# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/21 "2015-08-17T12:19:31Z")
THE ROCKETEER was a retro superhero flick with memorable dialogue and the best damn casting imaginable, sure as director Joe Johnston later hit it out of the park with CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER, so this one should’ve been a lock. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/22 "2015-08-17T12:26:29Z")
Near Dark. One of the greatest vampire movies ever, particularly since they never say the word “vampire.” “We’re… different.” ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/23 "2015-08-17T13:22:54Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Near Dark. One of the greatest vampire movies ever, particularly since they never say the word “vampire.” > > “We’re… different.” I love that movie too… and I hate vampire movies. Bill Paxton delivers one of my favorite movie lines ever, “Well I’ll be god damned, if it isn’t shit-kicker heaven!” I nominate Into The Furnace. Stellar cast (starting with Christian Bale and Casey Afflec) great writing, stunning photography. Why this movie didn’t sweep the awards is beyond me. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/24 "2015-08-17T15:12:57Z")
I’d have to add _Secondhand Lions_, with Robert Duvall, Michael Caine, and Haley Joel Osment. Can’t even remember it from the theater, but I fell in love with it first time I saw it on TV. > [@](#): > > I’m Hub McCann. I’ve fought in two World Wars and countless smaller ones on three continents. I led thousands of men into battle with everything from horses and swords to artillery and TANKS! I’ve seen the headwaters of the Nile, and tribes of natives no white man had ever seen before. I’ve won and lost a dozen fortunes, KILLED MANY MEN, and loved only one woman with a passion a FLEA like you could never begin to understand. That’s who I am. NOW, GO HOME, BOY! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/25 "2015-08-17T15:20:33Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > Robot Arm writes: > > \> Another favorite that never seemed to get its due is The Right Stuff. > > It won Oscars for best editing, best sound effects editing, best sound, and best original score music. It was nominated for best picture, best supporting actor, best art direction, and best cinematography. It has a rating of 98% on Rotten Tomatoes and 7.9 on the IMDb ratings. It didn’t make much money at the box office, but it was pretty universally well rated at the time. And Siskel and Ebert both had it on their [best films of the decade](http://siskelandebert.org/video/AAY88S6OHGW8/Best-films-of-the-19808217s-1989) lists (Siskel 3, Ebert 2). The title became something of a catch phrase. Still, how many people have actually seen it? ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/26 "2015-08-17T15:33:30Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I really liked \*\*\*Moon \*\*\*with Sam Rockwell. I see it gets good reviews but no awards, and according to IMDB it cost $5mm to make and made $5.09mm at the box office. > > I think it holds a special place in my heart because I work from home, alone, and I absolutely adored the way they captured the essence of working alone and made me feel like I worked on the moon. And it was a good story and good sci-fi. > > Most people I’ve talked to that have seen it liked it, but most others haven’t even heard of it. > > A couple years ago they were re-paving my street and they ground it down so for a few days it was very dusty, with loud machinery, and the street was closed so only a few of us could drive down it. It felt EXACTLY like _Moon_. I loved it 🙂 Dammit, that was my choice! 😛 I LOVE that movie, but I don’t remember seeing any ads for it while it was in theaters, at all. Fortunately, there’s another movie I can contribute instead – Brit Marling’s [Another Earth](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1549572/). It’s a very lovely and moving story about guilt, atonement, and redemption which just so happens to have a science fiction premise. (It reminds me a lot of Ray Bradbury’s science fiction in that way…as does **Moon** ). ---
**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:** [August 17, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/27 "2015-08-17T15:38:27Z")
My favourite movie ever is “Slaves of New York.” I’ve only met one person in my life who has heard of it other than me. ---
**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 17, 2015, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/28 "2015-08-17T15:57:32Z")
_Joe Dirt_ It’s just much better than I expected it to be. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/29 "2015-08-17T16:55:22Z")
[The Grey Fox](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085622/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) Richard Farnsworth and Jackie Burroughs. Music by The Chieftains. Some absolutely breathtaking photography of the Canadian wilderness. A touching romance between elderly people without making it into a dirty joke. What’s not to love? Yet it never seemed to catch on with anybody and I don’t believe it ever got a proper DVD release. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/30 "2015-08-17T16:56:05Z")
“My Fellow Americans” with Jack Lemmon and James Garner as two ex-presidents who get into various shenanigans. The two actors are flat out funny, as are the supporting cast. I still guffaw every time I watch it when the two heroes join the Dykes on Bykes motorcycle club. “The Frisco Kid” with Gene Wilder as a hapless rabbi and Harrison Ford as a venal cowboy who wind up sharing a trip to San Francisco. Wilder is priceless, funny, but utterly charming, with a perfect blend of humor and seriousness. Ford is pretty much Han Solo on a horse, but still carries off this buddy movie nicely. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/31 "2015-08-17T17:56:14Z")
[Down By Law (1986)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090967/?ref_=_129) Jim Jarmusch directs Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Roberto Benigni. Anyone who has ever watched it on my recommendation has thanked me. > [@](#): > > DJ Zack and pimp Jack end up in prison for being too laid-back to avoid being framed for crimes they didn’t commit. They end up sharing a cell with eccentric Italian optimist Roberto, whose limited command of the English language is both entertaining and infuriating -but rather more useful to them is the fact that Roberto knows an escape route ETA: from the trivia: > [@](#): > > Co-star Tom Waits referred to the film as “a Russian neo-fugitive episode of The Honeymooners.” ---
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/32 "2015-08-17T19:38:45Z")
My standard answer for this is [The Iron Giant](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0129167/). It’s timely to mention it now, as it’s getting a limited theater re-release later this year. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/33 "2015-08-17T19:57:57Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > [Down By Law (1986)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090967/?ref_=_129) > > Jim Jarmusch directs Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Roberto Benigni. Anyone who has ever watched it on my recommendation has thanked me. > > ETA: from the trivia: I really loved _Down By Law_ when it first came out, and I haven’t seen it since - I’ll have to have a re-watch. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/34 "2015-08-17T20:03:36Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > RealityChuck writes: > > \> If I had to pick one right now, I’d go with Mary and Max, a charming and sad > \> animated film about friendship and Asperger’s. It’s still on Netflix. > > It slipped between the cracks in the U.S. because it wasn’t even released in the U.S. It was apparently very popular in Australia and got good reviews all over the world. It’s ranked #163 on the IMDb top 250. > > Ukulele Ike writes: > > \> Withnail & I, 1987. > > This has been on the IMDb top 250 in the past, although it’s not on it at the moment. This is indeed a cult classic. But my point is just that much of the time a film that you think slipped through the cracks did make a deep impression with a significant proportion of the audience. Heh, I was about to recommend _Leon: The Professional_ as a quirky through-the-cracks masterpiece … but when I looked on IMDb, it’s comfortably in the top 30! I’d never heard of it until a couple of weeks ago. I guess a lot of other people had, though. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/35 "2015-08-17T20:04:24Z")
_Midnight Run_ was De Niro’s last great film, but I watch it for Dennis Farina. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/36 "2015-08-17T21:06:49Z")
_[Josie and the Pussycats](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU5bOAyDbHc)_ - Surprisingly original satire of pop culture and consumerism. _[Mystery Men](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKmHBFgIoX0)_ - Super hero comedy. Great cast and direction. _[Sneakers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbJpx_6fYgE)_ - Suspense thriller about a group of computer hackers. The technology and political background are outdated but the movie still works because of the characters. _[The 7 Faces of Dr Lao](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1KJOjKvg3M)_ - Great children’s movie. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/37 "2015-08-17T21:14:20Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > _[The 7 Faces of Dr Lao](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1KJOjKvg3M)_ - Great children’s movie. I would’ve enjoyed that movie a LOT more if I hadn’t read the book first. The movie is a perfectly entertaining early '60s thing that looks like it was made for television. The book is one of the towering accomplishments of 20th century fantasy fiction. _The Circus of Dr. Lao_. Charles Finney. 1935. Read it and savor the insanity. ---
**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 17, 2015, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/38 "2015-08-17T21:55:27Z")
_The Trotsky_ – a really fun Canadian movie about a high school kid who believes he’s the reincarnation of Leon Trotsky. _Let’s Kill Uncle_ – Uncle is trying to kill a little kid over an inheritance, but no one believes the kid except another little kid. Together they very logically decided it would be better to kill Uncle first. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/39 "2015-08-17T21:59:45Z")
[A Simple Plan](http://www.amazon.com/Simple-Plan-Brent-Briscoe/dp/B00AEBBA4K/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1439848319&sr=8-3&keywords=bill+paxton+billy+bob+thornton), Billy Bob Thornton, Bill Paxton, Bridget Fonda, Brent Briscoe. An outstanding and tense story about three men in a small town who discover a wrecked plane with a shitload of money on board. Their efforts to keep and hide the loot plays out much like a Coen Brothers film. [Ice Harvest](John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Oliver Platt, Connie Nielsen, Randy Quaid), another Coen-esque film with John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Oliver Platt, Connie Nielsen, Randy Quaid. A thriller with a humorous twist. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Krupe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Leo\_Krupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Krupe)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028/40 "2015-08-17T22:54:41Z")
My Dinner with Andre. Everyone quotes Wally Shawn from the Princess Bride, but to see him in his breakout film is just a great character study. Remo Williams-the Adventure Begins was of course supposed to be the beginning of a franchise, but wasn’t. It still has some great dialogue between Joel Grey as Chun and Fred Ward as Remo. What may be the greatest title of all time: “Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!” isn’t a bad little movie either. And James Garner starred in “Skin Game” with Lou Gossett, Jr. about a free black man and a white man portraying a slave and his owner in mid-19th century America. Garner “sells” Gossett, who then escapes and the two run the same scam in a different town. It looks like it’d be non-PC because of racism, but Gossett’s got a lot of dignity in the role. A well made comedy satire. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028.md?page=3)