# List cool movies that apparently nobody else has seen. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 16, 2001, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-cool-movies-that-apparently-nobody-else-has-seen/50282 "2001-01-16T05:12:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![NickShow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc8723/32.png) [@NickShow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NickShow)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2001, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-cool-movies-that-apparently-nobody-else-has-seen/50282/121 "2001-01-27T03:26:13Z")
Carpool, a delightful treat starring Tom Arnold… [http://movieweb.com/movie/carpool/](http://movieweb.com/movie/carpool/) And Wes Craven’s directorial debut… Last House on the Left [http://www.geocities.com/madfurby/lasthouse.html](http://www.geocities.com/madfurby/lasthouse.html) (One f’ed up choice for the last one. Bad plot, worse acting but still somehow a movie that about 35% can sit through.) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2001, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-cool-movies-that-apparently-nobody-else-has-seen/50282/122 "2001-01-27T03:49:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Myrr21 \* > \*\*And adding **The Hudsucker Proxy** by the Coen brothers–for some reason people tend to skip over this one. \*\* That’s a ‘cool movie … nobody else has seen’? I thought it was fairly successful…and it was well known enough to inspire a Great Big Sea video (When I’m Up). ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Creant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Miss\_Creant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Creant)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2001, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-cool-movies-that-apparently-nobody-else-has-seen/50282/123 "2001-01-27T05:20:21Z")
Freeway w/Keifer Sutherland and Reese Witherspoon - best line “were you gonna do sex to my dead body?” (read in southern accent) I forgot the name, but the someone mentioned it, about the four guys who have to drive a truck full of nitroglycerin Cinema Paradiso Delicatesin The Visitors w/Jean Reno The Last Supper Clay Pigeons ---
**Author:** ![Heath\_Doolin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Heath\_Doolin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heath_Doolin)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2001, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-cool-movies-that-apparently-nobody-else-has-seen/50282/124 "2001-01-27T05:28:09Z")
Another I saw that I loved The Seven Percent Solution- A interesting Sherlock Holmes tale where Holmes is in fact a cocaine fiend and Dr Watson (excellently played by Robert Duvall) takes him to be cured by the most famous psychiatrist at the time, a Dr. Sigmund Freud (also well played by Alan Arkin). Freud attemts to solve the mysteries of Holmes’ subconscious, while Holmes devotes himself to solving a mystery involving the kidnapping of Lola Deveraux. It inevitably leads down to a hated foe. I have only met one other that has seen this one. Personally though I thought it was well done in portraying the greatest detective as more human with his foibles than any other Holmes movie. ---
**Author:** ![Heath\_Doolin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Heath\_Doolin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heath_Doolin)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2001, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-cool-movies-that-apparently-nobody-else-has-seen/50282/125 "2001-01-27T05:35:30Z")
Crap as soon as I pressed the button I remembered one more Has anyone ever seen the movie Insignificance? A interesting tale as unnamed celebrities–a ballplayer, senator, actress, and professor–who resemble Joe DiMaggio, Joseph McCarthy, Marilyn Monroe, and Albert Einstein, and meet in a N. Y. C. hotel room in 1954. Funny, ironic, thought provoking. Wonderfully acted by all. Well written, superbly acted and a great “What if” type story (It could have happened…but probably didn’t) I highly recommend it ---
**Author:** ![mdf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@mdf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mdf)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2001, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-cool-movies-that-apparently-nobody-else-has-seen/50282/126 "2001-01-27T06:28:21Z")
Although I’m sure many here have seen it, I get blank looks mentioning it anywhere else - [The Lathe of Heaven](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0081036) -mdf ---
**Author:** ![rockstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockstar)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2001, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-cool-movies-that-apparently-nobody-else-has-seen/50282/127 "2001-01-27T19:44:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mdf \* > \*\*Although I’m sure many here have seen it, I get blank looks mentioning it anywhere else - [The Lathe of Heaven](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0081036) > > -mdf \*\* Ah! I love Lathe of Heaven! mdf my friend, you are not alone. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2001, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-cool-movies-that-apparently-nobody-else-has-seen/50282/128 "2001-01-27T20:19:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Heath Doolin \* > \*\*Crap as soon as I pressed the button I remembered one more > > Has anyone ever seen the movie Insignificance? > > A interesting tale as unnamed celebrities–a ballplayer, senator, actress, and professor–who resemble Joe DiMaggio, Joseph McCarthy, Marilyn Monroe, and Albert Einstein, and meet in a N. Y. C. hotel room in 1954. Funny, ironic, thought provoking. Wonderfully acted by all. Well written, superbly acted and a great “What if” type story (It could have happened…but probably didn’t) > > I highly recommend it \*\* Ohhhhh I’ve seen it! You’re so totally right, it’s awesome. Gary Busey as DiMaggio, Theresa Russell as Monroe, Michael Emil as Einstein, and Tony Curtis as McCarthy. A must-see! ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2001, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-cool-movies-that-apparently-nobody-else-has-seen/50282/129 "2001-01-27T22:27:25Z")
Hey! I’ve seen “Insignifigence” AND “Lathe of Heaven”! I liked both of them, but can somebody explain Lathe’s ending please? I said I would post this here over in the Vampire thread, so I’ll post it: “Addiction” Chrisopher Walken as a vampire. Well actually it’s mostly about this girl who becomes a vampire and Walken isn’t in it very much but the whole movie’s good and…it has Christopher Walken as a vampire! What more do you need to know? Since I’m here: These were actually very popular for documentaries, but they’re documentaries so that’s not very popular: “Fast, Cheap and Out of Control” (or anything by Errol Morris) “American Movie” “Hands on a Hard Body” Also: “PI” was quite good. “Naked” (still Mike Nichols best I think) Oh wait. Here’s a good one. Anybody see “The Rapture”? It’s about the rature, second coming, end of the world etc. But it’s definatly not “Left Behind”. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2001, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-cool-movies-that-apparently-nobody-else-has-seen/50282/130 "2001-01-27T22:45:40Z")
> [@](#): > > “Naked” (still Mike Nichols best I think) Er, Mike Leigh, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2001, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-cool-movies-that-apparently-nobody-else-has-seen/50282/131 "2001-01-27T23:21:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by betenoir \* > \*\*Oh wait. Here’s a good one. Anybody see “The Rapture”? > > It’s about the rature, second coming, end of the world etc. But it’s definatly not “Left Behind”.\*\* I did see that! With Mimi Rogers. One of the most powerful films I’ve seen - with one truly shocking scene near the end. A winner, in my book. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Creant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Miss\_Creant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Creant)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-cool-movies-that-apparently-nobody-else-has-seen/50282/132 "2001-01-28T00:13:15Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by betenoir \* \*\*Hey! I’ve seen “Insignifigence” AND “Lathe of Heaven”! I liked both of them, but can somebody explain Lathe’s ending please? I just read the book Lathe of Heaven, but I haven’t seen the movie in ages. Remind me what the ending is again. All day, I’ve had a movie in my head to add to this, but now that I’m at the computer, I have drawn a complete blank. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-cool-movies-that-apparently-nobody-else-has-seen/50282/133 "2001-01-28T00:19:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rocket88 \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > “Naked” (still Mike Nichols best I think) > > Er, Mike Leigh, maybe? > \*\* Oops. How embarrassing. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-cool-movies-that-apparently-nobody-else-has-seen/50282/134 "2001-01-28T01:43:03Z")
OF THOSE MENTIONED SO FAR… I Love: Dark City, Princess Mononoke, Creator, The Chase, Cinema Paradiso (bittersweet growing-up story, and set in Sicily, no less) also classic: Warriors (70’s NYC youth gang fantasy), Gattaca, The Gods Must Be Crazy Have seen: suburbia (the punk one), Kentucky Fried Movie, Baghdad Cafe (this is the one with the Bavarian woman in the Western U.S., right?), Better Off Dead, The Goonies Think I’ve seen at least part of: Only the Strong (oh yeah, the capoeira flick–I didn’t recognise it just from the name), Rock and Rule, Condorman (I thought his car was cool when I was a kid), My Favorite Brunette (maybe–with Dorothy Lamour? and he’s a P.I.?), Toy Soldiers Surprised to see in this category, which says something about tastes in my circle of friends: Grosse Point Blank, Army of Darkness, The Langoliers THINK I’LL ADD (and whether you think they’re cool or not is your call): **By the Sword** : Eric Roberts and F. Murray Abraham in a movie about competitive fencing. It starts with these young fencing students, and looks like a “young people and their sport” movie, but then the main plot comes in from the side, and that deals with the mystique of swordfighting in a serious manner. A smart, odd movie. **Morgan Stewart’s Coming Home** : Jon Cryer as the son of a U.S. senator. Silly teen movie with some fun digs at politics. **Thief of Hearts** : '80’s flick about a burglar who steals a woman’s diary and decides to remake himself as her dream lover. Strange and kind of melancholy. **The Sicilian** : Directed by Michael Cimino, from a Mario Puzo story, I think. Set entirely on Sicily, & not about the Mafia in the usual American sense–I guess you could say it’s about “cult of personality”. **Stormy Monday** : Small British film with Sean Bean, Sting, Melanie Griffith, and Tommy Lee Jones. Yes, I said “small”, as in not big-budget or Hollywood. Yes, I know these are all big names, but the movie is … oh, never mind! **Windaria** : Very weird Japanese anime, and not at all a heroic action film, which is what people often expect. **How to Murder Your Wife** : The oldest movie on my list, probably from the early '60’s. Has the amusing premise of a comic-strip writer who acts out his Dick-Tracy-like strip in “real life” before drawing it, with friends or hired actors playing the criminals, etc. At least, I thought it was neat as a kid. … Wasn’t “The Seven Percent Solution” a book first? Then I’ll mention **Monsignor Quixote** , starring Alec Guinness & Leo McKern. The movie is a _very_ faithful adaptation of the book by Graham Greene–not the actor Graham Greene, _the_ Graham Greene. ---
**Author:** ![Emperor\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c2a13f/32.png) [@Emperor\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emperor_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-cool-movies-that-apparently-nobody-else-has-seen/50282/135 "2001-01-28T09:22:43Z")
Gattaca was an excellent movie, IMHO. One of my favorite movies though has to be **Relax… it’s just sex** with Jennifer Tilly. I’m not afraid to say so, but by the end, I was getting a bit teary eyed. ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Scene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Bob\_Scene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Scene)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-cool-movies-that-apparently-nobody-else-has-seen/50282/136 "2001-01-28T09:38:59Z")
Two of Robert De Niro’s first movies were **Greetings!** and its sequel **Hi, Mom!** , both made around 1970 and directed by Brian De Palma. They’re both intersting and hard to find. At one point in **Hi, Mom!** De Niro joins the cast of a play being put on by black radicals that’s supposed to teach white people about the black experience. The audience, who are all white, are taken into a room where the black cast members tell them, “From now on, we’re the white people and you’re the black people.” The cast then proceeds to rob, rape and beat the audience. After this has been going on for a while, De Niro busts in, dressed like a cop, and arrests all the audience members for being black. As the audience are leaving, a documentary film maker interviews them about the play and they all start raving about how great it was and how they now understand the black experience. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-cool-movies-that-apparently-nobody-else-has-seen/50282/137 "2001-01-28T09:56:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by foolsguinea \* > \*\*Wasn’t “The Seven Percent Solution” a book first? > > Then I’ll mention **Monsignor Quixote** , starring Alec Guinness & Leo McKern. The movie is a _very_ faithful adaptation of the book by Graham Greene–not the actor Graham Greene, _the_ Graham Greene. \*\* Yes, I think it was. And speaking of Alec Guiness and Graham Greene how 'bout “Our Man in Havana”? ---
**Author:** ![psylocke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@psylocke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psylocke)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-cool-movies-that-apparently-nobody-else-has-seen/50282/138 "2001-01-28T16:24:06Z")
Again , someone who thought that ‘Dark City’ was amazing.What I especially liked is that I pick up something new everytime I see it and the ending still takes my breath away.Also good is ‘The big Lebowski’ , ‘Mallrats’ , ‘Slackers’ and ‘True Romance’. "being John Malkovich’ has one of the most ingenious plots I have seen since ‘The Matrix’. I also saw ‘Fearless’ with Jeff goldblum and it was really emotional the first time round, I actually cried for a half-hour after the movie had ended!When I rented it the 2nd time, though, it seemed overly sentimental and kinda cheesy. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Call\_Me\_Tech-Mex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@Just\_Call\_Me\_Tech-Mex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Call_Me_Tech-Mex)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-cool-movies-that-apparently-nobody-else-has-seen/50282/139 "2001-01-28T16:52:11Z")
I like the colorized movies Ted Turner made. But no one else seems to have seen them. They had only about 3 colors. Every skin tone was the same and they had mostly blue and brown in every interior shot. Really high camp. ---
**Author:** ![cegan523](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/fbc32d/32.png) [@cegan523](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cegan523)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-cool-movies-that-apparently-nobody-else-has-seen/50282/140 "2001-01-28T20:54:55Z")
Good to see such an awesome thread… Out of the already mentioned, seconds to: Repo Man, Pi, Harold and Maude, Slackers, Brazil Gotta add: Lair of the White Worm (an all time fave) Death Race 2000 (bad film at its best) Slaughterhouse Five The Loved One (Jonathan Winters - weird, funny) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-cool-movies-that-apparently-nobody-else-has-seen/50282.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-cool-movies-that-apparently-nobody-else-has-seen/50282.md?page=8)