What's Your Favorite Sleeper Movie?
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 6:11 pm
You know, that movie that you absolutely love that everyone else seems not to know about or have forgotten?
My favs are:
"Miracle Mile" - A very cool story about a guy who answers a payphone (Don't ever do that!) only to hear a frightened man with a wrong number on the other end tell him that WWIII has started! Is it for real? Or just a prank? That becomes pretty important as the word spreads and the the entire city begins to panic!
"Captain Blood" - It's not "Robin Hood" but I still think it's Errol Flynn's finest hour with awesome sword fighting ala Basil Rathbone (probably the finest swordsman in old Hollywood.) A great pirate epic.
"Near Dark" - Is this the best vampire movie ever made? Even when they never say the word "vampire" once? Yup. Bloodthirsty, hilarious, and flat-out frightening all at once! A great line from the movie, "How old am I? Well, let's put it this way, I fought for the South. We lost."
"The Stuntman" - The only better Peter O'Toole movie than this one is "My Favorite Year." (An no, I didn't forget the ridiculously long "Lawrence of Arabia.") He plays an unstable, but gifted movie director who loses one stunt man to an accident at the same time a fugitive from the law stumbles through his set. The kicker? The fugitive is a Vietnam War veteran and he is shooting a war movie. You gotta see it to believe the head trips.
So, how about your sleeper?
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My favs are:
"Miracle Mile" - A very cool story about a guy who answers a payphone (Don't ever do that!) only to hear a frightened man with a wrong number on the other end tell him that WWIII has started! Is it for real? Or just a prank? That becomes pretty important as the word spreads and the the entire city begins to panic!
"Captain Blood" - It's not "Robin Hood" but I still think it's Errol Flynn's finest hour with awesome sword fighting ala Basil Rathbone (probably the finest swordsman in old Hollywood.) A great pirate epic.
"Near Dark" - Is this the best vampire movie ever made? Even when they never say the word "vampire" once? Yup. Bloodthirsty, hilarious, and flat-out frightening all at once! A great line from the movie, "How old am I? Well, let's put it this way, I fought for the South. We lost."
"The Stuntman" - The only better Peter O'Toole movie than this one is "My Favorite Year." (An no, I didn't forget the ridiculously long "Lawrence of Arabia.") He plays an unstable, but gifted movie director who loses one stunt man to an accident at the same time a fugitive from the law stumbles through his set. The kicker? The fugitive is a Vietnam War veteran and he is shooting a war movie. You gotta see it to believe the head trips.
So, how about your sleeper?
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