Fandango / A Life Less Ordinary
FANDANGO
Saw it on BBC2 when i was a young 'un - ok, so it's got Kevin Costner in it but it's a proper boys own/growning up/big funny adult adventure type film. Still to this day i love it.

Basically, it's 1971 and 5 or 6 mates 'The Groovers' are finishing University and if they dont pass they're going to be 'drafted' to Vietnam. So, right at the end of the ceremony they decide to go on 1 last road trip to 'dig up Dom'

It's a bit like the spice girls, there's 1 lad for everyone in there - Judd Nelson is the geek, Costner is the rebel leader, etc

Love it. Ignore the name as it sounds like a dance.


A LIFE LESS ORDINARY
Anyone else think this is really under rated? Ewan is dead natural and believable in it, the angels are brilliant - fucking class film!

(i've tried to pick quirky unusual ones that people may have missed. otherwise Blade Runner, Akira, etc, all spring to mind.)
(TheManofScience, Fri 18 Jul 2008, 8:58, 3 replies)

Fandango... Yes
I recall graffiti-ing a quote from that on my bedroom wall as an insufferable teenager. Buggered if I can recall what it was, mind you.

That McGregor vehicle was shite, however, I'm afraid.
(Chickenwire social lubricator extraordinaire, Fri 18 Jul 2008, 9:42, closed)

The Quote!
Was it that bit at the end, where he's trying to convince them to keep running with him, explaining how good it'll be "if they'll all just go with him and see" - he's like the little boys voice in our heads, telling us to go and do that stuff we shouldn't - dead poignant. i'm getting all heavy now.

However, it did also introduce me to Steppenwolfs 'Born to be wild' and Elton Johns 'Saturday Nights all right for fighting' - a couple of classic tunes!!!
(TheManofScience, Fri 18 Jul 2008, 10:18, closed)

A LIFE LESS ORDINARY
I liked it, especially Tony Shalhoub's monologue about Cameron Diaz going to "heaven for high-class pussy".
(Emily Bruce-Dickinson http://jovialfellow.blogspot.com/, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 9:51, closed)