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OT: Favorite movies that no one's heard of.

Wonder Boys (2000), directed by the criminally underappreciated Curtis Hanson.

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(James Leer has shot the Chancellor's husband's dog and the body is in the trunk of Grady's car, which Grady is driving at the moment)

James Leer: Professor Tripp? Can I ask you a question?

Grady Tripp: Yeah, James.

James Leer: What are we going to do with... it?

Grady Tripp: I don't know. I'm still trying to figure out how to tell the Chancellor I murdered her husband's dog.

James Leer: You?

Grady Tripp: Trust me, James, when the family pet's been assassinated, the owner doesn't want to hear one of her students was the trigger man.

James Leer: Does she want to hear it was one of her professors?

Grady Tripp: ...I've got tenure.
 
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psuro said:
Bad Boys. The one with Sean Penn and Esai Morales. And not that no one has heard of it but it’s 36 years old and I would imagine most people who did see it have forgotten about it.

The scene where Penn puts soda cans in a pillow case and beats his tormentor is classic.
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Yes, I've seen that movie, once, and there's not a relaxed moment in the entire film. Very hard to find nowadays.
 
johnmpsu said:
I'll add a favorite of mine: "The Man From Earth" .
Written by Jerome Bixby practically the entire movie takes place in one room.
I love dialogue driven movies.
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I saw that film... did not think it was special but did enjoy it.

One of the actors was the Greatest American Hero which I found interesting.

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LionJim said:
Really, this is Coppola's best film. Amazing film, worth rewatching many times.
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I didn't know it was Coppola... which is funny. It was recommended to me on Netflix, back when they were a DVD mailing company. One it introduced me to San Francisco back then. I visited the area of the film shortly afterwards. Two, it's a film about technology but an incredible drama.

So yes, agree completely.

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hagberg said:
I thought I was going to make it all the way through this list without seeing this movie mentioned. I've probably watched it a dozen times, and it cracks me up every time!


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I also love The Gods Must Be Crazy. There was a sequel which was not as good. For a really unknown low-budget film that is somewhat similar, there is Luggage of the Gods! The teaser on the ad was "It was the dawn of man. One tribe overslept." A primitive tribe sees a jetliner lose its luggage in flight and discovers the fruits of modern technology, including a cassette player that plays Build Me Up, Buttercup by the Foundations, which they consider to be a sacred hymn. There is the usual conflict with some criminals who try to recover some counterfeit contraband. Hilarity ensues. It is very hard to find today.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luggage_of_the_Gods!
 
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Leo Ridens said:
I also love The Gods Must Be Crazy. There was a sequel which was not as good. For a really unknown low-budget film that is somewhat similar, there is Luggage of the Gods! The teaser on the ad was "It was the dawn of man. One tribe overslept." A primitive tribe sees a jetliner lose its luggage in flight and discovers the fruits of modern technology, including a cassette player that plays Build Me Up, Buttercup by the Foundations, which they consider to be a sacred hymn. There is the usual conflict with some criminals who try to recover some counterfeit contraband. Hilarity ensues. It is very hard to find today.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luggage_of_the_Gods!
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Sounds like it fits my sense of humor! I'll have to check it out (found a couple places to buy it online).
 
Jamie Marks is Dead.
B movie. Rarely replays anymore. Early Cam Monaghan with appearances by Liv Tyler and Judy Greer.
 
LionJim said:
Mine: Sansho the Bailiff (1954), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.

Here's what they say about it in Wiki:

The New Yorker film critic Anthony Lane wrote in his September, 2006 profile on Mizoguchi, "I have seen Sansho only once, a decade ago, emerging from the cinema a broken man but calm in my conviction that I had never seen anything better; I have not dared watch it again, reluctant to ruin the spell, but also because the human heart was not designed to weather such an ordeal."[3] Writing for RogerEbert.com, Jim Emerson extolled the movie: "I don't believe there's ever been a greater motion picture in any language. This one sees life and memory as a creek flowing into a lake out into a river and to the sea."

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Woman In the Dunes
 
Saw Gods Must be Crazy around 1978 in a DC Art Movie Theater...we sat through it twice, took my wife's aunt back later in the week, sat through it twice with her...will also check out "Luggage..." Thanks for the recommendation...
 
Pandemonium (1982)

Tommy Smothers, Carol Kane, Phil Hartman and Paul Reubens. Airplane-style spoof of slasher movies. Definitely an acquired taste...


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19333lion said:
I generally don't go for courtroom drama flicks. Breaker Morant is great exception. Everyone should watch it for its depiction of what happens to pawns in war.
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For that experience, watch "Paths of Glory" about soldiers put on trial in WW1 by the French. Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou and several other very good actors. Based on real events though not a docudrama.
 
Two of my favorite sort of obscure films:

King of Hearts (original French title: Le Roi de cœur) is a 1966 French comedy-drama film directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Alan Bates. Also features Genevieve Bujold.

The film is set in a small town in France near the end of World War I. As the Imperial German Army retreats they booby trap the whole town to explode. The locals flee and, left to their own devices, a gaggle of cheerful lunatics escape the asylum and take over the town — thoroughly confusing the lone Scottish soldier who has been dispatched to defuse the bomb.

Brazil is a 1985 British-American dystopian science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam. The film stars Jonathan Pryce and features Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins and Ian Holm.

The film centres on Sam Lowry, a man trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living in a small apartment, set in a consumer-driven dystopian world in which there is an over-reliance on poorly maintained (and rather whimsical) machines. Brazil's satire of bureaucratic, totalitarian government is reminiscent of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Though a success in Europe, the film was unsuccessful in its initial North America release. It has since become a cult film. In 1999, the British Film Institute voted Brazil the 54th greatest British film of all time. In 2017 a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for Time Out magazine saw it ranked the 24th best British film ever.
 
Galaxy of Terror.

A "planet" ("computerized") that could read/interpret your fears in order to test them in a manufactured setting. ("Westworld" with an extraterrestrial component.)
 
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