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TrueNeutral:
Personally, I find Dog Soldiers utterly hilarious.
sandysmilinstrange:
Good luck finding this one, but about two years ago I saw a movie called Pale Blue Moon at a film festival and it was WONDERFUL. The two main characters were phenomenal. More work for Ice Mrozek, please!
Props to Mark Hosack for getting a low-budget suspense/comedy movie just right.
Praeserpium Machinarum:
oh my was Dog Soldiers terrible, the only thing I could think about during the film was how the werewolves looked like egyptian gods a bit. I doubt it had a plot, I didn't notice it anyway.
Okay movies:
The Nightmare Before Christmas
James and the Giant Peach
Bjergkøbing Grand Prix(a norwegian stop-animation classic I tell ye!)
I Kina Spiser De Hunde(In China They Eat Dogs)
Blinkende Lygter(Flickering Lights)
La Creme:
--- Quote ---Warriors of Virtue:
It is a movie about kangaroo warriors and pre-Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon wirefighting.
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That was the worst movie ever. Of course, I didn't think so back when I saw it when I was in probably the first fucking grade, but now that I look back and remember it, what a peice of shit. It probably went along to inspire other bullshit children's action movies like Spy Kids. Fuck that.
Good obscure movies:
Primer: A sci-fi movie (but only that for lack of another genre name, as it's not in the future or anything...) about a bunch of guys who invent a time machine by mistake and it ends up cloning them. The movie is full of awesome time travel paradoxes you never would've thought of. Plus it was filmed on a $7000 dollar budget, which never ceases to amaze me.
Delicatessan: A movie by those two awesome French Burton/Giger hybrid crazy motherfuckers who made City of Lost Children. This movie is incredibly awesome and there's a scene where a guy plays musical saw and.... so.... see it. Seriously.
My Life As A Dog: The title is actually whatever that is in Swedish, but I don't know any Swedish so yeah. Anyways, it's an awesome coming-of-age story and it has many scenes in which they play "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts" in Swedish, which has a great novelty value if you don't speak a single word of the language...
Less obscure movies that are worth a checkout if you haven't seen them already:
Fight Club: Greatest movie ever. If you haven't seen it, see it. Asks great questions.
American Beauty: Like Fight Club, this movie has enough good ideas to keep Einstein, Voltair, and Aristotle's love child thinking for a long time. Plus Kevin Spacet is totally amzing in it.
Empire Records: World's greatest movie about a record store.
High Fidelity: A close second. Jack Black at his finest. Plus Tim Robbins getting smashed in the face by an air conditioner.
Many many more. Thank pants for movies. Especially the good ones.
*EDIT* Sorry, but I said one untrue thing. Warriors of Virtue is not the worst movie ever. It is the second worse. "Manos: The Hands of Fate" is the worst.
thew:
--- Quote from: La Creme ---Primer: A sci-fi movie (but only that for lack of another genre name, as it's not in the future or anything...)
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Actually sci-fi is the most accurate description of Primer. Most of what passes for sci-fi these days is simply action/adventure.
Some of my top filmmakers that are hard to find in the US:
Julio Medem, his only American release was Sex & Lucia, but his other films are equally brilliant, my favorite is Lovers Of The Arctic Circle which still isn't available in the US. :(
Takeshi Kitano (Beat Takeshi), pretty well known (his Zatoichi remake came out last year), does a lot of Yakuza films, but they all have a surreal childlike slant at one point or another which I love. My favorite is Kikujiro.
Abbas Kiarostami, maybe my favorite. His films are like moving paintings and the stories are so pure and life affirming. He also blurs the line between fiction and documentary more and more with every film (especially now that he's left film for video).
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