Best movie nobody's heard of...

[Pielorinho]

Okay, here's a really obscure one that I just remembered: the Argentinian Nuevas Reinas ("Nine Queens" in English) is probably the smartest con-artist flick I've ever seen. I enjoyed the hell out of that movie: it puts flicks like Confidence to shame.

Daniel

 

[Welverin]

And a USA Up All Night classic:

Tammy and the T-Rex - Denise Richards' boyfriend (Paul Walker) is grabbed by bullies and dragged out to a park at night in L.A. where he is mauled by a lion before his brain is transplanted into a full size T-Rex allowing him to get his revenge on said bullies. Concludes with Richards performing a striptease for Walker's disembodied brain and eyeballs. The epitomy of high art.

I don't want to see it, because then it wouldn't be funny, just painful. Sounds like a perfect MST3K candidate (assuming it wasn't).

 

[Atridis]

A: "Rocks My World" just doesn't do Maggie justice.

Some people will note that she stars in all three of the action movies I mentioned, as well as In The Mood For Love. I swear I didn't do that on purpose, which just goes to show what a versatile performer she is.

Anyone doing an OA or L5R campaign would do well to rent several of her movies. White Snake, Green Snake is another of my favorites.

Supercop is brilliant

Yes, it is. "Don't hold it against her" wasn't the right thing to say. I guess I meant that it's so unlike her dramatic roles, and she plays the ditz so well, you mightn't expect her to be good in non-action-comedies too.

For me, though, Supercop is all about Michelle.

 

[barsoomcore]

The words are the original ones by Cyrano de Bergerac's author Edmond de Rostang (sp?). It's an excellent film, but I don't think it would be nearly as good if you have to read the subtitles.

Yeah, the translation (by Anthony Burgess, who has also written an English musical version) is substandard. Much better is the Brian Hooker translation, which is widely available and was used as the basis for the Jose Ferrer version.

 

[barsoomcore]

I guess I meant that it's so unlike her dramatic roles, and she plays the ditz so well, you mightn't expect her to be good in non-action-comedies too.

Phew! I thought I was going to have to come over there for a second.

For me, though, Supercop is all about Michelle.

I have nothing but good things to say about Michelle. The worst thing one can say about Michelle is that she's not Maggie. And heck, who is?

Instead of making more James Bond movies, why don't they make more movies about Michelle's character from whatever James Bond movie that was? Ten times the charisma, ten times the talent.

 

[Wombat]

Okay, four films that I have enjoyed but haven't made it to the list...

Highway 61 about Corky the Canadian flugelhorn player determined to make it down to New Orleans with a dead body, a strange woman, and possibly being chased by the Devil...

Cold Feet -- theft, murder, smuggling, and high-fashion cowboy footwear

Jesus of Montreal, a modern and rather "different" take on Christ and/or the art scene

Blackrobe -- like Dances with Wolves, only done with the Huron and done RIGHT. (Okay, okay, I'm in therapy over my anti-KevinCostner problems...)

 

[TiQuinn]

Session 9 creeped me out in a big way when it came out. But it was kind of an indie movie, so not too many people I know have seen it. It's a haunted house-type story about an asbestos crew goes to work on an old rundown psychiatric hospital. Definitely worth a look.

 

[Shadowdancer]

Some more recommendations:

"Le Samorai" -- French crime film. Big influence on Woo, Tarantino and others.

"Rififi" -- French heist film, maybe the first heist film. The plan is perfect, but the human element spoils everything.

"Heist" -- David Mamet wrote and directed, great cast includes Gene Hackman, Delroy Lindo, Sam Rockwell and Danny DeVito.

"The Score" -- Another heist film, this one stars Robert DeNiro and Edward Norton.

 

[Wehtam]

Gee there is only one that I can think of off hand that was good.

Drunken Master 2 (Called Drunken Master here in the States): A Jackie Chan movie that cannot be topped by anything that he has done. The Ax Gang fight alone is worth the price of admission. I only saw it once in the theaters and that was a benefit for one of the local hospitals. It was subtitled and not dubbed.

If we want to talk about bad movies no one has heard of I have a good one. Carnasaur. This was one bad movie that nobody saw.

 

[CCamfield]

Genre movies:
- The "Chinese Women Kicked My Butt, and I'm Glad they Did" trilogy: Heroic Trio, Dragon Gate Inn, and Moon Warriors. You've probably seen Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Has anyone else but me seen Michelle Yeoh's film Wing Chun? An excellent movie - quite possibly her best, in my opinion. (Beware the Chinese DVD of this, though - it's just a VCR copy burned to disc. The Tai Seng disc which is really good.)