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draganm
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 Link Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2016 10:07 pm Post subject: really good off-beat movies you never heard of |
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thought I'd start a thread about good movies that are really off-beat but thoroughly enjoyable and inspiring, funny, thought provoking, challenging (to you per-conceived prejudices), etc. I started looking at this after becoming so disgusted with the mainstream Corp. garbage being fed us in theaters nowadays. I literally want to pull my hair out at the thought seeing another Avengers, Mutant's, Star Trek, or Start wars. I 'mean I'm 48 f*ck*** years old, I don't have the time to waste sitting thru sh*t that just makes me feel like " another 2 hours of my life I'll never get back". 
so here goes
Last night we watched
Arn, Knight Templar . Good movie, stories been told before on the "Holy Crusades - Fall of Jerusalem" part but the second half of the Story about Sweden becoming a united monarchy was new to me. Arn is a national figure in Sweden like George Washington here.
The characters were decent and well acted . Mostly in English with some Swedish sub-titles. My kids even liked it although a little boring for them. These below are not really kids movies, actually something you would probably watch with your wife or other couples.
Together- pure Swedish movie set in the 70's, with sub-titles. Really enjoyed this one, I guess I'm the right age and time in the my life for this movie to connect to. The people were real, and interesting, and you cared about what they were going thru. (when was the last time that happened in a movie theater for you?)
got some more lined up
Life - 2008 with Damien Lewis
People, Places, Things - 2015 Jemaine Clement
Blue is the Warmest color- 2013 (French?)
Your Sister's Sister 2011
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nettwerkjohn
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Ho about Hal hartley's amateur? Stunning.
Or the Greg araki films nowhere and the doom generation?
Or the three colours trilogy? We watched blue the other day and it is marvelous
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barclay66
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Hi,
You might have watched some of these already:
Inception
The Shawshank Redemption
Brazil
Gattaca
Secretary (with James Spader)
Equilibrium
Nikita (original French version)
The Cider House Rules
American Beauty
Mystic River
Broken Flowers
Lord of War
With all of these I felt well entertained, with some enlightened...
Regards,
barclay66
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draganm
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| nettwerkjohn wrote: | Ho about Hal hartley's amateur? Stunning.
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a nun who writes pornography, yeah, that's very off-beat 
| nettwerkjohn wrote: | | Or the Greg araki films nowhere and the doom generation? |
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Amy Blue (Rose McGowan) is an obnoxious teenage speed freak and her boyfriend Jordan White (James Duval) is a passive, slow-witted poseur who won't have sex with her because he's terrified of AIDS (even though they both claim to be virgins). One day, they run across Xavier Red (Johnathon Schaech), a charming but enigmatic drifter who has a bad habit of killing people. Joining the young couple on a seemingly endless road trip, Xavier (or "X,"as the verbally challenged Jordan insists on calling him), proves a threatening and repulsive yet strangely alluring companion whose very presence raises issues of loyalty and sexual identity. |
| nettwerkjohn wrote: | | Or the three colours trilogy? We watched blue the other day and it is marvelous |
| Quote: | | The first chapter in Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Three Colors" trilogy, Blue stars Juliette Binoche as Julie, the lone survivor of an automobile crash that killed her husband, a famed composer, and their only child. Despondent, Julie attempts suicide, but she cannot bring herself to take her own life. Instead, she sets about starting over, purging all remnants of her former existence in an attempt to sever her ties to the past. A piece in the trio of films loosely inspired by the colors of the French flag and their corresponding symbolic qualities, the basic focus of Blue is liberty. |
I haven't seen any of those but they sound interesting, to say the least. Rotten Tomatoes has rated them very high as well, Bleu got a 100% critics approval rating  . I will look for them on Netflix.
| barclay66 wrote: | Hi,
You might have watched some of these already:
Inception
The Shawshank Redemption
Brazil
Gattaca
Secretary (with James Spader)
Equilibrium
Nikita (original French version)
The Cider House Rules
American Beauty
Mystic River
Broken Flowers
Lord of War
With all of these I felt well entertained, with some enlightened...
Regards,
barclay66 |
I view most of those as main-stream movies, with the exception of Brazil, which is not well known unless your a Python fan (which I am) and yes I've seen almost of them all and liked most of them. Have not seen Equilibrium, or Cider house rules (which looks especially good)- 70% positive from both critics and audiences
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draganm
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| nettwerkjohn wrote: | Ho about Hal hartley's amateur? Stunning.
Or the Greg araki films nowhere and the doom generation?
Or the three colours trilogy? We watched blue the other day and it is marvelous |
congrats, you've managed to list 3 movies that netflix can't even find. 
they have one Hal Hartley movie called Ned Rifle and 3 from Gregg Araki but Doom Generation is not one of them . Zero movies for Krzysztof Kieslowski
So next question, where the hell do you see these? 
I mean at this point I'm ready to dump HBO if I could get a "film Noir" channel.
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draganm
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of the 3 Greg Araki movies the netflix does carry , 2 got got panned by both critics and audiences. The 3rd, Living End , got good reviews. It's about 2 gay males on a road trip, man version of Thelma and Louise?
Can't really see my self sitting down for that.
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draganm
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barclay66
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draganm
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I've never been able to find Kusturica's movies. I have seen other movies from the Balkans and they were really terrible
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nettwerkjohn
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I had the Greg araki on laserdisc. Nowhere is a stunning piece of over saturated visuals.
As for the three colours trilogy, I bought the set on Blu Ray for about 40nzd.
Do you guys ever check out different regions on Netflix? We have a vpn that allows us to select where we are "based". Try netflix in Europe maybe?
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draganm
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| nettwerkjohn wrote: | I had the Greg araki on laserdisc. Nowhere is a stunning piece of over saturated visuals.
As for the three colours trilogy, I bought the set on Blu Ray for about 40nzd.
Do you guys ever check out different regions on Netflix? We have a vpn that allows us to select where we are "based". Try netflix in Europe maybe? |
haven't tried that but Rotten tomatoes shows that Amazon carries some or most of the movies mentioned above, including Bleu. Will probably be dropping Netflix DVD delivery soon and getting Amazon instead.
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