Name a film you love that very few people have seen
03-27-17, 08:55 AM
#52
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I'll add "The Fast Runner". Shot by real life Eskimos (I hope that's the right term). Very authentic feel. Alaska stretches on forever in some of those shots. It was also from before Alaska became popular and we started seeing it on TV and whatnot. Rewind to 2001 or 2002, that was some of my first glimpses at Alaska.
03-27-17, 09:20 AM
#53
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Speaking of Inuits, that reminded me of a movie I really enjoyed called Map of the Human Heart (1993) about an Inuit boy who becomes friends with an English mapmaker. Really good and beautiful film.
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Siskel & Ebert turned me on to the film on their show. Here's Roger's review :
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/ma...man-heart-1993
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Siskel & Ebert turned me on to the film on their show. Here's Roger's review :
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/ma...man-heart-1993
03-27-17, 11:23 AM
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03-27-17, 02:30 PM
#61
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Jason Scott Lee from Dragon is in this one. It was a small scene but he was uncredited.
I've only seen this movie on PBS.
03-27-17, 02:52 PM
#63
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The other movie that fits this category for me is a largely unknown documentary, The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.
Anyone that ever played in a videogame arcade should watch it. It's about one man's attempt to beat the all-time Donkey Kong score. One of the most heartfelt movies I've ever seen, it's more about the human condition than videogames per se.
Anyone that ever played in a videogame arcade should watch it. It's about one man's attempt to beat the all-time Donkey Kong score. One of the most heartfelt movies I've ever seen, it's more about the human condition than videogames per se.
03-27-17, 09:19 PM
#65
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Classic Game Room The Rise and Fall of the Internet's Greatest Video Game Review Show- surprising this only has 61votes on IMDB. It's a funny doc that doesn't take itself seriously at all.
If Looks Could Kill- my favorite James Bond movie.
The Impossible Kid- second favorite Bond movie
Legend of a Fighter aka Secret Master- my favorite movie.
Killer Constable- my favorite Shaw Brothers.
Sword Stained with Royal Blood 1993- wuxia at it's finest.
Shadow Ninja aka Killer in White- hilarious movie that surprises with a beautifully brutal final fight.
Death Games 1997- in a time where the cheapest and shittiest movies China has ever made were coming out daily, Death Games is filled with awesome fight scenes and it stars Fan Siu Wong aka Riki Oh. It even has that classic opening credits scene where the hero of the movie gives a display of his skills fighting a bunch of random people.
The Sword 1971- about a man who loves his sword collection more than anything, even more than women. Very dark movie.
Ninja Terminator- hilarious movie with awesome fight scenes. Jaguar Wong is the coolest movie character of all time.
Color of Pain- one of the more interesting and energetic Chinese crime movies. Only 33 votes on IMDB blows my mind. It's not like this DVD is hard to find. It goes for a dollar on Amazon.
Deadly Outlaw Rekka- my favorite Japanese movie.
Keoma- my favorite western.
Macabre 1980- brilliant storytelling, and a contender for most fucked up movie of all time.
Footprints on the Moon- my second favorite Italian movie behind Keoma. Not really a giallo but it has the feel of one.
Strike Commando- so cheesy and funny, and cool action scenes. "Americansky!"
If Looks Could Kill- my favorite James Bond movie.
The Impossible Kid- second favorite Bond movie
Legend of a Fighter aka Secret Master- my favorite movie.
Killer Constable- my favorite Shaw Brothers.
Sword Stained with Royal Blood 1993- wuxia at it's finest.
Shadow Ninja aka Killer in White- hilarious movie that surprises with a beautifully brutal final fight.
Death Games 1997- in a time where the cheapest and shittiest movies China has ever made were coming out daily, Death Games is filled with awesome fight scenes and it stars Fan Siu Wong aka Riki Oh. It even has that classic opening credits scene where the hero of the movie gives a display of his skills fighting a bunch of random people.
The Sword 1971- about a man who loves his sword collection more than anything, even more than women. Very dark movie.
Ninja Terminator- hilarious movie with awesome fight scenes. Jaguar Wong is the coolest movie character of all time.
Color of Pain- one of the more interesting and energetic Chinese crime movies. Only 33 votes on IMDB blows my mind. It's not like this DVD is hard to find. It goes for a dollar on Amazon.
Deadly Outlaw Rekka- my favorite Japanese movie.
Keoma- my favorite western.
Macabre 1980- brilliant storytelling, and a contender for most fucked up movie of all time.
Footprints on the Moon- my second favorite Italian movie behind Keoma. Not really a giallo but it has the feel of one.
Strike Commando- so cheesy and funny, and cool action scenes. "Americansky!"
03-27-17, 09:27 PM
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Re: Name a film you love that very few people have seen
^ I think I have somewhere between 150-200 Shaw Brothers movies, and I STILL haven't seen Killer Constable!
I love Keoma--the slo-mo, shaggy Franco Nero, the strange theme song and score--it all works.
I love Keoma--the slo-mo, shaggy Franco Nero, the strange theme song and score--it all works.
03-27-17, 09:42 PM
#67
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Six String Samurai:
Trailer:
It's a goofy, fun movie with lots of film references, but the big appeal to me is the killer soundtrack, a mix of songs from the band Red Elvises and score by Bryan Tyler, only his third film ever. I had the CD soundtrack before I ever saw the film, due to it not playing near me during its limited theatrical run.
It only had a non-anamorphic DVD release, but I see that Palm Pictures put the full movie up on Youtube for viewing:
Trailer:
It's a goofy, fun movie with lots of film references, but the big appeal to me is the killer soundtrack, a mix of songs from the band Red Elvises and score by Bryan Tyler, only his third film ever. I had the CD soundtrack before I ever saw the film, due to it not playing near me during its limited theatrical run.
It only had a non-anamorphic DVD release, but I see that Palm Pictures put the full movie up on Youtube for viewing:
03-27-17, 10:28 PM
#68
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A.k.a., Le Orme, it's an interesting film. Its criminally unheralded director, Luigi Bazzoni, made two even better films, imo: one of the top gialli, The Fifth Cord (1971), which has astounding cinematography from Vittorio Storaro, and an amazing, visually splendorous film called La donna del lago (1965).
03-27-17, 10:34 PM
#69
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A.k.a., Le Orme, it's an interesting film. Its criminally unheralded director, Luigi Bazzoni, made two even better films, imo: one of the top gialli, The Fifth Cord (1971), which has astounding cinematography from Vittorio Storaro, and an amazing, visually splendorous film called La donna del lago (1965).
03-27-17, 11:29 PM
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Good job, everyone, I essentially have only seen two mentioned (The Spanish Prisoner and King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters) and heard of another two (A Better Tomorrow III and In Bruges).
The first one that came to mind is Deep Cover, which I absolutely love and the only people I know who have seen it or like it watched it in a class with me or I introduced them to it. You've got Lawrence Fishburne back when he's still Larry Fishburne, hot off Boyz N the Hood, plus Jeff Goldblum as a smarmy drug dealer right before Jurassic Park, Charles Martin Smith as a nasty cop, Sydney still doing the sidekick character acting years after his stride of Cuckoo's Nest and Carrie, and all directed by Bill Duke (Abdullah from Car Wash, Mac from Predator). Very 90s, walks the line of straight-to-video style shooting, acting, and editing, but still very, very entertaining.
Another one, which I haven't seen in a long time but remember liking, is The Eel, a Japanese film that co-won the 1997 Palme d'Or at Cannes but I never hear anybody talk about it.
The first one that came to mind is Deep Cover, which I absolutely love and the only people I know who have seen it or like it watched it in a class with me or I introduced them to it. You've got Lawrence Fishburne back when he's still Larry Fishburne, hot off Boyz N the Hood, plus Jeff Goldblum as a smarmy drug dealer right before Jurassic Park, Charles Martin Smith as a nasty cop, Sydney still doing the sidekick character acting years after his stride of Cuckoo's Nest and Carrie, and all directed by Bill Duke (Abdullah from Car Wash, Mac from Predator). Very 90s, walks the line of straight-to-video style shooting, acting, and editing, but still very, very entertaining.
Another one, which I haven't seen in a long time but remember liking, is The Eel, a Japanese film that co-won the 1997 Palme d'Or at Cannes but I never hear anybody talk about it.
03-27-17, 11:36 PM
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Deep Cover was fairly popular when it was out, it opened at #1 for the week. The theater I worked at wasn't showing it but ended up getting it a few weeks later.
03-27-17, 11:47 PM
#72
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Prime Cut. I thought it sounded interesting and picked up the DVD several years back from deepdiscount during their once famous site-wide sales and liked it enough to pick up the recent Kino Blu ray. Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, and Sissy Spacek...fun but violent drama/action film. I forget what made me blind buy the DVD...must have read a review somewhere, but the DVD and Blu have been reviewed by DVD talk.
I suspect more people have seen Alligator than I would believe so maybe it does not belong on this list. I have been very vocal on this site that this is a film that should get a Blu release, but is still only on DVD. It is a bummer that Shout could not make a go of this film, as I suspect it could do alright if the release was treated with care (it should get some respect, as John Sayles wrote the film).
I suspect more people have seen Alligator than I would believe so maybe it does not belong on this list. I have been very vocal on this site that this is a film that should get a Blu release, but is still only on DVD. It is a bummer that Shout could not make a go of this film, as I suspect it could do alright if the release was treated with care (it should get some respect, as John Sayles wrote the film).
03-28-17, 12:18 AM
#73
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03-28-17, 03:52 AM
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DEEP COVER was a high-profile release back in 1992. I saw it at the Loew's Astor Plaza, a massive single screen theater in Times Square, the same theater where STAR WARS premiered in 1977. I remember liking it, but, as is the case with most 1990s Hollywood films I saw back then, even the good ones, I've never revisited it.
03-28-17, 04:55 AM
#75
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Well now I don't feel as bad having only seen 5 of the movies listed. Better Tomorrow 3, Peace Hotel, Drive, In Bruges and Six String Samurai. I hate it when I haven't seen a movie somebody loves.
