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This IS NOT a TOP 5 list -- pick five movies you love that are not obvious choices or big blockbusters or classics, movies that don't even qualify as a cult film. Movies you're either embarassed to love or that you feel just doesn't get the recognition it deserves.

My 5:
-- "Quiz Show": subtle performances, layered script, a message about the country and about the characters as people. There's almost always two or three things going on in each scene beyond the surface.

-- "Red Rock West": Nick Cage before he was action man. A real noir thriller about a guy caught up in something over his head, a femme fatale and JT Walsh at his finest (he was maybe my fav character actor ever).

-- "Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael": Damn, I loved it when Winona Ryder played freaky outsiders. I wish I had the guts to talk to girls like that in high school.

-- "Midnight Run": My favorite buddy flick after "48 Hours". DeNiro being really funny without being cartoonish ("Analyze That"). The chemistry and lines between DeNiro and Grodin are fun to watch over and over. They're like the odd couple if Oscar was a bounty hunter and Felix was an escaped felon. And then there's Dennis Farina threating to "stab you in the heart with a fuckin' pencil", "bury this fuckin' phone in your skull" or just "...eat a sandwich, do some fuckin' thing!"

... I'll have to think more about my fifth...

Donnie Darko
Heathers
Cruel Intentions
Batman
Halloween

What's that Johnny Depp movie about the PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE guy? I *love* that movie! ED EOOD! That's it! Great stuff!

THE EVIL DEAD

TRUTH OR DARE

All John Waters movies

Time Bandits

Heathers

Edward Scissorhands

Shallow Grave

Any film with a scene in which Brendan Fraser appears at least shirtless.

SHALLOW GRAVE has been a fave of mine forever! What a great movie! You're the only other person I've ever seen mention it in one of these threads!

Army of Darkness (if someone said Evil Dead then this movie applies too)

Mr. Destiny (kinda hokey, but I like it for some reason)

All six of the Horatio Hornblower Movies that aired on A&E a few years back are excellent. I highly recommend them, and I'm really not into that sort of thing either.

Ground Hog Day

Carlito's Way

Yes, Shallow Grave was a delightfully twisted affair. And I have no resistance to things delightfully twisted.

Oh?

Shallow Grave, Donnie Darko and Ed Wood are great picks.

I'll go with:

Blue velvet
The Last Emperor
Far From Heaven
Inside Monkey Zetterland
Waiting For Guffman

Well, after much thought, here's mine.

Waiting for Guffman - anyone who's EVER done any sort of regional or local theater will get a HUGE HOOT out of this one, and it's my fave of all the Christopher Guest-and-co. mockumentaries.

This movie may be too big for this thread, but I really did love The Hours.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch! WHAT a movie!!!

From WAY back in my past, I'm going to say Dead Poets Society, though now I don't think it holds up as well as it did back then.

And keeping the Robin Williams going, my #5 will be The Fisher King. Could Mercedes Ruehl be any more FLAWLESS in that movie?!? I think not.

In not particular order and off the top of my head:

The Great Escape. I just watched this one on Saturday. What an astounding "manly-man" cast.

Rear Window. My all-time favorite Hitchcock movie. Grace Kelly just glows in this one.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles. I've seen this movie countless times back in my drinking and hanging out with friends days.

Star Wars (not Episode IV, but Star Wars, the one where HAN SHOT FIRST! NOT GREEDO!!! DAMN YOU LUCASS!!!!)

ehem

randomly thinking...

The Commitments. All drinking, all fighting, all soul all the time. With Irish people no less.

Ask me tomorrow and you'd get 5 other movies probably.

EXACTLY!! All the special doo-dads and the extra Jabba scene meant absolutely nothing because having Greedo shoot first totally makes me hate all the changes! Aside from the fact that it looked really stupid and fake, it completely ruined that scene. I loved that scene when I was a kid, because Han was a badass -- now all I see is Lucas turning into a doddering old pussy-boy!

Oh yeah, I forgot -- my fifth film (I got side-tracked by the Star Wars rant). Here's one I love and never hear get mentioned *anywhere*:

"Rock & Rule" -- animated post apocalyptic tale of a boy and his girl (mutated dog-like people actually) who are in a band, but the girl gets seduced by some crazy mutant Steven Tyler lookin' piker who wants to use her voice to open the doorway to hell. It has great music from Lou Reed, Cheap Trick, Debbie Harry and Iggy Pop.

Never heard of Rock & Rule but it sounds good....

My top 5 (embarrassing) films, at this moment:

My Fair Lady
101 Dalmations
Black Cat, White Cat (not embarassing really)
Major League I
K Pax

Certainly no reason to be embarrased by "My Fair Lady" -- it's a classic! I love Audrey Hepburn.

I love Time Bandits almost as much as The Adventures of Baron Munchausen...!

Also, you get to see Robin Williams all nekkid an' stuff. Not sure if that's a plus or not, tho. Dude sure is hairy...!

Lilo & Stitch was charming and I loved the hand-painted, watercolor backgrounds.

Another sentimental favorite of mine, and one of the only black and white movies I like (other than Casablanca), is The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. Unlike the cheesy TV show, the movie is actually a good balance of drama, melodrama, and gentle humor.

My Neighbor Tortoro - The best animated film ever made.

This Is Spinal Tap - obvious maybe, but maybe the all-time great rock satire.

Ghost World

Mystery Train

Being John Malkovich

My Fair Lady (definitely a classic and I still love the music)
Ocean's 11 (Clooney's version)
Desparado
The Breakfast Club
The Lost Boys

NOT my favorite part of the movie, by a long shot.

Seeing Robin Williams naked is like seeing a chimpanzee naked. How can you tell?

Have you seen the trailer for "Once Upon a Time in Mexico"? (there's a website) They've definitely ratcheted up the action and Johnny Depp seems to be playing a full-on action badass role. I'm sure he'll make it more interesting than that somehow.

I've already downloaded the trailer. My two current favorite actors are Depp and Bandares (sp?). The only other movie I'm anticipating more is Return of the King.

Hmm, top 5 non-classic/blockbuster type movies:

The Court Jester
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - I love Dannny Kaye

The Count of Monte Cristo - the new version. Very different from the book, but I felt the changes were logical for adapting a 1000+ page book to a feature length film. They really captured the feel of it, though.

Brotherhood of the Wolf - excellent horror movie that really understood the difference betwen "horror" and "thriller".

Rock and Rule! - I can't believe I'd forgotten about that one. I used watch it endlessly on beta. Thanks, Drake.