Thread: Favorite Not so popular movies?

I loooooove Slackers.

Primer
http://www.watch-movies.net/movies/primer/#

That's a kick ass site Jonathan. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Most of my favorites probably fall under the "not-so-popular" category. A few off the top of my head:

Reservoir Dogs
Run Lola Run
The Truman Show
Pi
Koyanisquaatsi
Memento
Existenz
Videodrome
The Woman in the Dunes
Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
The Triplets of Belleville
Tristram Shandy

oh yeah! I had completely forgotten about Run Lola Run! THat's movie rules!

I can never pass up an opportunity to promote Zardoz, the movie that proved Sean Connery will do anything for money. Hopefully I haven't already mentioned this in this thread. I know I talk about it a lot--but how can I not?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbGVIdA3dx0

Originally Posted by skysaw

Most of my favorites probably fall under the "not-so-popular" category. A few off the top of my head:
The Truman Show
Harold and Kumar go to White Castle

I was going to put these two, but I thought they were popular.

Also, Reservoir Dogs?

That film is generally known to be amazing.

Originally Posted by Grod

I was going to put these two, but I thought they were popular.

Originally Posted by Jod

Also, Reservoir Dogs?

That film is generally known to be amazing.

Sorry, was defining "popular" as "blockbuster."

Originally Posted by skysaw

Sorry, was defining "popular" as "blockbuster."

Same here. I expected movies like those to be blockbusters.

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbGVIdA3dx0

Sweet mother of god, what the HELL was THAT???????

Kentucky Fried Movie: It was written by the Zucker brothers and Jim Abrahams, the people who wrote Airplane! and the The Naked Gun movies. I think Kentucky Fried Movie is their funniest one and one of the funniest movies ever made, but it is not very well known.

The Groove Tube: An insane comedy from the 70's that I don't think was ever very big. It is extremely obscure now. Chevy Chase has a small role in it, and it came out before Saturday Night Live first aired. Chevy was a nobody at the time.

The Acidburn Flashback Taboo: An art film so obscure I have never been able to find it on Amazon.com or even in the computers at any video stores other than when a Blockbuster in Baton Rouge had it in the mid-90's. It is a compilation of short films that are very, very bizarre.

I also love to watch cheap movies about women who get involved with men who turn out to be complete psychopaths on the Lifetime Movie Network.

Dark City
Equilibrium
Phenomenon
Slackers
Soldier

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Originally Posted by kichu

Sweet mother of god, what the HELL was THAT???????

Oh just the trippiest Sean Connery-wearing-a-red-diaper movie ever made.

That's hilarious, I've posted that link so many times and you are the first person to ever comment on how unbelievably strange that movie is. It's really long, too--like three hours at least, I think. That's what it felt like anyway. Makes no sense whatsoever. Great movie.

captain ron

and...

sideways

Doc Savage: Man of Bronze - I grew up with it, so it has a special place in my heart.
The Truman Show
Dune and Children of Dune - (the Sci Fi Channel versions)
Dark City
Soldier
Sky High
The Last Starfighter
and a few others in my DVD case that I can't think of at the moment.

Moonbeam, as far as "Zardoz" goes, I know that that is one movie that would probably be considered torture for me to watch. I like how one commenter put it:

Zardoz: one big excercise in WTF?!?

Originally Posted by Amethyst Star

Moonbeam, as far as "Zardoz" goes, I know that that is one movie that would probably be considered torture for me to watch. I like how one commenter put it:

It was painful. Yet wonderful.

Big Trouble in Little China is the only one I can think of right now, but I'm sure there are more. I love this movie.

communion with christopher walken.

I'll second (third?) Primer, and also:

Brainstorm
Philosophical, "present-day" hard sci-fi from the '80s, starring Christopher Walken. Some crazy direction and editing--almost as disjointed as an Ed Wood movie, but it works with the subject matter.

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

I can never pass up an opportunity to promote Zardoz, the movie that proved Sean Connery will do anything for money. Hopefully I haven't already mentioned this in this thread. I know I talk about it a lot--but how can I not?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbGVIdA3dx0

About ten years ago, I was watching some show about cult classics from the 70's, and they talked about Zardoz for a little bit. I thought it looked so trippy I got up and rounded up a pen and a piece of paper and wrote down the name of it. It looked like a movie I have to see. I still have not seen it because it is not at any video stores I know of and I am usually too lazy to order stuff off the internet, but I am going to make a point to get my hands on Zardoz. I love exercises in WTF.

Amadeus...ok that's pretty popular but I bet most people under 21 haven't seen it or even know about it.

Originally Posted by jacobo

sideways

Two thumbs up from me!

Originally Posted by Taosaur

Brainstorm
Philosophical, "present-day" hard sci-fi from the '80s, starring Christopher Walken. Some crazy direction and editing--almost as disjointed as an Ed Wood movie, but it works with the subject matter.

Another great one, that few people know! It's also Natalie Wood's last film. I love how they show us the technology develop over time from a big clunky helmet to a little over-the-ear device.

Originally Posted by skysaw

Another great one, that few people know! It's also Natalie Wood's last film. I love how they show us the technology develop over time from a big clunky helmet to a little over-the-ear device.

All of the '80s cutting-edge tech is pretty entertaining in its own right.

Zardoz is classic.

The Battle of Algiers
A Beijing Watermelon
Whale Song
The Illusionist (got some notice, but not much...)
Being There (Peter Sellers' swan song)

Just a few off the top of my head.