# 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:** 14
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/261 "2014-03-17T15:06:39Z")
\*Jonathan Livingston Seagull \* I don’t know why I saw it, I don’t know why it was made, to this day Neil Diamond makes me flinch. > **[Jonathan Livingston Seagull (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Livingston_Seagull_(film))** > > Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a 1973 American drama film directed by Hall Bartlett, adapted from the 1970 novella of the same name by Richard Bach. The film tells the story of a young seabird who, after being cast out by his stern flock, goes on an odyssey to discover how to break the limits of his own flying speed. The film was produced by filming actual seagulls, then superimposing human dialogue over it. The film's voice actors included James Franciscus in the title role, and Philip Ahn as hi... ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/262 "2014-03-17T17:22:09Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > I’ve never met anyone who has seen a movie called “Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control”. > > [Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119107/) > > I loved it - sounds like a porno (😉 ), but it is all about what lion taming, naked african mole rats, robot design and animal topiary have in common (a surprising amount). I’ve seen it. I did finish it, but the best thing about it was the title. ---
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/263 "2014-03-17T17:24:18Z")
Fido > **[Fido (2006) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457572/)** > > Fido: Directed by Andrew Currie. With David Kaye, Jan Skorzewski, Kevin Tyell, Andy Parkin. Space radiation turns the dead into Zombies. Zomcon fights zombies and finds ways to pacify and use them. On pre-teen Timmy's (Kesun Loder's) 1950s suburban... Hilariously kitschy [Final Fantasy Advent Children](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttK8w7lMGvY) Love the animation. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2014, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/264 "2014-03-17T17:37:15Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > I’ve never met anyone who has seen a movie called “Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control”. > > [Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119107/) > > I loved it - sounds like a porno (😉 ), but it is all about what lion taming, naked african mole rats, robot design and animal topiary have in common (a surprising amount). I’ve seen it. It’s excellent and some of Errol Morris’s best work. I’m a big Errol Morris fan. If you liked _Fast, Cheap and Out of Control_, you should watch all of his documentaries. He’s probably best known for _The Thin Blue Line_ and _A Brief History of Time_, plus _The Fog of War_ which won an Academy Award. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2014, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/265 "2014-03-17T18:00:38Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Just finished watching “Kenny”. Folks, I thought it was a documentary until the final scene! I’m gonna check out the extras too. > > TYVM to all who suggested it! It was terrific. You’re welcome. So now you know “The only things that should be green.” ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/266 "2014-03-17T18:07:38Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > I’ve seen it. It’s excellent and some of Errol Morris’s best work. I’m a big Errol Morris fan. If you liked _Fast, Cheap and Out of Control_, you should watch all of his documentaries. He’s probably best known for _The Thin Blue Line_ and _A Brief History of Time_, plus _The Fog of War_ which won an Academy Award. Heh I had no idea. I’ll check 'em out. I remember seeing _Fast, Cheap and Out of Control_ because it was on special at the local video rental place (remember them?) for a dollar, and being blown away. Since then, I’ve never met anyone in the flesh who has heard of it (though it doesn’t surprise me that the Dope has people who have seen it 😃 ). Another movie that is pretty obscure but that I know people here have seen is _Come and See_. My wife still hasn’t forgiven me for renting it for movie night (it is I think a great movie, but definitely not for everyone! It is truly horrific). ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/267 "2014-03-17T18:42:40Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > Has anybody else ever seen “ **The Star Wars Holiday Special** ”? It’s so bad that apparently George Lucas ordered all copies of it to be destroyed. It’s on the Internet now and it took me 2 years to watch it. I watched half one Christmas then the other half the following Christmas. It is _beyond_ terrible. I watched a bit on YouTube just now. I don’t think I could take any more. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2014, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/268 "2014-03-17T18:46:49Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > Heh I had no idea. I’ll check 'em out. > > I remember seeing _Fast, Cheap and Out of Control_ because it was on special at the local video rental place (remember them?) for a dollar, and being blown away. Since then, I’ve never met anyone in the flesh who has heard of it (though it doesn’t surprise me that the Dope has people who have seen it 😃 ). Errol Morris is a highly regarded and well known documentary filmmaker. _The Thin Blue Line_ is considered groundbreaking for its style as well as the apparent impact it had on the murder case that was the subject of the film. It’s probably a good place to start with Errol Morris documentaries. > **[The Thin Blue Line (1988 film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thin_Blue_Line_(1988_film))** > > The Thin Blue Line is a 1988 American documentary film by Errol Morris, about the trial and conviction of Randall Dale Adams for the 1976 shooting of Dallas police officer Robert W. Wood. Morris became interested in the case while doing research for a film about Dr. James Grigson, a psychiatrist known in Texas as "Dr. Death" for testifying with "100 percent certainty" of a defendant's recidivism in many trials, including that of Randall Adams. The film centers around the "inconsistencies, inco... > **[Errol Morris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errol_Morris)** > > Errol Mark Morris (born February 5, 1948) is an American film director known for documentaries that interrogate the epistemology of their subjects, and the invention of the Interrotron. In 2003, his The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. His film The Thin Blue Line placed fifth on a Sight & Sound poll of the greatest documentaries ever made. Morris is known for making films about unusual subjects; Fast, Cheap & Mor... (Sorry for the Errol Morris hijack.) ---
**Author:** ![StayseaDee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@StayseaDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StayseaDee)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/269 "2014-03-17T19:14:09Z")
I mention the movie Hard Candy and have never heard an “I’ve seen that.” Great flick starring Ellen Page. Also the movie Hick. Watched it on a free movie app on my tablet. I really enjoyed it. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2014, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/270 "2014-03-17T19:40:57Z")
> [@StayseaDee](#): > > I mention the movie Hard Candy and have never heard an “I’ve seen that.” Great flick starring Ellen Page. “I’ve seen that.” Ellen Page did a great job. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2014, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/271 "2014-03-17T19:48:58Z")
> [@StayseaDee](#): > > I mention the movie Hard Candy and have never heard an “I’ve seen that.” Great flick starring Ellen Page. I’ve seen it. I thought Page’s performance, as well as Patrick Wilson’s, was good. ETA: I’ve also seen _Hick_. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/272 "2014-03-17T20:02:26Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > Has anybody else ever seen “ **The Star Wars Holiday Special** ”? It’s so bad that apparently George Lucas ordered all copies of it to be destroyed. It’s on the Internet now and it took me 2 years to watch it. I watched half one Christmas then the other half the following Christmas. It is _beyond_ terrible. I own a copy of the DVD. I’ve never been able to watch it all in one sitting. A few months ago we had a mini-Bad Film Festival, and we watched part of it at 2X speed. THAT made it palatable enough to watch. For a while, anyway. I have a great love of Bad Films, especially ones So Bad They’re Good. But this one is So bad It’s Bad. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2014, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/273 "2014-03-17T20:21:10Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > “I’ve seen that.” Ellen Page did a great job. It was shown a lot on one of the cable channels a year or two ago. ---
**Author:** ![StayseaDee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@StayseaDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StayseaDee)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/274 "2014-03-17T21:09:54Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > I’ve seen it. I thought Page’s performance, as well as Patrick Wilson’s, was good. > ETA: I’ve also seen _Hick_. You have great taste then! ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/275 "2014-03-17T21:19:24Z")
Has anyone else seen _Singing the Blues in Red_? It’s a German film about a dissident GDR singer-songwriter who defects to the West over his desire for ideologically pure socialism. I saw it in college - it made me feel all artsy. ---
**Author:** ![ruh-roh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ruh-roh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruh-roh)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/276 "2014-03-17T21:35:22Z")
Can’t read fast enough to catch up to the end of this thread… “The Day The Fish Came Out”. With a then pretty much unknown 20 year old Candice Bergen as Electra Brown. ---
**Author:** ![Pixel\_Dent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Pixel\_Dent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixel_Dent)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/277 "2014-03-17T22:09:47Z")
In the early 90’s I saw [The Living End](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104745/?ref_=nv_sr_1) at the Angelika Film Center in NYC. It was an artsy, shakey cam, poor audio film about two HIV positive young men on a road trip. It was particularly memorable to me because in my entire life I’ve only laughed at 3 or 4 puns and one of them was during this movie. [SPOILER]Near the end of the film one of the two men decides to end his life so he rapes the other man while holding a gun to his own head. Just as he ejaculates he pulls the trigger AND… click. The gun was empty. At this point the girl I was with comments, “That was really an anticlimax.”[/SPOILER] ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/278 "2014-03-17T22:29:21Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > “I’ve seen that.” Ellen Page did a great job. I saw it just a few months ago. Great movie, although really scary and disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/279 "2014-03-17T23:28:55Z")
\*"The monitors are here, to put an end to fear. We surely hope they stay, so that is why we say: The Monitooooors,\* The Monitors 1969 Avery Schrieber starred in it. A Second City Comedy film. I once met him, I said I loved that film. He said : “You saw that movie? So you’re the guy!”. ---
**Author:** ![nevadaexile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@nevadaexile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevadaexile)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435/280 "2014-03-17T23:43:40Z")
Several of\*\* Oscar Micheaux’s\*\* (an early African American filmmaker in Hollywood) films are unlikely to have been seen by most people. Many are “lost” and the majority aave never been seen outside of arthouse theaters for decades. One his last efforts, _ **God’s Step Children** _ is a film that I saw at a festival in the 1980s. It’s online at several places, but its doubtful that more than a few hundred people have watched since it put on here. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-s-you-saw-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-seen/620435.md?page=15)