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 905  6.1  6.8 What I dig about it:✔ Fantastic atmosphere. Like all Tim Burton movies, this movie is wonderfully surreal. ✔ Great writing, with some great, memorable dialogue. ✔ Fantastic adventure. Every kid should see this at least once. It's essentially about a kid, his favourite bike, and the adventure he goes on to retrieve it, when it's stolen. Except the "kid" is a man-child. Weird, yes, but somehow it works (at least for me). Grisly Atoms's rating:
 
308 6.8 6.8 What I dig about it:✔ Great writing. ✔ Great soundtrack. ✔ Punk as f---, without overdoing it. A lot of punk rock inspired movies, about punks, like to throw "punk" in your face. This movie seems to respect the subculture a bit more. ✔ Gritty, just how I like it. Grisly Atoms's rating:
 
12 6.7 5.9 What I dig about it:✔ Good writing. ✔ Good suspense, and atmosphere. ✔ Goofy yellow hats. Grisly Atoms's rating:
50 7.2 6.6 What I dig about it:✔ Very Hitchcockian. Think Rear Window, except taking place in a moving semi truck. ✔ Mixes classic Hitchcockian styles/themes with touches of the 80's slasher craze, that Hitchcock is oft credited for grandfathering, with Psycho. ✔ Jamie Lee Curtis. Another connection to Hitchcock (Curtis is the daughter of Janet Leigh, who played Marion in Psycho), as well as the slasher subgenre (Curtis was in Halloween, as well as a few other 80s slashers). Grisly Atoms's rating:
72 7.3 6.8 What I dig about it:✔ Properly punk. Feels like the real deal, which is helped along by the sort of "docu-drama" style of it, and the fact that the "actors" were "real" punks, and not actors. ✔ Good writing. ✔ Decent, "true-to-life" drama, even if the acting is sub-par. ✔ Great soundtrack. ✔ Suburbia in turmoil. It's always good to peer under the nice glossy top coat of suburban life. Grisly Atoms's rating:
77 7.2 6.1 What I dig about it: Grisly Atoms's rating:
20 7.3 6 What I dig about it:✔ An interesting experiment in film/sound editing, and could even be considered "artistic" - depending on who you ask. There is almost no dialog, but Waters has used snippets of pop music, and sound to sort of create the "mood" for each scene. Pretty cool. ✔ Trashy, as the title, and director suggests. Grisly Atoms's rating:
180 6.7 6.7 What I dig about it:✔ Awesome movie spoofs and skits. ✔ Good writing overall. ✔ Weird Al. ✔ Michael Richards. Grisly Atoms's rating:
573 6.9 6.2 What I dig about it:✔ Bizarre / seemingly nonsensical. Surreal at times. ✔ Trashy / gritty. ✔ Odd, almost poetic narration, and imagery. ✔ Shot documentary style, lending some realism to the absurd situations and characters. To be honest, I'm not even sure they are "characters". They could all very well be real people, just being themselves. Some of them certainly seemed pretty genuine. Grisly Atoms's rating:
51 5.2 4.4 What I dig about it:✔ Michael Richards. He is great in this, if you ask me. Easily my favourite character. The scene with the doll is sidesplittingly hilarious to me. ✔ Overall fairly funny. Does have a few misses, but I think there are more hits than misses. ✔ Vaguely has the feel of a Mel Brooks film, which isn't surprising, considering it's written & directed by Rudy De Luca, who has acted in, and written at least a few Mel Brooks films. Grisly Atoms's rating:
 
261 5.4 5.8 What I dig about it:✔ Contrary to most people's opinions, I think Chevy Chase made a pretty good Invisible Man. ✔ Narration. I am a sucker for narration. I really don't know why. ✔ Some damn good effects for the time. ✔ Overall pretty entertaining, like pretty much all of John Carpenter's films. Grisly Atoms's rating:
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Yes, I noticed that too. I have to give some of the movies on your underrated list a watch as well. Thanks!