Great Movies It Seems Like Nobody Else Has Ever Heard Of
 

NOBODY I talk to has ever even heard of Detroit Rock City. And it's rather annoying.

Any of you ever had this? A great movie that not a damn soul has seen?

Heard of the name. Never saw it.

Buckaroo Banzai

Dark Star

If... (oh, OK, it *seemed* great at the time)

Silent Running (Brilliant demented performance from Bruce Dern)

I guess Rainbow Bridge isn't really a great film, but it goes well with drugs.

Powers of Ten won't take up much of your life, but it's well worth the time it occupies. If you don't have time for the movie, at least checkout the website

You don't have to see Ghost in the Shell first to enjoy the sequel, but it helps.

I've seen bits and pieces of Dark Star, years and years ago. My dad still has the VHS somewhere, I think.

Yes, it was a well-worn cult classic at the 1976 Worldcon...where they were showing preprduction art and costumes for this new film called "The Star Wars" by some unknown guy.

Dark Star is very immediately postVietnam in flavor. And was insanely cheaply made; it was essentially a student film. Nontheless there's some more timeless and really classic tropes and conceits in it. Beachball and The Elevator. The Smartbomb. The Frozen Captain.

You kids with hippie-envy (and the older nostalgia-stricken crowd) might suddenly find deep and/or rediscovered insight from a decade later in Riders of The Storm if you can find a copy.

Personally, I've kinda moved on from such...

Koyanisqaatsi.

I probably misspelled that.

Koyaanisqatsi, Life out of Balance. Got it. And Powaqqatsi, Life in Transformation. But I'm still seeking the third one, Naqoyaqatsi, Life as War.

Check it out.

Ah..well spotted. It's one of the first VHS dubs anybody ever gave me.

Black Cat White Cat

Let's see, kids running off to see Kiss, parents eating a pizza with 'special mushrooms'. That's all I really remember.

I saw Buckeroo, Dark Star, and Silent Running.

Silent Running is an all-time classic.

I would add Electra Glide in Blue and The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds. 'Marigolds' was directed by Paul Newman.

Summer of '42 was a great coming of age movie that came out 1-2 years before American Grafitti.

I would also put up The Incredible Mr. Limpet, but I think a lot of people have seen that one.

Follow Me, Boys! is an Disney comedy about a man who becomes a boy scout troop leader for generations of boys in his town. It's a very good movie, with some dark moments to make it a little more realistic. It's sort of a Norman Rockwell painting turned into a movie.

The Gods must be Crazy.....

the adventures of a South African bushman trying to return a coke-bottle that fell on him from an air-liner.......

(when was the last tiime you saw a Landrover winch itself up a tree?)

Speaking of Powers Of Ten, you can now watch it online

And then there's this. D'oh!

Heavy Traffic

Early 70's animated....I think it was rated R.