# Movie You Love but Think Not Many Others Have Seen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 2, 2019, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-love-but-think-not-many-others-have-seen/838091 "2019-08-02T21:51:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-love-but-think-not-many-others-have-seen/838091/81 "2019-08-06T21:55:05Z")
Ha, here’s one obscure enough that I have literally never met anyone who’s seen it unless I basically forced them to–_Barry McKenzie Holds His Own._ Fucking hilarious with a bizarre left turn into a weird vampire subplot and plenty of Dame Edna. I might be the only non-Aussie who’s voluntarily watched this movie–more than once, even! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-love-but-think-not-many-others-have-seen/838091/82 "2019-08-06T23:43:04Z")
[The Odd Angry Shot](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079652/) - Possibly the best movie on the Vietnam war, from an Aussie perspective. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-love-but-think-not-many-others-have-seen/838091/83 "2019-08-07T00:34:28Z")
Two Australian films I fell in love with when we lived overseas. I have no idea how they did anywhere else. **Muriel’s Wedding** On my top 5 movie list: **Strictly Ballroom** ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-love-but-think-not-many-others-have-seen/838091/84 "2019-08-07T00:58:29Z")
Out of the hundreds of DVDs I own, the 2010 film [**Miss Nobody**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Nobody_(2010_film)) is one of my favorites. It’s an awesome black comedy. Yet I’ve never met anyone else who has seen it. Another favorite of mine is the 1991 film [Black Robe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Robe_(film)). Ever seen it? ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-love-but-think-not-many-others-have-seen/838091/85 "2019-08-07T17:34:55Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > Out of the hundreds of DVDs I own, the 2010 film [**Miss Nobody**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Nobody_(2010_film)) is one of my favorites. It’s an awesome black comedy. Yet I’ve never met anyone else who has seen it. Yep, seen that. I remember it being quite funny. ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-love-but-think-not-many-others-have-seen/838091/86 "2019-08-07T21:37:54Z")
> [@CelticKnot](#): > > Two Australian films I fell in love with when we lived overseas. I have no idea how they did anywhere else. > > **Muriel’s Wedding** I liked this movie… It was always playing in the US (Sundance channel) around 2007 ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_Fairway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Mrs\_Fairway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs_Fairway)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-love-but-think-not-many-others-have-seen/838091/87 "2019-08-08T10:46:33Z")
I love Little Children, House of Games and Local Hero. Mine are: A Midnight Clear (WW II American soldiers in a German forest-I think it’s based on a true story) Bad Influence (James Spader and Rob Lowe) Matchstick Men (Nicolas Cage and Sam Rockwell as con men) ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-love-but-think-not-many-others-have-seen/838091/88 "2019-08-08T12:16:24Z")
_[Purple Hearts.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087956/)_ Vietnam war movie with Ken Wahl and Cheryl Ladd at their peak as medicos. Trying not to get too romantic 'cause … war. The secondary cast is great. Stephen Lee is amazing as one of Wahl’s buddies. The always charming Annie McEnroe as Ladd’s. James Whitmore Jr.\* as the aptly named Bwana. Etc. Throw in R. Lee Ermey because it’s a Viet Nam war movie because who else are you going to cast as Gunny? (And 3 years before _Full Metal Jacket_.) Good acting, good dialogue, good story. - That’s his stage name. He is actually III. Which makes his son not III but really IV. Got it? ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-love-but-think-not-many-others-have-seen/838091/89 "2019-08-09T04:44:31Z")
[Hope and Glory](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32wyLEBf60c) (1987) It’s about growing up as a child in London during WWII. Not sentimental, not conventional, not sanitised, not dumbed down. Not made for American audiences. Brilliant child actor in lead role. Director John Boorman drew on his own personal experiences. There are many reviews by people who actually grew up in London in WWII who say, ‘That’s exactly how it really was.’ Great scene of children celebrating when their school gets bombed! ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-love-but-think-not-many-others-have-seen/838091/90 "2019-08-09T06:10:34Z")
[The Red Shoes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtHaVG4CicQ) (1948) Absolutely the best ballet movie ever made, whether you care about ballet or not. The original trailer is misleading, and doesn’t give a sense of the movie. Anton Walbrook is brilliant as the imperious Russian impresario, Lermontov, who runs the dance company. He cares deeply and passionately about ballet… but not so much about people. Moira Shearer is an incredible dancer in the lead role. Clips: Lermontov has hired Vicki Page on a trial basis, and later [watches her dance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6Zs62kFuvo) for another company at a small, cheap matinee in tiny hall. Great scene: [Rehearsals for a new ballet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2e4I3HbJGI). ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-love-but-think-not-many-others-have-seen/838091/91 "2019-08-09T06:26:54Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > [Ridicule](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridicule), in which an 18th-Century French aristocrat learns why people hated 18th-Century French aristocrats. That was a good mainstay of French class movie day. Versailles Dirty Dozens. > [@DigitalC](#): > > Fear of a Black Hat - basically “This is Spinal Tap” of 90’s gangsta rap. It came out the same year as CB4, and the latter had Chris Rock so not many people watched FoaBH. They should’ve, it’s way better. > [@Mrs\_Fairway](#): > > A Midnight Clear (WW II American soldiers in a German forest-I think it’s based on a true story) The author claims so. I read the book, if I’m not butchering it I recall the dedication is something like “This is a true story. Names have been changed to protect the guilty.” ---
**Author:** ![bionic\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/49beb7/32.png) [@bionic\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bionic_man)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-love-but-think-not-many-others-have-seen/838091/92 "2019-08-09T07:22:53Z")
The cool ones.Roddy McDowall.Debbie Watson the shooting Jack Nicolason ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-love-but-think-not-many-others-have-seen/838091/93 "2019-08-09T12:07:38Z")
**A Ghost Story** - this one streams included with Amazon Prime Gist: Casey Affleck plays a husband who die(\<–not spoiler) and remains as a ghost. One with a sheet and two eyeholes cut out. He watches his wife go on without him, the world go on without him, time go on without him, and we see the things he sees and hear what he hears. Cheesy sounding, but powerful and haunting. Great movie. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-love-but-think-not-many-others-have-seen/838091/94 "2019-08-09T13:34:05Z")
[Big Man on Campus](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096925/) a re-telling of Hunchback of Notre Dame. Has some great lines that one friend and I use frequently, but no-one else has ever heard. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-love-but-think-not-many-others-have-seen/838091/95 "2019-08-09T15:24:58Z")
> [@divemaster](#): > > – **Secret Sunshine**. It won an award at Cannes so maybe more folks in the U.S. have seen it than I would think. Stars IMO the best actress of the past 20 years (Do-yeon Jeon). Not the best “Korean actress” but just damn the best in the world. One of the best-acted scenes I’ve ever watched in a movie is in this film–a scene where for the most part she doesn’t even say anything. She conveys everything via an expression–how her world is changing in real time just via a reaction shot. I watched this last night on your recommendation and really liked it. As you say, Do-yeon Jeon’s acting was excellent. Also, the story line isn’t predictable: there are a couple of changes in direction that I didn’t see coming at all. One of them happens in the scene you describe. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-love-but-think-not-many-others-have-seen/838091/96 "2019-08-09T15:36:57Z")
[The Zero Effect](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120906/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1) Bill Pullman is great as a private detective. A master of disguise when pretending to be someone else. A miserable wreck when being himself. > [@](#): > > I always say that the essence of my work relies fundamentally on two basic principles: objectivity and observation, or “the two obs” as I call them. My work relies on my ability to remain absolutely, purely objective, detached. I have mastered the fine art of detachment. And while it comes at some cost, this supreme objectivity is what makes me, I dare say, the greatest observer the world has ever known. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-love-but-think-not-many-others-have-seen/838091/97 "2019-08-09T17:21:09Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > [Ridicule](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridicule), in which an 18th-Century French aristocrat learns why people hated 18th-Century French aristocrats. Huh. Not only did I not know that movie had ever left our shores, now I really wonder how they translated it since so much of the \*esprit \*in that movie is so very much based on either French culture or its language. But yes, very good movie. If you’d like to see more of the sort-of-similar, I’d highly recommend _[Beaumarchais l’Insolent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaumarchais_(film))_. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2019, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-love-but-think-not-many-others-have-seen/838091/98 "2019-08-10T03:56:11Z")
**Six String Samurai** - in the aftermath of a US/Soviet war in which the US lost and was invaded, Buddy Holly is on a pilgrimage to Vegas for maybe a chance to be king, after The King dies. Along the way he has run ins (resolved both with music and the sword) with other guitar wielders of various genres, all of whom are on the same pilgrimage. Russian surf rock, imminently quotable, very bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2019, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-love-but-think-not-many-others-have-seen/838091/99 "2019-08-10T04:01:31Z")
> [@Eonwe](#): > > **Six String Samurai** - in the aftermath of a US/Soviet war in which the US lost and was invaded, Buddy Holly is on a pilgrimage to Vegas for maybe a chance to be king, after The King dies. Along the way he has run ins (resolved both with music and the sword) with other guitar wielders of various genres, all of whom are on the same pilgrimage. Russian surf rock, imminently quotable, very bizarre. The Red Elvises are in that! They were great back then, not sure what’s become of them lately. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2019, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-love-but-think-not-many-others-have-seen/838091/100 "2019-08-10T04:49:03Z")
> [@Eonwe](#): > > **Six String Samurai** - in the aftermath of a US/Soviet war in which the US lost and was invaded, Buddy Holly is on a pilgrimage to Vegas for maybe a chance to be king, after The King dies. Along the way he has run ins (resolved both with music and the sword) with other guitar wielders of various genres, all of whom are on the same pilgrimage. Russian surf rock, imminently quotable, very bizarre. Reminds me: Bubba Ho-Tep. An evil mummy stalks a retirement home, and only Elvis and John F. Kennedy (who has since been turned into a black man) can stop him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-love-but-think-not-many-others-have-seen/838091.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-you-love-but-think-not-many-others-have-seen/838091.md?page=6)