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LittlePig

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Re: OT - Underappreciated Movies
« Reply #84 on: February 03, 2024, 03:09:07 PM »

https://youtu.be/e5RsQ6qsaZU?si=jH1NqCJ7R0ppMDaK

I think one of more under-rated movies is The incredible Shrinking Man. Starts out like one of the cheesiest movies ever and almost plays as a comedy in the first 40 minutes,  but then shifts in tone and turns into an action survivor movie as the hero shrinks small enough to survive big falls, almost drowning, and then battling the common spider.  Then shits in tone again to end on a deeper more philosophical intellectual tone.   Mich better movie than I was anticipatng
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« Reply #85 on: February 04, 2024, 09:40:56 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on February 03, 2024, 01:52:56 PM
Looks like a cross between Cocktail and Roadhouse.  I'm gonna go ahead and call it Cockhouse.
The producers are probably mad they didn't think of this, lol.

I wonder how many monster trucks it'll have.  I also wonder if McGregor is gong to tell Dalton what he did to guys like him in prison.
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Re: OT - Underappreciated Movies
« Reply #86 on: February 05, 2024, 09:12:41 AM »
Quote from: ncbuck71 on February 03, 2024, 01:47:26 PM

I don't think Cabin Fever (horror) gets the appreciation it deserves.

Roadhouse, like Red Dawn, should have never been touched......

100% agree. Not at all a horror film fan, and this was one of only two horror movies I've ever liked.

Cabin Fever (2002) masters a morbidly unsettling comedy that most all other horror movies cannot sustain for a full movie. I didn’t find anything frightening about Cabin Fever, which is how horror movies aim to be remembered by. Instead, it’s Cabin Fever’s balancing of weird situational humor with its few terribly sad scenes where its victims fall helpless to their fates that makes this a memorable, underrated accomplishment for the horror genre.

And wouldn’t you know, a completely unnecessary, charmless, and very poorly received remake was released in 2016.

The other horror film I like might be just as underrated - The Cabin in the Woods (2011).
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Re: OT - Underappreciated Movies
« Reply #87 on: February 05, 2024, 09:31:29 AM »
Quote from: ncbuck71 on February 03, 2024, 01:47:26 PM


Roadhouse, like Red Dawn, should have never been touched......
Haven't been able to get myself to watch the remake of Roadhouse.  As you said probably should never been touched.
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« Reply #88 on: February 05, 2024, 10:17:58 AM »
Quote from: CatsbyAZ on February 05, 2024, 09:12:41 AM
100% agree. Not at all a horror film fan, and this was one of only two horror movies I've ever liked.

Cabin Fever (2002) masters a morbidly unsettling comedy that most all other horror movies cannot sustain for a full movie. I didn’t find anything frightening about Cabin Fever, which is how horror movies aim to be remembered by. Instead, it’s Cabin Fever’s balancing of weird situational humor with its few terribly sad scenes where its victims fall helpless to their fates that makes this a memorable, underrated accomplishment for the horror genre.

And wouldn’t you know, a completely unnecessary, charmless, and very poorly received remake was released in 2016.

The other horror film I like might be just as underrated - The Cabin in the Woods (2011).
I 100% agree about Cabin In The Woods. It flipped the horror genre on its head. I saw it in the theater and thought I was in the wrong place at first. That is one of my favorite recent horror movies. 

The Cabin Fever DVD had an extra with the "Pancake" kid's audition. It is pretty wild.
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« Reply #89 on: February 05, 2024, 12:00:18 PM »
Quote from: Riffraft on February 05, 2024, 09:31:29 AM
Haven't been able to get myself to watch the remake of Roadhouse.  As you said probably should never been touched.

It's not out yet, March 8th is the release date.  Be sure to mark your calendar! :)
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Re: OT - Underappreciated Movies
« Reply #90 on: February 05, 2024, 12:03:10 PM »
Oh I just thought of another bad movie that I love-- Megaforce.  Barry Bostwick on a flying motorcycle, it really doesn't get much better than that!


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« Reply #91 on: February 05, 2024, 04:19:28 PM »
Quote from: LittlePig on January 29, 2024, 07:12:05 PM
Ah,  that makes a lot more sense.  Thanks.  Sounds like an interesting alternate history with a surprising twist at the end.
Turtledove is the king of alternate history fiction.
Guns of the South was awesome.  There is a great conversation in the book between General Lee and the South Africans from the future.  They are showing Lee the AK's and how they are used, meanwhile one of the South Africans on the side opens up a MRE.  Lee puts his hand up to pause the South Africans to point to the guy eating the MRE and says "what the heck is that", to which the South African shows him what the MRE is.  Lee pretty much says, "Sure, the guns are nice, but you give me 1,000,000 of these and I can almost guarantee that we win this war."

Turtledove also has another series that is somewhat similar to The Final Countdown plot.  It is based on the idea that aliens arrive / attack at the beginning of world war 2.  The aliens have 1980's technology, including nukes.  Interesting series but a little hard to follow as he has plot lines running in 6 or 7 different countries.
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Re: OT - Underappreciated Movies
« Reply #92 on: February 05, 2024, 04:29:24 PM »
For my underappreciated:

The Badadook.  Fantastic horror movie.  Good reviews, but not seen by alot of people.

True Romance is up there.  Dennis Hopper's speech when he knows he is going to die is one of my favorite scenes ever.

Sunshine.  Really great Sci-fi flick.

Joe Versus the Volcano.  Considered one of Tom Hank's worst movies, but it has some great quotes and underappreciated symbolism.
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Re: OT - Underappreciated Movies
« Reply #93 on: February 05, 2024, 05:58:13 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on February 05, 2024, 12:00:18 PM
It's not out yet, March 8th is the release date.  Be sure to mark your calendar! :)
Keep seeing it show up on my Amazon Prime page so I assumed it was out 
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Re: OT - Underappreciated Movies
« Reply #94 on: February 05, 2024, 06:05:07 PM »
I like a sci-fi movie called "The last Starfight" Nothing special, just entertaining.  One of Robert Preston's last movies, playing one of his typical roles, the loveable rogue.
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Re: OT - Underappreciated Movies
« Reply #95 on: February 05, 2024, 06:55:38 PM »
Assume you meant The Last Starfighter?

"What do we do?"
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"We die."

BOOOOOOOOM!
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Re: OT - Underappreciated Movies
« Reply #96 on: February 05, 2024, 07:07:36 PM »
The Last Starfighter was great, loved that movie.  It was in heavy rotation on HBO and Cinemax in the mid 80s alongside Krull and Beastmaster, I probably saw each of those 20 or 30 times.

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« Reply #97 on: February 06, 2024, 02:11:58 AM »
Krull was crazy.  A little slow for a kid, but I'd watch parts of it off and on for years.

The cyclops was impressively done. 

It was obviously for the D'nD crowd, but I had no idea what that was.  I always wanted a toy of that 5-bladed weapon from that movie.
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