# 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:** 12
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/221 "2014-02-26T19:55:13Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I’ve seen it on the big screen and it was briefly very popular on the art film circuit; the soundtrack still gets a fair amount of play in other contexts. The sequel _Powaqqatsi_ is less interesting, if you can imagine that. I loved “Koyaanisqatsi.” You have to be able to watch it from start to finish without interruption to really appreciate it - and I’m not even talking about putting it on pause to go to the bathroom. I agree that “Powaqqatsi” is not as good. There’s a third entry to the series called “Nagoyqatsi” but I haven’t seen it. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/222 "2014-02-27T02:29:34Z")
I stopped reading at Post #95 when I realized it was a zombie, but have read all the most recent posts. First, the films I’m pretty sure _very few_ people have seen: - Strangers In Good Company - The Grey Fox - One Trick Pony - Song Of The South - Kenny Second, responses to recent posts only (I hope) > [@DealMeIn](#): > > Koyaanisqaatsi Perhaps the only example of a film where audio, video, or both can be run backwards as well as forward. > [@CalMeacham](#): > > Peter Schiickele (PDQ Bach) even did a parody of the title/title song (“Coy Hotsy-Totsy”) Schickele and Glass having been classmates at Julliard. As I’m sure you already know. I’m just telling everyone else. > [@Musky\_Moon](#): > > I’ve never met anyone who’s seen _Kenny_. It’s an Australian movie about a poor schlub who works for a porta-potty company. Absolute genius. You’ve met one now! I saw Kenny two years ago and have been preaching about it ever since. Yes, absolute genius. A friend forced me to watch it. I grudgingly expected a low-budget mockumentary with caca-poopoo jokes, did not expect it to be a wonderful little character study with a heart of gold. And insanely funny. Can’t recommend this one strongly enough. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/223 "2014-02-27T05:17:48Z")
I saw “[Down and Dirty Duck](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072882/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1).” My wife and I liked the Dirty Duck underground comics and thought it was based on that. We were wrong. So … wrong … We walked out, it was brain-damaged swill from the get-go. I believe it was made by two former members of “The Turtles” musical group. They shoulda stuck to music. And stayed away from acid. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/224 "2014-02-27T07:23:19Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > [The Apple (1980)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080380/) When we first got cable in KY, it seemed the movie channels were showing just two films: **The Apple** and **Times Square**. My cousins pretty much memorized both films that first summer, while I memorized all 452 videos Mtv had at the time. (Youngsters may not know this - the M stood for _music_, and they showed music videos 24/7). ---
**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 27, 2014, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/225 "2014-02-27T09:31:42Z")
_The Simpsons_ parody _Koyaanisqatsi_. “Koyaanis-Scratchy: Death out of Balance.” > **[Koyaanis-Scratchy: Death out of Balance](https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Koyaanis-Scratchy:_Death_out_of_Balance?useskin=oasis&cb=2197)** > > Koyaanis-Scratchy: Death out of Balance is an Itchy & Scratchy cartoon that was shown in movie theatres. Bart and Homer saw it in 3-D. Itchy saws off Scratchy's head with a hacksaw and throws it into the Grand Canyon. As the head falls into the... ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/226 "2014-02-27T09:49:30Z")
Seen _ **A Boy and His Dog** _ (in college), _ **The Atomic Kid** _ (when I was maybe six or seven), and _ **Song of the South** _ (rereleased around 1984, believe it or not). Some other good ones I’ve caught over the years: _ **The Lighthouse** _, a low-budget European flick about a convict sentenced to man a lighthouse on a Godforsaken shore of the Mediterranean. He nearly goes mad from the solitude and boredom. _ **The King of Hearts** _ with the great Alan Bates. Antiwar movie set in a village in WWI France; the inmates of an asylum take over when the regular civilian population flees. _ **Paprika** _. Italian flick about a hot young babe who joins a brothel. Follows her career until she snags a rich old fart. _ **Malèna** _. Italian flick about a boy infatuated with a beautiful war widow. _ **Blast of Silence** _. Follows a Mafia hit man as he stalks his target over the holidays. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/227 "2014-02-27T09:55:07Z")
Another good one: _ **Malcolm** _. Australian movie about a socially retarded mechanical genius who builds his own streetcar. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2014, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/228 "2014-02-27T09:55:59Z")
My candidate is an American film I’d never heard of that I just happened to see on French TV just last night: [_Liberty Stands Still_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280870/?ref_=nv_sr_1) (2002), with Wesley Snipes, Linda Fiorentino, and Oliver Platt. The basic plot is very similar to that of _Phonebooth_, released the same year: a person (Fiorentino, playing the wife of Platt’s weapons-company executive) is held hostage in a public setting by a hidden, apparent maniac with a sniper rifle (yes, Snipes plays a sniper), with the maniac’s motives (revenge concerning an incident in all three character’s pasts) gradually revealed over time. While the leads are pretty good in their roles and the film builds a certain degree of tension in the early going, somewhere on the way any larger point, except for a rather ham-handed subtheme on the merits of gun control gets lost. CIA hitmen show up trying to assassinate Fiorentino for no discernable reason; there’s a subplot invilving a bomb in a nearby theater that ends up having no particular importance to the main story; when the cops finally turn up they seemingly take a half-hour to ask Fiorentino what the heck is going on, continually make idiotic tactical decisions that do littlr to move the story along, and so on. With the vastly superior _Phonebooth_ out at roughly the same time, it’s no wonder this one went direct to video in the US. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/229 "2014-02-27T10:06:52Z")
_ **Curdled** _. Angela Jones (Esmarelda Villa Lobos in _ **Pulp Fiction** _) works for a company that specializes in murder-scene cleanup. _ **Killing Zoe** _. Eric Stoltz (Lance in _ **Pulp Fiction** _) and confederates rob a bank in Paris. Julie Delpy is luscious! ---
**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 27, 2014, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/230 "2014-02-27T12:39:24Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > _ **Killing Zoe** _. Eric Stoltz (Lance in _ **Pulp Fiction** _) and confederates rob a bank in Paris. Julie Delpy is luscious! I agree! I’ve had a thing for Julie Delpy ever since I saw that movie. (Written and directed by Roger Avery. Executive Producers: Quentin Tarentino and Lawrence Bender.) Lots _Reservoir Dogs/Pulp Fiction_ crossover. 🙂 ---
**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:** [February 27, 2014, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/231 "2014-02-27T12:51:22Z")
[QUOTE=terentii;17145944_ **Killing Zoe** _. Eric Stoltz (Lance in _ **Pulp Fiction** _) and confederates rob a bank in Paris. Julie Delpy is luscious![/QUOTE] Seen it. And there’s a cameo by Ron Jeremy, of all people. ---
**Author:** ![vontsira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/51bf81/32.png) [@vontsira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vontsira)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/232 "2014-02-27T14:07:44Z")
**Through the Ashes of the Empire** (\*Prin cenusa imperiului \*). Romanian-made, 1976: saw it a couple of years after its release – prompted to do so, chiefly by its featuring a particular subject of interest to me. Set in 1917, in the situation of Romania – briefly a belligerent on the Allied side in WWI – being under harsh German / Austrian occupation. Although made under the Ceausescu regime, was IMO a thoroughly OK bit of cinema: reflecting on the folly of war, with a mixture of the grim / heartrending, and picaresque comedy. For sure, the only Romanian film I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![nevadaexile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@nevadaexile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevadaexile)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/233 "2014-02-27T14:19:04Z")
> [@slowlearner](#): > > 84 Charlie Mopic, about an army cameraman filming a LRP team on a mission in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Unusually honest and good war movie. This was actually on heavy rotation on Cinemax roughly two years after it came out. I was in a “Vietnam War movie comparison” jag at the time and I had read about this one before I saw it. A good early acting effort by Law & Order’s Richard Brooks. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/234 "2014-02-27T14:29:19Z")
I channel-surfed onto a movie once that was so awful I couldn’t stop watching it. I forget the name but it was Canadian and was about a kid who’s best friend died and was haunting him (or something.) The kid would see his friend’s corpse all over the place and they’d interact. I think the kid lived with his alcoholic (maybe abusive?) father. The movie was so bad I’ve forgotten just about everything about it, except the surreal “WTF am I watching” feeling. ---
**Author:** ![Kelevra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@Kelevra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelevra)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/235 "2014-02-27T15:08:44Z")
Some friends had a contest to see who could find the worst movie. We voted _[The Terror of Tiny Town](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030845/)_ the winner! Back in the days of VCR’s I rented a movie that someone decided to alter. He recorded over the original movie with a shot of himself masturbating. Pretty sure I’m the only one that saw that movie since I let the rental store know! And similarly to **Soylent Juicy** I stumbled across _[Play-Mate of the Apes](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0296148/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt)_ and laughed myself silly. ---
**Author:** ![Detroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/45deac/32.png) [@Detroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Detroit)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/236 "2014-02-27T16:04:14Z")
I once saw Jesse James meets Dracula and Jesse James and Frankenstein’s Daughter at a local drive-in. In a weird way, they were actually pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/237 "2014-02-27T18:46:27Z")
> [@Detroit](#): > > I once saw Jesse James meets Dracula. Are you sure it wasn’t _ **Billy the Kid vs. Dracula** _? John Carradine as the Bat Man, Virginia Christine (aka “Mrs Olsen”) as Eva, the lovable immigrant woman? **EVA:** (_Faux Swedish accent_) What’s the matter, child? **BETTY [Billy’s girlfriend]:** Oh, it’s Billy. Lately he’s been asking me to do the _strangest things_… **EVA:** What does he want you to do, child? **BETTY:** Well, just this morning he asked me to get my uncle to stand in front of a mirror! **EVA:** (_Gasps_) The vampire test! **BETTY:** What? **EVA:** Oh, nothing… ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/238 "2014-02-27T18:47:26Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > _ **Killing Zoe** _ I have a niece name Zoe. One time, I was at my brother’s house and he saw it on the TV listing, and said, “Let’s not watch that.” 😛 My sister replied that she had seen it and it wasn’t very good. I was in a film club for a while, and we screened a low-budget Czech movie from the 1960s called “Intimate Lighting”. I don’t think it’s available on video or DVD; all I remember is that it was about some cellists and was very short - just over an hour in length. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/239 "2014-02-27T19:39:45Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > **Koyaanisqatsi** may be relatively obscure now, but I first saw it in a major first-run theater when it first came out. it then became a regular on the art-cinema circuit, playing at least twice a year at the local art house. Peter Schiickele (PDQ Bach) even did a parody of the title/title song (“Coy Hotsy-Totsy”) > [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > Schickele and Glass having been classmates at Julliard. As I’m sure you already know. I’m just telling everyone else. Just as an aside, Schickele and Glass have remained good friends to this day. Professor Pete told Glass that he was doing a parody of Koyaanisqatsi and Glass asked to hear it before he made it public. So, Schickele played it for him, there was a moment of silence and then Glass said “Yeah, that sounds about right!” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/240 "2014-02-27T19:43:32Z")
_ **No Man Is an Island** _. Jeffrey Hunter is a US serviceman (Navy) forced to hide out in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation in WWII. Saw it once when I was nine or so (which would place it in 1964), and have never heard of it since. Good movie! _ **The Cuckoo** _. Russian movie (2002) in which a Finnish SS conscript is “taken prisoner” by an older Soviet soldier at the end of WWII, and they shack up with a hot Lapp chick. Also good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435.md?page=13)