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Movies. No, good movies. That are also unknown
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The only reason my friends have even heard of these movies is that I forced them to watch it.
In the Mouth of Madness
And for fun: A better Tomorrow 2/ Hardboiled
The only reason my friends have even heard of these movies is that I forced them to watch it.
what kind of fickin retards are in your year? there probly arent 10 people in my who think thatPhoenixKing said:
That's the funny thing. I know Transformers is fun because robots blowing each other up is cool, but a dead story does not maake cinematic gold. Drama, suspense, and unexpected plot twists do. Like learning you learned how to fight and make soap from...Fridge said:
yourself.
Not a lot of people I know have heard of In Bruges, which I find pretty sad. It was a great movie that deserved more recognition than received.
Oh well.
Oh well.
I would have to say Come and See/Idi I Smotri. I've never met anyone who's seen this movie, the only reason I know of it is that my brother told me to watch it after seeing it abroad. I would still say it's the best movie I've ever seen, it's a Russian film about a young Byelorussian boy joining the partisans to fight against the Nazi invasion. "Oh great, another movie about World War II" I hear you say, but it's so much more. It's not a wank fest of patriotism and Americans having a hard time kicking ass, or Hollywood action schlock such as Saving Private Ryan, or The Thin Red Line, or even Enemy at the Gates. It's a very real portrayal of a young man, basically a boy, watching his country being invaded and wanting to fight, without any idea of what that entails. Throughout it's duration you watch a child go insane at what he's seen, and become a numb, hollow shadow of his former self. It's a destructive movie, it shows how hollow and terrible war is, how humans will always try to make the best of a bad situation, but in the end we're all mortal, and we can only endure so much. The best quote I can attribute to it was a friend after watching the movie "That was the best movie I've ever seen, and I never want to watch it again". It's a movie that leaves you with a feeling of numbness and depression when it's over, you don't finish watching it and feel hopeful for the future, especially if you know about the Russian purges of the Byelorussian partisans after the war. But that's what a great movie does, it makes you feel something, even if that something is hopelessness.
It's kind of funny since I'm in an IB class =/. For people who don't know what IB is, it's a few levels above the governmental standards, and is harder than most schools academic program.thats it exclamation said:
Honestly, either your friends are retarded, or you need some new friends. Just sayin'. Who hasn't watched Schindler's List?Vek said:
My favorite relatively unknown movie would be Sunshine, but I'm not all that avid a movie watcher.
I was having a pretty good day, then I read this...Now I'm bitter. Thank you.D0WNT0WN said:
OT: DarkCity, Old Boy, Thursday (good luck finding that one) PI, Life Aquatic
But I find it more upsetting when people haven't seen classics like: Dr Strangelove, Apocalypse Now, and Citizen Kane
Isn't this one about AstroBoy ?Sacman said:
on my behalf i'd add Memories
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memories_(film)
Magnetic Rose part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9mR7Rit4h8
There's an Italian movie about the Holocaust called "Life Is Beautiful". I'd call that a relative unknown.
Lets start off with a couple of german movies:
23: Nicht ist so wie es scheint (1998). The best hacker movie ever made.
Stalingrad (1992). Not quite as fantastic as Das Boot (but everybody has obviously already seen that. If not, what the hell have you been doing in the last 35 years?), but a beautiful and powerful war movie in the same setting as Enemy At The Gates - but good!
Some russian movies:
Cargo 200 (2007) - the most disturbingly black comedy ever envisioned. Makes Requiem for a Dream, Lilja 4-ever and just about anything else you can think of seem like Hello Kitty in comparison. I saw it when it was released and I still can't think of it without feeling like crying, throwing up and holding back a laugh that seems extremely inappropriate. It's depiction of Russia in the mid 80's during their Afghanistan war, with a fantastic soundtrack with russian post-punk from the period - I just can't stop loving that movie no matter how sick it makes me.
Stalker (1979) - basically the inspiration for the 2007 video game with almost the same name. Actually shot in the vicinity of the Chernobyl reactor and depicts a forbidden zone where strange things are happening 6 years before the Chernobyl catastrophe. Very beautiful, if somewhat slow movie.
Moon (2009), shouldn't be that unknown, and I suppose the people who visit this site should be the audience who already know of it and has seen it, but I dare say it is the best science fiction movie of this decade.
Burst City (1981), awesome, violent and crazy japanese cyberpunk with people from Japan's greatest punk bands of the era in lead roles, and with a lot of great punk music. The director has also made several other great cyberpunk-ish movies focused on music, musicians or just very strange things themed around music.
23: Nicht ist so wie es scheint (1998). The best hacker movie ever made.
Stalingrad (1992). Not quite as fantastic as Das Boot (but everybody has obviously already seen that. If not, what the hell have you been doing in the last 35 years?), but a beautiful and powerful war movie in the same setting as Enemy At The Gates - but good!
Some russian movies:
Cargo 200 (2007) - the most disturbingly black comedy ever envisioned. Makes Requiem for a Dream, Lilja 4-ever and just about anything else you can think of seem like Hello Kitty in comparison. I saw it when it was released and I still can't think of it without feeling like crying, throwing up and holding back a laugh that seems extremely inappropriate. It's depiction of Russia in the mid 80's during their Afghanistan war, with a fantastic soundtrack with russian post-punk from the period - I just can't stop loving that movie no matter how sick it makes me.
Stalker (1979) - basically the inspiration for the 2007 video game with almost the same name. Actually shot in the vicinity of the Chernobyl reactor and depicts a forbidden zone where strange things are happening 6 years before the Chernobyl catastrophe. Very beautiful, if somewhat slow movie.
Moon (2009), shouldn't be that unknown, and I suppose the people who visit this site should be the audience who already know of it and has seen it, but I dare say it is the best science fiction movie of this decade.
Burst City (1981), awesome, violent and crazy japanese cyberpunk with people from Japan's greatest punk bands of the era in lead roles, and with a lot of great punk music. The director has also made several other great cyberpunk-ish movies focused on music, musicians or just very strange things themed around music.