Nobody's mentioned the immortal (but regrettably dead) Russ Meyer. Every film a masterpiece, but "Harry, Cherry and Raquel" is my favorite.

I never saw a Russ Meyer film, alas.

Reactions! Fantastic.

Merit is subjective, isn't it? Even so, my "selections" don't automatically indicate approval. You know that.

If we want to remain solidly within "Great Overlooked Films", your website is www.criterionco.com

Thanks for a fun thread.

That's a good site.

Proceed, gentleman and Dynamic Metros.

The Machinist. We saw this movie last night. Very underrated and overlooked. Like this guy ...nice guy in meat but shitty muzak.

We All Loved Each Other so Much. The mourning of the loss.

Awesome premise... After realizing that their offices and homes are all linked in the maze of underground malls downtown, three friends make a bet to see which of them can stay inside the longest. Two weeks pay on the line...

This movie has Don McKellar stapling motivational posters to his chest. 'nuff said.

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Awesome premise... After realizing that their offices and homes are all linked in the maze of underground malls downtown, three friends make a bet to see which of them can stay inside the longest. Two weeks pay on the line...

This movie has Don McKellar stapling motivational posters to his chest. 'nuff said.

I remember that. Canadian, right?

Great atmosphere, that film. I liked it because of things I couldn't identify. It was just cool.

Yup. Canadian. Looked it up. Had Gordon Currie in it, which reminds me of my entry for this thread:

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Originally posted by Kerr:

Awesome premise... After realizing that their offices and homes are all linked in the maze of underground malls downtown, three friends make a bet to see which of them can stay inside the longest. Two weeks pay on the line...

This movie has Don McKellar stapling motivational posters to his chest. 'nuff said.

I remember that. Canadian, right?

Great atmosphere, that film. I liked it because of things I couldn't identify. It was just cool.

For a Canadian film with Don Mckellar I like:

Another decent Canadian hyphenate,

That was an excellent movie.

And note how much current US MArines look like Colonial Marines.

Here's a page-killer of a post.



Addams Family

A.I.

Aladdin

The Astronaut's Wife

Black Rain

Black Sheep

A Brief History of Time

Broken Arrow

Camp Nowhere -- You'd forgotten this one.

Cast Away

Chaplin

Con Air

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes -- standing in for all Apes sequels save Burton's

Crimson Tide

Day of the Dead -- the REAL "Planet Terror". Outstanding.

Dead Again

Demolition Man -- Warm Liquid Good Phase Active

Dick Tracy -- aka, Splitcoil, take this graphic soon.

Duck Tales The Movie: The Treasure of the Lost Lamp -- Childhood really is completely gone.

Encino Man

Far and Away

Fire in the Sky

The First Great Train Robbery -- the almost-start of Michael Crichton's alternate "movie

director" life (combined with Westworld and others)

The Frisco Kid -- The title is a major flaw, at least to local San Franciscans. Nobody

calls San Francisco "Frisco". It stands out like I HEART NY shirts in NYC.

The Game

Glengarry Glen Ross -- nightmarishly accurate.

Great Expectations -- Gwenyth, real-life declared "Brazilian convert", here disrobed, end

of story.

Hot Shots!

Hot Shots! Part Deux

Imagine: John Lennon

The Indian in the Cupboard -- inside joke for those who remember the books.

Jewel of the Nile -- mostly terrible Romancing the Stone sequel. Great if you like moorish

medineh architecture.

King Kong (1976) -- Bridges, and, more importantly, LANGE! Also a horridly overt nod to

70's consumerism: the oil corp's called PETROX.

The Last Temptation of Christ

Leap of Faith (with Steve Martin) -- remember this one on TV? Martin plays a fraudulent

faith healer?

Legends of the Fall -- pretend its incandescence doesn't effect you.

The Majestic -- Darabont, all that matters.

Mars Attacks!

Maverick! -- perfect remake. Great western besides. Best modern western since Dances?

Misery

The Nightmare Before Christmas -- nope, look around, it's mostly goth girls. Which doesn't

count as a "broad" fan base.

Outland -- praised elsewhere.

The Outsiders

The People Vs. Larry Flynt

Pocahontas

The Purple Rose of Cairo -- later, Jeff Daniels would reprise the concept in Pleasantville.

Quills

RETURN TO OZ

Richard III -- you always hear about this one.

Running Man -- "He had to split!"

Screamers -- starring Robocop, penned by Alien/Total Recall scribe Dan O'Bannon. Worst

aspect: SFX. Not so special.

Shine -- you almost forgot this Geoffrey Rush classic.

Small Soldiers -- included here for Stan the Man, though he's touched several other of the

listed movies.

Somewhere in Time -- if you've seen a hotter woman, you're either lying or married.

Space Cowboys

The Spanish Prisoner

Species

Teen Wolf

Time After Time -- two time travel movies for her in the same decade. Some fans have

actually merged their plots.

Tombstone -- "Why, Johnny Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over your grave."

Tommy Boy

UHF

Wonder Boys

Wyatt Earp -- Lawrence Kasdan, shining bright.

BONUS!

Iron Man -- Brad Bird cuts his teeth.

Paradise Alley

Tremors

Wild at Heart

Dude, many of those films not only were not overlooked, they were nominated for, or won, Academy Awards.

I still do not like Castaway.

True, the Academy recognized some. They "feel" overlooked (or underappreciated) to me. For the most part.

Movies people hadn't thought of in a while. Maybe.

Can't count for everyone.

Academy recognition though...

Still, Castaway, that's a movie I watch when it's on and yet I dislike it.

It traps me.

Wilson-Guilt Syndrome. It's a common dilemma.

My across-the-street neighbors named their "cocka-poo" after him.

Zemeckis tries to be a genre-bender. Since Forrest Gump his movies have grown proportionately more CGI-heavy, consummated at last by total CG eclipse in Polar Express and Beowulf.

Tryin' to think. This thread could handle several "subgenre" offspring. Since childhood I've been craving great George Miller-style postapocalyptiana on film.

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Wilson-Guilt Syndrome. It's a common dilemma.

My across-the-street neighbors named their "cocka-poo" after him.

Zemeckis tries to be a genre-bender. Since Forrest Gump his movies have grown proportionately more CGI-heavy, consummated at last by total CG eclipse in Polar Express and Beowulf.

Tryin' to think. This thread could handle several "subgenre" offspring. Since childhood I've been craving great George Miller-style postapocalyptiana on film.

Mad Max Thunder Road was in pre-production before America invaded Iraq which caused the locations in the Middle East to become too dangerous for filming. Heath Ledger was going to play Mel's son in that.

Enjoyed a relaxing double feature, both films greatly overlooked IMHO.

The Grifters (1990)


and perhaps Crispin Glover's finest work, Bartleby (2001)


"I would prefer not to."

Interest-rousing selections, PradaW. The Grifters . . The Grifters . . . what am I reminded of? Old Splitcoil sig?

UberKruger, sheer bloody magnificence. The thought of it! Was the Iraq invasion an actual, schedule-killing hindrance? Obviously he's been over the alternatives, so my suggestions below are moot, but --

he could go the "Three Kings" route and use Arizona, if "far away from Australia" is the intent. Can't really top Australia, though.

Mad Max Thunder Road. Damn.

I have a screenplay by Sterling Silliphant, from a proposed 1994 Forbidden Planet remake. That concept has extraordinary post-apocalyptic potential. A strange, "sacred age" apocalypse, exotic biomes. Silliphant never makes the hoped-for leap -- that the Krell, this time, were literally, not metaphorically, our prior technological zenith.