Surprisingly good movies you've never seen

[blazingarrow]

I still think Bale's best work was done in American Psycho, maybe a cult classic...maybe.....

Just read the novel.  One of the most disturbing, sick, funny, awesome books of all time.  I liked the movie a lot but you have to read the book to totally get it.   

I respectfully disagree. I thought the book was one of the most poorly written things I've ever read. It was a tedious read.

I thought it worked much better as a film. The film allowed the story to move along. In the book, the story just kind of stood still for pages and pages at a time. Just a bunch of filler about sodium content and brand name suits and this and that, followed by a really graphic and violent passage, then right back to the superficial stuff.

I get what they were trying to do, I just don't think they pulled it off.

A little off topic I know, and you're entitled to your opinion, so I'll make my point...

American Psychowas one of the best adaptations I've ever seen. It turned a mediocre novel into a very enjoyable dark comedy.

[blazingarrow]

Am I alone in saying that Bull Durham is the best baseball movie of all time?

Major League

[Neurotic Guy]

Am I alone in saying that Bull Durham is the best baseball movie of all time?

Major League

I'd take The Natural, Bang the Drum Slowly or Field of Dreams over
either Bull D or Major league. 

Bang the Drum Slowly is good watch for those who haven't seen it.  Fetures young versions of Robert De Niro and Michael Moriarty and the never-young Vincent Gardenia.   Highlight (for me) is a classic speech in which manager Gardenia (in soliloquy) reviews the pros and cons of accepting an unconventional 'deal'  from pre-season hold-out Moriarty.

[greg_kite]

I don't know if this qualifies as a movie you've never seen, but A Bronx Tale is a classic and doesn't get mentioned with Goodfellas and Godfather with other great mob movies.  It's right up there though.  Bobby D is a good guy.

Maverick with Mel Gibson is a pretty entertaining movie from the mid 90's.  It's based on the 50's series with James Garner about a poker player out west in the late 1800's (which happens to be a great show too that I've been watching on the DVR all summer, even though I'm in my early 30s)

[Steve from Milford]

It was a bust when it first came out, but then had very successful broadway run many years later. Funniest movie ever made - The Producers. Mel Brooks first move with Gene Wilder and the great Zero Mostel.

[RebusRankin]

Bronx Tale is a good one.

For some people may not have seen but that are good: The United States of Leland, Pieces of April, Half Nelson.

[brownbagger]

ck out the  movie "CLICK",a 2006 comedy/drama/science fiction/fantasy film by Steve Koren..you

will not be disappointed.

[jamesk855]

equilibrium with christian bale, one of the best movies ever but it came out at the same time as the matrix

[bucknersrevenge]

It's widely recognized(or at least it should be) that The Natural is one of the best if not THE best baseball movie ever made. I just finished watching a move I never heard of called The Final Season, about a high school baseball team from Iowa. Sean Astin, Powers Boothe, Michael Angarano. Terrific movie. If you love baseball like I do you need to watch this.

Of course Pride of the Yankees with Gary Cooper also gets all-time votes. Unbelievable film. Shame on any baseball fan that has never seen it.

I would add eight men out to the all time best baseball movie discussion as well as field of dreams.

Am I alone in saying that Bull Durham is the best baseball movie of all time?

Yep.

Pretty much... 

[BUTerrier]

I know we're trying to talk about movies that are off the beaten path a bit, but seeing as how a lot of my peers here haven't seen these movies (and I'm 24, so, I mean, you'd think we'd be EXACTLY the viewing audience that would have seen them), I have to recommend the Kevin Smith line of movies (excluding, of course, Jersey Girl). In particular, I happen to absolutely love Dogma and Clerks more than any of the others, but they're all pretty amazing.

Additionally, I want to echo the recommendation of Rounders, as it's my all-time favorite movie. I also watched a really amazing Edward Norton movie a while back called The 25th Hour, and yet I never hear anything about it. I think it's worth watching.

[KCattheStripe]

"Conspiracy"- Brannaugh and Colin Firth as Nazi's setting in motion the final solution. Absolutely chilling.

"Outbreak"- Great ensemble cast in a Scifi/medical thriller.

"Chasing Amy"- My favorite Smith movie followed by Clerks II

"Much Ado About Nothing"- The last good Brannaugh adaptation. Wasn't a big fan of his "Hamlet".

" Primal Fear"- Ed Norton's break out performance overshadows what maybe Richard Gere's best performance.

That's all for now.

[celticmaestro]

"Primal Fear"- Ed Norton's break out performance overshadows what maybe Richard Gere's best performance.

TP!

What a film. Ed Norton (along with Christian Bale) is one of the only young actors I would actually pay to watch.

[nickagneta]

Some oldies but goodies some of you younger guys may have never seen:

Ben Hur - you want big, old Hollywood epics and Charlton Heston some say The Ten Commandments, but I think this is a much better film.

Midway - excellently done retelling of the Battle of Midway, the turning point in the war versus Japan in WWII.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - New man and Redford at their buddy film best.

The Shootist - John Wayne's last film.

Some Like It Hot - Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in drag escaping mob problems and both fall in love with Marilyn Monroe. For those that always wondered what was so special about Marilyn as a sex symbol, watch this movie.

Miracle on 34th Street - the original with Natalie Woods as the precocious little girl that needs to believe in Santa Claus. My absolute favorite holiday movie and a must in either black and white or the new colorized edition.

Psycho - the original Alfred Hitchcock thriller. Also, The Birds and North by Northwest are also genius Hitchcock stuff as well that I recommend.

Godzilla - the original in black and white with Raymond Burr.

and a not so oldie but one of my all-time favorites:

The Princess Bride - what's not to love, Billy Crystal and Andre the Giant, giant rats, sword fights, love lost and then recaptured, men with seven fingers on one hand, Inigo Montoya(prepare to die), and of course, my favorite line in all of moviedom:

Vizzini: You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!

Ah..... Vizzini. The depth of his knowledge was just inconceivable.

[Yakmanev]

I don't know if this qualifies as a movie you've never seen, but A Bronx Tale is a classic and doesn't get mentioned with Goodfellas and Godfather with other great mob movies.  It's right up there though.  Bobby D is a good guy.

Maverick with Mel Gibson is a pretty entertaining movie from the mid 90's.  It's based on the 50's series with James Garner about a poker player out west in the late 1800's (which happens to be a great show too that I've been watching on the DVR all summer, even though I'm in my early 30s)

I'm 29 and know the show well. In fact, believe it or not, my father named me after Bret Maverick.

[cavman]

I sometimes forget how young some of you folks are.  Fugitive & Silver Streak were very popular movies when they came out.  But if you were very young.... obviously you wouldn't have watched them.

My favorite baseball movies- Eight Men Out (GREAT cast) and the sentimental favorite Bad News Bears (the original).

I didn't read all the posts, but here are some of my favorite old movies many of you (aside from Roy) may not have seen.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner- Pottier, Hepburn, Tracy- awesome!
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World
In the Heat of the Night- Pottier, Steiger .... "They call me Mister Tibbs!"
We're No Angels- not the lousy remake.  Bogart, baby.

Thus ends my minor contribution to the discussion.