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please reccomend three obscure movies that you think other posters will enjoy.
here are my three

1 Donnie Darko
2 Heathers
3 Dark City

1. Analyze This
2. Analyze That
3. Bruce Almighty

I didn't really understand Donnie Darko.

1 Donnie Darko
2 Heathers
3 Dark City

Awesome!

1. The Grey Zone
2. No Such Thing
3. The Corporation

*edit

not appearing on the list: Monsters Ball, The Last Castle, May, The Terminal, The Ususal Suspects, Spun, Memento

1. Analyze This
2. Analyze That
3. Bruce Almighty
not really obscure. the first two were funny, though.

1. Analyze This
2. Analyze That
3. Bruce Almighty
Hardly obscure.

I didn't really understand Donnie Darko.

The director's cut is coming out soon, yay. Which is apparently easier to understand.

However, I don't think that Donnie Darko is as obscure in Britian as it is in the States.

Mine would be.

1. Π
2. Dead Babies
3. Scum

1. Garden State
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Say Anything

Hmmm obscurity is my forté:

1. 2001: A Space Oddity
2. Pink Floyds 'The Wall'
3. The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Hmmm obscurity is my forté:

2. Pink Floyds 'The Wall'


Abso-freakin-lutely

Wild Things.. nuff said

If you haven't already seen it, you must see The Usual Suspects. I would buy it on DVD / Video because its the type of film that you have to watch twice, but is well worth it.

not appearing on the list: Monsters Ball, The Last Castle, May, The Terminal, The Ususal Suspects, Spun, Memento

Awesome stuff: My roommate was an extra (guard) in Last Castle.. You actually see a better shot of him than you do of some of the credited actors! LOL

1: Name of The Rose (Little known Sean Connery flick)
2: Harley Davidson and The Marlboro Man (pointless action/shooting/exploding flick)
3: For a Few Dollars More (underrated Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood flick)

Awesome stuff: My roommate was an extra (guard) in Last Castle.. You actually see a better shot of him than you do of some of the credited actors! LOL

1: Name of The Rose (Little known Sean Connery flick)
2: Harley Davidson and The Marlboro Man (pointless action/shooting/exploding flick)
3: For a Few Dollars More (underrated Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood flick)

what a way to spoil the first post ;)

1: Name of The Rose (Little known Sean Connery flick)
Always wanting to see this film. I loved the book.
2: Harley Davidson and The Marlboro Man (pointless action/shooting/exploding flick)
Have never even heard of this (only one on this thread ;) )
3: For a Few Dollars More (underrated Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood flick)[/quote]
I remember I used to think I hated Westerns until I was given this (along with A Fist full If Dollars and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly). Love those films, especially love Ennio Morricone [sp?]

Donnie Darko is a cool movie.

Anyways for my 3:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python and the Life of Brian
Stigmata

Donnie Darko is a cool movie.

Anyways for my 3:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python and the Life of Brian
Stigmata

What about 'Monty Python and the Meaning of Life'?
Trainspotting
I dunno, can't think of any more that aren't very well known, but...
Saving Private Ryan

1. Day of the locusts. And the director is:
2. Dune. And the director is:
3. M. and the director is:

1. Day of the locusts. And the director is:
2. Dune. And the director is:
3. M. and the director is:
M is Fritz Lang
Dune is David Lynch, although there are other versions directed by others. Day of the locusts has me stumped.

Big Trouble in Little China.

1) Perfect Blue
2) C.H.U.D ( for a good laugh )
3) Bloody Sunday

1. Pi
2. Requiem For a Dream
3. JFK

1. Legend
(Tom Cruise & Tim Curry {Best make-up effects in any movie I've ever seen for Tim's role as "Darkness"; The soundtrack almost sounds like Geddy Lee of RUSH did it)

2. Dawn of the Dead
(The finale of the Almighty Romero "Living Dead" trilogy, and in my opinion, the best. It was arguably some of Tom Savini's best work he's ever done {He was the special effects artist. He did the first 5 Friday the 13ths, from Dusk 'til Dawn [Also played the role of Sex Machine], Dawn of the Dead [played a biker], and was the director and effects of the Night of the Living Dead remake in 1992 [It used the guy who played Candyman]})

3. Evil Dead
(Sam Raimi's come a long, long, way. He directed both Spider-Man movies, and it working on the third one as we speak. But before Raimi went mainstream with Marvel, he was already a God in the horror genre. Raimi is the undisputed King of low-budget horror, as shown in this movie. It had a budget or less than $10,000, yet it is still one of the best horror movies of all time. Evil Dead set the bar. It also introduced us to Bruce Campbell, one of the most bad-ass guys of all time)

1. Legend
(Tom Cruise & Tim Curry {Best make-up effects in any movie I've ever seen for Tim's role as "Darkness"; The soundtrack almost sounds like Geddy Lee of RUSH did it)

2. Dawn of the Dead
(The finale of the Almighty Romero "Living Dead" trilogy, and in my opinion, the best. It was arguably some of Tom Savini's best work he's ever done {He was the special effects artist. He did the first 5 Friday the 13ths, from Dusk 'til Dawn [Also played the role of Sex Machine], Dawn of the Dead [played a biker], and was the director and effects of the Night of the Living Dead remake in 1992 [It used the guy who played Candyman]})

3. Evil Dead
(Sam Raimi's come a long, long, way. He directed both Spider-Man movies, and it working on the third one as we speak. But before Raimi went mainstream with Marvel, he was already a God in the horror genre. Raimi is the undisputed King of low-budget horror, as shown in this movie. It had a budget or less than $10,000, yet it is still one of the best horror movies of all time. Evil Dead set the bar. It also introduced us to Bruce Campbell, one of the most bad-ass guys of all time)
Bruce Campbell kicks ass! Have you read his book "If Chins Could Kill"?

damn i dont know any obscure movies

Army of Darkness

For those of you looking for good B movies...go to badmovies.org

It's full of really cheesy B movie titles, with reviews, and it's hilarious.

M is Fritz Lang
Dune is David Lynch, although there are other versions directed by others. Day of the locusts has me stumped.

Dune passed through several hands. Some spurious...

As to stumped: A famous actor with a role figure you did not think he could master, one of the top directors of the last century (including failures),
totally wiped from collective memory. (Even from his, it seems...)

Cidade de Deus (City of God). Seriously one of the best films I have ever seen. It follows the antics of a Brasilian street kid growing up to be a journalist, telling about the gangs and the corruption. It has one of the most disturbing movie scenes I've seen so far. (Young child executed gang style)

Battle Royale. Bloody ultraviolence. High school kids forced to slaughter each other on an island, or be killed by an explosive neck band.

Akira, though it doesn't reach the level of the manga.

The Discovery of Heaven is really good (of what is not named before)(it's a book actually)

Hmmm... obscure, huh? These aren't completely obscure, but anyway:

1. Strictly Ballroom - for quirky Australian humor
2. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - pure brilliance
3. The Spanish Prisoner - just for kicks.

Now that I think about it though, there was this really obscure trilogy that was released that was pretty good - Lord of the Something ... can't quite remember what. They were pretty good.

Hmmm... obscure, huh? These aren't completely obscure, but anyway:

1. Strictly Ballroom - for quirky Australian humor
2. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - pure brilliance
3. The Spanish Prisoner - just for kicks.

Now that I think about it though, there was this really obscure trilogy that was released that was pretty good - Lord of the Something ... can't quite remember what. They were pretty good.
Lock stock and two smoking barrels was great. it's one of those movies I can watch over and over.

Not obscure but probably never seen by the "younger" generation.

The Philidelphia Story
His Girl Friday
Roman Holiday

2. Dawn of the Dead
(The finale of the Almighty Romero "Living Dead" trilogy, and in my opinion, the best. It was arguably some of Tom Savini's best work he's ever done {He was the special effects artist. He did the first 5 Friday the 13ths, from Dusk 'til Dawn [Also played the role of Sex Machine], Dawn of the Dead [played a biker], and was the director and effects of the Night of the Living Dead remake in 1992 [It used the guy who played Candyman]})

3. Evil Dead
(Sam Raimi's come a long, long, way. He directed both Spider-Man movies, and it working on the third one as we speak. But before Raimi went mainstream with Marvel, he was already a God in the horror genre. Raimi is the undisputed King of low-budget horror, as shown in this movie. It had a budget or less than $10,000, yet it is still one of the best horror movies of all time. Evil Dead set the bar. It also introduced us to Bruce Campbell, one of the most bad-ass guys of all time)

I agree with both of them. 'Dawn' was the best in Romero's 'Dead' films followed by 'Day'. I've heard he is trying to get studios to produce one last 'Dead' film, Land of the Dead.

I was surpriesed when I found out the Spiderman Director was the same guy who did Evil Dead.

I also have to nominate:

John Carpenter's The Fog

For those of you looking for good B movies...go to badmovies.org

I hope you like MST3K then ;)
b movies crack me up
Obscure films?
1.Santa claus conquers the martians (no mst3k!)
2.Blues Brothers (odd, but with great songs)
3.Kingdom hospital (ok, its not a film but it is insanely odd. I'm hoping to get hold of a copy of Regis I and II, has anyone seen them?)

Pulp Fiction
Fight Club
Reservoir Dogs
A Clockwork Oragne
Deliverance
Fahrenheit 9/11
Collateral
Scarface

Pulp Fiction
Fight Club
Reservoir Dogs
A Clockwork Oragne
Deliverance
Fahrenheit 9/11
Collateral
Scarface
Pulp Fiction and Fahrenheit 9/11 were great, but I've only seen half of fight club :(

Pulp Fiction and Fahrenheit 9/11 were great, but I've only seen half of fight club :(
SEE FIGHT CLUB!!!!! Tyler Durden for Prez!!!

The SciFi channel said that as soon as Open Water is out of theaters, they'll have an MST3k of it...

Oh, by the way, has anyone mentioned:

The Manchurian Candidate
The Fifth Element
Sphere



And has anyone seen the trailer for SAW?

Wha? i thought mst3k finished in the 90s. I'll try to see the films

lock, stock, and 2 smoking barrels
the thing
city of god

Wha? i thought mst3k finished in the 90s. I'll try to see the films
That was sarcasm...they need to MST3k Open Water though (and yes, MST3k is a verb). Although, I actually half-way MST3ked it while I was watching it in the theater.

lock, stock, and 2 smoking barrels
the thing


Both are great films. Have you seen Snatch?

And I hope you're talking about John Carpenter's The Thing and not the 50s version with the carrot monster.

Both are great films. Have you seen Snatch?

And I hope you're talking about John Carpenter's The Thing and not the 50s version with the carrot monster.
snatch was cool. Have you ever tried to watch it with subtitles? In one scene Brad Pitt's dialogue is subtitled as ???

1. Donnie Darko
2. Eyes Wide Shut
3. Memento

Don't know if any of these have been posted as yet - haven't seen them, but it's late (here) and I'm too tired/lazy to read the whole of the thread s far. Anyways:

1. Bob's Weekend
2. The Princess Bride
3. Little Shop of Horrors (the original's good but the remake was better)

-Hard Eight
-Office Politics
-They Live
-Gattaca
-SFW (So Fucking What)
-Go

Pulp Fiction
Fight Club
Reservoir Dogs
A Clockwork Oragne
Deliverance
Fahrenheit 9/11
Collateral
Scarface
Are these OBSCURE movies to you?
-Where do you live-Siberia?

2. Requiem For a Dream

Good movie, but soooooooooo depressing. Make sure you hide all firearms and sharp objects, and watch it on the ground floor. :)

1. Harrison Bergeron (based on a Kurt Vonnegut short story)
2. Gattaca (saw it listed above, heartily recommended)
3. Legends of the Fall

ooh, ooh...and Office Space. If you work in a similar environment, it's eerily accurate.

The Manchurian Candidate

I haven't seen the original, but surely you can't mean the new version?

SLC Punk (good for anyone to watch, not neccicarily a 'punk' movie)
Memento
The Warriors..(not sure how obscure this is..)

has anyone seen Plague Dogs? What about the movie called 'Romper Stomper' with Russel Crow? I read and heard both are awesome.. just want some other opinions..and maybe an idea where to find them...

Um, Donnie Darko? Even though i haven't seen it yet myself I've heard it was amazing.

Um, Donnie Darko? Even though i haven't seen it yet myself I've heard it was amazing.

Donnie Darko is my favourite film.

Also if you're looking for a good film try Pulp Fiction.