EW the 50 best MOVIES youve NEVER seen...made after 1991

huh

5 best imo

iron giant
together
lilya
primer
rules of attraction

worst

rescue dawn
wristcutters
safe men
smiley face
layer cake

How are we supposed to vote for them if we've never seen them. Answer me THAT, Entertainment Weekly.

primer is great. 24 hr. party ppl is p. good. rescue dawn is good.

Iron Giant.

Marwencol is pretty great too, though, ad probably much better fits this lists stated purpose.

*and

I... don't like most of these films but Perfect Blue is pretty OTM

Kinda hate Primer, actually. A dull, needlessly convoluted and dramatically inert rendering of potentially interesting material.

the magdalene sisters the best of these that i've seen

i'm so allergic to entertainment weekly i might as well be a jonathan rosenbaum-level dick. or dr. morbius. peter travers *rolls eyes down the street, onto the freeway, six hours later my eyes are in las vegas at the mandalay bay buffet*

I'd watch any of these again:

24 hour party people
cold comfort farm
eve's bayou
ghost dog
the iron giant
marwencal
the ref
the rules of attraction

of the ones i've seen they're 50/50 great/shitty.

murderball was 50/50 great/shitty in the same movie.

i liked rules of attraction in college but when i tried to watch it again recently it was reaaaall rough

faves are probably 24 hour party people, DIG!, The Ref and maybe wendy and lucy

to their credit, the half of the movies I haven't seen I do feel like I should

even if i know i'll hate half

Lilya 4-Ever is one of my favourite films. Pick of the rest, Perfect Blue and
Together.

I did really enjoy Rare Exports, out of the ones that haven't been repped for so far.

I am always confused by The Iron Giant, because it's from 1999, but I remember a film *just like it* from when I was a little kid.

i also like 'fish tank' quite a bit

One of these three:

enter the void (2009)
ghost dog: the way of the samurai (1999)
the iron giant (1999)

Of the ones I don't like, I think Rescue Dawn is right up there with the worst.

murderball was 50/50 great/shitty in the same movie.

Feel that way about Idiocracy.

Idiocracy is horrible

Idiocracy was funny til it wussed out in the end.

Idiocracy was racist til it racist

also, i remember in like 1994 I asked my friend if i should see the Ref and he was all, "The whole is just "FUCK YOU! NO FUCK YOU" and so i haven;t watched it to this day

some cool movies on this list. going enter the voooooiddd

i have seen some of these movies

Idiocracy was racist even when it wasn't racist. But Fuddruckers --> Buttfuckers is XD

Century of the Self was pretty great, surprised to see it on the list actually

why this is a list of good movies

just the whole anti-consumerism/anti-marketing theme not really being your usual entertainment weekly material

Marwencol, Memories of Murder, Rescue Daw, Wendy and Lucy all great, most of the rest is hopelessly random. Went for Marwencol.

ah shit, didn't see Wendy and Lucy on there. gave a vote to Ghost Dog instead. dogs, man.

Glad someone voted Marwencol.

Idiocracy is horrible

― da croupier, Friday, June 29, 2012 7:34 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Tho i did lol at least a little at the buttfuckers thing.

I've seen and liked

24 hr party people
backbeat
bubba ho-tep
cold comfort farm
the daytrippers
DIG!
next stop wonderland
murderball
the ref
rules of attraction
walking and talking

Voting 24 hr pp.

Like some others, the paradoxical nature of this poll jumped out at me...Wendy and Lisa, followed by The Daytrippers. I saw The Rules of Attraction a few weeks ago. Loved the "Colours" sequence, liked it on the whole, found parts a little flashy. Roger Avary spoke before and after. God, does he ramble.

Wendy and Lucy--and I was concentrating on not making that very mistake.

That would be a very different movie.

Decided to go with Cold Comfort Farm because I saw something nasty in the wood shed.

disowning all ilxors who don't vote Ghost Dog

The Iron Giant

I like a bunch of these, but will vote George Washington out of nostalgia for a time when David Gordon Green was going to be an important and interesting dude.

And special shout-out to Box of Moonlight for being filmed in/around Knoxville.

http://gothamist.com/images/together.jpg

this one, i think

http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/images/issue/420/together_420.jpg

http://www.skandinavskydum.cz/files/obrazky/tillsamm3.jpg

memories of murder.

then probably 24 hr pp, ghost dog, iron giant, and perfect blue.

torn between 'the daytrippers' and 'together'

looooove Walking and Talking, which does what the title says.

iron giant won my vote, though i strongly considered ghost dog, 24 hour party people and marwencol.

Hate a few of those, but these are all good:

Iron Giant
Devil's Playground
Fly Away Home
Together
Orphanage
Eve's Bayou
Layer Cake
Rescue Dawn
24 Hour Party People
Rare Exports
Memories of Murder
Moon

Idiocracy is sort of brilliant despite being messed with by the studio disaster.

Anyway, what a stupid random EW list.

Wait is Rules of Attraction that awful Brett Easton Ellis thing? That was awful.

Backbeat haha.

Some good movies on this list (lots and lots of Sam Rockwell hah). Memories of Murder probably the best of the bunch, but there is a bunch of stuff I wouldn't have any issue with watching again.

i don't keep up w/ box-office receipts and shit, but i always kind of thought that layer cake and moon did OK when they were in the cinemas or as rentals. they didn't pull down harry potter-type money or get twilight levels of hype, but neither are they one of those movies that no-one but hard-core film nerds have ever heard of.

It's weird to me that Lilya-4-Ever made the list, but 'Show Me Love' didn't, and I think that is 10 times over the best film.

choose just one of these 50 movies an entertainment weekly intern likes

Is bubba ho-tep actually any good? It's always seemed lol Bruce Campbl as Elvis to me.

That's pretty much what it is, but that's not really a bad thing.

Rules of attraction is great.

Bubba ho-tep is fun, yeah.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mKWAIKrEy0w/TY2kwzbVJSI/AAAAAAAAADo/i9nT3dx6lCI/s1600/ghost-dog1.jpg

i never saw lilya 4-ever cuz i heard there was a scene in it that would make me cry

interesting they went for that over fucking åmal/show me love or together tho

i think i voted memories of murder, maybe ghost dog, idocracy is terrible but it has some good lines

go away im baitin!

tho i guess that would be batin

gatorade its what plants crave

for anyone who wants to see a sweet scifi romantic comedy starring dinafrio and tomei happy accidents is a recommend

george washington is good, primer too

I liked Lilya 4-Ever but the end kind of ruined it for me, to be honest. Don't want to discuss it too much, because spoilers.

i never saw lilya 4-ever cuz i heard there was a scene in it that would make me cry

The whole thing will make you cry. A number of people had to be physically helped from the cinema when i saw it. It's horrific but enormously powerful. It's also completely different to Fucking Amal.

I saw Ghost Dog in France. I found a screening with English subtitles, and it turns out I pick the one movie that happened to have a funny scene half in French, which of course was not subtitled.

i saw it in france too!

memories of murder is good but it kind of paled to the host and i saw that one first so my expectations were crazy high

chuck and buck has not aged well imo

but like is Iron Giant even in this discussion? If you're the type of person who would be interested in an article like this Iron Giant is practically Star Wars

I remember Chuck & Buck being interesting but so visually ugly I couldn't enjoy it.

I don't think Iron Giant belongs on this list either, but that has nothing to do with its quality.

two family house!! i loved that movie when it came out. it really spoke to me. michael rispoli's such an underrated actor. i actually had a dream with him in it a few weeks ago - i told him he was really underrated and he thanked me and invited me to eat a spaghetti dinner with his family, which i accepted

Lilja 4-ever was amazing to me when it came out too but i find it really corny now.

idgi how can you guys rank all of these movie that you've never even seen?

how are we sure these movies even exist?

I am always confused by The Iron Giant, because it's from 1999, but I remember a film *just like it* from when I was a little kid.

― emil.y, Saturday, 30 June 2012 00:10 (18 hours ago) Bookmark

I'm sure there was an animated short of Ted Hughes' original story that i saw when i was young but i can't seem to find any info on it. It's either that or E.T.

idgi how can you guys rank all of these movie that you've never even seen?

that's never a problem for Morbz, so what's good for the goose ...

You could probably go on forever suggesting omissions/additions, so I'll limit myself to one: The Heart of the Game, which according to IMDB had taken in $444,687 a few months after release. So some people did see it--maybe 45,000?

primer ahead of moon ahead of 24 party people

top 5:

ghost dog: the way of the samurai (1999)
memories of murder (2005)
primer (2004)
the ref (1994)
together (2000)

finally! this is why i love ilx! more or less consensus on the top 5 or so, of which i know of and agree on 3 of, the other 2 i've never even heard of and am downl<<<<<purchasing as i type this. also, i get to be contrarian and say that idiocracy is *easily* in my top 5, along with ghost dog, 24 hour party people, moon, and... fuck it. i'll just stop at 4. bubba ho tep was a perfectly fine evening's entertainment, but not really worthy of entering a list.

idiocracy was not meant to be taken seriously, obviously. and i'm sorry but anyone who thinks it's racist is clearly a) overthinking shit and b) too slow/kneejerk to realize that president camacho is clearly the smartest person in the movie if you pay any attention whatsoever

and where is eagle vs. shark? too new zealand for ew i guess, peter jackson should be gnashing his teeth somewhere. heck, where is meet the feebles for that matter?

Feebles was '89

yeah, thought that after i posted, i saw it in the 90's though.

like *anyone* in america was up on peter jackson in 89

wtf is the Uma Thurman romcom Prime doing on this list

Iron Giant is by far the best of the ones i've seen but The Ref is dope, love pre-Oscar Kevin Spacey

Are there any directors besides Moodysson with multiple appearances on this?

Oh shit, didn't even notice Prime on there. WTF, indeed.

Lloyd: You know what I'm going to get you next Christmas, Mom? A big wooden cross, so that every time you feel unappreciated for your sacrifices, you can climb on up and nail yourself to it.

In hindsight, that's a pretty easy joke but I still love the delivery of it. One big problem i had with American Beauty is that I thought Kevin Spacey had already done that downtrodden cuckold meltdown thing so much better in The Ref (and Judy Davis >> Annette Bening).

The Ref > American Beauty, yes.

GHOST DOG. easily. which reminds me, still need to get that Japanese version of the soundtrack

Have seen...
24 hour party people (2002): Verrrry good.
backbeat (1994): Meh at the time and can't imagine it's aged well.
bubba ho-tep (2002): I liked it, in spite of English Major Syndrome striking while watching.
cold comfort farm (1995): Liked it a lot, but it was only marginally hipper than the average "Masterpiece Theatre" production.
the daytrippers (1996): I saw it, and that's about all I remember.
fish tank (2010): A solid production; hope the director does more.
ive loved you so long (2008): The film that asks the question "What's French for soap opera/women's picture?"
last night (2010): A pretty piece of plutography, and that's the ONLY thing I can say in its favor.
layer cake (2005): On the one hand, a preview of Craig's Bond. OTOH, getting killed over Sienna Miller? Weak.
moon (2009): Uhhhh....
next stop wonderland (1998): Uhhhh....

GHOST DOG. easily. which reminds me, still need to get that Japanese version of the soundtrack

― Crackle Box, Monday, July 2, 2012 11:22 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^ THIS

Also, the film soundtrack uses a Jimmy Lyons/Jeanne Lee/Andrew Cyrille track brilliantly. By a wide margin, the most surprising choice I've ever heard on a movie soundtrack.

Enjoyed all of these:

24 hour party people (2002)
backbeat (1994)
the century of self (2005)
chuck & buck (2000)
DIG! (2004)
fish tank (2010)
ghost dog: the way of the samurai (1999)
idiocracy (2006)
the iron giant (1999)
moon (2009)
together (2000)
walking and talking (1996)
wristcutters: a love story (2006)

24 Hour vs DIG! vs Fish Tank vs Together

Have seen:

chuck & buck (2000)
Haven't seen it since it was new. Posted above that I remember it being interesting but so visually ugly as to be distracting. Somehow, I wholly believe whoever it was who posted above that it hasn't aged well.

devil's playground (2002)
This is the Amish kids documentary, right. If so, eh.

fish tank (2010)
Liked this, but wouldn't consider it one of the most essential obscure films made in the last 20 years.

happy accidents (2000)
Another one I haven't seen since it was new, but I remember liking it a lot. Sorta like Donnie Darko with adults.

idiocracy (2006)
Discussed above. Gets in some good satirical digs in its first 2/3 but then succumbs to convention. Ends up defending what it purports to hate.

the iron giant (1999)
My fave movie on the list that I've seen. Still not sure how obscure it is, though.

marwencol (2010)
Would've been my #2 choice. Fascinating, sympathetic and odd. The ending feels strangely triumphant.

moon (2009)
Liked, not loved, but still. The problem with doing a riff on 2001 is that its not, in the end, 2001. Spacey as HAL is genius casting, though.

next stop wonderland (1998)
Saw it when it was first out and remember it being...cute.

prime (2005)
I said it before and I'll say it again...WTF?

primer (2004)
Talked about it above. Way overrated. Thinks its too good to be entertaining; my least favourite kind of genre film.

the ref (1994)
Haven't seen it in years, but funny. Remembering that this was pitched as Denis Leary's big screen vehicle, its kind of amazing the cast they snagged for this film.

rescue dawn (2007)
A storm knocked out the power halfway through the screening of this that I attended and we all had to get our money refunded. Movie was gone less than a week later and I didn't even get to see Christian Bale eat bugs (remember Herzog talking about this on NPR; he reasoned Bale into it by telling him bugs were full of protean and, you know, you Hollywood guys are all into that healthy stuff. Do I even need to tell you how much I love this man?). Was liking but not loving it up to that point, but haven't yet gone back to watch the rest. Have seen Little Dieter Needs To Fly, though, so any suspense is already kind of ruined, if that is the point.

the rules of attraction (2002)
Surprisingly good for a movie primarily hyped, at the time, as Dawson does drugs and has promiscuous bi-sex. Nasty and funny and has a great soundtrack.

together (2000)
Saw it when new, liked it, but it apparently made too little of an impression at the time for me to remember much about it now. Would watch again if I ever came across it.

walking and talking (1996)
I like Holofcener, but--if you leave Friends With Money out of her filmography--I think she kept getting better as she went on. This is good, but Lovely & Amazing and Please Give are stronger.

fish tank (2010) -> Should I see this? I am very tempted cause I quite like Fassbender. (I have a bit of a crush on him. lol)

My feelings on the film itself were mixed but he is really good in it

kind of amazed so few people have seen Bamboozled

Wendy and Lucy (2008), Fly Away Home (1996), and Memories of Murder (2005) are all great. DIG! (2004) is very good.

The Daytrippers (1996) and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) are indie-entertainment bedrock, though I barely remember a moment. Same with 24 Hour Party People (2002).

I'm fond of what little I remember from Idiocracy (2006). The Ref (1994) I avoided for so long, but it turned out to be okay.

Moon (2009) and Primer (2004) are eminently rentable low-budget sci-fi, a small but honorable category.

Backbeat (1994) is worth a look for Beatles fans. Layer Cake (2005) is a passable but routine Daniel Craig gangster picture.

I either hated or couldn't make it through Happy Accidents (2000), Broken English (2007), Walking and Talking (1996), Next Stop Wonderland (1998), and Last Night (2010).

Of the couple dozen I haven't seen, I'd bet on the docs and avoid the relationship comedies, but I have nothing against good romcom on principle--is Prime bad or what?

I liked Lilya 4-Ever but the end kind of ruined it for me, to be honest

Me too. This is one of those movies that I liked but I never ever want to watch again.

24 hour party people (2002)
- entertaining, not great

backbeat (1994)
- okay i guess, not sure why this made the cut

bamboozled (2000)
- kind of a trainwreck, kind of brilliant.

bubba ho-tep (2002)

the century of self (2005)
chuck & buck (2000)
cold comfort farm (1995)
the daytrippers (1996)
devil's playground (2002)
DIG! (2004)
enter the void (2009)
eve's bayou (1997)
fish tank (2010)
fly away home (1996)
george washington (2000)
ghost dog: the way of the samurai (1999)
hachi: a dog's tale (2010)
happy accidents (2000)
idiocracy (2006)
the iron giant (1999)
ive loved you so long (2008)
last night (2010)
layer cake (2005)
lilya-4-ever (2003)
love & basketball (2000)
murderball (2005)
the magdalene sisters (2003)
marwencol (2010)
memories of murder (2005)
moon (2009)
my summer of love (2004)
next stop wonderland (1998)
the orphanage (2007)
perfect blue (1997)
prime (2005)
primer (2004)
rare exports (2010)
the ref (1994)
rescue dawn (2007)
the rules of attraction (2002)
safe men (1998)
smiley face (2007)
surfwise (2007)
together (2000)
two family house (2000)
walking and talking (1996)
wendy and lucy (2008)
wristcutters: a love story (2006)

:(

dang, hit submit by mistake

'century of the self' is awesome -- prob my favorite documentary ever.

'backbeat' is OK, but i prefer 'the hours and times.'

my wife and I quote "Eve's Bayou" all the time

bubba ho-tep (2002)
- enjoyed it a hell of a lot the first time through, bored the second, don't think i'll see it again

cold comfort farm (1995)
- funny enough

DIG! (2004)
- interesting documentary, seems like a niche thing

enter the void (2009)
- for fuck's sake

george washington (2000)
- i remember when "directed by david gordon green" was a promising credit

ghost dog: the way of the samurai (1999)
- last jarmusch movie i really cared for

idiocracy (2006)
- it's got laughs, but it's still racist crap

the iron giant (1999)
- like it, but not like so many others seem to

memories of murder (2005)
- better than zodiac

moon (2009)
- slight but good

the orphanage (2007)
- quite dull

perfect blue (1997)
- good anime-thriller, found the "who am i?" stuff a little trite

primer (2004)
- good, though dry and confusing as hell (refuse to read anyone else's analysis of the looping)

rescue dawn (2007)
- a disappointment after little dieter

wristcutters: a love story (2006)
- got bored and shut it off

Bubba Ho-Tep was a sad little object lesson in 'you can't create camp on purpose' imo

i always get wristcutters mixed up with *goes to vince vaugn's imdb page* thumbsucker

also The Chumscrubber

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Backbeat; a movie i've *never* seen?? yer joking!

Together ftw

together is the best movie ever, so that

No Strange Days, no credibility.

the iron giant was like 90% disney references. the deer!

not bad though - mean, i quite enjoyed it, but the incredibles was incredibler.

I'll never understand the love that people have for The Incredibles. It's a fine, fun movie but it doesn't even come close to The Iron Giant. Nothing Brad Bird's done since has

well, certainly not MI4 anyway. i dunno, they all have their merits, but i though iron giant was... a little too obvious? the humor wasn't as sophisticated? just a little slower, not as polished as, say, ratatouille?

iron giant is probably "deeper" than the pixar flicks, i'll give you that. also, a+ for bambi reference

anyway, also.... um, look, this is probably gonna just devolve into namecalling and snark, but... why is idiocracy racist? the black dude is president, he's smarter than every other character in a world full of straight up stupid characters (including the only middlingly dumb lead), he saves the day... i mean, ok, there's some pimpology going on and stuff, but given that basically the whole movie is making fun of a) white trash idjuts and b) the dorky white upper middle class dorks they outbreed off the face of the earth.... i just don't see it.

but, i'm open to hearing why i might be wrong, so: please explain the racism in idiocracy.

surnames like Pendejo, Camacho and Chavez pop up a lot in this future world that is supposedly the product of dumb people reproducing too much

also think "white trash idjuts" might be a racially loaded term but hey

Voted "DIG!" Saw this once because it happened to be free on Hulu -- it's a documentary about bands I don't know anything about or even really care about but it was riveting.

i think there is a big ilx thread on the racism or not of idiocracy

voted bamboozled

why is idiocracy racist? the black dude is president, he's smarter than every other character in a world full of straight up stupid characters (including the only middlingly dumb lead), he saves the day... i mean, ok, there's some pimpology going on and stuff, but given that basically the whole movie is making fun of a) white trash idjuts and b) the dorky white upper middle class dorks they outbreed off the face of the earth.... i just don't see it.

some dude otm. the only real social difference between this "stupid" future and our own present day is the heavy presence of hispanic names and faces at every level of society. i just don't understand why judge thought this was necessary or funny.

ok, i see this has been discussed to death by two camps on another thread. i'll call it a tie - i get what the racist camp saying, but i don't really see mike judge as some sort of kkk sympathizer or anything. comedy, sometimes it pushes buttons i guess. i still think it was funny as hell - all the awesome quotes on the other thread made me want to watch it again

i mean i can give him the benefit of the doubt that being from Texas he just thought of the ubiquity of hispanic names as the norm and factored in that it's a growing population in general, but not putting two and two together how that would come across in a movie about society getting dumber would be pretty naive/wreckless

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24 hour party people both sucks and blows

who was the other two family house voter??

lol i think it's ok but i maintain u have 2 be a britisher of the rt age or a hardcore anglophile 2 rly get off on it

i have a hard time believing ghost dog is good but maybe i shd watch it

I still have never seen 24 hour party people.

that's kind of shocking, nicole!

i mean i can give him the benefit of the doubt that being from Texas he just thought of the ubiquity of hispanic names as the norm and factored in that it's a growing population in general, but not putting two and two together how that would come across in a movie about society getting dumber would be pretty naive/wreckless

this and the lack of any acknowledgement of class (who designs these machines for idiots?), plus having a lead be a squirming luke wilson who just frowns at everything undercut the occasional good bit (like dr. justin long). that he followed this film with The Goode Family and a movie about the misery of owning a factory full of lazy workers hasn't made me want to be any kinder to it.

everyone deserves to see george washington

Extract is a terrible terrible movie. xp

xp george washington is as good as anything by malick and also as bad, but somehow more affecting, first because they're little kids and second because they're non-actors

i would say it is actually better than any of the others english-language movies above it except maybe bamboozled

and uh i haven't seen the foreign language ones

of the rest on the list

chuck & buck (2000) - recommended to anyone who wants to watch a movie in which the best and most memorable line is "chuck and buck ... suck and fuck"

ha i saw it in college and that is basically the only thing i remember

nice results. of the top 10, i like 7 of the 8 i've seen. voted for bamboozled.

i blathered plenty about my problems with bamboozled in the bamboozled thread, but i'll admit the good bits have stuck in my head more than the bad

felt vague motion sickness after enter the void iirc its p wack other than the rad title card/credits

i will go to bat for my summer of love, perfect blue, enter the void, backbeat

i'm w/ contenderizer about rescue dawn

ghost dog is not going to impress anyone who has not already been impressed with kill bill or adult swim

the orphanage starts out as good as ringu or juon or whatever but then degenerates into sub-pan's labyrinth schlock

enter the void perhaps best appreciated over consecutive nights in bed, on cough syrup

"lilya 4-ever" is great if you like stuff like haneke and "un prophet", which i quite do

i recall thinking "the ref" was fucking genius as a hs senior

i voted lilya. i shd really revisit moodysson stuff to cnfirm how much i recall liking that (&together) but im a huge stan of his

g. wash is good; i prefer all the real girls tbrr

rescue dawn's solid, its going for something way different from little dieter. it has a very german sense of humor.

i feel like there is another movie with an "emigrating to western europe" plot that was in some ways similar, but i'm forgetting ... i recall a memorable sequence where they were arguing in a trailer park by the freeway and everything was beige or this nasty drizzly grey daylight color, somewhere like belgium or the netherlands.

similar to lilja-4-ever

i was surprised there's no haneke on that list

this and the lack of any acknowledgement of class (who designs these machines for idiots?)

computers designed and manufactured in days of yore, i think? ones that break easily and no one can fix? not sure it's important to the enjoyment of the film, i think it's pretty clear from the get go one has to suspend a bit of disbelief here. "just repeat to yourself it's just a show, i should really just relax" etc etc

on the other hand, people on lix are starting to quote messages in their responses! this is excellent, i've been lobbying for this for years! it almost makes me want to agree with you!

People have been quoting things for a solid decade.

I'm not entirely clear on the thematic or stylistic link between Ghost Dog and Adult Swim.

i was surprised there's no haneke on that list

first time this has ever been said by anyone about an entertainment weekly list

the orphanage was v v scary to watch in a theater, stuck with me afterwards

One thing I will give 24 Hour Party People is that, as I recall, it's one of the few movies besides Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me that really captures what a loud club is like. The sound was amazing, but also the atmosphere, everything. I remember feeling unsatisfied with the ending, but maybe that's part of music history so suffer.

Since it's not the kind of thing you're likely to seek out, another shout for Fly Away Home: Jeff Daniels and Anna Paquin in genuinely fun/moving family/nature adventure directed by Carroll Ballard (The Black Stallion), Never Cry Wolf).

People have been quoting things for a solid decade.

yeah - on other boards! for some reason here they always say xpost here. xpost. geeze, which xpost goddamn it! there's always only like 927 answers per question/thread to chose from. i mean, yeah, i know, suppose i could theoretically decipher from context, reading all previous posts, but sometimes, what can i say tldr (<-useful webslang from other board[s?])

anyway screw it, ilx is ilx, i'm not complaining. i liklove the erase-what-you-were-typing-and-type-something-else thing they do here

I've seen 13 of these. Probably would have voted for Together.

ok, so i'm making my way through various thread recommendations, and if i could go back in time and change the past i'd totally give happy accidents a vote.

DIG! was an interesting movie but i'd have liked it better if i liked the bands at *all*. all that talk about crazy dude's staggering genius and i'm thinking "it's just a mediocre indie take on 60's kitch, why does anybody even care!?!?" i remember being completely underwhelmed with them in the 90's or whenever they came out as well but i suppose they must have had their fans. still, interesting enough flick.

so, what should i watch next? i've now seen (in order of most enjoyment):

idiocracy (2006) 2
moon (2009) 1
ghost dog: the way of the samurai (1999) 7
24 hour party people (2002) 10
happy accidents (2000) 0
the iron giant (1999) 8
bubba ho-tep (2002) 0
marwencol (2010) 3
DIG! (2004) 1
layer cake (2005) 0
+ i tried to watch cold comfort farm but couldn't even make it past the first 10 minutes.

i tried to watch "together" but the subtitles seemed screwed up, so not that one.

primer

ok, i understood maybe 80% of that? 70%? lets be generous and say 71%. i may watch it again today to see if it makes more sense. i understand it's meant to be convoluted and hard to parse the first time around...

anyway good recommend, i like time travel stories.

two family house!! i loved that movie when it came out. it really spoke to me. michael rispoli's such an underrated actor. i actually had a dream with him in it a few weeks ago - i told him he was really underrated and he thanked me and invited me to eat a spaghetti dinner with his family, which i accepted

― Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, June 30, 2012 12:15 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i watched this, def solid. the frank whaley narration is a bit bzarre imo tho. canks, rispoli is on 'magic city' on starz now tho not in it nearly enough yea love him

Rispoli is really great in the otherwise-useless The Rum Diary.