What's a movie you've seen but most probably haven't?
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The Twilight Samurai. Excellent
Croupier (Clive Owen)
Perfume (Alan Rickman)
Stardust (Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer)
The Hard Eight (Gwyneth Paltrow))
The Cooler (William H. Macy, Alec Baldwin)
The Door in the Floor (Kim Basinger, Mimi Rogers, Jeff Bridges)
Elegy (Penelope Cruz & Ben Kingsley)
Transamerica (Felicity Huffman)
Waitress (Keri Russell)
Quills (Kate Winslet, Geoffrey Rush)
Little Children (Jennifer Connelly, Kate Winslet)
Loved the indie flicks they used to show at the Old Capital Mall or Sycamore Mall in IC. Great memories.
"Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" was a really good film and was based on a best-selling book (In Europe, mostly) by Patrick Suskind.
"Quills" told the story of the Marquis de Sade and featured a great performance by Geoffrey Rush.
Might I suggest as well:
- "The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade" This film featured Glenda Jackson in the role of Charlotte Corday (The actual assassin). Miss Jackson later became an MP in Parliament.
- "Secretary" featuring James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
- "Sex and Death 101" with Simon Baker and Winona Ryder. (Imagine having a list of all of your sexual partners ... spanning your entire life; past and future ... and seeing that the last name on the list was that of a well-known/famous and still-at-large serial killer who was murdering semi-promiscuous men.)
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I remember seeing the quote on the box and deciding to rent it. Kim Williamson is a God damned liar.
I guess you aren't all bad, then.
"Light THIS, Eli!"
"How long should you wait? For gd-ever, bitch!"
"Camera on? Camera on?"
Wonderful movie. May have been O'Toole's best performance. Great music. Just all-around terrific.
This is a true story. Damned good movie, too. Harry Dean Stanton plays the brother. Farnsworth was a very underrated actor...longtime stunt man, didn't act in many movies, virtually none until fairly late in his life.
About half you guys are talking about movies that sucked, and about half are talking about movies that were pretty good but never were widely watched. In the latter category, I would nominate "More American Graffiti" and "The Freshman."
"More American Graffiti" isn't much like the original, except for the use of period music. It's darker....just as the time it portrays, only a few years after the original, was different; Kennedy had been shot, we were in Vietnam, etc..... Mostly the same cast as the original, except no Richard Dreyfuss and just a sort of cameo by Harrison Ford.
"The Freshman" is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen, but I think a lot of people wouldn't appreciate it. Good cast. Marlon Brando got pissed for some reason and went on the late-night talk show circuit trashing the movie before it was released and telling people not to see it. But let's face it: Any movie in which you can see a komodo dragon vomit AND watch Bert Parks singing "Ain't Gonna Work on Maggie's Farm No More" can't be all bad.
"More American Graffiti" isn't much like the original, except for the use of period music. It's darker....just as the time it portrays, only a few years after the original, was different; Kennedy had been shot, we were in Vietnam, etc..... Mostly the same cast as the original, except no Richard Dreyfuss and just a sort of cameo by Harrison Ford.
"The Freshman" is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen, but I think a lot of people wouldn't appreciate it. Good cast. Marlon Brando got pissed for some reason and went on the late-night talk show circuit trashing the movie before it was released and telling people not to see it. But let's face it: Any movie in which you can see a komodo dragon vomit AND watch Bert Parks singing "Ain't Gonna Work on Maggie's Farm No More" can't be all bad.
Just watched it the other day. It's still awesome.Was cool when I was 12. Probably sucks now.
Don't be too shocked but I saw this in the theater when it came out at the Old Capitol mall. While not a typical film by any stretch of the imagination the imagery and soundtrack are interesting. It's an art film and not intended for mainstream consumption.
I'm actually a great guy! And apparently you have good taste in films, because I also enjoyed More American Graffiti and The Freshman. The great thing about MAG is that for several years we all thought Toad was dead, so we spent the movie dreading the moment, only to be joyously surprised!
Btw, the ice cream parlor scene in Stunt Man was wonderful!
The Freshman is a wonderful movie. I checked for it on Netflix about two years ago but it wasn't available for some reason. Brando's ghost might be keeping it under wraps. It does have an excellent cast.
Two that would be on Ol' Doodle's list...and yes, sadly, Doodle saw the second one in the theater.
Yeah, I think Barbara Hershey actually peed her pants when she did so in the scene.
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