I generally think Tony Scott is pretty terrible, but his style works for this film.
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I haven’t watched this movie in YEARS, but was just thinking about re-watching it yesterday (after finishing watching another “dark comedy”, Pain & Gain. Meh). I went to see it with about 10 people, and me and my friends were literally the only people laughing out loud in the (packed) theatre. It was a surreal experience.
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Updated list to date - be sure to let me know if I missed yours: (Chose not to do italics on every title or link to IMDB for readability)
Underrated
Aliens3 (daneel)
Alien Resurrection (possibly) (daneel/Steampunk Banana)
The Last Action Hero (daneel)
The Cable Guy (deneel)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (daneel)
Kentucky Fried Movie (Steampunk Banana)
Hudson Hawk (Steampunk Banana)
Rat Race (DioBurns)
Stranger Than Fiction (2006) (ActionAbe)
The Matrix (ActionAbe)
Wet Hot American Summer (codinghorror)
The Wind That Shakes The Barley (Ignatius)
Brazil (Ignatius)
City of Lost Children (Ignatius)
Miller’s Crossing (Ignatius)
Thirst (Ignatius)
But I’m A Cheerleader (Ignatius/Donald_Petersen)
Mystic River - (Ignatius)
Speed Racer - (Ignatius)
City of Lost children (Donald_Petersen)
Burn after Reading (pour_la_tete)
Wrath (ActionAbe)
Transformers (ActionAbe)
Hudsucker Proxy (Donald_Petersen)
The 13th Warrior (KarlS)
Unbreakable(KarlS)
Jennifer’s Body (Mindaysan33)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (IronEdithKidd)
Hot Tub Time Machine (IronEdithKidd)
Moon (IronEdithKidd)
Dark City (Donald_Petersen)
Big Fish (WearySky)
Map of the Human Heart (noahdjango)
Out of Sight (noahdjango)
Chameleon Street (noahdjango)
Everything Must Go (noahdjango)
Five Easy Pieces (miasm)
Starship Troopers (miasm)
Stalker (miasm)
The Fountain (miasm/noahdjango)
Tin Toy (ChickieD)
Toy Story (ChickieD)
All Studio Ghibli/Hayoa Miyazaki films - highlight on A Cat Returns (ChickieD) and Panda Go Panda ((Jonas Eggeater)/ChickieD) also:
Spirited Away (Jonas Eggeater)
Princess Mononoke (Jonas Eggeater)
Nausicaa (of the Valley of the Wind) (Jonas Eggeater)
The Castle of Cagliostro (Jonas Eggeater)
Porco Rosso (Jonas Eggeater)
Howl’s Moving Castle (Jonas Eggeater)
The Princess and The Frog (ChickieD)
Beauty and The Beast(ChickieD)
Anastasia (ChickieD)
The Cobbler and The Thief Recobbled Cut (on You Tube) (ChickieD)
The Watership Down (daneel)
Paulie (ChickieD)
Bubba Ho-Tep (Jonas Eggeater)
The Fall (KarlS)
Rope (penguinchris)
Never Let Me Go (WearySky)
The Raid (peregrinus_bis)
Sorcerer (miasm) - remake of Violent Road, also good
Sword of Desperation (miasm)
A History of Violence (miasm)
The Mouse That Roated (Jonas Eggeater)
Snow Dogs (JD_2020)
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (sam)
Gummo1 (sam)
Rushmore1 (sam)
Punch-Drunk Love (sam)
Moolaadé (same)
Fresh (noahdjang0)
The NeverEnding Story (Falcor)
Venus (wrecksdar)
Gettin’ Square (Kimmo)
Rushmore (Kimmo)
The Dark Crystal (Kimmo)
Once Were Warriors (wrecksdart)
Very Bad Things (drman321)
3000 Miles to Graceland (drman321)
True Romance (drman321)
Leaving Las Vegas (sam)
Be Kind Rewind (ChickieD)
Overrated
Crash (daneel)
Shakesspeare in Love (daneel)
The King’s Speech (daneel)
Lost in Translation (ActionAbe)
Little Miss Sunshine (ActionAbe)
All Wes Anderson after The Royal Tenenbaums (ActionAbe)
Lord of the Rings (Ignatius/sam)
Spiderman (Ignatius)
Anchorman (Ignatius)
Alexander (Ignatius)
Monster’s Ball (IronEdithKidd)
E.T. (Donald_Petersen)
Titanic (Donald_Petersen)
James Cameron’s entire opus (Mindaysan33/IronEdithKidd)
E.T. and all other Spielberg family friend fare (IronEditKidd)
Anything with Kevin Costner (IronEdithKidd)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (WearySky)
Avatar (daneel)
Tarantino post-Pulp Fiction: Vertigo, Brazil, Metropolis, and The Red Shoes (bwv812)
Star Trek Reboot (miasm)
The Hurt Locker (miasm)
The English Patient (miasm)
Apocalypze Z (peregrinus_bis)
All Disney moviews (noahdjango)
Spartacus (penguinchris)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (miasm)
Good Will Hunting (daneel)
Forest Gump (daneel)
Twilight (miasm)
Shawshank Redemption (sam)
The Green Mile (sam)
The Wolf of Wall Street (sam)
Narnia (Falcor)
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Next (sam)
Casino (drman321)
Ocean’s 11, 12, and 13 (drman321)
Mars Attacks! (daneel)
Showgirls (daneel)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (sam)
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I love Be Kind Rewind. I don’t think many people have seen it, and I think that has a lot to do with Jack Black. He’s easy to dislike. Still, the movie has a nice balance of comedy and onion-cutting (but not enough to require an entire box of tissues) mixed with a heap of whimsy. My kind of movie.
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Jack Black is definitely a weird actor - feels like in the movies where I want to like him I don’t and vice versa.
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I watched Bernie a while back, and Jack Black did a pretty good job playing a… Fairly weird role. It wasn’t until I finished the movie that I realized it was based on a true story. See also: Pain & Gain.
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this happened to me when my date (who was a weird and twisted and hilarious woman) and I went to see Happiness (the Todd Slondz one.) There was no noise from anyone, then when the shrink character opens fire on all the happy people in the park, she and I erupted into laughter. At first we were the only ones, then after a minute, it made it OK for everyone else to laugh. But the fact that we enabled that was funny and weird in and of itself.
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definitely not overrated, somewhere between correctly rated too underrated depending on who you are talking to.
Love that movie.
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I had a very strange film going experience in college. My roommate and I went to see some kind of thriller movie. During the first mildly creepy scene, a girl screamed a blood curdling scream. During the second, a few more girls. By the end of the movie, every scary scene was cause for every female member of the audience (except us, who were baffled by the whole thing) to scream their heads off. I always thought it could be a psych major doing an experiment.
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By the way, I created another thread on Neflix recommendations:
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Berny: Loved it. He didn’t seem to push the role into a place where it didn’t belong by creating some wackadoodle, and he didn’t underplay it and keep the character hidden from view–I thought it was a beautiful piece of work both for Black’s work but also for the other characters as well. That film worked for me on a number of levels.
As for Fear and Loathing:
Hell yeah. Even better knowing that Depp was a fan and friend of Thompson’s.
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But have you seen Where the Buffalo Roam?
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Interesting–I watched it many moons ago as a child prior to knowing who the hell Bill Murray was depicting and why he was acting that way so the work was lost on me. IIRC, I knew who BM was at that time because my dad let me watch Caddyshack ('DOOODIEEEE!!!", ahh, so great) and Stripes, both of which have been lifelong favorites. In the years since reading HST’s stuff it’s always been on my mind to go back and see Murray’s impression. Man, this thread is blowing up my bitorrent queue…
Edit: 
RIP Ramis, your witty reparte will be missed.
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In response to my own question about infinite looping material for a slow tv install, this weekend my husband and I IMDBed George Ford, the auteur behind Fireplace for Your Home. Turns out the dude was slow tv before slow tv was a thing. Netflix selection of his oeuvre is limited, but The Amazon prime has him in HD glory.
Aquarium for The Home: Saltwater Reef is truly his masterpiece, a culmination of the themes he explored earlier in Mountain Stream: A Mountain Stream Background for Your TV but with more camera angles, adorable fish, and less sound-effects-making-you-want-to-urinate.
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While I don’t normally watch them, the Oscars were on last night (Gravity and Dallas Buyers Club rounding out the big winner list). And while I’m here I’ll throw down for DBC as being worth a visit…and isn’t it odd to get to that age where film is beginning to represent historical moments you actually recall living through?
Anywho, I thought a link to the nominees list might be apropos here, less so for the big winners than the films I wasn’t aware of and likely never would have heard about. I’m thinking specifically about the categories for Documentary: Feature, Documentary: Short Subject, Short Story: Animation, and Short Story: Live Action categories, all of which had titles I was unaware of.
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I have been meaning to watch “The Act of Killing” which was nominated (and is on netflix) it is meant to be a really good, harrowing documentary.
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Copy that. Pretty much all of the documentaries and short films on that list are also on mine. Without wanting to sound too much like a Hollywood fanboi, there were some pretty shit-hot flicks, even big-budget ones, available to choose from this year.
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Part 73 of watching films I should have seen years ago.
Seven Samurai
It’s good, but is it really 3 1/2 hours good? I’m not sure. And is it any better than the much tauter Magnificent Seven?
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If you’re against remakes and The Departed (which is much tauter than the Infernal Affairs trilogy), what did The Magnificent Seven really add? Other than white cowboys—one of whom is, for some inexplicable reason, as bald as a billiard ball—saving Mexican peasants?
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is that a serious question?
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