# The best movie that no one saw **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 30, 2002, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871 "2002-03-30T04:03:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/1 "2002-03-30T04:03:12Z")
Waking Life by Richard Linklater was an outstanding film that no one I have come across has seen. It is a discussion on ancient and modern philosophy, futurism, dreaming, life, death, liberty and other equally profound topics. Plus, the entire movie has been rotoscoped (animating over film) in a beautiful and trippy style. What movie do you love that no one saw? ---
**Author:** ![shagadelicmysteryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@shagadelicmysteryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shagadelicmysteryman)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/2 "2002-03-30T04:09:17Z")
The film would have to be **Arlington Road** with Tim Robbins. Noone I know has seen that movie. ---
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/3 "2002-03-30T04:11:35Z")
i saw Arlington Road---- great ending. ---
**Author:** ![stankow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@stankow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stankow)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/4 "2002-03-30T04:13:05Z")
_Barcelona_, by Whit Stillman. I know, I know – all the movie geeks have seen it. But I got tremendous mileage for a couple of years out of sending it to friends as Christmas or birthday presents. Every one of them had never heard of it but loved it. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/5 "2002-03-30T04:22:16Z")
[_The Blood of Heroes_](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0094764), starring Rutger (_Blade Runner_) Hauer and Joan (_Twin Peaks_) Chen. It’s a sports movie (well, a bloodsports movie) about a team of “Juggers” who want to compete in the big leagues. Lots of bone breaking and blood and hand-to-hand combat in a desperate grim spectacle without all the set-piece choreography of a dumbass kung-fu flick. People get hurt and they _stay_ hurt, unlike sterotypical action movies where heroes shrug off ten or fifteen punches to the face. Plus they throw in some stuff about class warfare and warrior honour. Politically correct for its mixture of nationalities and gender roles, but not sanctimoniously so, thank God. Highest rating, mostly for Hauer. I recommend this action movie for people who like strong female characters, since Joan Chen delivers and looks hot doing it, with a bimbo factor of zero. Also features Vincent D’Onofrio and Delroy Lindo, making his debut. ---
**Author:** ![Fingolfin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eada6e/32.png) [@Fingolfin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fingolfin)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/6 "2002-03-30T04:42:52Z")
**Meet the Feebles** by the great Peter Jackson. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/7 "2002-03-30T05:34:14Z")
_Festen_ (aka _The Celebration_), the first “Dogme 95” movie, directed by Lars von Trier. Takes awhile to get into, but very powerful. Would have been a classic, except (a) all the other Dogme movies stunk and (b) its subject matter (paternal sex abuse) made it anathema to the Academy and for American cinema in general. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/8 "2002-03-30T05:48:23Z")
Hey, my DVD of **Meet The Feebles** just arrived. What a coincidence. I’ll name two, since they’re the same basic story and too few people have seen either: **Sorcerer** and **The Wages Of Fear**. The latter is a B&W French film, the former William Friedkin’s remake. Story: an oil well in Central America is ablaze, and they need dynamite to snuff it out. All that’s available are some old crates that have been neglected; the nitroglycerine has leeched out, meaning the slightest bump could cause an explosion. Four desperate men sign up to drive over 200 miles through the jungle in trucks loaded with the volatile stuff. Very intense. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/9 "2002-03-30T06:23:29Z")
\*\*[Some Girls](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0098356) \*\*(1988) I think I’m the only one who’s ever seen this movie. ---
**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/10 "2002-03-30T06:46:10Z")
Two come to mind First, Bad Boys with Sean Penn. Sean and a buddy try to rip off a drug dealer. It goes wrong and Sean runs over the drug dealers younger brother. They end up in a youth prison and it just gets bad from there. Second, The Man Who would be King. Sean Connery and Michael Cain. Damned good movie based on Kiplings story. Slee ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/11 "2002-03-30T13:46:59Z")
**Beresina, or the Last Days of Switzerland.** Saw it two years ago at the DC Filmfest, have never seen any mention of it since, nor have I been able to find it on DVD. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/12 "2002-03-30T13:55:58Z")
\*\* Time After Time \*\*. Best movie about time travel ever made. ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/13 "2002-03-30T15:26:32Z")
No one I know has seen **Zero Effect**. ---
**Author:** ![G.I.J](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ebca7d/32.png) [@G.I.J](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.I.J)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/14 "2002-03-30T15:39:37Z")
Hmm, I have two, _Withnail and I_ and _The Events Leading Up To My Death_ ---
**Author:** ![haardvark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5ac83/32.png) [@haardvark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/haardvark)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/15 "2002-03-30T15:41:32Z")
> [@](#): > > No one I know has seen Zero Effect. I have! I have! what do I win? (not that I think it has much to recommend it…but then again I don’t like ben stiller much, but then again again at least he’s not such an awkward loser in this movie [meet the parents made my flesh crawl]) The one that springs to mind for me right now is [Nate and Hayes](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0085994), a great and cheesy pirate adventure-ish film with Tommy Lee Jones and a cast of relative unknowns. I’ve seen it about 4 times on pay-tv when I was a teen and loved it to death despite not being a huge fan of the genre. I have yet to meet **ANYONE** who has heard of the silly thing… ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/16 "2002-03-30T16:22:19Z")
_'Round Midnight_ and _The Conversation_, my number 1 and 2 favorite movies of all time. To date, practically everyone I have mentioned these two films to has said, “What, now?” ---
**Author:** ![Barney111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Barney111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barney111)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/17 "2002-03-30T18:16:31Z")
**Nobody’s Fool** (1994) Paul Newman at his best. Great cast w/Jessica Tandy (her last movie), Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith,and Pruitt Taylor Vince. Paul Newman was nominated for Best Actor Oscar,but no one saw the movie. I highly recommend it. WARNING: There are no car chases or explosions. It’s just a nuanced, character-driven slice-of-life drama. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/18 "2002-03-30T18:59:57Z")
Just wanted to let you all know that I have seen none of the movies which you’ve mentioned (as far as I recall). The exception is _Barcelona_, which I loved. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/19 "2002-03-30T19:14:44Z")
I’ve seen many of these films so I’ll add two underseen films that IMHO are great films. A Perfect World and GATTACA ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/20 "2002-03-30T21:35:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KneadToKnow \* > \*\*_'Round Midnight_ and _The Conversation_, my number 1 and 2 favorite movies of all time. > > To date, practically everyone I have mentioned these two films to has said, “What, now?” \*\* I’ve seen both 🙂 I really liked _The Conversation_ , but there was too much mumbling for me in _'Round Midnight_ I also saw the latter at 12:30 am showing. zzzz However _The Conversation_ is the best non-Godfather film Coppolla ever directed. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871.md?page=2)