Undiscovered Gems - Page 2

Stew · 17th August 2005, 9:18pm

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Originally Posted by Shannow

Not enough people seem to know of Terry Gilliam's Brazil, which is to me, one of the finest films ever made.

I got it on your recommendation and most of my friends with taste have seen it now and loved it.

Thanks again for that one.

bikuki · 17th August 2005, 9:20pm

My dad has a shelf-full of pretty obscure movies - gotaa get round to watching some of them sometime...

17th August 2005, 9:22pm

I feel terribly uncultured whenever I read threads like this - I rarely get the chance to watch films, although Donnie Darko is one that I would make everyone sit and watch.

Foxglove · 17th August 2005, 9:22pm

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Originally Posted by mischief

I

that film!

But I see your Benny & Joon and raise you a Gilbert Grape!

I nearly added that too. Leonardo proving that he is an incredible actor

Wonder Boys

Stew · 17th August 2005, 9:23pm

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Originally Posted by Vonnie

I feel terribly uncultured whenever I read threads like this - I rarely get the chance to watch films, although Donnie Darko is one that I would make everyone sit and watch.

Eeeemooooooo.

Seph · 17th August 2005, 9:24pm

Basketball Diaries.

Yep...forgot about that.

Pantgirl · 17th August 2005, 9:26pm

Pleasantville..I don't know if it counts as an obscure film perse..but I loved it

Semprini · 17th August 2005, 9:29pm

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Originally Posted by Vonnie

Donnie Darko is one that I would make everyone sit and watch.

And then they'd say "That was beautiful. But it makes no sense whatsoever."

*Charlie Parker* · 17th August 2005, 9:30pm

Full Contact - 1992
This is it, the dark hulking bleak beast of heroic bloodshed that takes Woo’s ideas of chivalrous gangsters in black suits, laughs and rips them to shreds whilst taking Woo‘s slick stylization and taking it to the B movie max. Chow Yun Fat, yet again, is a bouncer at a strip joint who agrees to aid flamboyant Simon Yam in a heist. Double cross follows double cross proving that there is no honour amongst thieves. Taking the formula of Donald E Westlake’s novel Payback, Full Contact is the ultimate revenge tale, the HK version of For A Few Dollars More. The highlight of Full Contact is the nightclub gun sequence, where John Woo would have two hundred men empting automatic weapons and dying Lam gets the same thrills from two guns and a bullet cam effect. Full fuckin Contact is simply one of the best bone crunching, exhilarating films that there is. Period.

* cut n' pasted from my in works heroic bloodshed article hence it's reviewy tone!*

17th August 2005, 9:30pm

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Originally Posted by Semprini

And then they'd say "That was beautiful. But it makes no sense whatsoever."

I meant more for the way the whole film was constructed rather than the actual storyline - it was just so completely away from the norm.

Quiz Bhoy · 17th August 2005, 9:31pm

Princess Bride! - My all time favouritest movie

**PapaZeb** · 17th August 2005, 9:31pm

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0339827/ - Twist. The modernized gay-in-toronto version of Oliver Twist.

mischief · 17th August 2005, 9:32pm

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Originally Posted by Cat

That was a terrible, terrible film.

Maybe, but I liked it.

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Originally Posted by Cat

What on earth possesses you to express any kind of liking of it whatsoever?

'cause the thread asked me to!

I usually hate any sort of movie that tries to be "edgy" from the word go but I found this to be funny, slightly surreal and had a good soundtrack. Can't explain why I enjoyed it, but hey, I did.

Foxglove · 17th August 2005, 9:34pm

Garden State - although it is not strictly obscure

Heathers.

Foxglove · 17th August 2005, 9:43pm

What is the criteria here?

Hmmm

Almost Famous

Does that count?