If you’re in the mood for movies that are a bit underrated and wacky, then any of these three selections will make you happy.
The Quick and the Dead (1995) is a Western movie directed by Sam Raimi and starring Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, and Leonardo DiCaprio.
The Lady, played by Stone, is a gunslinger who enters a quick-draw contest in Redemption to get to the town's corrupt mayor, Herod, played by Hackman.
Two other competitors, reformed preacher Cort played by Crowe and The Kid played by DiCaprio, also enter the contest.
Starship Troopers (1997) is a sci-fi movie directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Casper Van Dien.
The movie is a free adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein’s influential 1959 sci-fi novel.
It tells the story of Johnny Rico, who works his way through the ranks and defends his home planet against an alien invasion.
Shadow in the Cloud (2020) is a horror movie set during World War II and directed by Roseanne Liang.
It stars Chloe Grace Moretz as Maude Garrett, who discovers a gremlin destroying an aircraft she is riding on with an all-male crew on a top secret mission.
Maude has to fight off the gremlin, flying Japanese planes, and prove herself to her fellow pilots.