Overlooked Movies

Oh yeah, What about JACKIE BROWN?
If you mention Jackie Brown (kind of enjoyed it. Pam Grier in 1997)

Then you must mention Get Carter
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Also. Cobra (85, Stallone)

And Over The Top (80s.. Sly again)
 
Brazil...
A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state.

I think it's one the most foretelling event films ever made and here it is 2022 and we now live in Brazil!!!
 
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Everyone is familiar with the classic Dr. Strangelove but another movie made at the same time was Fail Safe which covers the same nuclear war subject in a non-comedic approach.

I really liked The Life of David Gale with Kevin Spacey but few are familiar with it. Also Rumblefish from the early 80's.
 
Japanese Horror (no gore or crazy special effect, just story and directing):
Noroi (warning, you may be scared for days)

Korean Crime / Social Injustice Horror (about minor abuse and legal system injustice):
Silenced (warning, you may never be the same after this movie, but it is an important "based on true story" movie that is as significant as The Shindler's List)

An aging maid and her "young master":
A Simple Life (2011), how the relationship of a maid and her "young master" is more like mother and son as she gets old, ages, and dying.
 
Sticking with the overlooked theme.

These were never overlooked, but they have been largely forgotten - at least by the two or three people I know :)

Barry Lyndon; stunning Kubrick film and cinematography masterclass starring Ryan O'Neal.

honorable mention: River's Edge; Liquid Sky
 
I never saw Barry Lyndon, but I read the MAD magazine spoof on it when I was young, and decided it would be too boring for me (which was how they spun their satire). I take it you don't agree? :)

Sticking with the overlooked theme.

These were never overlooked, but they have been largely forgotten - at least by the two or three people I know :)

Barry Lyndon; stunning Kubrick film and cinematography masterclass starring Ryan O'Neal.

honorable mention: River's Edge; Liquid Sky
 
The movie I always tell people to check out in these sorts of conversations is Prisoners with Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal, directed by Denis Villeneuve who also did Sicario, Arrival, Blade Runner 2049, and the new Dune, among others. Pretty simple plot but the acting is great and it is seriously intense.



jeff
 
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