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Post by punksnotdead on Apr 30, 2016 18:28:26 GMT -5
Kalifornia
Buying the Cow
Doomsday
Pi
Lucky Number Slevin
None of them particularly obscure imo but often return funny looks when I talk about them. Some films are just starting to age out. Stuff like Willow. You know, stuff I'll be forcing my kid to watch with his friends to keep the magic alive. Love Heavyweights by the way. Right up there with Camp Nowhere for me.
I think Snowpiercer is the most recent version of this concept. Everyone I told about it was like "yeah, I have Netflix, but I've never heard of it" haha.
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Post by Robert69 on Apr 30, 2016 18:51:32 GMT -5
Sadly, another one -- and probably the best movie that could ever not be seen -- is 12 Angry Men. Seems if people don't watch it in High School, they've never seen it.
Unfortunate because for as simple as the set up, and premise, are -- it's exquisitely executed on every level.
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Post by TheLastDude on Apr 30, 2016 18:56:15 GMT -5
Not a movie, but going to toss in Saved by the Bell. Worked late last year with a couple 18 yr olds who gave me the weirdest look when I told the one kid he looked like Zack Morris (he DID) -- then when I described the show, they acted like I was describing the advent of celluloid... Kids these days. I had almost the same experience a few weeks ago in regards to Quantum Leap. |
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Post by sonstuds on May 1, 2016 0:40:42 GMT -5
It got Golden Globes and Oscar nominations but I just assume only like 20 people in North America have heard of In Bruges.
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Post by Mikeo on May 1, 2016 0:51:19 GMT -5
Samurai Cop.
Such a Cheesy and Stupid movie, Yet also hilarious.
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Post by King Richius on May 1, 2016 1:30:13 GMT -5
I own all of these movies and like them for various reasons. Nobody who browses my collection has ever heard of them: Barbarella - Jane Fonda in campy sci fi sexploitation flick with trippy 60s psychedelic effects Bubba Ho-Tep - low budget monster flick with Bruce Campbell, a must see for Evil Dead fans Joe's Apartment - the cockroaches dance and sing!!! Run Lola Run - repeating time loop action flick Stardust - Neil Gaiman wrote the book which would be good enough for me but the movie delivers I also have to give a sideways nod to the original Rollerball, Clockwork Orange, and Dr. Strangelove as movies everybody I know has heard of but few seem to have actually seen. punksnotdead I have to second your choices of Pi & Doomsday. I own both movies and enjoy watching them every so often. |
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Post by Chicago on May 1, 2016 1:52:30 GMT -5
It got Golden Globes and Oscar nominations but I just assume only like 20 people in North America have heard of In Bruges. I first saw it in a film history class I took in college back in the spring of 2010. Kudos to the first-time professor for screening that in our final week of class. I had never heard of it before, and I'm not sure if anyone in that lecture hall had ever seen it either, but I believe that everyone became a fan by the end. Same goes for Hal Ashby's Harold and Maude, a favorite of mine to this day. Fritz Lang's M, Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd, and Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali are three other favorites of mine that I've only discovered in recent years and would gladly recommend to anyone interested. |
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2016 3:55:14 GMT -5
It got Golden Globes and Oscar nominations but I just assume only like 20 people in North America have heard of In Bruges. Another film probably in my top 20. The sole reason I could never hate Colin Ferrell. |
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Post by 5th Horsewoman on May 1, 2016 15:31:59 GMT -5
Cash Back
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Post by Warlord37 on May 1, 2016 15:35:19 GMT -5
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
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Post by J Man Graves on May 1, 2016 15:38:08 GMT -5
Waking Life
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Post by Grumpyoldman on May 1, 2016 18:20:59 GMT -5
Young Sherlock Holmes. Very good movie that always gets overlooked.
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Post by Robert69 on May 1, 2016 19:00:41 GMT -5
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Post by 👑🇵🇭⭐️ on May 2, 2016 14:52:14 GMT -5
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Post by venusflytyr on May 2, 2016 19:10:31 GMT -5
nobody had seen/heard of when you talk about them? Mine has to be Ed Wood. Filmmaker colleagues know it well, but the average person? Not likely. "It's a Tim Burton movie" -- Oh, the guy who did Batman/Edward Scissorhands. "It has Johnny Depp." -- Oh...really? I don't think so? I'm a HUGE Depp fan. Either way, I love this movie. Probably my favorite of Burton's work, and near the top for Depp as well. I just watched Ed Wood for the first time, I loved it, and…I had been avoiding it for ever, it has George "the Animal" Steele starring in it, and it's a great (totally accurate?) true story. and the black and white referring more to Jim Jarmusch than , uh , were all Ed Wood's movie in genuine black and white? The only Ed Wood movie I have seen is Glen or Glenda , a while ago though, and remember really being entertained by it, like it was surprisingly fresh and not a campy like thing. but I have to re see it, beyond that we all live in chinatown now and and everyone both does and doesn't know what anyone is referring to.. what could I say since it so post blurry(BLURAY) now…I wonder if I hated Big Eyes, it was ok, I was pretty bored-ish by it, would people know about the Zero Theorem, and Kevin Smith's TUSK? David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis and Map to the Stars, i have no answer since I haven't talked to anyone |
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Post by Robert69 on May 2, 2016 19:20:43 GMT -5
nobody had seen/heard of when you talk about them? Mine has to be Ed Wood. Filmmaker colleagues know it well, but the average person? Not likely. "It's a Tim Burton movie" -- Oh, the guy who did Batman/Edward Scissorhands. "It has Johnny Depp." -- Oh...really? I don't think so? I'm a HUGE Depp fan. Either way, I love this movie. Probably my favorite of Burton's work, and near the top for Depp as well. I just watched Ed Wood for the first time, I loved it, and…I had been avoiding it for ever, it has George "the Animal" Steele starring in it, and it's a great (totally accurate?) true story. and the black and white referring more to Jim Jarmusch than , uh , were all Ed Wood's movie in genuine black and white? The only Ed Wood movie I have seen is Glen or Glenda , a while ago though, and remember really being entertained by it, like it was surprisingly fresh and not a campy like thing. but I have to re see it, beyond that we all live in chinatown now and and everyone both does and doesn't know what anyone is referring to.. what could I say since it so post blurry(BLURAY) now…I wonder if I hated Big Eyes, it was ok, I was pretty bored-ish by it, would people know about the Zero Theorem, and Kevin Smith's TUSK? David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis and Map to the Stars, i have no answer since I haven't talked to anyone I mean, they took a few liberties here and there, as any fictional biography does, but it's pretty damn accurate. I think his last movie or two were in color before he died, but the movies he's known for, they were all genuinely black and white. And legit were awful. His attitude about "the details don't matter", or "it's real, they'd have to deal with that in real life" -- was his actual mindset. To him, it was real, therefore relatable. What he didn't understand was that when you knock over cardboard headstones, or plywood set walls -- it ruins the entire point of filmmaking, which is escapism. His very theory and concept of filmmaking was wrong. Not much to build on from there. |
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Post by The Dave on May 2, 2016 20:05:56 GMT -5
I have quite a few but Vanilla Sky, Equilibrium and Kung Pow! are the main ones. I love all those movies but very few people I know have seen them.
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Post by Robert69 on May 2, 2016 20:14:40 GMT -5
They're a fun watch. Awful, but fun. He's certainly not the only filmmaker you can say that about. And the cross-dressing thing was very real. He included his "obsession" with Angora in several of his movies (I think Ed Wood hints at that when they're making one of the movies) |
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Post by Robert69 on May 2, 2016 20:15:52 GMT -5
I have quite a few but Vanilla Sky, Equilibrium and Kung Pow! are the main ones. I love all those movies but very few people I know have seen them. I love Equilibrium, and know some people who have no idea about it. The Faculty is another movie that comes to mind. In my opinion, one of the last quality sci-fi "teen horror" flicks to come from that era...but most people haven't seen it, or even heard of it. |
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