Sleeper Movies I've Watched Recently

I've been watching a lot of movies recently-there isn't much else to do. Many of them have been films I would not watch otherwise. I've discovered many of them are great films. Here is a list in case you've missed them also. Some old, some new.

Catch 22-very funny. I read the book and it was even better. If you are in the military it is very poignant.

Soylent Green-decent

Papion-decent movie about a series of prison breaks and the human spirit

Redemption-excellent film about Stan Tookie Williams who was put on death rowe, but later wrote a series of children's books that won him the Nobel Peace Prize-they still won't let him out. Jamie Foxx did a great job.

A Love Song For Bobby Long-great movie if you like booze and literature. Johnny T. did an outstanding job

Crash-if you watch this you will want to go out and hug someone you used to hate-Radar, I'm lookin at you big fella.

The Animated Star Wars Series-if you are a SW Head, you need to see this I guess. Chances are you already have it downloaded. It is a connection piece between Part 2 and 3. The animation isn't that good but the sound effects are just like the movies.

Uncovering the War-no comment

OutFoxed-good docuementary. I enjoyed it.

The Fog of War-also very enlightening

Life Aquatic-HILARIOUS!!!!!

Fever Pitch-Jimmy Fallon is good in this. It's a comedy/lovey dovey flick

Spanglish-good movie

Shoot me some more flicks I might not have caught on the feeling they suck.

I recently picked up Big Trouble in Little China on DVD. I've seen that movie a half dozen times. It's a great satire of action flicks, along with Army of Darkness, which is more of a horror-action satire.

Wow. Just watched Rabbit Proof Fence. Next time somebody comes up with a racial improvement plan sit them down in front of this one. Peter Gabriel soundtrack as well. I'm not sure I'd que it up sitting in fucking Iraq though, a guy could get depressed.

Kenneth Branaugh Plays a mean villain.

sleeper with woody allen

Sin City (I think you will really dig this. I posted a review (post #7 of the thread) after seeing it in the theater)

Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick. Unless you are really into these, skip Dark Fury, which is an animated connector story between the two.

Anger Management

Team America: World Police

THX-1138

Reservoir Dogs

Airplane (you cannot see Airplane too many times)

I just got a box of DVDs from Columbia House (They had a sale) which includes Constantine ... I got it on someone else's recommendation, I'll try to remember to post a review at some point after I watch it. I also got Witness, the 25th anniversary edition of Pink Floyd's The Wall, and American Psycho.

I just signed up for PeerFlix. It's like NetFlix, except you trade old DVDs you already have for ones other people have. It's pretty cool, and I just used it to see Reservoir Dogs for the first time in a long while.

Based on what I see from the ad, when I select a DVD some other user ends up with my name and address?

Yup. Not for the paranoid.

I just watched Amistad for the first time. I can't believe I hadn't seen this movie.

I have now seen about 1/2 of Constantine. I started watching it too late last night and fell asleep. The challenge for today will be determining what scene I last remember and starting from there.

So far ... it's good.

Creepy in the right places, interesting special effects, and demons. Plenty of demons. Angels too.

Constanine was a good flick. So was Sin City. I enjoyed Constantine more though due to the nature and matter content of the film. I still hate Keanu, though. I still can't believe a director had the balls to put him on the big screen with Gary Oldman. Anyway, let me know what you think, Wolf. What is THX numbers, numbers?

I just added Fahrenheit 451 to the list: to the the list of losers. They killed that movie. It was a horrible adaptation. I would like to see them remake that film.

THX-1138 was George Lucas' first major film. It was based on a short student film he did in college. One of the Storm Troopers in Star Wars has THX-1138 as his/it's code number as a nod to this film. There was a DVD rerelease of it last year which includes some good behind the scenes type info in the extras. The star is Robert Duvall, and Donald Plesance is also featured. I think you'll like it, given some of your other choices.

Also check Downfall. It was nominated for a Best Foreign Film Academy Award this year, but didn't win.

Amazing movie ... recreates the final days of the Third Reich. The character who serves as a focal point is Hitler's Personal Secretary, but it very clearly shows the breakdown of the last defense of the Reich, as well as the personalities.

German, with English Subtitles.

"So, You Married an Axe Murdere." Love the humor, love the humor.

"Princess Bride." - Where did this movie come from. Sleeper extrodanair.

And though I haven't seen it recently, I have had an hankerin' to dig it out, "L.A. Story." Again, love the humor.

wolf wrote:

THX-1138 was George Lucas' first major film. It was based on a short student film he did in college. One of the Storm Troopers in Star Wars has THX-1138 as his/it's code number as a nod to this film. There was a DVD rerelease of it last year which includes some good behind the scenes type info in the extras. The star is Robert Duvall, and Donald Plesance is also featured. I think you'll like it, given some of your other choices.

I believe THX-1138 was also the license plate on the yellow coupe in American Graffiti. :biggrin:

xoxoxoBruce wrote:

I believe THX-1138 was also the license plate on the yellow coupe in American Graffiti. :biggrin:

And don't forget THX, Lucas' advanced sound specification.

Hobbs wrote:

"Princess Bride." - Where did this movie come from. Sleeper extrodanair.

I don't sink zis word means what you sink it means.

Princess Bride is a great movie, but it is not a sleeper. It did well at the box office IIRC and is #115 on IMDB.

I just finished watching the Station Agent. It was pretty good. The ending was a bit disappointing, but didn't ruin it for me.

Memento :will make you fry your brain trying to figure out what's going on

Boondock Saints: hilarious

melidasaur wrote:

I just finished watching the Station Agent. It was pretty good. The ending was a bit disappointing, but didn't ruin it for me.

OOOO... good one!

American Psycho is as good as I remember it being. Still not as good as the book, but it caught enough of the flavor of it to work.

dar512 wrote:

I don't sink zis word means what you sink it means.

Princess Bride is a great movie, but it is not a sleeper. It did well at the box office IIRC and is #115 on IMDB.

I never saw it in the theater nor did I even realize it had hit the theaters. When I saw it almost 15 years ago, it was a video rental at a friends house. I had never heard of it before. I am very much aware of what sleeper means my bass playing friend. To me personally, it was a sleeeper.

The Straight Story A David Lynch film based on a true story.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166896/

The Gods Must Be Crazy. Everything about it rocks, from the casting to the Keystone Kops sped-up chase sequences. The sequel's not as good, but still captures the charm of the original.

edit -- Just read my sig line -- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen was good too

Pass the Ammo. A little something for Tim Curry fans that isn't Rocky Horror Picture Show or Clue. He plays an evil televangelist -- who gets jacked up in his own studio by two smalltime bandits (one of whom has such a taste for Moon Pies that he looks like the butterscotch variety -- no shit) whose grandmother he's bilked of her savings and they've come to repossess. Wackiness ensues, with pregnancy, TV special effects, and an 81mm mortar.

I've been on a bit of a Monica Bellucci kick lately.

Irréversible
Malèna
Tears of the Sun

Without A Paddle- hilarious.
Sin City- just watched it last night- amaaaaazing cinematography. Mickey Rourke dragging that guy by the face was the best scene ever made.

I also loved "The Gods Must Be Crazy". And "Secondhand Lions".