November 29, 2004
Another "Best Of" list, I'm afraid -- this time it's the Online Film Critics Society's Top 100 Overlooked Films of the 1990s. Damn, how's that for subjective? Anyway, I include this link simply as it creates an opportunity to brag how I successfully guessed what the #1 film was going to be. Plus it's hard to feel badly towards a list which includes both "October Sky" and "Braindead". Any you think are missing?
Posted by davidr at November 29, 2004 5:46 PM
Lawn Dogs!
I've only seen 36 of those films. 8 of the top 10 tho'.
Posted by morgue at November 30, 2004 1:47 AM
Three Kings!
Posted by morgue at November 30, 2004 3:11 AM
I've seen sixty-two of them.
Can I have a girlfriend now?
Posted by Hamish at November 30, 2004 12:27 PM
Well everyone should see Matinee. It deserved to be a huge hit. I'm still unsure what went wrong, but it seems to have farked Joe Dante's directorial career.
I'm not sure what criteria for "overlooked" is. For example how was Priscilla overlooked - isn't it one of the biggest hits Australian film has had? Also, lots of these movies were arthouse hits with NO chance of succeeding in the mainstream, eg Dead Man or The Red Violin. ("Hey honey, let's go and see a B&W slow-moving western with no action!" "No, I wanna see the Canadian one about a violin through the ages!") Or a documentary about a Nazi propagandist, or an arty Italian zombie movie starring Rupert Everett for that matter.
Sadly they included a number of suck movies: That Thing You Do!, The Butcher Boy, The Spanish Prisoner (everyone else is wrong - it's DUMB!), Very Bad Things, Jo Versus the Volcano, In the Company of Men, Chaplin and Mystery Men. Also thoroughly mediocre movies: Sneakers, The Ref, A Bronx Tale, A Perfect World, Breakdown, Strange Days, Darkman, and Deep Cover. All genric product with a little bit of quirkiness.
Posted by Pearce at November 30, 2004 7:52 PM
Eerie -- I also have seen 62 of them. As Pearce has pointed out, there are some pretty dubious choices on there, through virtue of either being bollocks or not overlooked. I mean, "Mystery Men"? I'm trying to think of something they've missed -- "Aladdin"? "The Professional"?
Posted by davidr at November 30, 2004 9:12 PM
Strange Days was great. And overlooked, in that it sank like a stone. Screw you guys, that deserves to be in there.
Actually, I think I've seen 37 of them.
Posted by morgue at November 30, 2004 11:26 PM
82
Posted by sue at December 1, 2004 9:34 AM
After serious consideration, it astounds me that Brad Bird's "The Iron Giant" isn't on this list.
"Superman."
Posted by davidr at December 2, 2004 11:03 PM
How about Human Traffic?
Posted by Hamish at December 6, 2004 8:45 PM
i guessed 'safe' as number1
damm you mr ritchie, foiled again
Posted by sue at November 29, 2004 7:15 PM