Office Space.
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Another kiwi film - The Den.
Check it out.
Winters Bone - so bleak and a Jennifer Lawrence before she was famous.
Beautiful Girls - a young Natalie Portman whole was fantastic.
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Coherence - Simple and great film about a bunch of friends that get together for dinner on the same night a comet that comes over earth every (x) amount of years. The comet has legend that it creates a tear in the space time continuum. Madness ensues.
Gook - Shows a pretty interesting perspective on what it was like to be Korean American during the time period of the L.A riots. Also shines a light on strained relationships between the Korean American communities and the Afro American communities living in the same areas at the time.
Ned - Australian flick from a while ago. Basically just a â â â â take on the Ned Kelly gang, all laughs with little substance, Itâs great!
Over the garden wall - This isnât actually a movie, but itâs a short animated series that runs for 1 season. It got a lot of acclaim from film and tv critiques but never gained any traction from viewers. Itâs relatively short but it brings a lot to the table. Well worth the watch if youâve got the time.
Raw - Itâs a French film so youâll have to sit through subtitles. Fresh faced medical student begins her journey in to adulthood at a prestigious college, but upon embarking on her studies she begins to notice an unusual habit beginning to form.
Dr. Strangelove - Itâs definitely not underrated by any means, but i feel like itâs appeal to audiences has been lost over the decades. Really great political satire done in the 1960âs that still stands up today.
The Number 23 - Jim Carrey goes psychological thriller.
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Super 8 doesnt get enough love for sure. Its great, got trumped by Stranger Things
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Starship troopers was a classic, I had to watch it like 10 times as a kid, as did my movie assignment on it.
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The Town
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Iâd forgotten about Go. Great movie. On the flip side, The Burbs was underrated for a reason. It was crap.
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One of those great, it only works once experiences. Not unlike the prestige in that sense.
Back to Fincher, I maintain alien 3 is underrated and unfairly maligned.
I also finally caught up with Zodiac the other night which was fantastic and masterful. There was a moment in a scene on a plane where, just as they were getting out off the scene, you hear over the plane speaker the hostess reminding passengers that smoking is restricted to the last 6 rows of the cabin and then in the foley they lay over that the very distinct sound of a colicky baby coughing. Completely inconsequential to the movie but just wonderful filmmaking. Great cast too, catches Downie jr on the way back up just before iron man in a wonderful little character role.
This makes me think of another potential list thread. Films you always meant to see but only recently caught up with.
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Anyone else here listen to the rewatchables podcast. Cracking pod cast
A Malick affection, I see.
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This, so much this. I put this in my top 5 favourite movies of all time. This movie was Ridley Scottâs directing debut, and was made on a budget of under $100,000. He scored a major coup by getting Harvey Keitel to act in this, and he carries most of the dramatic weight. The final scene with Harvey looking out over a bend in a river, was very close to where l was doing so training in France, and l walked a couple of dogs past that spot many times.
The Man In the Glass Booth. Max Schell is brilliant as a rich Jewish citizen in New York, who is not what he seems or is more than he appears. He is put on trial as a nazi. The story was written by Robert Shaw, from The Sting fame.
As for Nicholas Cage? Brilliant in Raising Arizona, over rated in plenty of other movies, he is a matter of choice.
Terence Mallick? I loved The Thin Red Line, but Saving Private Ryan is the one l go back to more often. TTRL is an acquired taste, it is meditative, an existential war movie. Canât stand his early effort Badlands, where Martin Sheen is miscast as a teenager.
Four Minutes. Totally under rated and almost unknown. A German movie of troubled young woman with a history of violence is sent to gaol. Inside she begins showing prodigious talent as a piano player and is encouraged to enter a music competition. Her mentor inside is an official with her own troubled and dark past.
More later.
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Would âSwingersâ be considered underrated? Perhaps not, people generally talk lovingly of it. I do, itâs still a favourite. Perhaps forgotten in the myriad of yesteryear, 90âs indie styled (okay, it was Miramax) classics, so perhaps it is?
âVEGAS BABY VEGASSSSS!â
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Havenât seen it in a while, but was once in my top 5.
Brilliant movie.
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Itâs available at the moment - free - on SBS on Demand. I remember really liking it the first time I saw it many years ago and my opinion didnât change on a second viewing.
Wrong Bet - JCVD
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IIRC thereâs a particularly nasty scene
The lighting in it is fantastic.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
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Predestination.
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