NationStates Jolt Archive

Some movies just get more attention than others. This doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re better though. In fact at times it can be just the opposite. They can build you up to great expectations only to let you down with an average of 90 minutes of pure filth. Well some of the not so well known movies can be just as bad, but at a cheaper price. I myself am a fan of certain low budget movies. Mainly their general cheesiness makes up for the lack in special effects. However there can also be some very good movies that are not so well known. Often they can be overlooked by the general masses. You can find a list of the 100 most overlooked films of the 90’s right here (http://ofcs.rottentomatoes.com/pages/pr/1990overlooked).
I myself rather enjoyed numbers 25, 44, 67, 68 and 82 on that list. Of course there are other good films on that list, many of which I haven’t seen but heard good things about. What not so well known films can you recommend, that may or may not appear on this list?

You do realise that Babe: Pig In The City is on that list, don't you?

Its...the trees!!!

And now for the synopsis of some really cheesy films. :D


CURSE OF THE CANNIBAL CONFEDERATES

Four score and many years ago...during America's civil war, a brave battalion of Southern Confederate soldiers was captured and tortured to death by the Northern Army! Before they died, they cried revenge! Now, the blood-soaked battlefields have become an accursed cemetary where vows of revenge reverberate!

The South shall rise again... and again!

A pastoral picnic at a historical site now becomes a flesh-feast for the living dead! You've heard of "Southern hospitality" & "Southern Fried Chicken"...but you have never seen anythiing like this colonel's secret recipe! THE CURSE OF THE CANNIBAL CONFEDERATES! A holocaust of revenge-hungry rebels! A finger-licking good fright film!



KILLER CONDOM

NEW YORK. A living, squirming, and worst of all, biting condom, grips the city in prophylactic panic. Especially hard hit is gay detective Luigi Mackeroni (Udo Samel, star of FAR AWAY SO CLOSE and KASPER HAUSER). As chomped corpses pile up, no one believes his carnivorous contraception theory. Then, when Mackeroni loses a testicle to the latex menace, his pursuit becomes personal. He blows the lid off a cult of supervillains bent on eliminating New York's sexual deviants. Their weapon: the KILLER CONDOM.

Based on Ralph Konig's celebrated comic book, KILLER CONDOM is an over-the-top internationally acclaimed German import from producer Ralph Dietrich's Ascot Elite Entertainment (EVITA, DEAD MAN WALKING, NEVER TALK TO STRANGERS). Audiences at the Berlin Film Festival cheered the movie's kinky, kinetic blend of crime drama, sci-fi, horrific special effects and outrageous humor. ALIEN and SPECIES designer H.R. Geiger, KILLER CONDOM'S creative consultant, renders an incredible universe for director Martin Walz' exposive action sequences. And the ferociously realized title character supplies the film with a frightening unforgettable bite.



RABID GRANNIES

Grannies are the greatest. They bake pies, tell stories and take you to the zoo. They don't ask for an arm and a leg in return. THEY WANT YOUR WHOLE BODY!

It's off to grandmother's house we go for Rabid Grannies, the blood-splattered tale of two little old ladies who open a surprise package from Hell. Out slithers a mysterious fog taht turns the grannies into ghouls who can't wait to sink their dentures into human flesh. Luckily for them, they have a houseful of juicy guests. Unluckily for their guests, these bone-crunching battle-axes just can't get filled up.

RABID GRANNIES - these biddies bite!



SURF NAZIS MUST DIE!

HANG TEN GESTAPO STYLE! Sometime in the near future…a major earthquake has devastated the entire California coastline. As the survivors attempt to put their lives back together, a new, more terrifying threat erupts - the rise of a wretched Reich which really rock the Richter scale!

The beautiful beaches are now ruled by ruthless gangs... and the gangs are ruled by the SURF NAZIS!

Welcome to California! Where the beaches have become battlefields and the waves are a war zone! The rival gangs - the "Samurai Surfers" and the tyranny of the tide -the SURF NAZIS… Adolf, Eva, Mengele, Hook, Smeg and the rest of the gang! Only one person is powerful enough... darling enough... brave enough to stop them! She's tough... she's dangerous... she's wide-hipped and strong-willed... she's Leroy's Mama! And as long as she's alive - the SURF NAZIS MUST DIE!

Feel the roar of the monster waves… experience the passion of perverted romance… know the evil of mankind's greatest, villains… and taste the violent vengeance! SURF NAZIS MUST DIE!

The courageous saga of a mother's undying devotion and quest for justice becomes a tidal wave of action and destruction!



REDNECK ZOMBIES

"A backwoods blood-bath that'll tickle your funny bone, then rip it out!" - Fangoria

Backwoods hicks mistake barrels of toxic waste for moonshine and become tobacco chewin', gut-stompin', cannibal kinfolk from hell! The goriest laugh-riot ever produced. REDNECK ZOMBIES is an unforgettable onslaught of dismemberment and human body parts. Now restored to its full glory in an exclusive director's cut!

#45, #100

My Neighbor Totoro kicks much bootie (to child friendly to use the other word)

You do realise that Babe: Pig In The City is on that list, don't you?
Well they were trying to fill up 100 slots. I myself think that the order is random. Or at least it better be

Will Mr Michael Ellis please go straight to the manager's office... I'll repeat that... Will Mr Nigel Mellish please go straight to the manager's office?

Definitely #37, "The Spanish Prisoner" (even though there's a bit of a goofy premise)

It was so hard to tell what's going on the first time through because everyone, it seemed, had a hidden agenda. It's just like real life, except real-er!

And I don't think #43, "October Sky" is really "over-looked" all that much. It's a great movie, and everyone I know thinks so, too.

What about "The Happiness of The Katakuris"? It's like The Sound of Music, with zombies!
As the tagline says, "cinema was never meant to be like this".

A few thoughts:
Crap ones:Dead Again - Absolute shite. Everyone over-acts appallingly and the plot 'twist' is so obvious I spent 80 minutes thinking 'it can't be that, it's too obvious' followed by 'Oh f**k! It is that!';
The People vs. Larry Flynt - it was really boring!;
The Secret of Roan Inish - trite Irish movie, cashing in on the love of all things Irish phase that the World seemed to go through at that time. A decent made-for-TV-movie, but definitely not worth spending any money on to watch;
Babe: Pig in the City - Shite. Anyway, of course it was overlooked by the critics - it was nothing more than a funny movie aimed at children! What are the critics meant to do? Start comparing it to 'Citizen Kane'?;
That Thing You Do! - proof an actor shouldn't write, direct, produce and star in a movie. Mindless pap;
Joe Versus the Volcano - Sucks. Big time. I think whoever compiled this list has a thing for Tom Hanks. These are two of his biggest Turkeys. The biggest being of course 'Bonfire of the Vanities';
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert - Oh, please. It was mildly entertaining, but overall mindless Aussie humour. It deserves to be overlooked;


Awesome ones:
Heavenly Creatures - considering it got a couple of Oscar nominations, I hardly say it was overlooked. Bloody good movie too;
The Hudsucker Proxy - Great movie;
Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai - Cool movie. Forest Whitaker proves once again that he is one of the best and most overlooked actors around;
Devil in a Blue Dress - very cool movie. Good series of books too, btw;
Bringing Out the Dead - f**king fantastic movie;
Hana-Bi (Fireworks) - Absolutely f**king fantastic movie (Beat Takashi at his best). BTW, the awesome paintings that Horibe does in the movie were painted by Takashi;
Sonatine - another great movie from the master Beat Takishi;
Jacob's Ladder - cool except spoiled by the ending;
L.A. Story - good movie, especially as Russell Crowe doesn't take over too much of the screen time;
Raise the Red Lantern - awesome movie;
One False Move - Absolutely brilliant movie. Written by Billy Bob Thorton - he also stars as a psycho. Vastly under-rated;
Smoke - very neat movie. Watch it on a wet day to make yourself feel good. Some of the best character actors in America are in this movie;
Bob Roberts - Hilarious movie. Watch whenever an election is on, for full effect;
Bullet in the Head - ultra cool John Woo/Chow Yun Fat movie, before he went to the states and got chewed up by the Hollywood machine. BTW, Fat is pronounced 'Fa' in Cantonese;
Big Night - nice movie. Watch before you go out to dinner, preferably an Italian restaurant;

And why no 'Bad Lieutenant'? One of the most under-rated, and disturbing movies of the 90's. Harvey Keitel's masterpiece.
Also, 'Dead Man', with Johnny Depp
'Brain Dead' and 'Meet the Feebles' (Peter Jackson at his best!)
'Once were Warriors'
'Zentropa' and 'Breaking the Waves' (Lars von Trier is a genius)
Can't think of any more at this time. Will probably edit it later when I do.

That is, for the most part, a great list, although The Hudsucker Proxy and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me deserve to be overlooked.

Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet, Peter Weir's Fearless, Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, and Carl Franklin's Devil in a Blue Dress are all terrific. Julie Taymor's Titus is about as funky a Shakespeare drama as you will ever see.

They released that "Fat slags-the movie" earlier this year, and it was ignored by all. Viz were so disgusted by it they stopped including them in the comic.

They did a movie version? Christ, the comic version was bad enough...

A few thoughts:
Crap ones:Dead Again - Absolute shite. Everyone over-acts appallingly and the plot 'twist' is so obvious I spent 80 minutes thinking 'it can't be that, it's too obvious' followed by 'Oh f**k! It is that!';
The People vs. Larry Flynt - it was really boring!;
The Secret of Roan Inish - trite Irish movie, cashing in on the love of all things Irish phase that the World seemed to go through at that time. A decent made-for-TV-movie, but definitely not worth spending any money on to watch;
Babe: Pig in the City - Shite. Anyway, of course it was overlooked by the critics - it was nothing more than a funny movie aimed at children! What are the critics meant to do? Start comparing it to 'Citizen Kane'?;
That Thing You Do! - proof an actor shouldn't write, direct, produce and star in a movie. Mindless pap;
Joe Versus the Volcano - Sucks. Big time. I think whoever compiled this list has a thing for Tom Hanks. These are two of his biggest Turkeys. The biggest being of course 'Bonfire of the Vanities';
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert - Oh, please. It was mildly entertaining, but overall mindless Aussie humour. It deserves to be overlooked;

I've only seen one of those films and it was a looooooooooooooooooooooong time ago. I can't even remember what most of it was about. That movie being Joe Versus the Volcano. Honestly I have forgotten virtually everything about it. Should I consider myself as being lucky?

15 and 24 are my picks off of that list.

They released that "Fat slags-the movie" earlier this year, and it was ignored by all. Viz were so disgusted by it they stopped including them in the comic.
They were in the last couple of issues I bought.

They were in the last couple of issues I bought.

Strange... It said in the issue I read they weren't gonna do it any more... Guess they must've changed their minds...

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I just noticed your sig :D

From a great movie too. It's even on the list ;)

I tried showing it to my roommate, but he couldn't get past the opening scene. :rolleyes:

Just like he couldn’t get past the opening scenes from Terror Firmer. Although with that movie it’s somewhat more understandable.

They didn't put "The Way Of The Gun". That was an awesome movie that no one has ever heard of

They didn't put "The Way Of The Gun".
The list is of films of the 90's. That movie was released in 2000.

I just noticed your sig :D

From a great movie too. It's even on the list ;)

I tried showing it to my roommate, but he couldn't get past the opening scene. :rolleyes:

Just like he couldn’t get past the opening scenes from Terror Firmer. Although with that movie it’s somewhat more understandable.

Yeah, my brother showed me it when I was about 10 years old. Apparently he wanted me to see some proper comedy or something...

By the way, I don't seem to be able to see anyone's sigs. I'm pretty sure that most people do have sigs, so how do I make them visible?
No worries, I just looked through my options and turned them on. I like the hentai sig.

British people mightknow this one but I doubt anyone else has. "Still Crazy" about a rock band that try and make a come back. Corny and over done style with a slight "rags to riches" slant on it still a good laugh

I'll just briefly say this, I think Ghost Dog, as a film is overated. However I do think that Forest Whitaker was fantastic in it.

However a few other good films I would suggest would be Made in Britain (Tim Roth's first film), The Firm (Alan Clarke's version not the one based on a novel), Chaplin (also mentioned on the list), Romper Stomper, Scum and Nil By Mouth (not quite sure if that one counts)

That Thing You Do! - proof an actor shouldn't write, direct, produce and star in a movie. Mindless pap
I agree that it was mindless pap, but there have been films like this (eg. Modern Times IMO) that disprove that.

Strange... It said in the issue I read they weren't gonna do it any more... Guess they must've changed their minds...
Just dug it out the latest issue I've bought. #140, October 2004, 25th anniversary issue. Flat Slags on the cover and a two-page spread inside. Same jokes.
Assuming they were serious (which we can't), the most obvious reason they changed their minds is the enduring popularity of Tray and San.
BTW this ish has the return of 'Tommy Banana Johnson - He's got a big Banana!', from about #5 or something like that. Same story, but this time drawn in the style of 70's Marvel comics. So banal, it's funny.

At close range

I swear sean penn sure got big all of a sudden. Good flick also

I'd add:

Muriel's Wedding (1995)
The Doom Generation (1995)
The Watermellon Woman (1997)
Pecker (1998)
Once Were Warriors (1995)
Twelfth Night: Or What You Will (1996) - my favorite movie adaption of Shakespeare ever
The Addiction (1995)- best vampire movie EVER
House of Yes (1997)

I like indie film.

The list is of films of the 90's. That movie was released in 2000.
I wasn't sure if it was released in 2000, or 1999, So I bitched about it anyway. But seriously not many people have seen it, or even heard of it.

I quite enjoyed Titus (from Shakespeare's play Titus Andronicus). Very bizarre but entertaining nonetheless. Well directed, in my opinion. It's #99 on the list.

Ah, and Atilla, aired on the history channel (that I know of), is pretty good too. Queer ending though. It's fun to see the hotel guy from Home Alone 2 as a Roman messenger.

But I ask you; Babe: Pig in the City?

I know that this movie is foreign, but 'Cinema Paradiso' should definitely be on that list. A lot of people have heard of it, but a lot more people haven't heard of it.

You do realise that Babe: Pig In The City is on that list, don't you?

The first one was good.

I saw an interesting animated film not too long back called Fantastic Planet. Too hard to describe, it was pretty weird.

Wow, some of my favorite movies are on that list.

Some that I like:

Heavenly Creatures
The Hudsucker Proxy
Babe: Pig in the City
Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai
That Thing You Do!
The Red Violin
The Apostle
Eve's Bayou
Bringing Out the Dead
Hana-Bi (Fireworks)
A Bronx Tale
The Limey
Exotica
Sonatine < especially
Bottle Rocket
Ravenous
The Secret of Roan Inish
Dead Alive
Titus <<< Extremely especially!

There is one thing that I would like to say about A Bronx Tale. And that simply is the Mario Test :D

Darkman is one of my favorite movies, I grew up loving it. Also, Mystery Men was awsome, I thought it did good in the theatres to, I guess I was wrong.

Has anyone seen a movie called 'the professional'? It has natalie portman at age 12 or so in it.

Originally posted by Demented Hamsters
L.A. Story - good movie, especially as Russell Crowe doesn't take over too much of the screen time

Yeah, especially since he wasn't in the movie.

You're thinking of L.A. Confidential.

Has anyone seen a movie called 'the professional'? It has natalie portman at age 12 or so in it.


French movie?

In any case, yes i've seen and yes its very good.

#45, tonari no totoro, is one of the best movies ive ever seen, definetly overlooked

French movie?

In any case, yes i've seen and yes its very good.

I don't think it was french. It was about a cooked cop and an assasin.

I don't think it was french. It was about a cooked cop and an assasin.

I've seen it and it was french. Their are two versions "The Professional" and "Leon"

"Leon" is longer and better, but other than that they are the same movie

Best one in the list that I have watched was Butcher boy, a film set in Ireland, very funny and very disturbing at the same time.

Dark man? was that the one with Liam Neeson? if it was it rocked bigly too.

Brain dead was awesome.

Has anyone seen a movie called 'the professional'? It has natalie portman at age 12 or so in it.
Good film :)

from that list, the movies i would recommend to rent....

14) searching for bobby fischer... chess movie. not about bobby fischer

15) ghost dog etc. i wish forest whitaker did more movies

33) a little princess.... girls only!

43) october sky...science fair movie

53) dick.... wicked funny movie about teen girls and richard nixon