Obscure Film Favorites....
POSTED BY: Caligari
UPDATED: Saturday, April 2, 2005 09:38
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Thesomnambulist wrote:
Oh good choice!!!! I love the 'Burbs' this is rife with subtle understated humour. I can watch this over and over. Jerry Goldsmiths music is a character used to great effect. For example the scene near the beginning when each principal character has there own motif within the theme music and then right at the close of the scene, there's a close up shot of the dog (Poodle's) eyes and he's given a sort of cowboy slant to his moment. Cracks me up everytime!!! Joe Dante at his best.
The poodle's eyes moment is classic! :D
My favourite parts include Tom Hanks and the other guy trying to get over the fence (the 'Red Rover' radio conversation is hilarious), and the part during the stakeout where Corey Feldman shouts: "It's the Pizza Dude!" :)
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I did a list of bests, now
MY OBSCURE GREATS:
Blood of Heroes (Rutger Hauer)
Cherry 2000
Westworld
Dreamscape
Fire and Ice (Ralph Bakshi)
Believe me, none of these will dissapoint.
Chrisisall
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Gotta agree with Embers about Blow Dry. Alan Rickman steals every scene he is in.
And CosmicFugitive with Stand By Me. Best King adaption by far.
My list would also include:
Lawn Dogs. Early Sam Rockwell/Mischa Barton film. A poor lawn mower man makes friends with a young rich girl
Dolphins. A short film that has no dialogue but makes you really feel for the main character.
Freeway. Dark early Reese Witherspoon tale of Red Riding Hood.
Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead. Tim Roth and Gary Oldman as lesser characters from Hamlet. Very funny and charming.
The Bumblebee Flies Anyway. Nice story about a young man who is dying but has amnesia so he doesn't show any symptoms.
Also pretty much anything else featuring Reese Witherspoon before Legally Blonde hit big. And anything with Rachael Leigh Cook or Laura Fraser as well.
lwaves
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Strange Brew
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th Dimension
Knight Riders - (This is Camelot on Motorcycles, with Rutger Hauer)
Diabolique (The original french version)
Afraid of the Dark (70s made for TV)
"I've seen you with no clothes on, never thought I'd see you naked."
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Well, since you're all Firefly fans, you might like:
Clay Pigeons - dark comedy about a serial killer (Vince Vaughn - did an awesomejob!!) who wants to become friends with somebody (Jaoquin Pheonix) who he thinks is also a serial killer, but, actually ... not so much...
I Married a Monster From OuterSpace - one of those great old 50s B-movies about invasion from outspace. While often accused of being a copy of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", actually did a lot of stuff that, in turn, got copied. Think Desparate Housewife meets Predator - unintentional hilarity!
An even older oldie, Blythe Spirit. IMDB description: "Adapted from a play by Noel Coward, Charles and his second wife Ruth, are haunted by the ghost of his first wife, Elvira. Medium Madame Arcati tries to help things out by contacting the ghost." Ironic, as I've often thought Joss channels Noel Coward in some of his sharpest and funniest writing. Oh, and Rex Harrison plays the husband to snobbish, befuddled perfection.
BoonDock Saints - Violent and quirky. Seems to have developed a cult following of it's own, as I've seen it in the top 20 list of DVD sales on Amazon and it recently showed up on the racks at Walmart.
Currently in selected theaters: "What the Bleep do we know?!" A thought provoking (i.e., controversial) blend of quantum physics, metaphysics and brain chemistry.
The Gate to the Minds Eye - Really computer art more than a movie has some great sequences...some will look familiar but some are still uniquely beautiful, especially with Thomas Dolby's soundtrack behind them.
Koyaanisqatsi - I actually saw that in a theater the year it came out. Also, got to see Metropolis with the Rock soundtrack in that same theater probably a few years later. Both pretty amazing!
Was Marat/Sade the original French version of "Quills"? Disturbingly funny...
What Science Fiction/Comedy/Movie Fan hasn't heard about MST3K?! Get thee to a video store immediately!
But I obviously need to broaden my horizons to eastern filmmakers so I'll look for some of your recommendations. Thanks!
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Originally posted by CosmicFugitive:Quote:
Thesomnambulist wrote:
Oh good choice!!!! I love the 'Burbs' this is rife with subtle understated humour. I can watch this over and over. Jerry Goldsmiths music is a character used to great effect. For example the scene near the beginning when each principal character has there own motif within the theme music and then right at the close of the scene, there's a close up shot of the dog (Poodle's) eyes and he's given a sort of cowboy slant to his moment. Cracks me up everytime!!! Joe Dante at his best.
The poodle's eyes moment is classic! :D
My favourite parts include Tom Hanks and the other guy trying to get over the fence (the 'Red Rover' radio conversation is hilarious), and the part during the stakeout where Corey Feldman shouts: "It's the Pizza Dude!" :)
That is a great scene.
"Red rover, red rover let Art go on over..."
How about the shot of Tom hanks and Rick Ducommon (Art) cleaning out the shed and then they do a reverse shot and there's a perfect cut out in the roof of Art's shape where he fell through from cutting the power cables!!!
Also the scene where Art, raids Tom Hanks' fridge, he carries it all over to the table, and he has stacks of food piled up high, and while he's busy eating off the plate and pouring maple syrup over some pancakes, he grabs a handful of berries that Carrie Fisher is walking past with; and the look on his face when he tastes it!!! Man that makes laugh out loud everytime...
"Sardines????" Oh man I'm almost crying from remembering it. I'm going to have to watch this tonight, I still have it on vid from years ago somewhere....
The
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Originally posted by msckaren:
Was Marat/Sade the original French version of "Quills"? Disturbingly funny...
Oh I saw Quills and it IS something different!
But no, Marat/Sade was a stage play
and the Royal Shakespeare Company filmed it
pretty much right from the stage...
very 'arty' and moving...
but completely different from Quills
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Night of the Comet - Guns, Girls, zombies
Never on Tuesday - quirky
Time Rider - Motorcycle action in the past - time travel
House - and House 2 - umm, not sure how to describe
Big Trouble in Little China - Classic
There, five, not counting the sequel.
ETA: Darkly Noon - sue me, 6.
ByteTheBullet (-:
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1. Forbidden Zone - Herve Villachaize (yes... Tatoo!) and Susan Tyrell are the king and queen of the sixth dimension. Danny Elfman (who also plays the role of Satan) wrote the original music in the late 1970s (qualifying FZ as his first official film score) and the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo performed it. Artistically low budget and perverse.
2. Koyanisqaatsi - A plotless, yet not entirely storyless visual masterpiece utilizing mainly in camera special effects and NO computer effects at all. Philip Glass' accompanying soundtrack is superb. See this fantastic mid-80s film if you haven't already.
3. The Road Warrior - Not all that obscure, I know. However, this is the film I had watched more times than any other way back before anyone knew it would spawn the desert fashion trend known as "Burning Man". I have not watched this film in over 15 years and am patiently waiting for it to receive the deluxe DVD treatment. Still Mel Gibson's finest work!
4. Repo Man - The only Emilio Estevez film I like plus my favorite Harry Dean Stanton film. Before Alex Cox directed Sid & Nancy, he made this film about punk rock, Reagan era malaise, and aliens. This is a great film with many familiar faces and songs... which brings me to the soundtrack album which is a nice little postcard from where south central L.A. punk rock was at the time (1984).
5. The Clash: Rude Boy - Now this one is obscure. I'm still waiting for someone to figure out this will be pure gold on DVD. This film is part documentary on the Clash part live concert presentation and part narrative on the life of a punk rock roadie. It's been ages since I've seen this and I am dying to see it again.
6 & 7. Fantastic Planet and Light Years - French psychedelic animated sci fi from the early 80s. FP is about a world where humans are the tiny habitrail pets of giant aliens (I'm positive that Perry Farrell was thinking of this film when he wrote "Pets"). LY is (if I remember correctly) about an uber powerful computer laying systematic waste to the peaceful ecotopian civilizations who created it. Isaac Asimov had something to do with the english translation of the film, I do believe.
8. Sorcerer - Roy Scheider stars in this remake of a european film about a collection of ex-patriots, scaliwags, and all around ne'r do wells who are hired to transport crates of nitro glycerin across rugged south american terrain in rickety old trucks. This one is directed by the guy who did the original Exorcist. Very suspenseful.
9. A Fistful of Dynamite aka Duck, You Sucker - The last of Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns is also his most political. James Coburn and ROD STEIGER* attempt to get rich AND help the peasants of revolution-era mexico. Yet another film begging for the royal DVD treatment.
10. & 11. The Last Temptation of Christ and Kundun - Martin Scorsese's two spiritual epics are my favorites of all of his films. Wilem Dafoe is captivating in the role of Jesus and the plight of the young 14th Dalai Lama is simply heart-wrenching.
Okay, that's enough for now I think!
Have fun and enjoy your hair!
Mattro
*edited correction... I had Eli Walach in there at first.
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Originally posted by msckaren:
Currently in selected theaters: "What the Bleep do we know?!" A thought provoking (i.e., controversial) blend of quantum physics, metaphysics and brain chemistry.
From the Dept. of Knowing What You're Buying:
This film is actually pure New Age and not based on science. "Quantum Metaphysics" is as close to the lab as any of this talk gets. What the Bleep... is put out by the Ramtha people (J.Z. Knight Inc.) and the "experts" in it are not known by those in the relatively small Physics and Quantum Mechanics communities.
Before seeing this film, do some research by Googling the following: "What the Bleep Do We Know + J.Z. Knight"
There's nothing wrong with New Age in and of itself. It's certainly another way (or ways) to look at our world and is just as valid as any other theory. But deceptive packaging is STILL deceptive packaging. What the Bleep is pseudo science passed off as science. This is the same tactic that creationists use to pass off "Intelligent Design" as science or Britny Spears as artistic.
Buyer beware!!
Mattro
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