Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
Saw it on a plane, had not seen Clerks, had never heard of the stars or director, and just laughed. Similarly,
Shrek.
Couldn’t swim the hotel swimming pool during a w/e break with the family, wnet to the local cinema, disappointed that no decent films were being shown, but took a chance with this children’s cartoon. Favourite bit when Fiona throws the bouquet and Snow White and Sleeping Beauty fight for it.
Well, IHMO, it’s a joke. The camera crew willingly going out to film a killer doing all these horrible things to innocent folks is why this is a black comedy, a farce on documentaries.
I could be wrong. Or maybe I’m too twisted for my own good.
bodswood:
I hardly think that Shrek can qualify as “Underrated, unsuccessful or otherwise unknown.” Its sequel just became the highest-grossing animated film ever.
It’s Belgian, not French.
[Milo Perrier]
I’m not a Frenchie, I’m a BELGIE!!
[/Milo Perrier]
Secretary
Ghost World
Love & Sex
also:
Best in Show
A Mighty Wind
Rushmore
Carnival of Souls (1962) A woman suffers through a car accident and travels to Utah where she becomes entranced by an abandoned carnival. Really fun, creepy and partially filmed in the studio (the Herk Harvey Soundstage) where I did my undergraduate study.
Equilibrium Christian Bale is a gunslinger in a future where emotion is outlawed. Kind of 1984, kind of Brave New World, kind of Matrix. Cool gunfighting/martial arts.
Limbo John Sayles. Alaska, secrets, salmon.
Picnic at Hanging Rock the strange case of disappearances at Hanging Rock. Based on a true story. Peter Weir directs.
Everything else by Peter Weir. He’s a fantastic director.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch Hilarious story of a drag queen/transgender-ish person who travels the US following her ex, who stole her songs. Musical. Great songs, very catchy.
I dig Equilibrium, too! I think Bale is incredibly sexy but he’s also a very good actor. He was in a lil’ gem called,Velvet Goldmine, which was a pretty trippy film but I enjoyed the hell out of it (also a Bowie fan though it’s technically not a Bowie biography). I’m still in shock to learn that Bale’s going to be the new Batman… please dear God, don’t let it be cheesy. Gary Oldman’s going to be the commissioner. Please, PLEASE don’t let it suck.
Did anyone else like American Psycho, btw? I read the book first and I’m glad they cut out a few things.
Bleh, hit the reply before remembering to ask this:
has anyone seen this lil’ flick called, **The Apple **? I hear it’s got a cult following now.
SanguineSpider - I liked American Psycho. I tried to read the book afterwards, got partway through, and just couldn’t keep going. It was too much. I’m also with you on Man Bites Dog. I wasn’t so sure about it at first, but after a while, it becomes too absurd to not be funny. At least, it did for me. YMMV, and all that.
FilmGeek writes:
> Picnic at Hanging Rock the strange case of disappearances at Hanging Rock.
> Based on a true story. Peter Weir directs.
Actually, it isn’t based on a true story.
Some of my favorites have already been mentioned. Among them: Go, American Psycho, Very Bad Things, Run, Lola, Run and Best in Show.
But I’ll add:
The Player
Sneakers
Der Krieger und die Kaiserin
Storytelling
The Virgin Suicides
Daikaiju Tokyo ni Arawaru (The Great Monster came to Tokyo)
Yeah, it’s a Japanese monster movie, but with a twist: you never actually see any of the monsters. The entire film is set in a small, semi-rural town on the west coast of Japan, far from the destruction. It’s more about how the people there react to the occasional snatches of news about the rest of the country being attacked, and wondering if they’re next. Very touching.
Jisatsu Circle (Suicide Club)
:eek:. That pretty much sums it up. I’ve watched a lot of weird movies, and lot of them seem to just be random, free-floating strangeness. This one knows exactly where it wants to focus its weirdness, and keeps hitting it harder and harder and harder. Breathtaking.
I suppose this reviewer (who didn’t like it) probably says it best:
See? I’m not the only one… yay. It’s not a film that I like admitting to liking but since no one knows me IRL, I’m safe.
I just rewatched Man Bites Dog a couple of nights ago. It’s freakin’ brilliant. I first encountered it in a film class back in school and I instantly fell in love with it. Absolute deadpan satire (I think it helps that I don’t speak French) about the role of the media in modern society. The whole cursed time the OJ trial was dominating the news I was continually asking people if they’d ever seen the movie. No one had.
Huh. I’ll have to tell my no-nothing self-proclaimed god-of-all-film-knowledge ex-film prof this. He’ll be very interested.
This is the same man who proclaimed The Thirteenth Warrior the greatest film ever made and was convinced that nothing in Almost Famous could have possibly happened. We tried to explain that it was a romanticized view of ACTUAL EVENTS, but he just scoffed at us.
KC dopers will know him as one of the movie critics on Walt Bodine’s show and as a sometimes critic on channel 5.
Then there was the time he hit on Annette Funicello during an interview with her and Frankie Avalon during a discussion about her worsening MS. But that’s another story.
Hijack over.
I was gonna say Six String Samuri, but since it’s already been mentioned, I’ll say SLC Punk.
My favorite movie is The Nasty Girl, made by Michael (not Paul) Verhoeven in 1990. It’s about Germans’ attempt to come to grips with the Nazi past.
The lead character, Sonja, is a bright young high school student who enters an essay contest about “My hometown in the Third Reich” expecting that her research will show the people of her Bavarian village bravely resisted the Nazis. When she begins finding evidence to the contrary, many of the town’s powerful people turn against “that dreadful girl” (a much better translation of the movie’s title, Das Schreckliche Mädchen).
I’m also a big fan of two movies based on Sherman Alexie’s books: Smoke Signals and The Business of Fancydancing.
House of Games/1987
The Gambler/1974
The Driver/1978
52 Pickup/1986
Priest/1995
I love that movie. There’s a movie theater in Minneapolis (The Parkview on Chicago Ave) that tends to show the straggler movies. I was in the neighborhood and had no idea what the movie was about but it definitely is one of my favorites… I always loved the line:
Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope has always been one of my favorites with its continuous shot feel. The scene with the rope slowly moving across the apartment into the kitchen drawer just gets me everytime.
God Said Ha! seems to be a frequently overlooked movie. Julia Sweeney (Saturday Night Live) talks for about an hour and a half about how her life changed when her brother is diagnosed with cancer and her family moves in with her. I’ve seen this movie about 20 times and it never fails to make me laugh and cry.
Amazon Women on the Moon. Silly little interlaced skit movie with “Lots of Actors” as the credits say. It’s a bit dated (1987) but definitely good for some immature adult fun (some scenes aren’t very kid friendly).