Shifty
O.G.
Memento - great movie!
Films that were good not popular
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Memento - great movie!
CITY OF GOD a film set around the slums of Brazil made superstars in there own country for the leading actors. Shot on a low budget but looks and feels stunning. Story goes a lot of the cast where bona fide street children. Subtitled but very much worth a watch, one of those films you gotta have in your colection !!
Leon: The Professional
om3ga
It's good to be the king...
lechepicha
Prince of the Rotten Milk
couldn't agree more with you guys.
those three are in my list of all-time favorites.
Donnie Darko sequel SUCKS, by the way:
www.imdb.com/title/tt1231277
lechepicha
Prince of the Rotten Milk
fuck yeah!!
who can forget the lesbian scene of Neve Campbell and Denise Richards ??
but of course, the sick twist ending is the best of the film
:glugglug:
The Big Lebowski.
GregCentauro
Banned
Ghost Dog
Road to Perdfition
Hudsucker Proxy
Trees Lounge
Local Hero
Atlantic City U.S.A.
Bob Roberts
A Prairie Home Companion
Short Cuts
Smoke
Road to Perdfition
Hudsucker Proxy
Trees Lounge
Local Hero
Atlantic City U.S.A.
Bob Roberts
A Prairie Home Companion
Short Cuts
Smoke
YES :bowdown:
11:14
Equilibrium
In Bruges
8 Legged Freaks (it's a campy, cheesy and FUN throwback to classic monster flicks)
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
Dog Soldiers
Bad Moon
Chronicles Of Riddick/Pitch Black didn't do too well either, did they? My favorite sci-fi series
Yet another totally underappreciated Christian Bale movie. That man was way overdue for the recognition he got as Batman.
lechepicha
Prince of the Rotten Milk
very, very, very nice choices
Ghost Dog, it's by far the best Jarmusch movie (by the way, his latest "The Limits of Control" sucks. Big Time. really.)
and Pi, it's Aronofsky's 2nd best movie (you can beat "Requiem for a Dream")
:thumbsup:
Good Choice. That was due to bad marketing.
Other movies that could have suceeded with better marketing.
The Stepfather(the 1987 version)
Grindhouse( one of the best movie theater experiences next to Star Wars)
The House of The Devil( This was the best horror film of the year next to Paranormal Activity)
Blade Runner(it was a flop at first and now it's considered a classic)
Donnie Darko( a movie that got a second run in theaters with a director's cut)
There are other movies out there, but I can't think of them right now.
Lust
Lost at Birth
Once Upon a Time in America.
It had a Who's Who cast and a brilliant script, direction, camera work and musical score. But it bombed in the U.S.
you're spot on with this one Rey! I love this movie but you have to be certain and watch it in the director's intended order.
There's some very good write ups on the way the Studio totally fucked up this movie and thats why it bombed. The first thing they did was try to put it in synchronic order which ruined the artistic value. Then they edited a shit load of time from it so the theatres could run three showings of it per night as opposed to two. by the time the studio was finished with it, the movie was a shambles. The critics panned it etc.... so it bombed. Also the studio fucked up on the release date posted and so Morricone's score didnt even get Oscar consideration because of a technicality. All in all its a nightmare story of how a studio can fuck up a movie.
now, throw in Channel Z into the mix to broadcast it with a director's vision of the movie and suddenly people go hey this is a god damn good movie so it finally started to get respect but much too late. I'm trying to remember who it was, but one of the well known critics was saying how it was the second worst handling of movie by a studio. Brazil was the first worst handling of a movie by a studio. Another incredibly brilliant movie that was sabatoged from the get go, but watch it in director's cut if you ever watch it. Oddly enough Deniro was in that movie too.
You'd think a studio would see critically accalimed directors like Sergio Leone or Terry Gilliam and think maybe they should give them a bit of artistic license.
Anyway, as for the original topic, I agree with Rey
Once upon a time in America (long movie, so make lots of popcorn)
Brazil (directors cut only!) wierd, bizarro, 1984'esque
Lake Placid - campy movie about a really big Crocodile in New England but the dialogue is awesome. Dark humor galore and it was funny to see Betty White call someone fuckmeat.
I loved the international version of this movie. After watching it I refused to watch the U.S. cut ever again.
om3ga
It's good to be the king...
Loved Equilibrium more than the Matrix.....
Another good movie that has the same ideas as the Matrix but was more realalistic was "eXistenZ" Because the game systems were living,breathing organic items that plugged into your Spinal Cord
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAdbdUt_h9M
