R Soul on 23/12/2008 at 16:24
Did they ever make a film version of Italian Spiderman?
Aerothorn on 23/12/2008 at 17:25
Taegukgi hwinalrimyeo (aka Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War) comes to mind - melodramatic, sure, but still a pretty awesome Korean War movie.
Ajare on 23/12/2008 at 18:26
Quote Posted by R Soul
Did they ever make a film version of Italian Spiderman?
Unfortunately not, although in Indian Superman, Superman does a song and dance routine with Spiderwoman, so I guess that counts for something. I also recommend Turkish Superman, along with the other classic films by the great
auteur Çetin Inanç. I recently came into possession of Turkish ET (aka
Badi), and found its earthy bathos quite refreshing, and a welcome break from the mawkish sentimentality of the original.
Gryzemuis on 23/12/2008 at 23:36
Nice to see that people mention Andrej Tarkovski and Werner Herzog. And more than once. Are we sure this is a gaming website ?
Stalker (by Tarkovski) has already been mentioned. It was one of the first movies that I saw where I realized that not all movies are about love or cowboys and indians. Around that time I also saw Eraserhead by Lynch. (I'm Dutch, so I can mention him).
One movie I'd like to recommend is "Auch Zwergen haben klein angefangen". ("Dwarfs also had to start small"). By Werner Herzog. I'm not sure if you would be able to find this movie. But if you can, watch it. It's hilarious. It's different from anything you've ever seen before.
Angel Dust on 23/12/2008 at 23:49
My local DVD store stocks that one but only on VHS :(
demagogue on 24/12/2008 at 00:02
Quote Posted by Ajare
I also recommend Turkish Superman, along with the other classic films by the great
auteur Çetin Inanç. I recently came into possession of Turkish ET (aka
Badi), and found its earthy bathos quite refreshing, and a welcome break from the mawkish sentimentality of the original.
And you can't miss Turkish Star Wars. I believe this was the one that used large cardboard cutouts of Darth Vader in different poses and would periodically cut from some dingy looking warehouse with bad lighting to polished space scenes directly from Star Wars.
vurt on 24/12/2008 at 03:22
Quote Posted by demagogue
And you can't miss Turkish Star Wars. I believe this was the one that used large cardboard cutouts of Darth Vader in different poses and would periodically cut from some dingy looking warehouse with bad lighting to polished space scenes directly from Star Wars.
No, they dont use Darth Vader at all. They do use "some" scenes from Star Wars (the explosion of the Death Star and while inside a cockpit they use a space scene from SW as a backdrop, for example). They mix the Star Wars theme with their religious beliefs.. (
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7069307816427160377)
It has some really great scenes, especially when one of the two main characters must exercise.. he binds two huge rocks to his legs and jumps around to the theme music from Indiana Jones. A you tube "training montage" video with the Rocky music: (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cufQD5Y31ZA)
And uh, i have no idea what this movie is doing in a thread which contains "best films" in the topic.. ;)
demagogue on 24/12/2008 at 08:23
Quote Posted by vurt
No, they dont use Darth Vader at all.
Right ... Well that night's theme was 'awful Star Wars spoofs', so there were a couple. It's easy to mix them up. But one of them had the Darth Vader cut-out.
It was a whole night of Turkish Star Wars, The Star Wars Christmas Special, Darth Vader cutout Star Wars, and Episode I. :laff:
Ajare on 24/12/2008 at 11:52
Quote Posted by vurt
And uh, i have no idea what this movie is doing in a thread which contains "best films" in the topic.. ;)
Believe it or not, not everyone shares the same definition of 'best'. For a start, the whole idea of "best Non-American/Hollywood/English-language films" is pretty patronising in the first place. But then again, people who insist that obscure art-house films made by a Uruguayan alpaca farmer are inherently better than Michael Bay's latest thunderfuck are tedious beyond belief.
There are an awful lot of 'bad movies' that are just plain bad. As much as I love the concept of
Porno Holocaust (and the fact that Annj Goren is in it), it's just rubbish. Same with other titles such as
Female Ninjas In Bed With The Enemy,
Boss Nigger,
Da Hip Hop Witch and
For Your Height Only (starring Agent 003.5, I think you can guess this film's gimmick), which promise more than they deliver. After a while you realise that 'so bad they're good' films are actually quite rare, and Meisterwerken such as
Combat Mortal should be cherished for achieving something so few films can, even if they do so unintentionally.
Thirith on 24/12/2008 at 12:31
Quote Posted by Ajare
Believe it or not, not everyone shares the same definition of 'best'. For a start, the whole idea of "best Non-American/Hollywood/English-language films" is pretty patronising in the first place. But then again, people who insist that obscure art-house films made by a Uruguayan alpaca farmer are inherently better than Michael Bay's latest thunderfuck are tedious beyond belief.
You know what? Fuck you. Patronising? Talk about projecting... Nowhere in this thread does it say, "What are your favourite films in other languages than your mother tongue, because they are so much better than English-language dreck." That is solely in your head. You know what is tedious? People who have an enormous chip on their shoulder about stupid little things.
