Unusual movies!
Jan. 4th, 2015 08:31 amSo, between the Boston Sci Fi Film Festival and 'Thon and assorted little independent film festival things over the years, I've seen a few obscure little movies. Here's a list of some of them that Netflix either has (on DVD or streaming) or at least knows about (implying they will eventually have them)
On the other hand, Dragon Day aired at the 2014 thon and is terrible and I recommend not seeing it. It was a bad movie and it pissed me off.
- Coherence Ignore the "woo! it's caused by a comet!" maguffin and just enjoy the "Edward Albee in the Twilight Zone" essence of it.
- The Ghastly Love of Johnny X: It's a parody of / homage to the late 50's early 60's "shot for cheap outside LA" drive-in movie genre. I loved it. Juvenile delinquents! Musical numbers! That guy who played Tromeo in "Tromeo and Juliet"! Paul Williams! If you don't enjoy it by the time the first musical number ends, then you're really not going to enjoy it and should just turn it off. trivia: this was the last feature film shot on EASTMAN PLUS-X Kodak B&W film. Also, Box Office Mojo lists it as the lowest grossing film of 2012.
- War of the Worlds: Goliath is listed on Netflix but doesn't seem to have any kind of actual distribution deal. How do armor-plated dirigibles stay aloft? I don't know and I don't care - this animated movie has all the awesome Deco-tastic monument buildings in a steampunk/gernsbackian NYC and has Teddy Roosevelt leading mecha into battle against the returning Martian horde.
- On Broadway: A guy processes his father's death by putting on a show. As one does. (Not sf/f, but it's a local movie filmed in and around Somerville)
- Knights of Badassdom: LARPers accidentally summon a real demon. Peter Dinklage kicks ass. There's also a River Tam beats up everyone sequence. I don't know the people in this movie, but I totally know the people in this movie. (Complete with bickering poly couple in the woods...)
- The Congress: I saw this a few months ago at the Brattle. The whole thing is both ambitious and flawed, but even if you turn it off after it takes a left turn into crazy animated trippy Stanislaw-Lem-land, I think it's really worth watching the first half. All of the scenes with Robin Wright and Harvey Keitel are great, particularly the digitization sequence.
- Dimensions: a Loop a Line a Tangle of Thread doesn't seem to have gotten a distribution deal, either. It looks like what would happen if Merchant Ivory made a time travel movie.
- I thought Bunker 6 was going to have some kind of Canadian release, but it doesn't seem to have yet.
- SOS: Save Our Skins is about British geeks in NY who wake up to a zombie apocalypse and it has not one but two guys who seem like they want to grow up to be Nick Frost. It looks like it aired on Canadian TV last year so maybe it'll hit video in the US?
- Space Milkshake I thought this was very silly and fun. It's kind of hard to explain, but they're garbage workers in space (shades of "Quark") and George Takei provides the voice for a menacing rubber duck.
On the other hand, Dragon Day aired at the 2014 thon and is terrible and I recommend not seeing it. It was a bad movie and it pissed me off.