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Old 11-26-2011, 10:31 PM   #61
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Ooh ooh ooh oooooooh! I've just discovered this thread, and quirky/underrated films are one of my big passions in life! I have a particular findness for French and Scandinavian films (the Danes and Swedes do great crime and thrillers), followed by Spanish. Also many English speaking ones. Here are some of my underrated favourites:

Friendship's Death (have been trying to find this on DVD or anything else for over 10 years now...)
Themroc (superb!)
Didier
Black Sheep
Angel-A
A Town Called Panic (the movie, not the series)
13 Tzameti

Belleville Rendez-Vous (Also known as the Triplets of Belleville)
Bubble Boy
Buffalo '66
The Castle (this was pretty mainstream in Australia though)

And I'm going to have to be the pariah here and say that I thought Gattaca was very silly and didn't enjoy it much at all. DESPITE Uma Thurman!

Gotta go feed Lars the Lamb. More later! ooooooooooh exciting thread! am going to look up some of those others mentioned.
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Old 11-27-2011, 05:09 AM   #62
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Must admit, I was really disappointed with Gattaca.
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Old 11-27-2011, 05:35 AM   #63
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~chomp~

The Last House on the Left is a quirkster.
Great movie, but that sex scene goes on for way too long and made me feel really uncomfortable.

Aussie flick called, "Ned" written and produced by a youngster (Abe Forsythe) who was starring in a TV series called "Always Greener". Made even quirkier when the Ned Kelly story was also released the same year (starring Heath Ledger).
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Old 11-27-2011, 05:53 AM   #64
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Children of Men
This is a really great movie. I'm surprised it never got more attention.
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Old 11-28-2011, 12:46 AM   #65
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Must admit, I was really disappointed with Gattaca.
Me, too. And I watched it with a total Gattaca fan, so she wasn't so pleased with my reaction.
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Old 11-28-2011, 07:41 AM   #66
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Does Muriel's Wedding count?
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Old 11-28-2011, 11:20 AM   #67
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No. Too appreciated.
And too bloody painful for a comedy!
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Old 11-28-2011, 11:33 AM   #68
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Netflix told us we would love a movie called The Station Agent. So we watched it on Friday, and they were right. It was quite good. It got a fair amount of critical acclaim when it came out, but I had never heard of it.
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Old 11-28-2011, 11:40 AM   #69
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That the one with Peter Dinklage (?) in?

I have that queued up on my harddrive or watching. Loved him in Game of Thrones.
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Old 11-28-2011, 11:43 AM   #70
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Yes. He's pretty good.
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Old 11-28-2011, 12:08 PM   #71
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That was a good one. I think Netflix pointed us to it as well.
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Old 08-03-2013, 03:15 PM   #72
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I feel I have to mention Blood on Satan's Claw.
American title The Blood on Satan's Claw.
But in truth I only came to it via The League of Gentlemen's excellent DVD commentary of the same, so it's cheating somewhat.
The more I watch it, the more I love it though. Have already inflicted it on Dani. And my current sig is from the film (note date of post - if you are reading this even a few weeks later it is almost definitely not) and it just makes me laugh from sheer familiarity with the dialogue. As well as the commentary. Sadly that just creates more in-jokes I can only share with myself. In fact the penultimate sentence was one from the series. Sigh.

While I'm on a tLoG bent, The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse is another undervalued treasure. But I simply cannot judge it as a standalone film. I came to it as a super-fan of the series/ collective talents. And I admit I have now watched it with the commentary on far more than off. Reece saying, "Look at that cat" is really very funny to me. Sadly.

Tonight I have a far cheesier DVD to watch.
Really.
It's a work training DVD called Cheesemaking - Cheese Product Knowledge.
I am unlikely to be back in this thread tomorrow morning.
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Old 08-05-2013, 04:45 PM   #73
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I've mentioned the western "South of Heaven, West of Hell" before.

Good movie, chock plumb full o' quirk.

Also, I just watched a submarine flick called "Phantom". Takes place on a sixties-era Soviet missile sub. The quirk in this film is that none of the actors, not one, uses/has a Russian accent. Ed Harris as a Soviet sub commander, speaking straight American-English.
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Old 08-05-2013, 04:47 PM   #74
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I love submarine movies. I've watched the (extremely) long, German-language version of "Das Boot" three times.
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Old 08-05-2013, 06:33 PM   #75
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that is one *seriously* claustrophobic movie.


aaauuugh!~!
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