Movies

I was just wondering if folks had movies they wanted to recommend that most folks they know haven't seen (or even heard of) but they really should give it a try.

The one that made me think of this topic is Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid. It's an awesome movie but most people I know haven't seen or heard of it. It's a Steve Martin movie that strings together clips of old B&W movies into a brilliant movie. :) It's just...really well done and funny.

Well, if you're into camp, (not summer camp) -- and really, who ISN'T? -- then you can't go wrong with Death Race 2000. Really bad special effects gore meets a young Sylvester Stallone in what starts out as an action movie, but ends up being unintentionally hilarious. I can't really do it justice, but in short, the year is 2000, (the FUTURE!!!)and killing people with cars while racing cross country is the national sport. Although from the way the film is shot, you'd think it was bearing cleavage. Check http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072856/ out for more details.

steven soderbergh's brilliant and bizarre schizopolis.

the umbrellas of cherbourg, a gorgeous french musical.

the 5000 fingers of dr. t., the most Wrong kids film ever made.

head, the monkees' film. enough said.

beyond the valley of the dolls, which everyone's probably heard of--but which needs to be seen to be believed.

greaser's palace, which answers the question, "what if jesus had been a groovy singer-dancer-entertainer? and what if herod had been really constipated, and employed his own mariachi band?"

"what if jesus had been a groovy singer-dancer-entertainer? and what if herod had been really constipated, and employed his own mariachi band?"
...a question I quite regularly ask myself, I might add...

What do you mean, "what if?"

Has anyone else seen the independent film "Aimee and Jaguar"? It's a spectacular film.. It's foreign, in German.. Subtitled.. It's about a jewish lesbian who engages in an affair with the wife of a Nazi soldier.. I've seen it several times. I love it.

That's the movie I usually cite as the worst movie ever made...

It's got David Carradine in this Ming the Merciless sort of outfit. And a young(er) Mary Woronov, from Eating Raoul.

yeah, it's more like what if he hadn't...

Weiiiiird

Give Jim Carrey a chance and he really shines. The movie is very Capra-esque, and you honestly come out of it with a glowing feeling in your heart.

Even the Matt Damon voiceover part is wonderful, and, dare I say, moving. It makes me cry every time.

And a short while after that, Jim Carrey is friggin' moving, what with that speech in the movieworld version of his hearing with McCarthy.

The movie is about faith, hope, and love of all sorts.

*applauds*

I love this movie! it's so *brilliant* which can only be really appreciated if you have the background :)

Okay. Particularly for a guy who learnt English by reading Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Ross McDonald ;-D

Extremely fun and campy 80s movie! Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans and Jeff Goldblum play fuzzy aliens that crash land in Geena Davis' LA swimming pool. Also stars Michael McKean and Julie Brown - sooo good. :)

I love the 5000 fingers of dr. t. It's so...weird. And at some point, some people play a hookah as though it were a musical instrument.

Planta 4�: A Spanish movie about the cancer ward in a children's hospital....and it's a comedy. This may be the best movie I've ever seen. I haven't ever heard anything about it in the U.S. but if you happen to come across it anywhere, see it immediately.

Also, I think people may have heard of/seen this, but Goodbye, Lenin! is a really great German film with a very interesting plot concept and quite appealing characters and some real cute actors.

I love this movie in spite of myself. :)

Yay!!! 1000 Andreapoints for Reinhard! :)

jon and i just saw goodby, lenin! at this neat art film house in bar harbor on our honeymoon. it was very interesting. very funny in parts, and very moving in others. definitely worth a look.

we also saw "intermission," which is like "love actually" in ireland with colin farrell as a badass. it was ok, but a little far-fetched.

in my opinion.. wrong colin [prefer Firth].. right country [love Ireland]... Colin Firth in Ireland... that would make for one hell of a documentary.

we also saw "intermission"

I've seen this too! Not much was happening, though. Pretty dark, overall. And then when it was over, the last half of "Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet" or whatever came back on.

That was pretty boring too.

dude. so many gooviepoints for you. it's so rare that neal and i find anyone else who's seen our must-see movies. :)

empire records all the way, bay-bee. not your average teen flick. :)

Looking for Richard - Great movie about Richard III and Shakespeare in general with Al Pacino.

TERRIBLE (and funny in its terrible-ness) movie about a teenage boy who thinks he's an alien and is in love with the town's "lounge singer." Adam West is in it, and see how many references to the B-52's you can count... very VERY hyper a la Earth Girls.

Omg - *such* a good movie. :)

It's just so much fun. And I love that Julie Brown's beauty shop is called "Curl Up And Dye" :)

Wheee!

Hee. I even picked up the DVD recently ;)

.oO I can't spell VW, but i got a porsche, 'cause i'm a blonde yah yah yah Oo.

amen!!!
Awesome movie. :)

*is puzzled*

I'd never thought that anybody outside of�Germany would like this film due to its rather Germany/re-unification centered plot.

Really?

I mean...I (and, probably, most of the friends I saw it with) don't even remember the Berlin Wall coming down and I still loved the movie. I guess I'd probably have seen it differently if, ya know, I were German...or older...or both...but I thought the film actually did a really good job of explaining the more political aspects just enough that it all made sense without really getting in the way.

Besides, people in other countries watch movies with U.S.-centered plots all the time. ;)

I second that one. It is a classic.

Hands down...(in my opinion) the most quotable movie ever.� I...love it.

Two fabulous horror, and just plain weird, movies: Re-Animator and Bride of Re-Animator. The main character, Herbert West, and his "wacky" roommate conduct an experiment that involves bringing back the dead with special goo (hee). Excellent movie that needs more recognition.

Heh...Re-Animator was actually on TV last night.

I haven't seen it since I was a kid. I remember it scaring the heck out of me.

I didn't see Bride but I loved Re-Animator. I'm a huge H.P. Lovecraft fan. From Beyond is another Lovecraft adaptation by the same creative team and it might be even better.

Any of the Dr. Phibes movies...Vincent Price was so over the top in those movies. The scripts were great. Price had great lines and the way they did away with his enemies was really creative.� It was camp horror at its best.� Who would name their kid Vulnavia????

I am watching the Cat Stevens DVD I just bought, so I'm reminded of the very cool HAROLD AND MAUDE... which was also made available recently on DVD. WOOP WOOP!!!

Hmm.� I haven't seen this movie (I've heard of it, seen bits on comedy central, etc.� Not a big Jim Carrey fan to start with) but I do know that "Curl Up And Die" is the name of Carrie Fisher's salon in The Blues Brothers.� Wondering what the case is here.� Coincidence?

no no. I don't complain. On the contrary ;) I really loved this movie and appreciate it when people from other countries/continents do so as well...

Besides, people in other countries watch movies with U.S.-centered plots all the time

hehe. So true ;)

Yes. We saw a clip of it in a Yom HaShoah lecture about portrayals of The Holocaust in film and I sought it out. Amazing film.

Last summer I caught the month of gay-themed films on Sundance and Aimee und Jaguar was one of the ones I taped, along with

Chutney Popcorn
The Hanging Garden
Fire
Bedrooms and Hallways

and of course

Trembling Before G-d

And when I think of this grouping of films I always think of Total Eclipse which is another wonderfully fabulous movie about Arthur Rimbaud starring a very young, very skinny, very gay Leonardo DiCaprio.

And while we're on the subject of gay movies, Priest is another must-see. And While on the subject of Catholicism movies, Jesus of Montreal is stunning.

...directed by Troy Duffy... featuring Willem Dafoe, Sean Patrick Flanery,and Norman Reedus....

funny... quirky religious concept.. hot guys with affected Irish accents in black with tattoos and weapons...

synopsis: two brothers believe they have permission from god to kill people who do wrong..

I loved this movie... and it inspired my latest tattoo^^

Oooh!� GoOoOod movie!� Found it in a roommate's collection, and was surprised I'd never heard of it before.� DaFoe is crazy-weird-Christopher-Walken actin' in this movie.� I need to see that again . . .

Suicide Kings is hellacool... Walken and yum, Jeremy Sisto.� And it's pretty messed up, but a pack of guys taking Walken hostage... oh boy... funny as well as twisted...

Yes yes.� "Ira . . . you ARE . . . the man . . . "

... only my new favourite movie! I watched the first half three times because I got interrupted twice by my parents, so I eventually forced them to sit down and watch it with me and we all loved it. I'm going to have Peter Dinklage's children.

Heh, yeah, I quite liked it myself. Found it in a bargain bin at Wal Mart a year or so ago, one of the first half-dozen DVDs I ever bought. :)

-- Pauley

everyone knows the worst movie ever made was <a href=\"/mod/discuss/bounce.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0060666%2F\">'Manos' The Hands of Fate</a>.

buy the DVD. now. and watch it in all it's MST3K glory.

I wasn't so much justifying as...just...explaining. :) Because when I first thought about it my reaction was, "yeah...why did we like that movie so much?"

\/\/00t. Creepy. But still a must-see.

i actually got the mst3k version for christmas a few years ago. :)

I gladly concur. Such an amazing movie. It isn't that foreign for me though ;)

yep - i own it too :D

Talking about German films - do you happen to know The Princess And The Warrior (Der Krieger und die Kaiserin)? I think it belongs to my all-time favourites...

Never heard of it, but I'll keep an eye out. :)