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Critics Siskel and Ebert raved about this.
Based on their positive reviews, I saw it. It is TERRIBLE, BORING AND STUPID. 
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Suggest obscure/less known good movies
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Critics Siskel and Ebert raved about this.
Based on their positive reviews, I saw it. It is TERRIBLE, BORING AND STUPID. 
Not as well known as some of Nic Roeg's other films
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089343/fullcredits Insignificance
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089343/fullcredits Insignificance
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Heat Ledger's The Order/Sin Eater if you are not expecting too much, it's not at all a bad movie.
The Science of Sleep, I like the movie quite much, I think it's not that well known.
The good Heart, better than most movie out-there, play by Paul Dano the one who play as "Eli" in the movie "There will be blood".
Time, I like it, when you turned into something that you dream on, it might not be as good as you think it would be.
The Science of Sleep, I like the movie quite much, I think it's not that well known.
The good Heart, better than most movie out-there, play by Paul Dano the one who play as "Eli" in the movie "There will be blood".
Time, I like it, when you turned into something that you dream on, it might not be as good as you think it would be.
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That's just another classic disconnect between critics and the general audience. I enjoyed it for what it was, but I can't imagine why 99% of people would want to watch it.Critics Siskel and Ebert raveD about this.
There's also the opposite reaction for some movies: many critics mercilessly panned The Shawshank Redemption, but it remains a great favourite with the hoi polloi.
My contribution to this thread: Rubber (2010)
Oh hey, I've actually seen this one.
@Ferocitus please tell me you've seen The Man From Earth?
Oh hey, I've actually seen this one.
@Ferocitus please tell me you've seen The Man From Earth?
I never saw it. Actually, I have the novel but that's one of the few Heinlein books in my collection that I haven't read. And after reading articles and hearing reviews about the movie, I find that I don't really want to read the novel.
Many of Heinlein's SF novels have aged very badly as we've discovered more about the planets and their moons. Ditto Ray Bradbury.
Bova's early political space opera novels haven't aged well (ie. the Chet Kinsman books), but at the time he wrote them the Cold War was still going on. His Grand Tour novels are much more relevant in terms of real-world science and politics.
I've seen Mad Max and The African Queen.
To some people, "obscure" is anything pre-internet or even pre-turn of the current century. So they would consider The Ten Commandments to be "obscure" when it used to be an annual event; ABC would show it every year on Easter Sunday, and that was one of the few times/year I was allowed to stay up past 10 pm to watch it with my grandmother (back then there were no DVDs or even video tapes; you had to watch it commercials and all and it took nearly 4 hours).
About a dozen years ago, I got into a discussion with someone over at TrekBBS about black and white TV/movies. His view was that nothing in black and white could ever be good, because if it was any good, it would have been in color. People pointed out all the good stuff he was missing with that attitude, and it was incomprehensible to him that some people just didn't have color TVs (my family finally got one in 1970 or '71).
Anyway... that weekend there was a Katharine Hepburn movie marathon on TV, and I decided to watch it. One of the movies was The African Queen - a movie my grandmother had loved and tried to get me to watch it, but I hadn't wanted to. So I finally did see it and enjoyed it.
Ferocitus
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If you mean The Man Who Fell to Earth, not only did I see it when it came out and enjoyed it immensely, but my partner and I re-watched it less than a month ago.
Sadly, we're now nearly 45 years older and we gave up after 10 minutes because it's awful. That's what happens when your brain atrophies with age.
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I had to wiki it to remember it because I kept thinking of the Bowie one I mentioned, but yes I did see it. It didn't move me one way or another at the time.
Now that we're stuck with very little to watch I might try it again mainly because I won't have to pay attention to the video while I'm working on other stuff.
A few minutes later...
My partner just said: "I got to the end and thought, Huh? what was that? But my anthropology studies coloured my thoughts on it."
I remember talking to someone about movies a dozen years ago and when I mentioned Apocalypse Now they said they didn't watch old movies!
Anyway my favourite genuinely old movie is
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018737/ Pandora's Box
Berzerker
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Dont know if anything by Johnny Depp can be called obscure but I liked the 9th Gate. Somebody mentioned Vanishing Point, the original was good. Starman with Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen.
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Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man* isn't all that well known. I liked it and Neil Young's (non-bouzouki) soundtrack.
I suggested that it was a good example of an "alternative" movie for its time. After 40 years, I don't know whether I'd still be able to sit though it without cringing .
* Incidentally, got any tobacco?
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Very good choices
The first episode of Dreams has wonderful scenes, and the Van Gogh... But the most interesting content in it for me was the next episode, the mount Fuji one: it shows how the japanese spend all those years of the cold war worrying about nuclear disasters of one kind or another - it's an undercurrent in many japanese movies. I think Dreams has the most of Kurosawa in it, of all his movies.If you liked Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion I will recommend Welt am Draht (it should be obscure enough to mention here
) from Fassbinder, very 1970s also, this science fiction that must have inspired recent movies. The germans are not as good as the italians in their movies: the italians know how to be political, and Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion is one such great movie. Whereas the germans usually ran away from being political so their movies had little value beyond entertainment. But they made some original ones.
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Way to disrespect Hugo Weaving, the man behind the mask of V for Vendetta!
But I now saw that movie. I think
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How about obscure TV series (since I don't watch many movies and have no idea which ones I like could reasonably be considered obscure)?
(unless you count Raise the Red Lantern? It's the only movie I ever liked that has subtitles)
Mention upthread of Hugo Weaving reminds me of a miniseries called Bangkok Hilton, which starred Nicole Kidman, Denholm Elliot and Hugo Weaving. It's an excellent series, which I saw many years ago on CBC-TV, and would love to get the DVD... except it's not available for North America (unless you have a machine that plays Region-whatever works in Australia).
(unless you count Raise the Red Lantern? It's the only movie I ever liked that has subtitles)
Mention upthread of Hugo Weaving reminds me of a miniseries called Bangkok Hilton, which starred Nicole Kidman, Denholm Elliot and Hugo Weaving. It's an excellent series, which I saw many years ago on CBC-TV, and would love to get the DVD... except it's not available for North America (unless you have a machine that plays Region-whatever works in Australia).
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I remember Bangkok Hilton. Liked it all those years ago.
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Sure, if they are good & reasonably obscure, they can be mentioned
You may have opened a can of worms here.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072572/ Survivors (ignore the mediocre 2008 remake, this is post-global pandemic '70s style)
