Fantastic films that slipped below the radar of publicity

After The Sunset

and

The Three Fugitives

These are two of my favourites 🙂

Gattaca – No one seems to have watched it, but it’s awesome!

I wasn’t overly impressed by Gattaca, wasn’t awful but wasn’t *that* good.

Have got “after the sunset” waiting in the wings. Will make an effort to watch it sooner rather than later

Down By Law – one of my all time favourites but I’ve never met anyone who’s heard of it let alone seen it

Gattaca- mmmm Uma Thurman

Avatar

Have not yet watched it get, but I’m expecting good things from The Thirteenth Floor.

Before anyone says “copying The Matrix”, it preceded it and the screenplay was written from the book Simulacron-3 (1964)

Moon

“I scream, you scream, we ALL scream for ice cream.”

+ 1 for Down By Law 😀

*admires phatstanley from afar… in a strictly manly way*

iDave, Down by law is excellent, as are most Jim Jarmusch films, have you seen Night on Earth?

Moon

I think given who Mr Jones’ Dad is, Moon would, and got, a decent amount of publicity.

Agree with Gattaca – superb film.

I thought ‘Narc’ was excellent with Jason Patric and Ray Liota. I think the director was responsible for The Shield.

gattaca weren’t bad, not spectacular tho.

Quite liked Nightwatch[/url] (no not the one you think) not got round to seeing daywatch yet

I think given who Mr Jones’ Dad is, Moon would, and got, a decent amount of publicity.

I only heard about it thanks to a forum, and it wasn’t on in that many cinemas as I recall. Don’t remember seeing any trailers or it being mentioned on the telly at all.. So I dunno.

I think given who Mr Jones’ Dad is, Moon would, and got, a decent amount of publicity.

I think that’s pretty harsh given how much he’s downplayed it. He didn’t have to go by ‘Jones’ for a start.

Moon got a moderate amount of publicity, but I’d like to think that this was largely because it was a damn good film.

Veering back on topic,

Plunkett and MacLeane, anyone?

Funny Games. Brilliant film but nobody I know has seen it.
The original German version is also very good

I think that’s pretty harsh given how much he’s downplayed it. He didn’t have to go by ‘Jones’ for a start.

Well seeing as I never said anything about him using his dad to forward his career, I don’t really know how to respond to that.

Breaking The Waves.

derek_starship – Member
Funny Games. Brilliant film but nobody I know has seen it.
The original German version is also very good

I’ve seen it and it’s a bit on the dark side Derek.

The Edukators.

Donnie Darko is one of my favorites, the seen when the camera moves in through the school and introduces you to all the character’s of the movie without a word spoken to the backdrop of Head over heals by Tears for Fears is simply brilliant.

the cube.loved it when i saw it (but neither heard nor seen it before or since) 😀

and this brad douriff is excellent in this.fantastic film 😀

Rec and Rec2
nice bit of Spanish zombie

Boiler Room and The Boondock Saints

Well seeing as I never said anything about him using his dad to forward his career, I don’t really know how to respond to that.

Well, you said “given who Mr Jones’ Dad is, Moon would, and got, a decent amount of publicity.” Am I missing something here, is promoting your film different from forwarding your career? Assuming your career is “film maker” anyway, I doubt that promoting your film would do much for your career if you were a plumber.

The Station Agent

the cube.loved it when i saw it (but neither heard nor seen it before or since)

The Cube is ace, but do yourself a favour and avoid the numerous sequels and prequel, they’re dreadful.

If you’re interested, the recent Splice was written by the same guy who wrote The Cube. Entertaining little Species-a-like.

Hot Rod. Laughed myself stupid (except at the bit with Scrooge and the goose).

+1 for The Boondock Saints. 9/10 easy.

three burials of melquiades estrada

So I Married an Axe Murderer
Paycheck
Mallrats
Singles

Dark City (pre-Matrix altered reality story co-written by the co-writer of Inception).

Dogma.

The Big Blue (or Subway, or Nikita, or Leon – basically any of Luc Besson’s earlier films).

Jarhead.

The City of Lost Children.

slainte 😀 rob

Breaking Away

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078902/

Some of these suggestions are kind of cult films. Does that count as below the radar?

Volver

Are we allowed old films?

was made to watch Harold and Maude a while back, should be compulsory.

Restless Natives. Epic film, epic soundtrack.