Best movie nobody's heard of...

[Crothian]

Rhustlers Rhapsedy: Not sure if this qualifies as obscure as it was done only in the 80's, has some actual stars in it, and a budget. But I never see it on the movie stations, or rerunning on TBS or any of the cable stationsIt's a great western comedy that polks fun at all the western cliches.

Remo Williams: Again, probably not obscure, but if you haven't seen it you need to. It's a little campy at times, but has good humor for an adventure martial type film.

 

[Bass Puppet]

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Most of you have seen it and I'm not sure if it's been mentioned before (most likely), so I'll say it again because that's how much I love this flick. The set design has always blown me away everytime I watch it.

Way before it's time.

 

[Olive]

How many parades do you get on an average day on the farm?!

Damn Aucklanders, don't you know the farmers make the cows and sheep parade up and down to the milking and shearing sheds every day?

Olive, who's only ever been on a farm once in his life...

 

[Mark]

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

 

[Pielorinho]

Rhustlers Rhapsedy:

Yep - a very funny movie that nobody's ever heard of. Good stuff! I wouldn't exactly call it high art, because that would be a stinky lie.

There's a filmmaker from Eastern Europe, Jan Svenkmaijer, I think, who makes very bizarre movies. The only one I've seen is Faust, a marionette-retelling of the story. My wife says his Tom Thumb is well worth watching.

Daniel

 

[TwistedBishop]

Real Men with John Ritter and Jim Belushi.

it's hilariously funny in a very absurd way. you know the movie's going to be absurd when you discover the name of one of the main characters is Secret Agent Pirandello.

Wow, one movie out of dozens that I've actually seen/heard of. Didn't it have killer clowns in it?

I love that movie.

Ritter: "Hey, who are those clowns?"

::Belushi spins around and sees a group of clowns advancing down an alley::

Belushi: "Holy crap, clown attack!"

Ritter: "Clown attack?"

Belushi: "Yeah, special unit. The CIA is putting some of their best operatives in clown suits, so they don't attract attention."

Ritter: "So they don't attract attention!?!"

Belushi: "Yeah, they've gone bad."

Ritter: "BAD CLOWNS?!?"



My true favorite that it seems no one else ever watches would be....Into the Night. Jeff Goldblum and a very young Michelle Pfeiffer, directed by John Landis in the mid 80s. Score and music by B.B. King. It's rather perfect in every way.

 

[D+1]

Note that as indicated in the original post these are not necessarily obscure, just movies that other people seem not to have heard of for various reasons.

Let It Ride - Comedy with Richard Dreyfuss, Buster Poindexter, Jennifer Tilly, Teri Garr. "I'm not gambling, I'm WINNING!"

Moon Over Parador - Dreyfuss again, and Raul Julia. Dreyfuss is an actor kidnapped and forced to play the part of a dead bannanaland dictator by the head of the secret police.

Always - A Spielberg movie that a lot of people seem to have missed entirely.

Secret of My Success - Michael J. Fox in his second best movie ever (Back to the Future being #1)

Fandango - an unknown early Kevin Costner flick costarring Judd Nelson. Vietnam-era college buddies on a post-graduate road trip. It's a full-length movie built around a student film by director Kevin Reynolds.

The Beast - another Kevin Reynolds directed film. A Soviet tank in Afghanistan pursued by Mujahadin.

Postcards From The Edge - behind the scenes Hollywood stuff based on Carrie Fishers book.

Once Were Warriors - industrial strength depression from New Zealand. Stars Temuera Morrison, better known these days as Jango Fett.

The Grifters - neo noir with John Cusack, Angelica Huston, and Annette Bening

The Player - More behind the scenes hollywood in a dark comedy/suspense vein.

The Man Who Would Be King - Easily overlooked Sean Connery and Michael Caine film based on Rudyard Kiplings story.

Breaker Morant - Australians fighting in the Boer War accused of murder. Edward Woodward, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson.

Hope and Glory - John Boormans autobiographical account of the home front in England in WWII.

Empire of the Sun - Another often overlooked Spielberg movie about a British kid seperated from his parents when the Japanese capture Shanghai in WWII.

Mystery Train - Jim Jarmusch directed. Several stories all set in the same fleabag Memphis hotel on the same night.

I'll also second nominations for:
Comfort and Joy
Local Hero
Last Days of Disco
Rustlers Rhapsody
Night on Earth
Into the Night
Raising Arizona
Repo Man
-any movie with Gene Hackman.

Edit: added a bit more. I could go on but I think that's enough for now.

 

[Olive]

Once Were Warriors - industrial strength depression from New Zealand. Stars Temuera Morrison, better known these days as Jango Fett.

To those of us from NZ, he'll always be Dr. Ropata...

 

[Hypersmurf]

To those of us from NZ, he'll always be Dr. Ropata...

You're not in Guatemala now, Dr Ropata...

-Hyp.

 

[barsoomcore]

My true favorite that it seems no one else ever watches would be....Into the Night. Jeff Goldblum and a very young Michelle Pfeiffer, directed by John Landis in the mid 80s. Score and music by B.B. King. It's rather perfect in every way.

I LOVE that film. Saw it three times in the theatre -- a buddy and I just utterly fell in love with everything about that film and went to see it over and over again. I could watch it right now.

What a great little film that is. Back when Jeff Goldblum was funny, John Landis was crazy, and Michelle Pfeiffer was... no, wait, she's still hot. Never mind.