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Post by jason1980s on Dec 11, 2022 12:52:32 GMT -5
I really like the direct to DVD movies you can get for a few dollars at stores but even though you may have a famous actor, the titles aren't as well known as some of their famous work.
My personal favorite is Righteous Kill with Deniro and Pacino from 2007 or 08. They play aging cops fed up with the system where killers go free. I won't give it away but there's a big surprise twist at the end. This movie got mixed reviews IIRC from wikipedia but it's one I watch about once a year. It also has a few short spots with Brian Dennehy who I always liked and think he should have been bigger than he was.
Pacino also did 88 minutes where he must outwit a serial killer before he gets a stay of execution for serial killings of women. It isn't the greatest but also something I watch once a year and is enjoyable with a few twists and good supporting cast.
Out of Time with Denzel Washington is an all time favorite. I'm not sure if that was direct to DVD but I don't remember it in theaters. I'm forgetting some others.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Dec 11, 2022 13:35:49 GMT -5
Nightcrawler was the movie that got me to take Jake Gyllenhaal seriously as an actor, but it seems like it's been forgotten amidst the other work he's done both before and after.
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Post by tirtefaa on Dec 11, 2022 13:35:50 GMT -5
The Beguiled with Clint Eastwood
Benny and Joon with Johnny Depp
Clifford with Martin Short and Charles Grodin
Equilibrium with Christian Bale
Frantic with Harrison Ford
The Hidden with Kyle MacLachlan
In the Mouth of Madness with Sam Neill
The King of Comedy with Robert De Niro
Miami Blues with Alec Baldwin
Scarecrow with Gene Hackman and Al Pacino
A Simple Plan with Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton
Taking of Pelham One Two Three with Walter Matthau
Time After Time with Malcolm McDowell
Vampires with James Woods
Vampire's Kiss with Nicolas Cage
Very Bad Things with Cameron Diaz
Walker with Ed Harris
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2022 13:47:16 GMT -5
Cohen and Tate - Roy Scheider and Adam Baldwin
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 11, 2022 14:36:01 GMT -5
Strange Days – Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Vincent D'Onofrio.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Dec 11, 2022 15:09:54 GMT -5
"The Mighty Quinn" starring Denzel Washington.
"Escape To Athena" starring Roger Moore and Telly Savalas.
"ffolkes" starring Roger Moore.
"Wheels On Meals" starring Jackie Chan.
"Battle Beyond The Stars" with George Peppard and Robert Vaughn, special effects by James "Terminator" Cameron.
I could probably go on for a while but I'll stop here.
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Post by MC Blowfish on Dec 11, 2022 15:44:58 GMT -5
Overnight Delivery with Paul Rudd and Reese Witherspoon.
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Post by DSR on Dec 11, 2022 15:46:14 GMT -5
Overnight Delivery with Paul Rudd and Reese Witherspoon. Also featuring a cameo from Tobin Bell, pre-SAW and some uncredited script doctoring by Kevin Smith! |
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Post by dav on Dec 11, 2022 15:58:17 GMT -5
Ronin with Robert De Niro, Jean Reno and Sean Bean, among others. Really well done action film.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2022 16:07:32 GMT -5
Lucky Number Slevin had among the best performances ever of Bruce Willis and Lucy Liu.
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Post by jason1980s on Dec 11, 2022 19:04:19 GMT -5
The Beguiled with Clint Eastwood The King of Comedy with Robert De Niro Taking of Pelham One Two Three with Walter Matthau Thanks for the replies, everyone. I will have to check some of these out. Of all listed the two above are the only ones I've seen. I thought they were pretty big but I guess in the grand scheme of the actor's careers maybe not so much. The only seen I remember from King is Jerry Lewis refusing an autograph and the lady being pissed. Jerry admits this is something that happened in real life. Jerry was known for being difficult to fans with autographs. |
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Dec 11, 2022 19:27:41 GMT -5
Jimmy Hollywood with Joe Pesci and Christian Slater.
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Post by fw91 on Dec 11, 2022 21:26:24 GMT -5
Don't know if it that's obscure, but I enjoyed the boxing flick, "Play It To The Bone," with Woody Harrelson and Antonio Banderas.
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Post by Alexander The So-so on Dec 11, 2022 22:59:53 GMT -5
Don’t know how obscure it is, but: Conspiracy, starring Kenneth Branagh, Stanley Tucci, and Colin Firth.
It’s a 2001 television film by HBO and BBC. Maybe the best movie about World War II ever made, imo, and there’s not even one gunshot. It’s a dramatization of the Wannsee Conference, the high-level meeting of a bunch of Nazi bureaucrats and military leaders where they laid out the plan of what would become The Holocaust. The dialogue and acting are like something out of a very well-crafted stage play, making the extremely dark subject matter really compelling.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Dec 12, 2022 0:22:23 GMT -5
Georgia Peaches-Dirk Benedict,Tanya Tucker and Terri Nunn from Berlin. Plus a host of other character actors from the late 70s/early 80s Corman crew.
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Post by Display Name on Dec 12, 2022 3:41:46 GMT -5
Michael Keaton in The Dream Team
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Post by Ryushinku on Dec 12, 2022 3:59:07 GMT -5
Knight Moves - Christopher Lambert, Diane Lane, Tom Skerritt, Daniel Baldwin.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Dec 12, 2022 10:45:42 GMT -5
Don’t know how obscure it is, but: Conspiracy, starring Kenneth Branagh, Stanley Tucci, and Colin Firth. It’s a 2001 television film by HBO and BBC. Maybe the best movie about World War II ever made, imo, and there’s not even one gunshot. It’s a dramatization of the Wannsee Conference, the high-level meeting of a bunch of Nazi bureaucrats and military leaders where they laid out the plan of what would become The Holocaust. The dialogue and acting are like something out of a very well-crafted stage play, making the extremely dark subject matter really compelling. It’s very good, btw. Firth winds up being a sympathetic sociopath, which is very weird to see, Branagh the charming monster, Tucci the business-like monster (which tracks with all of the contemporary evidence about the guy he was portraying), and there’s a very short “Hey! I know that guy!” cameo near the beginning of the film featuring a MCU star. The only major complaint is that it makes it seem like the conference was a single, short meeting instead of a series of meetings. |
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Dec 12, 2022 12:13:24 GMT -5
"Barbarians At The Gate" starring James Garner (Maverick, The Rockford Files), 1993 comedy/true story about the attempted buyout of RJR Nabisco and how crazy big business was in the 80s.
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Post by saneiac on Dec 12, 2022 19:05:06 GMT -5
Undercover Blues, a 1993 spy comedy starring Dennis Quaid, Kathleen Turner, and a "pretty early in his film career but completely steals the movie" Stanley Tucci.
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