Comments on: Movies You Have Not Seen But Should See (Because They Are Good) #15

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:41:39 +0000

I saw it on your recommendation, and you were right: damn good movie. I can’t believe that’s Spike Jonze! It’s no Private Ryan, though.

By: Ilan

Ilan — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:34:30 +0000

I saw it in theatres and have purchased it twice (once on VHS and once on DVD). I was gonna fall asleep to the background noise of Galaxy Quest, but I’m goin’ Three Kings instead.

Good catch, there. It’s one of those movies that still holds up when I think of it in terms of modern war reportage like Generation Kill, the War Nerd articles, Imperial Life in the Emerald City and Full Spectrum Disorder.

I still think you’re far off base when it comes to American Beauty, though. We can hash that one out sometime.

By: Krinn DNZ

Krinn DNZ — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:43:15 +0000

If No Country for Old Men had a soupcon of action, then Jurassic Park had a soupcon of dinosaurs.

Matt, this page is currently the only Google result for “soupçon of dinosaurs.” Today, you have enriched the Internet, and I salute you.

By: bryan

bryan — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:51:49 +0000

“I… don’t understand the question. How does that sound like a BAD movie?”

Well, it’s really all relative. Let’s suppose that instead of a football he had to throw a vibrator that Jonze had to fix to use the vibrating mechanism as a way to set off the C4 somehow. You see now how the throwing a football could make the movie relatively bad compared to what it could have been.

no but seriously. the movie was good enough, it was enjoyable, had some nice one liners, but any decade that it was top ten material for would have been an especially crappy decade.

Its worse part was the end though, with the where are they now sequence. ugh.

By: Derek

Derek — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:43:24 +0000

“Ice Cube throws a football strapped with C4 at a helicopter and blows it up! How does that sound like a good movie?”

I… don’t understand the question. How does that sound like a BAD movie?

By: dekar

dekar — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:30:34 +0000

What is wrong with you people?! Ice Cube throws a football strapped with C4 at a helicopter and blows it up! How does that sound like a good movie?

By: collar

collar — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:13:11 +0000

Saw Three Kings at the movies with a mate using the “that poster looks alright, haven’t heard anything about it but lets just go to that” approach. Not the movie I was expecting at all, really blew me away and became one of the first DVDs I ever bought. Still a great movie, vastly underappreciated. Everyone I talk to that hasn’t seen it just thinks its a dumb action movie about some soldiers stealing a bunch of cash, because that’s the way it was marketed.

By: Matthew E

Matthew E — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:53:46 +0000

The best part was Mark Wahlberg, marveling at the strange places his life has taken him, muttering the lyrics to “I Get Around” to himself as a cow’s head bounces off the hood of the Humvee.

By: William George

William George — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:01:19 +0000

“In short, it should be on more top ten lists.”

I strongly agree with this statement.

By: witty

witty — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:01 +0000

re: 10footBongz
About Out of Sight, damn right it was one of the best films of the 90s. Farina shoulda gotta an Oscar nom as the snarky dad. But you forgot to mention GUZMAN!!! who was totally awesome in that movie (go re-watch the scene where Lopez arrests him, wicked funny). Got my friends to rent the movie once, they were surprised they never got to see in the theaters…

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:40:31 +0000

Probably a lot of the problem was the trailer, it made this out to be some kind of wacky heist comedy. Which it was…in bits, but it is a complex movie, more drama than comedy, more black comedy than drama.

By: Bender

Bender — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:43:09 +0000

Thank you MGK! Stil the best Gulf War movie made IMO

By: Agog

Agog — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:05:00 +0000

Nice to see Cliff Curtis getting proper respect! His continual casting an Arab is a bit of a joke here in NZ.

By: MGK

MGK — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:49:59 +0000

So MGK, does this article mean you’re going to be doing “Movies You Have Not Seen But Etc.” in the future?

Yes, but I don’t have any planned schedule for them or anything. There isn’t any master database of Awesome Movies That Most People Have Missed Out On, after all, and this one is probably the most mainstream one yet – it was borderline but I decided what the hell because I wanted to write about it a bit.

By: dmart

dmart — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:42:38 +0000

So MGK, does this article mean you’re going to be doing “Movies You Have Not Seen But Etc.” in the future? Because I have missed this desperately. You’ve called my opinions on four of the last five movies I saw in theaters, and every movie you’ve covered in this series sounds awesome. This all goes on my list.