# Forgotten movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [January 2, 2024, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476 "2024-01-02T02:08:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/261 "2024-01-09T17:15:00Z")
Seeing **VP** and **TLB** mentioned reminds me of **Thunder** **Road**. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/262 "2024-01-09T17:22:52Z")
> [@F.U.Shakespeare](#): > > **Thunder** **Road**. Ah yes! I have it, have heard good things, but have failed to watch it yet. As for forgotten, I also own _Hot Rod_, a little gem of a 1950 film all of 61 minutes long about young hot rodders trying to get a drag strip built. Great period-correct (of course!) 32 fords rodding around. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/263 "2024-01-09T17:54:00Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > but isn’t the brothers Grimm’s “Sleeping Beauty” the first literary example for the trope? It didn’t involve a clock or other device, but a curse that let anything be frozen in time. I’m looking for the trope of a watch (or other device) stopping time, not just having time stop. YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/264 "2024-01-09T18:25:56Z")
> [@F.U.Shakespeare](#): > > Seeing **VP** and **TLB** mentioned reminds me of **Thunder** **Road**. I saw the original **Gone in 60 Seconds** back in the '70s. It’s hard to call a movie “forgotten” when it’s had a big budget remake, but this one is close. As I understand, it was from car guys who tried to make a movie, not movie guys who decided to make a film about cars. I was browsing my on-screen TV listings and saw this title, and the description was for the original, but when I turned to that channel, it was the remake. Don’t know whose mistake that was. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/265 "2024-01-09T18:50:36Z")
Start the Revolution without Me. Head Office Both hilarious and forgotten ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/266 "2024-01-09T18:59:49Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Anyone remember **Ishtar** , the 1987 comedy with Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty? > > I still recall how severely Siskel & Ebert trashed it. Ebert gave it half a star and called it “a truly dreadful film, a lifeless, massive, lumbering exercise in failed comedy.” > > I looked it up on Rotten Tomatoes and was surprised to see it with 40% rating with plenty of solid reviews from several respected critics. > > mmm As a kid I thought it was kind of funny but remember how much people hated it in pop culture. A friend of mine actually was supposed to be in it. She was big part in a subplot that got cut from the film entirely–an American tourist couple have their vacation continually ruined by the fallout of events happening in the Hoffman/Beatty storyline. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/267 "2024-01-09T19:19:46Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > The first movie I ever saw in a theater as a child was _C.H.O.M.P.S._ It has pretty much dropped out of sight. Oh, my! I had forgotten about this movie until you brought it up. I saw it in theater and other than one swear word uttered, all I remember are vague scenes of a robot dog. I think I saw the dirtier version of the movie while living in Germany. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/268 "2024-01-09T19:43:05Z")
SNL writer Michael O’Donoghue make [Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video (1979)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079583/reference/). A series of vignettes, but the only one I can remember was the swimming cats. Sometime after it was filmed, O’Donoghue appeared in one of the sketches as (someone summoned from a crystal ball?), and as he faded away, Gilda (as I recall) said something to the effect of “Congratulations on ‘Mondo Video.’” ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/269 "2024-01-09T20:00:50Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I saw the original **Gone in 60 Seconds** back in the '70s I love this movie. Hand’s down, the best car chase on film. If you are familiar with the locations (Long Beach and the greater South Bay area of LA) you’ll notice the route taken is entirely consistent in time and place, unlike the remake where Nicholas Cage’s Mustang is apparently equipped with a teleportation device. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/270 "2024-01-09T20:39:14Z")
Just another recommendation for _Electra Glide in Blue._ It’s probably been thirty years since I’ve seen it, but I liked it a lot. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/271 "2024-01-09T20:53:54Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > SNL writer Michael O’Donoghue make [Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video (1979)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079583/reference/). A series of vignettes, but the only one I can remember was the swimming cats. I saw this at a showing on campus. It was notable because it had the Last Episode of Mr. Bill, that sadistic “gumby” that ran on SNL. Mr… Bill and his dog end up in the hospital, with Sluggo as his nurse/orderly, and dies. They also had The Church of Jack Lord (Dan Aykroyd and Terri Garr sing “Were you There when they Crucified Jack Lord?”) Celebrity Deformities (the only one they showed was Aykroyd, who apparently has slightly webbed toes. He demonstrated this with a screwdriver.) Underwater Mime Marcel Cousteau (He mimes, as a sign tells us, “Man Drowning”) ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/272 "2024-01-09T21:01:21Z")
> [@Push\_You\_Down](#): > > As a kid I thought it was kind of funny but remember how much people hated it in pop culture. > A friend of mine actually was supposed to be in it. She was big part in a subplot that got cut from the film entirely–an American tourist couple have their vacation continually ruined by the fallout of events happening in the Hoffman/Beatty storyline. When Kevin Costner’s big-budget Waterworld flopped at the box office, people were calling it “Fishtar”, and Kevin’s gate (a reference to “Heaven’s Gate”.) ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/273 "2024-01-09T21:10:02Z")
Okay, how about _Gladiator_ from 1992 starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., Brian Dennehy, and James Marshall. It’s about an illegal underground boxing competition and at the end Dennehy fights Marshall. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/274 "2024-01-09T21:11:02Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > _Frogs_ I saw it in a theatre when I was. I was impressed how the frogs didn’t actually do anything. A funny thing happened when we got home… It had been raining (in San Diego! Can you believe it?) and the back yard was flooded. There were frogs all over the back yard. I think my sister’s friend was a bit freaked out by it. I thought it was 🕶 . > [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > [Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video (1979)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079583/reference/). _LASER Bra 2000!_, ‘Looking Up Cheryl Tiegs’ Dress’, Sid Vicious singing _My Way_, Klaus Nomi singing opera… Plus the Jack Lord bit, and the Cargo Cult one. Man, I love that show. I saw it at a drive-in. I had it on VHS. According to Amazon, I bought it on DVD in 2010. I’ll have to see if I can find it since SWMBO nixed my video shelves and put everything into baskets. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/275 "2024-01-09T23:21:38Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > > > I saw the original **Gone in 60 Seconds** back in the '70s > > I love this movie. Hand’s down, the best car chase on film. That’s a bold claim. I’ve seen _Bullitt_, the original _The Italian Job_, and _Rendezvous_. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/276 "2024-01-10T01:20:04Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I’ve seen _Bullitt_, the original _The Italian Job_, and _Rendezvous_ . So have I. _Gone in 60 Seconds_ is better (and the chase comprises half of the film.) In fact, here it is…all 40 minutes of it: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/JMkJlagRCIA/maxresdefault.jpg "Gone in 60 seconds (1974)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMkJlagRCIA) ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/277 "2024-01-10T01:24:27Z")
Video won’t let me edit the post above, but just to be clear, all but a short bit at the start, that video is all car chase. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/278 "2024-01-10T01:30:16Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > Okay, how about _Gladiator_ from 1992 starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., Brian Dennehy, and James Marshall. It’s about an illegal underground boxing competition and at the end Dennehy fights Marshall. That one’s in the subcategory of “forgotten movies overshadowed by another non-remake movie with the same title.” See also: > **[Frozen (2010) ⭐ 6.1 | Adventure, Thriller](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1323045/)** > > 1h 33m | R ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/279 "2024-01-10T03:16:21Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > That one’s in the subcategory of “forgotten movies overshadowed by another non-remake movie with the same title.” See also: Does that include TV shows? When I hear _The Avengers_, I still think of John Steed and Mrs. Peel. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/280 "2024-01-10T03:32:04Z")
Got a couple more that I enjoyed seeing and which I haven’t seen around in quite some time _The Black Stallion_ (1979). Based on the young adult books by Walter Farley, it starred Hoyt Axton, Teri Garr and Mickey Rooney, but the real star was the Arabian Stallion Cass Ole. A pretty basic story line (boy meets horse, ends up in a big race), but the cinematography was marvelous. _Popeye_ (19080) starring Robin Williams and Shelly Duval. It was widely panned as it was based on the old 1920’s-30’s “Thimble Theater” comic strips and not on the 50’s-60’s cartoons that most folks my age grew up with, so it was confusing to many, but I enjoyed it and it was a role that Robin Williams was born to play. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476.md?page=15)