Brain Donors (1992) and The Wrong Guy (1997) are really funny movies and I tend to rewatch them once a year.
I’m afraid that stupid little movies escape my notice altogether — or maybe I’m just not a comedy fan :o — so the best I can do is list the four films from that time period that are on my Favorites list despite earning less than 7 IMDB points:
Good Thief (2002)
The Interpreter (2005)
The Score (2001)
Third Miracle (1999)
Bound (1996) is another lesser-known favorite, but it got 7.3 IMDB’s
Wasabi (2001). Jean Reno is a great straight man in this very french action comedy movie set mostly in Japan. 6.7 on IMBD, but I always enjoy watching it.
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Lot’s of good little movies I haven’t thought about in years.
I’ll cosign the following:
The Long Kiss Goodnight - Geena Davis and Sam Jackson bring the shit talking and snark all movie long
Enemy at the Gates - Snipers are just cool
PCU - Once George Clinton hit the stage I was sold
Where the Heart Is - This movie made me love the acting of Natalie Portman…until Star Wars.
Road Trip - DJ Qualls partying with black folk is just a feel good moment
Under the Tuscan Sun - Lady was lucky enough to stumble across the place in the world where she belonged and she was smart enough to recognize it, bold enough to take the chance and strong enough to tough it out.
Mystery Men - This movie started a life long love for dysfunctional supers
I’ll add:
Stargate - James Spader showing the world how good a sci-fi movie can be if you cast quality actors who take the material at least somewhat seriously. Still one of my favorite sci-fi movies of all time.
Drop Zone - Wesley Snipes movie where the actual plot sucked (as befits a Snipes movie) but fortunately a significant portion of this movie is all about showing some awesome skydivers just doing their thing
Leon: The Professional - Gary Oldman as Stansfield and Natalie Portman as Mathilda…nuff said
All three of these are better than they have any right to be.
I will triplesign(?) those and definitely cosign these
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All I can do is chime in to agree wholeheartedly with Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion, an absolute gem of cinema. Unpretentious, lovable, and funny through and through.
I’m also chiming in about Mountains of the Moon (really interesting; I went and read the novel it was based on after seeing the flick; I liked the hint of Sufism worked into it) and Prospero’s Books (Shakespeare as MindScrew).
But please note that Prospero’s Books is neither stupid nor little. It’s a Big Production and intensely cerebral. The only film ever to make dozens of stark naked nude people look cerebral instead of erotic. Mountains of the Moon is also highly intelligent, nothing stupid about it, though it would qualify for being “little.”
I’ve seen Princess Caraboo three times now, even though it really isn’t that notable of a flick, I must be liking something about it. Phoebe Cates performs with verve and fun-loving nofuckstogivitude. It qualifies for this thread all right.
Now my turn. I wonder if anyone else has seen Twenty Bucks. It has a star-studded cast, a clever story, and tight directing. It seems to have sunk without leaving a ripple.
The White Room by Canadian filmmaker Patricia Rozema is a remarkable arthouse experimental obscurity that I wish I could see again.
Silent Tongue. Ah, Silent Tongue! What to say about it? I can’t call it stupid really; rather, the only descriptor for it is “Huh?” It’s certainly little, since it got very little attention. I’ll say that in the genre of Weird West, it’s definitely one of the weirdest.
One of Janeane Garofalo’s greatest roles. Ah, Janeane Garofalo. When she’s bad, she’s crap, but when she’s good, she’s awesome. This is my favorite one of hers.
I picked this one up in a bargain bin…fun little flick.
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I picked this one up in a bargain bin…fun little flick.
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I took an old friend (who was female) to see “Bound”…It wasn’t a date. But we hadn’t specifically SAID “This isn’t a date”…anyway…all she knew was that it was two women in a heist film and it was supposed to be good. And I knew the women were lesbians, but I figured the women would become a couple very organically and over time.
About 6 minutes in, Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly are all over each other and ripping their clothes off. My friend quite rightly turned to me and said, “Dale…what the hell have you taken me to?”
Fortunately the film did turn out to be quite good.
Trailer: “The Matchmaker” 1997
Janeane Garofolo goes to Ireland to check on her bosses family lineage. She ends up meeting an assortment of characters.
Two black-guys-go-to Ireland movies:
1998’s The Nephew isn’t silly or cute. When American born biracial teen’s mother dies, he is sent to live with his uncle in Ireland. Pierce Bronson is the uncle in this drama.
Much more silly is 2006’s Irish Jam Where Eddie Griffin wins a pub in an Irish lottery. It’s just like all those movies where the great white savior comes to save the indigenous peoples, except a black comedian comes to save the Irish people.
I loved Bound and saw it several times.
Thank you
Highway to Hell (1991) is about two young people on their way to Vegas to elope when suddenly a cop from hell, better known as Hellcop, kidnaps the bride-to-be. Our protagonist Sam must then journey to hell to rescue his fiance from the clutches of Satan. It’s one of those fun “bad” movies and Lita Ford looks pretty damned good as the Hitchhiker.
Private Parts (1997): Howard Stern biopic features a hilarious turn by then unknown Paul Giamatti, who steals the show as Stern’s evil boss.
Swimming With Sharks (1994) another evil boss (Kevin Spacey) has the tables turned on him by his underling (Frank Whaley).
American History X (1998) amazing film, an overlooked classic. Powerful as heck. Should have received multiple Oscars.
Bulworth (1998) Warren Beatty as a worn out U.S. Senator who turns into a truth speaker influenced by rap music and a young activist (Halle Berry).
the man with one red shoe -tom hanks version yes its fluff but he’s funny as a classical musician he’s reacting to all the nuttiness in his life some of it unknowinglyto him thats brought on by dueling CIA agents one who put him in the middle of a sting operation and the corrupt other trying to find out what he knows about it and not get caught
And some of it is just his everyday life the only downside is the romance is unconvincing and his big song he’s “composed” that gets played a lotis actually the chorus of Madonna’s "like a virgin " done on a violin
- Twenty Bucks?*
That the ensemble with Steve Buscemi and Christopher Lloyd (among others)? Follows a $20 through all the people who possess it? That was a good movie.