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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?"
Didn't anyone get it? - it's a farce!
Oh, wait.. no.
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).
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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"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."
Fantastic cast, characters, and story.
Well acted and directory.
This is a Disney 'cotton candy' movie, light and entertaining.
Where else can you get Leprechauns and Sean Connery at the same time?
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!
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.
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.
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.
Has to be Kentucky Fried Movie
"This requires total concentration."
"Aries should expect the unexpecte...urrghhh"
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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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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
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
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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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?
Firefly on DVD? I'll be all over that like a fat kid on a smartie.
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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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>I have NO idea how you relate the shit ending with "interesting if you've done programming" either. Seems like you just tossed that in for some reason or another.
He's referring to David's program. He was programmed to love his 'mother'. But once his mother was established, there was no way for them to change who his mom is. It was a one shot deal. So when his mother eventually died of old age, that was it for him. Tragically, he couldn't finish his program. I think the programming reference the AC was making was that it's sort of like a un-trapped error event. His program can no longer be completed.
At the end of the movie, the super-robots at the end scanned his memory and they found out how tragic his programming was, so they found a way to fix it. They fed him a BS story that they could clone his mother so that they could trick him into thinking he could see her again, providing a way to complete his program.
The setup there was that she'd go to sleep and when she wakes up, she'd die. So when she went to bed, still alive of course, it was time for David to sleep as well. He started to dream. For him, she's still alive until he wakes up to discover she's dead. So, knowing she'd die, he just never wakes up. He spends the rest of his existence, with his program satisfactorally complete, dreaming. Sure beats being awake and having a mission you can't fulfill, duddn't it?
The AC's right, that's a very creative ending. Killing him off underwater would have been pointless.
"Derp de derp."
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.
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
Ultimate geek movie, starring Alec Guinness as the man who invents a fabric thta repels dirt and won't wear out.
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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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.
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
Split Second is one hell of a romp. Formative of my childhood. Best part is Hauer's nebbish partner transformed by seeing the thing.
"We need big fucking guns!" (Examining an auto-shotgun.) "Too fucking small! Bigger!"
Fun fun fun.
IP is just rude.
Is there any torture so subl
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.