Movies of Interest

[tacticslion]

So, aside from two (http://www.nuklearforums.com/showthread.php?t=40742) threads (http://www.nuklearforums.com/showthread.php?t=40841) this really doesn't belong in, and because the other died so quickly (understandable as things move slowly with movies) and I don't really feel comfortable with necro-fuing it, I figured I'd make another thread for independent movies.

To start off, though I linked to it before, here's a new site (http://www.andyouweb.com/flashbackfilms/index.html) with some new stuff on the movie Flashback (http://www.flashbackmovie.com/).

Also of interest, though I've not seen it personally, is Your Highness (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH7qH4Kb8wc), though I'm not too sure that's an "independent" film, so, you know, this thread also just became about movies you've not seen a lot of press about. Of course, then again, I live in a cave, with my BABY! (I mean, we don't have tv or anything, it's like the stone age or something!), I don't know exactly what's been heavily promoted or not.

So this thread just became about: independent films, films that don't get enough press, and films you think everyone should know about. Like me. Who lives in a cave. :D

[phil_]

Have you guys watched The Fall? You should watch it. I'd link the trailer, but it spoils too much about a minute in. Uh, a script writer tells a Native American kid stories to get drugs out of her. It's good; the stories are a big part of the movie.

Oh, or The Man from Earth? It's about a college professor moving away who tells his friends, as they part, that he's an immortal cave man. Watch it. You'll like it.

[Seil]

I thought this was a thread about under-appreciated films, like The Exorcist. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsA3nxzgK-M) (<= Check out that link, yo.)

If we're talking about stuff we haven't seen, let's go with Heartless. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCmvhghjmsk) The one indie film I have seen that needs to become mainstrame is Brick. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cVzHeJ0Z3I)

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Holy fuck don't ever watch brick. The kids spent the whole movie talking in their "noir voices" that I couldn't hear anything they said. Fuck it was annoying. Might be easier if you are American and used to the accent but hoy shit.

Note: It's not the noir lingo they use thats the problem, the words I could make outI could understand- it's that they mumble every singe line.

[Seil]

PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE BARREL BEHIND THE CURTAIN!

[Betty Elms]

Seconding Phil on The Fall pretty hardcore, and I also feel like mentioning how MIND (http://screenmusings.org/TheFall/pages/The-Fall-0072.htm) BLOWINGLY (http://screenmusings.org/TheFall/pages/The-Fall-0705.htm) BEAUTIFUL (http://screenmusings.org/TheFall/pages/The-Fall-0820.htm) the movie is.
Like, you know how Sucker Punch was a movie about a girl in a hospital and we get to see her fantastical imaginings with the resulting visual spectacle being the primary purpose of the film? The Fall is basically that, only the visual spectacle is actually spectacular rather than "all the ideas that everybody else has already had."

Anyway. Did you see L'Illusionniste (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMqpU7lUlLg&hd=1) yet? You most likely didn't, and you should remedy that immediately, especially if you're at all fond of seeing hand drawn figures in various poses shown on a screen in rapid sequence. Or if you're into charming visual comedy that becomes steadily overwhelmed by melancholia, which I totally am.

[RickZarber]

Thirding The Fall, seconding L'Illusionniste, and adding The Secret of Kells to the list. It's just beautiful. (I recommend this trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMPhHTtKZ8Q)--it doesn't spoil as much as some of the others.)

Oh, and Drive (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780504/) was probably the best movie I saw theatrically this year. The ads are terrible; they give away too much and yet make it seem like some sort of Transporter rip-off, when really it's more like Shane with a touch of the Man with No Name, by way of Bullitt. "Slow burn" is the best phrase to describe it.

[tacticslion]

So, yeah, I'm all about this movie (http://www.flashbackmovie.com/) succeeding, so I'm posting yet another new video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm2Qrwxuhn4) related to it (this time a minor look at George Shaw, the composer). *whistles while walking away nonchalantly* :rolleyes:

Also, lots of interesting looking ideas, here! Especially L'Illusionniste, as I hadn't heard of it until now. I'm glad to know that Secret of Kells was good, as I haven't seen it, but been curious!

Also, I like cartoons. :)

[Magus]

So, aside from two (http://www.nuklearforums.com/showthread.php?t=40742) threads (http://www.nuklearforums.com/showthread.php?t=40841) this really doesn't belong in, and because the other died so quickly (understandable as things move slowly with movies) and I don't really feel comfortable with necro-fuing it, I figured I'd make another thread for independent movies.

To start off, though I linked to it before, here's a new site (http://www.andyouweb.com/flashbackfilms/index.html) with some new stuff on the movie Flashback (http://www.flashbackmovie.com/).

Also of interest, though I've not seen it personally, is Your Highness (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH7qH4Kb8wc), though I'm not too sure that's an "independent" film, so, you know, this thread also just became about movies you've not seen a lot of press about. Of course, then again, I live in a cave, with my BABY! (I mean, we don't have tv or anything, it's like the stone age or something!), I don't know exactly what's been heavily promoted or not.

So this thread just became about: independent films, films that don't get enough press, and films you think everyone should know about. Like me. Who lives in a cave. :D


Your Highness is actually really not funny. I only laughed twice and it was seriously something like 2 hours and 10 minutes long for a gimmick that was funny for about half an hour.

There are seriously literally three jokes in the entire movie that "work" and made me laugh. Also the chase scene on the carriage was actually fairly good for a lowbrow, lowbudget comedy. But damn it was just seriously not funny.

I will spoil the only three funny scenes from it, maybe you can look them up on Youtube:

1. The dwarven hanging scene (literally the first scene).
2. When Fabious says to Thaddeus at the party, "Thaddeus! Why are you so sad and gloomy? Come and be gay with me and father!" I did actually burst out laughing at this.
3. The Wize Wizard was kind of funny but your mileage may vary...really I think I only laughed at the initial thing he says when they meet him.

Seriously save yourself a HUGE waste of time and just Youtube some of the scenes from it, as it was seriously like mostly worse than Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire at actually getting a laugh out of me.

[The Sevenshot Kid]

Magus, you mean to tell me that you didn't find the minotaur cock funny?

[Magus]

Magus, you mean to tell me that you didn't find the minotaur cock funny?

I don't think I laughed at that, I can't be totally sure. Basically the movie failed at the most basic intention of a comedy movie, eliciting lots of laughter. I personally think that is the only requirement for a comedy movie to meet, really.

I still to this day laugh out loud at movies like Robin Hood: Men in Tights or The Princess Bride or what have you, movies of a similar gimmick that I've seen dozens of times but still make me laugh to this day. So I've come to the conclusion that Your Higness is just a crappy movie in its execution. Probably if it had been 45 minutes shorter it might have felt "snappier" and been funnier, but eventually it fell back on the gimmick of "Danny McBride says 'shit fuck' in a faux-fantasy setting" too often in lieu of an actual joke.