Good films you have seen that nobody else has...

[Trophy Husband]

The Devil's Backbone- Guillermo del Toro.
Pan's Labyrinth- Guillermo del Toro.

I enjoyed them both, several times.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

A Hologram For A King.

It's a bit like Lost In Translation, but with Tom Hanks instead of Bill Murray and Saudi Arabia instead of Japan.

Like Lost in Translation, nothing really happens, but when it was over, I'd really enjoyed it, although I had no idea why!

[p1doc]

angel heart with mickey rourke pre surgery and Robert de niro-superb film with lots of atmosphere

[Smitters]

La Haine was the first film I saw that made me think about the film-making process as part of movie enjoyment.

I would like to nominate Bad Taste - early Peter Jackson - and Waiting - early Ryan Reynolds. Different genres for sure.

[RemyMartin]

blearyeyedboy said:

Nom de ploom said:

coopedup said:

blearyeyedboy said:

Sneakers.

Little remembered, fantastic story and a cast like an Oscars night.

Favourite line? Repeatedly... "My voice is my passport. Verify me."

Best moment? Deliberating how to best to get through a keypad protected door.

Edited by blearyeyedboy on Sunday 16th October 19:15

Really liked this film.

Sneakers is brilliant - ensemble cast....river pheonix....

Thanks for the thread- I'm off sick with a chest bug and I've dug out the DVD again for old time's sake. It's just brilliant.

Scene that sticks out in my memory (can't remember anything else as it's been ages since I saw it) was where they get the deaf guy to replicate the noise of the road from being locked in the car boot.

[toasty]

How about The Fall or The Cell by Tarsem Singh.

Both have stunning cinematography and good stories.

[AW111]

Riley Blue said:

Let me toss 'The Cars That Ate Paris' your way...

[QuantumTokoloshi]

Hercules returns, a very funny movie.

[Morningside]

Crash and Burn or Robot Jox 2. Although not really much robot action I did enjoy the mystery and general feel of the film.

[Zammy]

Great thread and reminders too of such films like La Haine and Remo: Unnarmed and Dangerous! Not seen that one for years and years.

One to add from me spanish film King of the Hill (also known as King of the Mountain). Great film which no one I know has seen.

[Cotty]

Silent Running only has 20,989 votes on IMDB so does not appear that many people have seen it to vote on it

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067756/?ref_=nv_sr_1

[SVX]

Clay Pigeons - early works from Vince Vaughan, Joaquin Phoenix and Janeane Garofalo.

VV's turn as a complete nut job serial killer cowboy truck driver is a performance to behold.

[Morningside]

Cotty said:

Silent Running only has 20,989 votes on IMDB so does not appear that many people have seen it to vote on it

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067756/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Silent Running is a fabulous film and one of the very few that I found emotionally very sad afterwards.

Also the robots were very well done.

[Nik da Greek]

Another vote for Silent Running ...one of the bleakest, most depressing and yet profoundly beautiful films ever made.

In a similar vibe, a quick mention for Wim Wenders' Until The End Of The World; a film so wonderful and absorbing and beautiful and yet so odd and unfathomable that despite seeing it eleventy nine times, I'm still not sure I actually understand it. And that's a good thing.

Alex Cox's Repo Man. Puerile, brilliant, hilarious and strange in equal measures and features the best ever monologue from Miller on exactly why "John Wayne's a fag"... later turned into an entire side of vinyl by Gaye Bykers on Acid. Which maybe explains the frame of mind you need to be in to watch it. Executive produced by one-fourth of the Monkees and starring Harry Dean Stanton at his lugubrious best and Emilio Estevez at his most befuddling, what's not to like?

poing said:

Spumfry said:

Pesty said:

Dust devil is excellent. Another SA ( think it was SA) film came out at about the same time with a killer robot but can't remember what it was called.

That was Hardware - Dust Devil was (I think) made or written by the same people and came out after Hardware.

I saw Hardware around the same time but I don't think I ever knew it was the same people. Makes sense now I think about it.

Both, IIRC, were directed by the dude who used to make (amongst others) all the videos for Fields of the Nephilim which is probably why they're like a slightly darker, full-length music vid with added odditiy. Hardware was adapted from a 2000AD Tharg's Future Shocks comic short story and as I remember, there were legal arguments about copyright infringement at the time. Both truly excellent films for an evening in a dark place where nothing ever quite makes sense.

..ooooohhhhh, we all walk the wibbly-wobbly walk....

[seders]

Old Boy (the original one and not the terrible, terrible, re-make).
Battle Royale
Identity
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari

[GOG440]

Smitters said:

I would like to nominate Bad Taste - early Peter Jackson

I remember watching that as a teenager and pissing myself laughing. Great film.
Someone mentioned sightseekers earlier inthe thread, another really funny but very dark film.

[Cotty]

seders said:

Battle Royale

Liked that, wasn't so keen on Battle Royale II

[poing]

Smitters said:

La Haine was the first film I saw that made me think about the film-making process as part of movie enjoyment.

I would like to nominate Bad Taste - early Peter Jackson - and Waiting - early Ryan Reynolds. Different genres for sure.

I have a slightly dodgy stomach tonight and the reminder about Bad Taste hasn't helped, in particular a certain scene

[chris watton]

poing said:

Smitters said:

La Haine was the first film I saw that made me think about the film-making process as part of movie enjoyment.

I would like to nominate Bad Taste - early Peter Jackson - and Waiting - early Ryan Reynolds. Different genres for sure.

I have a slightly dodgy stomach tonight and the reminder about Bad Taste hasn't helped, in particular a certain scene

They looked great when first shown in low-res video format, with the dodgy picture hiding some of the crappy effects. However, when they're released on more modern formats, the aforementioned latex-laden effects certainly look laughably bad - but the effects in Cannibal Holocaust are still quite disturbingly real...

[Cotty]

Morningside said:

Cotty said:

Silent Running only has 20,989 votes on IMDB so does not appear that many people have seen it to vote on it

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067756/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Silent Running is a fabulous film and one of the very few that I found emotionally very sad afterwards.

Also the robots were very well done.

Nik da Greek said:

Another vote for Silent Running ...one of the bleakest, most depressing and yet profoundly beautiful films ever made.

Im going to have to watch it again now.