I meant a 78 rpm record played at 85 rpm, because who ever heard of an 85 rpm record?
(And a 78 rpm record played at 75 rpm would presumably sound a little bit off, but not really worth mentioning.)
Well, Derleth. He said he had a pile of 85RPM records. But since he didn’t say otherwise, I thought it was safe to assume it was a standard 78 RPM record player.
Good catch on 75RPM. Don’t know what I was thinking.
Dune is one of my favourite movies, it introduced me to both Frank Herbert and David Lynch when I was 12. It takes liberties, but visually it has so much going for it.
I’m as fond of The Hudsucker Proxy as I am of any other of the Coen Brothers movies, which is usually quite a bit.
Auto Focus is a dramitized biopic of Bob Crane starring Greg Kinnear, and it has a lot of style as well as Willem Dafoe in his second-most skeevy role. It seems to have slipped under most peoples’ radar, I think it’s great.
The same goes for True Stories. It’s one of the best movies no one’s heard of too.
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure is wonderfully absurd. It’s stupid, but like a Marx Brothers movie is stupid. It always makes me laugh.
I… just thought that was a mistake, I guess, but maybe I’m misinformed. I just put the highest actual standard speed I’d ever heard of (78 rpm, which gelled after a period of non-standard speeds, much like how a standard frame-per-second rate for movies only gelled after a period of non-standard hand-cranked films) and assumed they were playing records designed for that speed at the 85 rpm rate.
My “move I like most people don’t” is Eraserhead because, by God, that film is less of a left turn into Wackyland than a digression into record speeds in a thread about beloved unpopular films.
L.A. Story, from Steve Martin’s romantic period, it came out a few years after Roxanne. It’s not that most people don’t love it, they just haven’t heard of it. I think it’s fantastic, in the best senses of the word.
I saw an old game show recently with Bob Crane and his wife. Some of it came off pretty damn creepy considering what was discovered about Crane after his death.
Talk about damning with faint praise.
My favorite Alien movie is Alien 3.
My favourite Jurassic Park movie is JPIII.
Casa De Mi Padre: Okay, not a great movie. But you have to admire Will Farrell for being willing to make this movie.
Fury: I’ve heard people say this movie was confusing but I thought its message was clear. It’s about a group of men who were changed by war and their fear of what they would be like when the war ended.
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates: What can I say. It made me laugh.
Tower Heist: Yes, Brett Ratner is a horrible human being and he generally makes bad movies. But I think Tower Heist was an exception. I felt it as a well-made heist movie.
Van Helsing: I love both the old Hammer and the classic Universal monster movies and this was a homage to them. Plus it had Kate Beckinsale.
I can never abide Crimes Against Ferrari.
I think this one is just unheard of rather than unliked.
I only discovered this movie because it just happened to show up on the channel I was already watching and I was too lazy to get up and look for the remote.
And I’m glad I didn’t find that remote. F’n awesome movie.
Everyone I ever showed *Letter to Jane* hated it and looked at me like I was nuts. But it’s a really cool film! Jen-Luc Godard and his quasi-Maoist buddy spend an hour talking about a photo of Jane Fonda (in the second person: the film is a “letter” to Fonda), lecturing her on how she’s doing anti-war activism all wrong and in so doing laying out the basics of their particular form of French/Maoist-flavored Marxist film theory.
It is a batshit crazy film from a batshit crazy time, of course, but for absolute lunatics Godard and Gorin do a decent job of paying out their worldview generally and criticisms of Fonda specifically.
johnny dangerously it was a “airplane” 30s gangster movie parody that was juvenile and cheesy …the best actors were Michael Keaton and the lady that played his mom …
I thought “Stop or My Mom Will Shoot” was a nice family movie (albeit touching too close to gangster stereotyping.) Acting by both Stallone and Getty was good, with Getty stealing the show for the greater part.
I loved that movie as a kid. Couldn’t tell you how it holds up, though.
Maureen Stapleton
Totally Agree on Dune
A couple of guilty pleasures are
Waterworld - Yes it’s dumb, with huge world building/plot issues, but it’s just a damn fun movie IMO.
The Postman - Far too long, and again some plot issues, but again for some reason I just enjoy it.
I’m not sure what it says that two of three that leap to mind are Kevin Costner films?! 
I assume janeslogin knows what she means. I think they were probably 85 rpm records. 78 rpm speed, which was actually 78.26 rpm didn’t become standard until about 1930. Recordings prior to that have speeds ranging anywhere from 70 rpm to 85 rpm. Some were as low as 60 rpm or even as high as 130 rpm. A guide to playing 78 rpm records. Due to the uncertain speed most collectors call them vintage records.
I love Jupiter Ascending.
And Lucy.
Waterworld and Eyes Wide Shut. They’re both eye heroin and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with either of them as a whole. Except for Sidney Pollack in Eyes Wide Shut.