Just got off work and I don't wanna fall asleep, nor do I really wanna do anything, so here I am! I figure I can waste your time by once again talking about movies.
Here are three films that I feel are Underrated or just aren't well known, even though they are far better than most of the stuff out there:
1. Zodiac- The fact that so few people have seen this, and that it wasn't nominated for anything the year it came out is a damn shame. This was the first sign of a much more mature David Fincher. Also his last crime type film before he blasted off to make The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and that upcoming facebook movie. How can I describe the film? It's like if Se7en is fast rough sex, then Zodiac is an entire evening of slow building ecstasy.
2. Hoop Dreams- I said a while ago that I would keep telling people to watch this film until somebody actually told me they watched it because of me... well I got lazy.
Anyway I'm telling you now. This is a documentary that follows two boys trying to get into the NBA. If follows them from their freshman year at high school, to their freshman year in college. I was not even a little bit interested when I heard the synopsis, but damn is this a good flick. Yeah, technically it's a documentary, but it's not just a boring talking heads doc. It tells one of the most amazing stories I've ever heard, and proves that real life is far more interesting than ficiton. There's a fantastic DVD release out by Criterion so check it out
3. Scarface (1932)- I'm going all the way back to 1932 for this film. Howard Hawks gangster masterpiece starring Paul Muni. It's a damn shame that nowadays everybody only thinks of the Brian De Palma flick when they hear Scarface. Everyone's always surprised to hear there was a version before that one. I mean, didn't anybody wonder why at the end of the Pacino flick it said dedicated to Howard Hawks? I like the 80's one, I really do, but I find that the original is so much tighter in it's storytelling. The stories are pretty much exactly the same, with the exception of one being a prohibition era gangster based on Al Capone, and the other is a Drug lord in the 80's. Something about this original just feels so much more weighty than the remake. I don't know, maybe I'm insane.
Here's a fun pick just for the sake of wasting more of your time, as well as mine.
Black Snake Moan- What happened to Jules from Pulp Fiction after he quit the business? Well, he became a bean farmer and has a chained up Christina Ricci as a house pet! Of course this is before he becomes that organ player in Kill Bill Vol. 2 and gets murdered by fraking Bill and the rest of the DIVAS. DAMN YOU BILL!!!!!!!!!
... but yeah, it's an okay flick. Not great or anything, but definitely not bad.
Here are three films that I feel are Underrated or just aren't well known, even though they are far better than most of the stuff out there:
1. Zodiac- The fact that so few people have seen this, and that it wasn't nominated for anything the year it came out is a damn shame. This was the first sign of a much more mature David Fincher. Also his last crime type film before he blasted off to make The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and that upcoming facebook movie. How can I describe the film? It's like if Se7en is fast rough sex, then Zodiac is an entire evening of slow building ecstasy.
2. Hoop Dreams- I said a while ago that I would keep telling people to watch this film until somebody actually told me they watched it because of me... well I got lazy.
Anyway I'm telling you now. This is a documentary that follows two boys trying to get into the NBA. If follows them from their freshman year at high school, to their freshman year in college. I was not even a little bit interested when I heard the synopsis, but damn is this a good flick. Yeah, technically it's a documentary, but it's not just a boring talking heads doc. It tells one of the most amazing stories I've ever heard, and proves that real life is far more interesting than ficiton. There's a fantastic DVD release out by Criterion so check it out3. Scarface (1932)- I'm going all the way back to 1932 for this film. Howard Hawks gangster masterpiece starring Paul Muni. It's a damn shame that nowadays everybody only thinks of the Brian De Palma flick when they hear Scarface. Everyone's always surprised to hear there was a version before that one. I mean, didn't anybody wonder why at the end of the Pacino flick it said dedicated to Howard Hawks? I like the 80's one, I really do, but I find that the original is so much tighter in it's storytelling. The stories are pretty much exactly the same, with the exception of one being a prohibition era gangster based on Al Capone, and the other is a Drug lord in the 80's. Something about this original just feels so much more weighty than the remake. I don't know, maybe I'm insane.
Here's a fun pick just for the sake of wasting more of your time, as well as mine.
Black Snake Moan- What happened to Jules from Pulp Fiction after he quit the business? Well, he became a bean farmer and has a chained up Christina Ricci as a house pet! Of course this is before he becomes that organ player in Kill Bill Vol. 2 and gets murdered by fraking Bill and the rest of the DIVAS. DAMN YOU BILL!!!!!!!!!
... but yeah, it's an okay flick. Not great or anything, but definitely not bad.
VIEW 10 of 10 COMMENTS
b1gfatho:
I feel compelled to defend Zodiac, but I won't. It really is a love it or hate it film. I rarely see a film so completely split people down the middle. 
iryan:
For those who don't like it, make sure you watched "Zodiac" (from 2007) and not "The Zodiac" (from 2005). That could be why, if not then maybe you just didn't like it 