I just found out that I'll be cooped up at the house for another week while my leg mends, and I have pretty much exhausted Netflix, VOD on DirecTV, and underrated movie lists. Aside from the summer blockbuster stuff, anybody have any recommendations for movies that blew their hair back? I'll go back to the early 90s but I just don't feel like watching anything older than that.
My top under-the-radar movies of all time: Lucky Number Slevin Kiss Kiss Bang Band Mr. Brooks The Proposition Great movies that I'll watch repeated times: L.A Confidential Gone Baby Gone In Bruges _
I like watching ridiculously bad movies, like so bad they are good types. They are entertaining if nothing else. A short list of those could be things like: The Room, Troll 2, Rubber, Teeth (which wasn't really all that bad just a weird topic), Flight of the Living Dead, Birdemic, etc. Or if you've exhausted a lot of the big name stuff you could try some foreign films. I don't know a lot of them but Tzameti 13 is good, Goodbye Lenin, Death at a Funeral (British version), City of God, etc. Someone will probably have a more extensive list than that.
Love the ones I bolded. I hadn't seen Kiss Kiss Bang Bang until like a year ago and I still quote it regularly, especially every word out of Val Kilmer's mouth. Miller's Crossing is another good movie that sort of falls off the radar, even though it's a Coen Brothers movie. Really, you could basically go on a Coen Brothers kick and not be too far wrong.
Awesome, the only one I've seen on there is LA Confidential, and part of Mr Brooks when stopping at a friend's to pick up some weed like 5 years ago.
Oh shit--forgot foreign movies--best I've ever seen: The Lives of Others Also--The Counterfeiters was very good. I loved Apocalypto too--kind of a foreign film. Quasi-documentary/docudrama--Man on Wire. If you have any connection to the Twin Towers, this is a great film. Oh crap, forgot one of my alltime favorite dark films: Payback. The original, not the recut version. _
I do, too, I've seen a few of those. Haven't been in the right mood for that kind of thing today, although I did see a couple of movies on Chiller and also watched Wicker Man (2006), all terribly bad and funny. I saw City of God, loved it. I'm tempted to see The Audition, but I have to get psyched up to see those Japanese supergore movies.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a very funny/quirky murder mystery--kind of Robert Downey Jr's first start back to stardom. Val Kilmer as a gay investigator/enforcer is hillarious. Lucky Number Slevin is an incredibly quick witted twist filled revenge film. Watch Mr. Brooks from the beggining. _
I've seen every Coen Bros movie multiple times, big fan. I had a friend that wanted to be a film maker in high school and we remade the execution scene from Miller's Crossing. Also did our own take on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
No Country For Old Men is my 4th favorite movie of all time. Btw, the novel by Cormack McCarthy was outstanding--his most readable novel IMHO (before he sold out with The Road). You get a better understanding of the movie if you've read the novel. It's a short one too. _
Seen the movie, have 10 books stacked that I want to read already, just not in a reading vibe lately.
And honestly, if you like contemporary westerns, The Proposition is an incredibly good violent brutal movie--beautifully filmed. Set in the outback of Australia about 1880-1890. Outstanding cast. Guy Pierce, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, Emily Watson and a great cameo by John Hurt. _
Yeah, I have about 5 stacked up but haven't cracked one of them in months. Too much good TV lately. I feel as if I'm becoming an illiterate. _
Watched The Fountain yesterday, I usually hate Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz but it worked for me. Also watched Sunshine, really underrated and well made Sci Fi flick, the main character is that guy that played the Scarecrow in the Batman reboot. World War Z was better than I figured it would be, though I hate zombies that can sprint like Carl Lewis.
