The Movie You Like That Nobody Talks About
Name a movie you really like but that you never hear anybody talk about, and post why.
"Almost Famous"
The music is fantastic, great selection of classic rock songs and a feel for the 70s. Story is endearing even if it portrays the love interest in that 'girl-as-mystical-experience' sort of way.
"Almost Famous"
The music is fantastic, great selection of classic rock songs and a feel for the 70s. Story is endearing even if it portrays the love interest in that 'girl-as-mystical-experience' sort of way.
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Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, and Walter Matthau are amazing, the humor is good, the suspense is good, and you never know where the hell the plot is at, but in a good way. It really is the best Hitchcock movie that Hitchcock never made.
Also, thanks to a copyright snafu, it's public domain, so it can be downloaded for free from the Internet Archive.
It's the tale of Basil, a mouse who lives under the home of Sherlock Holmes, and how he defeats a plot to overthrow the Queen by his arch-nemesis, Professor Rattigan (voiced by Vincent Price). It's a wonderfully charming film, a labour of love to the Sherlock Holmes series that has some beautiful visuals and surprisingly touching moments... and Vincent Price singing.
Best trailer I've found for it. There's not many decent ones around.
EPIC, hilarious film!
That hardly anybody I ever talk to seems to have even heard of.
(And I wouldn't expect too many people to know about it, afterall, its an old indie film made by a very young Peter Jackson)
Isn't that relative to the people you know?
Nobody that I know IRL talk about either of those. I did love the Great Mouse Detective, though I can't really remember much except that the bat at the beginning terrified me as a kid.
Nobody talks about that right?
This, despite it's name, is not a Looney Tunes feature (though it does pay homage to them), but an absolutely hilarious, ridiculous, somewhat nonsensical farce that had me in stitches the whole way through. And I haven't been able to find it since so I can barely remember why I found it so funny or if I would like it nearly as much the second time through.
Does anyone talk about that?
I do. Fantastic movie, that. I liked the cool badass evil dude who died by drowning at the end.
...Sepitmus, was it? Something like that.
Yh he died when the witch stuck a voodo doll in water and he air drowned. The movie made me go out and buy the book which was equally as awesome.
It was a direct to DVD comedy about a bunch of people trying to get their hands on two gold coins. I thought it was funny and it actually has some decent actors in it. Salma Hayek,Jeff Goldblum, Elijah Wood, David Cross, Tom Wilkinson, Orlando Jones, John Cassini, Michael Rapaport to name a few.
See, I read the book because I heard that the movie was awesome, but didn't want to watch the movie without reading the book first. And they turned out to be both fantastic, so I guess it was a double win.
This movie has long since dropped from my Top 10 because the director's cut is only available on VHS, not on DVD. No one I know except for one friend of mine from high school (who introduced me to it) has ever seen or heard of this movie.
Plot: A mentally challenged local handyman (Jeff Fahey) is discovered by a scientist (Pierce Brosnan) who has been working on a project involving a combination of psychotropic drugs and virtual reality with the intent of increasing mental awareness and brain power. To Dr. Angelo's surprise, Jobe Smith excels above and beyond all expectations, to not only become a genius but also gain such abilities as eidetic memory, ESP, and telekinesis. Unfortunately, the company Dr. Angelo works for has in mind an opportunity to turn Jobe into a weapon of sorts, causing everything to take a turn for the worse.
I only like the Director's Cut of this movie, because the theatrical version removes what I consider to be important scenes as well as it changes the order of certain scenes such that scenes regarding Jobe's character development are somewhat disjointed and do not flow properly.
This movie was nuts. I still remember when it came out.
In the director's cut, Rosco the chimp does not die in the lab, but is only wounded and escapes only to find Jobe, who is devastated when the chimp is killed by people from the lab. Father McKeen punishes Jobe later for trying to protect the chimp.
In the theatrical version, Rosco dies in his initial attempt to escape, and Jobe's interactions with Father McKeen are put in different places in the film, so that (for myself, having seen the director's cut) it doesn't flow nearly as well.
OHMYGODILOVETHISMOVIESOMUCH! Unfortunately, most of my friends do too, so I can't second it.
UHF, I like it because it's funny and it has Weird Al in it. I wish Spatula City was real.
The director's version does seem to make more sense considering Jobe's direction.
To some extent I feel that "About a Boy" is never talked about, but it's a pretty straightforward movie. Also "Mary Poppins" seems to be vastly underrated as a Disney movie with people today when I feel it's on the top five of Disney movies and can easily compete for the 1st spot.
Its why I prefer Bedknobs and Broomsticks more. It has a darker edge to it.
I loved Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Mr. Brown reminded me so much of my father it was absolutely hilarious. Not the job...just the general attitude and presence.
and his ability to get the crap beat out of him while refereeing a soccer game?
My family has never been that into soccer. But he did get run over in an office softball game. Does that count?
P.S The Foreign version of The Vanishing gets a honorable Mention for its Great(and unchanged) ending.
The movie is about an author named David Norliss, who disappears after giving a chilling message to his agent. The agent sends a man to his house to find clues to his disappearance, and discovers a series of recorded tapes. The tapes tell of how Norliss was sent to a woman's house after she claimed that she saw her dead husband in her work shed. As the plot flies by, it turns out that the husband was resurrected as a voodoo zombie, and that he must create a statue of a demon and bring it to life. Norliss succeeds in destroying the zombie by burning down the shed, but nothing is found of the Demon. The film ends with the man from the beginning beginning to play more tapes, believing that there may be more in the tapes that could lead to the true fate of David Norliss.
Maybe I just live in a wacky community.
What was sundered and undone
Shall be whole, the two made one
By gelfling hand or else by none.
It's my girlfriend's second favourite movie.