Not-so-popular movies you've seen recently that you surprisingly liked...

[Samuel L. Jackson]

I have a habit of scrolling through Encore (free movie channel on TWC) about once a week and DVRing movies that look interesting or that I haven't seen in the past...

Every now and then I'll find a good one that I liked more than I expected I would.

Blindness, a story about life after some sort of disease/event causes a lot of people to go blind, is a pretty good flick...

Miracle at St. Anna is a WW2 movie by Spike Lee about a "supernatural" event that happens to a few black soldiers... This has some pretty good humor in it, even though it tries to convey a spiritual meaning ultimately...

I finally watched Rob Roy in its entirety, and overall, it was a good movie too...

Anyone else seen any surprisingly good movies lately?

[Samuel L. Jackson]

grrr... could a Mod fix my mistype in the title? lol

[Carolina Husker]

Miracle at St. Anna is absolute garbage. One of the most boring and pointless films ever made.

[g5jamz]

Book of Eli (recent)

The Little Princess (from long ago)

Ride with the Devil

Zulu

[CharlotteBeer.com]

I recently watched "Once," but it was horrible. No action, races or fight scenes to speak of.

[Delhommey]

Un Prophete

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1213205-prophet/

[Panthro]

Recently watched and enjoyed

Invention of Lying

Paperheart

Up in the Air

[Matt Foley]

I liked Armored. And call me crazy, but I liked Knowing for the first four fifths of the movie.

[Panthro]

I liked Armored. And call me crazy, but I liked Knowing for the first four fifths of the movie.

You mean after it became a Scientology movie?

[Matt Foley]

You mean after it became a Scientology movie?

I was SO disappointed in that ending. I mean the plane crash scene alone was worth the price of admission.

[Jase]

There's this little-known french indie flick that I saw up in north charlotte this weekend. Solid acting, good character development, conflicting love interests. It's about a man who puts up a tough exterior and acts like a jerk, but really has a heart of gold and is a hero. It's called Homme de Fer, Le Deuxième, or roughly translated into english, Iron Man 2.

[Samuel L. Jackson]

Miracle at St. Anna is absolute garbage. One of the most boring and pointless films ever made.

haha I can see why you'd say that... as a lot of it was boring and pointless... kind of a long movie to tell such a simple story...

I just liked the "Chocolate giant" jokes and the nice rack on that one chick...

...a nice rack often makes up for other bad parts in a movie...

[cookinbrak]

IFC has a lot of obscure movies. 13 Tzameti was on there, it's pretty good. A Russian movie about 13 guys that are forced to/get paid to play a game of Russian Roulette-they each get one bullet, spin the chamber, and stand in a circle pointing at the back of the head in front of them.

[Delhommey]

Recently watched and enjoyed

Invention of Lying

Paperheart

Up in the Air

The Invention of Lying had soooo much promise, but he just made it into a run of the mill romantic comedy.

Up in the Air made me have a mancrush on George Clooney.