Must watch movies
 

I have a pretty good collection and plenty that I haven't even got time to watch yet but sometimes IMDB just doesn't give you all the
low budget good ones that people don't know about or maybe they even got bad reviews. I know Supertroopers was initially unknown and then it blew up later.
There must be plenty of them out there like that that just didn't have the marketing needed to get the attention it deserved.

What are some recent good ones you recommend? For me "JoJo Rabbit" was freaking good, a rollercoaster of emotions on that one. Then for my kind of weird/unknown one I say "The Art of Defense".

The last doesn't come up on imdb.

The Bed Sitting Room - check the full cast.
Sort of "A Boy and His Dog" from six year earlier.

Anything from Terry Gilliam.

Oops, "The art of self-defense".

Is Galaxy Quest obscure enough for this list?

One of my favorites as of late is "the place beyond the pines" it's a dark emotional movie.

Can't say I have any recent ones that nobody has heard of but I do have a select few old ones. They all are all pretty obscure and can be hard to find but they do pop up on some of the classic movie channels once in a while. A couple are bigger name movies that just sort of got forgotten over the years.
Don't read the Wikis if you don't want spoilers!

Tora Tora Tora - No fictional character build up. No bullshit love story sandwiched in. No unneeded comic relief. Just a very well done non documentry telling of the attack on Pearl Harbour.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tora!_Tora!_Tora!

A Man Called Horse - A very different type of Western.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Man_Called_Horse_(film)

Castle Keep - What if WW2 was fought while everybody was on acid? Very bizarre and hard to follow at times but worth sitting through.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Keep

Death Race 2000 (1975) - Poor production, horrible stunts, laughable special effects, worst acting EVER. Overall a GREAT movie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Race_2000

A couple of even older ones that may not have the same impact on younger people but are still great movies

Fail Safe - Oh how easily it could have happened. But didn't!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail_Safe_(1964_film)

On the Beach - Pretty much a summary of Snooze's deleted thread.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(1959_film)

Sorry you lost me Topcat, what deleted thread?




Mentioned in another thread I watched Top Secret, not obscure but lols


Fat Pizza is obscure and funny

The only super hero movie I have ever liked.

Watchmen 2009

Plus

Because Strayya

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_(1974_film)

Some we usually watch every time we go to the cabin (we have a few hundred old DVD and VHS):

Beverly Hills Ninja

Paulie

Down Periscope

Young Frankenstein

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Nacho Libre

Dr. Strangelove

Tora Tora Tora (as Tcoat mentioned, an absolute must see)

All the Sean Connery Bond movies.

Lately, I liked Knives Out, the new Midway, and Ford Vs.Ferrari. Didn't care for Joker, and couldn't get thru Once upon a time in Hollywood.

Oh, forgot:

Blazing Saddles

The Frisco Kid.

Oh sorry! It was snooze's. All you Aussies look the same to me.

i enjoyed Rubber as a stupid low budget minimal-character movie. it ends on the same tone that it begins.

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Darkstar - existentially challenged planet bombs and aliens that go "parp".

One of my all time favorite movies! It's the only movie I watch at least once a year. I rarely watch a movie twice.

Lawrence of Arabia. Some things never change.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056172/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_of_Arabia_(film)

I really enjoyed the Korean western "The Good, The Bad, The Weird" that used to be on netflix.

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How could I forget Failsafe!?!? I watched it for some sort of school stuff and it was surprisingly good, considering when it was made and that I probably had to write something about it.

While we are on that subject, Wargames is also good.

I'll also watch pretty much any 1950's era "big monster" movie, mostly for the nostalgia. One of the local channels when I was growing up had an all night monster movie marathon once a month on Fridays and my parents would let me stay up and watch them.

So bad, but so good.

Awesome.

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The [original] Andromeda Strain

"I am as sorry as you are, Dmytri. Don't say that you're more sorry than I am, because I am capable of being just as sorry as you are."

My fav.

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geez this really depends on the genre...

Brazzers is not a genre.

No.. but BMX is.. skateboarding is.. vampires is.. (ok we can just stop at Lost Boys 1, cause those others sucked.. and twilight wtf)

And then there are car movies that fail at anything else.

But.. "taking it all off" was a good movie too back in the day.

Sigh..

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Oh, a more modern movie I discovered but never saw advertised (in the US at least) is 'Eye in the Sky'. Then again, I sometimes live under a rock so.... :iono:

Some real "B" movies and some decent ones,
but they're all films I don't mind re-watching.
Some of my favorites had terrible reviews.

GATTACA.
EQUILIBRIUM.
THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS.
28 DAYS LATER.
SUNSHINE.
PANDORUM.
CHILDREN OF MEN.
EX MACHINA.
THE GHOST IN THE SHELL.
DISTRICT9.
ELYSIUM.
CHAPPIE.
THE MACHINIST.
THE JACKET.
SPLICE.
JOHNNY MNEMONIC.
ANNIHILATION.
TIME BANDITS.
PAN'S LABYRINTH.
EVENT HORIZON.
PITCH BLACK.
OBLIVION.
DIVERGENT.
HUNGER GAMES.
WATER WORLD.
THE VILLAGE.
ATOMIC BLONDE.
XXX
1984.
THE ROBE.
THE BLACK ROSE.
PRINCE OF FOXES.
CAPTAIN BLOOD.
SCARAMOUCHE.
BEN-HUR.
THE PIANIST.
DR STRANGELOVE.
THE LAST SAMURAI.
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA.
THE LAST KINGDOM.
THE 5TH ELEMENT.
BLADERUNNER.
A GOOD YEAR.
3:10 TO YUMA.
MUNICH.
KING ARTHUR.
SNATCH.
THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND.
THE KING'S SPEECH.
THE MAN FROM UNCLE.
CHRONICLES OF RID****.
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL.
MASTER AND COMMANDER.
LORD OF WAR.
etc....etc....etc....

Awesome stuff. Keep em coming!

I second "The Kings Speech" and "3:10 to Yuma". Both great.

"Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff."

I am surprised no one has mentioned Kung Fury

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On the Lovely Bones, World War Z, and Parasite.

+1 for Pitch Black. The rest of the Rid**** movies were garbage in comparison.

Same for the original Alien movie.

And also the original Rambo.

I have many DVD and Bluray movies with most being scifi or war movies but there are only three of them I watch at least annually.

They are (in order of being favourites):
Jesus Christ Superstar
Tommy
A Clockwork Orange

You can't get much different in themes.

Looking back through the limited list I have posted and seeing the favourites of some of the guys that I know at least the age range here there is a discernible trend. In my particular case you will notice that the majority of my "must see" movies are from a very tight rage between 1969 and 1973.

This would put me between 10 and 14 years old. It is not coincidence that this is the age range where they say you develop the majority of the traits you will carry into adulthood.

It is likely that these movies are etched in or personality more for the impact they had on us developing than the actual quality and content of the film. Even at 50 years later I can tell you my life events surrounding my first viewing of each and every film I have listed here even though none of them were exciting or even eventful.

When I consider my later favourites (like Mad Max, Terminator or Aliens) I can say I love the movie but could not even remotely tell you about the first time I saw it. They are great movies but had zero impact on who I became since that was already established.

The same applies to the monster movies as you said. Although there is most certainly an element of nostalgia involved it could also be that there is a certain level of influence they had in your development as a person. It could be as simple as they contributed to your level of organization or scheduling to make sure you were there to watch them every Saturday. It could also be more complex and had an influence you will never be able to consciously identify.

The older movies that I mentioned most certainly had an effect on my childhood and future growth. People that did not grow up in the 50s to 70s may not understand just how real the threat of nuclear annihilation were back then. Movies such as Fail Safe, On The Beach and even Doctor Strangelove had a message that was real and important for the youth of those eras. We lived with the threat hovering overhead (to many of us very literally) every single day and these films really show the world in which our later selves were formed.

OK so that ended up being a lot longer than the "me too" I started to write. I have never researched the subject and may be full of shit but if there are any psychology students out there looking for a thesis, you are welcome.

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Idiocracy