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SomeGuyFromOlympia said:
My go to 'under rated' movie.
On and Sunday, the OG, the original Bruce Brown documentary

no special effects, just old school Gen X life happening as it was
although I have a DVD, it is a direct copy of the VHS with the bad sound and visual wobbles left in there :grinpimp:
Most that are unaware of this little gem, but old school guys know what it is

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Might I add:

The World's Fastest Indian
Faster -
Hitting The Apex (narrated by Brat Pitt)
 
Lords of Dogtown

That was a large part of my teenage years. My grandma gave me a ride to Concord Calif. so I could buy a new Santa Cruz board. It was 170.00 and she shit herself for weeks over that.

I literally started with metal skates nailed to a 2X4 and then got a bannana board before getting the Santa Cruz
 
In the '90s-mid '00s it was pretty common to rewatch movies, but with the ubiquity of streaming it's become much less common for me. In my college days it was common to have any random DVD going in the background and I didn't own a lot of DVDs.

I believe there was a semester I watched Tombstone every single week night.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail is one I've seen 50+ times and have still downloaded and watched on my last two flights.

Starship Troopers got a lot of pay by me.

Steve Martin's The Jerk I can quote pretty much the entire movie, and randomly serenade Jewels with the Thermos song.

When I was a kid grandmother had the Kevin Costner Movie, A Perfect World on VHS, my cousins and I watched it several times for some reason. Also on heavy rotation at my grandparent's John Wayne's The Cowboys, Rio Lobo, and El Dorado (those last 2 are basically the same movie), The Man from Snowy River, Return to Snowy River, Lonesome Dove (recorded off the TV broadcast of course), Return to Lonesome Dove, Streets of Laredo, and Jurassic Park (that's not an underrated movie though).

When I met Jewels I was subjected to John Wayne's McLintock!, she's literally worn out 2 DVDs of it, she's watched it so much.

I don't know if they're underrated, but most of the '90s SNL cast members' movies have been in heavy rotation at various stages, Tommy Boy, Black Sheep, Dirty Work, Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, etc. When we moved to Ohio we didn't have an antenna or cable upstairs and went to bed watching Tommy Boy every night for like a month.

Our niece is 12 almost 13 and spent a couple weeks with us over the past year. We've introduced her to John Candy movies, and I'm proud to say she's a fan. The Great Outdoors has been her favorite so far. I forgot about Steve Martin's rant at the rental car counter in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, thankfully she's a mature 12 year old. :laughing:

I've got The Goonies on Bluray for the next time she visits.
 
Blues Brothers is one of my faves. I rented that on way too many nights back in college.
 
SomeGuyFromOlympia said:
My go to 'under rated' movie.
On and Sunday, the OG, the original Bruce Brown documentary

no special effects, just old school Gen X life happening as it was
although I have a DVD, it is a direct copy of the VHS with the bad sound and visual wobbles left in there :grinpimp:
Most that are unaware of this little gem, but old school guys know what it is

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:laughing:

The oldest Gen X'ers would have been 6 when that movie was released. That movie was about Boomers having fun on two wheels.

Bruce Brown made some good docu's and his son Dana did with Step Into Liquid.
 
Penetrode Offroad said:
Tomorrow War
World War Z
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I really thought I would like The Tomorrow War, I like Pratt, I like sci-fi, that's a somewhat intriguing and unique premise for a story. The execution however, was not great.

World War Z could have been better as well. I felt like they glossed over A LOT.

I hear the book is phenomenal, I actually bought it for my Kindle but never read it before the battery swelled up and broke the screen. I don't read enough to have bothered replacing or fixing it.
 
Roc Doc said:
:laughing:

The oldest Gen X'ers would have been 6 when that movie was released. That movie was about Boomers having fun on two wheels.

Bruce Brown made some good docu's and his son Dana did with Step Into Liquid.
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How old was Jeff Ward in that video?:grinpimp:
Bruce Brown did the best documentaries, Dana did Step Into Liquid, but it was a tribute to The Endless Summer
as so is Dust to Glory

all top notch videos
:beer:
 
The hitcher....

No country for old men

Heat... I liked the bank shootout when they actually show rifles being used and shooting through the patrol cars...
 
American Made
True Lies
Donnie Darko
Edge of Tomorrow/Live, Die Repeat
I, Tonya


Lee said:
World War Z could have been better as well. I felt like they glossed over A LOT.

I hear the book is phenomenal, I actually bought it for my Kindle but never read it before the battery swelled up and broke the screen. I don't read enough to have bothered replacing or fixing it.
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The book is 1000% better. The movie is an unrecognizable husk compared to it.
 
Otto M@n said:
Might I add:

The World's Fastest Indian
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Fun trivia-

My friend used to work at netflix and was the guy responsible for managing the project to get their streaming operation off the ground back when they would just mail you DVDs to watch(yes, he now has lots and lots of money and no longer works at netflix). I went to visit him just before the project got released and he had their new streaming service up in his house with the first movie they had stream-able: The World's Fastest Indian.
 
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