100 Overlooked Movies of the 1990s

[tzikeh]

sherrold has just posted to her lj about which movies on the 100 Overlooked Movies of the 1990s list she has seen.

I wish I had a "reverse pimp!" icon.

Of the 100 on that list - the following are the ones I haven't seen. If you've seen one of these and feel I absolutely haven't lived until I have seen it, I'm willing to be persuaded.

Chungking Express
Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai
Devil in a Blue Dress
Breakdown
Fireworks
Exotica
Sonatine
Bullet in the Head
Ashes of Time
Dead Alive

Comments

[taraljc.livejournal.com]

"Dead Alive" is one of the most entertaining zombie movies of all-time. Especially the kool-aid blood, and the mother. "Ghost Dog" is pretty keen too (you can always borrow my copy) tho it helps if you're already an Asian action movie fan (apparently there's a scene which is a shot-for-shot hommage to one of Japan's big cult action movie director's of the 1960s films). But of this list, "Exotica" is the one that surprises me. I figured Snoo's Bruce Greenwood fetish would have meant you'd seen it for sure at least twice. "Bullet in the Head" is so-so, and it grealy depends on which cut of it you see (theere are several) and is more for Woo purists I think.

[michael-j-lucid.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

Dead Alive is darn gory, but so gory, its funny. Not so much creepy scary gory as wow, look at all that red wet stuff campy gory. Peter Jackson did it, which is funnier than hell..."Wait...you got the LotR gig after THIS???"

Breakdown has Kurt Russell in it, which is enough of a deterrant for me. I'm hard pressed to find a movie of his that I like.

Unless you count Overboard, damn, where was the Oscar nod there??

However, it does have the late J.T. Walsh in it...who is (was) a great actor.

BTW, saw the "holiday" Flash llama. Brilliant!