Obscure favs no one ever seems to know...

[Data Holmes]

So, I've got a few movies on my favorits list which seem so obscure that no one ever seems to have seen them. I'm sure you've got some too.

Lets share some of ours. Here's two of mine.

Kuffs - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr4TF6zT9xM

The Christian Slater masterpiece is like a blend Ferris Bueller's Day Off with Beverly Hills Cop. I love this one.

The Taking of Beverly Hills - http://www.reelzchannel.com/trailer-clips/27293/trailer

Sure, it's a low budget die hard rip. But this late night classic is fun and is actually well done for what it is. A lost gem, if you ask me.

So, what are some of your obscure favs that no one ever seems to have heard of when you bring them up.

 

[Aragorn]

Red Rock West -- Nicolas Cage, Dennis Hopper, modern film noir-type crime thriller.

 

[Kirkman1987]

Great Thread, especially since I just watched a film I feel is criminally under represented.

The French Connection is a pretty popular movie, and won a slew of Oscars, but few people are actually familiar with the sequel, French Connection II.

IMO, it's almost as good as the first. the film is very intense. There's a scene where hackman is forcibly addicted to drugs, and then suffers the effects of cold turkey treatment. Hackman is brillant here. I wish we could've had more of the Popeye Doyle character. His bigoted rants could be really amusing but there was a heart and loneliness there too. Also, Doyle was a badass!

Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eByU9yZan9E&feature=related

 

[JNG]

"Quick Change" is a comedy film with Bill Murray, Geena Davis, and Randy Quaid. Really enjoyed it and don't think it is as well known as it should be. Anyone seen this one?

 

[Roshi]

Delicatessen by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro.

A real gem!

 

[The Evil Dead]

Sometimes I feel like I am the only one who appreciates Godzilla, Mothra & King Ghidorah - Giant Monster All-Out Attack. Yeah, the title suuuucks, but it's a damn good movie!

 

[Kira's Mom]

"Quick Change" is a comedy film with Bill Murray, Geena Davis, and Randy Quaid. Really enjoyed it and don't think it is as well known as it should be. Anyone seen this one?

Yes, I thought it was cute. Didn't do too well at the box office, though.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

The return of captain invincible......A Spoof superhero musical comedy.

Montage
Christopher lee sings
The BS song

 

[Goji]

Sometimes I feel like I am the only one who appreciates Godzilla, Mothra & King Ghidorah - Giant Monster All-Out Attack. Yeah, the title suuuucks, but it's a damn good movie!

It's actually a very popular film among Godzilla/kaiju fans, for what that's worth. I like it myself, though Kaneko's Gamera trilogy is a lot better.

 

[Pingfah]

So, I've got a few movies on my favorits list which seem so obscure that no one ever seems to have seen them. I'm sure you've got some too.

Lets share some of ours. Here's two of mine.

Kuffs - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr4TF6zT9xM

The Christian Slater masterpiece is like a blend Ferris Bueller's Day Off with Beverly Hills Cop. I love this one.

I went to see Kuffs in the cinema. I only remember a really crude yet funny joke about an erection.

 

[Zeta]

My all time obscure favorite: Bill Forsyth's Local Hero
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085859/

A great, little known movie with a fantastic Mark Knopfler soundtrack...

 

[zakkrusz]

Appleseed (2004) (and it's sequel EX Machina)-A skilled soldier is brought in to protect a utopian civilization and is reunited with her former partner/lover who is now a cyborg. Sci-Fi

Kara no Kyoukai (7 Film Series)-A Series of supernatural mystery/horror/thriller movies. Mikiya Kokuto falls for Shiki Ryougi and soon finds out she's a skitzophrenic with two distict personalities and a penchant for gruesome murder. However, he can't change his feelings and investigates, disvovering she's not the only murderer in town.

Paprika-A reasearch company develops a machine for psychiatric treatment, however, in the testing stages the device is stolen/ In the wrong hands the device can be used to manipulate people's minds. One of the researchers takes it upon herself to investigate using her net alter-ego, Paprika. It's a real surealistic mind-screwer.

Sword of the Stranger-After saving a boy and his dog from a band of killers a nameless wardering samurai reluctantly agrees to escort the boy on his journey. However, this also makes him a target for band of foreign mercenaries. Pretty sweet martial-arts flick.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time-Makoto Konno discovers a device that allows her to travel through time. She uses it, frivilously to fix her grades and other mistakes and tries to help her friends, however, she soon finds out that she's done more harm to her life and that of those arround her instead. Somehow, she has to find a way to put everything right again.

 

[auntiehill]

My all time obscure favorite: Bill Forsyth's Local Hero
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085859/

A great, little known movie with a fantastic Mark Knopfler soundtrack...

I LOVE that movie.

 

[nevermore]

"Quick Change" is a comedy film with Bill Murray, Geena Davis, and Randy Quaid. Really enjoyed it and don't think it is as well known as it should be. Anyone seen this one?

"What kind of clown are you?!"
"The crying on the inside kid, I guess."

Awesome flick, probably my favorite Bill Murray piece.

Delicatessen by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro.

A real gem!

Some of mine are:

Waking Life, a great Richard Linklater film, comprised mostly of ruminations on the nature of consciousness and dreaming. Much closer to Slacker (another under-known film) than Dazed and Confused. It broke the ground on digital rotoscope animation, with each scene done by a different artist. Really effective.

Jerome Bixby's The Man From Earth, which is another pure-dialogue flick. It's just a bunch of people in the room exploring what amounts to a thought experiment.

The American Astronaut by Cory McCabe, a space western musical. Wherein the intrepid hero must trade the Boy Who Actually Saw a Woman's Breast for the Real Live Girl and transport him to Venus while eluding the Homcidal Professor Hess. Great musical numbers!

Soft for Digging, which is a locally made movie horror film, featuring, I think 3 lines of dialogue. What's remarkable about it is that you don't notice becasue the sound editing is so brilliant and evocative. The way it leaves you alone with the image really emphasises the intense isolation and lonliness of the (main and essentially only) character.

Also, freakishly, it seems that no one knws One Crazy Summer, which for my money is the Savage Steve Holland flick, far superior to Better Off Dead. I mean, it has cute and fuzzy bunnies for fuck's sake!

 

[TemporalFlux]

An obscure favorite of mine is Year of the Comet starring Tim Daly and Penelope Anne Miller. Netflix doesn't offer it; and as far as I know, it's never even been been released on Region 1 DVD.

Another good one is the Patrick Stewart "made for Showtime" movie Safehouse; if you haven't seen it, it's worth a look.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

There's this 1999 TV-movie called Purgatory that I think is the coolest Western I have ever seen (Eric Roberts plays the nastiest villain ever, IMHO). The title comes from this town out in the middle of nowhere which essentially is exactly that: a repository for dead Western gunslingers. They each have to serve a term of 10 years there after they die, during which time they can't engage in any kind of violence - if they succeed in this, they move on to Heaven, otherwise it's down to the other place. The trouble starts when a band of outlaws stumbles across the place and see it as easy pickings (since everyone is so peaceful), prompting the townspeople - among whom are Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday, Jesse James, etc. - to wonder if they should resist, thereby risking eternal damnation, or just let the outlaws run roughshod over everyone.

 

[Vasquez Rocks]

Targets is a movie I just recently discovered. It stars Boris Karloff as an aging horror actor who is considering retiring because he feels his brand of horror and scares are old and outdated. The other storyline is this normal seeming guy who snaps and starts shooting people randomly. Both storylines come together towards the end. Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King were killed shortly before this movie came out in 1968 which made the studio cut the number of theaters it was shown in.

 

[GMac]

Outland (1981) - one of Sean Connery's lesser-known outings would be my pick. A sci-fi themed movie that's a little fast and loose with the science (not least in setting it on Io, which as we now know isn't in any way shape or form suitable for human habitation) but makes up for it with a fast-paced plot and a taut ending.

GM

 

[Super Grover]

[Also, freakishly, it seems that no one knws One Crazy Summer, which for my money is the Savage Steve Holland flick, far superior to Better Off Dead. I mean, it has cute and fuzzy bunnies for fuck's sake!

Those are two of my favorites.

 

[Gojirob]

Sometimes I feel like I am the only one who appreciates Godzilla, Mothra & King Ghidorah - Giant Monster All-Out Attack. Yeah, the title suuuucks, but it's a damn good movie!

It's actually a very popular film among Godzilla/kaiju fans, for what that's worth. I like it myself, though Kaneko's Gamera trilogy is a lot better.

I love every last Godzilla cliche, and I love GMK because it brutally disposes of every last G-cliche. This Godzilla is not only not misunderstood, he is so evil that Ghidorah must be made the hero! There are almost no fights. G even disposes of opponents who are getting up for that last pre-mortem swipe. For once, G starts out at and remains at til the last second DBZ-power levels. Innocents by the dozens die with no chance at rescue or escape.

Let me add on : The Night That Panicked America. A TV-Movie from 1975 which tells the story of Orson Welles infamous 1938 broadcast, with terrific detail of how the audio drama was made. Three or so fictionalized stories pick up on families and people reacting to the play in blind panic. They aren't quite as good, but make for decent filler, though one has a wild violation of the suspension of disbelief when a party in California reacts to a broadcast they should be hearing at 5PM. The writers forgot about time zones. Still, an interesting piece for WoTW completists.

Now, I feel the G in Final Wars was too overpowered, but in GMK, it really worked. Best scene : When distant schoolchildren observe the aftermath of G's blast : A Mushroom Cloud. Many of them were doubtlessly now orphans.