# 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:** 15
**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 10, 2024, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/281 "2024-01-10T03:39:55Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > _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. I watched the old _Popeye_ cartoons when I was waiting for the _real_ cartoons to come on ( 😉 ) so I got it. Two lines have stuck with me from the Robin Williams film: ‘I said pfui, and I _meant_ pfui!’, and ‘You owe me an apology!’ I like the film. (And yes, I have the DVD somewhere.) ---
**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, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/282 "2024-01-10T04:01:29Z")
The _Popeye_ film somehow seems like a better film now than it did in 1980. Stylistically, it could have been made yesterday. ---
**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, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/283 "2024-01-10T04:22:59Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > 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: I kinda hate to say it, but it’s not quite as gonzo as I remember. > [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > _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. Robin Williams? I think Shelley Duvall was genetically engineered to be Olive Oyl. ---
**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 10, 2024, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/284 "2024-01-10T04:42:06Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I think Shelley Duvall was genetically engineered to be Olive Oyl. Shelly Duvall was actually rather pretty. ---
**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, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/285 "2024-01-10T04:45:23Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Shelly Duvall was actually rather pretty. Olive Oyl must have had something going for her; she had Popeye and Bluto practically fighting to the death over her. ---
**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 10, 2024, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/286 "2024-01-10T16:38:00Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > The _Popeye_ film somehow seems like a better film now than it did in 1980. Stylistically, it could have been made yesterday. Apparently VIDIOTS in Los Angeles is putting together a showing on a big screen in a couple of weeks…and I’ve never been sadder to have left Los Angeles. (Around late 2019, I decided I was going to try to get more involved with some of the movie revival groups in LA…basically so I could get them to do screenings of two movies… Popeye and Joe Vs. The Volcano…then covid happened and then I moved away) ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/287 "2024-01-10T16:47:17Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > **Only the Lonely** with John Candy, Maureen O’Hara, and Ally Sheedy. Written and directed by Chris Columbus. Sort of like a comic version of **Marty**. It’s not available on DVD, doesn’t stream anyplace, totally gone. > [Only the Lonely (1991) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102598/?ref_=nm_flmg_c_12_act) > > ETA - Wait - it’s now streaming on Starz, according to the linked IMDB page. I swear it wasn’t before. > > StG According to the JustWatch app, yes it’s on Starz. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/288 "2024-01-11T01:12:19Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > That’s a bold claim. I’ve seen _Bullitt_, the original _The Italian Job_, and _Rendezvous_. I’ve seen _The Blues Brothers_. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/289 "2024-01-11T01:53:15Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Start the Revolution without Me. > > Head Office > > Both hilarious and forgotten Me and a couple of friends would quote _Head Office_ to each other. Dis-Co-nect ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/290 "2024-01-11T02:51:36Z")
> [@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. Top of the head, hardest part of the body… (Might be a minor misquote, but it’s what I remember most from that movie.) ETA: I just checked, and that was it. Somehow that line has stuck with me for 30 years. ---
**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 11, 2024, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/291 "2024-01-11T03:00:03Z")
How about another boxing movie? _Diggstown_ released in 1992, the same year as _Gladiator,_ stars Louis Gosset, Jr. and James Woods before he went full on crazy. It’s been more than 30 years since I’ve seen it, but I remember it as a decent movie about conning a worthy target. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/292 "2024-01-11T03:12:53Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > _The Bed Sitting Room_ God save Mrs. Ethel Stoat. Keep moving, keep moving. Saw it in college over 50 years ago, still remember it. Great choice. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/293 "2024-01-11T03:28:17Z")
[Zachariah](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachariah_(film)) a Western based on Siddhartha and written by half of Firesign Theatre, though the only Firesign bit was the used wagon salesman. A bomb. I have the soundtrack, though. And [Hellzapoppin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellzapoppin%27_(film)) the brilliant Olsen and Johnson movie based on their Broadway musical (which my mother saw and loved) with Martha Raye. She did things before she hawked denture cream. It doesn’t seem to be officially released, but I have a DVD of good quality. When I got a copy at Christmas one year I banished everyone from the living room to see if it could be nearly as good as I remembered it from TV. It was. I invited people in to watch the initial hell scene - Johnson - finally a cabbie who takes me where I tell him to go - and they all stayed for the entire movie. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/294 "2024-01-11T04:14:05Z")
Several months ago, I ordered a movie called “Coda” from the library, and when I saw that it was actually about an elderly concert pianist and not Children Of Deaf Adults, I decided to go ahead and watch it anyway. It was okay. > **[Coda (2019) ⭐ 6.0 | Drama, Music](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7090140/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3_tt_7_nm_1_q_coda)** > > 1h 36m | Not Rated > **[CODA (2021) ⭐ 8.0 | Comedy, Drama, Music](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10366460/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_q_coda)** > > 1h 51m | PG-13 ---
**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 11, 2024, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/295 "2024-01-11T04:16:56Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > I’ve seen _The Blues Brothers_. It fits very well for the kind of movie it’s in, but it’s rather cartoonish overkill in terms of a car chase. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/296 "2024-01-11T04:27:02Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > How about another boxing movie? _Diggstown_ There is something about that movie that I love. Lots of humor, and the bad guy gets his comeuppance in the end. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/297 "2024-01-11T04:30:24Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Me and a couple of friends would quote _Head Office_ to each other. > > Dis-Co-nect “The world’s most irrational multinational.” ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/298 "2024-01-11T04:43:45Z")
I give it a thumbs down. 😄 ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/299 "2024-01-11T05:04:17Z")
its my aunts favorite horror movie … michael moriarty was in it…its funny tho the parody tv commercials fit right in with todays … ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/300 "2024-01-11T05:09:05Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > _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 that movie is one reason ive always wanted my own horse [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476.md?page=16)