Favorite Off the Wall movies About This Page:

[mestitch]

The favorite recent movies and worst recent movies made me start thinking of all the great movies that we really like....
Not necessarily off the wall, but not as big as the blockbusters, old, new, whatever

These are some of our favs:
The Fountain - Beautifully done movie I think (and Andy agrees). If you watch the extras on the DVD you learn that they didn't do computer generated effects, it's macrophotography... cool.... And Hugh Jackman is of course fabulous It's a touching story that made both of us cry.

While on the Hugh Jackman topic... The Prestige - Fabulous story line, fabulous actors (Hugh, Christian Bale, Michael Caine). Great great movie. Directed by a great director who also directed....

Memento - This movie will blow your mind... seriously could short it out. You have to watch it a few times (kind of like the Prestige) and it's worth it each time.

Big Fish - another one of our favorite movies.... Ewan McGregor always makes great choices and this one is very touching. Again, it makes us cry everytime we watch it. Tim Burton really did a great job with this movie...

And still on the Ewan topic... Stay - It had Ewan, Ryan Gosling, and Naomi Watts. I'm sure a lot of people thought this movie might be crap, but it has a great twist and lots of "what the heck's going on" moments. I love movies where I can watch for clues and hints and weird things happening in the background.

[RobDVC]

Everything by the Coen Brothers.

[mestitch]

Originally Posted by RobDVC

Everything by the Coen Brothers.

Did they do O Brother? That movie... we watched that movie so many times back about 7 years ago....it was my first trip with Andy's family to the Outer Banks and Kevin was with us and he kept singing the songs all the way down to the beach... and we'd spontaneously start quoting the movie... "That don't make no sense!"

[RobDVC]

Originally Posted by mestitch

Did they do O Brother? That movie... we watched that movie so many times back about 7 years ago....it was my first trip with Andy's family to the Outer Banks and Kevin was with us and he kept singing the songs all the way down to the beach... and we'd spontaneously start quoting the movie... "That don't make no sense!"

Yep.
Raising Arizona is my favorite.

No Country for Old Men
The Ladykillers
Intolerable Cruelty
The Man Who Wasn't There
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Big Lebowski
Fargo
The Hudsucker Proxy
Barton Fink
Miller's Crossing
Raising Arizona
Crimewave
Blood Simple

[bitterchickey]

DD has every Tim Burton movie in her collection.
The movie for me is House of Cards. Deals with my former line of work.

[Shell_of_the_South]

Originally Posted by mestitch

Memento - This movie will blow your mind... seriously could short it out. You have to watch it a few times (kind of like the Prestige) and it's worth it each time.

I really liked Memento, and I was surprised it didn't get more attention. On the DVD version you can watch it two ways, the original way it was shown - in flashback, or you can watch it in chronological order.

[HiddenMickey]

This list is going to be culled from my Netflix viewing. I'll have to do another one with the films I own.

The Illusionist -This movie blew us away; its about a magician like The Prestige, mentioned by mestich, but way better imo

Educating Rita

The Prize Winner of Definance Ohio

Rabbit Proof Fence

Freedom Writers

Greatest Game Ever Played

October Sky

[janicelovesmickey]

American Pyshco with Christain Bale
Momento - was awesome!!
Pans Labyrinth

[mestitch]

We just watched the Illusionist this weekend... It was good, but I thought the Prestige was better in terms of story and all the acting.... Ed was GREAT in the Illusionist as was Paul Giamatti (sp?) (we always call him pig vomit b/c Andy loves PCU). But I felt that it lacked a little something extra that the Prestige had.

[simbarel]

Educating Rita

That's so weird...I haven't heard of that movie in eons, but I thought of it twice this week and there you are mentioning it.

I American Psycho, too.
24 Hour Party People
The Ballad of Jack and Rose
Carrington
Off the Map
Blow Dry
The Girl in the Cafe
Wilde
Melinda and Melinda
Husbands and Wives
Downfall
Rushmore

.......most of these were past rentals from my Netflix list...there are many more!

[mtstranscribe]

Monty Python and the Holy Grail My kids and I quote this all the time!
Eating Raoul I cant even begin to explain this one!
The Meaning of Life
Adventures of Baron VonMunchausen

[mom23k9s]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a real good movie. But you might have to see it a couple times to understand what's going on.

[bitterchickey]

Maybe it's not "off the wall" as much as a guilty pleasure, but if I am flipping and Xanadu is on, OH IT'S ON!!!!

[wheatenwalker]

I agree with The Prestige- great movie.
Rushmore
Lost in Translation- I love that movie
Once

[amandal]

I am a sucker for wierd/corny 80's type movies. My two ultimate favorites (I can quote the entire movies) are Encino Man and Drop Dead Fred.