last Supper features Cameron Diaz in the story of a group of liberals who decide to enlighten radical right-wingers, by inviting them to dinner, and either converting them, or poisoning them;
and Cannibal! the musical is the incredibly funny musical dealing with Alfred Packer's ill-fated expedition party.
"Snatch" starring Brad Pitt and Dennis Farina
I don't know the name of the actor who played "Bricktop" - but he was pretty fucking scary.
This movie has everything - especially lots and lots of good old fashioned movie violence and some of the best R-Rated dialog ever.
I liken it to another fav of mine - "Midnight Run" with Deniro, Charles Grodin and Dennis Fucking Farina.
If your scanning the movie channels at see this on - dont miss it - you wont regret it
---- "Logoff! That cookie shit makes me nervous!" - A. Soprano
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I wasn't around when they came out, so I'm not real sure how much credit they got back then. Both are great movies because they make serious points but are absolutely hilarious.
Starring a very underrated actor, Christian Bale. It was spectacular and it will remind anyone of The Matrix.
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grand canyon.
i remember wanting to hate it so badly, and the film is way up its own ass.... but i loved it
everything is not perfect spheres
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!
"He's not dead he's fighting evil in another dimension", said about the character played by Robert Preston. Preston just dusted off his Prof. Harold Hill character from "The Music Man" and used it for a space alien. What a hoot! By the way, dismissing the Cray compaired to current machines is like complaining about the lack of in flight service on the Wright brothers' airplane. Try and have some kind of historical perspective. And the Cray was big enough that you could take a nap on the circular bench at the base that contained the power supplies.
mah choices r: Fish called Wanda Killing Fields a simple plan
Some of my favorate movies are kinda old but not forgotten like:
The Magnificent seven (shit load of stars)
The Wild Geese (Roger moore, etc)
The Crazies
Final Countdown (with both Martin Sheen and Kirk Douglas)
"Banana Joe", "Miami Supercops", "The sheriff and the satellite kid", "Odds and evens". And the list goes on and on ... I like these movies. When I ask people if they know Bud Spencer they have no clue who i'm talking about :) Anyway funny movies and very underrated :)
The Princess Bride
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The film is about the second coming of Christ, set in the American west. But Christ decends from heavan with a paracute, and he is wearing a Zoot suit. This time he'd rather be in showbiz! He ends up in a small town run my Mr. Greaser, who runs the local talent contest and collects taxes. Then it get weird. Not recommened for Christians and/or the weak minded.
Also check out Doweny Sr. other wacky films Pound and Putney Swope
A dark comedy about a group of liberal grad students "making a difference".
This is my favorite movie. Jim Jarmusch introduced me to Screamin Jay Hawkins and I am eternally grateful.
or anything else by the great Russian Director.
The stalker is the man who leads people into "the zone:" a place where time and space have been broken by a cataclismic event. The stalker leads the writer and the professor the way to a room where your greatest desire is fulfilled.
It's an intensely beautiful film. when I first saw it I dreamed about for a week
Mine would have to be Blood: The Last Vampire. Although it was Anime (of sorts) the action was killer as was the animation....As far as live action, The remake of King Kong....Nothing like a Hot babe and a big ape on the WTC
When the going gets tough, the tough get drunk
Didn't see this movie mentioned. This is probably one of the best movies I've ever had the chance to see in my life so far. It teaches you the value of hope. If it's kept, it will let you excel in life, if it is thrown away, it will not get you anywhere.
How 'bout the movie that invented the indoor car chase (yes... indoor car chase), and still reigns champion of Hollywood automotive carnage? (And these aren't shitty little imported cars, either, these are real American cars with man-sized 7.2L V8 engines doing over 120 miles per hour through the streets of Chicago.)
I cried the first time I saw it, but I love it.
"Well, thank you very much, pal. The day I get out of prison, my own brother picks me up in a police car."
"Shit!" "What?" "Rollers." "Rollers?" "Yeah." [interspersed flawlessly on the beat with Sam and Dave singing Soothe Me]
"They've probably got SCMODS... State, County, Municipal Offender Data System."
"You want out of this parking lot? Okay..."
"Baby clothes? This place has got *everything*!"
"I hate Illinois Nazis." [while stuck in a traffic jam caused by the Illinois Nazi Party.]
[at a country and western bar] "What kind of music do you normally have here?" "Oh, we've got both kinds... country AND western."
"It a hundred and six miles to Chicago. We've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses."
Never mind the cameos by Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Cab Calloway, James Brown... The movie is pure genius.
I've never met anyone under 24 who's seen it, until I forced them to. Every single one of them has loved it. I'd expect the same of most of the Slashdot crowd.
Aretha Franklin's character, waitress: "We got two honkies out there, dressed like Hassidic diamond merchants. They look like they from the CIA or something..."
Her Hubby, cook: "What do they want to eat?"
"The big one wants dry white toast."
"Elwood!"
"The little one wants four fried chickens and a Coke."
"Jake! Shit, the Blues Brothers!"
This is the movie that demanded an FAA UNairworthiness certificate for a Ford Pinto station wagon.
The Blues Brothers, 1980. Buy, rent, borrow or download this movie.
Fire and Meat. Yummy.
The bizarrly funny script make it a must-rent/own movie. It also stars Michael Keaton as Johnny, in a comedic role before he starred in Batman. "Don't hang me on a hook Johnny, my uncle did that once...." "Once." And a mob boss who can't speak English well but likes to attempt to curse in it anyhow. "Farging Bastiges"
"Metamucil. It helps you go to the bathroom. If you don't use it you'll get Cancer and die."
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I have never seen so many posts on one story on
Lump lingered last in line for brains, and the ones she got were sorta rotten and insane.
Loved 'Better Off Dead'.
"Ricky, I'm sorry your mom blew up."
The Blood of Heroes No great quotes, but a great forgotten movie none the less.
Bad boy bubby - twisted aussie flick
Enemy Mine - Awesome sci-fi, if sentimental
The Beasmaster - Maybe not, but I just like the idea of commanding ninja minions to commit suicide just to demonstrate how loyal they are.
Army Of Darkness. End of Story.
"Hey, wait a minute! I never even SAW these assholes!"
"See, we plan ahead! That way, we never have to do anything now."
Its gotta be Josie and the Pussycats. I mean come on its got Rachael Leigh Cook in it, WITH RED HAIR!
"Vampire Circus" is a classic if you like the 60s british monster movies from Hammer Studios. Only available on Video disc here in the US though... I'm also fond of "Lake Placid" - snarky sarcasm at it's best.
Okay i know i'm a day late on this discussion. But i just noticed that no-one mentioned the all-time best movie about cannibalism. i mean funny enough because it's cannibalism, but it's also a 70's sex farce which in it's own way is extra-pathetic.
No one's mentioned Dark Star (1974)? It was the (then) first of a new genre of space movies, breaking the Buck Rogers mold (remember that Star Trek was only a "flopped TV series" at the time). Supposedly the modest success of this low budget film gave movie industry execs enough confidence that Fox agreed to proceed with some thing called "Star Wars".
ex-lax in the milkshake!! and all the call-backs to that.
and I loved the part where Hogarth stays up too late drinking coffee with the jazz-junk-dood... and gets all wound up and talks really really fast.
the movie was definitely underrated. the previews made it look really stupid. but the movie was just excellent.
Egg "It will not come out again" Jack "What, What will not come out again" Egg - No answer keeps going.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - BF
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0114594 Great sense of humor, and a surprising, thought-provoking ending.
My personal list includes Oscar, Undercover Blues, That's the Way I Like It, Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human, Clue, UHF, Mrs. Winterbourne, Purgatory, Grosse Pointe Blank, and a lot of others. All really good movies that I think were underappreciated. It's taken me a lot of work to collect them all.
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
Anyone out here ever heard of "BAD TASTE"
Obscure British humor take on aliens. Scenes from an Alien Zombie eating the brains out of a dead guy with a spoon.
End scene with everyone eating and vomoting and eating the vomit and eating some more and vomiting.
Well I liked it. I like road kill too.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - BF
2066 comments and counting. Heh. Like anyone's going to see this.
Anyway, I have a strange soft spot in my heart for Deal of the Century . I don't know of any other movie---certainly any other comedy---that tries to seriously address the US arms business. It also features an remarkably sympathetic portrayal of a conversion to Christianity (and by a mainstream actor, no less). I love Chevy Chase, and the writing is mostly amusing.
Most of the comments on IMDB are negative. However, I agree with those posters who said that if you know a bit about the arms business in the late 70s and understand that Friedkin did Dr. Strangelove, these things make it a much better film. Give it a try...
Big Trouble in Little China, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, The Last Starfighter, The Crow (THE FIRST ONE), Gross Pointe Blank, Evil Dead 1 & 2, Army of Darkness, Enemy Mine, UHF, Snatch, Beastmaster, He-Man, Spaceballs, Robin Hood Men in Tights, Blazing Saddles, Flash Gordon, Flight of the Navigator, The Explorers, Re-Animator, Better off Dead, Conan the Barbarian, Midnight Run, and Death Race 2000. I stole a few of these from some other posts, but since they are pretty much Cult Classics, that's ok. I don't know what's sadder, the fact I remember all these or the fact that I own most of them on DVD!
"Yeah, that's only going to happen when a paper dog sucessfully chases an asbestos cat through hell." The Chosen One
5. The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover (awesome British joint with Tim Roth. Gautier costumes. Weird and fascinating) .02
4. Eraserhead (and everything else by David Lynch)
3. Requiem For a Dream (Darren Aronofsky at his most disturbing. Packs a serious wallop to say the least)
2. Ninja Scroll ('nuff said) and my vote for number 1: Pi (Darren A's first movie. I have it on in the background of all night coding sessions or calculus study sessions. Flimsy dialogue, but a brilliant premise to go with stellar cinematography)
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I haven't gone thru the 2000+ comments to check if this has been mentioned: Out of sight, by Soderbergh, with Clooney and Jennifer Lopez. I just discovered it and was knocked off of my feet, in part because I thought I pretty much knew every good movie from the late 90's.
[setup] "Sire, sire, the peasants are revolting." [line] "You said it -- they stink on ice."
Terry Gilliam's Orwellian comedy, "Brazil." The entire setup is bleak and extreme, and yet oddly funny. (..plus, the Brazil Samba is enough to make anybody want to move.)
You drink too much coffee, I drink too much stout.
Gotta be Death to Smoochy. Edward Norton's acting is great as always, Robin Williams and Vincent Schiavelli are really funny, Danny Devito is a kickass director, and Catherine Keener is brilliant and beautiful as always. And let's not forget Jon Stewart and Harvey Fierstein!
The only reason this film did badly and was misunderstood is that the studio did a VERY bad job of marketing it.
It is NOT a children's movie, it is a very, very adult movie, funny, cynical, amazing.
For the studio to market it in such a way as to make it seem like a whole different movie was just a crime.
Damn good movie, lots of blood and guts.
Japanese Anime film about a young boy experiencing first hand the effects of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Told from the Japanese point of view, and not at all anti-American, it effectively shows the horrors of war far beyond what our media would dare show in today's war.
I just rented it a couple of months ago and loved it.
Does anyone else think Bush has met his young art student in Vienna?
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I read the book first :@)
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The name I use here, Aram Fingal, is actually from a made-for-TV movie called Overdrawn at the Memory Bank. Picture The Matrix done in the style (and budget) of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.
Ishtar, although considered my many to be the worst movie of all time, is actually really good. I think many people don't get the whole thing about clueless musicians who would do a gig anywhere for any price to "make it." And the total cheeseball songwriting.
The humor is dry but constant and utterly ridiculous. And hey, it's got that Middle Eastern kind of theme for all of you Iraqi Freedom fans.
Hackers?
"Yeah, that's only going to happen when a paper dog sucessfully chases an asbestos cat through hell." The Chosen One
The guy who is "the voiceoverman of the hour" is in it too. (He's also Green Lantern's Voice on Justice League)
Umm...no, the voice of Green Lantern on JL is my buddy Phil LaMarr, who also does the voice of Samurai Jack, though most people know him from his years on Mad TV. You may also remember him as Marvin, whose grey matter gets sprayed all over the back of the car in Pulp Fiction.
The guy in They Live you're thinking of is Keith David, who I guess sounds a bit like Carl Lumbly, the voice of Martian Manhunter on JL. (How's that for bringing it full circle?)
Oh, and if you can't tell from my user name, put me down as a big ol' Buckaroo Banzai fan.
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(why i remember this, we'll never know)
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Yell & scream & rant & rave... it's no use... you need a shaaaave ~ Bugs Bunny
Did you see the parent of the parent post? It said that a really good movie was "They Live," and then a bunch of people agreed. That's why I "quoted" They Live.
Of course the quote was from They Live. If you look at my post, I SWITCH to talking about army of darkness because "They Live" really only has that one quote. All the rest of the good quotes are in "Army of Darkness" (where "good" means "in a Duke Nukem' game").
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I can only agree, the move is a masterpiece.
-There is only one problem. We are no longer the knights who say Ni. We are now the knights who say: Ecky-ecky-ecky-pazang-boom-zut-godem-oul...
-Ni..? The fact that "King Arthur" had great difficulties with alcohol during the whole recording of the move and the other Pythons having to whisper his lines to him doesn't make it any less admierable.
Another thing worth mentioning is the coconuts. The simply didn't have the budget to hire horses for the entire period of recording, so they decided to leave the horses out...
Adam Bridgekeeper: What...Is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
King Arthur: Is that an African or a European swallow?
Adam: I don't know! Aaarg!
People are not wearing enough hats.
I so badly want to see this performed live. It's brilliant. :)
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Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Ninja Scrool, Princess Mononoke, The Seven Samurai, Young Frankenstein, Sleeper, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Brazil, 12 Monkeys, The Fisher King, Being John Malkovich... damn too many movies... EVIL DEAD... any of them!
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here's several that top my list. some even this crowd may not have heard of... in no particular order:
... except with Melanie Griffith as the tough chick with the hotrod mustang willing to go into the wasteland when hired by a man from the "city".
1. Miracle Beach - Ami Dolenz is a doll! tons of one-liners if you want them here. [holding a lighter up in tribute, Lars says] "Afterbirth! Kings of ROCK!"
2. Mad Max - dudes.... this should have already been mentioned.
3. Paperhouse - british film. don't know if it was ever released in US or not. suspense thriller about a girl whose dreams start to merge with reality. we used to quote this one all the time.
4. Gremloids - good luck finding anything on this classic, dare i say best ever, Star Wars spoof. "People don't go around town putting buckets on their heads, issuing threats!" one-liners galore. some indications are that this was released in the US under an alternate title. 'Showchannel Home Video' put it out on VHS. i had to order this from overseas in PAL format VHS. it's out of print and cost me a fortune (by VHS standards) but some things are worth it. i can't even watch it yet on my US VCR. if you thought Space Balls was funny - throw it in the trash and watch Gremloids.
5. Back to the Beach - hilarious, goofy, witty... a classic. Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon reprise their roles from their teen surf-days as middle-aged couple going back to their old stomping grounds.
6. UHF - weird al yankovick to the max. too much to list.
7. Clockwise - John Clesse (of Monty Python Fame) plays a fastidious punctual headmaster who, on his most important day, cannot manage to get anything done on time or in the right way. hilarious hyjinx ensue.
8. Cherry 2000 - in the vein of Mad Max
9. Tron. Tron was the bomb. you watch it today and it's as good as the rest of the stuff today. besides the haircuts and glasses, it could have been made today. one-liners, and a kewl soundtrack, to boot.
i could go on, but i'm tired of typing.
ps. just thought of number 10. Two Lane Blacktop. Classic Car film. James Taylor (yes, the James Taylor) as "the Driver" and Dennis Wilson (of the Beach Boys) as "the Mechanic".
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