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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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11-27-2011, 05:09 AM | #62 | |
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Must admit, I was really disappointed with Gattaca.
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11-27-2011, 05:35 AM | #63 |
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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). |
11-27-2011, 05:53 AM | #64 |
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This is a really great movie. I'm surprised it never got more attention.
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11-28-2011, 12:46 AM | #65 |
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Me, too. And I watched it with a total Gattaca fan, so she wasn't so pleased with my reaction.
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11-28-2011, 07:41 AM | #66 |
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Does Muriel's Wedding count?
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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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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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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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11-28-2011, 11:43 AM | #70 |
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Yes. He's pretty good.
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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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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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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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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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08-05-2013, 06:33 PM | #75 |
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that is one *seriously* claustrophobic movie.
aaauuugh!~!
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