K-Pax. Panned by critics. Good review by audience. It’s a science fiction/feel good movie.
Can be watched again with equal enjoyment.
Cuban Fury is a sweet little romantic movie starring Nick Frost as an ex-salsa dancer.
Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot is an odd little romantic comedy about an elderly couple sharing an apartment building, starring Judi Dench and Dustin Hoffman.
Crawlspace is a Sci-Fi action movie made by a friend of mine. It’s better than I expected and deserves more eyes on it. It’s set primarily in the air ducts of a scientific facility.
I think you mean The Secret of Kells. I enjoyed Song of the Sea (by the same director) even more. Check it out if you haven’t already!
I Like It Like That shows how it was like being Puerto Rican in the South Bronx. A for real slice of life. You may have to be Puerto Rican to enjoy it, though.
Oh, darn. You’re right. I usually don’t make those kinds of mistakes.
I just watched Song of the Sea a few weeks ago, and it was equally nice, though the song that is sung throughout sounded too similar to the Pangur Ban song from the first movie.
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I remember liking Looker a lot. I wish I had control of the tiny part of my brain that memorized the end theme song all those years ago.
Auto Focus - Beautifully made dramatization of Bob Crane’s rather hectic life. Greg Kinnear shines and incidentally makes me wonder why he didn’t have a role on the Colbert Report as Colbert’s evil liberal twin or something. I won’t link to the trailer because if one watches it, one will have essentially seen the movie. I hate that sort of trailer. It’s the sort of movie that might make one want to have a shower afterward, but not as long a shower as required by Happiness. Geez. I don’t even need to watch the trailer for that one again.
And for a movie as different from those as can be, True Stories. One of my favourite movies about a bunch of people in Virgil Texas.
It’s available on DVD as well as streaming at Amazon.com; no idea if Netflix has it.
I pre-ordered the DVD a few years back when it came out. It’s a bit dated production-wise, but still a solid story and film.
ETA: FML it turns out “a few years back” is actually 8 years ago.
I found Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey to be hysterical. Parts Anyway.
Also, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother is basically a Mel Brooks movie without Mel Brooks.
Not looking (ha!) to one-up you, but I think the last time I saw it was 1983. Made an impression. The story is more timely than ever.
Amazon to the rescue!
Aye, that’s why I ordered it when I heard it was being released on DVD: I prolly hadn’t seen it in the 30+ years since I saw it on cable TV back in the early '80s, and ddamn I love that movie.
ETA: Anyone else huge fans of Peter Jackson’s early films Bad Taste and Meet The Feebles?
Bad Taste is definitely my favorite of the two; the scene where Derek recovers from falling off a cliff and keeps touching his brain still makes me squick out every time I watch it, but I’m also laughing hysterically, which only makes the creepiness worse, which makes it funnier ad infinitum.
LOL - I’m the same! I barely remember the movie but the ending song has stuck with me ever since. The other one is the opening to “Total Recall.” Not a great theme, but really stuck with me for some reason.
A friend of mine described Meet the Feebles by saying that there was not a single bodily fluid that was not featured somewhere in the movie. He may have been right.
There’s something about that combination of extremely cute and utterly profane that makes me laugh, but I completely accept that not everyone will have that same reaction. That Peter Jackson went on to such mainstream success somehow makes it funnier.
I fixed your coding, as you asked.
Thanks, IT; you totally fucking rock!
Meet The Robinsons
CGI animated movie with misleading trailers making it look like a comedy, in reality it is a time travel movie and not a bad one at all. I found this because my young son loves CGI animation, and I liked it more than him.
Yes! A million times yes!
Inkheart, I believe, is the movie you have in mind. Brendan Fraser as the dad who has the gift/curse that any fictional material he reads comes into being from the work he’s reading. And swaps places with an entity from his own world, sometimes to his great sorrow.
Nobody ever talks up The Secret of Roan Inish, so I’m adding that to the list of fell-through-the-cracks movies I love. So much of the exposition is given through the villagers telling stories to the little girl. When the (slightly older than she) boy is taking a turn, he’s got this self-conscious look that might just be amateurish acting, but to me it comes across as though he’s going through a rite of passage, and I just think it’s delightful.
Man in the Moon (not the Andy Kaufman movie) was a great coming of age movie starring a very young Reese Witherspoon. You could see she was destined for greatness.