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It's a b-movie, but MEN OF WAR starring Dolph Lundgren (and Tiny Lister). I rewatch at least part of it on cable when I see it listed.
Obscure favs no one ever seems to know...
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I loved "One Crazy Summer". Haven't seen it in a long time, but I used to watch that all the time. Outside of a few scenes, I didn't like "Better Off Dead" quite as much. Most folks I knew growing up loved the latter, and would frequently quote "two dollars", but had never heard of "One Crazy Summer".
Was that "Real Men"? If so, that's one of those movies that I have to watch whenever I flip through the channels and see it.
Thing is though, Io's surface and interior is rather hot and volcanic due to it's proximity to Jupiter (as is illustrated nicely in the film 2010 and in the Voyager fly-bys). Ganymede would have been the more accurate setting
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Croupier British film from 1998 starring Clive Owen as a struggling writer who takes a job in a casino to make ends meet during which he finds new material for his book but starts to become consumed by the job and gets drawn into a plan to rob the casino. Very cool little noir film
The Lives of Others I think this won an academy award a few years back. Brilliant German film about life in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin wall, where Citizens were constantly under the watchful eyes of the Stasi. The film is about a Stasi officer who is given the task of monitoring a playwright and his actress girlfriend and to uncover any subversive behaviour, instead he gradually comes to realise that his own life is the one that is lacking in passion and emotional fulfillment. Amazing film
The Lives of Others I think this won an academy award a few years back. Brilliant German film about life in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin wall, where Citizens were constantly under the watchful eyes of the Stasi. The film is about a Stasi officer who is given the task of monitoring a playwright and his actress girlfriend and to uncover any subversive behaviour, instead he gradually comes to realise that his own life is the one that is lacking in passion and emotional fulfillment. Amazing film
OMG, I remember that one!
One of my favorite recent very obscure films is Brothers of the Head, about conjoined twin punk rockers. It's very bizarre, and I'm still not sure why I love it, but I do!
I saw Super Fuzz once on HBO early in the morning, and I haven't seen it since then.
A lot of people know about Ranma 1/2. I own like five seasons of it.
it isin't very well known outside of anime fans and i know alot of them
But amongst anime circles, it's not that obscure.
^Yep. I don't know much about anime but Ranma 1/2 is one of the few series I like. (The only others I like are Excel Saga, Puni Puni Poemi, portions of Saber Marionette J, and the filthier American-dub episodes of Ghost Stories.)
Seen it. Seen the trailers on some of my animated Superman DVDs. I thought it was kinda lame. I had a tough time figuring out who I should even be rooting for. It's a lot of flash but too little substance.
I don't know how big this got in Canada but hardly anyone I know in the U.S. has seen Made in Canada. It's a hysterical satire about unscrupulous Canadian TV producers. It lasted for 5 seasons but only the 1st one was released on DVD before the company that produced it went broke.
"You see, if you ask nicely, they say no. If you threaten, they say no. If you imply that you may threaten them at some point in the future, THAT's when they get nervous."
Seen it. Seen the trailers on some of my animated Superman DVDs. I thought it was kinda lame. I had a tough time figuring out who I should even be rooting for. It's a lot of flash but too little substance.
I don't know how big this got in Canada but hardly anyone I know in the U.S. has seen Made in Canada. It's a hysterical satire about unscrupulous Canadian TV producers. It lasted for 5 seasons but only the 1st one was released on DVD before the company that produced it went broke.
"You see, if you ask nicely, they say no. If you threaten, they say no. If you imply that you may threaten them at some point in the future, THAT's when they get nervous."
but tis still obscure, and until anime purists get off thier asses and actually BUY some anime it will be grossly overlooked
It's the only one I own. I liked what I saw of Love Hina, but don't own any of it. I've read some of the Manga, but that's it.
I wonder what the gal behind the counter at Best Buy thought when I walked up to pay for a Ranma season set the other day. Because I look more like the guy that would be buying Super Troopers, John Carpenters Halloween, and NFL Highlights and Bloopers rather than an anime series.
anime purists?
Ah, that makes sense.
Yes, agreed. The American Astronaut is my favorite super-obscure movie.
The other one that I'd add to the list is Robot Stories:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301777/
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