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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?"
The Big Hit was good, but I think my all-time favourite "underrated" movie was:
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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!
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.
PS: I'm so pissed that Jackson cut Bombadil from Fellowship that I haven't even seen The Two Towers yet! I REALLY wanted to see Bill Murray as Tom Bombadil!
-Peter
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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Not much of a plot??
The plot for "Strange Brew" was a ripoff of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'!!! Really!
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Boondock Saints is exelent but if you are going to watch it. Watch the Canadian version, they had to cut out lots of the American version to keep it from getting an NC-17 for violence.
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.