Lesser Known Movies Worth Seeing

[Someone]

El Espinazo del diablo Guillermo Del Toro's masterpiece. I saw this in untitled in Sapnish while in Mexico. Now, I can barely understand a bit of Spanish here and there, but the film is so well crafted visually that I understood it anyway.

Don´t feel bad. I´m spanish and couldn´t understand a word anyway.

 

[barsoomcore]

I've been quite surprised by some of the selections in this thread but not everyone looks at the different markets, so in some sense Delicatessen or 12 Monkeys is obscure.

Sure, and it's easy to forget that everyone has a different frame of reference and so terms like "little known" probably evoke more responses of the type "None of my friends had ever heard of this picture" than "Very few people in the world know of this picture", which is what I'm thinking of.

I attempted to list films that might appeal to some here but don't appear to be discussed often. Zu seemed appropriate despite it's success.

Yeah, for sure.

Have you watched the sequel?

Nope. I've gotten very cautious about Mr. Hark's output these days. Sometimes you get a little gem like Time and Tide, and sometimes you get a painful chunk of excrement like The Vampire Hunters. It pays to be careful, I've found.

 

[Desdichado]

Don´t feel bad. I´m spanish and couldn´t understand a word anyway.

Really? I had it on my Netflix queue and was actually looking forward to watching it without the subtitles since it's been a few years since I've used Spanish regularly and I'm a bit rusty. I can usually understand everything fine, unless the accent is really extreme still, though. What's the deal with this one?

 

[Desdichado]

...the Boar War in South Africa.

Tee-hee. That's almost as good as the Gorilla War someone was talking about in another thread the other day. I'd love to see all these animals going to war myself.

I think maybe you mean the Boer War.

 

[Rackhir]

You probably know this already, but The Devil's Backbone, is available at least subtitled in english (don't know if it's dubbed or subtitled).

 

[Desdichado]

You probably know this already, but The Devil's Backbone, is available at least subtitled in english (don't know if it's dubbed or subtitled).

The Netflix entry looks like it's subtitled. I was hoping to not use the subtitles; as much to refresh my Spanish as anything else.

Oh well, if I don't understand it, I suppose I can always turn them on. Subtitles are always so distracting to me, though. Depending on the speed of the dialogue, I have a hard time actually watching the movie sometimes, which obviously defeats the purpose. I'm so visually oriented, that I want to see what's going on uninterrupted by having to read the little words at the bottom of the screen.

 

[Someone]

Really? I had it on my Netflix queue and was actually looking forward to watching it without the subtitles since it's been a few years since I've used Spanish regularly and I'm a bit rusty. I can usually understand everything fine, unless the accent is really extreme still, though. What's the deal with this one?

Simply, some of the actors speak in a way that´s quite hard to understand. It´s a flaw of many spanish films; apparently, if you´re a good actor you must speak in short bursts and trample over your own words.

 

[Welverin]

Josie and the Pussycats, I find it endlessly amusing.

 

[Fast Learner]

Ah, indeed. Absolutely hilarious film. But you do have to "get" it early-on. Otherwise it's crap, I'm sure. When watching, it's good to know that there was NO paid product placement in the film, regardless of what you see. That's what makes it so funny, in large part.

 

[Psychic Warrior]

Thought of another one

Zatochi, the Blind Swordsman

Fun, samurai sword swinging action flick.