Thunderbird Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 YouTube - Americans are dumb Idiocracy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyVNlvzzSFA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moontanman Posted July 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 In the catagory of 70's Sexplotation film's.. IMDb Video: Flesh Gordon flesh gordon - Google Video Freaking hilarious 7 min clip. "Monster hangout" Darn, I was going to say Flesh Gordon next :rolleyes: the first time i watched it I was totally freaked. when the scientist said the super sex beam hadn't affected him at all and then he unveiled his space ship I almost died laughing! The attack by the penisaurus was pretty cool too. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaurieAG Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 We mustn't forget the Cube. Cube (film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 Godzilla(The modern USA one) - although you may need to have been weaned on the Japanese versions.A very funny movie. Especially the French Secret Service trying to find real food and coffee in the USA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffy Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 Godzilla(The modern USA one) - although you may need to have been weaned on the Japanese versions.A very funny movie. Especially the French Secret Service trying to find real food and coffee in the USA.Jean Reno is marvelous in that version, but otherwise, I think its totally sucky! I will go see *anything* with Jean Reno in it! Even the remake of The Pink Panther! :cheer: What you need to be "weened" from is the absolutely bizarre American version of the original Godzilla with Raymond Burr in it. A couple of years ago they re-released the original Japanese version (sans Perry Masonesque-voiceover), which is an amazing anti-war, anti-nuclear weapon paean, that everyone should see. Its actually quite disturbing... And while we're on Japanese films, here are two *really* obscure ones that are also hard to find, but are among my favorite films of all time: Harakiri and The Harp of Burma.... The greatest delicacies taste of nothing when eaten alone, :phones:Buffy Michaelangelica 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanctus Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 Buffy I completely agree on Jean Reno, I love the movies he is in too. The new Pink Panther was in my view almost funnier than the older ones. My favorits of him are "Leon" and "Le dernier combat (the last combat)". The latter really fits into the category obscure and gret movies. It is only non-mute movie I know of...in all the movie there is only one word spoken (sounds are there though)! And for once he is the bad guy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modest Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 And while we're on Japanese films, here are two *really* obscure ones that are also hard to find, but are among my favorite films of all time: Harakiri and Somebody's speaking my language. I have an old copy of Seppuku/Harakiri on VHS - bootlegged at that :phones: Looking at a list of Kobayashi's other films, I know I've seen 2 or 3 of them, but this was a while ago and they've kind of blended together in my memory. But, Seppuku I clearly recall as it makes a very bold impression. I don't mind a sad ending in a feature. Then again, I am American, so I love a happy ending as well: Spirited Away - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ~modest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbird Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 Somebody's speaking my language. I have an old copy of Seppuku/Harakiri on VHS - bootlegged at that :phones: Looking at a list of Kobayashi's other films, I know I've seen 2 or 3 of them, but this was a while ago and they've kind of blended together in my memory. But, Seppuku I clearly recall as it makes a very bold impression. I don't mind a sad ending in a feature. Then again, I am American, so I love a happy ending as well: Spirited Away - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ~modest Jean Reno & Natalie Portman The Professional YouTube - Princess Mononoke Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkWWWKKA8jY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 Jean Reno is marvelous in that version, but otherwise, I think its totally sucky! I will go see *anything* with Jean Reno in it! Even the remake of The Pink Panther! :) What you need to be "weened" from is the absolutely bizarre American version of the original Godzilla with Raymond Burr in it. A couple of years ago they re-released the original Japanese version (sans Perry Masonesque-voiceover), which is an amazing anti-war, anti-nuclear weapon paean, that everyone should see. Its actually quite disturbing... And while we're on Japanese films, here are two *really* obscure ones that are also hard to find, but are among my favorite films of all time: Harakiri and The Harp of Burma.... The greatest delicacies taste of nothing when eaten alone, :shrug:BuffyThanks Buffy and for the PMI will put it on my ever growing Amazon "Wish List" in the hope that my children will get generous one birthday....................................................One movie I have been looking for for along time is "The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimer"by Peter CookI have finally tracked it down at Amazon in the UKIt tells the story of how a politician becomes a supreme dictator of the UK by giving people what they say they want- "absolute democracy."I remember it as being very satirical and funny-----------------------------------------------HELP PLEASE?Some oldies might be able to help with this obscure French movie I saw 40 years ago at a Film Festival Marathon.It was about a thief/burglar who joins a circus; gets shot out of a canon with an 'angel wings' costume; and eventually gets the wings to work. His consequent reception at nunneries and catholic girls schools is ecstatic! He has a compulsion about stealing clocks. Of course the wings give him a suburb burglar advantage.In the final scene, the 'bad guy' and he, have a traditional "pie-fight" except they use clocks as the 'pies'.I remember it as one of the funniest movies I have ever seenAnyone know what it was? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modest Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 Yup, that's another good Miyazaki creation for sure :phones: ~modest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanctus Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 What about Dersu Uzala by Kurosawa? One of my all time favorites...Also Down by law is a great one in my view Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigD Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 Zarkorr! The Invader (1996). Considered by many (32% of IMDB voters give it a 1) simply a bad, bad movie, I think it’s one of the most intelligent films, on many levels, ever made. It’s writer, Benajmin Carr, impresses me as a sort of golden age SF writer timewarped from the world of 1950s pulps into the world of 1990s B-movies. Also, though it strains the imagination that this movie, a sort of fusion of the Godzilla, swords and sorcery, and nerd genres, can be, IMHO it actually qualifies as hard SF. By no means do I recommend Zarkorr (32% of IMDB voters can’t be completely wrong!), but if my description strikes a resonant chord in you, you might see if you’re one of the rare (13.9% of IMDB gave it a 10) folk who share my affection for this obscure (122 votes at IMDB) movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBigDog Posted July 26, 2008 Report Share Posted July 26, 2008 I have always recommended Diggstown, and I do again today. Is this the best movie ever made? No, but it is one most people have not heard of and from beginning to end is creative, intelligent, and exciting. A crafty duel between con-men with boxing as the backdrop. The fix is definitely on. Oh yeah! A young Heather Graham! Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigD Posted July 26, 2008 Report Share Posted July 26, 2008 Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space. The AFI theatre manager who introduces this film described it as the strangest he’d ever seen, and I and everyone I know who’s seen it agree. The creation of the musical group Tol (“Trees of life”), it appears designed to be beyond obscure, to the point of being outright mysterions. For years, the DVD was nearly unobtainable (or, rather, obtainable only via the purchase an expensive box of promo material including cloths and toys), viewable only in theatres. It remains difficult to find information about this movie. Effectively devoid of narrative (some have suggested that it was edited somewhat randomly), I found it both bewildering and nearly impossible to look away from. Theories about what the movie is about vary widely, including the IMHO unlikely one that it’s about nothing at all, that it’s based on Pynchon’s “The Crying of Lot 49” (?!), and my personal favorite, that it’s a study in and about archtypes. Its closing credits song, “One Day for Maria” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7mHTZfUzA8, is one of, possibly the strangest song I’ve ever heard: musically, it’s just layers of instrument tracks on top of a C-G-D folksong, lyrically, I can’t quite discern its language (English, mostly), and seem to get a slightly different story impression each time I listen to it. Tamala clearly qualifies as obscure. As for great, I’m simply can’t say. I recommend seeing Tamala, if you can – even after 5 years, it’s still not easy to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeztar Posted July 26, 2008 Report Share Posted July 26, 2008 Its closing credits song, , is one of, possibly the strangest song I’ve ever heard: musically, it’s just layers of instrument tracks on top of a C-G-D folksong, lyrically, I can’t quite discern its language (English, mostly), and seem to get a slightly different story impression each time I listen to it. I love it! Thanks Craig! Though I must say, if that's the strangest song you've ever heard, I've got some *real starnge* songs for you! :shrug: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffy Posted July 30, 2008 Report Share Posted July 30, 2008 Okay, for strange movies--if you can expand it to include short film--no list would be complete without:Maya Deren's "Meshes in the Afternoon"Luis Buñuel's "Un Chien Andalou"Both absolutely indescribable... Oh and to expand the general list by a bit very succinctly: absolutely anything by Sergei Eisenstein, V.I. Pudovkin and Leni Reifenstahl, because almost none of you have seen any of them and every one of them is good! Reality doesn't interest me, :phones:Buffy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REASON Posted July 30, 2008 Report Share Posted July 30, 2008 The Party - Peter Sellers I don't know how obscure this is in reality. I have managed to catch it on TV only once and that was almost 20 years ago. I thought it was hilarious. A classic Blake Edwards movie. YouTube - THE PARTY [TRAILER] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38PMVtdw_hE ___________________________ Buffy, I can't believe you mentioned Eraserhead. What a blast from the past. When I was a young teenager, some of my friends and I would go up to the local university theater and we saw it a couple of times there. This is the stuff nightmares are made of. Mostly weird, but very creepy! :phones: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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