Underappreciated flicks

Yep. Great flick. I saw it on HBO years ago, and saw it maybe once until it was on ESPN Classic last year.

My list...
Young Guns II -- Maybe not the best movie, and it was mostly historical fiction. But there were some GREAT lines and one-liners throughout the movie, and I thought the way Billy the Kid's world was stripped away piece by piece was interesting. Pretty good job by Emilio Estevez of portraying a man on the run who's slowly coming to grips with the fact his days are numbered, but doesn't want to admit it.
Billy: I have friends here. People love me.
Pat Garrett: Not no more, Billy. Not no more.

Training Day: Sure Denzel won an Oscar for it, but Ethan Hawke was also superb. And the way it depicted the underside of the drug dealers-cops relationship was scary because some part of it is probably true.

Spaceballs: Just laugh-out loud funny. I memorized the whole thing when it was on cable in the summer of '87.

Some others that have already been mentioned -- Amazon Women on the Moon (love the Bullshit! Or Not? segments, especially with the Loch Ness Monster as Jack the Ripper), UHF, and PCU. We had a guy in my dorm that reminded me of Pig Man. He had a Laser Disc player, Playstation and VCR, but no TV. He'd always hang out in the lobby or laundry room around the common TVs.

 

Wow. the scene where Dreyfus sings to his kid is pure cringe

 

Haven't seen any love for this one yet:

Used Cars

I thought it was very much a spoof of the business, but one of my bosses said he used to work on a used car lot when he was young and it's actually a very accurate portrayal. And it's funny as hell in parts.

 

Dark, dark movie.

Cusack, Benning & Huston were phenomenal

It was nominated for three or four Oscars but didn't win.

One of my all time favs.

 

Great call.

 

Sirs, Madames,

I've always championed Inside Moves. I know only one other person who saw it at the movies.

Pick-up on South Street. Near-modern era, Madigan. Almost anything that Richard Widmark touched.


YD&OHS, etc

 

Six pages deep, and not one mention?

 

Thought HOSAF a horrible waste of talent, as it's easily taken as a political screed mocking the USA for its involvement in Iraq . . . and there are a lot better ways to get that idea across without wasting two hours of folks' time in theatres or at home with handwringing tripe such as this. No offense, but I swear to God . . .

 

I never once even thought if it as a political screed on Iraq and considering it was released in December of '03, only eight months after we invaded Iraq, I highly doubt it had much to do with the war. In fact, after checking IMDB, I see the novel on which it was based was written in 1999, well before the lead up to the war in Iraq.

Too bad you watched it with politcal goggles on. It's really an interesting morality play.

 

Oh, and let me add that Kingsley and his family in the film were Iranian, not Iraqi and Shoreh Aghdashloo (Kingsley's wife who later starred in a season of '24') stole the show in that movie. She was absolutely outstanding (as were Kingsley and Connelly).

 

The Shooting Party, with James Mason[his last film], John Gielgud and Edward Fox. A gem of a film from a novella by Isabel Colegate. It's about a weekend's pheasant hunt on an English estate on the eve of WWI. Mason's philosophical ponderings on the appropriatness of hunting, the demise of the aristocracy and the pending war are some of his best lines -- ever. And the cinematography is superb, the Brits, as usual, excelling.

 

Just remember when it was made. There's too much there . . . the American girl is depicted as a careless bull-in-a-china-shop type (oh, missed the deadline? . . . I still want what I want) . . . and so on. Understand your points, but it really made me uncomfortable, and given its box office, I wasn't the only one.