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Really good movies no one seems to know

intlzncster said:
I'm not sure what you mean by 'no one seems to know', if it's low box office movies, I've got a few. The Michael Douglas reference reminded my of a couple.

Thinking of Michael Douglas:
  • Wonder Boys - Decent movie about an English professor with life problems
  • Falling Down - Might be too famous, but a lot of people I talk to haven't seen it and it's great
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US Cinema:
  • Nightcrawlers - Just saw this. Awesome film. Jake Gyllenhaal absolutely crushes it. Belongs on depressing list too I'd think. More Disturbing than anything though
  • October Sky - Coming of age about a poor, coal miner's kid who grows up to be a rocket scientist
  • Garden State - I don't know why more people haven't watched this. Classic indy film
  • Rescue Dawn - Christian Bale. Vietnam POW movie. Underrated under seen.
Sci Fi selections:
  • Moon - If you're a fan of sci fi and you haven't seen this, there's something wrong with you
  • Man From Earth - If you're a fan of sci fi and you haven't seen this, there's something wrong with you
  • A Scanner Darkly - Dystopian Phillip K Dick number. This movie was a flop, but was actually awesome. It was shot digitally, then animated over the top. Great cast. Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson
  • The Island - Here's a weird option which doesn't quite fit the title because: Michael Bay. $126m budget. Stars Scarlett Johansson and Ewan McGregor. Huge Ad campaign. And yet, very few people have seen it! Grossed like $36m; $12.5m opening weekend. Quality Sci fi imo.
  • Primer - great time travel sci fi movie made for only $7,000!!
Special Addition. I think most on the Yard have heard of it, so perhaps doesn't qualify, but it's a must watch. Idiocracy. Taken at face value, a horribly bad movie. But actually a piece of brilliant satire. It's meant to be bad on purpose. One of the most relevant movies by which to view modern society. Theme song of the Cesspool.

Cult classics in Australia (but not here in the US):
  • Chopper - brutal "true" story about about a real life bicycle gangster
  • The Castle - Light hearted comedy. THE Australian cult classic. You get to see what a great Character actor Eric Bana is in his first role. Not for everyone.
  • Romper Stomper - Russell Crowe before he became Russell Crowe. A low budget movie about Aussie Skinheads
  • The Proposition - An Australian western directed by musician Nick Cave. Really underrated

While we're talking Foreign Films, because most Americans haven't seen them, I've got a ton. Some really popular, some not so:
  • The Orphanage - Spanish Horror/Thriller. Really freakin' creepy. Foreign horror movies are better imo (The Ring etc)
  • Old Boy - Crazy Korean thriller. Also brilliant.
  • La Haine - French day in the life of 3 ghetto kids in a time of unrest. Probably won too many awards for this list
  • Un prophète - French gangster in prison. Also probably won too many awards for this list
  • Death at a Funeral - British dark comedy. Absolutely hilarious. Peter Dinklage
  • Withnail and I - British cult classic. Weird. Loved it though. Some of you might need subtitles to understand the English being spoke.
  • This is England - Coming of age story with skinheads
  • Dead Man's Shoe's - for a straight up no frills revenge flick. Paddy Considine.
etc, etc, etc

Foreign films remade, which are often well known here, but the originals were way better.
  • Let The Right One In - Ok, it was remade in the US to a bit of popularity. But the original was, way better. Brilliant Scandi flick
  • Die Welle - German movie where teacher does play acting nazi experiment with classroom
  • El Secrete de Sus Ojos - Argentina. Better than the crappy remake
  • The Ring - Japanese. Holy crap. that's how you do a freaky movie
  • Abre los ojos - Better than the crappy Tom Cruise remake Vanilla Sky
etc, etc, etc

I could go ham on listing foreign films all night. I think they make better movies these days. Real story. Real characters/actors. Not as much about 'selling' as they are about 'creating'.
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Just watched Old Boy a couple weeks ago. That one will scar your psyche if you let it.
 
JMick said:
I'm not sure exactly how popular it is but I don't know many others who have seen it - Chef. One of the best feel-good movies I've watched
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I saw Chef a couple of years ago. It was very entertaining. I have to admit I never expected to see a road trip movie featuring a food truck.
 
Just saw such a movie two nights ago. The Limehouse Golem. Very interesting gothic thriller type film. Complex plot with many inter-connected characters and the acting is good.
 
Miller's Crossing: This one's known, but I think doesn't have near the rep or acclaim it should given that its a Coen Brothers movie and a crime movie. I think its right up there in 2nd tier of mafia / organized crime movies. Its not Godfather or Goodfellas, but in the next group with and to my mind better than The Usual Suspects that has the 'twist' buzz but overall I think Miller's Crossing is better work from same lead. Maybe now that Spacey is on everyone's $ hit list this will get its just deserves.
 
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Dogdeacon said:
Miller's Crossing: This one's known, but I think doesn't have near the rep or acclaim it should given that its a Coen Brothers movie and a crime movie. I think its right up there in 2nd tier of mafia / organized crime movies. Its not Godfather or Goodfellas, but in the next group with and to my mind better than The Usual Suspects that has the 'twist' buzz but overall I think Miller's Crossing is better work from same lead. Maybe now that Spacey is on everyone's $ hit list this will get its just deserves.
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Great call. That's usually on my list of under the radar recommendations. The scene where Turturro begs for his life is classic, as is the "Danny Boy" scene.
 
Almodovar's The Skin I Live In. A great little twisty, effed up thriller. Almodovar up to his usual wacky tricks and beautifully shot scenes. Reminded me after seeing the St. Vincent video Los Ageless. A great twisted performance by Antonio Banderas (who I think is an under appreciated actor) and the beautiful Elena Anaya (who was the evil Dr. villain in Wonder Woman). Trailer still kicks ass.

 
Mano said:
Almodovar's The Skin I Live In. A great little twisty, effed up thriller. Almodovar up to his usual wacky tricks and beautifully shot scenes. Reminded me after seeing the St. Vincent video Los Ageless. A great twisted performance by Antonio Banderas (who I think is an under appreciated actor) and the beautiful Elena Anaya (who was the evil Dr. villain in Wonder Woman). Trailer still kicks ass.

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I've seen several of Almodovar's films. "The Skin I Live In" is indeed good. There are are few of his films that I would rate higher than that one, including "All About My Mother", "Talk to Her", and "Broken Embraces". If you are looking for colorful, wacky melodrama with all sorts of flourishes, sexual or otherwise, there is no one quite like Almodovar and his movies.
 
dbmill said:
I've seen several of Almodovar's films. "The Skin I Live In" is indeed good. There are are few of his films that I would rate higher than that one, including "All About My Mother", "Talk to Her", and "Broken Embraces". If you are looking for colorful, wacky melodrama with all sorts of flourishes, sexual or otherwise, there is no one quite like Almodovar and his movies.
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I saw one of those years ago. What was the one where the guy walks out of the girls cooch? Or something like that.
 
"The Way, Way Back." Coming of age story of an awkward teenager. Sam Rockwell is great as a slacker manager of a water amusement park that takes the kid under his wing. Good cast all around. Funny, and heartwarming.
 
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A long forgotten movie which received rave reviews and was shot on a budget of $1 million in 1971, and made $32 million at the box office and another $20 million on video rentals, and won several Oscars....

The Summer of 42
 
It's got a 90 score on Rotten Tomatoes and is a Peter Jackson movie, so I don't know if it's unknown, but I thought District 9 was a surprisingly good movie.

 
billythekid said:
It's got a 90 score on Rotten Tomatoes and is a Peter Jackson produced* movie, so I don't know if it's unknown, but I thought District 9 was a surprisingly good movie.

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FIFY. One of the better Sci-Fi flicks of recent years. I liked it a lot when it came out. Neill Blomkamp has a visual flair as director I like, but he's let himself down with the scripts he's written. I think his best films are still ahead of him though. Wish he had gotten his Halo film off the ground. District 9 was great.
 
intlzncster said:
I'm not sure what you mean by 'no one seems to know', if it's low box office movies, I've got a few. The Michael Douglas reference reminded my of a couple.

Thinking of Michael Douglas:
  • Wonder Boys - Decent movie about an English professor with life problems
  • Falling Down - Might be too famous, but a lot of people I talk to haven't seen it and it's great
....

US Cinema:
  • Nightcrawlers - Just saw this. Awesome film. Jake Gyllenhaal absolutely crushes it. Belongs on depressing list too I'd think. More Disturbing than anything though
  • October Sky - Coming of age about a poor, coal miner's kid who grows up to be a rocket scientist
  • Garden State - I don't know why more people haven't watched this. Classic indy film
  • Rescue Dawn - Christian Bale. Vietnam POW movie. Underrated under seen.
Sci Fi selections:
  • Moon - If you're a fan of sci fi and you haven't seen this, there's something wrong with you
  • Man From Earth - If you're a fan of sci fi and you haven't seen this, there's something wrong with you
  • A Scanner Darkly - Dystopian Phillip K Dick number. This movie was a flop, but was actually awesome. It was shot digitally, then animated over the top. Great cast. Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson
  • The Island - Here's a weird option which doesn't quite fit the title because: Michael Bay. $126m budget. Stars Scarlett Johansson and Ewan McGregor. Huge Ad campaign. And yet, very few people have seen it! Grossed like $36m; $12.5m opening weekend. Quality Sci fi imo.
  • Primer - great time travel sci fi movie made for only $7,000!!
Special Addition. I think most on the Yard have heard of it, so perhaps doesn't qualify, but it's a must watch. Idiocracy. Taken at face value, a horribly bad movie. But actually a piece of brilliant satire. It's meant to be bad on purpose. One of the most relevant movies by which to view modern society. Theme song of the Cesspool.

Cult classics in Australia (but not here in the US):
  • Chopper - brutal "true" story about about a real life bicycle gangster
  • The Castle - Light hearted comedy. THE Australian cult classic. You get to see what a great Character actor Eric Bana is in his first role. Not for everyone.
  • Romper Stomper - Russell Crowe before he became Russell Crowe. A low budget movie about Aussie Skinheads
  • The Proposition - An Australian western directed by musician Nick Cave. Really underrated

While we're talking Foreign Films, because most Americans haven't seen them, I've got a ton. Some really popular, some not so:
  • The Orphanage - Spanish Horror/Thriller. Really freakin' creepy. Foreign horror movies are better imo (The Ring etc)
  • Old Boy - Crazy Korean thriller. Also brilliant.
  • La Haine - French day in the life of 3 ghetto kids in a time of unrest. Probably won too many awards for this list
  • Un prophète - French gangster in prison. Also probably won too many awards for this list
  • Death at a Funeral - British dark comedy. Absolutely hilarious. Peter Dinklage
  • Withnail and I - British cult classic. Weird. Loved it though. Some of you might need subtitles to understand the English being spoke.
  • This is England - Coming of age story with skinheads
  • Dead Man's Shoe's - for a straight up no frills revenge flick. Paddy Considine.
etc, etc, etc

Foreign films remade, which are often well known here, but the originals were way better.
  • Let The Right One In - Ok, it was remade in the US to a bit of popularity. But the original was, way better. Brilliant Scandi flick
  • Die Welle - German movie where teacher does play acting nazi experiment with classroom
  • El Secrete de Sus Ojos - Argentina. Better than the crappy remake
  • The Ring - Japanese. Holy crap. that's how you do a freaky movie
  • Abre los ojos - Better than the crappy Tom Cruise remake Vanilla Sky
etc, etc, etc

I could go ham on listing foreign films all night. I think they make better movies these days. Real story. Real characters/actors. Not as much about 'selling' as they are about 'creating'.
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Death at a Funeral is one of the funniest movies ever, and October Sky is a great movie. I would suggest you give War Dogs a try. Slumdog Millionaire is a well known movie but it seems like a lot of people haven't seen it.
 
shizzle787 said:
Death at a Funeral is one of the funniest movies ever, and October Sky is a great movie. I would suggest you give War Dogs a try. Slumdog Millionaire is a well known movie but it seems like a lot of people haven't seen it.
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Agree on October Sky. Great movie.

War Dogs was good too.
 
Mano said:
FIFY. One of the better Sci-Fi flicks of recent years. I liked it a lot when it came out. Neill Blomkamp has a visual flair as director I like, but he's let himself down with the scripts he's written. I think his best films are still ahead of him though. Wish he had gotten his Halo film off the ground. District 9 was great.
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Its a great movie. ts a crime Sharlto Copley didn't get an Oscar nod for it.
 
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Thought of two others I particularly like, neither of which did boffo box office. I may have mentioned one or both on another movie thread, but figured I'd drop them here:

The Mexican. Just a fun telling of a story. Nothing Oscar worthy, although James Gandolfini was superb as a gay hitman. Pitt and Roberts were goofy throughout but had good chemistry. Lots of quirky little things to enjoy on the way, like the dog that keeps following Pitt around.

The Matador. Worth it just to see Pierce Brosnan cast out of type as a lonely mean drunk hitman. And he sells it beautifully.
 
A couple of under rated Westerns. Valdez is coming. One of Burt Lancasters best. Seraphin Falls. always watch it when it's on.
 
Just watched "A Perfect Day". I knew nothing about this movie, but all the other movies on Netflix at the moment looked like crap and this one had Benecio Del Toro and Tim Robbins, so how bad could it be?

Turns out it was terrific. It's a black comedy about aid workers in Bosnia toward the end of the Bosnian conflict. The whole movie is pretty much about how they're trying to get a corpse out of a well so the villagers can have drinking water. And all the bureaucracy and cultural misunderstandings that get in the way of them doing such a simple task. Based on a true story and surprisingly entertaining for what seems like a rather mundane plot. Highly recommended.
 
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I enjoyed that as well storrsroars.
 
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My top movies that you probably haven't seen;

Primer - As someone indicated above great movie low budget but the story hooks you in.

The invitation - This was slow in the beginning but really grabbed me in the end.

Animal Kingdom - Australian movie was also a TV show adapted by the movie but not as good.

Before the Devil knows your dead - One of Phillip Seymour Hoffmans best work
 
Cold Comfort Farm - From 1995, a hilarious British comedy directed by John Schlesinger and starring Kate Beckinsdale very early in her film career. After the death of her parents, Beckinsdale goes to live with a bunch of her eccentric rural relatives at an exceedingly run down family farm. Ian McKellen has a great supporting role as a fire and brimstone preacher. After seeing this, you will never forget that one of the characters once "saw something nasty in the woodshed".
 
I posted this a couple of months ago in the Recently Viewed Movies thread, but this definitely belongs here. Brigsby Bear. I really enjoyed this oddball film, although I suspect that not everyone will buy into it. It's a strikingly original movie on among other things the creative process. It also provides Mark Hamill with a late career role that is my idea of the perfect twist from his fame as Luke Skywalker.
 
Coherence - one of the better sci-fi movies of the last 5 years and very few people have seen it. On hulu now it seems.
 
eastmill said:
Red Cliff
Three Kingdoms
Hero
Ip Man
Red Rock West
The Killers (Lee Marvin)
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The scene where Bernie LaPlante is explaining life and bullshiat to his kid should be required viewing before participating in any political discussion. Nobody has explained it better and more concisely.

 
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