Films You Should Fucking See – Pt. 2
Friday, October 2, 2009 at 09:40AM Like the D-Man said, this feature is here to highlight some of the films that you might've have missed, or films you saw a fucking age ago and totally forgot about. Inevitably, there will be some that you've seen and you go, "What? Everyone has seen that, you fucking douche!" If that's the case, pat yourself on the fucking back and skip to the next film. Drunkenmaster gave you some stone-cold classics, I'm mixing mine up a little. Like MC Hammer, let's get it started:
1. The Conversation (1974)
Made inbetween The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, this was a return to small-budget art films for Francis Ford Coppola. A sound surveillance expert, Harry Caul (Gene Hackman), is hired to track a young couple, taping their conversation as they walk through San Francisco. Harry's work starts to trouble him, however, as he uncovers a plot to murder the couple through the conversations he tapes. While critically acclaimed, it tanked on its release but The Conversation has since come to be considered one of the best films of the 70s, its atmosphere of paranoia and suspicion making it one of the darker films of that decade.
2. Happiness (1998)
Directed by Todd Solondz, this early outing for Philip Seymour Hoffman is an aggressively dark comedy-drama about the sexual perversions and twisted lives of three sisters who have been cursed after one of them rejects the advances of an over-weight man. In the scene below, the husband of one of the sisters, a psychiatrist who masturbates to teen magazines and fantasizes about mass killing in a park, explains to his 11 year old son about his unnatural fascination for his son's male classmates. Happiness is totally fucked up but unrelentlessly funny.
3. Mother (1996)
Written by, directed and starring Albert Brooks (Finding Nemo, Broadcast News, Taxi Driver), Mother is about a neurotic, twice divorced, sci-fi writer that realises all the problems he's had with the women in his life are a result of the relationship he has with his mother. So, he decides to move back in with dear ol' Mom, played by classic actress, Debbie Reynolds (Singin' In The Rain, How The West Was Won). While it doesn't immediately sound good, I accidentally caught this on TV a few years ago and laughed so much I actually lost weight!
4. Cube (1997)
I fucking love this film! Über low-budget sci-fi from Vincenzo Natali (Paris Je T'aime, Cypher), Cube tells the story of six strangers who awake to find themselves in a giant metal cube with interconnecting rooms. Each member of the group has knowledge or skills that could help them escape so they set off to find the outer-shell. Simple idea, great fucking film; which contains one of the best death scenes ever committed to celluloid. If you wanna see it, you're gonna have to go buy the fucking film!
5. The Monster Squad (1987)
Directed by Fred Dekker (Night Of The Creeps), The Monster Squad is essentially The Goonies with monsters. When Dracula, The Mummy, Frankenstein, The Wolfman and The Creature From The Black Lagoon join forces in the search for a magic amulet that will release monsters onto the earth, a group of teenage monster movie fans are the only ones who can battle the forces of evil. Written by Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, The Last Boy Scout, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) and boasting special effects by the legendary Stan Winston (Aliens, Predator, The Terminator) and Richard Edlund (Star Wars, Ghostbuster, Big Trouble in Little China, Indiana Jones, Fright Night, Poltergeist) The Monster Squad is truly one of Hollywoods most underrated 80s movies, even if it doesn't look like it.
Reader Comments (1)
Fucking great selection. I haven't actually seen Mother so I'm looking for that fucker. The Cube is such an underrated film and people always think Godfather or Apocolypse Now when they think Coppola. Together we will educate these fuckers.