Ignore What the Critics Say, You Should Watch These Underrated Movies

 Nightcrawler (2014) 

Jake Gyllenhaal plays an amateur cameraman that collects film and photos of violent crimes as they unfold. His character has a knack for being in the exact right place at the perfect time, and he makes his living risking his life while driving around all night collecting footage. This description doesn’t do the theme and context of this film justice, it is truly just as intense as any Jason Borne movie, without the macho aspects. For a film about shooting film, you’d expect there to be some serious cinematics, and boy do they deliver. This movie really has some of the coolest and most outstanding shots of the decade.

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The More You Know

  • War pigs were used in ancient warfare to counter against war elephants, which feared the pigs (and their squeals) and would bolt. War pigs were sometimes lit on fire to enhance this effect.
  • There are around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. If you took them all out and laid them end to end, they’d stretch around the world more than twice.
  • People write love letters to trees in Australia via email.
  • It costs the U.S. Mint almost twice as much to mint each penny and nickel as the coins are actually worth. Taxpayers lost over $100 million in 2013 just through the coins being made.
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