OT: Favorite Movie/Best Under Radar Movie
Thread title says favorites and under the radar
yes, I was wrong. That's what I get for having kids distract me.
Oh, and Kenneth Brannagh's Hamlet...
Does great work with Shakespeare. Hamlet is good but I prefer his Othello.
Is Much Ado About Nothing.
Though an underrated one of his flicks is Dead Again.
Earth Girls Are Easy
I kid.
I think Beautiful Girls is underrated. It's not amazing or anything, but I thought the cast was great and a young Natalie Portman, especially, kicks ass.
Among my well-known favorites:
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
The Sting
A Night at the Opera
Psycho
Charade
City Lights
Touch of Evil
Some lesser-known ones:
The Big Heat
High and Low
Red Beard
The Stranger
Duel
Did you know Duel was first released as a "made for TV" movie? I remember watching it on ABC as a kid and being scared shitless of truck's when driving with my parents for a while.
First glimpse of what we now know as road rage.
The giveaway of it being made-for-TV is the font used for the credits is the same one used for every TV show/movie for something like a 10 year span back then.
You can really see hints of Jaws in that film, not to mention hints of Spielberg's face in the car's rear view mirror.
Richard Matheson, which he adapted for the movie. He also wrote I Am Legend, What Dreams May Come, and the Twilight Zone episode " Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", plus many others.
My personal under the radar movie is Charade. I saw it during a film festival at the Stanford Theatre (shows lots of old movies in a wonderful venue) with movies like North by Northwest. I had never heard of it before and it is brilliant. "Where had this movie been all my life, and why haven't I heard of it before?!" was our reaction. The dialogue is fantastic:
"I already know an awful lot of people and until one of them dies I couldn't possibly meet anyone else. "
"Well, if anyone goes on the critical list, let me know. "
"Ha! She batted them pretty little eyes at you and you fell for it like an egg from a tall chicken!"
Big Trouble in Little China -- this is Jack Burton on the pork chop express
Mr. Mom -- 220, 221, whatever it takes
Clue -- Mr. Body's body, it's gone
Roadhouse - Left Boot
Red Dawn (original) -- one of the greatest films ever made. WOLVERINES!
Big Trouble in Little China -- this is Jack Burton on the pork chop express
Mr. Mom -- 220, 221, whatever it takes
Clue -- Mr. Body's body, it's gone
Roadhouse - Left Boot
Red Dawn (original) -- one of the greatest films ever made. WOLVERINES!
...Red Dawn. Wolverines indeed!
Having said that, I recently rewatched it and it's odd how geo-politics have shifted in relation to that film. In the movie, of course, a bunch of American teenage kids retreat to the mountains & wage a guerrila war against an invading enemy power. And now it's hard not to look at a place like Afghanistan & see how the tables are turned (i.e., America as the invading power & young kids resorting to suicide bombs to retaliate). Weird how times changes.
Air Bud
Air Bud 2: Golden Receiver takes the cake for that series.
Ticks, Slugs, Chopping Mall, The Stuff, Slumber Party Massacre, The Gate, One Dark Night
Heat is pretty awesome!
In the street has to be one of my favorite scenes evar!
Debbie does Dallas had no clue what that was about
I personally can't enter a movie conversation without mentioning Shawshank Redemption, but I think the most underrated movie is the original Muppet Movie (1979). Its even better when you have kids.
If you're feeling naughty, though, I highly recommend "Lawrence of a Labia". Fantastic character development...
Last of the Mohicans. Great cinematography, great soundtrack.
Cold Mountain also very good.
Fiday Night Lights - my favorite sports movie. Lead me to Explosions in the Sky...one of my (if not my) favorite band.
28 Days Later - my favorite 'horror' movie. Not that big into horror films but this one struck me.
Have to agree, Boondock Saints is a great under the radar film.
Any architecture enthusiasts out there: My Architect. Very good film on Louis Kahn directed by his son.
Good topic. I've scrolled the thread and have lots of movies written down I may need to see now!
Favorite movie: The Shawshank Redemption
Most underrated: A River Runs Through It
Network.
I love Pacino and De Niro
For you sci-fi people: Serenity
Some of the best comedys ever: Bazzing Saddles and History of the World - Part 1
The one movie I have seen about 14,000 times: Princess Bride
Semi-acceptable chick flick: Notting Hill
I've probably seen Princess Bride about as many times as you have and it will never, ever, get old. INCONCIEVABLE!.
shut up - you know you LOVE Notting Hill. That's OK. Accept your true self.
That's a loaded question. It's far from the best movie I've ever seen, but for sentimental reasons, Miracle may be my favorite. I love Herb Brooks..... ok, and Kurt Russell.
Under the rada, Beautiful Girls starring Timothy Hutton and Matt Dillon. Great flick, good dialogue, funny stuff and a young Natalie Portman pre-hot days.
Favorite: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (don't judge)
Under the radar: Oldboy
Love Bill & Ted.
UTR- Dazed and Confused
and I literally mean ANY movie written/directed by Jim Jarmusch. The guy is really a genius. Can't believe he's not better renown.
I also really like the earlier Woody Allen (Manhattan, Annie Hall, etc.). Not really under the radar, but most people can't stand him or his movies. But Woody has a way of getting under your skin and those earlier movies are really masterpieces.
Jarmusch is great!
La Haine, one of my top 10, few people know about it.
A fantastic French, gritty, B&W film from about 2000 (?) about Paris kid gangsters. Great, great film... it's not a foreign art film, btw.
favorite family movie: School of Rock. Just fantastic and it still makes me laugh every time.
Movies: shawshank redemption and inglorious bastards
OFFICE SPACE ftw
Jarhead/FMJ for something patriotic
Caddyshack is the all time best
But there's no cure for the blues, like Varsity Blues
a few:
Thin Red Line
Almost Famous
High Fidelity
Dr. Strangelove, OHISWALTLTB
Cloud Atlas - recently seen - just loved it.
School of Rock
Swimming to Cambodia
Children of Men
Pulp Fiction
Trainspotting
Fab Five and Hoop Dreams (not really, but favorite sports movies)
Favorite: Back to the Future, part II
underrated Kick-Ass
Of the three, why Back to the Future 2?
Big Fish is my favorite movie ever and I only know of two other people who have even seen it. It's one of the rare Tim Burton movies that doesn't have Johnny Depp in it (although it couldn't stay away from casting Helena Bonham Carter).
Great story, great visuals, very powerful.
We watched it when I was in high school and I loved it. This is a great movie.
Great movie. Though not ideal for the first movie you see after a parent dies.
Maybe the most underrated Burton movie is Ed Wood.
...Pee Wee's Big Adventure? I honestly can't remember.
...but the coolest thing about it is when the school band plays for Edward Bloom while he is in college, they are actually playing the Victors.
Favorite: Back to the Future, part II
underrated Kick-Ass
The Fountain
A little weird and hard to follow, but one of those movies that is open to interpretation. I love it.
Great music, performers, cameos and quite funny. Actually considered a musical.
Underrated: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988 version)
Michael Caine and Steve Martin are brilliant. Great ending twist for first-time viewers. Can watch this a couple of times a year and always laugh. Love it!
Not really sure what my actual absolute favorite movie is. I'd be leaving out a lot of good ones by picking one. It might just have to be Tommy Boy, or maybe Jurassic Park since when that came out I was, like, right in that movie's wheelhouse for a target audience that would walk out of the theater with their mind completely and totally blown by the awesomeness. (I was 11. You could probably say it was the first "grown-up" movie I saw in the theater.)
For under-the-radar stuff, that pick is easy: Titus. It's Julie Taymor's (she's more famous for the stage production of The Lion King) adaptation of Titus Andronicus, which is one of Shakespeare's goriest, nastiest (and for that matter, itself very under-the-radar) plays. It's fantastic. Takes place in a very anachronistic version of Rome and has some serious talent in it, notably Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange.