Favorite Obscure Movie.

[zHellas]

Also, The Good, The Bad, The Weird. I think it's Korean. It's a funny/action packed, goofy movie with plenty of scenes that are so awesome they make you laugh.

Oh! I have that on DVD! Watched it one morning.

Fucking bad-ass.

"So should I go in a straight line, or zig-zag to confuse them?"

 

[RanD00M]

Well I know two other guys that have seen it. And that is a good number of people seeing as how I am pretty asocial.

I have a feeling if you tried to initiate a conversation about Oldboy with any person, chances are they wouldn't know what your talking about. But it's probably your group of friends. I really don't hang out with people who watch foreign movies, so that's probably why.

Sure, if I were to try to initiate a conversation on OldBoy very few people would know what the fuck I were talking about. But the same can be said about most movies that are made before 1990, or aren't made by big budget Hollywood producers.
I could probably talk to more people about OldBoy, rather than say, Dead Snow.

 

[TheDude7053]

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckaroo_Banzai

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[mazeut]

Had to wrack my brain to come up with movies that were obscure and good, mostly old ones though.

Yellow Beard [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpf-xMB-ml8&feature=player_embedded]
Brazil [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wh2b1eZFUM&feature=player_embedded]
Time Bandits [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4vQ6y5gyoM&feature=player_embedded]
Wholly Moses [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SmesGgxTUI&feature=player_embedded]
Event Horizon [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd0nQUF00Sg&feature=player_embedded]
Joe Vs the Volcano [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECZyGP7JM0M&feature=player_embedded]

Pale Cocoon [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rhfdFErRTo&feature=related] Not quite a movie, more of an anime short but very good.

 

[-Samurai-]

Also, The Good, The Bad, The Weird. I think it's Korean. It's a funny/action packed, goofy movie with plenty of scenes that are so awesome they make you laugh.

Oh! I have that on DVD! Watched it one morning.

Fucking bad-ass.

"So should I go in a straight line, or zig-zag to confuse them?"

Oh my god. That was one of the funniest things I've ever seen...and it worked!

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Baron Von Munchausen. Not too obscure, but so fucking funny, and is what got me into british comedy (which led to all sorts of things) at first.

Thats the Terry Gilliam film about the old guy with the balloon chair right?

 

[Snarky Username]

Well I know two other guys that have seen it. And that is a good number of people seeing as how I am pretty asocial.

I have a feeling if you tried to initiate a conversation about Oldboy with any person, chances are they wouldn't know what your talking about. But it's probably your group of friends. I really don't hang out with people who watch foreign movies, so that's probably why.

Sure, if I were to try to initiate a conversation on OldBoy very few people would know what the fuck I were talking about. But the same can be said about most movies that are made before 1990, or aren't made by big budget Hollywood producers.
I could probably talk to more people about OldBoy, rather than say, Dead Snow.

Well now we're just splitting hairs over which movie is more obscure. Also, I know a lot of people who have at least heard of Dead Snow. Movies about Nazi zombies usually make more rounds around the internet than movies about a man's quest for revenge.

 

[RanD00M]

Well now we're just splitting hairs over which movie is more obscure. Also, I know a lot of people who have at least heard of Dead Snow. Movies about Nazi zombies usually make more rounds around the internet than movies about a man's quest for revenge.

I wasn't trying to split any hairs with which movie is more obscure. I was just using it as an example.
OldBoy is one of the most well know Asian movies in the Western part of this Earth.

 

[Snarky Username]

Well now we're just splitting hairs over which movie is more obscure. Also, I know a lot of people who have at least heard of Dead Snow. Movies about Nazi zombies usually make more rounds around the internet than movies about a man's quest for revenge.

I wasn't trying to split any hairs with which movie is more obscure. I was just using it as an example.
OldBoy is one of the most well know Asian movies in the Western part of this Earth.

But that's still not saying very much. The fact is that very few people (in America, anyways) pay any attention to foreign movies. Ones that don't come from Britain anyway. The closest thing most have come to seeing an asian film is watching the Americanized version of The Grudge or The Ring.

 

[Daniel Laeben-Rosen]

I have quite a few, so I'm just going to ramble them off in no particular order except when they come to mind:

Dead Snow. Best norwegian nazi-zombie-slasher ever.

Flesh Eating Ghouls From Outer Space. Strange little puppet-musical that is just too weird not to love.

Black Sheep. C'mon... It has were-sheep. How can I not include it?

Der Untergang. It's been mentioned here before. I just find it incredibly fascinating.

House on Haunted Hill, the original from 1959. It's not that obscure, but neither's Untergang. Also probably Vincent Price's best part.

The Manster, a japanese/american monsterflick circa 1960-ish which was suprisingly good. Don't know if it's a favourite, but I really liked it.

Goliathon: Mighty Peking Man. Chinese King Kong(the 70's version) clone brought to by The Shaw Brothers. This movie is just... so awesome. So stupid but so awesome. To quote the blurb on the box:
"A movie that finally answers the question if love between an explorer from Hong Kong and a scantly clad jungle-girl can survive her 50ft ape."

 

[RanD00M]

But that's still not saying very much. The fact is that very few people (in America, anyways) pay any attention to foreign movies. Ones that don't come from Britain anyway. The closest thing most have come to seeing an asian film is watching the Americanized version of The Grudge or The Ring.

So most of the people that you have met, or the people living in your area haven't heard about it. It is still well known in the western world. As I said, I personally have only met 2 people who have seen it, but does that mean that it is ill seen? No, it just means that the people who enjoy more dramatic, and better made movies with great stories have.
I don't know a lot of people that have seen A Clockwerk Orange. Does that mean that few people have seen it. No. The same can be said about a lot of films.

 

[Snarky Username]

But that's still not saying very much. The fact is that very few people (in America, anyways) pay any attention to foreign movies. Ones that don't come from Britain anyway. The closest thing most have come to seeing an asian film is watching the Americanized version of The Grudge or The Ring.

So most of the people that you have met, or the people living in your area haven't heard about it. It is still well known in the western world. As I said, I personally have only met 2 people who have seen it, but does that mean that it is ill seen? No, it just means that the people who enjoy more dramatic, and better made movies with great stories have.
I don't know a lot of people that have seen A Clockwerk Orange. Does that mean that few people have seen it. No. The same can be said about a lot of films.

Well there's a difference between "few" seeing it and "relatively few." The fact is that all movies have been seen by a lot of people. For every single movie in this thread, there is probably a chatroom for it. Even Dead Snow, a movie you yourself implied was obscure, has a facebook page with nearly 20,0000 members (Which, coincidentally, is the same number Oldboy has). You can't use the internet as a guide for obscurity because on the internet nothing is obscure. Literally no one I know has seen Oldboy, but there are a bunch of people I know who have seen or at least heard of A Clockwork Orange, therefore, in my mind, it is obscure.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

I know that I put it down as my obscure movie in the Original Post, but here is an example of what to expect if you ever watch Erik the Viking.

Bloody hilarious.

 

[Vladimir Francois Tchaikovski]

I'm a bit confused as to why practically no one i talk to has seen these because they have all-star casts

but anyway

"Mystery Men" - a superhero flick starring Ben Stiller

"The men who stare at goats" - Easily one of the funniest films have ever seen starring Ewan McGregor and George Clooney sporting a hairstyle somewhat like mine.

 

[Professor Cubbage]

Children of Men, Sunshine, and Brick, with the last definitely being the most obscure.

Just watched Children of Men today. Best film I've seen in ages.

OT: Elite Squad, a brazilian film about police in the Rio de Janeiro favelas.

 

[York_Beckett]

I have a ton to list, all which I really like or love. Get ready for big block of text:


Stone of Destiny: Brilliant concept, great characters and acting. Great, undiscovered heist film.
The Exterminator: (That's not a Terminator rip-off. Besides, was released in 1980.) Awesome vigilante film. Oh yeah, and it had a horrible sequel.
Equilibrium: Probably the most awesome sci-fi/action flick since The Matrix. Sure, it has it's plot holes and such, but still; it's one my favourite films ever, and very entertaining.
Moon: Incredibly well-made sci-fi psychological drama with a 2001-esque plot and great twists. Very underrated.
The Room: "You are tearing me apart, Lisa!"
Event Horizon: Pretty creepy sci-fi/horror film with some really neat special effects. Seems to have been a huge source of inspiration for Dead Space.
Franklyn: It's... strange. Just a very strange drama/mystery/fantasy-ish film. The plot is deep and a bit difficult to follow, and it can be very slow at times, but it's an incredibly fascinating piece of cinema.
Runaway Beer: A finnish short film that has won several awards. It was quite funny, and a great sort of feel-good flick. And hey, it even has Alan Wake in it!
I think the movie was only available online, but unfortunately the website has been taken down and I don't know any other place to watch the movie.
MirrorMask: A great, artistic fantasy film with a highly surreal world. The setpieces are great, as well as the general visuals. A lot of people hate it for some reason. But I love it, so yeah.
Jacob's Ladder: Quite possibly my favourite movie of all time. A deep, frightening psychological horror film that immediately pulls the viewer in. Also, it inspired the Silent Hill series.
Re-Cycle (Gwai Wik): Some bizarre asian horror film. It's been a while since I've watched it, but I do remember really liking it. The plot was kind of strange, and it had some very creative stuff surrounding symbolism, though some of them were quite disturbing as well. Imagine if Alice in Wonderland was mixed in with a Stephen King story, and then you'd pretty much get this.
R-Point: Another asian horror film, this one with some war elements in it. It has some very interesting moments, as well as some scary ones, and it tries to mix in the real tension of and psychology of soldiers from war, and manages to play it off very well. Also, quite gory.
Half Light: A nice little thriller with some good characters in it. It was surprisingly good and underrated in my opinion.
The Snow Walker: An adventure/drama from 2003. It was a very long time since I watched it, so I don't remember that much of it, but I do remember liking it a lot.
Arachnophobia: A highly underrated horror film with some good humour to it. Not that obscure, but still overlooked. Though not that scary, except if you're afraid of spiders, it was really cool.
Zatoichi: I don't know if it should be considered obscure or not, but it was an awesome samurai film.
Naboer (Next Door): A very interesting norwegian psycho-thriller. Great plot, great acting, stuff.
Silent Night, Deadly Night: Well, the 2nd one is well known for all the wrong reasons. The first one is still good; A good, campy flick with some surprisingly good plot elements to it.
My Name is Bruce: Sure, it wasn't Evil Dead 4, but it was still good fun!
Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt: Very obscure werewolf film with some great gothic material to it.

 

[Smagmuck_]

Tremors. Gotta love Kevin Bacon.

"I got myself a plaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!"
I friggin' love that film.

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

Love and Death, which NOBODY has heard of. By far Woody Allen's best movie, and one of my all time favorite comedies.

 

[Treefingers]

El Topo.

It is a crazy, twisted, surreal masterpiece.