Another film that was very good but didn’t get much hype was Ex Machina.
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Haha, I actually liked Koyaanisqatsi a lot. I guess even a commoner like me can have a glimmer of a pretentious movie snob in her once in awhile 
After Dark, My Sweet
Jason Patric, Bruce Dern, Rachel Ward (hummina, and in a role that can use her flat delivery), in a story by pulp Shakespeare, Jim Thompson.
A grimy crime poem.
Absolutely! I found this movie next to the DVD of Promethius I was looking for, watched it, read 2-3 online reviews, watched it 2 more times. I’m still not exactly sure what form of time travel is being described; whether they are creating alternate timelines, “clones” that somehow eventually cease to exist, or something like Groundhog Day. This was made for $7000! and won at the Sundance Film Festival.
Local Hero-A Bill Forsythe film set in a village in Scotland full of quirky inhabitants. The main character (Peter Riegert) is an American sent by a oil conglomerate to buy the village lock-stock-and-barrell to build a refinery port.
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.
Possibly should be mentioned that the season ends on a cliffhanger and there will be no more episodes produced.
Having said that, IIRC all the questions raised during the season are answered, it’s just that the finale raises new questions.
I’m going to go with a couple of documentaries:
Muscle Shoals - This film documents the famous music studios found in the small town of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and explains how they came to be legendary pieces of American music history. Beautifully made, with lots of great stories. It’s a travesty that this wasn’t even nominated for best documentary. Trailer.
and
Beauty Is Embarrassing - This chronicles the life of artist Wayne White. You may know some of his work even if you haven’t heard the name. He created the puppets for Pee Wee’s Playhouse. He was the artist behind the Smashing Pumpkins’ “Tonight Tonight” video. If you are artistically inclined, this movie will be inspirational for you, because above all things, Wayne White has fun with art, and makes it seem fun to his audience. Trailer.
Does anyone besides me remember the movie Americathon? Made in 1979, set in 1998, the U.S. national debt (a staggering $400-billion) is all owed to one man who now wants to foreclose. The president decides to hold a telethon to raise the money.
I wouldn’t say that I “absolutely adore” it. Today, I’m not sure if I’d even like it. It did have some interesting people involved in it; George Carlin, Meat Loaf, Elvis Costello (all in small roles, as I recall), and based on a play by two of the members of The Firesign Theater. Some of its farcical elements seem prophetic now.
I’d compare it to Idiocracy a bit. Here is a young Jay Leno trying to raise money for the telethon by having a boxing match with his mom.
I’ve seen a lot of the ones listed above. I’ve mentioned the ones below several times, but they’re worth restating:
Creator – Peter O’Toole plays a Nobel Laureate biologist at a university who takes Boris (Vincent Spano) as a grad student. O’toole’s character is trying to clone his dead wife. It’s a witty and fascinating science fiction drama with no special effects, written by the guy who went on to write Don Juan de Marco and other films, based on his own novel. It’s one of the few movies I’ve seen where grad school is depicted the way it really felt.
The Adventures of Mark Twain – Claymation film by Will Vinton, with Twain voiced by James Whitmore. It adapts pieces of The Diary of Adam and Eve, The Mysterious Stranger, Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven, and others. I’ve never understood why Will Vinton studios wasn’t more of a success – their stuff is great, and this is an example of Vinton’s studio at its best (“Claymation”, by the way, was a copywrited term registered by Vinton.)
The Last of Shiela – My all-time favorite mystery movie, featuring mysteries within mysteries, and they play fair, giving you all the clues. Apparently Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins used to throw elaborate mystery parties. After seeing Sondheim’s apartment, filled with games and puzzles, Anthony Shaffer wrote the stage play Sleuth about an author who plays cruel minds games with his wife’s lover. It was turned into a movie with Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine. Years later Caine starred in the other major role in a remake (with a script by Harold Pinter, which I hated). Between the two, however, Sondheim and Perkins decided to have a go at a film themselves about a producer/writer who plays cruel mind games on his showbiz friends. This one stars James Coburn as the gamemaster. It’s got James Mason, Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, Racquel Welch, and a lot of other people in it. I guarantee you won’t solve it.
a TV movie, one of the ABC Movies of the Week – Judge Dee and the Haunted Monastery – made by the King of TV Movies, Nicholas Meyer (Yes, the 7% solution, Star Trek movie, Time After Time Meyer). This introduced me to Judge Dee, and was apparently a pitch for a Judge Dee series that was, sadly, never made. All the actors are of Asian ancestry (except, oddly, Kheigh Dheigh, who plays Dee), which was quite a trick in Hollywood. It’s remarkably faithful to van Gulik’s book, depicting the actions of a T’ang dynasty judicial official.
Heh, that’s a good one - I thought I was the only person in the world who actually saw it. 
Yeah that’s it!
And the last person that he’s intended to sleep with ends up being Winona. I actually remember the ending to this now, and why I was happy. I won’t ruin it, but yeah it’s a really good movie. I would love to see this again
There was no old black and white version of The Rocketeer. What there was was a series of serials that featured a guy in a helmet with a rocketpack – Commando Cody, and King of the Rocket Men, and Zombies of the Stratosphere, all dating from the 1950s.
The Rocketeer was Dave Stevens’ “graphic novel” series, and later a Disney movie (that Stevens Executive Produced), both set in the 1930s and using images and tropes from elsewhere, including these Republic serials. But it wasn’t a remake of them, or otherwise related.
I love The Rocketeer, myself. Especially James Horner’s very classic score for it.
But there’s no way I would say that it “fell between the cracks”. This was a major movie when it came out, unlike many of the others in this thread.
I saw this once, on TV, probably about 40 years ago. (I mistakenly thought it was a TV movie, Cal informed me otherwise.) I don’t remember all the details of who did what and why, but I do remember enough of the reveal to still suss out the ending. I did not solve it on my first viewing.
The Rocketeer was played by Billy Campbell, who has maintained a pretty successful career as an actor. I know some people who know him; I suppose I might have a chance to meet him someday.
ROCKETEER was up against ROBIN HOOD and CITY SLICKERS and so stalled at #4 in its opening weekend; it had ten days before TERMINATOR 2 came out (earning more in its first week than ROCKETEER did ever); NAKED GUN 2½ hit #1 in said ten, so ROCKETEER (a) didn’t get any higher, and (b) fell out of the top ten in under a month.
$46 million on a $40 million budget? That’s downright lackluster, IMO. And since the plans for a sequel got scrapped, it’s hardly just my O.
An end of the world movie with a difference. Set in Scotland, starring Ewan MacGregor doing real acting (he seems keen to do this for scottish movies).
The world ends with the human race losing one sense at a time. First smell. Then taste. Then hearing etc… It’s sad tale. Probably not very realistic, but still well made…
I think the Mysterious Stranger segment is fairly well known. A few versions on youtube refer to it as a banned children’s “cartoon”, though I can’t imagine it was ever truly banned anywhere (or at least anywhere in the western world).
But that isn’t the same as “fell between the cracks” The movie was extremely well known, and lasted a while in the theaters.
And where do you get the $40 million budget? All the sites I’ve checked give $35 million. Nobody is reporting the worldwide gross or VHS/rental gross.
I suppose it’s all relative but my favorite Danny Boyle movie is his least known. Millions is a typically imaginative tale. Hardly anyone I mention it to has seen it including avowed Boyle fans.
Both Secrets & Lies and Irish Jam deal with racial issues across the pond.
I can see why these two movies would fall through the cracks. Secrets &n Lies is English and Irish Jam stars Eddie Griffin. Who can take a movie starring Eddie Griffin seriously? Plus, I can’t see how you could market Irish Jam effectively.