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#601137 - 08/25/13 07:44 PM Re: Movies nobody else watched ~ [Re: yoyo52]
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The book version of Cloud Atlas is very good. I didn't see the movie because I could not imagine how they'd translate the text into a visual counterpart.

THAT was the problem- they DIDN'T !! sick


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#601192 - 08/26/13 07:56 PM Re: Movies nobody else watched ~ [Re: Lea]
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I downloaded and watched Repo Man. I had never seen any of it before. I think I was confusing it with Remo Williams... blush

Warning, if this movie is on your to see list, there are spoilers below..

Anyway, I am not sure what I just saw. Maybe you had to see it back in the 80s or something. Maybe I would have loved it back then. I did like some stuff - Diuretics and all the generic product jokes.

Beyond that? This movie is called sci-fi because of that car, seemingly for lack of anything better to do with the plot. I don't mind that the special effects were cheesy, I get that it was deliberate, but... They run quickly from one side of town to the other looking haphazardly and half-heartedly for this car. And then the movie ends with some kind of Willy Wonka thing.. Don't get it. Obviously 98 percent of people see something I didn't.

I read reactions of people trying to make this movie deep, looking for post modernist elements and looking into the deeper meanings for example of having a woman who complained about her garbage being knocked over in one scene later appearing in a police station in another. Meaning? It was for lack of anything better to do in this plot. Emilio randomly taking off his pants and expecting sex? Different I'll admit, but funny? The two name actors did what was expected of them admirably but I guess I need more direction.

I should make it clear I usually LOVE these kinds of movies. It made me think of Eat and Run, one of my favorite "out there" movies, with Ron Silver. And it actually goes somewhere. Anyone seen that movie? Or Eating Raoul? Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, which was mentioned earlier I even preferred to this.
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#601193 - 08/26/13 08:01 PM Re: Movies nobody else watched ~ [Re: lanovami]
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Turns out Eat and Run came out the same year. Maybe it's bad taste recommending another movie that reminds me of a better one but, well, I recommend it, if, um, you liked Repo Man. Talk about movies no one else saw. Rotten Tomatoes has NO rating. Ebert saw every film ever made I though, but I couldn't even find his comment on this one. A very rare one it seems.

Eat and Run

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#601249 - 08/27/13 06:14 PM Re: Movies nobody else watched ~ [Re: lanovami]
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HAROLD And MAUDE
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"The film was critically and commercially unsuccessful on original release, but subsequently received critical and commercial success. The film is ranked number 45 on the American Film Institute's list of 100 Funniest Movies of all Time, and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 1997 for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"."

"The movie ultimately developed a cult following and in 1983 began making a profit."



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#601252 - 08/27/13 06:31 PM Re: Movies nobody else watched ~ [Re: Nana]
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Sorry missed your response...

actually it was American Gigolo... (sorry blush ) and he did Officer and a Gentleman right after that. crazy

oh well almost all actors have a few miss-ques !!
Amazingly some have very, very few... like Gregory Peck ! grin
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#601259 - 08/27/13 08:20 PM Re: Movies nobody else watched ~ [Re: Pirate]
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killer tomatoes, was so cool. Crazy but cool. The guy dragging that parachute everywhere he went

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#601303 - 08/28/13 11:28 AM Re: Movies nobody else watched ~ [Re: Celandine]
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Harold and Maude was my favorite movie for years. Maybe it still is. Seen it a bajillion times. smile

Angel Heart is pretty darn good too.
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#601324 - 08/28/13 03:51 PM Re: Movies nobody else watched ~ [Re: lanovami]
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Harold and Maude was my favorite movie for years. Maybe it still is. Seen it a bajillion times. smile

Angel Heart is pretty darn good too.


That Makes TWO (of us) grin grin

It's been & prolly still IS my Fave...
...luckily for us, it's finally been re-issued
on DVD and BlueRay... I'm still scoping it out. cool

Yar!!! "Angel Heart" is a piece o' work, ain't it? eek
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#601326 - 08/28/13 04:43 PM Re: Movies nobody else watched ~ [Re: Celandine]
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Coincidentally, another of my favorite movies
(that almost no one else saw) will be released
TOMORROW (August 29,2013) on DVD. It took
YEARS before Friedkin re-acquired ownership of
what he's always considered his MasterPiece.

SORCERER
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Tangerine Dream - "Sorcerer" (The Full SoundTrack)
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#601336 - 08/28/13 08:26 PM Re: Movies nobody else watched ~ [Re: Celandine]
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Don't know why this keeps happening, but just like 2 weeks ago I sought out Sorcerer and watched it. Excellent movie. Yes, Tangerine Dream's sountrack really set the tone. Sorcerer is a bit of an off title for such a movie, but it settles in.

I am sure you know that the general consensus is that this movie might have been huge if it hadn't come out roughly the same time as Star Wars (which cost like half what Sorcerer did to make).
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