5 lesser known movies you want people to see.
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I can't think of five at the moment, but everyone should see:
Sneakers: about a small company that breaks other companies' security systems in order to show them their weaknesses, and is then hired by the NSA to find a black box for them that can break any computer encryption. Great movie, great actors, funny, smart, and enough action to keep you going.
Real Genius: best Val Kilmer movie ever (I'm not sure that's saying much though...). He is hilarious in this. Very funny, great (relatively unknown) actors. [Thanks JPStargazer for reminding me of this one]
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5) Silent Running- 1972, scifi thriller. Original r2d2s Bruce Dern saving the last of earth's enviroment stowed in ships out in space.
4) Will Penny- 1968, Classic Am. Western with crazy nutty christians trying to kill Charlton Heston over a deer. How a real cowhand would be.
3) The Last Detail- 1974, Jack Nicholson as a true Navy man at his best or worst. I am the Gorram Shore Patrol classic.
2) Empire of the Wolves- 2005, Man this movie freaked me out. Don't laugh its french I know please. Hollyweird take notes on this film. Is it a horror, scifi, or action thriller. It kicks. Jean Reno is a BA. Usually he overdubs in English but this one sub titles keeps the chemistry of it. The English sounds like a Jap movie. Very hard to find rate up their with Die Hard.
1) Triggermen- 2002, I could not stop laughing in this movie. Just a heap of fun to watch. Gangster, luv interests, and boobs and everybody confused.
You wanna leave this room. Damn right I do.
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Good call with Equilibrium.
I don't have five, but here are a few:
Real Genius-This is an early Val Kilmer movie and he is just hilarious. It seems it got buried in the mound of 80's comedies but it's really funny.
Leon (The Professional)-Okay, this was still a pretty big movie but it's limited/edited release in the US really make it sort of unknown here. Not only is Natalie Portman great but Jean Reno makes a great hitman...is that a compliment?
Primer-I don't own this...yet. It is kind of a puzzle movie about time travel of sorts. I still haven't figured it out but I've only seen it once. I really respect that it was made for like $7,000 and it's better than a lot of crap that costs $40 mil.
The Killer-Okay, once again, this is like the most famous Hong Kong action movie ever but not so much in the US. This is one of THE best action movies ever and anyone who won't watch something because it "has those crazy subtitles" can go to h-e-double hockey sticks.
Alright, I'm done.
"All I got is a red guitar, three chords, and the truth...the rest is up to you"
--Bono
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1. Equilibrium- great sci fi future movie of the farenheight 451 variety staring the Dark Knight himself Christian Bale
2. Harrison Burgeron- This was a made for cable tv movie based on the short story by Kurt Vonnegut, another futuristic tale of government gone wrong.
3. The Last Time I commited Suicide- This is a movie based on Beat Writer Neal Cassadys early life in the 40's, it stars Thomas Jane, Keanu Reaves, and Adrian Brody... great film
4. Backbeat - This is a flick about the beatles before they were big when they played clubs in Germany. Centers on there original Bass player Stuart Sutcliffe who left the band to persue his art.
5. SFW - from imdb-- 5 people are being held hostage in a convenience store for 36 days. One of the demands of the hostage takers is that all TV-stations should broadcast the entire situation live. Cliff and Wendy are the only survivors, and when the are released, they are heroes. Especially Cliff is a national hero, and his apathetic ideology "so fucking what" turns into a national movement. Cliff himself is not that happy about all the fuzz.
"And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic lowlife community."
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Four Friends
The Conversation
The Duellists
The Fisher King
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1. "Passport to Pimlico", an indescribably droll British comedy. In post-war Britain, where rationing is still in effect to pay off the war debt, the accidental discovery of an ancient treaty proves that the London suburb of Pimlico is actually part of the long-defunct nation of Burgundy--and therefore exempt from British rationing! Hillarious satire on the earliest phases of the cold war, with biting echoes of the Berlin airlift...
2. "The Mind of Mr. Soames". A thirty-year old man who has been in a coma from infancy is awakened, and must be taught how to be a human. A thinking person's science fiction drama.
3. "Ruggles of Red Gap". In turn-of-the-century Paris, a pair of nouveau riche yokels win a British butler in a poker game, and bring him back to their native town of Red Gap, where he is mistaken for a visiting British war hero. Charles Laughton is hilarious and moving--don't miss his magnificently low-key recital of the Gettysburg address.
4. "One, Two, Three" - more cold war comedy, with James Cagney as a Coca-cola distributor in pre-Berlin-wall Berlin, dealing with a daughter who's fallen in love with a boy from the wrong side of the border. Impeccable comic timing from Billy Wilder.
5. "Mr. Vampire" - an hilariously bizzare Hong Kong vampire comedy. Love those hopping vampires. "Your father has been buried standing up for two years. He's going to be pissed."
"Hermanos! The Devil has built a Robot! Andale!" -- Numero Cinco
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I can only think of two right now.
1- Freeway- Reese Witherspoon plays a hilarious redneck high school girl who runs away from her social worker to live with the grandma she's never met. A modern day telling of Red Riding Hood. She's stalked by Keifer Sutherland, the big bad wolf. It's a very dark comedy and full of profanities, so if that's not your thing stay away.
2- Murder By Death- Neil Simon's parody of the fourties detective genre. All star cast including Peter Falk and Truman Capote.
Oh wait...
3- Sweet Hostage- Martin Sheen, Linda Blair. An escaped mental patient kidnaps an illiterate teenage farm girl and takes her to his mountain hide-away, where they soon become friends and, eventually, lovers. Very strange, but it always stuck with me.
Deb
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The five titles you mentioned I've never heard in my life, but they sound like fantastic movies that I'll be looking for.
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"We have five million Cybermen. How many are you?"
"Four"
You would destroy the Cybermen with four Daleks?"
"We would destroy the Cybermen with ONE Dalek. You are superior in only one respect."
"What is that?"
"You are better at dying."
Trash talk between a Cyberman and a Dalek. It doesn't get any better than that.
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Originally posted by RiverIsMyGoddess:
Spun - drug culture movie, about meth, shows how easily it can destroy lives, very true to life
I will be bold and post this edit:
It should be noted, this is not a film to watch if you are currently using cocaine or meth. It will simply send you into a spiral of panic. Believe me.
Don't make faces.
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My list.
Brazil
Raise the Red Lantern
A Life Less Ordinary
Straw Dogs
WALKING WITH DINOSAURS!
All of the above have entirely different messages, will leave you feeling completely changed. They're just worth watching, for five different reasons :)
Don't make faces.
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