What's a movie you've seen but most probably haven't?

[TJ8869]

Flipside to Fred's movie thread. My favorite little known movie is The Straight Story. It was lauded by critics but only earned a paltry $6 million at the box office, about $4 million less than it cost to make the movie. I'm guessing a higher percentage of HROT posters have seen it than has the general public since it was based in Iowa.

For those who haven't seen it, it's the story of elderly WWII veteran Alvin Straight. He learns that his estranged brother in Wisconsin has suffered a stroke and decides he needs to see him to make things right before it's too late. Unable to drive due to his age and various ailments, and too stubborn to let anyone else drive him, Alvin decides that as a form of penance he will make the 240 mile journey on an old John Deere lawn tractor.

Richard Farnsworth delivered a great performance as Alvin. One of my favorite scenes was Alvin and another veteran sharing war stories that had haunted them for over 50 years.

It's available to watch for free on YouTube.

 

[Funky Bunch]

Bi-Curious George

 

[artradley]

Flipside to Fred's movie thread. My favorite little known movie is The Straight Story. It was lauded by critics but only earned a paltry $6 million at the box office, about $4 million less than it cost to make the movie. I'm guessing a higher percentage of HROT posters have seen it than has the general public since it was based in Iowa.

For those who haven't seen it, it's the story of elderly WWII veteran Alvin Straight. He learns that his estranged brother in Wisconsin has suffered a stroke and decides he needs to see him to make things right before it's too late. Unable to drive due to his age and various ailments, and too stubborn to let anyone else drive him, Alvin decides that as a form of penance he will make the 240 mile journey on an old John Deere lawn tractor.

Richard Farnsworth delivered a great performance as Alvin. One of my favorite scenes was Alvin and another veteran sharing war stories that had haunted them for over 50 years.

It's available to watch for free on YouTube.

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I heard about that movie quite a bit but never did see it.

For me it's "The Stunt Man". Perhaps my favorite movie ever.

 

[BC Hawk]

Matchmaker Mary. We tried to find the absolute worst movie on Netflix, and we succeeded.

 

[ANYCHawk]

 

[fredjr82]

Love and Sex with John Favreau and Famke Jammsen. I'm a sucker for Rom Coms.

Another one is Joe the King. Great movie with Val Kilmer as a shitty alcoholic father

 

[StormHawk42]

Jenifer. Some low budget sex and horror flick. The chick has a completely messed up face but a smokin bod, but she also eats people. It was weird.

According to the Wiki page, it was part of some series called Masters of Horror.

 

[Hawksit]

Two Ninas
Airborne

 

[thedirtyglass]

flipping through channels one night and found this on one of the showtime channels. I watched maybe ten minutes of it...does that count?

 

[QChawks]

 

[ANYCHawk]

flipping through channels one night and found this on one of the showtime channels. I watched maybe ten minutes of it...does that count?

No ten minutes seems like all the time you would need to do your business to that movie.

 

[TJ8869]

I probably should have specified name a *good* movie you've seen that most haven't. But I kind of like where this thread is going instead.

 

[thedirtyglass]

No ten minutes seems like all the time you would need to do your business to that movie.

yeah, took a few more minutes than usual as a result of the trannies

 

[ANYCHawk]

yeah, took a few more minutes than usual as a result of the trannies

We figured that sped it up

 

[BABiscuit]

Am I in?

 

[IowaHawkIT]

Danny Deckchair.

I thought it was dumb but my wife enjoyed it. Apparently based on a true story.

 

[thedirtyglass]

We figured that sped it up

we?

 

[ANYCHawk]

we?

the council of HROT relations discussed your case in our secret meeting lab.

 

[thedirtyglass]

the council of HROT relations discussed your case in our secret meeting lab.

 

[YellowSnow51]

Sideways
Caddyshack 2

I'm one of the few that has seen both of these that didn't kill himself. I was out of bullets.

 

[SweatPantsStiffy]

Airborne

Seth Green. Jack Black. Rollerblading. Good stuff right there.

 

[moral_victory]

The Grifter.

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

 

[BubsFinn]

Weather Woman. It's a Japanese film about a woman who works at a news station. She has some low-level assistant job but she wants to be the weather girl. She manages to get on air somehow, but and starts flashing her underwear to the camera. She becomes insanely popular and she gets the job she wants. Then it gets weird.

 

[anon_4v8fwjfqmw9bi]

 

[Brian_Fantana]

Maybe not this HROT crew but it baffles me how many people haven't seen "Who's Harry Crumb". It didn't get the accolades that Candy was used to but a classic. A couple others that most people I know haven't seen is "People Under the Stairs" and "Big Man on Campus" from 1989, not to be confused with that rather stupid "Dead Man on Campus". Grew up in the 80's on a farm so didn't have cable so we rented and dubbed pretty much every movie that came out.

 

[Hawkeye_311]

The Never Ending Story 3

 

[BubsFinn]

Dude, Naked Prey is a classic.

 

[dgordo]

Maybe not this HROT crew but it baffles me how many people haven't seen "Who's Harry Crumb". It didn't get the accolades that Candy was used to but a classic. A couple others that most people I know haven't seen is "People Under the Stairs" and "Big Man on Campus" from 1989, not to be confused with that rather stupid "Dead Man on Campus". Grew up in the 80's on a farm so didn't have cable so we rented and dubbed pretty much every movie that came out.

Harry crumb was outstanding.

 

[strummingram]

Late 80's film with Charles Grodin and some SNL newcomers at the time.

Last Resort (a guilty pleasure)

 

[moon291]

Whats Eating Gilbert Grape

 

[JWolf74]

Found this on Netflix one night. Watched it because of the title. Not even hilariously horrible. Just horrible. Wife hated it, too. Although there were tits, so there's that.

 

[h-hawk]

Some movies in that category I recommend highly -

Dodsworth - adult themed film from late 1930s.
The Mating Season (Thelma Ritter is terrific.)
No Man Is An Island - low budget but intriguing true story of American sailor who survives Japanese occupation of the Philippines.

 

[fredjr82]

Airborne

Just chill, brah.

Did he just call you a piece of underwear?

Young Jack Black and Seth Green. The dude who plays Snake is still around too. Great pick!!

 

[YellowSnow51]

"Fortress" anyone?

 

[strummingram]

Love and Sex with John Favreau and Famke Jammsen.

Great movie.

I love it when the little guy comes in with the bongoes. "You're... my... baby!"

 

[anon_01irjibf16qqj]

RUBBER

 

[Hoosierhawkeye]

Some computer animated flick we caught on netflix that the kids love. It was made in Norway and you can tell that it was translated from their language too.

Movie doesn't even have a wikipedia entry.

For one that does have a wikipedia entry we've seen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_(2010_film)

For some reason we rented this for grins and giggles. One of those movies that is so bad it's funny. Except unlike sharknado they arn't trying to be so bad that it's funny.

 

[ilhawkeye]

Equilibrium
Ip Man
The Way

 

[Rifler]

SPERMULA
70's French film
Beautiful female vampires from outer space who consume semen instead of blood. They gain control of human males by "feeding" on them through the act of fellatio. Their conquest of the planet earth is brought to a halt however by a band of outlier males who have discovered that the aliens can be destroyed by the act of traditional penal/vaginal sex. Sort of a "stake to the heart" if you will.... Reasonable porn, marginal acting, terrible sets, funny as hell....