Movies - How Did I Miss That?

[TychoMonolyth]

Ever stumble on a great movie that rocked, thinking "How come I never heard of this movie?"

I have a few:
- Cloud Atlas
- High Plains Invaders (B movie)
- Humanity's End (B movie)
- Push
- The Man From Earth

 

[GOT_BUD?]

Boondock Saints was like that for me.

Same with the Usual Suspects. And Clerks.

 

[big315smooth]

just watched papillon other day based on true story was very good

 

[Douglas.Curtis]

Hey thanks
My father cultivated a B-movie addiction in me as a kid, and I've always loved obscure movies.

One of my favorites is "Improper Channels" with Marietta Hartley and Alan Arkin.
It never made it to dvd, which doesn't surprise me due to the content. it's about a couple who has their child wrongly abducted by CPS. It's a comedy, about the sequence of events which follow, as they work to get their kid back out of danger with the state.

lol Hilarious. If anyone finds a downloadable copy, please pm me!! Someone, somewhere, should have digitized this already.
Thanks!

 

[shithawk420]

The giver was excellent.too many movies to think of right now

 

[TychoMonolyth]

Boondock Saints was like that for me.

Same with the Usual Suspects. And Clerks.

Ah shit... I forgot about The Usual Suspects. lol
Wish I could see it again for the first time!!

Another one I'd like to see the first time is Lucky Number Slevin.

Hey thanks
My father cultivated a B-movie addiction in me as a kid, and I've always loved obscure movies.

One of my favorites is "Improper Channels" with Marietta Hartley and Alan Arkin.
It never made it to dvd, which doesn't surprise me due to the content. it's about a couple who has their child wrongly abducted by CPS. It's a comedy, about the sequence of events which follow, as they work to get their kid back out of danger with the state.

lol Hilarious. If anyone finds a downloadable copy, please pm me!! Someone, somewhere, should have digitized this already.
Thanks!

Alan Arkin is a fantastic actor.

I miss my vhs Spaghetti Western library. lol.

 

[TychoMonolyth]

The giver was excellent.too many movies to think of right now

I liked that movie, but the ending could have been way better. It's like they ran out of weed and lost their mojo at the end. lol

 

[Green Squall]

just watched papillon other day based on true story was very good

Which version 1973 or 2017?
The book is good too, along with it's sequel "Banco."

 

[subrob]

I may be aging myself...how about "altered states"

 

[TychoMonolyth]

Ya. Altered States freaked me out. That and Videodrome.

 

[944s2]

Bird box and don’t look now,,s2

 

[armedoldhippy]

i liked "KPAX" with kevin spacey. yeah, i heard about him. but the movie was good...

 

[shithawk420]

I liked that movie, but the ending could have been way better. It's like they ran out of weed and lost their mojo at the end. lol

I totally agree.didnt really get the ending

 

[shithawk420]

I may be aging myself...how about "altered states"

Apparently my uncle went to see that movie in theaters high as fuck and was laughing hysterically when he turned into that ape man.everybody was giving him dirty looks.good movie though a little fact: at the end of the AHA music video take on me was a reference to the end of Altered States.

 

[Bobby Boucher]

I caught so much flak for so many years for not having any legitimate reasons for not liking kevin spacey other than "he f'n creeps me out". I've been kicked out of a party before because the host was such a big Spacey fan that he told me I had to go. We never got along much past that.

People are generally creeped out by my intuition at the end of the day. I bet ol' buddy was when the news broke.

Peter Griffin on the ending of "The Usual Suspects".. "*GASP*... He was gay the whole time!!" lol

back on topic tho.. Cocktails, Real Genius, Chaplin, Raising Arizona. No idea how I missed these gems for as long as I did.

 

[GOT_BUD?]

I caught so much flak for so many years for not having any legitimate reasons for not liking kevin spacey other than "he f'n creeps me out". I've been kicked out of a party before because the host was such a big Spacey fan that he told me I had to go. We never got along much past that.

People are generally creeped out by my intuition at the end of the day. I bet ol' buddy was when the news broke.

Peter Griffin on the ending of "The Usual Suspects".. "*GASP*... He was gay the whole time!!" lol

back on topic tho.. Cocktails, Real Genius, Chaplin, Raising Arizona. No idea how I missed these gems for as long as I did.

Raising Arizona - another good one I missed until a number of years later.

 

[Douglas.Curtis]

Pi

The smile on his face in the end is priceless and makes me want to cry.

Requiem for a Dream (same director)

A rather messed up tale of heroin and Rx addictions.

 

[Mick]

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
One of the best science fiction movies I've seen.
'''''' Besson independently crowd-sourced and personally funded Valerian. With a production budget of around $180 million, it is both the most expensive European and independent film ever made.[11]'''''

 

[Douglas.Curtis]

Apparently my uncle went to see that movie in theaters high as fuck and was laughing hysterically when he turned into that ape man.everybody was giving him dirty looks.good movie though a little fact: at the end of the AHA music video take on me was a reference to the end of Altered States.

LOL, reminds me of a story my parents tell, and another movie if you haven't seen it.

Almost 50 years ago in Chicago, it was common for my parents to go to an afternoon movie. The day they went to see Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," it was a particularly rainy afternoon.

The neighborhood was predominately non-english speaking and a great many of them ducked into the matinee to escape the rain. It was very cheap and a warm way to pass an hour or so until the rain quit.

Being non-english speaking and having no sub-titles, the movie was very scary for most of them. My father, gotta love him, was laughing so hard he fell in the aisle and was rolling on the floor. My mother was so embarrassed she tried to cover him with her coat. lol

The non-english speaking people were horrified he was laughing at a movie about doomsday. lol Makes me wonder if any of them ever saw the movie again with sub-titles or after learning English. lol Freaking hilarious movie.

 

[Bobby Boucher]

Everything Peter Sellers touches is gold.

Everyone’s caught a bug at the house. Just had a 6 hour Pink Panther marathon.