Wednesday, June 24, 2009

List: MY Bum/Lunatic/Drug Addict Movies!

[My Movie Picks for Good Movies about the Bum/Lunatic/Addict Life! Not in Order.]

1) Down and Out in Beverly Hills (Oh yessss!)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090966/

2) Trading Places
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086465/

3) Basketball Diaries (Good book, too. Based on a true story.)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112461/

4) Drugstore Cowboy
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097240/

5) Barfly
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092618/

6) The Big Lubowski (Of Course)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/

7) Naked Lunch
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102511/

8) Oliver Twist (Still valid today on the streets...)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040662/

9) Le Miserable (Ditto)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119683/

10) Easy Rider (OF COURSE)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064276/

11) The Fisher King (Quite Accurate Portrayal by Williams...)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101889/

12) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (The Bible)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/

13) Basquiat (Not all Bums are so Lucky, most go to jail for vandalism)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115632/

14) I Shot Andy Warhol (Valerie knows what it's like)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116594/

15) Crazy People (Okay, it's fun)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099316/

16) The Lost Weekend (Sometimes it happens...)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037884/

17) Wise Blood (Not a bum, but a searcher all the same)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080140/

18) The Dream Team (More crazy fun!)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097235/

19) The Devil's Rejects (Oh yeah)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395584/

20) Strange Brew (They are Bums, right?)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086373/

21) Shakes the Clown (Kinda a bum, at least an Alchi. Get it, "Shakes?")
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102898/

22) Sante Sangre (My family life in metaphor)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098253/

23) Holy Mountain (My spiritual path in metaphor)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071615/

24) Wall-E (The picture of Fat, Lazy, society is very accurate)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/

25) Life Stinks (I wish!)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102303/

26) Sid and Nancy (Too glamoris, needs more vomit, still pretty good)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091954/

27) Down By Law (Fuck, yeah!)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090967/

28) Man Facing Southeast (It's True!)
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm451252992/tt0091214

29) State Property 2 (Realistic-ish)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0403537/


Honorable Mention
1) Traffic (Drugs, yo, for real)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181865/

2) Clerks (boredom culture)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109445/

3) Party Monster (yes, this happens)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0320244/

4) Bad Santa (not all criminals are all bad, truly)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307987/

5) Breakfast Club (That slacker guy you know is going to be a Bum)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088847/

6) 12 Monkeys (I feel it)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114746/

7) Repo Man (Lots of poor people)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087995/

8) Real Genius (that one guy who lives on campus at 40 is a great bum idol)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/

9) Broken Flowers (that's life, really)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412019/

10) Dumb and Dumber (they're bums, come on)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109686/

11) American Splendor (He's very poor, and realistic)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0305206/

12) The Craft (Hokey, but hey, it happens)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115963/

Dishonorable Mention

1) Annie (You Wish!)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

THE SOLOIST with Jamie Fox and Robert Downey is the latest. Fox plays a homeless schizo and Downey plays the LA Times reporter who befriends him. Fox is a Juillard drop out.

Jane Doe said...

yeah, I tried it and it was *Enjoyable*, but not REALISTIC, or even FUN, so NO GO ;P nice try though, Hollywood!