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I can't stand five minutes of this movie.
Snatch - not sure if it was underrated but I have to say that this movie rules.
The Godfather - alright this movie is probably rated where it should be for the older generation, but I find people my age (highschool) do not appreciate it and many have never even seen it.
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A Yankee living in Shanghai
Apr 1999
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Don't Look Back - excellent, creepy ESP movie set in crumbling Venice. Donald Sutherland is terrific.
This Quiet Earth - Bruno Lawrence (great actor) wakes up from a coma to discover he is the only person left alive on Earth.
The Navigator - dark, interesting film about the Bubonic Plague and medieval time travel.
Carnival of Souls - very cool, very spooky. Filmed at a dilapidated Salt Lake resort.
The Wicker Man - paganism and a missing girl lead a policeman to a wonderfully terrifying conclusion
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Oct 2001
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Originally posted by mindseye
Don't Look Back - excellent, creepy ESP movie set in crumbling Venice. Donald Sutherland is terrific.
This Quiet Earth - Bruno Lawrence (great actor) wakes up from a coma to discover he is the only person left alive on Earth.
The Navigator - dark, interesting film about the Bubonic Plague and medieval time travel.
Carnival of Souls - very cool, very spooky. Filmed at a dilapidated Salt Lake resort.
The Wicker Man - paganism and a missing girl lead a policeman to a wonderfully terrifying conclusion |
Don't Look Back is the Pennebaker Bob Dylan film. 'Don't Look Now' is the Nicholas Roeg psychological thriller, with Donald Sutherland's best performance outside of 'Klute'.
I liked 'Carnival of Souls' too- a limited budget but a clever use of available landscape to evoke an eerie unsettling atmosphere.
Anyway some of my choices:
'Assault on Precinct 13'- edgy John Carpenter modern western with a police station in thethores of being closed and relocated under siege from do or die urban gangs. A lovely electronic soundtrack from Mr. Carpenter too.
'Trouble in Mind'- Divine's frist straight role as the gangster Hilly Blue in a Seattle of the future, with great performances from the likes of Genevieve Bujold and Keith Carradine, and Marianne Faithfull's sublime rendition of the blues song of the title on the soundtrack.
'Tampopo' -comedy and food and sex with food- an irresistible combination from Juzo Itami. Only watch if you've eaten- or you'll end up hungry...
'A World Apart'- three stand out female performances from Barbara Hershey as South African anti-apartheid activist Ruth First, Jodhi May as her daughter, and Linda Mvusi as their maid. Beats 'Dry White Season' and 'Cry Freedom into a cocked hat'.
A Jim Thompson adaptation- Jason Patric as a brain damaged ex-boxer duped into a kidnapping scheme, in 'After Dark, My Sweet', and the neo-noir of 'The Last Seduction', with Linda Fiorentino outstanding as a woman on her way up who won't let little things like marital fidelity and murder by automobile get in her way.
'Running on Empty'- shows what potential River Phoenix had as an actor when in cast in a film (and role) with some substance.
'Earth'- a great film from a trilogy set in pre and post partition India/Pakistan, exploring what the human costs of political ambitions are, as a group of religiously mixed friends is sundered by the communal strife following independence.
'The Wedding Banquet' -explores the complex relationships in mixed race partnerships, culture clashes and how the closet is no place to be if you're Chinese of Anglo...
But there's so many more- 'Electra Glide in Blue', 'Death in a French Garden', 'Coup de Torchon', 'Les Yeux Sans Visage', the Dutch/French 'The Vanishing', 'City of Lost Children', 'Race With the Devil', John Huston's 'The Dead', 'The Stranger', 'Horror Hotel', 'Night of the Demon', 'The Decline of the American Empire' ...
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Boulder, Colorado, United Snakes of America
Jan 2000
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Freeway. This is the movie that got me into Reese Witherspoon. I have fallen in love with her.  . It's kind of cheesy in parts, but Reese saves this movie. I love her and want her to bear my children. Whatever you do, avoid freeway2.
Election. Another underrated Reese film. Kind of a dark ending, but I liked it.
Being John Malkovich. While I didn't like it that much, it still was a good film that doesn't get much praise.
12 Monkeys- well it has some success, but I still feel it is underrated. |
I agree that all of these movies were either good or great. Freeway rocks! Reese is great of course, but it was Kiefer Sutherland who stole the show for me. Brooke Shields was also good in her small part.
Election is even better than Freeway, though for the same reasons. Good writing and an excellent cast doing their jobs very well. This one is really funny IMO.
BJM is probably my least favorite film of these four. IMO much of its impact is used up the first time you see it, and it doesn't repeat all that well. That said, it will have an impact on you, and that alone is worth the price of admission. Again a stellar cast, and a lot of interesting shots and cuts that for once don't detract from the atmosphere of the film.
12 Monkeys is another great film. Again its cast is superlative, with Bruce Willis, Madaleine Stowe and Bradd Pitt all doing fine work. It has the usual Gilliam grandiosity visually, which recommends it to me, though some people tire of it. A very interesting story, with characters you can care about as well as laugh at.
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I haven't seen anyone mention Office Space yet. It has something of a cult following now but it was almost completely ignored when it came out. Simply the best satire about the modern working world.
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16-07-2003 05:45
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