Best movie nobody's heard of...

TracerBullet42 said:
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.

Whoa. When I saw the title of this thread, I knew right away that I was going to mention Boondock Saints. I was surprised to see it mentioned in the very first post. :eek:

Boondock Saints is a great movie, and I didn't even know it existed until a friend of mine let me borrow his DVD of it.
 

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Local Hero (just about anything with Burt Lancaster is good)
Breaking Glass, with Hazel O'Connor (great music)
Benny and Joon, with Johnny Depp and Mary Stuart Masterson (Depp does a great imitation of Buster Keaton in the movie)
 

It's hard to say what's unknown and what isn't. To different people different movies are unknown.

What about movies you saw that you had NEVER heard of? You just walked in or pulled it off the shelf, with NO CLUE what it might be (saw a poster once? no good. Heard the name? Nope. I mean, your first experience with the idea that the film even existed was the time you watched it. And loved it.

Dog Soldiers -- I was expecting so little from this, and talked my wife into renting it -- I'm an hopeless optimist for monster movies and nothing, not even Bats, can quell my enthusiasm. But this was a good, tight little picture with real performances, nice use of darkness and camera effects, good action sequences and all that. Not a work of genius, but a pleasant surprise. Recommended, even.
 

barsoomcore said:
Dog Soldiers -- I was expecting so little from this, ... But this was a good, tight little picture with real performances, nice use of darkness and camera effects, good action sequences and all that. Not a work of genius, but a pleasant surprise. Recommended, even.

I fully agree, I rented Dog Soldiers as a blind choice and since were on a Brit binge. There was a BBC(actually maybe it was channel 4) miniseries called Ultraviolet, which was a pretty well done cops vs. vampire story.
 

Oh yeah, Ultraviolet is really, really good. Except for the girlfriend, who just can't act. But otherwise it's great. Got it on DVD.

One of the great things about film festivals is getting to see films you never heard of from all over the world. We first saw Versus at a festival.

Versus is a great, great film -- but do NOT rent the recent DVD version -- it is so massively cut that it makes almost no sense whatsoever. If in the version you watch any character dies offscreen -- that's not the original. There are no missed opportunities for over-the-top gore in Versus. Yakuza zombie swordfight movie. Possibly the coolest film EVER.

A title it may have to share with Volcano High, a hilarious martial-arts-in-high-school picture with teachers every bit as mean as you thought they were. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Character names like Dark Ox, Icy Jade and Single-Hearted Soh.

Two films we walked into utterly blind and came out of utterly delighted.
 

barsoomcore said:
Oh yeah, Ultraviolet is really, really good. Except for the girlfriend, who just can't act. But otherwise it's great. Got it on DVD.

One of the great things about film festivals is getting to see films you never heard of from all over the world. We first saw Versus at a festival.

Versus is a great, great film -- but do NOT rent the recent DVD version -- it is so massively cut that it makes almost no sense whatsoever. If in the version you watch any character dies offscreen -- that's not the original. There are no missed opportunities for over-the-top gore in Versus. Yakuza zombie swordfight movie. Possibly the coolest film EVER.

A title it may have to share with Volcano High, a hilarious martial-arts-in-high-school picture with teachers every bit as mean as you thought they were. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Character names like Dark Ox, Icy Jade and Single-Hearted Soh.

Two films we walked into utterly blind and came out of utterly delighted.

Versus is pretty fun, however I was unimpressed with Volcano HIgh.

My favorite movie that no one has heard of is WAY OF THE GUN starring Benicio Del Toro, James Caan, Ryan Phillipe (sp?),Juliette Lewis and Taye Diggs. This is one of those movie where there are NO GOOD GUYS, and everything is just one big shade of gray. Awesome shoot out at the end in some little Mexican border town, a car chase that's different and smart instead of over the top and bombastic.

Love this movie, although I'll admit it's not for everyone.
 


Rock n Rule. Nelvana completed this animated movie in the 1980s with music by Debbie Harry, Cheap Trick, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, and Earth, Wind and Fire.

oh yeah, Fire and Ice is a great flick too (as I've notice it was mentioned earlier in the thread :D )
 

I like a number of older movies that many today have not seen, this one was on last Sunday, I was surprised how great Bringing up Baby was, wit and charm.

I try and catch those classics.
 

You can only be surprised by Bringing Up Baby if you've never seen Kate and Cary before. Two more charming individuals the screen has not often seen.

If you liked that, check out His Girl Friday -- if I could bottle it, I'd be rich.
 

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