Great Movies It Seems Like Nobody Else Has Ever Heard Of

[wolf]

Originally Posted by Griff

It is my personal bias but Streep doesn't/won't have the chops for that part. Ms. Gordon played it right up to the edge and stayed believable, Streep would overplay her hand.

I think Glen Close might be able to pull it off.

[wolf]

4. Carnival Of Souls
5. Dementia 13
7. Rock And Rule

Well, I've seen three of them ... I would like to see They Saved Hitler's Brain. Sounds classically bad, so I'm not sure about the "great" aspect of it.

[AlternateGray]

SLC Punks...
"We didn't sell out, son. We bought in."

And I remember loving "Pi", althought I can't remember it now. Need to watch it again.

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by AlternateGray

And I remember loving "Pi", althought I can't remember it now. Need to watch it again.

"When I was a kid, my mother always told me not to stare into the sun. So when I was six, I did."

I remember appreciating it, but also distinctly thinking that I would never need to see it again. Kinda like the movie "Kids".

[Crimson Ghost]

Originally Posted by AlternateGray

SLC Punks...
"We didn't sell out, son. We bought in."

Right, Dad.

I AM THE FUTURE OF THIS GREAT NATION!!!

Hmmm....

The Cellar: We are the future of this great nation.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by wolf

4. Carnival Of Souls
5. Dementia 13
7. Rock And Rule

Well, I've seen three of them ... I would like to see They Saved Hitler's Brain. Sounds classically bad, so I'm not sure about the "great" aspect of it.

Carnival of souls was one of the first movies I remember seeing. It was years before I could drive in the car at night without being in constant terror. I must have been about six or seven. My folks weren't always on ball when it came to censorship.

I couldn't remember anything about the movie except a few creepy nighttime driving scenes. Based uopn that description my sister deduced the movie was Carnival of souls and she gave it to me for my birthday.

I love Dementia and Carnival... awesome. I have the new tinned Carnival, great documentary with it.

[sandypossum]

Friendship's Death - I don't think I've ever met anyone else who's ever seen this, and I've been trying to buy it for years.

The City of Lost Children is also one of my favourites, and rkzenrage:

My wife and I are still in an argument over whether it was a sexual relationship or not....

nah, I don't think it was sexual. Neither of them had any real sexuality - One wasn't even that interested in the floozy in the bar - but they were definitely in love. I love the bit where One's pretending to be a heater.

Breaking the Waves tore me apart, but the very last bit with the bells seemed so unnecessary and a bit too twee.

Bad Boy Bubby - fantastic!

The Big Lebowski is one of my favourite comedies. I like most stuff from the Coen brothers.

Didier - particularly great if you like dogs (me) and soccer (husband). I saw it once on TV subtitled, but have only been able to buy it in French only.

Themroc - outstanding French movie with no real dialogue, just noises that sound like language (in this case French) but could just as easily be English.

By the way, since there's so many film fans in this thread: do any of you know of a good film forum, something like Booksleuth but for movies.

(I was trying to find a particular anthology for decades - asking in speciality shops, blablabla - and then one bookseller suggested I try Booksleuth and I had a response (the correct one) within 24 hours! I've been trying to identify a few movies I saw long ago, but the only movie forums I've found have been pretty mainstream.

Oh, but in case you think I'm getting uppity... I'll confess my alter ego movie passion for Bollywood. I have a DVD collection of about 700, but about 50 of them are Bollywood. Don't suppose there are any other Bollywood fans in here? (clanging silence!)

[Elspode]

Mrs Elspode and I have enjoyed a few Bollywood efforts, but most of them have sucked...and we've tried.

[sandypossum]

Should have added that the only men I've ever met that enjoy Bollywood are either gay or Indian (or both). Also, they're best viewed in an altered state of one sort of another.

I don't watch them as I watch other movies, just as you can't drink Indian chai and compare it to tea. It's the complete entertainment package I love about them:

- the absolute disregard to continuity - hair length, bosom size and location can change ten times in just one song sequence

- their depictions of western people, with cliches much like western movie cliches of Indians. In one favourite, the foreigners just drive around madly in open top cars, all standing up and waving their arms in the air shouting "yeah! yeah!"

- the scenes filmed in Europe are a scream. In my favourite movie, they can't find a room in a Swiss town, so they sleep in a farmer's big wooden barn, and... light a fire in the middle of it (between the hay bales) to keep warm. Alas, a hole in the roof lets in snow, which puts out the fire, so they get drunk, rush into town (where it is still day time) buy a cocktail dress and boots, and dance on a snowy mountain, beside a fire built right on top of the snow, before collapsing back into bed (and it's still the same night)

Bollywood likes to "re-make" Hollywood film plots and even complete dialogue, just like Hollywood likes to "re-make" foreign movies and call it their own, which results in stuff like an all singing and dancing Reservoir Dogs. Brilliant!