Movie Time!

We watch a lot of movies in our household, easily three or four a week. Which means once we watch the mainstream movies of interest, there are many obscure films to catch up with. So if you are interested in a new movie you've never heard of, and are open to the quirky and unusual, consider these for the Netflix queue:

For the fan of Napoleon Dynamite
Try Gentlemen Broncos. It has Sam Rockwell, Jennifer Coolidge and Jemaine Clement (all of whom I love) with a story about plagairism and science fiction. It continues the Napoleon Dynamite aesthetic with a hard-to-identify time period due to some bad fashion and decor. Just one tip: when someone shows up with a giant boa constrictor, it might be a good time to not be eating.

If you like movies that are so bad they're good
Considered the worst movie ever made, The Room has developed a cult following. This is one to invite your funny friends over to watch with- it has horrible acting, lousy editing, and some awesomely terrible quotes that will stick in your head. Keep an eye on Lisa's neck and I invite anyone with an explanation of that to please, please fill me in on what happened there.

For the fan of documentaries
I've got to recommend three in this category: Man on Wire is about a Frenchman who walks on a tightrope between the World Trade Center's twin towers. It was inspiring and moving and hard to believe that this could actually happen. The second documentary is Monster Camp, about a group of people heavily involved in Live Action Role Playing. The third is I Like Killing Flies, about the owner and cook of the New York restaurant Shopsin's (who has, shall we say, a Soup Nazi approach to his business). What can I say - I'm a total sucker for stories about real people who are passionate and obsessed with something I had maybe never heard of or considered. 

Parlez-vous francais? If you enjoy movies about France
Watching 2 Days in Paris was funny because of the cultural differences that American Adam Goldberg navigates as he stays in Paris with his French girlfriend played by Julie Delpy (who also wrote and directed). We had to watch the scene in the subway MANY times and just laughed ourselves silly.

If you like your horror movie with a side of comedy
Check out Dominic Monaghan in I Sell the Dead. Although it starts a bit slow, this one has grave robbing that gets increasingly more bizarre and an excellent style to the film.


This is a good start and I might post more movie recommendations in the future. One entire post could probably be about zombie movies alone (they are a special favorite genre). And meandering off into other movie territory, the preview for The A-Team movie looks promising. The casting is excellent and I will be there on opening night because I am a massive fan of the series.