Lesser Known Movies Worth Seeing

[nothing to see here]

If you do you could pick up The Machinist and Mulholland Drive. I bet you'll like those if you enjoyed Donnie Darko and Memento.

The Mechanist is on my "to see list"...but I agree Mulholland Drive has that same...'messing with your mind' kind of appeal. Let's stick 'Primer' on there too.

When we have our movie night, Frostmarrow, you'll certainly be invited.

 

[sniffles]

On of the greats? Definately. Lesser known? Nah.

Maybe it's just my generation, but I think I would literally be stoned (hehehe, stoned!) if asked by a peer, "Hey, Liz! Have you seen Dazed and Confused?" and I responded, "Nope!"

I'd put it in the "most popular movies of my lifetime" category. But - again - maybe it's just my generation.

Not sure which generation you belong to, but that movie is about my generation (I graduated from high school in '78), and I can't stand it!! I grew up in Texas, too, and every time I've seen part of the movie I just get annoyed by the anachronisms. Same reason I can't watch "That 70s Show".

Actually, for a list like this I would suggest almost any movie made before 1970, with the exceptions of "Gone With the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz" (they're so overexposed). Many old black and white movies, and especially silent movies, have started to drop out of the public consciousness. I would particularly recommend any silent movie starring either Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton. These men were masters of comedy, but nowadays no one will watch their films because they're in b&w and have title cards. Everyone should see "Modern Times" at least once if they have any interest in films beyond Star Wars or Adam Sandler comedies.

 

[mmadsen]

Not sure which generation you belong to, but that movie is about my generation (I graduated from high school in '78), and I can't stand it!! I grew up in Texas, too, and every time I've seen part of the movie I just get annoyed by the anachronisms.

Examples?

 

[mmadsen]

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.

Brando wasn't Spanish...

 

[Desdichado]

And maybe I'm the wrong generation, but I've never seen Dazed and Confused, nor has it ever struck me that that movie is part of the public consciousness in any meaningful way.

i.e., I haven't necessarily run across lots of people who've seen it relative to anything else, and I certainly never hear people quoting it.

Although I guess maybe I wouldn't know if they were quoting it.

 

[mmadsen]

I certainly never hear people quoting it.

Although I guess maybe I wouldn't know if they were quoting it.

"That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age."

"I only came here to do two things, kick some ass and drink some beer." [glances over his shoulder] "Looks like we're almost outta beer."

"We got 411 Positrac outback, 750 double pumper Edelbrock intakes, bored over 30, 11 to 1 pop-up pistons, turbo-jet 390 horsepower. We're talkin' some in' muscle."

"Say, man, you got a joint?"
"No, not on me, man."
"It'd be a lot cooler if you did."

 

[Desdichado]

Sorry, none of those rings a bell.

 

[reveal]

"That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age."

Useless trivia: As he's saying that, or right before I don't remember, a girl walks by with brown hair. If you pause it, you can see it's a young Renee Zellweger. She's from Texas, as is Matthew McConaughey, and was friends with the director. It was an uncredited part.

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

And maybe I'm the wrong generation, but I've never seen Dazed and Confused, nor has it ever struck me that that movie is part of the public consciousness in any meaningful way.

Dazed and Confused came out in 1993 and - for a group of people that are now twenty-somethings - it became *the movie*. It was quoted constantly throughout my high school years... and created in me a fear of high school "initiation" so great that I cried myself to sleep the night before going into the 9th grade.

All through high school, I could attend any number of parties and be totally certain that it would eventually grace the television screen at some point...

Sure - it's about the 70's, but - it really had a large impact on those that were moving on to high school/in high school when it came out.

 

[Desdichado]

Dazed and Confused came out in 1993 and - for a group of people that are now twenty-somethings - it became *the movie*. It was quoted constantly throughout my high school years... and created in me a fear of high school "initiation" so great that I cried myself to sleep the night before going into the 9th grade.

See, for my generation, that movie was Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Not that that caused me to fear anything... like phone booths, or military school's in Alaska, or anything like that. But we all quoted it to death in High School.