Obscure favs no one ever seems to know...
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"Sorcerer" and "Quick Change" are great movies. Another one I like is "Canadian Bacon", about an American President who declares war on Canada to cover up some misdeeds.
Great movie-seen it twice.
It wasn't to cover any misdeeds, it was because "America needs an enemy" to distract it from their problems.
It's also got one of the best lines ever, and I quote: "the average American's attention span is about as long as your dick"
Also known as "elitists" or "otaku", yeah, they're annoying. They give the larger majority of more reasonable anime fans like myself a bad name.
Also if we can do TV series too, the following are woefully under-rated:
Monster-A Japanese Brain Surgeon working overseas in Germany, named Kenzo Tenma, saves the life a child whom he later finds out to be serial murderer. Framed for his crimes he becomes a fugitive in order to gather evidence in his defense.
Haibane Renmei-Unable to remember her past life, a girl hatches from cocoon in strange walled city and soon wings burst from her back painfully. She's given the name Raka after the only thing she recalls, a dream of falling from the sky. Ajusting to her strange new life as a Haibane (or charcoal feather) she makes and loses friends and tries to find out the truth of who she is, and why she's unable to leave the city.
Kurenai-A poverty stricken negotiator is landed with the job of protecting and sheltering a little girl who's run away from her estranged family which ends up also putting the lives of neibors in his apartment complex in danger.
Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad-Koyuki is disenfranchised kid who after meeting an older boy discovers a love for music and learns the guitar. The story follows the rock band Beck and the trials they face on their rise to fame and popularity.
Spice and Wolf-A traveling merchant name Laurence meets a female wolf god, Horo, who offers her services as a god and her bussiness knowledge in exchange for a ride to her homeland.
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This is a wonderful film. I find myself watching it whenever it's on.
Every group has it's Nuts...
Yeah. Those always bug me. Especially when the dubs are really good like Cowboy Bebop, Excel Saga, & Ranma 1/2. And Ghost Stories is only watchable in its dub form because they decided to add a bunch of incredibly un-PC humor to the English dub to spice up the episodes.
A short film that still, sadly, has not yet breached the public consciousness (or even been released on DVD) is Zombie Prom. It's a 1950s teenage love story about a girl who falls in love with a boy from the wrong side of the tracks. (You know he's a non-conformist because he spells his name, "Jonny" without an "h.") Her parents & the high school principal (played by Ru Paul) convince her to break up with him. He commits suicide by throwing himself into cooling tower of the local nuclear power plant. Then he comes back from the dead as a zombie but he still wants her back. It's a razor-sharp spoof of the ultra-conformist 1950s. And it's a musical!
I saw that one recently, too. Same reason as Red Rock West, actually. It didn't thrill me quite as much as that one, though it was pretty good.
It also might not have been best that I was hoping for Gary Cole to kill everyone and win the movie, because I really, really like Gary Cole, and the movie had been quite successful in making me look down upon the moral turpitude of Paxton's character.
How many people could that guy kill?!
Anyone remember Used Cars from 1980, a young Kurt Russel as an Arizona Used Car Salesman.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081698/
We Blow the Living Shit out of High Prices.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwH5KEbAipY
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081698/
We Blow the Living Shit out of High Prices.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwH5KEbAipY
It wasn't to cover any misdeeds, it was because "America needs an enemy" to distract it from their problems.
It's also got one of the best lines ever, and I quote: "the average American's attention span is about as long as your dick"
You're right, I confused it with "Wag the Dog". And that is a great line.
i didn't care for the Excel Saga dub (in fact, i didn't care for the anime, The manga was tons better)
good news on the anime front: Detective conan (case closed) is being released by the season finally (sadly, another overlooked favorite)
and i fucking hate "elite otaku" i almost caved one guy's skull in because he was selling fansubs to an anime place (so they coud sell them, and they were selling the legal copies of the anime's too) and saying his subs were superior
good news on the anime front: Detective conan (case closed) is being released by the season finally (sadly, another overlooked favorite)
and i fucking hate "elite otaku" i almost caved one guy's skull in because he was selling fansubs to an anime place (so they coud sell them, and they were selling the legal copies of the anime's too) and saying his subs were superior
Unknown starring Jim Caviezel and Greg Kinnear. 5 guys wake up in a warehouse with no memory of who they are, some are beat up and tied to a chair or handcuffed, some aren't. Turns out a few are kidnappers and the others are the captives. It's really interesting to see things unfold.
The Jacket starring Adrien Brody and Keira Knightly with Kris Kristofferson (Daniel Craig is in it too
). Brody plays Jack Starks who is a Gulf War vet sent home with a gun shot to the head and brain damaged, he's framed for the murder of a cop and sent to an asylum. The doctor's brutal behavioral experiments involve a full body straight jacket, drugs, and a morgue drawer, which somehow sends Jack into the future where he learns of his own death.
Primer - very low budget but absolutely excellent indie film. The most believable movie involving time travel I've ever seen. Very cerebral, but still excellent!
The Jacket starring Adrien Brody and Keira Knightly with Kris Kristofferson (Daniel Craig is in it too
). Brody plays Jack Starks who is a Gulf War vet sent home with a gun shot to the head and brain damaged, he's framed for the murder of a cop and sent to an asylum. The doctor's brutal behavioral experiments involve a full body straight jacket, drugs, and a morgue drawer, which somehow sends Jack into the future where he learns of his own death.Primer - very low budget but absolutely excellent indie film. The most believable movie involving time travel I've ever seen. Very cerebral, but still excellent!
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