Gleaming the Cube … hahaha … Christian Slater ftw … I watched the shit out of the movie when I was a kid
A few more hidden gems:
The Believer: Ryan Gosling plays a young Jewish man who begins to hate his own beliefs and heritage and falls in with a neo-nazi group. If you liked American History X you really should watch this.
The Thirteenth Floor: best described as a less flashy version of The Matrix with a dash of Dark City thrown in, The Thirteenth Floor is a great little movie in its own right. Released around the same time as The Matrix, it kind of slipped under the radar. Which is a real shame.
American Splendor: a biopic of Harvey Pekar, who created a comic based on his own life. Mixes real life events and fantasy, with Paul Giamatti playing Pekar in staged re- enactments, and Pekar himself commenting on them. Very off-beat.
Dead Man’s Shoes: a British soldier (Paddy Considine) returns home to wreak revenge on a gang that tormented his younger, mentally handicapped brother. Gritty revenge thriller in the style of Get Carter (the original, not the remake!). Paddy Considine is excellent, as always.
Sid and Nancy: Gary Oldman plays Sid Vicious.Still one of his best ever performances.
[quote]imhungry wrote:
Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead.
I loved this one. “Buckwheats!”
Whoever said Hard Candy, definitely. Ellen Page in general is awesomeness.
[quote]alaw4516 wrote:
Bottle Rocket- Wes Anderson
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Fantastic movie!
Wilson brothers and James Caan.
A lot of good movies listed in here, and some I have been meaning to watch or thought about watching that I will now based on these recommendations.
Here’s a few of mine-
Although more people may have seen this, if you’re looking for a good street/gang type drama- Blood In, Blood Out- Bound By Honor is a HELL of a movie. Benjamin Bratt in the first, and to this day, best thing I have ever seen him in, and I like that guy a lot.
Also may have been seen by more people, but A Bronx Tale is one of the best Mob movies of all time, as told through the eyes of a kid/teenager from the same neighborhood who falls in with them. Think of if they extended the beginning scene in Goodfellas where Henry is a kid starting out, but with a lot more moral dilamma and some great ass characters.
One of my favorites ever, and a little known fact- It is actually the “What if…” story of Chazz Palminteri’s life. He concentrated on his acting more and so he stayed away from ‘the bar’ but the beginning is based directly on his life.
I’m also going to second the love for a movie I just saw a few months ago and immediately got on DVD after watching it w/ quite a few friends- In Bruges. I would never have checked that movie out had it not just been randomly on in the background and I started to catch what was going on a little bit in.
It is fucking AWESOME, and has some great lines. “I hope your midget doesn’t kill himself, your dream sequence would be fucked!” “What’s a fuckin lollipop man doin knowin fuckin karate!!” and “Like a big, fat, fuckin retarded fuckin black girl on a seesaw” amongst my favorites. Check it out.
Two more awesome ones, very little known from people I’ve talked to are A) SHAKES THE CLOWN! Adam Sandler’s second movie, and starring him and Bobcat Goldthwait- About the hardcore, underground world of alcoholic party clowns with some badass cameo’s by Mrs. Brady, Robin Williams, etc. “Hey Shakes, how’s your liver cirrohsis?” “Fine, Binky, how’s your disease ridden cock?!”
And one of my absolute favorite underground movies of all time, “The Last Supper” It has a shit ton of cameo’s in it, by lots of cool people, and is about a group of liberal grad students who find a very interesting way to deal with some unsavory people and start to lose grasp on reality and who they are.
I won’t give too much away, but it’s way better than I’ve made it sound here. Please check it out if you can ever find it. Everyone who I’ve ever showed it to loves it.
Kubo
[quote]Duwatsrt wrote:
“A Boy and His Dog” with Don Johnson.
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Is that the one with the telepathic dog?
Toxic avenger
Repo man
Both V funny
I’d go with two movies I saw in German class:
Gegen die Wand- very heavy, intense film about a Turkish “love” story, set in Germany. from imdb: "In ‘Gegen die Wand’ Cahit, a 40-something male from Mersin in Turkey has removed everything Turkish from his life. He has become an alcoholic drug addict and at the start of the movie wants to end it all.
Sibel a 20-something female from Hamburg wishes to please her Turkish parents yet yearns for freedom. She has had her nose broken by her brother for being seen holding hands with a boy and yet she can not break her mother’s heart and run away. She too attempts suicide and she first approaches Cahit there at the Hospital. Sibel asks Cahit to marry her, as she believes this to be the way out of her parent’s house.
She promises Cahit that their relationship will be like roommates, not like a married couple. The film follows Sibel and Cahit as they get married, become closer and eventually fall in love. Cahit then accidentally kills one of Sibel’s lovers and is sent to jail. Sibel moves to Turkey where she gets a job as a domestic aid with the help of her sister. After serving his sentence, Cahit is released from jail and he immediately sets off for Istanbul to find her."
Goodbye Lenin- a much lighter film, also set in Germany. A mother goes into a coma, during which time the Berlin wall comes down. When she wakes up, her sons try to hide these drastic changes from her (by use of fake newspapers, tv shows, reusing old pickle jars, etc) in fear that the stress will send her back into another coma.
Both should come with subtitles and are really excellent films.
Uhhh…If I didn’t see it how do I know it is so great?
Maybe the reason I didn’t see it is because I didn’t believe all the BS hype about it.
Case in point, I tried watching "2001: A Space Odyssey" the other day. I couldn't do it. I got 90 minutes into it when I decided it was just a classical music video set to really bad "special" effect.
Really, who cares about space? I'm over it.Some of these are going to be for the younger ones in the room.
1…Three Days of The Condor
2…Bodies, Rest & Motion
3…Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
[quote]jermaine0321 wrote:
Run Ronnie Run if your trying to laugh your ass off[/quote]
I actually own that movie! I was always a big Mr. Show fan, so I bought that movie just on reputation.
TTOMO is the best!
[quote]roybot wrote:
A few more hidden gems:
The Thirteenth Floor: best described as a less flashy version of The Matrix with a dash of Dark City thrown in, The Thirteenth Floor is a great little movie in its own right. Released around the same time as The Matrix, it kind of slipped under the radar. Which is a real shame.[/quote]
This movie has been in my queue for the longest time. The sad thing is, the main reason I put it in my queue is because I’ve always had a thing for Gretchen Mol. I’ll have to bump it up a bit and give it a watch soon.
Excellent choice. I remember Paul Giamatti saying that this movie destroyed his voice for a while.
The Count of Montecristo
the latest film
the best ever IMO
[quote]polo77j wrote:
Gleaming the Cube … hahaha … Christian Slater ftw … I watched the shit out of the movie when I was a kid [/quote]
I still sing the song sometimes.
[quote]imhungry wrote:
Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead.
The Cube.
Suicide Kings.[/quote]
Suicide Kings " You got a Benz, I got a busket."
That was funny
One of my all time favorite movies is Brainscan.
“It doesn’t have to make sense. All these horror movies you watch…does “Death, Death, Death” make sense? No…it’s not about sense. It’s about death, death death…”
[quote]Boffin wrote:
Duwatsrt wrote:
“A Boy and His Dog” with Don Johnson.
Is that the one with the telepathic dog?[/quote]
Yup.
[quote]AngryVader wrote:
roybot wrote:
A few more hidden gems:
The Thirteenth Floor: best described as a less flashy version of The Matrix with a dash of Dark City thrown in, The Thirteenth Floor is a great little movie in its own right. Released around the same time as The Matrix, it kind of slipped under the radar. Which is a real shame.
This movie has been in my queue for the longest time. The sad thing is, the main reason I put it in my queue is because I’ve always had a thing for Gretchen Mol. I’ll have to bump it up a bit and give it a watch soon.
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Well Gretchen Mol is as good a reason to watch a movie as any. Sadly, It’s just another in a long line of movies that fell through the cracks because it couldn’t be lumped into a particular category (it’s a fusion of film-noir with sci-fi - can’t give too much away, as there are quite a few twists. All I will say is that there is virtual reality involved - at possibly more than one level).
As I said earlier, it was eclipsed by the Matrix on its release, which is pretty ironic seeing as The Thirteenth floor developed independently of it (it was based on the book Simulacron 3, and the story had already been adapted for German TV).
Come to think of it, The Thirteenth Floor would probably have been more successful if it had been a straight rip-off of The Matrix. At least it would have have had a built-in marketing strategy.
As it stands, The Thirteenth Floor is not similar enough to warrant calling it a cash-in, and it wouldn’t deserve that label, anyway.
Army of Darkness with Bruce Campbell, my favorite movie. So many one liners. Also the prequels to it. Evil dead and Evil dead 2. Not as great but classics none the less.