TOP 3 UNDERRATED MOVIES (& why you think they're underrated)

[soulkids]

To anyone who enjoyed 12 Monkeys I'd recommend checking out the short La Jetée which 12 Monkeys was based on. I personally love them both and La Jetée is probably my favourite short ever

this man knows!

[tyger]

yup, "la jetee" is even better than "12 monkeys".

glad to see a few ppl saying "jackie brown" is tarantino's best ... coz i haven't seen it yet, so sumat to look fwd to!

"reservoir dogs" has the characters & themes of "city on fire" (e.g. how being an undercover cop involves befriending ppl & then betraying your friends), and even a few camera shots which are clear echos of COF; combined with the structure of "the killing" (i.e. a robbery told in flashbacks, from different participants' points of view, & ending with them fighting over the loot).

imo mad max 2 is the best. 1 is good - a different kind of film. 3 is weak.

ok, here are 3 very unloved great films:

heaven's gate .... cimono's revisionist western ... nobody's seen it ... and ppl don't like long (c. 4 hrs) films.

mudhoney ... because nobody takes russ meyer seriously ... he's a great filmmaker (who also happens to like women with very large breasts) ... i rate this his best film, marginally ahead of "faster, pussycat! kill! kill!" (though the latter obviously has a catchier title).

sweet sweetback's baadasssss song ... melvin van peebles' reworking of "a bout de souffle" for black americans ... MVP wrote, directed, acted, scored, etc ... (BTW, perry henzell's "the harder they come" - a reworking of ABDS for jamaica - with jimmy cliff - is equally good - i didn't pick it because more ppl like it.)

[noam]

jus watched La Jetee, really really good

obvious that 12 monkeys is copied from it

also the scenes from requiem for a dream with a woman in a red dress stood at the end of a pier aswell maybe?? from that see references with the editing in Requiem, the 'hip hop montage's that Aronofsky did in Pi and Requiem, seem to be a hint to this aswell perhaps??

also the idea of it being 'dream-like' and the way the mind struggles to hold on to certain images when under great stress comes up in both those films, particularly in Requiem though, anyone agree?

[soulkids]

lots of film cite La Jetée, it's been quite an important movie, also for film sciences (is that the correct term?) regarding memory and mnemotechnics

[wormcode]

jus watched La Jetee, really really good

obvious that 12 monkeys is copied from it

also the scenes from requiem for a dream with a woman in a red dress stood at the end of a pier aswell maybe?? from that see references with the editing in Requiem, the 'hip hop montage's that Aronofsky did in Pi and Requiem, seem to be a hint to this aswell perhaps??

also the idea of it being 'dream-like' and the way the mind struggles to hold on to certain images when under great stress comes up in both those films, particularly in Requiem though, anyone agree?

Aronofsky said he never saw it and it was a coincidence. Apparently the pier scene was from a dream he had or something like that. Could have been subconscious, or coincidence. Or just lies.

[johnkimble]

how in the fuck any tarantino/coen/more famous director movie is in this thread????