Unknown Good Movies

[mat#lab]

i dont know if you know this movie "american history X" its a good movie. edward nortons in it.

[sunking]

Maybe I'm just old, that's why some of the "unknowns" are just really good old and not-so-old movies that came out before and during "my time". I'm really not THAT old! Hahahahah!

 

Examples: Citizen Kane (voted number 1 of the Top 100 greatest movies of all time), Stand By Me, Space Balls, History of the World Part 1, Stand and Deliver, Trainspotting and Boogie Nights (definitely not unknowns).

 

BUT: definite must-watches these films.

 

 

Here's one relative unknown, got ditched after a week here in the Phil:

 

LOCK STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS (A Guy Ritchie Film)

 

Before SNATCH, there was LSATSB. Eddie is a cardsharp who gets into a high-stakes game with "Hatchet" Harry (sextoy king and mobster boss) with money he and his three friends Tom, Bacon (Jason Statham) and Soap put together. He loses the money after getting cheated out of it in the game, and now has a week to get the money he owes or he starts losing body parts and eventually, his dad's (J.D., played by Sting) bar. The usual Guy Ritchie plot twists and crosses involve a trio of ganja growers and their psychotic black boss, Eddie's neighbors who are a gang of thieves who have no qualms with homicide, the debt collector Big Chris (Vinnie Jones) and his son Little Chris, and a couple of bungling burglars (aka F**ckn northern monkeys).

[madikngay]

Yan ba yung pumunta yung isa dun sa Club Vandersexx at pinasukan ng 4 ng rotating dildos :boo:

 

 

uu pare.. un nga un...

 

but still in d end okay naman knalabasan..

tpos dhil sa ABSINTH nadale ung magkapatid.. ahahaha...

 

pinaka astig was nag DO sila sa loob ng "confession chamber" if thats the term..

 

and dami tlaga hottie sa movie na ito..

 

dont tell scotty!!! ahahaha

[plush]

Dnt know kung qualified as unknown movie... but Number 23 starring Jim Carrey and Alpha Dog starring Justin Timberlake are cool flicks.

[jt2003]

Some of my favorites have already been mentioned, but not this one..

 

"In the Mood for Love" by Wong Kar Wai.

 

Absolutely beautiful. I could watch it forever.

[extrarice3]

Revelation

 

I know it has a lot of bad reviews (if googled) but i liked it. It was somehow the "Da Vinci Code" of 2001.

I watched it on its premier opening, even bought the DVD when it came out.

 

The movie revolved on the idea that Christ can be reborn from his DNA. The nails that were used to hang Jesus to the cross were hidden in a wooden box (loculus) and had been hidden from the evil Templars. Eventually at the end, a direct decendant of Jesus and Mary Magdalene was born at the same time that the evil Templars presented to the world as the Second Coming the DNA-regenerated Christ. How fascinating is that?

 

Viewers are then left to conclude whether the world will then be under a false Christ, or the true Savior.

 

Oh by the way, be warned.

THIS CONTAIN SPOILERS. :upside:

[fry_saging]

Zaitoichi... astig sa action may comedy pang kasama...

 

watch it, highly recommended...

[kadafy]

maybe not really "unkown"...baka mas tama yung word na "under-rated"...

 

1) the classic (korean title: keurlaesik) - the story of a timid young college girl writing love letters for a friend who's to shy to express her feelings. and the guy happens to be her crush as well. as the story goes along, she finds a box of love letters, her mother's and she discovered similarities of her mother's love story to hers. the movie is indeed a "classic": nice cinematography, story full of juxtaposition, twists & tragedy. but ultimately, a happy ending...oh, by the way, this was directed by the same guy who brought us my sassy girl.

 

2) t** guk gi - the story of 2 brothers drafted to fight for south korea during the korean war. eventually, one defected to the communist north. all because one wants to protect his brother. i would say this one is as good if not better than saving private ryan.

 

3) in the bedroom - no, this is not a sex-drama flick. sorry to disappoint you guys. it's a story about a young college bound guy falling for a single mom of two who happens to have a violent ex-husband. death. revenge. tragedy. tom wilkinson gave an outstanding "restained "performance as the father of the young dude stricken with grief. a different take on violence & its subsequent aftermath.

 

 

more later...

[redshirt]

Yan ba yung pumunta yung isa dun sa Club Vandersexx at pinasukan ng 4 ng rotating dildos :boo:

damn right it is

 

 

fulgenchingenkhalmuen!!!!!

[johnnydrama]

Try nyo Ichi the killer. nadownload ko lang sa torrent. panis k*ll bill para sken

 

I have that film on DVD.

[grayle]

Nice movie lists guys! Didn't know there were so many movies I missed out, specially on the international scene. Although I did watch around 30-40% of whatever was mentioned on this thread.

 

For the next posts, could we get a brief synopsis of what the movies about? Kasi sometimes it might not be a person's cup of tea, and we all know what we're getting into when we look for the movie.

[Larry]

if you like Ichi the Killer, then get Battle Royale, brutal as well.

 

Eurotrip is one of the best movies ever made

 

-Scotty doesn't know in different remix versions

-Mi Scuzzi

-the safe word

-Robot Fight!

-f*cking Frommer's Travel Guides

-Bratislava = teh best country in the world.

[kadafy]

kitano's battle royale is really something. it could be a benchmark for a sub-genre of an action film. but i wouldn't really call it brutal. i'd say it is twisted.

 

and speaking of kitano, the guy got some bad-ass movies to his credit. "brother" is one. lots of gun fighting, nocholant-bad-boy-gangsta-killing. think quentin tarantino's resevoir dogs with more dead bodies.

 

oh, by the way, takeshi kitano's take on zatoichi, the blind swordsman is the best i've seen of all those zatoichi flicks.

[Larry]

beat takeshi is the man

 

that guy can do anything

 

I was surprised to learn upon watching a rerun, that he was in fact Takeshi in Takeshi's Castle

[clubber_lang]

Before Sunrise and Before Sunset - both films star Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. I think few Filipinos saw this film so they qualify as criminally overlooked films...