Friday, July 01, 2005
Best Movies You Don't Know Much About
Chances are many of you will know a lot of these movies, but not all/many of these movies were huge box office smashes. Some of these are cult-classics, others not so much. Feel free to leave comments with more of your own picks that fit into this category of great, but not well-known.
I almost picked The Machinist and a slew of others...but just because some people loved the movie doesn't mean that I liked it (I thought The Machinist was boring). I have plenty of other movies that I consider great, but they are maybe too well known for the list (Fight Club, 12 Monkeys, ... well - I won't get into it). Some of the above picks were probably too popular to put on a list of movies you've never heard of. The thing that will get me mad is that I've probably forgotten about 30 great movies that you don't hear much about. ¶ 1:00 PM
- Donnie Darko (check out the directors cut if it confuses the heck out of you)
- Boondock Saints (lots of language, but the archangel type justice is great)
- Army of Darkness (stop-action effects, great humor. Bruce Campbell's best)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (well-known in some circles...this movie is great)
- The Warriors (1979 Gang Classic. A thug favorite)
- Dune (Nerdy. Star Wars style sci-fi flick. The sci-fi channel remake is maybe better)
- Clerks (Kevin Smith's first. This movie leads directly into Mallrats)
- 13th Floor/Vanilla Sky/eXistenz (3 movies along the same line of thought -the 4th movie is the Matrix, but that made it too big for this list)
- Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human ("B" sex comedy. Earns the R rating, but very funny)
- Being John Malkovich (Weird weird weird. I mean, just strange)
- Frequency (Maybe this shouldn't be on this list, but I love this family movie)
- American Psycho (Sick and gory. Utterly disturbing. So wrong I love it)
- American History X (Not for the easily offended. Amazing race-relations movie with Edward Norton)
- Snatch (Brad Pitt as a gypsy boxer. Converging storylines a la Pulp Fiction, Go, Magnolia, etc)
- Swingers (You're money, baby. You're so money and you don't even know it)
- PI (The math symbol. Yes, a movie about math, and God, and jews, with jungle beats, in black and white)
- October Sky (Okay, not AWESOME, but a good movie that never made it big)
- Reservoir Dogs (Maybe this movie is big, but it is probably Quentin Tarantino's best)
I almost picked The Machinist and a slew of others...but just because some people loved the movie doesn't mean that I liked it (I thought The Machinist was boring). I have plenty of other movies that I consider great, but they are maybe too well known for the list (Fight Club, 12 Monkeys, ... well - I won't get into it). Some of the above picks were probably too popular to put on a list of movies you've never heard of. The thing that will get me mad is that I've probably forgotten about 30 great movies that you don't hear much about. ¶ 1:00 PM
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Where does the term "cult classic" come from?? I had neverheard of that term until the other day. Just curious!
Cult classic: Works that may not achieve widespread mainstream popularity but does attract devoted, even fanactical, attention from a select group.
By the way, I didn't include my favorite funny movie, Office Space (yes, even beating Napoleon Dynamite), because I thought it was too popular. Then again, it did pretty bad at the box office.
By the way, I didn't include my favorite funny movie, Office Space (yes, even beating Napoleon Dynamite), because I thought it was too popular. Then again, it did pretty bad at the box office.
Jason I am so proud of myself I finally sat down and figured out how to put in my own links on my blog!! I feel like I accomplished something today! My husband will be so proud of me! Hey maybe you can get me a job=)
Donna I am soooo proud of you! Can you teach me? Oh man...why can I not think of great movies? I know that I have seen them all...that Blockbuster pass is so terribly addicting. I just signed up again even though I'm currently experiencing the busiest season of my life. Oh, well, 4 hours a sleep will just have to do. :) Maybe I'll just quit my job and be a bum. Oh, yeah it has been 6 months. I have a history of doing that. No, I've been shopping too much lately, I guess I'll try to keep my job.
Well everyone knows what movie I'll say...
The Notebook!!! It wasn't talked about a whole lot while it was in theaters, but the people who did go see it LOVED it...and are still obsessing over it. Now I've begun a Nicholas Sparks novel-reading frenzy since he seems to write such incredible love stories. I'm a die hard romantic.
The Notebook!!! It wasn't talked about a whole lot while it was in theaters, but the people who did go see it LOVED it...and are still obsessing over it. Now I've begun a Nicholas Sparks novel-reading frenzy since he seems to write such incredible love stories. I'm a die hard romantic.
ya, everyone knows mine too, but truly i don't think first knight made it big etiher. did it get any publicity at all? its so phenomenal in so many ways (mostly romantic) - i've seen that movie about as many times as i've seen what about bob. and thats a lot.
You know, I have yet to make it though Lost In Translation. Both times I tried watching it I was so tired I didn't make it past the first 10 minutes of the movie. The Notebook is probably one of the best romantic movies to come out in a few years, so I also agree that it is deserving of praise. I had so many people recommending it to me that somehow I allowed that to mean "successful" to me. I suppose it didn't gain that much attention at the movies when it was new.
Reservoir Dogs, Clerks, Swingers are all pretty big now (and I should not have included them like I didn't include Napoleon Dynamite - because they are way too big now). I won't give you Army of Darkness, though. I know all kinds of people that have never even heard of the movie.
As for your list: I HATE the Rocky Horror Picture Show. If I even slightly liked it I would have to do the obligitory include on my list, but man that movie irks me. Anyway, you got me with The Big Lebowski, I should have included that. I also considered Best In Show, Dazed and Confused, and Tron...but in the end I left them off because they didn't make some unidentifyable inner cut-off for me.
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As for your list: I HATE the Rocky Horror Picture Show. If I even slightly liked it I would have to do the obligitory include on my list, but man that movie irks me. Anyway, you got me with The Big Lebowski, I should have included that. I also considered Best In Show, Dazed and Confused, and Tron...but in the end I left them off because they didn't make some unidentifyable inner cut-off for me.
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