I remember seeing that one. Didn’t it start out with Ed Harris suiting himself up in armor as the opening credits rolled, then show him starting up a Harley? I also remember some scene where he was beating somebody up in a McDonald’s and the cashier kept totalling up all the damages. I also remember some black bald hippie dude they got to play Merlin. He was like, totally awesome.
Touchee, BobT.
And for you, essvee, a special award for confusing the hell out of anybody who hasn’t seen the movie about my gender. Mazel tov!
They Live was a pretty tight movie!
Incidently DADDY the serial killers were Henry Lee Lucas and something Otoole. The otoole fella was the same guy who killed john walshes son, adam.
Yep, Knowed Out, Knightriders was about a traveling troupe of lunatics who joust and sword-fight on motorcycles, taking names from fantasy and legend. (Merlin was played by Brother Blue, an oral storyteller who appears at folk festivals around the country.) The group undergoes a crisis about whether to keep doing things the way they like, making just enough money putitng on exhibitions, or take a lucrative contract and allow themselves to be “packaged”. According to the commentary on the DVD, the director, George Romero (of Night of the Living Dead fame) he had in mind the conflict between independent and studio film-making, or the overall conflict between art as art and art as product.
I’d like to throw in a 1991 TV-movie called Blood Ties. It was one of the most intelligent treatments of the idea of vampires that I’ve seen. It looks like a series pilot, but nothing came of it. Check it out on IMDB.
Manhunter (aka Red Dragon) is almost as good as its sister movie, Silence of the Lambs.
At Close Range is a great Sean Penn/Christopher Walken movie that gets lost in the shuffle of stupid “Fatal Basic Attracting Suspicion”-type titles.
Duel is good early Spielberg, and qualifies for this category if the classic The Conversation does.
And if you define good as bad, my favorite really, really bad movie that deserves more of a cult following than it receives is Eve of Destruction.
Another vote for ‘The Red Violin’ ; one of the best movies I have ever seen.
The Twelve Chairs- Mel Brooks’ first feature film. Shot behind the Iron Curtain, with Mel, Dom DeLouise, Ron Moody and an incredibly young and tasty Frank Langella. Bring kleenex, you will laugh until you weep.
Yessongs. Hey, it’s a feature length film 
** The Stunt Man**. Peter O’Toole, Steve Railsback, Chuck Bail, Barbara Hershey. GREAT film, about…hmm…1983? Clever script, great shooting, amusing jokes. It took Richard Rush, the writer/director more than a decade to get funding for it. The VietNam era backstory is a bit droll, but over all it is brilliant.
Cartooniverse
You know that feeling that you get when all your possibilities get shot down one-by-one as you read down the thread? 
And then that feeling you get when you realize there are still a couple of movies left unmentioned?
Sugarland Express, Speilbergs first major picture.
Restoration, starring Robert Downey Jr. as a doctor in 17th century England, and Sam Neill as a newly restored Charles the 2nd.
**Return to Paradise ** is a wonderful little film. It does make you think and boy, does Joquin Phonix do an outstanding job in that movie.
I just watched last night - i know it is popular here - Office Space Dear God in Heaven, that was funny.
another sleeper hit that I adore **Hopscotch ** with Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson. A CIA agent that quits his job to write his memoirs…hijicks follow.
And no, the answer here to the above question “Don’t any of you have HBO” Nope. We are cheap
Bottle Rocket – it was written by the same guys that wrote Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson) with a lot of the same actors.
You get to drink from the fire hose!
Yay!
The best movie of all time that nobody saw…
The Shawshank Redemption
Red Violin was good.
Will rent Stricktly Ballroom (Iv’e become a Baz Luhrman fan - can’t believe he wasn’t nominated for best director for Muelin Rouge).
Dinner Game is love it or hate it.
I Am Sam was very touching, but got great publicity.
The Usual Suspects is different and worth a see.
I cannot figure out why The Shawshank Redemption is mentioned in this thread. Almost everyone has seen it.
My vote would go to Babette’s Feast. Dignan beat me to Bottle Rocket, quite naturally considering his screen name is one of the characters in the movie.
Looking over this thread and realizing that I’ve seen many of these, I feel the need to ask. If a person has seen X% of these films, then is he a movie geek? If so, what percentage qualifies?
I cannot figure out why The Shawshank Redemption is mentioned in this thread. Almost everyone has seen it.
My vote would go to Babette’s Feast. Dignan beat me to Bottle Rocket, quite naturally considering his screen name is one of the characters in the movie.
Looking over this thread and realizing that I’ve seen many of these, I feel the need to ask. If a person has seen X% of these films, then is he a movie geek? If so, what percentage qualifies?
Homebrew,
How many of the films given in my list (in the link below) have you seen?
Lots of good suggestions in this thread.
Two I haven’t seen mentioned are
Breaker Morant, a 1980 film set during the Boer War; directed by Bruce Beresford, stars Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown.
Big Night, a lovely 1996 offering from Stanley Tucci. Stars Tucci, Tony Shalhoub, Minnie Driver, Ian Holm, and Isabella Rosselini. I get hungry every time I see this movie.
- So not quite enough for geek status, I guess. I your list did remind me of a classic that I had forgotten: 39 Steps.
Great choices, xenophon. Loved both of those films.
Here’s one more. Funny Bones. A good performance by Olicer Platt, and three demented, hilarious, and touching performances by Lee Evens, Greogr Carl, and Freddie Davies. A twisted little tale of fraud, immortality, and humorous inspiration.
I feel that I am in good company here. I’ve seen at least a third of the films mentioned here. I need to get out more.
Cartooniverse, you took one of my favorites, The Stunt Man. It really is a shame that it gets so overlooked these days.
So, I’ll add:
The Ruling Class: another Peter O’Toole gem.
The Horse’s Mouth: Alec Guiness is a aging artist who still wants to create when everyone else wants him to die so the value of his works will increase. Very funny.
Santa Sangre: The only Jodorowsky film I’ve been able to find to date, but it’s so odd it deserves to be seen more.
City Of Lost Children: A quirky French fantasy tale.
Chungking Express: Proof that Hong Kong makes more than just great action flicks.
120 days of sodom
It wasnt the best, actually gross but up there in terms of being memorable.