10 movies that famous people don't want you to see

[sojourner]

Up the Academy actually turns up on cable frequently. I see it listed at least once a year. Not really sure it qualifies to be on that list since it wasn't "buried" so much as edited.

My favorite line from the movie: "Be a puff of smoke floating across the moors"

 

[od0_ital]

I'm surprised "Catwoman" isn't on there, it was absolutely terrible. The movie bombed in theatre's and almost destroyed Halle Berry's acting career just as it was getting going. The disaster of this movie also threatened the production of further DC movies, since "Batman and Robin" and "Steel" (the previous efforts) had also bombed and received abysmal critical reviews. Fortunately, Christopher Nolan came onboard to rejuvinate the "Batman" franchise and DC have made a series of decent adaptions since.

Ya really didn't read it, did ya?

The whole thing is about movies that the general public hasn't seen, mostly due to lawsuits by the folks who were in 'em.

If Halle Berry or Sharon Stone had sued Pitof to keep Catwoman from bein' released theatrically, on DVD & blu ray, as well as basic cable, then it could be a contender for the article/list.

 

[Harvey]

I don't know why The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation is on there. It was out of circulation for a little while, but it's available on DVD and has been for years.

 

[Mr Silver]

Ok I admit I misread the topic!

Speaking of movies they don't want you to see though, how about Colin Farrell's sex tape? Did he not take legal action to try and prevent the production and distribution of it? This is the only leaked "celebrity sex tape" that I can recall where the star(s) took legal action to prevent its release.

 

[od0_ital]

^

That's 'cause every other star has used sex tapes for self-promotion.

 

[Nerys Myk]

"Let It Be" was a movie night staple when I was in college in the 70s and 80s. It was released on VHS in the 80s. So its not like it hasn't been out there following its theatrical release.

 

[LitmusDragon]

I'm really curious about that Rolling Stones one. I'd like to see what that lifestyle was really like, around that time period.

 

[the G-man]

Another example of a movie that was suppressed was "That Hagen Girl", a 1950's movie starring Ronald Reagan and Shirley Temple ...When Reagan's political career began to gather steam in the 1970's, the film mysteriously vanished from circulation ....

It wasn't mysterious at all. Back in the 1970s Reagan was a candidate for president and the "equal time" rule would have required TV stations showing any Reagan movie to give "equal time" to the other candidates for free. Rather than have to do that, stations just didn't show Ronald Reagan movies (or reruns of Death Valley Days for that matter):

• Third, broadcasters faced a quirk in [the rule] when Ronald Reagan was running for president. Had they shown movies starring Reagan, they would have "been required to offer equal time to Mr. Reagan's opponents." This admonition was repeated when Arnold Schwarzenegger ran for governor of California. Had Fred Thompson achieved the Republican Presidential nomination, re-runs of Law & Order would have been on hiatus.

Oh, yeah, this is one of my favorite really bad movies. Reagan in his 30s falls in love with Shirley Temple in her teens.

I remember reading about some of the back story of this movie years ago. Reagan was under contract and had to do the movie. He saw a train wreck coming and tried to talk the producer out of the "love story" angle, pointing out that most people would frown on a man faling for a girl young enough to be his daughter. Unfortunately for the Gipper, he didn't realize the producer WAS married to a girl young enough to be his daughter.

 

[Captaindemotion]

^ 'There you go again, pointing out your lack of experience ...'

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I knew about Let it Be. It's actually a good way to get a feeling for the Beatles of the time and a good bookend for Hard Day's Night, really. It was the epitome of what happened to the band and the rooftop concert is the perfect example of it.

It's available, iirc, just not on DVD.

 

[od0_ital]

... Had Fred Thompson achieved the Republican Presidential nomination, re-runs of Law & Order would have been on hiatus.

Not exactly - the episodes aired would have just been ones from before he was one of the stars, and there were plenty of those to use.

 

[ToddPence]

I remember reading about some of the back story of this movie years ago. Reagan was under contract and had to do the movie. He saw a train wreck coming and tried to talk the producer out of the "love story" angle, pointing out that most people would frown on a man faling for a girl young enough to be his daughter. Unfortunately for the Gipper, he didn't realize the producer WAS married to a girl young enough to be his daughter.

The creepiness of the romance between Reagan and Temple in the film comes not so much from the age difference as from the fact that he spends most of the film under suspicion of being her father. The instant he is cleared of her paternity, he announces his love for her.

 

[Starbreaker]

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation isn't that bad... except when Renee ends up being chased by a vehicle and she doesn't have enough sense to run into the wooded area RIGHT BESIDE the road.