# Movies you love that most people don't? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 2, 2017, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393 "2017-07-02T21:18:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/161 "2017-07-18T10:03:02Z")
> [@Flare4roach](#): > > More unknown than unloved but I am a huge fan of Bill Murray’s _ **Quick Change** _. I think it was the only movie he ever directed. It’s hilarious to me from start to finish. I’m quite fond of Murray’s vanity project _ **The Razor’s Edge** _. Murray co-wrote the script and it is one of very few films where the screenplay is a notable improvement on the original book - it removes all of Somerset Maugham’s most annoying affectations while keeping the emotional core of the story. Sadly the one duff note is Murray himself, who played his first serious role as an emotionless lump. The rest of the cast was stellar, and had Murray let someone else star it would have been an absolute gem of a film. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2017, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/162 "2017-07-18T12:31:31Z")
**count Dracula** , directed by Jess (Jesus) Franco. As I’ve remarked several times on this Board, I stumbled across this partway through on TV, and it blew me away. It was made on a low budget, but with an impressive cast, and is remarkably faithful to the book. the low budget helps, because they filmed the Castle Dracula scenes in an actual castle, and it has a sense of realism far beyond most adaptations of the book. I had no idea which film it was for a long time. It stars Christopher Lee in a non-Hammer role as Dracula, with Klaus Kinski (who would later play Count Orlok in the remake of _Nosferatu_) as Renfield and Herbert Lom (!) as Von Helsing. Unfortunately, the film falters after they leave Transylvania and begins to plod, and the second half is admittedly unwatchable. > **[Count Dracula (1970 film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Dracula_(1970_film))** > > Count Dracula (German: Nachts, wenn Dracula erwacht, lit. 'At night, when Dracula awakens') is a 1970 gothic horror film directed by Jesús Franco, based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. It stars Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom and Klaus Kinski. > Although Count Dracula stars Lee in the title role, it is not a Hammer production like his other Dracula films, being produced instead by Harry Alan Towers. Klaus Kinski, who would play Dracula himself nine years later in Nosferatu the Vampyre, is also... I similarly recommend the movie from 1977 called _Terror of Frankenstein_ or _Victor Frankenstein_ (not to be confused with the 1977 film of the same name). It’s the first really faithful version of the film, starring Leon Vitale (who played Lord Bullington, Ryan O’Neal’s son, in _Barry Lyndon_). More true to the book than Kenneth Branaugh’s/Francis Ford Coppola’s version, which it preceded by many years. It, too, tends to drag in places, but it’s well worth watching > **[Terror of Frankenstein (1977) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076881/)** > > Terror of Frankenstein: Directed by Calvin Floyd. With Leon Vitali, Per Oscarsson, Nicholas Clay, Stacy Dorning. Victor Frankenstein's search for the secret of life leads to the creation of a monster that consumes his life and family. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/163 "2017-07-18T13:45:10Z")
> [@robby](#): > > _ **Man of Steel** _ – it made a lot of money, but only gets a 55% on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, plus people always seem to be bad-mouthing it. > > I thought it was great. I loved the score, the visuals, and _almost_ everything about it. In particular, it’s the first Superman movie that really showed how destructive a fight between Kryptonians would be. I like a lot of elements, but man, is that film joyless. Friends joke I haven’t smiled since the 1980s and even **I** think the film was grim. I don’t need Ned Beatty bumbling around or tire irons going _boing_ when they hit him, but the emotional palette is as dreary as the visual palette. > [@Gyrate](#): > > I’m quite fond of Murray’s vanity project _ **The Razor’s Edge** _. Murray co-wrote the script and it is one of very few films where the screenplay is a notable improvement on the original book - it removes all of Somerset Maugham’s most annoying affectations while keeping the emotional core of the story. Sadly the one duff note is Murray himself, who played his first serious role as an emotionless lump. The rest of the cast was stellar, and had Murray let someone else star it would have been an absolute gem of a film. The book is my favorite (same as Murray) and yeah, he really shouldn’t have played Larry. Really, it 'swhat turns the film from a passion project into a vanity project. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/164 "2017-07-18T19:36:42Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Would have been greatly improved by the removal of the songs. Ye gods, they draaaaaaaaaag. But otherwise an enjoyable film. A world in which Shelley Duvall never got to fulfill her destiny and play Olive Oyl is not one in which I wish to live. Really? To me, the songs (some of them, at least) are the best part of the movie. I still sing “Everything Is Food” in the kitchen, to the eternal consternation of the Mrs. > [@](#): > > Me! And I loved it. Although I wish they’d left in the John Lithgow scene - it set up the “New Cruelty” joke that didn’t make any sense later without it. **Robot Arm** is right: "Setup? We don’t need no stinkin’ _setup!!_ ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/165 "2017-07-19T13:23:14Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > Really? To me, the songs (some of them, at least) are the best part of the movie. I still sing “Everything Is Food” in the kitchen, to the eternal consternation of the Mrs. I bet you don’t sing the whole thing in the original tempo. It goes on much longer and at a much slower pace than it really ought. (See also: “Sweethaven”) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/166 "2017-07-19T14:28:45Z")
> [@Trancephalic](#): > > Speaking of Ferrel, I thought **Land of the Lost** movie was sufficiently funny and entertaining. Ferrel trying his damnedest to sing that cheesey TV theme song while succumbing to blood-loss fatigued had me in tears. Yes, “sufficiently” is the key word here. Not a great movie, but it had its moments. Ferrell’s quarrels with Matt Lauer were funny, but the scene you mentioned is my favorite too: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L24hGLbmNrw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L24hGLbmNrw) ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/167 "2017-07-19T16:55:40Z")
I don’t love it but most people hate Showgirls, but I’ll watch it again. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/168 "2017-07-19T21:22:25Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > [I Heart Huckabees](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eOLOmCjRPY) is one of my favorite movies in the world. It’s a comedy about existentialism starring Jason Schwartzman, Lily Tomlin and Dustin Hoffman. The entire premise is weird, starting with a guy hiring existential detectives to investigate a series of strange coincidences involving a tall African man. The dialog is weird, the execution is weird, it’s all very weird, but I feel that someone basically put my entire life philosophy into one amazing film. Just rewatching the trailer made me all giddy. > > 90% of the time when I pop in this DVD for friends, I get blank stares. > > I guess they just can’t deal with my infinite nature. Yeah, that’s a good one. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/169 "2017-07-19T21:24:08Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > The greatest superhero movie of all time is _Zorro, The Gay Blade_. That’s another nice one! ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393/170 "2017-07-19T21:34:14Z")
The weird movies I dearly love to inflict on people… [Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094834/?ref_=nv_sr_1) [Miracle Mile](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097889/?ref_=nv_sr_6) Rom coms I like better than the critics: [Ever After](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120631/?ref_=nv_sr_1) [French Kiss](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113117/?ref_=nv_sr_1) My opinion of the best Stephen King offerings differs from the conventional wisdom: [The Shining, sans Kubrick](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7096810/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2) [The Langoliers](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112040/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-that-most-people-dont/790393.md?page=8)