Best movie nobody's heard of...

[Sarigar]

Mamet's Heist was good, but The Spanish Prisoner was better.

One of the better movies that no one I know of has heard of starred Christopher Lambert and John Lone called The Hunted. Good samurai flick.

Dead Alive from Peter Jackson. "I kick ass for the Lord!"

One of Alyssa Milano's best, Embrace of the Vampire.

 

[barsoomcore]

One of the better movies that no one I know of has heard of starred Christopher Lambert and John Lone called The Hunted. Good samurai flick.

Good fight scene in the middle. Kind of pointless flick otherwise. I was in Japan when I saw it, maybe that had an effect. But the fight on the train WAS pretty cool.

 

[pjchik]

Wow. Rock N Rule. I haven't seen that in about 20 years!
I don't know how unknown some of these are (but no-one I know has heard of them)
Breaking the Waves
Heavenly Creatures
The Frighteners
The War at Home
The Gardener
I have to actually put something about The Gardener. It's not even out on film yet, and it's production budget was about $100. I was in it so I have to like it. In case anyone actually cares, it's a b horror flick.

 

[dpdx]

Anyone seen The Mighty Quinn, with Denzel Washington and Robert Townsend? I liked that one.

 

[d4]

Dead Alive from Peter Jackson. "I kick ass for the Lord!"

i'm playing a Roman Catholic priest in a d20 Modern campaign, and that's my battle cry.

i know i obliquely mentioned it earlier, but i'll say it again: Ghost Dog.

great samurai flick about a black inner city assassin working for the Mafia. (it's not as confusing as that sounds, really.) Forrest Whittaker does a great job as the title character.

i love his relationship with the (Haitian?) ice cream vendor.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Just saw The Protagonist - great movie! Bob Hoskin (sp) is the lead, Robin Williams a bomber, and a number of other stars you have seen.

 

[Altalazar]

By now, someone has to have said all of these, but I'll repeat for emphasis:

Equilibrium (Rocks!)
Boondock Saints
Donnie Darko
Momento

 

[Rackhir]

For those of you who haven't seen the "Salute of the Jugger" version of "The Blood of Heroes" it has some additional scenes that aren't in the american version. There's an encounter in the desert with some guys from the 10 Cities in a car of some sort. There were a few more scenes in the 10 cities before the big game and the ending was completely different. In the Ozzy, version the movie doesn't end with the celebration party. Salo who had been kicked out of the League can't join up like Joan Chen. So he has to return to wandering the desert with a few new replacements for the team. There's at least one scene with Joan Chen's character playing the Game, but it seemed to convey a certain sense of emptyness, like she's already played the best game ever and with out Salo around it doesn't have the same meaning. The movie then ends out in the desert with Salo reasuring the new Quick on the team, who's nervous before the game about the other team not having shown up yet and Salo replies "They'll show up. The Best ones always do." and then the mist clears to show the other team backlit by the sun on a ridge. Great moment, great movie. It was the only movie that I've ever wanted to get up and cheer at the end. The big game really rocks if you've got a powerful subwoofer.

Equilibrium (GunFu)

Local Hero - An amazingly touching movie. Nothing really happens in the movie, but something about it just draws you in and won't let you go.

A Taxing Woman & A Taxing Woman Returns - Hysterically funny tales of the Japanese IRS. I never understood why they made the second movie until after living in Japan and seeing the endless parade of political scandals.

Dark City - Absolutely one of the best movies I've ever seen. My respect for Rodger Ebert increased significantly when he said it should have gotten the Oscar that year.

Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai - Just watch it. It's a necessary part of any Geek/Gamer's life. Without watching it you can't pass the test at the end.

Into the Night - Best scene in the movie : Where Jeff Goldblum talks one of the iranian thugs into committing suicide, just by describing what he's been going through.

Bob Roberts - For anyone who's ever hated the bush (II) administration. A little side note. The soundtrack was never released, because Tim Robbins was afraid that Rush Limbaugh and his ilk would play the songs constantly. Since the "parody" songs in the movie are pretty much what they actually believe.

The new Gamera Movies - Yes he's still full of turtle meat and if you don't like giant monster movies you still won't like it, but they have damm near Hollywood grade special effects, a plot that's actually good and a director that knows how to make a Good Movie. The end of the third movie has some truly magnificent scenes. These are what the new Godzilla movies should have been.

Cast a Deadly Spell - Terrific little made for HBO movie, Staring Fred Ward. As the movie said at the start "It's 1947. Los Angeles. Magic works". It's a very funny yet deadpan serious Film Noir set in a world where magic is as common as technology. The humor comes from the oddities that nobody in the movie would notice, but are jarringly different to the viewer. Bell boys that have the luggage floating after them. A night club with no building where the entrance is just a Door way in the middle of a parking lot. The police trying to sweat information out of a werewolf. Probably have to turn to Ebay for this one, though it might be available in the VHS rental section of the video store.

 

[Krieg]

The Thirteenth Floor - Imagine a noir'ish Matrix without the leather, and containing some actual questions regarding the nature of reality.

Amazing Grace & Chuck - A little league pitcher & an NBA all-star change the world.

The Final Option (aka Who Dares Wins) - The British SAS vs terrorists (the old socialist european kind) in a storyline VERY loosely based around the Princess Gate embassy takeover.

The Final Countdown - The USS Nimitz is hurtled back in time to Dec 6th 1941. There's nothing better than F-14s vs Mitsubishi A6Ms (ie Zero).

Three O'Clock High - The day in the life of a high school student who desperately tries to avoid fighting a bully after the final bell.

Don't ask me why but Chris Makepeace (ie wudy the wabbit) is in all three...

My Bodyguard - An unlikely friendship between two boys (think Thunderdome's Master/Blaster...the early years. )

The Mysterious Stranger - A made for TV movie based on Mark Twain's unfinished tale.

The Final Chase - In a future without gasoline, former racer Lee Majors makes one last run for Free California. The last fighter pilot Burgess Meredith gives persuit in a SWEET black F-86.

Siege of Firebase Gloria.

Vietnam film of pretty much endless action, that actual has the characters get ground down by. Very cool, but I've rarely talked to anyone that's heard of it.

Starring R. Lee Ermey as the highly motivated SgtMaj Bill Haffner! Ooh-Rah!!

BTW Boondock Saints, Frailty & Identity make a great triple feature for those so inclined.

 

[VirgilCaine]

Donnie Darko

If you *like* fatalistic, dark, movies with actors from ER...
I don't mind a tragedy, but there has to be a message in the end...

Oh! If you didn't grow up in the 80's, you might have missed The Lost Boys. Cheesy flick about teenage vampires, but it does really well with the monster conventions. (Holy water, flying, the master, etc.) Kiefer Sutherland stars in this, rather early in his career IIRC.

Check out The Forsaken for a slightly different take on vampires. Not bad gunfight scene at the end, IIRC. Not a bad idea for a D20 Modern game.

Highway to Hell: Hellcop, the lumpy faced demonic patrol officer steals some guys girlfriend, he chases after him through American-midwestern desert of Hell. Good bits: the 'Road to Hell Paving Company'; Satan's personality (though not his look... lizard eyes and six tiny horns don't quiet work).

Saw part of this movie. Didn't seem too bad.

Siege of Precinct 13: Or Assault on Precinct 13. I can't recall which. Low budget John Carpenter 1970's flick, with the skeleton staff of a closing-down precinct fighting off a hoard of suspiciously racially integrated drug crazed gangsters. Looked and played very much like Night of the Living Dead, but with gangsters instead of zombies. Great fun.

It's Assault. Again, not a bad D20 one-shot.

Real Men with John Ritter and Jim Belushi.

"A glass of water? Thats all?"

The Beast - another Kevin Reynolds directed film. A Soviet tank in Afghanistan pursued by Mujahadin.

Great movie. Liked it.

Cast a Deadly Spell

This one...not that great. Didn't have enough flavor, I guess, and not enough tension or action...

My choices... [I haven't seen all these, but they look good or are good because I've seen 'em.]

Death Hunt
The Mechanic
The Forsaken [X-Files style vampire twist]
Rolling Thunder

Tremors
Tremors 2: Aftershocks
Lets Get Harry [Like Proof of Life, but less action and fewer professional mercenaries.]

Assignment: Survive

Death Wish [Realistic action movie--what does the protagonist do after killing his first person? Rushes home and vomits in his toilet.]

[Yeah, I liked Charles Bronson. ]

Another one I've seen...

Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane [The chapter thing is odd, not a terrible film]

Good thread.