Ten Movies Noone is Seeing But Should!
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All right folks, here's your chance to spread the word. There are a lot of great flicks out there (like Serenity) that should be seen by all, but for some reason flop or are ignored at the box office. Heck, half the films up for oscars no one has heard of until they see the nominations. So here's my contribution.
List 10 movies that got NO or very little hype that you think folks should see. Take time to read the other posts and add different films to the list. Also,m if you can't think of ten, post what you have...David Letterman...everything has to be top 10's anymore.
Here's a list for starters:
Grosse Pointe Blank: John Cusack as an assassin who goes back home for his high school reunion. Priceless and probably my favorite film...oh, did I mention Dan Akroyd plays a rival hitman. WHAT CASTING!
Mumford: Small town shrink story, with some surprising twists.
Zero Effect: Bill Pullman as a very realistic BATMAN type superhero. And his sideckick...Ben Stiller! No spandex and a great superhero movie to boot.
Equilibrium: The movie that put Christian Bale on my kick-ass actor radar. The cover says better than the Matrix...and it IS! Pure sci-fi asswhoop.
Soul Survivor: A teeny-bopper horror flick that actually has a decent plot. I was pleasently surprised.
Frailty: A son retells the story of how his father became a serial killer and had them help. Surprisingly with an in-depth plot and little-to know gore. Tastefully done.
Jeepers Creepers: Both of these movies DISTURBED THE HELL OUT OF ME. Can be easily dismissed as pure horror trash, but worth the watch. The main villain is actually someone to be afraid of.
Snatch: Brad Pitt's performance is a knock-out...literally. A truly great movie with great cast and director that I heard NOTHING about until I rented it. LOVED IT!
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels: Like Snatch, another Guy Ritchie film that kicks ass. Quite a bit of the same cast as from Snatch and a great ride.
SERENITY: WHERE'S THE RUTTIN LOVE AMERICA. Quit going to see all this SHIT at the theaters and watch a REAL MOVIE!
Adam
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I actually can't think of 10; most of the movies i want to see do well do end up doing well (not so much for the TV shows, though).
Serenity, obviously.
Unleashed, released the same weekend as SW Ep. III, and a far, far superior movie in just about every way. Poor thing didn't have a chance.
Star Trek: Nemesis, which was one of those movies where people saved time by deciding it sucked without actually going to see it. 
Howl's Moving Castle, 'cause the only way I'll ever see animé movies on the big screen is if they do ridiculously well on a limited release (and are thus re-released in more theatres).
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Awesome. Glad someone else showed some love for Equilibrium. Alright, here's my ten:
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra: Made extremely on the cheap (about $5000), it's written and directed like the worst of the worst 50's sci-fi films. And it's gorram hilarious.
A Simple Plan: People either know Sam Raimi for directing the Evil Dead films or the Spider-Man films, but he's also got some great dramas out there too. This one is his best. About Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thorton finding a crashed plane with a bag full of money. Bad things happen.
The Quick and the Dead: Another one of those Raimi films that he did between Evil Dead and Spider-Man. While it's not the best western ever made, it's definitely the coolest. Russell Crowe is great in his first American role.
Cronos: Spanish film about vampires. Possibly the most realistic vampire film ever. Certainly the least ridiculous. Guillermo Del Toro is a genius.
October Sky: The story about a coal miner's son who just wants to build rockets. Any course on the history of the American space program should have this as its core film. Jake Gyllenhall before he became a douche.
The Hudsucker Proxy: My absolute favorite Coen Bros. film got completely ignored at the box office. It is a bit odd in terms of story, but then again it's just classic Coen
Hellboy: Last year's best comic book film (barely edging out Spider-Man 2). Like a cross between Ghostbusters and Men in Black. And just as fun as both. I guess audiences don't like their heroes to be demons from Hell. Go figure.
Once Upon a Time in Mexico: Part 3 in Robert Rodriguez's El Mariachi trilogy. It's convoluted as all hell, but it's also a hell of a lot of fun. Johnny Depp nearly steals the film right out from under Antonio Banderas.
The Iron Giant: Best traditionally animated film in the past 10 years. Yet nobody saw it.
Forgotten Silver: Wasn't exactly released in theaters, but Peter Jackson's documentary about the world's first filmmaker is every bit as wonderful as the rest of his films. If you can find it, it's definitely worth your money. Plus, the ultimate joke is great if you figure it out.
Then, of course, there's Serenity.
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Can't argue with GPB, and I actually was too scared to watch Jeepers Creepers all the way through. Alone in the house, late at night, I totally bottled out.
These may not have been flops, but they're on my shelf, so there. Except The Loveless. That's just a long gone memory.
Buckaroo Banzai. Best use of the word "Yoyodyne".
Dog Soldiers. No budget to speak of, but makes up for it by being good. Shoot-outs where people actually run out of bullets.
Dave. Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver ruling
High Fidelity. Lists and good tunes. Todd Luiso acting brilliantly by being more or less motionless on the same screen as Jack Black and John Cusack.
Tremors. The first one. Jayne'd love the rec. room. Sequels not so much.
Evolution. Duchovny. Sarcasm can indeed be the highest form of wit.
The Loveless. Robert Gordon can act as well.
Shadow of The Vampire. Vampires. Bloody unreliable wind-up merchants. Take the piss all the time.
Galaxy Quest. Normally any sort of Sci-Fi spoof is
a good reason to run, no drive, fast in the opposite direction. This is bang on target. I went to a convention once. It's all true, you know...
Trancers. Absolutely no budget.
My Cousin Vinny. Three finest leads ever. Generally exerting maximum torquage.
Godzilla. Fab Elvis impression. Can't understand why everyone hates it. To my mind, the original was (...pulling on flame suit...) really a bit naff looking.
Leon. Just awesome. How did Natalie Portman sink to such depths in later (sic) life? Gary Oldman playing a different cop to Sergeant Gordon. Fewer Elvis impersonations.
One From The Heart. Colours and Music
Mr Deeds. Remake of a classic, which tends to make snobs have a stroke, but I just really like it. Adam Sandler amuses me a lot.
Freaky Friday. Teen film, but without the lameness that those two words normally invoke. People acting well and looking like they are having a real laugh doing it. When did you last see that? Oh yes, that would be anything Firefly-related...
Any early Steven Seagal film where he's hitting people, and not whingeing about the state of the planet. Or singing.
The Hunt For Red October.
The Princess Bride.
Best in Show.
That's probably more than ten, but less than I could list if my Alzheimer's wasn't playing up.
G
Nice tan. It's very Christmassy.
Cahoonja-hoonja Boulevard.
(Jack Death)
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Quote:I am SO a fan of Trancers and Trancers 2!!!
Originally posted by Gixxer:
Trancers. Absolutely no budget.
Nice tan. It's very Christmassy.
Cahoonja-hoonja Boulevard.
(Jack Deth)
I want to KILL someone that they're not on dvd!!!(Yeah, I know the first one is, but my videotape looks better!!)
Other hidden gems:
Cherry 2000 - where Joss got the idea for the Buffybot (maybe).
Blood of Heroes -Rutger Hauer at his best!
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever - much maligned, but much fun.
Fire and Ice - For my money, Bakshi's best 'toon.
Logan's Run - I don't hear this minor classic mentioned enough!
Timecop 2 - No, not Van Damme, Jason Scott Lee! And is he great or what?
Chrisisall
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Some ideas I like right off the bat!
Sentinal, you are a god! Zero Effect?
I actually own this movie, what a gem. Anybody who scoffs at the idea of a great movie with Bill Pullman or Ben Stiller (which would be me actually) I doubly encourage.
A Simple Plan, very nice choice
Iron Giant, beauty
Hellboy didn't do well? I thought it had. Rats.
I try not to repeat myself in the movie threads, so I'll save some for when I come back to read this later, and I'll only including recent movies.
"Nobody Knows" A Japanese movie about a much too young single mother of many children. She leaves them home alone while she goes out to pretend she has another life where these children don't exist. They have never been to school and are not allowed to leave the apartment. That's about as much as was in the trailer.
"Born Into Brothels" Filmed in India, it's about 8 children of prostitutes who are given a chance to practice photography. It puts a very human face on something most of us would never otherwise notice, breaks your heart and lets you hope.
"Old Boy" Has one of the most visually stunning fight scenes I have ever seen ever, and I'm not going to tell you a thing about it.
"2046" Beautiful, just stunning. Yeah, and they call it SF, so I hear.
"The Twilight Samurai" It's been over a year since I've seen this one, so I considered not including it, but it makes a nice bouquet with the rest. In the same month I also saw "Hero" which I enjoyed very much, and "House of Flying Daggers" which, eh, especially when compared to the other two.
"Kung Fu Hustle" Did I only see asian movies this year? I went with a dozen martial artists (no I'm not, only a little karate) and every one of us choked on our coke it was so funny.
"The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" Worth it for the Bowie sung in Portugese by Seu George alone, and so you won't think I didn't like anything American besides "Serenity".
Thanks to viral marketing...SERENITY: reopening soon in a theater near you.
Shiny Trees! Yavanna made Shiny Trees!
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I love these choices! Excellent all of them! Old Boy and its predecessor are 'hard' films... not for the weak!
However the Jeepers Creepers I&II choice some mentioned before, I totally disagree with. IMO it ranks down there with 'Battlefield Earth' the Travolta bomb...
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Originally posted by liminalosity:
Some ideas I like right off the bat!
Sentinal, you are a god! Zero Effect?
I actually own this movie, what a gem. Anybody who scoffs at the idea of a great movie with Bill Pullman or Ben Stiller (which would be me actually) I doubly encourage.
A Simple Plan, very nice choice
Iron Giant, beauty
Hellboy didn't do well? I thought it had. Rats.
I try not to repeat myself in the movie threads, so I'll save some for when I come back to read this later, and I'll only including recent movies.
"Nobody Knows" A Japanese movie about a much too young single mother of many children. She leaves them home alone while she goes out to pretend she has another life where these children don't exist. They have never been to school and are not allowed to leave the apartment. That's about as much as was in the trailer.
"Born Into Brothels" Filmed in India, it's about 8 children of prostitutes who are given a chance to practice photography. It puts a very human face on something most of us would never otherwise notice, breaks your heart and lets you hope.
"Old Boy" Has one of the most visually stunning fight scenes I have ever seen ever, and I'm not going to tell you a thing about it.
"2046" Beautiful, just stunning. Yeah, and they call it SF, so I hear.
"The Twilight Samurai" It's been over a year since I've seen this one, so I considered not including it, but it makes a nice bouquet with the rest. In the same month I also saw "Hero" which I enjoyed very much, and "House of Flying Daggers" which, eh, especially when compared to the other two.
"Kung Fu Hustle" Did I only see asian movies this year? I went with a dozen martial artists (no I'm not, only a little karate) and every one of us choked on our coke it was so funny.
"The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" Worth it for the Bowie sung in Portugese by Seu George alone, and so you won't think I didn't like anything American besides "Serenity".
Thanks to viral marketing...SERENITY: reopening soon in a theater near you.
Shiny Trees! Yavanna made Shiny Trees!
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Gross Pointe Blank: YES YES YES
Star Trek Nemisis: Best Star Trek Movie EVER!!!!
Jeepers Creepers? I wont watch it because of the director. He is a child molestor. He isn't getting any of my money. ( http://www.vachss.com/mission/disney.html)
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Quote:Shirley you jest? Better than First Contact? Better than STTMP?
Originally posted by UnregisteredCompanion:
Star Trek Nemisis: Best Star Trek Movie EVER!!!!
If so, why? Maybe I missed something, I only saw it once.
Serious Chrisisall
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Orpheus, I am right there with you re 'The Hudsucker Proxy'. Go Eagles!
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