Surprisingly good films/Hidden Gems - Page 13

slowmanrunning

Canada285 Posts

June 06 2010 21:46 GMT

#241

On June 07 2010 04:00 arb wrote:
If you havent seent his go watch it, NOW

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Enemy at the Gates is neither SURPRISINGLY good, or a hidden gem.
It had lots of publicity and popularity.

Please try to stick to outlines.

lu_cid

United States428 Posts

June 06 2010 21:46 GMT

#242

On June 05 2010 18:15 dethrawr wrote:
Primer, amazing mindfuck movie that just seems more complicated and awesome with each viewing.
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Thanks for the recommendation, I watched this last night and it was fantastic.

YoonHo

Canada1043 Posts

June 06 2010 21:50 GMT

#243

Can someone give me the right subtitles for Let the right one in?

I watched this movie few years back and enjoyed it. I'm just thinking right now that I could've enjoyed it more if I had better subtitles. Thanks!

As for my recommendation, it has to be The Chaser (already mentioned few times in this thread). It's a great Korean thriller.

mell1n

United States1 Post

June 06 2010 22:12 GMT

#244

On June 07 2010 06:50 YoonHo wrote:
Can someone give me the right subtitles for Let the right one in?

I watched this movie few years back and enjoyed it. I'm just thinking right now that I could've enjoyed it more if I had better subtitles. Thanks!

As for my recommendation, it has to be The Chaser (already mentioned few times in this thread). It's a great Korean thriller.

try these...

arb

Noobville17921 Posts

June 06 2010 22:18 GMT

#245

On June 07 2010 06:46 slowmanrunning wrote:

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Enemy at the Gates is neither SURPRISINGLY good, or a hidden gem.
It had lots of publicity and popularity.

Please try to stick to outlines.

Well to be fair i hadnt ever heard of it till i saw it on TV one night, and virtually no one i know has ever seen or heard of it..

so i figure id post it here, besides others might not have seen it, it is a great movie afterall

manymunkies

United States184 Posts

June 06 2010 22:24 GMT

#246

I randomly picked this up one day at the library and was really shocked at how great it really was

architekt

Germany64 Posts

June 06 2010 22:35 GMT

#247

is there a miyazaki that is not great? also ghost in the shell 1 and 2. just finished the first season and was really delighted too. especially episode 15! and give me my last episodes of urasawa's monster already. subbed is an insult to every movie.
when i was younger i always thought that anime are stupid. stupid me

wishbones

Canada2600 Posts

June 06 2010 22:35 GMT

#248

The Fountain
Movie Description: Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.

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CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

June 06 2010 22:40 GMT

#249

On June 07 2010 06:41 cougar22 wrote:

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This movie was so poorly executed, it's hilarious. The action is absolutely horrible and the acting is very sub-par. For people that are supposed to have no emotion, there sure is a lot of it flying around before it gets pointed out by the main character at the end. That poster is from badmovieplanet.com, and that movie is indeed very, very bad.

I agree with this, Equilibrium was one of the shittiest movies ever made. It was just trying to cash in on the matrix hype while we waited for Matrix 2.

As for good movies, here are some I liked. Most of these were far better than I expected them to be, although most of these mainstream picks have had a lot of hype.

I don't understand these were better than you expected? When do you expect a movie to be good? These are ALL mainstream, wtf?

Mainstream:
Braveheart -ofc
Gladiator -ofc
The Patriot -meh
Fight Club -ofc
Sin City -ofc
American Beauty -meh
Requiem for a Dream -terrible
V for Vendetta -terrible
Mulholland Dr. -terrible x2
The Boat That Rocked (Pirate Radio)
The Departed -ofc
Gattaca -ok
The Hurt Locker -terrible
The Prestige -ok, but very predictable
The Illusionist
The Lookout
Up in the Air

Unknown/Overlooked/Indie:
The Wackness -bad
Cashback -terrible
Wristcutters: A Love Story -not that bad of a chick flick but still
Stardust -terrible
All the Real Girls
George Washington
Undertow
Snow Angels
Brick
Brothers Bloom
In Bruges
Die Welle (The Wave)
Die Fälscher (The Counterfeiters)
Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)
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didnt see the rest but this post is a huge fail imho.

Cajun2k1

Netherlands399 Posts

June 06 2010 22:43 GMT

#250

Unthinkable, think 24 but realistic.

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CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

June 06 2010 22:48 GMT

#251

On June 07 2010 07:43 Cajun2k1 wrote:
Unthinkable, think 24 but realistic.

http://www.onlinemovieshut.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/unthinkable-review.jpg

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that's unthinkable

nam nam

Sweden4672 Posts

June 06 2010 22:54 GMT

#252

On June 07 2010 07:40 CharlieMurphy wrote:

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I agree with this, Equilibrium was one of the shittiest movies ever made. It was just trying to cash in on the matrix hype while we waited for Matrix 2.

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didnt see the rest but this post is a huge fail imho.
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The movies you mentioned were about as mainstream as his. What's your point?

deth

Australia1757 Posts

June 06 2010 22:56 GMT

#253

On June 07 2010 07:40 CharlieMurphy wrote:
didnt see the rest but this post is a huge fail imho.

V for Vendetta terrible? Were you watching the same movie I was?

arb

Noobville17921 Posts

June 06 2010 23:00 GMT

#254

On June 07 2010 07:56 dethrawr wrote:

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didnt see the rest but this post is a huge fail imho.

V for Vendetta terrible? Were you watching the same movie I was?[/QUOTE]
i thought it was good but i did think it was a tad bit slow myself..

jusayO

Canada60 Posts

June 06 2010 23:15 GMT

#255

A movie I had no expectations going into it four years ago, and came out more than pleasantly surprised. See for yourself, I can't really say anything about it without giving too much away... And the Gogol Bordello singer (Eugene Hutz) was also amazing. I'm sure this film received popularity, but in Canada I had to see it at the festival, where it quickly became forgotten.

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Kin-Dza-Dza , for its time and considering it's a Russian movie (which I always find to be poor) was actually extremely fun and if you look at it closely... It has a lot to say about how silly society and everything about humanity really is... In a rather unique way. Lots of people hate it, lots of people love it. It can be as simple as you want, or you can look further into it and it becomes complex.

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One of my favorite "Yakuza" movies of all time, and I watched it without knowing what it was out of boredom. Kitano is simply one of the best directors of recent memory, as his movies always seem to speak in so many voices that they're hard to take in from just one viewing. Tragic, humorous, serious, and light hearted all at once.... And each part is done well. This was the first Kitano movie I watched, and still my favorite.

Pads

England3228 Posts

June 06 2010 23:21 GMT

#256

Bring it On.. perhaps just a guilty pleasure, but I found these films to be amazinggg. Well, only 3 out of 5 of them :x
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kekkkk ^_^

Lomak

United States311 Posts

June 06 2010 23:31 GMT

#257

Just watched these series of movies called "Ong bak"

Its got the guy from the movie "The protector" who does all the mua thai (sp?) moves. The Ong Bok movies are just as brutal, if not more so.

sc4k

United Kingdom5454 Posts

June 07 2010 00:01 GMT

#258

Ok guys, I watched 'the man from earth' and K-Pax again tonight. To be honest, they are comically similar

. Very much enjoyed both of them actually. I honestly think K-Pax is more emotional even though the end of the man from earth almost had me in tears, K-Pax did actually have me tearing up about 30 minutes before the end.

Anyway, all I have to say is that if anyone did enjoy the philosophy in the man from earth, you HAVE to watch every season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. It's basically 100x as much depth and thought about the topics discussed, with, I'm sorry to say, a lot more imagination. Much of the philosophy of the man from earth was standard 'new atheism' and 'enlightened open-mind-ism'. I mean I have no problem with it, but it was slightly laboured for anyone but the philosophical neophyte. If one actual takes time to watch TNG, the philosophy and imagination, and mental workout of some of the episodes, including some of the outrageously complicated moral dilemmas; far exceeds the scope of the man from earth. Although there was some great emotion, there's just as much in TNG, especially the final episode two-parter, which is just unbelievably mind-blowing. I'm also certain the biologist is in Star Trek, somewhere or another, I just can't quite remember where from.

Piy

Scotland3152 Posts

June 07 2010 00:08 GMT

#259

Christiane F.
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(picture was pretty big)

I do warn you. It has some very, very strong drug and sex scenes in it, involving a real 14 year old girl. It is pretty amazing, but will fuck some people up, and not in the same way as a movie like "The human centipede". Think those Montana meth adverts for 2 hours.

The Edukators

Stumbled across it a while ago. Really well done movie, worth watching to the end even if you don't really like it.

Tampopo

The best film about food ever, no question. Oh, it's so, so good.

cougar22

Canada98 Posts

June 07 2010 00:16 GMT

#260

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On June 07 2010 07:40 CharlieMurphy wrote:

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I agree with this, Equilibrium was one of the shittiest movies ever made. It was just trying to cash in on the matrix hype while we waited for Matrix 2.

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didnt see the rest but this post is a huge fail imho.

These movies are so mainstream and never overlooked that you haven't seen the majority of the ones labelled "Unknown/Overlooked/Indie"? Most people I know haven't seen the movies in the bottom half, hence the word "overlooked". What I mean by the good movies being better than expected: movie gets a lot of hype, I expect to enjoy it, I watch movie, movie has a lot more substance than expected.

If you are absolutely certain that every good movie is going to be good before it comes out and your expectations are never exceeded, there is the bottom half of my post with movies you will likely have no expectations for. I will not argue about your opinion on every one of these movies, but please, if you are going to shit on my opinion of good film, provide examples of your own superior taste.

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