# Movie(s) you saw that you're pretty sure nobody else has seen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 30, 2012, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435 "2012-04-30T18:16:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![DealMeIn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@DealMeIn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DealMeIn)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/181 "2014-02-21T05:34:52Z")
Koyaanisqaatsi ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/182 "2014-02-21T06:09:49Z")
Anyone here seen: [ul] [li]_The Apple War_ – a Swedish film about developers wanting to build “Deutchneyland” in a small town; I think it is rather popular in Sweden but a little hard to come by in the US.[/li][li]_The Adventures of Mark Twain_ – a claymation thing by Will Vinton released in 1985, around the time of Halley’s comet’s passage.[/li][li]_Hotel Splendide_ – a strange British thing that kind of reminded me a tiny bit of _Delicatessen_[/li][/ul] And some years ago, I had a channel on the T6 satellite for 3 months, Eurotica, on which they once showed a lengthy porn thing called _Macbeth_ that was thin on plot, as you might expect, but the filmwork was rather impressive. I would like to see that again, for its grandiose absurdity and to try to figure out if it had anything to do with the play. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/183 "2014-02-21T06:43:20Z")
> [@NatAsmai](#): > > After Hours - [Watch After Hours | Prime Video](http://www.amazon.com/After-Hours-Rosanna-Arquette/dp/B000K8EP6M) - superb Martin Scorcese flick that was produced for less than $5 million. _After Hours_ and _The King of Comedy_ are two underrated Scosese films. > **[After Hours (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Hours_%28film%29)** > > After Hours is a 1985 American black comedy film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Joseph Minion, and produced by Amy Robinson, Griffin Dunne, and Robert F. Colesberry. Dunne stars as Paul Hackett, an office worker who experiences a series of misadventures while attempting to make his way home from Manhattan's SoHo district during the night. > After Hours was critically acclaimed for its black humor, and is now considered to be a cult classic. As of 2025, it is Scorsese's most recent film ... > **[The King of Comedy (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Comedy_(1983_film))** > > The King of Comedy is a 1982 American satirical black comedy film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro (in his fifth collaboration with Scorsese), Jerry Lewis and Sandra Bernhard. Written by Paul D. Zimmerman, the film focuses on themes such as celebrity worship and American media culture. 20th Century-Fox released the film on February 18, 1983, in the United States, though the film was released two months earlier in Iceland. > In the film, an aspiring stand-up comedian is in... ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/184 "2014-02-21T10:42:02Z")
I know this is a zombie but I must have missed it the first time around. In the last few years I’ve seen a lot of fairly obscure movies. These all have fewer than 500 user ratings on IMDb: ``` The Brave One (1956) Skippy (1931) The Divine Lady (1929) Bad Girl (1931) The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) Two Arabian Knights (1927) In Old Arizona (1928) ``` Most of them were actually pretty good, getting 6 or 7 stars from me. The exception was In Old Arizona, which I gave only 5 stars to. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/185 "2014-02-21T12:19:06Z")
I am a little too lazy to see if I mentioned this film two years ago, but **All This and World War II** (1976) > **[All This and World War II (1976) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0132679/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)** > > All This and World War II: Directed by Susan Winslow. With Milton Berle, Humphrey Bogart, William C. Bullitt, Winston Churchill. Beatles' "significance" pushed to the breaking point in this bizarre documentary that juxtaposes their songs (sung by a... World War II footage set to covers of Beatles songs. ---
**Author:** ![Bellhorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Bellhorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bellhorn)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/186 "2014-02-21T13:40:02Z")
[Fire Sale (1977)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076029/) Alan Arkin’s first film as Director. It’s a hilarious comedy about the dysfunctional Fikus family, starring Vincent Gardenia, Kay Medford, Rob Reiner and Arkin, as well. In the Fall of 1977, it opened and closed so quickly, I never got to see it in the theater. A year later it was shown on HBO and I loved it. I video-taped it, and over Thanksgiving, I showed it to my family and they all were in hysterics. But outside of my family, it’s usually gotten a poor reception. Also, [A Boy and His Dog (1975)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072730/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1) Starring a young Don Johnson, Jason Robards, Alvy Moore (Hank Kimball from _Green Acres_) and a beautiful actress, Susanne Benton (nudity, I think) This is based on a bizarre post-apocalyptic story, by Harlan Ellison, and although I don’t usually like sci-fi, at all, I enjoyed this quirky film… maybe it had to do with the nudity - I saw it in college at a midnight show. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2014, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/187 "2014-02-21T13:57:30Z")
> [@For You](#): > > Anyone here seen: > > [ul] > [li]_The Apple War_ – a Swedish film about developers wanting to build “Deutchneyland” in a small town; I think it is rather popular in Sweden but a little hard to come by in the US.[/li][li]_The Adventures of Mark Twain_ – a claymation thing by Will Vinton released in 1985, around the time of Halley’s comet’s passage.[/li][li]_Hotel Splendide_ – a strange British thing that kind of reminded me a tiny bit of _Delicatessen_[/li][/ul] > > And some years ago, I had a channel on the T6 satellite for 3 months, Eurotica, on which they once showed a lengthy porn thing called _Macbeth_ that was thin on plot, as you might expect, but the filmwork was rather impressive. I would like to see that again, for its grandiose absurdity and to try to figure out if it had anything to do with the play. I’ve written about Will Vinton’s underappreciated **adventures of Mark Twain** many times on this Board. I own it on VHS and DVD. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2014, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/188 "2014-02-21T14:07:19Z")
Here’s another: Merian C. Cooper’s 1935 **She** , based on the novel by H. Rider Haggard. It’s regarded as the canonical version of the story, and it was made by much of the same crew that made \*\*King Kong[/B[ two years earlier – Cooper, his wife Ruth Rose (script), composer Max Steiner (who used some very similar motifs as in KK), Ted Cheesman, and others. They actually cobbled together a script based on She and its sequel (some sources claim they added in stuff from other Haggard novels, but I don’t see it myself). I’d seen stills from it, but don’t recall ever seeing it on TV or anything. For many years it was thought to be lost in a studio fire, but a complete copy showed up in Buster Keaton’s collection of films (!) I finally bought a copy of the remastered and colorized version, the work on which was supervised by Ray Harryhausen. (Harryhausen generally has bad things to say about colorizing, but, as he points out, this film was supposed to be shot in color – the sets and costumes were made with that in mind. The budget was slashed close to production, so it never was. Internet critics who claim this film was conceived in black and white need to be reminded of this) It’s one of those “Lost Civilization” stories that Haggard loved so much, and that was done too many times in movie serials. This is a case of it done _right_ (I’[m sure a lot of those serials lifted from this film). The effects are great, and I’m surprised at how much borrowing there has been from this film - The Evil Queen from Disney’s _Snow White_ was undoubtedly lifted from She, attitude, costume, and all. Harryhausen stole a clip 9actually raided the same stock library) for an avalanche in _Beast from 20,000 Fathoms_. And the Lunar Throne Room in _First Men in the Moon_ is obviously inspired by She’s royal gallery. Definitely worth a look, but you have to search for it. There are clips on YouTube. ---
**Author:** ![Luk3112](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a9adbd/32.png) [@Luk3112](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Luk3112)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/189 "2014-02-21T14:49:31Z")
yes ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/190 "2014-02-21T15:37:32Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > _After Hours_ and _The King of Comedy_ are two underrated Scosese films. > [After Hours (film) - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Hours_%28film%29) > [The King of Comedy (film) - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Comedy_(1983_film)) It’s weird that Scorsese hasn’t made any comedies since then. He seems (or seemed) to have a flair for it. (I don’t think _After Hours_ is particularly obscure though - it’s got over 29,000 user ratings on imdb). ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/191 "2014-02-21T15:52:02Z")
I remember seeing [\*What’s So Bad About Feeling Good? \*](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063799/)in the theater in 1968, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen it on TV or heard it mentioned anywhere since then. I also saw [_Zotz!_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056725/) with Tom Poston on TV in the early '70s, but no one else I’ve spoken to remembers it. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/192 "2014-02-21T15:59:24Z")
> [@Cartoonacy](#): > > I remember seeing [\*What’s So Bad About Feeling Good? \*](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063799/)in the theater in 1968, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen it on TV or heard it mentioned anywhere since then. > > I also saw [_Zotz!_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056725/) with Tom Poston on TV in the early '70s, but no one else I’ve spoken to remembers it. I remember both of them. The first was one of the odd films made by Mary Tyler Moore between _The Dick van Dyke Show_ and _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_ (like “Change of Habit”, with MTM and Elvis Presley) ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/193 "2014-02-21T23:12:31Z")
> [@bibliophage](#): > > I know this is a zombie but I must have missed it the first time around. In the last few years I’ve seen a lot of fairly obscure movies. These all have fewer than 500 user ratings on IMDb: > > ``` > The Brave One (1956) > Skippy (1931) > The Divine Lady (1929) > Bad Girl (1931) > The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) > Two Arabian Knights (1927) > In Old Arizona (1928) > > ``` > > Most of them were actually pretty good, getting 6 or 7 stars from me. The exception was In Old Arizona, which I gave only 5 stars to. An Oscar completist, I assume? ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/194 "2014-02-22T04:13:19Z")
> [@bup](#): > > [_ **Lies My Father Told Me** _](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073293/) - a very sweet movie about a Jewish kid in the ghetto coming to see that adults aren’t perfect. > > [_ **Under the Bridge** _](http://www.dianying.com/en/title/dqx1983) - a movie made in China in 1983 whose purpose was to show that private business is now a good thing, and that children born out of wedlock are not to be condemned by society anymore. Completely in line with the Chinese propaganda of the time, but pretty well done. > > I saw both of these in Williamsburg, Virginia, at the public library circa 1986 when the library made a concerted effort to show movies from other cultures. The first was a huge hit in the Jewish community of Montreal (where it is set) when it came out in 1975. Nearly everybody in my circle saw it. I’ve never heard of anybody in any other city who even heard of it. ---
**Author:** ![nevadaexile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@nevadaexile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevadaexile)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/195 "2014-02-22T04:21:51Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > Curiously, the family has recently started watching Smallville. We were a few episodes in when a [local scientist showed](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Morton) up, and I started yelping “[It’s the Brother from Another Planet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brofromotherplanet.jpg)”. Nobody knew what the hell I was talking about. I was so proud to be right. Joe Morton Great actor who hasn’t gotten enough work. I KNOW that I was one of the very few people who paid to see _ **The Caveman’s Valentine** _. I took a date after brunch on a Sunday and there were only six other people in the theater. I saw it at River Oaks Mall in Calumet City before the place became a war zone. Since the film GROSSED less than $700k on a $13.5 million budget, it’s pretty clear that not many people\*\* anywhere\*\* saw this film when it was at the theaters or that very few have probably seen it since then. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/196 "2014-02-22T05:58:10Z")
I’ll contribute the 1985 movie “Crime Wave”. No, not “Crimewave” by Sam Raimi, but rather [the one filmed in Winnipeg](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_Wave_(1985_film)) – written by, directed by, produced by, and starring John Paizs. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/197 "2014-02-22T07:18:35Z")
I saw all of these in the theatre: [Satan’s Mistress](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083031/)- we saw it for the title, which turned out to be the best thing in the movie. All I really remember is that it would randomly cut to shots of the ocean for no reason whatsoever. [Bank Shot](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071194/)- I may have been too young to care about this movie (I was 9) but it was boring. I remember the plot sounded promising (bank robbers decide to steal a trailer-sized bank) but nothing happened for the first 3/4 of the movie. [The First Saturday In May](http://www.thefirstsaturdayinmay.com/) - Documentary about some of the participants in the 2006 Kentucky Derby. They were lucky in that the ill-fated Derby winner, Barbaro, was one of the horses they followed. The only one of these I’d recommend. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/198 "2014-02-22T16:04:40Z")
> [@MovieMogul](#): > > An Oscar completist, I assume? Only in certain categories. I’m trying to watch all the winners for best picture, best director, all the acting categories, and all the writing categories. That’s just over 400 movies. I’ve seen all of them except 6, of which 2 are lost films that I’ll probably never see. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/199 "2014-02-22T16:14:59Z")
A couple in my collection with fewer than 200 IMDB ratings and less than 10 user reviews: [The Atomic Kid](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046729/) [The Horizontal Lieutenant](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056079/) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/200 "2014-02-22T16:27:37Z")
Ah, [Dunderklumpen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunderklumpen!). I’d really be surprised if anyone else has seen this Swedish children’s film. Madame Pepperwinkle and I saw it when we were dating, and have fond memories of it, but it truly is dull and drags a lot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435.md?page=11)