MovieChat Forums > General Discussion > Movie you love but think not many others...

Movie you love but think not many others have seen.


Triangle ...Mystery 2009
Chasing Sleep..mystery 2000

reply

I really loved Triangle.

For me
Upstream Color (2013)
The Last Supper (1995)
The Man From Earth (2007)
Baraka (1992)
The Devil's Carnival (2012)/Alleluia! (2016)

I'm sure on a movie site these movies aren't as obscure, but in my circle of people they are.

reply

And Nate and Hayes (1983)

reply

The Last Supper is a fantastic film, with a young Cameron Diaz delivering one of her best performances. Also the late great Bill Paxton and Ron Pearlman acting up a storm. Massively underrated great choice SSlssg.

reply

The Last Supper - 5/10

reply

Aw, that's harsh, why didn't you like it?

reply

I liked it at first, the idea, but then it kinda went downhill.

reply

i liked upstream color quite a bit, & thought it was a significant step up in quality from carruth's primer. not that i didn't like primer, but i think upstream is miles above it in look & style & atmosphere. i recently noticed that david lowery, whose 'a ghost story' is one of my favourite recent films, edited it, & i've wondered if it was his influence that made upstream color so hypnotic & engrossing.

the man from earth is a fun little film. a bit like a drawn out twilight zone episode to use the most obvious comparison, but it's a blast. worth watching if you like low budget sci-fi like coherence or the one i love.

i have to part company with you on alleluia! though - i found that to be a bit of a chore to get through.

reply

I actually hated Alleluia! when I first watched it. It's grown on me since. I like both The Devil's Carnival and Repo! The Genetic Opera better, but I can totally see why someone wouldn't like any of them.

I think the reason why I like The Man from Earth is because it is very much like a Twilight Zone episode. It's engaging without all the bells and whistles.



reply

state of grace
drugstore cowboy
one false move
to die for
lone star
barton fink
croupier
something wild
year of the dragon
talk radio
dead man
ghost dog

reply

I really liked Croupier. Great Clive Owen role.

reply

Croupier is a fantastic film, probably Clive Owen's best performance. You should also check out Owen and Director Mike Hodges 2003 re-team film I'll Sleep When i'm Dead. It's far better then it's 5.8 on IMDB.

One False Move is fantastic. Probably Bill Paxton's best performance, and Billy Bob Thornton and Michael Beach play two evil bastards. Well worth checking out.

Lone Star is definitely one of John Sayles best films. Year of The Dragon is a underrated film with a great Mickey Rourke turn. Drugstore Cowboy is another film that deserves more love with Matt Dillion's greatest turn. State of Grace is worth it for Gary Oldman blowing Sean Penn off the screen.

Very good list.

reply

We are on the same page with a few of these. I really like Croupier and Lone Star. Also Limbo with D Straithairn.
Too bad Kristofferson wasn't in Croupier. We could have had a trifecta.

reply

I really like Drugstore Cowboy, and To Die For was the first movie that I actually liked Nicole Kidman in. I actually really like that movie. I love the scene of Illeana Douglas skating.

It's funny to me that I like them as I'm not a fan Matt Dillon at all.

reply

Also Joaquin Phoenix is in To Die For. It's the film that really put Kidman on the map and show she was more then Tom Cruise's wife. She's excellent in it probably one of her best performances.

Matt Dillion if given the right material is a great actor.Stuff like the Outsiders, There's Something about Mary, Crash, Rumble Fish, Over The Edge, Singles, Beautiful Girls, Grace of my Heart and The Saint of Fort Washington. The guy is a good actor. He never topped his performance in Drugstore Cowboy though.

reply

Casey Affleck as well.

I will say that I like Matt better than his brother Kevin. I'm okay with the ensemble movies, but I just can't warm up to him or the characters he plays.

reply

Drugstore Cowboy - 7/10
To Die For - 7.5/10
Something Wild - 8/10 (pretty European and risque for an American film from 1960)
Talk Radio - 7/10

(I was going to watch Barton Fink today, but had errands)

reply

I absolutely LOVE Something Wild. Apparently there is a nude scene with Griffith being topless but I don't remember seeing it. It's a great movie w/o nudity, but whatever.
Last year I ran into a young lady named Audrey and I tried to recommend SW to her, but I don't know if she ever watched it.

reply

something wild - do you mean the '61 film or jonathan demme's movie from '86?

i love the demme film. all over the place, from comedy to thriller, perfectly calibrated.

reply

the demme film

reply

liotta was a scary bad-ass in that movie!

reply

It seems like most people I mention Come and See (1985) to have not seen it. This is such a powerful WWII film that is both beautiful and horrific.

This film also resides on my top 20 of all time list.

https://moviechat.org/tt0091251/Come-and-See


reply

Fantastic film, probably the best film on WWII but damn it's a tough watch and not for the easily upset. But a film that deserves more love.

reply

Yes! The section with Floria and Glasha just being kids in the forest and then they go to his home. It’s just devastating. His face ages before the viewers eyes.

I always try to recommend this to anyone interested in WWII.

reply

Fucking Amal 1998
A Room for Romeo Brass 1999
A Date For Mad Mary 2016
Adams Apples 2005
Bleeder 1999
Italian For Beginners 2000
You're Ugly too 2015
Your Sister's Sister 2011
Red Road 2006
Beautiful Girls 1996
Burn 1969
Before The Rain 1994
2 Days in Paris 2007
But I'm a Cheerleader 1999
Ulees Gold 1997
Moonlighting 1982
Fingers 1978
Ride With The Devil 1998
Heavy 1995
We Are The Best 2013

reply

I used to have the poster for Beautiful Girls. Working at a theatre we used to get them. I loved But I'm a Cheerleader. Natasha Lyonne is great in it.

reply

A film that deserves a Criterion Collection release imo, it's a wonderful old school type film with some great performances Natalie Portman's turn is still in her top 5 performances for me, Timothy Hutton was never better and even made Rosie o Donnell likeable lol. Great soundtrack as well.

Cheerleader is fun little romantic comedy, Lyonne is really great in it as is Clea Duvall, Cathy Moriarty, Melanie Lynskey, and RuPaul. It'a film you would think John Waters would have directed.

reply

Burn - 7.5/10 (of course his best is "The Battle of Algiers", but "Burn" had Brando)
Fingers - 7.5/10
I saw "Ulees Gold" - too long ago to remember if I liked it

I had "Fucking Amal", but I deleted it because I needed space.

reply

I love Ulee’s Gold.

reply

A very low-key film. You can feel Peter Fonda's age in it. He's not young but he has to get something physical done.
If you know Peter F you probably have a fondaness for him over the years (hahaha).

reply

If I remember correctly there is a scene in a restaurant that I think I had been to a few years earlier in Apalachicola, FL.

reply

And I've been to the Denny's where supposedly Jack Nicholson filmed his tuna salad scene from Five Easy Pieces.

reply

Stark raving mad

reply

Flight of the Navigator ....kid's sci-fi (1986)
First Men In the Moon ...cheesy 60s sci-fi (1960s)
Robinson Crusoe on Mars .....another cheesy 60s sci-fi (1960s)

reply

I saw Triangle and couldn't make heads or tails of it:)

Conquest (83) is a fantastic Italian Conan the Barbarian ripoff directed by the great Lucio Fulci (Murder Rock, The New York Ripper, Zombie 3...)

It scared the hell out of me when I was 10 but it's a really fun, sleazy, violent adventure flick upon later rewatches

reply

I don't pride myself in knowing obscure films when speaking with a film crowd, so my choices may seem mundane.

The Sweet Hereafter 1997
Junebug 2005
Umberto D. 1952 (and other Italian neo-realist films of the period)
Alice In the Cities 1974

Also, there are many foreign films like The Grand Illusion, Z, and Battle of Algiers that are regarded as classic but I suspect many people are not aware of.

reply

Junebug was a tough one for me to get into. Amy Adams is really charming in it but it's a slog of a film.

The Sweet hereafter is a good one. Alice in The Cities is fantastic.

reply

I really liked Junebug. I loved it. I thought there were enough stories going on that there was always something to consider. I'd continue, but as always, YMMV.

reply

The Battle of Algiers (my #6 all-time)
Umberto D is one of my favorite movies, top 20... 10/10 (De Sica is my #1 director).
La Grande Illusion - 10/10
Z - I haven't seen it in a while, but I remember not liking the constant "Was it in an accident, or not?" (I certainly didn't like "Missing", which everyone else seems to like)


I liked "Alice in the Cities" and "Wrong Turn" but when I saw a guy taking a shit, and actually showing a turd coming out of his ass, I turned off "Kings of the Road"

reply

I remember that turd scene. We could over analyze it, i.e., everyone has to take a shit, right? It's what's Normal and what we all have in Common.
But it was disgusting. I'm sure this might have been the time to say the Emperor Has No Clothes, but it wasn't a pleasant moment.

reply

We had a great VHS store back in the day, and if you had any inclination to check out their foreign section, that place was a goldmine. The kind of store where the owners and employees "dig" what is going on and have some knowledge.
I miss that place. Can't think of the name, but Groucho was part of their logo.

reply