Best movie that I have not seen?
 

Star Wars was good, Indiana Jones was good, Pulp Fiction was good but we have all seen those. What is a good movie that we probably have not seen?

I would say one of my favorites that wasn't really popular was Let It Ride (can't find any good trailers on youtube):




Edit:
Because I am working night shift tomorrow and have nothing better to do all night I compiled a list of the movies that have been suggested so far (12/20/10 @ 11PM EST):

13th Floor.
13th Warrior
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
A Serious Man
Adaptation
Alien
Any Jackie Chan flick!
Anything by Guy Ritchie that ISN'T starring Madonna.
As good as it gets
Assault on Precinct 13 (I prefer the 1976 original but the '05 remake is good too)
August rush
Avatar
Babe
Best in Show
Black Dynamite
Blade Runner (the long-ass, non-director's cut)
Blade Runner.
Blue Velvet.
Boondock Saints
Bottle Rocket
Bound
Braindead
Brazil
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Butch Cassady and the sundance kid
Cell 211
Cinema Paradiso
City of God
Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
Crash
Cube
Das Boot
Days of Thunder (yeah, I admit it.)
Dead Snow
Do the right thing
Dogma, Clerks 1 & 2, etc etc (Kevin Smith)
Donnie DarkoThe Professional
Drunken Master
El Mariachi
eraserhead
Escape 2000 (aka Turkey Shoot)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Excalibur
Fight Club
Four Rooms
Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel
Fresh
Funky Forest
gattaca
Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Godfather 1 and 2
Gone Baby Gone
Grandmas boy
Green Street Hooligans
Groundhog Day
Gummo
Hair
Happiness
Heat
Hidalgo
Hotel for Dogs
Human Traffic
Idiocracy
In Bruges
Inception
Instinct
Irreversible
Italian job
Kelly's Heroes
Kick Ass
Kids
Layer Cake
Let It Ride
Life of Brian
Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels
Memento
Midnight Cowboy
Momo
Monty Python's Quest for the holy grail
O Brother, Where Art Thau?
Oldboy
Once upon a time in america
open range
Operation: Endgame
Pans labarynth
Primer
punch drunk love
Purple Rain
Raging bull
Red Planet
Requiem For a Dream
Rescue Dawn
Return of the Killer Tomatoes
Run Lola Run
Rushmore
Salton Sea
Scratch
Secretary
Seven
Seven Samurai
Seven years in Tibet.
Shawshank Redemption
Shoot'em up
Silverado
Sivaji
Skin Deep.
Slumdog millionaire
Snatch
Sneakers
Some kind of monster
South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
Special (2006)
Stalker (1979).
Step Into Liquid
Stir Crazy
Sunshine
Super Troopers
Swimming With Sharks
Tampopo
Taxi Driver
the beach
The Departed
The Dreamers
The Evil Dead 2
The Fall
the fast and the bi-curious
The Graduate
The Hudsucker Proxy
The Jerk
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The Longest Day
The Longest Yard
The Lost Boys
The Magnificent Seven
The Manchurian Candidate
The Right Stuff
The Roadwarrior & Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (skip the original Mad Max.)
The Royal Tenenbaums
the Salton Sea
The Secret In Their Eyes
The Shawshank Redemption
The Simpsons Movie
The Sure Thing
The Three Amigos
The Usual Suspects
They Live
Things to do in Denver
This is spinal tap
Thursday
Tombstone
Training Day
Tron
Turtles Can Fly
Vanishing point
Vengeance Trilogy
Wag the dog
what dreams may come
Wings of Desire
Young Frankenstein

would smash

Brazil

Must be a fan of the movie "Bound" then.



Yeah, the uncut Youtube one is awesome.

EDIT: Link fail. :cry: Might have to figure out how to do this sometime.

Here's the link address.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EceT6...has_verified=1


That said, this is NOT on the "Best you have never seen" list, but was entertaining.

fixed:)

And yes:D

The movie "Fresh".
This is one of my fav's that not many people have seen before. Little kid is a drug dealer who realizes he doesn't want to grow up like that. Samuel Jackson is his bum dad who he plays chess with but seems to have little connection with. Jackson is teaching him how life is a game of chess. The rest goes from there, but it's very cool how the director/writer use the game of chess as a story board for the movie.

Definitely not a typical gangster in the projects movie at all. Very good drama.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109842/

Inception

Godfather 1 and 2

Wow....you guys are really digging deep....

the fast and the bi-curious

Requiem For a Dream
City of God
The Secret In Their Eyes

Yeah, I don't think anyone has ever seen those...

It was suggested by someone here a couple of months ago and I DL'd it. Me likey! (wasn't too bad of a movie either)

"Cult classic" but well known on the interwebz: Boondock Saints (I gave out at least one copy on VHS).

L4YER CAKE

The Shawshank Redemption?

If you haven't seen any of Kevin Smith's movies, you should.

Dogma, Clerks 1 & 2, etc etc.

In no particular order:

The Hudsucker Proxy

The Royal Tenenbaums

Rushmore

Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel

Blade Runner (the long-ass, non-director's cut)

Primer

Zardoz (Just kidding. This is the worst movie ever made, but you get to see Sean Connery in a bikini and a giant stone head vomiting guns.)

Idiocracy

The Roadwarrior & Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (skip the original Mad Max.)

Days of Thunder (yeah, I admit it.)

The Simpsons Movie

South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut

I dl'd "primer" per a convo we had in another thread, and didn't like it much.

13th Floor.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Skin Deep.
The Sure Thing.

Kelly's Heroes. Old Clint movie with lots of stars.

Oh, I almost forgot: Das Boot.

Definitely.

Dead Snow
Braindead (Cult classic from Peter Jackson)

Yes!
And Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels if you haven't seen that

Cinema Paradiso. It's in Italian, but worth your effort to read the subtitles.

Best in Show. Yeah, I heard that there were people who haven't seen it yet.

Momo is german but awesome movie
What dreams may come serius robin williams ftw
Pans labarynth pretty damn engrossing

Harmony Korine creates some fucked up shit ("Kids" anyone?). If you're in a for a dose of good 'ol Americana, I'd highly recommend Gummo:



Between the kids hunting cats to sell to the Chinese restaurant, the guy pimping out his retarded sister and ghastly dialogue, Korine sends a clear message: middle America is a horrifying place. The children scare the absolute shit out of me.

Original Italian job? Or even the new one if you've been living under a rock.

Please make this movie a priority. You won't regret it.
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Turtles Can Fly

Adaptation

The Graduate

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Any Jackie Chan flick!

I debated whether to include this along w/ Rushmore ancd Tenenbaums. I honestly found Life Aquatic to be a tad lackluster. I'd probably rank Darjeeling Limited above it, though of course any Wes Anderson film is probably worth watching.

Joe's recs are great. A few I haven't even heard of and I've watched a few lifetimes worth of movies already. Hudsucker Proxy is a great one as well as the Royal Tenenbaums.

Anything on the IMDB 250 list is probably worth watching. Take your pick.

Sneakers
The Lost Boys
El Mariachi
Purple Rain

Hudsucker and Tenenbaums are definately a couple of my favorite films, though that breed of humor must be an acquired taste (like Materva) as some folks just don't seem to care for them at all.

And Sneakers... good one. Redford's second great hacker movie.

Just remembered another good one you should see: Human Traffic.
It's a goofy British flick from the 90s, but it's definitely worth watching.

Anything by Guy Ritchie that ISN'T starring Madonna.

Brotherhood of the Wolf and the Salton Sea.

Some of my little known favs:
Crash (sex and miatas) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115964/

Four Rooms (anything by/with QT) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113101/

Things to do in Denver when you're dead. (classic Christopher Walken) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114660/

Really? Val Kilmer doesn't annoying you?

A Serious Man
The Graduate
Sivaji
Oldboy
The Dreamers ( pretty much Eva Green naked the whole time :bigtu:)
Rescue Dawn
Shoot'em up
Stalker (1979) - Some people might find this movie boring but I find it pretty brilliant. Anything by Andrei Tarkovsky is pretty much a winner.
Funky Forest
Blade Runner
They Live

I'm surprised no one has mentioned:

Eraserhead and Blue Velvet.

Fight Club (though that's no longer as obscure as it used to be).

Seven (another one that's become popular, but easily missed).

But if you want really obscure but interesting movies:

Tampopo (the first "noodle western")
Wings of Desire (great role for Peter Falk)

I just watched Cell 211 the other night. Spanish, with subtitles, and a damn fine movie.

And then, there's Instinct, with Anthony Hopkins.

Seven years in Tibet.

Babe - yes, the one with the pig - the first one.

Wag the dog

As good as it gets

Do the right thing, along with pretty much all Spike Lee movies.

Avatar, for a tip off the hat to Cameron, for getting 400 million dollars from the man, and laughing at the face of the all the war mongers.

Slumdog millionaire

Vanishing point

Taxi Driver

Brazil still tops the list, tho.

Slumdog Millionaire- very good one.

Avatar? Honestly, I wanted to shoot James Cameron's dog after forcing myself to sit through that predictable, formulaic piece of shit. Very pretty to look at, to be sure. I was trying to figure out where the matte lines were on the CG faces, before I finally learned that there weren't any, because it was all CG. And I respect that. I've never seen human-like faces done in CG so convincingly that I honestly thought it was a composite.

But it was still utterly unwatchable.

He does, but I find his performance in the Salton Sea and Red Planet to be admirable.

Damn, I almost forgot Hair...

Directed by Milos Forman.

Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

Irreversible

Thursday

Silverado

X2 for shawshank redemption. My most favorite movie.

2001: A Space Odyssey

Donnie Darko. Some think its overrated, but its still a good movie. Watch the directors cut if you're only going to watch it once. It makes more sense on the first viewing than the theatrical version.

The Professional is one of my guilty pleasure movies.

I hate Val Kilmer except in Tombstone (one of my fave movies of all time).

Heat...
Pacino, DeNiro, Tom Sizemore, Val Kilmer, And Ashley Judd.

Run Lola Run

Idiocracy

Donnie Darko

Super Troopers (I'm glad they never tried a follow-up to this as it was superb and I don't want that ruined)

Groundhog Day

Operation: Endgame

O Brother, Where Art Thau?

Cube (the first one only)

The Departed

Snatch

+1 Hudsucker Proxy, Cinema Paradiso, Shawshank Redemption (hardly an obscure movie)

It occurs to me that many of the guys here that are younger than me might not have seen some of the better films ever made because they haven't had ready access to them. Many of these are from before my time as well but are excellent and very worth watching.

Comedies that should be required: Stir Crazy (w/Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder; "That's right, we bad"), The Jerk (w/Steve Martin; it is where I found my "special purpose")

The Longest Yard (1974, Burt Reynolds)

The Longest Day (1962, All star cast incl. John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Sean Connery; awesome movie but also should be required viewing for great historical content)

Three interestingly linked movies that would be good to see in order to fully appreciate the parallels:
Seven Samurai (1954, Japanese w/subtitles; often referred to as the greatest Japanese film ever made),
The Magnificent Seven (1960, western based on Seven Samurai; starring Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, Yul Brenner, Eli Wallach)
The Three Amigos (1986, spoof based on The Magnificent Seven; Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Martin Short)

Young Frankenstein (1974, Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle (from Everybody Loves Raymond), Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr (one of young Elvis' girlfriends).

There are others, but this is a great start.

Assault on Precinct 13 (I prefer the 1976 original but the '05 remake is good too)

Escape 2000 (aka Turkey Shoot)

Bottle Rocket

The Right Stuff

Idiocracy

Kick Ass

The Manchurian Candidate (the original, not the super-shitty remake)

How about A Clockwork Orange? Sex and violence, late 60's style. Tame by today's standards, but shocking(and X-rated) at the time. Great film, brilliant satire.

Also, Midnight Cowboy - same vintage, great acting.

I was reading through the list and was thinking someone has to mention Idiocracy.

Nice to see a few of us were on the same wavelength this morning.

Watched Tron last night gearing up to go see the new one. Can't believe that movie is almost 30 years old, though the acting was sure on par for that time frame. :P

New one got bad reviews but I went and saw it last night and loved it.

Vengeance Trilogy:

Sympathy for Mr Vengeance (favorite movie)
Oldboy
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance

My vote is for Boondock Saints, which has already been said once. In my college years it was my recommendation for "best movie no one has seen".

Saw it yesterday in full-on IMAX 3D and enjoyed the hell out of it.

If you've seen, 'Life is Beautiful', then you may love the actor R. Benini in 'Johnny Stecchino' (Italian - great to read the subtitles since you'd miss the dialog).

Also, +1 for 'Layer Cake'. Very good if you like 'Snatch' and 'Lock, Stock, and 2 Smokin' Barrels'.

I think my sort of obscure ones would be:

1) 'Swimming With Sharks' (ultimate dick boss movie with Kevin Spacey)
2) 'Scratch' (documentary on scratching, DJing, etc. FRIGGIN' AMAZING even if you don't really like hiphop)
3) 'Step Into Liquid' (another documentary, but showing different facets of surfing. SOOOO good - even if you've never surfed)
4) 'Happiness' (okay, this is a twisted one...but some funny ass stuff. Especially Jon Lovitz cameo in the opening. Has Philip Seymore Hoffman and a bunch of others)
5) 'Drunken Master' (original w/ Jackie Chan. Great funny kung fu)

These are all pretty mainstream and should be easy to find.

Grandmas boy
Once upon a time in america
Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
Hidalgo
The Fall
The Evil Dead 2
Black Dynamite
Sunshine
Green Street Hooligans
Hotel for Dogs
In Bruges
August rush
Gone Baby Gone
Momento
Life of Brian
Raging bull
Training day
Butch Cassady and the sundance kid
Special (2006)



Movies that need to be seen in quick sequence together otherwise you lose a lot of teh funny:
This is spinal tap
Some kind of monster

Monty Python's search for the holy grail
Excalibur




Movie you should never ever watch:
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale

or really anything Ewe Boll has anything to do with