Sleeper Flicks
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"After Hours" (1985), w/ Griffin Dunne and Patricia Arquette, is one of my all-time favorite sleepers.
Also, Jim Jarmusch's "Down by Law" with Tom Waits and Roberto Benigni. (It was Benigni's first US role, btw.)
You'll have to dig deep in the video store to find both of these. You won't be disappointed.
One that might be better known is "Repo Man," with Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton. It pops up on TV occassionally, but it's unwatchable. Get the vid.
Also, Jim Jarmusch's "Down by Law" with Tom Waits and Roberto Benigni. (It was Benigni's first US role, btw.)
You'll have to dig deep in the video store to find both of these. You won't be disappointed.
One that might be better known is "Repo Man," with Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton. It pops up on TV occassionally, but it's unwatchable. Get the vid.
onejayhawk
Afflicted with reason
Didnt care for "After Hours", although there are parts that are hilarious. Its just that the parts did not add up to a whole. The title reminds me of "Night Shift" with Henry Winkler, Shelly Long and Michael Keaton, which is worth a look.
"Repo Man" is the classic of its type. I love the ending. It reminds me of "Eraserhead", without the ambient hostility. I'll have to see if "Down by Law" is around. If it comes up in this group, that's good enough for me.
As it is I dug around in my collection and came up with the Michael York "Three Musketeers" and "Four Musketeers." Easily the best. The recent one with Kiefer Pear Sutherland pales. Now I feel like getting "The Princess Bride" just for the fencing sequence. BTW, Viggo Mortensen is GOOD with that thing in LotR.
J
"Repo Man" is the classic of its type. I love the ending. It reminds me of "Eraserhead", without the ambient hostility. I'll have to see if "Down by Law" is around. If it comes up in this group, that's good enough for me.
As it is I dug around in my collection and came up with the Michael York "Three Musketeers" and "Four Musketeers." Easily the best. The recent one with Kiefer Pear Sutherland pales. Now I feel like getting "The Princess Bride" just for the fencing sequence. BTW, Viggo Mortensen is GOOD with that thing in LotR.
J
Simon Darkshade
Mysterious City of Gold
Yep, that is it. A terrific film, with its subject matter meaning it does not get mainstream exposure.
Plexus
Architeuthidae puericomedentis
Originally posted by Simon Darkshade
North!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and other great films.
I actually kinda liked North to tell the truth...
"You showed my crack!"-North
I thought the movie The Usual Suspects was fairly sleeperish...
Simon Darkshade
Mysterious City of Gold
Excellent! And I more than "kinda" liked it.
And an amusing line selection, one of many great ones in this masterpiece.
onejayhawk
Afflicted with reason
I cant find Shadow of the Vampire. To bad. I was in the mood for a good creature flic. Instead I rented Mars Attacks, which I had never seen. Not bad.
I also could not find Down by Law whcih did not surprise me given the state of our local video stores. It sounds like the photonegative of Sullivan's Travels, a great film, but one which is overly optimistic. Maybe I'll dig up my copy of Papillion.
J
PS I also got the DVD's of both versions of The Thomas Crown Affair. Shockingly I think the remake is better. Faye Dunaway, who starred in the first one, has a scene stealing part as a wise ass therapist in the remake. Here's a flash. Pierce Brosnian can act. After Bond, who would have thought it?
I also could not find Down by Law whcih did not surprise me given the state of our local video stores. It sounds like the photonegative of Sullivan's Travels, a great film, but one which is overly optimistic. Maybe I'll dig up my copy of Papillion.
J
PS I also got the DVD's of both versions of The Thomas Crown Affair. Shockingly I think the remake is better. Faye Dunaway, who starred in the first one, has a scene stealing part as a wise ass therapist in the remake. Here's a flash. Pierce Brosnian can act. After Bond, who would have thought it?
onejayhawk
Afflicted with reason
Yes I think Memento qualifies. There have been a bunch of impaired memory movies in the last few years. That was one of the good ones. There was a dumb one with Dana Carvey and the same plot elements. Talk about taking things to opposite extremes.
J
J
lord_byron_nz
Gimme some money
Not really a sleeper, but I'd sat This Is Spinal Tap is a must see.
And for the History buffs, what else but Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure
And for the History buffs, what else but Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure
onejayhawk
Afflicted with reason
Spinal Tap
B&T
lord_byron_nz
Gimme some money
Originally posted by onejayhawk
Spinal Tap
B&T
C'mon, it's harmless fun.
"It seems to me that the only thing you've learnt all year is that Ceaser was a salad dressing dude"
FearlessLeader2
Fundamentalist Loon
Mystery Men. The slope-browed, knuckle-dragging American public passed it over, which is all the indication you need to immediately begin a desperate search for a copy. This movie is the Airplane! of superhero movies, and MUST NOT BE MISSED.
It contains such classic lines as:
"See, now this is why your garden-variety scientist is preferable to the mad scientist types."
or
"You're slipping, Casanova Frankenstein (Yes, there is a character called Casanova Frankenstein in this movie!!). You left this remote control detonator device in the garbage can."
"That's not a remote control detonator."
"Really? What is it?"
"It's a camoflaged portable personal enticement snare."
(As a whiff of knockout gas puffs from the erstwhile detonator) "Oh darn!"
Also, you may want to re-view Airplane!, as it was also great.
"...looks like I picked a bad week to stop sniffing glue." (Lloyd Bridges, hanging upside down in the ATC room at the airport that the Airplane eventually crashes into.)
I'll add that every movie that Kevin Costner has been in is utterly excellent, even The Bodyguard.
It contains such classic lines as:
"See, now this is why your garden-variety scientist is preferable to the mad scientist types."
or
"You're slipping, Casanova Frankenstein (Yes, there is a character called Casanova Frankenstein in this movie!!). You left this remote control detonator device in the garbage can."
"That's not a remote control detonator."
"Really? What is it?"
"It's a camoflaged portable personal enticement snare."
(As a whiff of knockout gas puffs from the erstwhile detonator) "Oh darn!"
Also, you may want to re-view Airplane!, as it was also great.
"...looks like I picked a bad week to stop sniffing glue." (Lloyd Bridges, hanging upside down in the ATC room at the airport that the Airplane eventually crashes into.)
I'll add that every movie that Kevin Costner has been in is utterly excellent, even The Bodyguard.
