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Good movies that no-one knows about

We all know about the normal good movies...the blockbuster smashes but what about the Foriegn/Limited/Small movies that no one has heard of? This may be a dupe, but I was just looking for some good movies to watch that are maybe a little different or something cool that I had never heard before

Better Luck Tomorrow. It got so little publicity, and yet manages to be so good.

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Better Luck Tomorrow. It got so little publicity, and yet manages to be so good.

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I hadn't heard about it until I saw something on IMDB

Meh, I'm a looser, something new...

Well, Interstate 60 comes to mind. Limited release, but a perfect 10/10 in my book. One of the best movies I've ever seen.

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Better Luck Tommorow was awful...I really found the movie stupid and boring...

And if nobody knew about the film, how would they know if it was good or not?

Equilibruim
Battle Royale
Donnie Darko


there are plenty...I can't think of anymore

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There are a few films in recent years that I had only heard about through word of mouth and on the internet, so I don't think they were really advertised...

May
Requiem For a Dream
Donnie Darko
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Poolhall Junkies

There are a ton of others, but those are all I can think of at the moment

The only film so far that i have not heard of is Y Tu Mama Tambien... any good?

For fairly unknown films, check out some of the limited release films groups put out. Films such as Tape which is very different from your average flick and quite good in my opinion.

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Tape, Spun, Lockdown, Just A Kiss, Final, Lovely & Amazing, Tadpole, ZigZag, Playaz Court... just to name a few.

Not all overly unknown or neccesarily films i would recommend, but everybody has different taste so thought id list a whole range. But what most of them have in common is the limited releasing and very different styles they are done in.

I have a huge list of my limited/foriegn releases that are fairly unknown somewhere as they are the type of movies i usually go for. I'll post some more, perhaps better, films if i get the chance.

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"Allen is having a small problem and needs help adjusting his additude" - Flutterby
"K meet of a the have we come in" - fisher @ SummaDayze '04, wtf?

too add to the list:

Whale Rider
Interstate 60
Morven Callar
The Sidewalks Of New York
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Spun
The Good Thief
Dirty Pretty Things

that's all for now, but i got heaps more.

Cube is on the border of mainstream/obscurity and is a great flick.

As for REALLY obscure, but great: Child's Play

IMDB listing

No, not the one about the Chucky doll, but a really cool "what the hell is going on here, and what is this all about?" flick. It was a Hammer house of Mystery and suspense made for TV job, but it still stands out as one of those films that had me glued to the screen.

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Oh, it's just JC

Interstate 60

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Originally posted by Bobby-Whiskey
There are a few films in recent years that I had only heard about through word of mouth and on the internet, so I don't think they were really advertised...

May!!!!!!!
Requiem For a Dream
Donnie Darko
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Poolhall Junkies

There are a ton of others, but those are all I can think of at the moment

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Y Tu Mama Tambien was great, probably one of the best coming of age movies I've ever seen. I like Om3n's mention of Tadpole; it had a set of nice laughs and situations...

not to sure if this did get some hype but ' Big Shot: Confessions Of A Campus Bookie ' was a good movie that i doint think i heard about until i watched it.

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Originally posted by flatland
not to sure if this did get some hype but ' Big Shot: Confessions Of A Campus Bookie ' was a good movie that i doint think i heard about until i watched it.

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100 girls

I think a lot of people know about 100 Girls...

if you like cheesy 70's and 80's horror films, check out the Sleepaway Camp Trilogy and The Lost Boys.

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Whale rider started off fairly unknown screening around film festivals, and im not too sure about other countries. But here in Australia the Partick Rafter Foundation screened it pretty much nationally at the begining of the year as a fund raiser with1/3 price tickets. So i'd say that was a pretty well know film.

Pretty well made movie, One New Zealand should be proud of.

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May sucked ass... argh

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I havn't yet seen May, but with all the mentions it is getting here i might just have to go get it.

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"Allen is having a small problem and needs help adjusting his additude" - Flutterby
"K meet of a the have we come in" - fisher @ SummaDayze '04, wtf?

"The General" B&W Irish IRA Film Top Notch

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suprised noone mentioned "City Of God" shure pho rated this movie as well

Yeah, Donnie Darko, The Guru, The Good Thief, and maybe Igby Goes Down or whatever...

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DEATH WATCH

DEATH WATCH is wiked movie

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suprised noone mentioned "City Of God" shure pho rated this movie as well

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Dirty Work
9/10 people have never heard of it.

probably one of the best Chris Farely movies out there.

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is there an english version of this movie out ? cause doesn't seem to be a dvd out

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Dirty Work
9/10 people have never heard of it.

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Igby Goes Down or whatever...

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"Allen is having a small problem and needs help adjusting his additude" - Flutterby
"K meet of a the have we come in" - fisher @ SummaDayze '04, wtf?

Igby is a classic. Who woulda thought a culkin could be capable of such things

Interstate 60
Equillibrium
all that comes to mind atm

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How are you rating the video and audio without actually having the movie????

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Delete them yourself, you have full rights to delete your own posts.

:: i deleted them for him, but please folks don't click submit more than once, your post WILL go through. stop being so click-happy. -M$

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PLAYERS COURT @ SNIPES SUCKSS MORE THEN ASS!!!!!

HOT MOVIES ARE

1.)EQUILIBRIUM
2.)CITY OF GOD
3.)DARTY GAME
4.)SHOTTAS
5.)CITY OF GOD
6.)NAKED WEAPON
7.)BALTIMORE CITY BAD GIRS (HOT MOVIE)

I don't think they mentioned DJing once in Equilibrum...maybe you should re-watch it...

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Mixtape cover... LOL

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Im not sure how popular this movie was when it was released but Tombstone an old western movie. THE best western movie IMO. Not like other westerns either has a newer vibe to it very exciting If youy like westerns and havnt seen this.. UR SO FIRED!

I don't think these are well known movies, but what do I know.

1) Snake In The Eagles Shadow
2) Drunken Master
3) Cube
4) Cube 2
5) Ultimate Teacher
6) The Wash
7) How High
8) Audition
9) 1/2 The Rent (only at film festivals)
10) It's a mad mad mad mad world
11) Shaolin Wooden Men
12) The Hulk

The Hulk & How High are houshold names heh. The others are not that well known though. /me liked Cube.

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"Allen is having a small problem and needs help adjusting his additude" - Flutterby
"K meet of a the have we come in" - fisher @ SummaDayze '04, wtf?

1. cross format versions of City of God are available now.
2. they are all subbed
3. if anyone ever EVER makes a dub of this movie, i'll kill them.

4. ultimate teacher kicked ass.

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i liked may.

run ronnie run is a real gem by the mr show guys...hard to find, cause lion's gate never released it, but funny and weird as all hell.

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Pootie Tang !

doesn`t everyone know about Pootie Tang ? and doesn`t that movie suck REALLY bad ?

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"As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster." -- Henry Hill, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1955.

I thought that was the point?

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"Allen is having a small problem and needs help adjusting his additude" - Flutterby
"K meet of a the have we come in" - fisher @ SummaDayze '04, wtf?

additional

Here's another film not many people have heard of, at least I don't know anyone who has heard of it and that's reason enough for me to post it.

-Life or something like it (Angelina Jolie film, she has blonde hair and a sister, nice ending)

volcano high is pretty kool.

Life or Something like it was a pretty decent flick. Centropy did a pretty good job with that one if memory serves. Just doesn't look quite right for AJ to have blonde hair like that though.

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"Allen is having a small problem and needs help adjusting his additude" - Flutterby
"K meet of a the have we come in" - fisher @ SummaDayze '04, wtf?

Requiem for a Dream

about drug addiction

The movie Memento was rather strange and good at the same time. I'm not sure if this movie was mainstream or what, all I know is that I did not hear about it until a friend recommended it to me and rather enjoyed it when I saw it. If you haven't seen it i highly recommend it, but once again I am not sure if this was an extremely small release or I just completel missed it.

We have a winner

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Requiem for a dream

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Powerful film.

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not exaclty unknown movie, but a good one...

y'all should move to canada, and get a channel called showcase...they run movies like all the ones mentioned in this thread on a daily basis...and because canadians aren't anal like some other north american country's residents are, they run them "uncut" as in there's still commercials, but also titties, and fuck words

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i think daily basis is just a tad strong but yeah its a good channel

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"As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster." -- Henry Hill, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1955.

Showcase kicks ass

Mememto was mainstream, but it turned out very well. That technique has very rarely been used.

Requim for a dream was also a very differently made film, and yea quite depressing to watch.

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"Allen is having a small problem and needs help adjusting his additude" - Flutterby
"K meet of a the have we come in" - fisher @ SummaDayze '04, wtf?

I thought Slashers was a good movie and I recommend it to anybody. Sort of original...

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SPY KIDS 3D

rofl

actually Donnie Darko and er uh.. Memento

I'm a sucker for japanese horror so, JU-ON (the first 2, not the remake) and such wonderfull wicked stuff. Those flicks are basically very much like Ringus are. Also TOMMY series is nice.

How bout Ed Wood?

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Groundhog Day
The Boiler Room
The Man Who Knew Too Little

Bill Murray has made some good comedies, Groundhog Day was probably one of the most underrated comedies of the 90s.

Everybody knows about Groundhog Day.
I liked it, but got tired of the same humor over and over by the time it finished.

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"Allen is having a small problem and needs help adjusting his additude" - Flutterby
"K meet of a the have we come in" - fisher @ SummaDayze '04, wtf?

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100 girls

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Loving God.... Vengeful God...

These are some of my favs

Thursday:
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0124901

Its about a former drug dealer who starts a new life but his past catches up with him. Lots of blood and gore but well directed!!

Versus:
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0275773

This one is kinda horror action move that invovles zombies,but its also well directed!!

Meet the feebles:
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0097858

Its one of peter jacksons first movies. It all puppets but really funny and weird. Definitly worth a watch in my opinon.

i cant think of any others right now but let me think over night and get back to ya. But if u havent seen these movies check them out asap.

a friend told me to rent a movie today so i did, just watched it and it was really good. i had never heard of it and i dont recal anyone ever talking about it but its called The Experiment (Das Experiment) its a german movie

too bad it wasn't dubbed in english but if you dont mind the subs you should check it out and besides its the kind of movie where the dialog isn't too important cause what you see is pretty much self explanitory

and its also based on a true story (i love those)

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0250258

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"As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster." -- Henry Hill, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1955.

The One

The One - very popular and well known. Decent film nontheless.

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"Allen is having a small problem and needs help adjusting his additude" - Flutterby
"K meet of a the have we come in" - fisher @ SummaDayze '04, wtf?

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These are some of my favs

Thursday:
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0124901
Its about a former drug dealer who starts a new life but his past catches up with him. Lots of blood and gore but well directed!!

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yeah i saw thursday on a cable movie channel a few years ago. was pretty good for a movie i'd not heard of before.

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i noticed a few ppl mentionned May and ummm well it made me go out and rent it and i just finished watching it.

now i have to say i really liked that movie but thing is, i dont really know what i liked about it. i do know however i felt the same way after watching Le Collectionneur (french canadian movie) wich is pretty much the exact same movie only instead of a girl its a man but still... i am not dissapointed at all so thanks for mentionning it

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boondock saints, it was an stv movie, but it kicks ass, noone i know has heard of it, but i thought the movie was quite good.

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boondock saints, it was an stv movie, but it kicks ass, noone i know has heard of it, but i thought the movie was quite good.

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1. Jacob's Ladder.

2. Dog Soldiers.

3. Donnie Darko.

I'm gonna check out all the recommendations made so far that I haven't seen.

My faves would include:
Spun
Interstate 60
May
Ghost World
Donnie Darko
Joe Dirt
Who Is Cletis Tout?
Punch-Drunk Love
Happiness
Nobody's Fool
Bubble Boy

I know they're not all obscure but well worth watching if U haven't already! Keep the suggestions coming, I wanna see them all!

for example

The Apartment (1960)
Il Postino (1994)
La Pianiste (2001) - [The Piano Teacher]
Joint Security Area (2000)
Lilja 4-Ever (2002)
Shall We Dansu? (1996) - JAP [remake with Bennifer on the way].
Hana-Bi (1997)
All The Presidents Men (1976)
Ladykillers (1955)
Vertigo (1958)
Time-Out (2001)
Repulsion (1965)
Office Space (1999)
Cyclo (1995)
Lone Star (1996)
The Dish (2000)
Othello (1995)
The Conversation (1974)
One Day In September (1999)
Heaven (2001)
Habla Con Ella (2002) - [Talk To Her]
Andrei Rublyov (1969)
Les Enfants Du Paradis (1945)
In The Mood For Love (2000)
Karakter (1997)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Riget (1994) - [The Kingdom]
Bloody Sunday (2002)
The Believer (2001)
Amarcord (1974)
Shackleton (2002)
Winter War (1989)
Spirited Away (2001)
Day Of The Jackal (1973)
Presumed Innocent (1990)
Quiz Show (1994)
Audition (1999)
Amadeus (1984)
Grave Of The Fireflies (1988)
Höstsonaten (1978) - [Autumn Sonata]
Todo Sobre Mi Madre (1999) - [All About My Mother]
Playing By Heart (1998)
La Haine (1995) - [Hate]
Ikiru (1952) - [To Live]
Cyrano De Bergerac (1990)
Warriors (2001) - BBC mini
Lantana (2001)
Escape From New York (1981)
Bound (1996)
Duck Soup (1933)
The Sting (1973)
Notorious (1946)
Hero (2002)
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959)
Name Of The Rose (1986)
Les Vacances de M. Hulot (1953)
The Great Dictator (1940)

... there are more good movies out there than you can think of, it's a sad thing most peeps dont know how to read subbies or understand film from pre-1990. you only limit yourself.

Nice selection....

I just prefer not to read subs, it can spoil the experience of watching a film if you have to sit there and read at the same time.

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Of corse, subs are always prefered over dubs.

How about Ringu, Original jap version of 'The Ring'
Cult Horror films.. there is also a Ringu 2 and more recently a Ringu 0 which is actually a prequel to the original.

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Dubbed english is usually pretty horrid and can botch the enjoyment of a film. For example, I was watching Intacto last week, and while I wanted to watch with subs, I was out-voted and we had to watch it dubbed. The voice acting was terrible and was the only drawback of the film, which I would have otherwise been thoroughly caught up in. If you can't handle subs, because maybe you can't read or you have problems doing more than one thing at a time, then by all means cheat the integrity of the film by dubbing in poorly acted voice-overs.

I actually love subtitles. So much so that I'll watch normal TV with closed captions turned on. They help a lot when you miss something that someone said due to accents, sound effects, music, someone sneezing, etc.

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i hate this new fuckin trend of calling Ring - "Ringu". nobody called it "Ringu" until the remake was made, so why change its name just so less idiots are confused?

i don't see westerners talking about Batoru rowaiaru (Battle Royale) so why call ring "Ringu". you're not japanese.

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1. Thats what it said on the DVD cases
2. It is pronounced Ring in english but spelt Ringu because of the simple fact that it is a japanese film and thats the way it was chosen to be spelt. (yes, i pronounce it ring)

And if you don't believe me, check imdb, the official titles are spelt with the u on the end. Since they are japanese films, ill spell em with the official and japanese titles.

And they subbed not dubbed, i hate dubbed films.

Settle down Mr.pHo

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"Allen is having a small problem and needs help adjusting his additude" - Flutterby
"K meet of a the have we come in" - fisher @ SummaDayze '04, wtf?

I wonder if anyone else d/ls movies because they say "LiMiTeD" in the dir name...

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i hate this new fuckin trend of calling Ring - "Ringu". nobody called it "Ringu" until the remake was made, so why change its name just so less idiots are confused?

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I dont download a film simply because it has limited in the folder name, however i am much more likely to get something i am unsure about, or have never heard of if it has limited in the folder.

I generally prefer low budget/limited ect films too the so called blockbusters.

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^ I've found some real gems getting limited movies...better than the $50+ million budget crap playing in theatres right now.

"THE KILLER" (HK MOVIE)

starring chow yun fat and directed by john woo,

pretty old movie, but the action scenes are the shit, better than face off shit (most was re-created from the killer b/c it was also directed by john woo)


its the best action movie that was ever made from hong kong..chow yun fat does his thang with the guns...the best original action scenes...

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hahahha yeah the killer, its cool how he has the same emotion on his face through the whole movie. wether he's fucking a chick or killing a dozen ppl his face doesn't change. hell of a flick

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just saw NINE QUEENS
great movie from .......Argentina,i think.
Got it from a friend,who most of the times only brings wicked movies.
But this one is great !!!

Funny Farm(Possibly Chevy Chase's best work since his vacation)
Freaks(1932 Great Flick!)

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Very Bad Things:

It starred cristian slater, cameron diaz and a couple of other big names, yet i had never even heard of it until i watched it on hbo one day. The title is so accurate too.. One thing bad happens and then its just a snowball effect till in the end ur just like "wtf"

hmmm I wouldnt say that this is a "unknown" movie as its widely available and pretty much everywhere....movie kinda sucks also

Oh come on! one of the guys impales a hookers head onto a bath hook um... by accident! VERY BAD THINGS!! *shrugs* well ok then. I thought it was good, but maybe i just have different taste then most. I really didnt know that it was a popular movie though. I never read any reviews on it.

home room

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"As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster." -- Henry Hill, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1955.

Dupe thread... but anyway
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Diner (1982)
Laurel Canyon (cmon MS, I watched it per your recommendation)

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dupe ? really ? do you remember what the other was called ?

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"As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster." -- Henry Hill, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1955.

good movies that no one knows about

due to the age of this thread, im wondering if its the same one. LOL. ok its early in the morning. i need some more coffee.
Also, good movie == Big Trouble in Little China >:]

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They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."

hey flipp0r, whats your favorite scene in Big Trouble in Little China ?

:: it's got to be the knife trowing scene at the end hehe that was cool !

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"As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster." -- Henry Hill, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1955.

the knife fight is pretty badass.
I like when all the statues crash into eachother.
And the lightening hat guy, who reminds me of Raiden.
Then there's the sliding into the giant pile of fish.
I want to go watch it now. haha

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They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."

yeah lightning guy's enough to make me watch it again lol

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