Obscure Film Favorites....

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NYWOE

Thursday, March 31, 2005 2:57 PM

Wow, you guys are reminding me of a lot of movies I've forgotten about. Repo Man, Cyrano De Bergerac, etc. Good stuff. Anybody ever seen the Mario Brothers Movie. Call me crazy, but I love it. Okay, yes, I admit, I'm crazy. Okay you can stop calling me crazy now.

Re: What the Bleep Do We Know:

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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.

Thank-you! I can't tell you how grateful I am to have someone confirm what I was thinking about this movie! I only went to see it because my sister ended up as an accidental extra in one of the scenes. Before seeing the movie, I had read reviews online about how it really stretched your brain and made you think. The online trailer implied this, too. One lady said it was too much for her to be able to follow. So I prepared myself for a challenging brain exercise, hoping I would be able to follow it. What do I get? Unsubstantiated "facts" that are loosely connected and then some sort of preachy section telling me I should love myself better.

Apologies to the person who recommended this movie, but it just makes me roll my eyes.

I have heard of a place where humans do battle in a ring of Jell-O.
--Teal'c

NYWOE

Thursday, March 31, 2005 3:00 PM

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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.

Rent it. It started out pretty good, but then it evolved into a really predictable pattern. You know, the kind of thing where you can say the line before the actor does. Worth seeing once.

I have heard of a place where humans do battle in a ring of Jell-O.
--Teal'c

REGINAROADIE

Thursday, March 31, 2005 3:20 PM

There are a few films that I like that can be referred to as Obscure Films. But there's one in particular that for the intents and purposes of this board I really like that I think any sci-fi fan here should check out.

It's this Canadian film called LAST NIGHT. It came out here in 98 and in the states in 99. Directed by Don McKellar and starring a pre-SIDEWAYS Sandra Oh, this is a black comedy about the last six hours of human existence. And it follows all these different people around Toronto and the various stories and occurrences that happen to them as their waiting for midnight, when the world ends. It's sort of an anti-ARMAGEDDON, but it's such a sublime film that everyone should see, particularily when it runs on CBC, because the tv edit for this film is actually better than the actual theatrical release of the movie.

Has anyone here on the board actually seen LAST NIGHT?

"NO HAI ES BANDAI. THERE IS....NO.....BAND. AND YET....WE HEAR A BAND."

THATWEIRDGIRL

Thursday, March 31, 2005 3:26 PM

You asked if I speak French...I used to speak French. Years ago. I was fluent, but now I am so far removed from it in my life that I can only read it. My ability to think as I speak has completely abandoned me (quite often in English too).

On that note...as a former musician, I fell in love with this gem of a movie:
Tous les Matins du Monde

It has subtitles, I think, if you’re interested in seeing it. It actually attempts to answer the question 'what is music'. It really does. This isn't Amadeus, Immortal Beloved, or Mr. Holland, oh no, this story keeps asking you over, and over, and over 'what is music?' The others? They ask 'isn't this guy really cool,' he is, but I want to listen to the music.

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CHRISISALL

Thursday, March 31, 2005 4:05 PM

Thanks for the imput, I guess I'll rent Elektra unless walmart has it for under $15, then I might buy it. Predictable is okay with me as long as the fight scenes are fast and furious.
And I like Ms. Garner...

Another obsure one...Timecop 2, I swear it was really good!(not like the hokum of the first)

Chrisisall

LISTER

Thursday, March 31, 2005 4:16 PM

1. Rosencrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead

2. The Hudsucker Proxy (also on my top 5)

3. Rustlers Rhapsody

4. The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen

5. Cabin Boy

That was a hard list to put together.

Run to the Tower, and call out the Magus
If he has caused this, we'll tear out his pages
Throw him in shackles, AND REMOVE HIS HANDS!
- Red Horse Rainbow, CLUTCH

THESOMNAMBULIST

Thursday, March 31, 2005 4:33 PM

Chrisisall

I've still not seen Timecop 2 yet ~ it was on sky the other night but I missed it. It'll be on again soon though so chances are I'll get to see it.

thatweirdgirl
That sounds like quite a film! I'll keep an eye out for it, and many others mentioned here. I'd love to watch some films in their original language. Maybe you've not lost it for good, perhaps a refresher would have you speaking like a native once again...?

I just thought of one more that I recall seeing when I was very young called Americana with David Caradine as a wonderer who stumbles upon a run down merry-go-round in a sleepy little American town, and he begins restoring it...

It was pretty much his project as he Wrote, starred, directed, edited it, and I believe he sang the end song too. I like that film.

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CHRISISALL

Thursday, March 31, 2005 4:54 PM

Somnambulist, have you ever seen The Legend of Hell House (1973)? For my money it's the spookiest movie I ever saw due to the fact that it all seems like it could, maybe, you know, happen!!
No big effects, and thats why it works. (that AND Roddy McDowell!)

uh-oh, ghosts, gotta- ah, I'm tired of runnin'.

Chrisisall

THESOMNAMBULIST

Thursday, March 31, 2005 6:13 PM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Somnambulist, have you ever seen The Legend of Hell House (1973)? For my money it's the spookiest movie I ever saw due to the fact that it all seems like it could, maybe, you know, happen!!
No big effects, and thats why it works. (that AND Roddy McDowell!)

uh-oh, ghosts, gotta- ah, I'm tired of runnin'.

Chrisisall

No not seen it but good old Roddy never fails does he :)

Talking of effects free horror flicks have you seen The Haunting the one directed by Robert Wise ? It's way spooky :)

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FREMDFIRMA

Thursday, March 31, 2005 6:22 PM

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

Probably one of my favorites of all time, didn't know anyone else had even heard of it... Sickdude, if you liked that, go rent a copy of Savior, you would like that every bit as much.

"Hey Tank boyyyyyyy!"
Damn that guy was a kook.

-F

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