I'll probably rent a whole bunch of these on Netflix next year. They sound really good. 
Obscure favs no one ever seems to know...
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That's why they had pressure domes and why the guy exploded when he got on the elevator without his spacesuit.
Great movie. I might watch it tonight.
One of my--and my mother's--favorites is 84 Charing Cross Road.
I love this movie, and I just weep buckets every time I see it. It's charming, witty, funny and sad. It's a great character study about a long-term relationship between people that never actually meet.
Trailer.
I love this movie, and I just weep buckets every time I see it. It's charming, witty, funny and sad. It's a great character study about a long-term relationship between people that never actually meet.
Trailer.
I am unfamiliar with this item, but the first two minutes of that clip had me rolling. I'll probably have to rent it, sooner or later.
One I can contribute is Sorcerer, William Friedkin's 1977 remake of the 1953 French film Le Salaire de la peur (The Wages of Fear). With music by Tangerine Dream (their second film score, and first for a non-German film) and some tense cinematography, this will keep you on the edge of your seat almost from the beginning.
A difficult filming process including on-set conflicts and sets destroyed by a hurricane led to budget overruns, and having the poor timing to open while Star Wars was dominating the market chased Sorcerer from the theaters prematurely. Cable viewings were never enough to put it back in the black and Friedkin's career took a major hit for quite a few years afterward.
Still an excellent movie, with great acting from Roy Scheider and Bruno Cremer.
Nice to see Outland mentioned. Capricorn One just got a new 16x9 DVD; maybe there's hope for this one. As for me...
Brain Donors - a modern version of the Marx Brothers film A Night at the Opera. Hilarious and (surprisingly) available on DVD.
The Newsroom - this one's obscure here in the US. It's a Canadian show (similar in style to The Office and The Larry Sanders Show) about life at a Toronto TV station. It's very dark at times, extremely dry, and now and then they go into Fellini-esque fantasy (which I find a little pretentious).
Just watch this clip to get an idea of the show's style. It's the opening of the first episode.
Brain Donors - a modern version of the Marx Brothers film A Night at the Opera. Hilarious and (surprisingly) available on DVD.
The Newsroom - this one's obscure here in the US. It's a Canadian show (similar in style to The Office and The Larry Sanders Show) about life at a Toronto TV station. It's very dark at times, extremely dry, and now and then they go into Fellini-esque fantasy (which I find a little pretentious).
Just watch this clip to get an idea of the show's style. It's the opening of the first episode.
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I actually like II better than the first one. STARSKY & HUTCH did a pretty good job of ripping off the forced heroin addiction bit. The final chase in II shows how much you can do with sound effects without hornering up the action with too much score.
Another couple films from that era ... REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONER is a terrific cop movie with Michael Moriarty and Yaphet Kotto and Susan Blakely. Great Elmer Bernstein score (very TAKING OF PELHAM like), lots of political paranoia, some gutsy acting ... and it never even came out on LASERDISC or DVD! (And LOOKING FOR MR GOODBAR, which is what Keaton SHOULD have won for the year she won for ANNIE HALL ... that's not on DVD either, just a pan&scan laserdisc. Bill Fraker shot a nice looking film for Richard Brooks with GOODBAR, which I think is a stupendous movie -- though Maltin classed it as BOMB.)
From the 1960s .... HARD CONTRACT, with James Coburn, Burgess MEredith, Lee Remick, Sterling Hayden ... WAY ahead of its time, about an excellent assassin assigned to assassinate the previous generation's best assassin, but dealing with lots of 60s angst and issues ... hard to explain, read Harlan Ellison's review of it, or try to find the VHS, since again, NO LASERDISC or DVD! (I sure can pick 'em.)
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Rear Admiral
Yeah, but they act like there is full gravity when there's not, and the only place where the gravity varies is a jail cell that is zero-gee, and there's no explanation for that either. I think the film has some of Connery's best work ever, but it is in service to a dumbassed execution of a decent idea (hence HIGH NOON in space.)
The main problem I have with GMK is its attempts to add a lot of fantasy-esque mysticism to the overtly scifi series. I felt a lot of it didn't work, especially the idea that Godzilla is, literally, comprised of angry souls. As a metaphor, maybe, but the story definitely suggests Godzilla is just a vessel for vengeful spirits... and I don't think enough was done with that to make it anything but hokey. When the Gamera series dealt with fantasy elements, it went all the way (and made, for example, the plot of the entire third movie revolve around Gamera as a vessel for the Earth's spirit), whereas in GMK it just seemed to sit there. Just IMO.
I hated "Final Wars", so I won't even go there.
There is a tv movie called Murder in Coweta County where Johnny Cash is the good guy sheriff and Andy Griffith is the evil businessman. Then at the end, when Andy goes to the electric chair you seem him with his head shaved. It is some crazy shit!
That and I always liked Supercop. It's from the 70's or 80's, and there is this cop that gets superpowers and when he sees the color red they go away...Ernest Borgnine is in this too as his buddy.
That and I always liked Supercop. It's from the 70's or 80's, and there is this cop that gets superpowers and when he sees the color red they go away...Ernest Borgnine is in this too as his buddy.
"Hero at Large" with John Ritter and Anne Archer. Not a great film by any means, but a very nice and enjoyable flick. (Plus, I thought Anne Archer was really hot in that movie when I saw it in the theater!
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Speaking of time travel movies, one of my obscure favorites is 1990's "Running Against Time" starring Robert Hays as a college history professor who learns that an eccentric colleague has developed a working time machine. Hays' character forms a plan to go back in time to the year 1963 in an attempt to prevent the assassination of JFK. What's notable about this one is that the female lead is Catherine Hicks, who a few years earlier had appeared in another more well-known time travel film, "STIV: The Voyage Home".
Anyone see "Safe Passage" with Susan Sarandon about a mother of many sons who is worried about the fate of one of her sons. I'll never forget the flashback scene where her son is injured playing football, and she carries the boy off the field like a baby.
I remember seeing that movie when I was about 8 years old."Hero at Large" with John Ritter and Anne Archer. Not a great film by any means, but a very nice and enjoyable flick. (Plus, I thought Anne Archer was really hot in that movie when I saw it in the theater!
"Some kid shot me in the ass with a BB gun"
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Right At Your Door--scary bio-terror 'what if' movie about a dirty bomb being dropped on Los Angeles...it's really about this husband and wife, though. He's in the house and hears something on the radio and is told to stay inside and seal off the house; she was on her way to work and is outside when the bomb hits. She comes home--and he has to decide whether or not to let her in. Really excellent film. Rory Cochrane and Mary McCormack are the couple.
Kissing Jessica Stein--a really funny romantic comedy about a girl who answers a personal ad...from another woman. She's fed up with men and trying to decide whether dating a woman would be a better option. It's cute and funny and is really fun. Jessica Westenfelt wrote and starred in it.
Outing Riley--hilarious comedy about the youngest son in an Irish American family who is trying to hide his sexuality from his family. Pete Jones (of the first Project Greenlight) is the writer and star; Nathan Fillion plays his older brother.
Kissing Jessica Stein--a really funny romantic comedy about a girl who answers a personal ad...from another woman. She's fed up with men and trying to decide whether dating a woman would be a better option. It's cute and funny and is really fun. Jessica Westenfelt wrote and starred in it.
Outing Riley--hilarious comedy about the youngest son in an Irish American family who is trying to hide his sexuality from his family. Pete Jones (of the first Project Greenlight) is the writer and star; Nathan Fillion plays his older brother.
The Man From Earth was great. There was a movie starring john Ritter and Jim Belushi about aliens, the CIA and a bunch of weird stuff like a dominatrix librarian. Had a great line in it-"So, what'll it be-the Big Gun or the Good Bug?" Wish I could remember the title.
I saw that a couple of weeks ago. It was fucking funny. Reminded me a little of...
Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang
I would recommend the comedies Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy a bizarre farce with some musical numbers about the world becoming addicted to a drug that starts putting people in comas stuck inside their fondest memory, and Palookaville an easy going crime comedy with Vincent Gallo.
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