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Jimmyjimjim · member Member # Joined: 12 Dec 2002 Posts: 459

Hey everyone-

I'm a huge fan of smaller movies that get overlooked, especially indie or foreign sci-fi. For example, very few people knew about "Cube" before it became a cult classic.

Anyone else have any favorites that fall in this catagory? I'm not talking about anything out of mainstream Hollywood, just the small stuff not many people have seen.

Here's a few of my favs to get the ball rolling...

Existenz
Avalon
Cube
Equilibrium
Delicatessen
Donny Darko
Closet Land

Cube 2 blew chunks, BTW. Wink

Giant Hamster · member Member # Joined: 22 Oct 1999 Posts: 1782

legend of the crippled masters
gods of WuTang
8 deadliest weapons of kung fu
edward penishands
plan 10 from outerspace
the naked killer
bloodeaters
deathrace 2000
Cannibal Holocaust

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and stuff. Good movies.

jr · Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2003 7:58 pm

commando.
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Impaler · Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2003 8:11 pm

Six-String Samurai
Ichi the Killer
Shaolin Soccer
Shockwaves
Yojimbo

Yeah, yojimbo is by kurosawa, and everyone knows kurosawa, but few people actually know anything about his work outside of Ran. so there.
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Drunken Monkey · Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2003 10:29 pm

Pitch Black
Sword of Doom
Seven Samurai
Heaven and Earth

Why is cinematography in old samurai movies so fucking awesome?
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syzygy · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 4:33 pm

Horseman on the roof.
Death to Smoochy
Breaker Morant

[Shizo] · member Member # Joined: 22 Oct 1999 Posts: 3938

El Mariachi (by Robert Rodriguez)
The Barber of Siberia (by Nikita Mikhalkov)
Prisoner of the Mountains (by Sergei Bodrov)
Brother (by Alexey Balabanov)
Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (by.. Jackie Chan? hehe)

Spooky · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 9:52 pm

Drunken Monkey: Do you mean the Samurai 'Heaven and Earth'? That was filmed right here in Alberta. Beautiful film. Love it!
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Nimr0d · Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 12:32 pm

jr - HELL YEA

Fallen Angels by Wong Kar-Wai.

Hero by Zhang Yimou.

Battle Royale by Kinji Fukasaku.
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A.Buttle · member Member # Joined: 20 Mar 2000 Posts: 1724

The Passion of Joan of Arc
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The Tenant
Knife in the Water
The Searchers
Mystic River
The Sweet Hereafter
Dead Ringers
Blue
White
Red
The Decalogue
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
Amarcord
Alphaville
Cleo from 5 to 7
My Darling Clementine
Once Upon a Time in the West
Last Tango in paris

if you'd like more, just ask....
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Impaler · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 9:02 pm

more plz abuttle i wz looking forward to your reply plz ;D
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oDD · Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 2:08 am

some asian stuff

if you are looking for some good horror movies and stuff like Scream bores you i suggest:

Dark Water

and not so good but still were fun at times:

The Eye
Versus

And the last one Not a horror movie but still entertaining: Better Luck Tommorow. IF someone could post names of some classic sci-fi asian movies i would be happy.
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iandredd · member Member # Joined: 04 Jul 2002 Posts: 178

drive - great fun low budget kung fu action movie

nasty girl - oscar nominated german movie

the fisher king - lesser seen terry gilliam movie

the vanishing (original)

proof - good ausie movie, with russel crowe and hugo weaving before they were famous

one false move - bill paxton from aliens gives a great performance in this

palookaville - funny indie flick

manhunter - the best hannibal lector movie, cant beleive how bad red dragon is compared to this

bad day at black rock - spencer tracy classic

Freddio · Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 8:26 am

The Cube, very freaky but cool movie. Definately worth a watch!
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wahookah · Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 4:44 pm

brasil - terry gilliam
solaris and stalker from Andrei Tarkovsky
yep, Kinski movies

"the kentucky fried movie", or maybe not Wink

[Shizo] · member Member # Joined: 22 Oct 1999 Posts: 3938

I watched a little bit of Stalker.. it was kinda weird hehe, but moody.
They are making a game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. based on the movie, and it looks real good.
http://www.stalker-game.com/

Drunken Monkey · Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2003 7:33 pm

Spooky, yes! I didn't know that. Love that movie too.
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Jimmyjimjim · member Member # Joined: 12 Dec 2002 Posts: 459

Hmmm..

You guys mentioned Stalker, yeah that was a great one.

Anyone hear the rumor that it was almost completely reshot because they used an experimental Kodak stock that couldn't be developed? The rumor has it that it had to be re-done on a shoestring budget. It's one of the great "lost film" legends.

Wish I could get that sucker on DVD.

Awetopsy · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2003 8:43 am

Dark City

Shadow-X- · Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2003 1:18 pm

After being in hiding for the past while, I was finally able to get internet at my house since my move across to the opposite side of the country.

But anyhoo, my 2 cents:

Shaolin Soccer (As Impaler brought up), I just saw this movie recently when my room mate downstairs brought it out of nowhere. I must say, its a hilarious movie in an asian sense (me being asian), and I wish more american movies would just produce slap-stick humour movies like this. Well, I guess they create tons of it, but whenever I see a Japanese movie, it's just so different. Take TV shows in Japan, they're mostly variety shows where they have guests (sorta like hollywood squares), but they do more productive stuff, more physical stuff thats more interesting to watch, wrather than people sitting in boxes answering questions....

whoops....got carried away...

go see it if you can, its funny if you like soccer, if you like action (kung-fu), and puts a funny side to Matrix scenes.
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The Insane Lemur · member Member # Joined: 19 Oct 2003 Posts: 768

the 5 Deadly Venoms and the Return of the 5 Deadly Venoms! oh yeah, the Sword and the Sorcerer, all are hilarious in their stupidity, saw them last halloween.

Giant Hamster · member Member # Joined: 22 Oct 1999 Posts: 1782

Lemur: \m/ rock

watmough · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 8:30 am

what about...big trouble in little china,dragons forever,grave of the fireflies,evil dead 1&2,crumb,american movie,and versus (japanese movie)

Alucard · Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 8:24 am

I saw the dvd of edward penishands in Santiago, Chile... I can't wait to see this damn movie

Alucard · Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 8:25 am

Oh, and Naked Lunch rulz!

SolarC · Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 3:24 pm

> if you are looking for some good horror movies and stuff like Scream
> bores you i suggest:
> Dark Water

If you liked Dark Water I'd also like to recommend Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse (Kairo).

One other great movie I watched a little while ago was The Holy Mountain (la montagna sacra).

The Real Mark · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 6:52 am

By everyone saying heaven and earth do you all mean warriors of heaven and earth - good samurai movie!

A.Buttle · member Member # Joined: 20 Mar 2000 Posts: 1724

No, they're talking about the Godard anti-epic � Bout de Souffle, idiot.
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Awetopsy · Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 8:15 am

While Im sure nobody here will agree, The Apostle is a great film. Directed and Produced by Robert Duvall its quite an insightful film.