Reilly Posted May 23, 2004 Share Posted May 23, 2004 Everybody loves Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption, but isnt is much cooler to find a movie that not many people know of, yet its absolutely brilliant? Just 3 of my favourites: Battle Royal: A class of Japanese school teens are put on an island, 40 of them. Electric collars are put around their necks to monitor them, they are given random weapons, and they must kill everyone else on the island within 3 days, or else the collars explode and everyone dies. Not too much planned logic, or a great ending, but still a fantastic, fantastic movie. (Subtitled) City of God: Story of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, real life true story of how the capital and its slummed turned into a drug based gun filled wasteland. Its funny, its horrific, its an excellent story which has all the mediums between comedy, romance and horror. If you see the first 2 minutes of this movie it drags you in immensely, I know that at the time I was trying study for a test the next day, and I decided to take a 5 minute break, so I went into the living room to sit down and this movie was on. The 5 minutes turned to 10, then to 20, and then 2 hours later I was hooked and even went as far as to watch the scene commentaries and documentary on the area. Its a scarily realistic movie. (Subtitled) Death to Smoochy: This is a MUST HAVE. Eddie Norton's, Danny DeVito's and Robin Williams' least known of all their movies, and its directed by Danny. It went straight to video in 2002. To the actual movie... Death to Smoochy follows what is portrayed as a tough, ruthless and highly competitve industry of Children's Television. Smoochy is an all singing, all dancing purple rhyno who represents everything that is right with the world, played by Edward Norton (Picture below). When Robin William's Television persona Rainbow Randolph is fired for taking bribes, he is publicly shamed and humiliated. Smoochy is discovered by talent executive Nora Wells, in a homeless shelter, where Smoochy is singing songs for re-habilitating crack addicts. SMOOCHY (SHELDON) (singing to the tune of 'She'll be Comin' round the Mountain') 'We'll get that monkey off your back, Yes we will, yes we will We'll get that monkey off your back, Yes we will...' 'We'll get that monkey off your back And get your life right back on track If you'll just give up the smack Yes you will, yes you will!!' Smoochy is seen as dead-weight by Nora; "The guy can't get arrested, Frank. He can't even break into the birthday party circuit. Last I heard he was working hospitals and nursing homes. He's a joke." But the boss of the network see's Smochy as someone who is straight and narrow, someone who cant possibly get arrested like all the other Childrens Television presenters have. Rainbow Randolph meanwhile is obsessed with re-claiming his throne as America's sweetheart on Children's TV, which drives him to the brink of insanity, contemplating schemes to frame or even kill Smoochy. The plot is a lot more complexed than what it sounds here, with many deceptions, money hungry TV executives, gang violence, and it's all about the kids. This is a brilliant movie. I really really really want at least one of you to rent this movie, its incredible and I want someone to know what its all about. Ive been to a movie database which also has movie boards, when the average movie has about 3,000 members to its board, Death to Smoochy has 40. Its incredibly unknown and under-rated. Go out there and get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifi Posted May 23, 2004 Share Posted May 23, 2004 :lol: :lol: I loved death to smoochy!! :lol: ed norton was classic!! I thought it was gonna be really crappy :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reilly Posted May 23, 2004 Author Share Posted May 23, 2004 Yaaay! Its such a great movie! I found the full script on the net... "RANDOLPH (Phone) You better grow eyes on the back of your fucking head, you horned piece of shit! I won't sleep until the worms are crawlin' up your foam rubber ass! I'm going on safari, motherfucker... safari! (Elephant noise) Hangs up. SMOOCHY What a day! Gee..." :lol: The Elephant Noise was pure genius! And... "Someone throws an egg and it hits Randolph in the face. RANDOLPH I've been shot! Im bleeding! Who touched my ass? Who did that?! Getting pushed into the car. RANDOLPH: WHO TOUCHED MY ASS?!" HAHAHAHA Thats the best scene ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifi Posted May 23, 2004 Share Posted May 23, 2004 :lol: :lol: no way "Someone throws an egg and it hits Randolph in the face. RANDOLPH I've been shot! Im bleeding! Who touched my ass? Who did that?! :lol: :lol: that's classic!!! I'm gonna rent this again soon coz I saw it agesssssss ago! :lol: :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reilly Posted May 23, 2004 Author Share Posted May 23, 2004 Me and my bro rent it out like every fortnight, we really oughta buy it :rolleyes: I think hes getting it off Ebay for like £4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nanda Posted May 23, 2004 Share Posted May 23, 2004 aewsome!! city of gd does rock!! im from rio! lived my entire life there, well, until july 2002 when i came to the us but believe me, i never heard any shots, or anything like that i guess i was just lucky hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CityandColour Posted May 23, 2004 Share Posted May 23, 2004 Hmmm.. I'm not sure if The Patriot would be lessor known, or what.. It's not exactly popular.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Peedston Posted May 23, 2004 Share Posted May 23, 2004 I'd hardly consider anything with Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger to be lesser known. :P Reilly, I actually started a thread about City of God a couple months ago, because it is a FANTASTIC movie! One of my favorite films of all time that far too few people know about: Koyaanisqatsi It's an hour and a half long and has no dialogue, no plot, and is nothing but images and music (composed by the brilliant Philip Glass), but it's an hour and a half of the most stunning cinema I've ever seen, even if a lot of the hairstyles and clothing look a little dated 21 years later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reilly Posted May 23, 2004 Author Share Posted May 23, 2004 Peed, I have no idea of what that film/home cookery product is. Twix, nobody said anything about the Patriot, you're drunk again. Lee Lee, did you live near the slums? From the after documentary shown, the slums are still very very active with gang violence and gunshots on a day to day basis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el_scorcho Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 Breakfast at Bernie's :P It was really funny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manders Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 donnie darko. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet One Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 - The Sweet Hereafter - All About My Mother - Jesus' Son and i'm sure there are more that i just can't think of right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsBerry Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 City of God: Story of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, real life true story of how the capital and its slummed turned into a drug based gun filled wasteland. Its funny, its horrific, its an excellent story which has all the mediums between comedy, romance and horror. If you see the first 2 minutes of this movie it drags you in immensely, I know that at the time I was trying study for a test the next day, and I decided to take a 5 minute break, so I went into the living room to sit down and this movie was on. The 5 minutes turned to 10, then to 20, and then 2 hours later I was hooked and even went as far as to watch the scene commentaries and documentary on the area. Its a scarily realistic movie. (Subtitled) Oh !I hear a lot of good comments on this movie here in São Paulo, but I didn´t have the chance to see it. It´s so true what happens there. A tv station made a series over this movie. With the two boys Laranjinha and Acerola. Pretty good. It´s good to know some brazilian movies make success in other countries :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalter zug Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 - The Sweet Hereafter - All About My Mother - Jesus' Son and i'm sure there are more that i just can't think of right now. everything by almodovar :cool: looking forward to "the bad education" :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet One Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 looking forward to "the bad education" ooooo me too!! I've heard good things. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalter zug Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 42% dl so far!!! 58 missing :stunned: :blush: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet One Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 Awesome! You're gonna have to tell me how it is. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalter zug Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 oui! :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet One Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 merci beaucoup! :smug: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacob Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 I don't know if any of you have seen this movie but the movie SINGLES is awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mycdplayerisbroke Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 zoolander "...because i'm really, really good looking.." *Blue Magnum face* :wink3: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valleyboy Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 haha man, zoolander owns. just like all the other ben stiller movies. ok, my lesser know good movie of the week is: baseketball, with trey parker and matt stone (the south park creators) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bart Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 Threads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nanda Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 Peed, I have no idea of what that film/home cookery product is. Twix, nobody said anything about the Patriot, you're drunk again. Lee Lee, did you live near the slums? From the after documentary shown, the slums are still very very active with gang violence and gunshots on a day to day basis. fortunetly enough, i didnt but i went to school for 4 years in that region, actually, it was right across the street from rocinha, the biggest slum in south american, but since all the kids(the ones that werent selling drugs) went to my school, they kinda protected it, u know? it was actually a really good school! anyways. i never heard, or saw anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CityandColour Posted May 26, 2004 Share Posted May 26, 2004 Alright.. I think 'The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc,' would count as a LESSER KNOWN movie. I enjoy this movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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