Obscure Film Favorites....

POSTED BY: Caligari
UPDATED: Saturday, April 2, 2005 09:38
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COSMICFUGITIVE

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 8:55 PM

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Thesomnambulist wrote:

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!!!

LMAO! Brilliant! I forgot about that bit. I can picture Art checking his teeth with singed fingers after he fell off the fence! :D

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"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....

Ooh... Sardines! ("Packing dust." :D ) Horrible! *Cringes* :)

I have to watch this again too. It's been a while since I've seen it. I need to find the old VHS copy now. Thanks for talking about it!

Keep flyin'!

- Cos.

FREMDFIRMA

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 9:45 PM

With Quote from each.

1 - Boondock Saints, less obscure now than it used to be, thanks to fan support, but well worth it for some awesome, awesome work by W. Dafoe

"We could kill.... everybody!"
"I'm strangely comfortable with that."

2 - Republic Pictures version - Space Marines, very B flick, very firefly-ish sense of humor.

"A rescue is NOT... throwing a grenade in the room with the hostage!"
"He was behind cover!"

3 - Surviving the Game, which I like because Ice-T's (in my opinion only) is a right good actor, and unlike many movies of similar bent, he's not some ex-super agent.. he's just some mechanic from the hood.

"I'll show these M^#F*&K@'s some therapy!..."

4 - Heavy Metal, how can ya not like classic cult stuff, ehe ?

"As for me,... I put it down as a two day ride... with one hell of a tip."

5 - Savior, but I warn you, it's quite upsetting, but a good look into the psychology of the conflict in question.

-F

ODDNESS2HER

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 10:15 PM

I don't know if these meet your criteria for obscure, but they count as such among the crowd I'm usually in:

Hedwig & the Angry Inch
Ladyhawke
Shadow of a Doubt
Dogma (Alan Rickman again)
Truly, Madly, Deeply (and again!)

CHRISISALL

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 10:17 PM

I haven't even thought about Night of the Comet for years! It was so bad it was great!
Another like that: Warlords of the 21st Century.

Hey, Elektra comes out next tuesday, anyone see it? Should I buy or rent...I liked Daredevil up until the last 20 minutes if that matters.

Chrisisall

OLDENGLANDDRY

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 10:21 PM

1. My Life As A Dog:
2. The Tin Drum:
3. Millions Like Us
4. Cyrano de Bergerac (the Depardieu version)
5. Topsy-Turvy.

Not nesseccerily in that order.

SICKDUDE

Thursday, March 31, 2005 2:59 AM

This is my first post. The thread sounded too much like someone wanted my opinion...

Thank you, Hjermsted, for Sorcerer. I'm glad I'm not the only one who liked that movie.

Here are some others:
The Beast. A soviet intellectual tries to be a good soldier in the Soviet/Afghan war.

The Rains Came. Myrna Loy as a stuck-up socialite face-to-face with the humanitarian disaster of massive flooding. Also has great stunts- before the age of CG.

Bedazzled. The original with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore was so much better than the remake.

The Hard Way. Patrick McGoohan as an Irish assasin trying to retire. Simple yet fun, and so hard to find.

Edge of Darkness. Okay, not really an obscure movie so much as an under-appreciated BBC mini-series. But it is so good! Mystery, drama, political thriller, environmental message, psychology, philosophy, and a killer soundtrack by Michael Kamen and Eric Clapton. The best!

Although I've never seen it, my wife insists I mention Ikiru by Kurasawa. It's the story of a bureaucrat who breaks out of his mediocracy when faced with his mortality.

"Don't say 'ka' until you've tried it."

OPPYH

Thursday, March 31, 2005 4:12 AM

5. VAMPIRE CIRCUS

4. VAMPIRE'S KISS

3. AMERICAN MOVIE

2. SLACKER

1. MY DINNER WITH ANDRE

YT

Thursday, March 31, 2005 4:56 AM

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Originally posted by Sickdude:
Edge of Darkness.

And you get to enjoy it on DVD. There is no Region 1 version. VHS only in North AngloAmerica.

Keep the Shiny Side Up . . . (wutzon) Allman Bro's, "Dreams"

YT

Thursday, March 31, 2005 10:13 AM

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Originally posted by Caligari:
your favorite films that, when mentioned in mixed company, usually means that you have some explaining to do.

Million Dollar Hotel. Yeah, I know, someone already put it on their (life changing) list, but that was me. Screwball tragedy with murder mystery. Gibsonesque. Dir Wim Wenders. Story by Bono. Ensemble cast incl Jeremy Davies, Milla Jovovich, Mel Gibson, Jimmy Smitts, Peter Stormare. Jazzy soundtrack, with U2, MDHBand incl Bono.

Long Good Friday, the. Noir. First starring roles for Bob Hoskins (iconic performance) & Helen Mirren, first role for Pierce Brosnan (no lines). Driving, edgy soundtrack. Second movie financed by Handmade Films, the production company founded by George Harrison to save the Life of Brian, when its original production company ran outa money & dropped it.

One Trick Pony. Paul Simon, Richard Tee, Cornell Dupree, Steve Gadd. If you don't already know @least three of them, you probably won't enjoy this movie. VHS only

One False Move. Noir. Dir Carl Franklin. Co-starring & co-written by Billy Bob Thornton (not yet a good actor, but a great screenplay); also co-starring his then wife Cynda Williams & a fine ensemble supporting cast. First starring role for Bill Paxton (he & Bomber reunited for a Simple Plan). Eerie, bluesy soundtrack. Gene Siskel's favourite movie of 1992 (just found that out on IMDB). Not obscure enough for you? Well, had you even heard of it, let alone seen it?

Suicide Kings. Black comedy. Five frat bro's put the bag on Don Corleone. Ensemble cast of Christopher Walken, Denis Leary & the Five Young Guys (aka FNGs). When five young actors all come off well in major roles, there must be a great script. Dir Peter O'Fallon, who also directed Wonderfalls.
Btw, one o' the FNGs (Sean Patrick Flannery) was in Boondock Saints, & will be in the sequel, now in production for release this year.

Go. Comedy. A day in the life of three supermarket clerks & two (soap star) customers. Sex (tantric), drugs (X), rock & roll (No Doubt, Steppenwolf, more). When five young actors all come off well in major roles, there must be a great script. Jay Mohr is one of the FNGs in this & in Suicide Kings. OK if we can't count Jay 'cause he was N in SK, we gotta count Taye Diggs, whose role is as big as Jay's (maybe bigger -- you know the old saying), so it's still Five. Oh, and the day is Christmas Eve.

Hi Life. Comedy, theatrical. Ensemble cast of Eric Stolz, Chuck Durning, Darryl Hannah, Peter Riegert & more, led by Campbell Scott. An off-white (sorta eggshell) lie leads to another off-white (maybe ecru) lie, which leads to a bartender attempting to collect debts just before Christmas, so he can give the money to his sister, who intends to give the money to her boyfriend, whom her brother hates, who said he needed the money for . . . Another Christmas movie, for those who've seen It's a Wonderful Life as often as they care to.

Aside from One Trick Pony, all the others are available on DVD.

For other groups, I would also add Ultraviolet, a BBC miniseries with a lotta fans (& quality) in common with Firefly.

These aren't the most obscure films I've seen; most of those have deserved their obscurity. The first five have my top rating. The last two are Christmas movies and not rated on the same scale; they are among my favourites of the season.

I've spent more time drafting, checking details, & editing this post, than any other I've made -- half a day. Others may already have mentioned some of the above since the last time I read the thread. Whatever, these are mine.

Keep the Shiny Side Up . . . (wutzon) Greg Howe, Victor Wooten, Dennis Chambers , "Crack It Way Open", from "Extraction"

REAVERINA1985RIVIERA

Thursday, March 31, 2005 11:20 AM

Most people know of the Nick Cage "Gone in 60 Seconds" and some people know it's a remake of H.B. Haliki's 1973 "Gone in 60 Seconds".

But how many have seen "Gone in 60 Seconds 2 "?

Haliki stared, directed, financed, and produced all of his movies mostly by himself. He was killed during the filming of Gi60S 2, so the movie was scrapped. When they brought his movies to DVD, all the footage was put together to make a 30 minute plot-free movie that destroyed over 400 cars .

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