# Movies you absolutely adore that you think fell through the cracks **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 16, 2015, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028 "2015-08-16T23:11:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![bytheway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@bytheway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bytheway)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/181 "2015-08-27T09:20:19Z")
> [@mack](#): > > One of my favorite unsung movies is **The Man in the Moon** with a young Reese Witherspoon (her first role), Sam Waterston, and Tess Harper. The plot is coming-of-age but it’s really poignant and James Newton Howard’s score is just perfect. Sorry, I hadn’t reached this before I posted. ---
**Author:** ![bytheway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@bytheway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bytheway)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/182 "2015-08-27T09:24:54Z")
_Stealing Heaven_ was very interesting to me since I had only vaguely heard about Heloise and Abelard. Lots of bonus nudity too (Kim Thomson, anyone?). ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/183 "2015-08-27T13:57:43Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > _Inkheart_, I believe, is the movie you have in mind. Brendan Fraser as the dad who has the gift/curse that any fictional material he reads comes into being from the work he’s reading. And swaps places with an entity from his own world, sometimes to his great sorrow. No, he meant [_Ink_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1071804/). Another great film that I own; it just sits on a different shelf than the one I went thru for my previous post. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/184 "2015-08-27T21:55:24Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > \ > > I remember liking **Looker** a lot. I wish I had control of the tiny part of my brain that memorized the end theme song all those years ago. I saw that so many times on HBO in the summer… “She’s a looker… that’s what they say…” ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/185 "2015-08-27T21:56:54Z")
> [@sqweels](#): > > Also, [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGcEmkNaR0c) is basically a Mel Brooks movie without Mel Brooks. Totally agree on this - the Opera scene is still one of my favorite comedic moments in film. ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/186 "2015-08-27T22:20:37Z")
Some of my favorites, like\* Frailty\*, have already been mentioned. I’ll add two others I absolutely love that I don’t think anyone else did. The first is _You’re Next,_ a deconstruction of the home invasion genre. It takes places during a family gathering of this upper crust WASP family where one of them, a college professor has brought him his new girlfriend. Suddenly, they get attacked by a group of your stereotypical masked, axe-wielding psychos intent on murdering the whole family break in. And then it turns out that several of the characters are not what they seem to be. A really fantastic gem that was criminally ignored. And, another that I think was the victim of the fact that it came out at the same time as a similar but vastly inferior movie called _Olympus Has Fallen_. I’m of course referring to _White House Down_. No, it shouldn’t have gotten an Oscar, but it was a fantastic little film that deserved far better than it got. ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/187 "2015-08-27T22:28:13Z")
Also, I’m not sure if it should be mentioned because it was a hit movie, but I will because unlike other similar teen movies of the 80s, it’s almost entirely forgotten. _My Bodyguard_. _I loved Fast Times at Ridgemont High_, _The Breakfast Club_, _Ferris Bueller’s Day Off_, and some of the other movies and don’t think it’s better, but it deserves to be remembered to the same extent. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/188 "2015-08-27T22:29:54Z")
> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#): > > … And, another that I think was the victim of the fact that it came out at the same time as a similar but vastly inferior movie called _Olympus Has Fallen_. > > I’m of course referring to _White House Down_. No, it shouldn’t have gotten an Oscar, but it was a fantastic little film that deserved far better than it got. I think this is worth its own thread. I’ve seen both, and noted the similarities (or steals) but I’ve never really thought about them comparatively against each other. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/189 "2015-08-27T22:38:13Z")
> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#): > > Also, I’m not sure if it should be mentioned because it was a hit movie, but I will because unlike other similar teen movies of the 80s, it’s almost entirely forgotten. > > _My Bodyguard_. _I loved Fast Times at Ridgemont High_, _The Breakfast Club_, _Ferris Bueller’s Day Off_, and some of the other movies and don’t think it’s better, but it deserves to be remembered to the same extent. I think these are among those which have fallen least through the caracks, here a least. With the possible exception of the first, all the others get pretty regular play on basic cable. My favorite of the genre is _Say Anything_ with a very young and brilliant John Cusack. ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/190 "2015-08-27T22:47:25Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I think these are among those which have fallen least through the caracks, here a least. With the possible exception of the first, all the others get pretty regular play on basic cable. > > My favorite of the genre is _Say Anything_ with a very young and brilliant John Cusack. The one I was referring to as having “fallen through the cracks” was _My Bodyguard_. My point is that all the others, and yes, I’d include _Say Anything_, have been remembered, while it has not been. ---
**Author:** ![Arkcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Arkcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arkcon)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/191 "2015-08-28T00:47:45Z")
I’ve always thought that _The Long Kiss Goodnight_ was just about the perfect movie. Geena Divis is believable her role as a woman with amnesia and her beginning to snap out of it. Samuel L Jackson is being his usual badass self, but this is a early role for him, its nice to see he has some petulance. Its a cool action/adventures/suspense thriller, with a Bourne Identity-like subplot, year before Bourne series of movies. Everyone on Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB says its derivative and cliched. I think some people just see too many movies and have no sense of wonder. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/192 "2015-08-28T00:55:04Z")
> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#): > > Also, I’m not sure if it should be mentioned because it was a hit movie, but I will because unlike other similar teen movies of the 80s, it’s almost entirely forgotten. > > _My Bodyguard_. _I loved Fast Times at Ridgemont High_, _The Breakfast Club_, _Ferris Bueller’s Day Off_, and some of the other movies and don’t think it’s better, but it deserves to be remembered to the same extent. While I like My Bodyguard a lot, I never thought it was part of the “teen movies of the 80s”. It came out in 1980, four years before Sixteen Candles, which is the movie that pretty much launched the 80s teen movie genre. My Bodyguard doesn’t look or feel like an 80s movie and doesn’t have 80’s style or an 80s soundtrack. Also, Chris Makepeace’s career falling through a trapdoor relatively quickly after Meatballs and My Bodyguard doesn’t help the memorability of the movie either. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/193 "2015-08-28T01:11:36Z")
> [@Arkcon](#): > > I’ve always thought that _The Long Kiss Goodnight_ was just about the perfect movie. Geena Divis is believable her role as a woman with amnesia and her beginning to snap out of it. Samuel L Jackson is being his usual badass self, but this is a early role for him, its nice to see he has some petulance. Its a cool action/adventures/suspense thriller, with a Bourne Identity-like subplot, year before Bourne series of movies. > > Everyone on Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB says its derivative and cliched. I think some people just see too many movies and have no sense of wonder. This is one of my favorite movies. I have a thing for female action heroines and Charlie is only bested by Ripley. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/194 "2015-08-28T01:17:37Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Aye, that’s why I ordered it when I heard it was being released on DVD: I prolly hadn’t seen it in the 30+ years since I saw it on cable TV back in the early '80s, and ddamn I love that movie. > > ETA: Anyone else huge fans of Peter Jackson’s early films _[Bad Taste](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092610/)_ and _[Meet The Feebles](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097858/)_? Well, not huge, but as much as I don’t enjoy gore in my dotage I’m glad I saw _Bad Taste_. It made me laugh, and it gave me the opportunity to fall on the floor years later upon seeing that Peter Jackson was making _The Lord of the Rings_, and that it looked to be really really good. “I’m a Derek and Dereks don’t run!” ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/195 "2015-08-28T02:01:46Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Thanks for reminding me about another great movie I’ll have to find and watch again! I believe the old rich mogul was played by Burt Lancaster. Bill Forsyth’s earlier movie, Gregory’s Girl, is also a wonderfully quirky movie set in a Scottish high school. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/196 "2015-08-28T04:12:14Z")
I’m going to go off the grid a bit with 1986’s _Arion_, one of the lost classics of 80s anime. Very few people could action like writer/director Yoshikazu Yasuhiko (Dirty Pair, Crusher Joe, Venus Wars) could, and he put his skills to good use here. Arion\* is a young demi-god in ancient Greece who gets drawn in to the struggle to free humanity from the tyranny of the gods of Mt. Olympus. It’s a huge, rip-roaring, swashbuckling adventure and has never been translated into English. [Trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8czGsqRY4c) ---
**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:** [August 28, 2015, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/197 "2015-08-28T11:49:33Z")
> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#): > > The one I was referring to as having “fallen through the cracks” was _My Bodyguard_. > > My point is that all the others, and yes, I’d include _Say Anything_, have been remembered, while it has not been. How has “My Bodyguard” fallen through the cracks? It produced more than its share of jokes on late night TV about the way she sang that song. The current season of the Netflix drama _Sens8_ even makes oblique comments about it (without naming it – that’s be impossible if this film had “falenm through the cracks”) ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/198 "2015-08-28T12:44:02Z")
You’ve confused _My Bodyguard_ (1980) with \*The Bodyguard \*(1992). ---
**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:** [August 28, 2015, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/199 "2015-08-28T12:54:54Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > You’ve confused _My Bodyguard_ (1980) with \*The Bodyguard \*(1992). Ah, I see. FWIW, I recall “My Bodyguard”, although it admittedly didn’t have as much attention as “THe Bodyguard”, and had no mentions in Sens8. They should had an over-the-top song. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/200 "2015-08-28T12:56:07Z")
I love _Fandango._ Kevin Costner’s best movie. > [@](#): > > Bill Forsyth’s earlier movie, Gregory’s Girl, is also a wonderfully quirky movie set in a Scottish high school. _Comfort and Joy_ is a great movie. I like Local Hero form the same director better but I think that is not as much of a “fall through the cracks” movie. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028.md?page=11)