I have seen
Pootie Tang
The Education of Little Tree
I may not be the only person but I hope I am. Nobody should have to watch these.
Not obscure films, quite well-known films by famous directors, but nobody else ever mentions them in threads, so I am starting to think I’m the only one to have seen them:
Even Dwarfs Started Small and Fear Eats The Soul.
Of course I’ve also probably seen any number of South African films no-one outside here has seen, like Paljas and The Road to Mecca.
The Wizard of Speed and Time, Mike Jittlov. Love that movie.
Figures In A Landscape, directed by Joseph Losey, and starring Robert Shaw and Malcolm McDowell (1970).
A very strange movie where two men are pursued by a black helicopter. You never find out why. It was on in London for about a week, and then disappeared.
That was a really popular film amongst the weird friends of friends I was forced to hang out with sometimes. Second only to The Gods Must Be Crazy for “You have to see this, it’s hilarious!” encouragement that I completely resisted because it was clearly not hilarious at all.
Seen it! Based on a book by Roger Zelazny, who was in turn inspired by reading Hunter S. Thompson (take THAT Wikipedia…something you didn’t know!).
Also the name and subject of a Hawkwind song(unclear if it was inspired by the book, movie, or created for the movie though)
Did you see the original short or the later longer film?
I attended a convention at which Littlov was a Guest of Honor. He showed a lot of his short films, which I haven’t seen since (if you ever get a chance to watch his Animato – his demo reel – do so), but many of them were a treat. He showede us the version of The Wizard of Speed and Time (the short one, which is on YouTube:
) He talked about how he intended to turn the 1979 short into a feature film, and what the plot was to be.
When the feature film came out a decade later, I went to see it, and was disappointed – it wasn’t the film jittlov had talked about. In fact, it was clear that he hadn’;t been able to raise the needed funds, and this seems to also be part of the existing film that was released - a film about how he couldn’t make the film he wanted to.
I’ve seen some of these. I saw The 27th Day in the theater, in fact. A couple of years ago, I finally read the book it was based on. It’s superficially science fiction, but is really a Cold War parable.
Jittlov’s Animato at long last is available on YouTube, although the quality isn’t up to what I recall:
It you look really close, at about the 2:15 mark some almost subliminal words flash by that say “Mike Jittlov Can Do Anything”. Jittlov claimed this subconsciously influenced the Powers That Be at Disney to let him make the original Wizard and the short [BMouse Mania**:
A Boy and His Dog - A post-apocalyptic tale based on a novella by Harlan Ellison. Features a very young Don Johnson.
When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder - Marjoe Gortner plays a drug dealer whose car breaks down in a small U.S. town. In turn, the town’s people become victim to his unique brand of physical and mental torture.
I turned this off after a while. It was just too bad, despite having Wallace Shawn (“Inconceivable!”) in it.
This has been on my Amazon wish-list for a while, as I quite enjoy Tardi’s ligne clair comics on which it was based.
Can’t say that I’ve seen it, yet, though - obviously, since it’s still in my wish list.
Yeah, but wasn’t it awesome? I loved the space ships. The heroes’ main ship was reused in Space Raiders, if you want to talk about “shitty”.
Last night, my wife was briefly frightened by the rubber cockroach my daughter had left out on the nightstand (which the two of them had original purchased to frighten me!), and I mentioned the iconic scene with the Encroaches in Damnation Alley. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it, but I distantly recall being able to see the strings pulling along some of the fake bugs as they swarm towards the good guys.
What? No way! I would love to get my hands on a copy, but they all seem so darned expensive!
LOL! How would like it if I referred to you as a “meat-body?”
We need to hang out some time, Guanolad. Before I even got down to your post, I thought to myself, “I wonder if MagicEyes is thinking of Starchaser: The Legend of Orin.”
I remember Light Years fondly. I especially liked the twist in the plot and the significance of the mutant population.
There was a big deal in the sci-fi community because they got Asimov to touch up the script when it was translated from French to English and got Jennifer Grey and Glenn Close to do voices.
Loved the story and the graphic adaption by Richard Corben, but didn’t care too much for the movie - even though I normally like post-apocalyptic stuff.
I have Crystal Triangle and The Humanoid on VHS, and recently acquired a DVD copy of the latter for posterity’s sake. I only watched my VHS copy once, and it was so long ago, I couldn’t even tell you the plot.
Atanarjuat. I thought it was a good film, myself.
Saw that on TV once, years ago.
Hey, for the times it was a powerful friggin’ movie. The threat of a nuclear Armageddon wasn’t all that far-fetched, and for a sober assessment of life afterwards, it beat the pants off The Day After.
You mother, she make-a big fuss over you! She make-a you favorite - hot g’nip-g’naps! I can vouch that a guy I knew in high school has also seen this film because he quoted that exact line at random one day in class and I was the only one who laughed.
I saw a book with that title once, in the travel bookstore where I worked 15 years ago. It purported to be a guide to speaking Strine. Is this the same one?
Haven’t actually seen this one, but I know it’s based on Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s Roadside Picnic, which apparently has just come out in a new translation. Another one for the summer reading list…
As have I, and I love it, though I feel its comedy runs out of gas about halfway through the movie.
“I’m going to sine your pitty on the runny kine!” -Pootie Tang
Not that you’d want to, but you can find more of Pootie’s quotes here.
I’ve also seen:
The Mansion of Madness (1973) (tho I saw it as Dr. Tarr’s Torture Dungeon)
What in the Hell were my parents thinking when they took my easily scared, ten year old ass to see this in the theater?? :eek: I ordered it online a couple of years ago, but found it really slow, and not at all scary.
Seven (1979)
I can think of at least 2 other people who I know have seen this because they were my high school buddies who used to watch this with me. We’d laugh our asses off at the bad acting, and the boom mike making an appearance over the actor’s heads in NEARLY EVERY SCENE!
Gardens Of Stone (1987)
This movie was apparently required viewing if you or someone you knew had ever served with The Old Guard at Ft. Myer, VA. (I was a medic there in 1984) But I don’t think many people outside the military are even aware of the film’s existence.
The first time I took a girl to a movie was in 6th grade (!) in 1972 to see The Legend Of Boggy Creek..
I saw this in college (or shortly after, when we were still living in our college town). To this day, more than 20 years later, we still occasionally quote one of the lines: “Here’s to us, and those like us. Damn few left, and most of 'em dead.”
That sounds a lot like a quote from the video game Zork III IIRC.
Yes, and read the book, too.
Sorry, Return to Zork.
I don’t know if I should even bother to bring up Six-String Samurai. Considering I saw Bubba Ho-tep with my fellow DFW Dopers at a theater in Dallas, that’s exactly the kind of movie I’d expect people here to like.
Savannah Smiles - Savannah Smiles (1982) pt.1/10 - YouTube - Truly an underrated movie that just pushes the “cuteness” envelope.
After Hours - Amazon.com: After Hours : Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Tommy Chong, Griffin Dunne, Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr, John Heard, Catherine O'Hara, Dick Miller, Will Patton, Robert Plunket, Bronson Pinchot, Joseph Minion, Martin Scorsese, Amy Robinson, Griffin Dunne, Robert F. Colesberry: Prime Video - superb Martin Scorcese flick that was produced for less than $5 million.