Best movie nobody's heard of...

[Hypersmurf]

Michelle Pfeiffer was... no, wait, she's still hot. Never mind.

Well, yeah, but in Into the Night she was stunning.

-Hyp.

 

[barsoomcore]

Well, yeah, but in Into the Night she was stunning.

Word.

Ms. Pfeiffer was a formative experience of my youth.

 

[Tanager]

-any movie with Gene Hackman.

ooh, that reminds me...The Conversation. Excelent double feature material along with the (IMHO) inferior Enemy of the State.

I'll also chime in for The Player,The Grifters and Mystery Train.

Always has some good character moments, but was a little too sacarine in the end for me.

edited to fix quote tags

edited again because all the talk of Michelle Pfeifer reminded me of The Fabulous Baker Boys which, while not obscure seems to be rarely mentioned.

 

[Mark]

The Spanish Prisoner

 

[trancejeremy]

A couple of older films:

The Gorilla - this is a comedy from the 40s I think, starring a comedy team I had never heard of, the Ritz Brothers. Also has Bela Lugosi. Sort of the standard haunted house movie, but it's really really funny. Would make a great Call of Cthulhu scenario.

Invasion of the Saucer Men - Surprisingly sophisicated 50s comedy about an alien invasion. It starts off looking like it's going to be a 50s teen movie, but turns out to be something of a spoof of them. (THough some people seem to miss this fact).

I'm not sure how obscure it is, given Best Buy sells it for $6 (it's just unpopular), but I really like Dark City.

 

[d4]

Mystery Train - Jim Jarmusch directed. Several stories all set in the same fleabag Memphis hotel on the same night.

Jim Jarmusch... why does that name sound familiar? is he the guy who directed Ghost Dog?

 

[Trevalon Moonleirion]

For me, it's Boondock Saints. I hadn't heard of it until recently, and I love this flick. Willem Dafoe is at his finest/weirdest in this movie. Two brothers in a old irish neighborhood who decide they are called to distribute the Lord's justice/wrath on the local criminals. Great, great movie.

Ah...good times. What's yours?

I jsut watched this with a guy down the hall from me two weeks ago. We sat down, knocked back a few beers, shot the breeze, and watched this movie. Best experience of the semester. Man.. such a cool movie!

 

[Particle_Man]

Jim Jarmusch... why does that name sound familiar? is he the guy who directed Ghost Dog?

Yep, and also Dead Man. (not to be confused with Dead Man Walking. ) He is the bomb!

 

[TracerBullet42]

I jsut watched this with a guy down the hall from me two weeks ago. We sat down, knocked back a few beers, shot the breeze, and watched this movie. Best experience of the semester. Man.. such a cool movie!

Awesome...glad you liked it...

 

[GoodKingJayIII]

Sorry if this was already mentioned, but I can't read the entire 7-page thread at the moment. But I saw the Japanese movie Battle Royale a few months ago. Wow...