5 Good Films I Have Seen.

[PlecMama]

This is my list of good film that for some reason are not "main stream".
Add yours and I'll try to get to see them one day, or give them a chance if they're on TV sometime.


1) Guarding Tess - feel good movie about secret service agent and grouchy elderly ex-first lady and who gets into trouble.
2) Joe's Apartment - funny and kinda gross movie about a man moving into a flat full of cockroaches, some fantastic songs.
3) The Butterfly Effect - dark and unsettling time travel/change the past movie. Very cleverly done.
4) Shining Through - bad acting extravaganza, try to see through it, the film is great. Oh, plot - nazis and secret agents stuff.
5) Angels in America, parts one and two. - ok so two films, and it's not an unknown or cult piece, it won two Tony's and the Pulitzer prize, but oddly, I have never met anyone who's seen it (or read it) and it was amazing. It's about dieing, basically.

 

[PlecMama]

wow, I know no none cares, but Angels in America is on right now, on one of the odd cable channels, More4 I think....I often do that, where I think I'd really like to see a film and then it comes on the TV either the next night or a day or so later. My husband commented on how weird it was a while ago when he noticed too

 

[pieman]

l watched this foreign film on bbc its been on twice and is basically an experiment with guards and prisoners, the guards go mad whilst the scientists are away and abuse the prisoners, they revolt nearly die and they are saved just in time. Great film just can't remember the name =[

Edit : Woot found it

Das Experiment - http/www.imdb.com/title/tt0250258/

I didn't class it as mainstream over here but it probably was in Germany

 

[PlecMama]

I almost didn't do The Butterfly Effect, I got a lot more cowardly as I got older, when I was a kid I could watch anything, but as I got into my late 20's and then 30's, I found that scary movies mess with your head a bit to much and I opted out of watching them - so the bit where his mom comes round the door and he's holding the knife sent me rushing for the stop button and I left it a week before coming back and having another go. I'm so glad I did.

Stanford Prison Experiment is legendary, I'll make a note to see Das Experiment if I get a chance.

 

[PlecMama]

I missed "Grand Canyon" off my list.

I saw Grand canyon when I was about 15 and knew I was missing something and promised myself I would watch it again when I was older.

I'm 36 now and I watched it again with Dan last year. Fantastic!

jeeze my typing sucks tonight, if you'd seen how many words I had to go back and correct when I proof read that in my defense, I just painted my nails and I am having to type weirdly.

 

[andywg]

I really enjoyed La Heine (French for Hate) when I watched it as part of my A Level studies.

Fantastic film following 24 hours in the life of 3 kids on a French Estate (Les Banlieues).

I think it has subtitles for those not fluent in ghetto French. A fantastic film.

 

[Joviella]

A friend of my brothers had the film "Joes Apartment" and when my son was 2....it was all he ever wanted to watch. I must have seen that film hundreds of times.....the video sits on my shelf to this day. lol

 

[red-devil0602]

1. Almost Famous
2. Gladiator (boxing film with cuba godding jr)
3. scrooged (bill murrey) i watch it every year while wrapping my pressies
4. me, you & marley ( channel4 film about joy riders in belfast)
5. the secret of roan inish ( because my cousin has the leading role)

 

[steelhealr]

1) The Family Man
2) Big
3) Das Boot
4) Shall We Dance (Japanese version with subtitles)
5) The Shawshank Redemption

SH

 

[Flumpus]

I think Almost Famous and Shawshank are pretty mainstream...

 

[PlecMama]

But Shawshank is like Forrest Gump, you should always make time to slot it in

 

[Gill]

- Grave of the Fireflies - Anime - If you ever wanna watch a tearjerker this will do it (never watched a more Moving Anime).
- Princess Mononke.
- Rabbit Proof Fence.
- Last Emporer.
- Empire of the Sun.

 

[RandomWiktor]

I love Joe's Apartment. Like, bought it love it. Great flick.

 

[Mr Miagi]

I can only thiknk of two stand out non main stream films that really impressed me.

- Once Were Warriors
- What Becomes of the Broken Hearted (The sequel to Once Were Warriors)

Two awsome films directed by Lee Tamahori. They are about Maouri life in New Zealand. Pretty gruesome and down to life (you need to be older to watch and appreciate this), showing some modern Maori life in Auckland, involving gangs, drugs and violence.

 

[ash]

dunno if u class these as mainstream but heres my top six in no particular order:

the usual suspects
pulp fiction
the shawshank redemption
fight club
reservoir dogs
fear and loathing in las vegas

and a few that havent quite made it:

green mile
snatch
the rest of tarantino's work
stand by me
monsters inc, shrek 1&2, toystory 1&2 and nemo
pirates of the carribean

i'm sure i've missed many of my faves but there ya go anyway