Favorite Movies You Think No One Loves?
 

I'd say "Mikey and Nicky" - I can only remember 1-2 who saw this, and I think they liked it, not loved it. But I could be wrong. I'll think of more later.

Maybe we can find some gems? A few months ago I thought I didn't have many more movies to see, but with our interaction and new members I've seen some amazing movies lately. And for that, I thank you all.

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Jeepers Creepers :cool:

Sunday in New York (1963)
That Funny Feeling (1965)
Always (1989)
Soapdish (1991)
Chances Are (1989)
Hot Stuff (1979)
Love at First Bite (1979)
The Frisco Kid (1979)
Max Dugan Returns (1983)
Noises Off... (1992)
The Electric Horseman (1979)

Love that movie too.

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I'd say Audition, I knew a few people who watched some of it, but found it hard to get through. Some of you folks might be fans though.

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One of my all time favorite christmas movies, only fans I know of are me and my best friend. Lots of people I know hated all the Friday movies.

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Just about everyone I've ever talked to about this thought it was cheesy and weak. Lots of people never saw it.

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Red Dawn (1984)

I love Mikey and Nicky as well.

For me, it's Wonderland (2003), because I've never even seen it mentioned on this forum. I wouldn't call it a great movie, but it suits my taste perfectly. It's based on a true story, and after reading quite a bit about the actual case, I've found that the movie is pretty accurate. The trailer is poor quality-

http://youtu.be/fIed_k6-hVM

I like Chances Are. I watched it for the first time in forever a few weeks ago and I still liked it.

I know a couple of people here like it, but I don't think anyone loves Charlie's Angels quite like I do.

Quite possibly For Your Height Only, too. Though I know there are plenty of people who love that film because it's a stone cold cult classic. But I can say that about a number of the cult films I like. After all, that's kind of why they're cult films.

Sometimes it's good to be wrong!

From what I've read, the film studio seemed to want it to bomb. They delayed the release by many years, didn't advertise as much as they told Elaine May, etc etc... Great movie, but a movie I never heard of. I probably just looked for a movie Cassavetes was in, and when I learned that Peter Falk would be co-starring, I saw it. It's such a great feeling when a movie exceeds your expectations so much... Such a tragic movie, but also funny.

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Soapdish (1991)
Always (1989)
That Funny Feeling (1965)

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Nice to see some love for Max Dugan Returns...I love that movie.

I never hear anyone talk about Max Dugan Returns. I thought I was the only one who's seen it.

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Kokoda (2006)
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Very obscure Australian-made film about the 1942 Kokoda trail campaign. It probably should be more popular considering that it documents the point in the Second World War where Japan were just a few victories away from invading Australia itself.

I love Mickey and Nicky too!

I'll say Une Sale Histoire (A Dirty Story) by Jean Eustache. People my age don't know Jean Eustache and I think they won't like this short movie. It's only a guy who tells a peeping Tom story in front of the camera and how he discovered a hole in the ladies room of a Parisian café and how he became an addict by watching the female genitals. Then, an actor (Michael Lonsdale) tells the same story.
To me, this film is a manifest of the cinema of Jean Eustache which has a dimension influenced by the Marquis de Sade. The story is very very interesting. And it shows the difference between fiction and documentary. Jean Eustache liked mixing both.

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I could quote all Eustache's films because they are not edited and too few people can't see his films. His son would like to have money thanks to the editions and that's the reason why he refuses the offers :rolleyes:

Sounds interesting - got a link?

There's a link to the video but I don't find with English subs :(
The quality is not good, it comes from a VHS... :bored:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x17...977_shortfilms

Otherwise, I advise you his most famous film The Mother And The Whore (there are Englis subtitles on the internet). It's a film in black and white, huge scandal in Cannes in 1972 because of the language. A lot of people find this film boring and elitist (this is stupid to say that because Eustache came from the working class). The film hasn't a visual style (it's almost strange to me to love this director because I like aesthetes) : it's just Jean-Pierre Léaud who talks with girls but the dialogues are very beautiful and the film is a testimony of the France after May 68.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ_ubx37pkY

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The Returner. Japanese action flic that released to "Mmmmeh. 7 outta 10"

Mostly ignored because it's basically Back to the Future + The Matrix + gun-fu + every-hongkong-action-movie-ever-made, when really that's EXACTLY why you would want to see it.

Godawful CG aliens and stunted plot, but totally worth the crazy-slow-mo-timestop-gunfights, cool use of time travel, and WAY OVER THE TOP villain who's death scene is at first anti-climactic, but actually pretty brilliant when you turn your brain back on.

This is one of those foreign movies I only saw a part of on TV years and years ago and then went, "What the hell was that!?" It actually took me years to find it, but now that I did, I think it's fair to call it a classic B-movie.

If you can enjoy Equillibrium, you can probably enjoy The Returner.


In The Mouth of Madness. Thriller which made people go... "Yep. That's a movie."

Stephen King-style character writes horror books more popular than Harry Potter. The twist is he's been visited by The Old Ones and anyone who reads his books goes insane. Sam Neil is sent to find him and slowly goes mad as he starts having nightmares, blacks out for periods of time, and cthuloid monsters start destroying reality.

I've never read a Lovecraft novel, nor seen a movie inspired by Cthulu mythos before, but if this is anything to go by, I like it. And horror movies are most definitely not my thing.


Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. General response was "they're still making these?"

There's this weird trend where the first part is a classic, the second part sequel might as well have killed the series, and the third part brings it all home with an epic prequel. By trend I'm of course referring purely to Devil May Cry.

The worst part of Underworld 3 is that it's Romeo & Juliet.
The best part of Underworld 3 is it puts Twilight to shame (which isn't hard, but this is a vampire/werewolf movie).

The vampires are classic gothic aristocratic covens, and the werewolves are badass slaves. Naturally, Romeo starts a rebellion and we basically get Helms Deep Halloween Edition. The romance, BAFFLINGLY, isn't painfully awkward to sit through and the two main actors who get killed off in the first movie have this one almost entirely to themselves, and they kick ass at it. Cool speeches, cool swordfights, told like a fantasy epic.

Good stuff.

And... one more...


The Stuff. General consensus: "You mean, The Thing?"

No, I mean The Stuff, a movie that just BEGS to be remade.

Guys find alien white substance pooling up from underground. Idiots eat it and discover it's the next best thing since ice cream. Queue evil corporate marketing campaign to sell The Stuff as everything from a diet food to drain clog remover (okay not really). People buy it, eat it, become addicted, and start walking around and talking like advertisements.

The twist is... IT'S ALIVE! AND EATING PEOPLE! OH THE IRONY!

Some very oldschool cliches in this one, but otherwise a very simple and clever parody of commercialism.


That's all. For now. Phew.

I've no idea about the man or his ideas and attitude, but some of the most elitist people I've met have been working class. As I said, I don't know if he is, but I do know that's not an argument which shows he isn't.

It depends of your definition of "elitism"?
I wanted to mean, Eustache didn't do this film to look like an intellectual or to have a good review in the Cahiers du cinéma :D He made it with the heart, of course it's not because he comes from the working class, but sometimes there's a kind of snobbery in the upper class. I prefer a guy like Jean Eustache than François Truffaut who was a bit conceited.

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You seem to use the word "conceited" often.

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