You know those movies that You watched you liked and that you had to look them up on the internet before you knew what the titles of them were?  Those movies that you thought were good but the rest of the world doesn't seem to like or for that matter the rest of the world looks at you like what? and you wonder to yourself did I imagine that movie or is it real.

Well for starters their used to be this movie on USA and I saw it twice when I was little around I'd say 1990 to 1992 and it was about this boy that somehow embarassed this older tougher kid I think by sending in a naked picture of him into a science magazine, and he spends the entire movie trying to avoid this kid. I remember the older kid finally catches up with him and he only hits him a few times and the older kids friend is like "come on come on kill him"and the older kid is like "no he's had enough, he's had enough"  Theirs also a scene where the boy makes fun of this girl out on the playground and she punches him really hard in the stomach. 

I'll also say the USA back in the old days was a master at playing these "unknown" movies


The Movies I do know that you probably either don't like or have never heard of

Buried Alive - A USA favorite once again. Stars Tim Matheson and a few others inwhich I'm not really sure of who they are. Tim's character's wife and another man try and poison Tim to death. They think they succeeded but decide not to embaum the body and just bury Tim's Character right away. He end's up waking up in the casket six feet underground. He goes back to his house and finds out why his wife and the man tried to kill him. He's about to shoot his wife and the man but then finds out that his wife had an abortion and decides that shooting them would be too easy. It's a very "justified" movie I'll put it that way. I like it because it shows a man being evil as in a form of revenge as in a form of "right" because it's and eye for an eye sort of thing.

Buried Alive II - I like it for one because it's a good sequel. It has Matheson in it, and a lot of small allusions to the first Buried Alive.  It's just the opposite story this time though the a lady is supposedly killed by her husband and his mistress but like Tim's character in the first one she wakes up 6 feet underground with a little help from Tim's Character. This movie was a lot like the original and I enjoyed it a lot too, for the same reasons.

Down, Out, and Dangerous - This movie starring Richard Thomas is about this guy that has a practically perfect life with exception to his rude and uncaring neighbor. One day a stranger(Richard Thomas) comes by and starts to help out this guy and they automatically become good friends. The stranger seems like a real good person and the guy thinks he is. Well the mean neighbor shoves the guy's pregnant wife down and the guy shoves the guy into some bricks. He knocks the guy out and runs to the house to call 911 for some help. The stranger takes the neighbors head and beats it against the bricks killing him. When the guy comes out the stranger makes it look like the guy killed him. The stranger convinces the guy to cover it up and act like it didn't happen. So the guy and his wife invite the stranger into their home.  What they don't know about the stranger is that he is actually a killer and a psycho.  Anyway the Stranger ends up going to jail when he tries to kill the wife and guy. I really liked this movie because it showed "John Boy"being evil and I wasn't used to that, I was gald Richard Thomas could portray such a character and portray him good.  I also liked this movie because it showed how circumstance alone can screw you over.

The Kissing Place - Starring Family Ties Maradith Baxtor it's about a Boy that has dreams everynight that his parents aren't his real parents and that he was kidnapped by the people who say they are his parents. He has this dream where his real mom is playing with him on the slide and she lets him go down the slide a lady(Maradith Baxtor) comes by and swipes him up and takes off with him. The movie is mostly about the boy trying to find out who he really is. I dont'remember a whole lot of scenes but the maradith's husband who helped her kidnap the boy tries to help the boy escape because he fears that the Lady will try and hurt the boy. When he does that the lady kills him out in the woods when they're looking for him. It's a really creepy scene because they're sexually playing out in the woods and she's on top of him and she takes out a gun and ask him if he knows where the boy is at he looks straight at the boy in his hiding place and then a loud bang is heard from the gun.  I also remember when the boy is trying to say to a man he meets that trys and  to help him that he looks nothing like his parents, and the man say's "well my mom is blonde, my dad is burnette,my two brothers and sister are blonde and I turned out a red head"  I don't remember how the movie ends I think the boy finally finds his real mother and the lady is killed. I like this movie because of it's suspence and the struggle the boy has to go through to find out the truth and how Maradith Baxtor can be unbelievably scary.


I have other bit's and pieces of movies go through my head like for instance a movie about this couple that lived on a Army base and the dad is reading to his little boy one night and a guy comes in and shoots the dad in the head but doesn't see the little boy. The little boy and the mother go up and live with this old man in hiding until they are found out by the fathers killers and have a show down at the end of the movie. I watched this movie when I was really little and remember the Doverman Pincher saving the little boy's life then getting it's throat slit and the mom going up to the guy that slit the dogs throat and putting the gun right next to his chest and shooting him, I thought that was so cool, and I thought the mom did that because she loved the dog, but she actually did it in vengence of her husband.

No use talking about the other movies I don't remember the titles too or who starred in them, but I sure would like to know what your "weird" movies are.

I went for a film called 'Proof'. It is an Australian film made in 1991/2 and it features Hugo Weaving (Matrix Reloaded), Genevieve Picot and Russell Crowe (L.A Confidential, Gladiator, Beautiful Mind . . .). Weaving plays a blind photographer who takes pictures as evidence of what is around him. Crowe plays his friend who describes these pictures to him - it sounds stupid on paper but this film is very beautiful.

Ok, I'll admit that I'm hooked on those cheezy Lifetime Movie Network movies! Sappy but true!  :-[ Everytime I flip the channel by one of those movies, I get hooked and have to sit and watch the whole thing  :)

"The Hollywood Knights" is not very well known and remains one of my favorite of all time.  I am also obsessed with this made for MTV movie called "Love Song".

I'm glad to see all of the responses.

Another movie that I just remembered in my head was another USA favorite about the guy who wants to get laid really really bad but seems to have no luck with girls. This lady dies and before she can get into Heaven she has to help the boy. Welll she spends the entire time helping the boy as best she can but like any human being or "spirit" for that matter she makes mistakes as well.  At the end of the movie the boy looks at one of his friends and realizes that she is really the one he wants and he gets it on with her. It's a comedy movie and has that heart warming touch at the end in a boy going out on a limb to find what he was looking for only to find it right back where he started.

which reminds me of another movie about this Nerd that helps a girl by some real expensive clothes if she'll go out with him. He ends up proving to her that he's really not such a nerd or a looser and it ends up being her that wants him more than he wants her...or something like that I saw it on TBS.

"The Hollywood Knights" is not very well known and remains one of my favorite of all time.  I am also obsessed with this made for MTV movie called "Love Song".


Their are 2 movies from Lifetime that I really like and you might be able to help me out with them

1 is where this young guy gets this young  girl pregnant and at first the girl wants nothing to do with the baby at all, but the boyfriend wants the baby, So he ends up being the one to take care of it and about 6 months later the girl comes around and wants her baby all of a sudden and the boyfriend spends the entire movie fighting for custody of his baby. I don't remember how it ended but I think the custody ended up going to the mother, because I remember watching this movie with my mother, and her saying the father should of gotten custody.

The other movie is about a mother trying to prove that her son was killed by his girlfriend. She ends up proving it at the end by finding his blood and some other clues, but supposivley his body was dumped at sea so it was never found.  It's based on a true story

and I'll add a third movie in...I didn't really like it but it has the Wonder Year's Whiney Cooper in it and it's about this black market agency that hires men to get women pregnant so they can steal the babies away and put them up for adoption.  It has another good actress in it that has twins taken away from her.

You know these?

Creator with Peter O'Toole, Mariel Hemmingway, Virgina Madson, and David Ogden Stiers.


Crimes of Passion with Kathleen Turner and Anthony Perkins (yeah, he does play a pycho in this movie, too).

Let it Ride with Richard Dryfess, Jennifer Tilly, and Terri Garr (a few unknown actors at the time, Robbie Coltrane-AKA Hagrid in Harry Potter, and Cynthia Nixon from Sex in the City).



Cat

That would be "Can't Buy Me Love" with Patrick Dempsey and Amanda Peterson.  She ruined her mom's leather (or suede) outfit and he offers to buy it if she'll "pretend" they're going out so he can be cool.  He becomes uber-cool until she reveals (in a drunken stupor after she hears him using a poem that she wrote to scam on another girl) that he "bought her".  It all ends happy, though...
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Thanks I'm glad I know the title now.

Rubin and Ed with Howard Hessman and Crispin Glover. 

Boulevard Nights.

Another movie that I just remembered in my head was another USA favorite about the guy who wants to get laid really really bad but seems to have no luck with girls. This lady dies and before she can get into Heaven she has to help the boy. Welll she spends the entire time helping the boy as best she can but like any human being or "spirit" for that matter she makes mistakes as well.  At the end of the movie the boy looks at one of his friends and realizes that she is really the one he wants and he gets it on with her. It's a comedy movie and has that heart warming touch at the end in a boy going out on a limb to find what he was looking for only to find it right back where he started.


I believe this, like "Can't Buy Me Love", is another Patrick Dempsey movie: "Meatballs 3", which has nothing to do with the original.  At all.  At least "Meatballs 2" took place at a summer camp.  I think "3" was located near a lake, during summer, end of similarities.

Don't get me wrong, the movie doesn't suck, it's a good cheesey 80s flick.  It just irks me that they tried to cash in on the "Meatballs" name.  Even after "2" didn't succeed. 

I can't come up with anything for me, but one from the Mrs comes to mind.  I had no idea what she was talking about (when we were dating), and have seen it now once a few years ago on TBS or USA or something.

"The Gate" -  A very young Stephen Dorf and his friends open up a portal in their backyard that brings demons or monsters or whatever.  It's tied to listening to some heavy metal album or something.  She remembers it being kinda freaky at the time.  I just got it for her a few weeks ago as a kinda gag b-day gift ($5 at Best Buy)  So I'm sure I'll see it again. 

I can't come up with anything for me, but one from the Mrs comes to mind.  I had no idea what she was talking about (when we were dating), and have seen it now once a few years ago on TBS or USA or something.

"The Gate" -  A very young Stephen Dorf and his friends open up a portal in their backyard that brings demons or monsters or whatever.  It's tied to listening to some heavy metal album or something.  She remembers it being kinda freaky at the time.  I just got it for her a few weeks ago as a kinda gag b-day gift ($5 at Best Buy)  So I'm sure I'll see it again. 


Ah yes. A great film. I was expecting it to be really rubbish but I was pleasantly surprised by it's slickness. The only thing I can remember is these zombie type things breaking through walls.

Two Tony Richardson(Mirandas' father, Vanessa Redgraves husband before he exited the closet) movies from the sixties.
"The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner"(also one of my favorite books) with
Tom Courtenay

"A Taste of Honey"

Anyone even know these movies anymore?

Rubin and Ed with Howard Hessman and Crispin Glover. 

Wow, I thought I was the only one that saw that one! What a perfectly bizarre film.

Student Bodies- Years before Scream or Scary Movie this spoof sent up the slasher movies with complete silliness. Horny high school students die just before engaging in sexual activities (as they usually do in slasher flicks), & this movie keeps track of the body count by actually flashing number of the dead (so far) on the screen.
With its twisted storyline and equally strange characters, you’ll never think of black trash bags & horse head bookends the same way again.
“Sometimes Malvert pee red”.
Too bad I can't find this film anywhere, out of print on VHS and don't think it'll ever be realeased on DVD... :(

Wow, I thought I was the only one that saw that one! What a perfectly bizarre film.

Student Bodies- Years before Scream or Scary Movie this spoof sent up the slasher movies with complete silliness. Horny high school students die just before engaging in sexual activities (as they usually do in slasher flicks), & this movie keeps track of the body count by actually flashing number of the dead (so far) on the screen.
With its twisted storyline and equally strange characters, you’ll never think of black trash bags & horse head bookends the same way again.
“Sometimes Malvert pee red”.
Too bad I can't find this film anywhere, out of print on VHS and don't think it'll ever be realeased on DVD... :(




Try here.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/offer-listing/B00001U0G5/qid=1091228786/sr=1-1/ref=sr_pb_a//102-9012701-1404925?condition=all



Cat

I can't come up with anything for me, but one from the Mrs comes to mind.  I had no idea what she was talking about (when we were dating), and have seen it now once a few years ago on TBS or USA or something.

"The Gate" -  A very young Stephen Dorf and his friends open up a portal in their backyard that brings demons or monsters or whatever.  It's tied to listening to some heavy metal album or something.  She remembers it being kinda freaky at the time.  I just got it for her a few weeks ago as a kinda gag b-day gift ($5 at Best Buy)  So I'm sure I'll see it again. 


Thanks man

Student Bodies- Years before Scream or Scary Movie this spoof sent up the slasher movies with complete silliness. Horny high school students die just before engaging in sexual activities (as they usually do in slasher flicks), & this movie keeps track of the body count by actually flashing number of the dead (so far) on the screen.
With its twisted storyline and equally strange characters, you’ll never think of black trash bags & horse head bookends the same way again.
“Sometimes Malvert pee red”.
Too bad I can't find this film anywhere, out of print on VHS and don't think it'll ever be realeased on DVD... :(



I LOVE  this flick!!  Totally forgot about it!  Is this the one with Tommy Smothers as the local law officer, dressed as a Royal Canadian Mountie?  Or it that from "Pandemonium"...?  Anywho, great pick, gumbypiz!

OK, gumbypiz's pick "Student Bodies"  brought to mind 2 of my own.  Both are also horror spoofs: 

"Pandemonium"   If I remember correctly, it centers around a cheerleading camp that had cheerleaders killed, ala shiskabob, years ago.  It re-opens and murders start again.  Stars include Tom Smothers, Carol Kane, and I think one of Paul Rubens' (Pee Wee Herman) earliest roles.  Tom either is a Canadian Mountie, or thinks he is (which is funnier).  And he has a strange connection with his horse.    ???


"Saturday the 14th"  Richard Benjamin and his family move into a house left to them by a dead relative.  It has gags on nearly every monster/horror flick of the 70s/80s.  And, the 80s teenager inside me remembers, Kari Michaelsen (the oldest daughter on "Gimme A Break") in the bathtub!  :o   :D   :P 

Sweet Hostage starring Martin Sheen and Linda Blair
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0073772/

OK, gumbypiz's pick "Student Bodies"  brought to mind 2 of my own.  Both are also horror spoofs: 

"Pandemonium"   If I remember correctly, it centers around a cheerleading camp that had cheerleaders killed, ala shiskabob, years ago.  It re-opens and murders start again.  Stars include Tom Smothers, Carol Kane, and I think one of Paul Rubens' (Pee Wee Herman) earliest roles.  Tom either is a Canadian Mountie, or thinks he is (which is funnier).  And he has a strange connection with his horse.    ???


"Saturday the 14th"  Richard Benjamin and his family move into a house left to them by a dead relative.  It has gags on nearly every monster/horror flick of the 70s/80s.  And, the 80s teenager inside me remembers, Kari Michaelsen (the oldest daughter on "Gimme A Break") in the bathtub!  :o   :D   :P 




in Pandemonium I beleive he was a mountie.....and he treated his horse better than he did his partner, Paul Reubens.......

I never thought that movie was very funny........


for info on these obscure movies, I point everyone to www.imdb.com

Spun starring Brittany Murphy, Jason Schwartzman, and Mickey Rourke.

Yes I know i'm probably the only one in the world that liked this better than "Requiem For A Dream". But Mickey Rourke's performance as "The Chef" cracked me up. ;D

Plus Billy Corgan did an amazing job with the score :)

"Welcome to the Dollhouse" (1995)

"Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic" - (1975) starring Linda Blair!

"Suburbia" (1984)   Written & Directed by Penelope Spheeris (one of my favorite directors)

"Liquid Sky" (1982)

"Love at First Bite" (1979) :D 

You guys are reminding me of movies that I haven't even THOUGHT about in so long. Student Bodies, Pandamonium, and  Saturday the 14th. I also remember Sweet Hostage and LOVED that movie when I first saw it. I haven't seen it in many, many years.



Cat

Mischief from 1985

"Welcome to the Dollhouse" (1995)


That movie is fantastic! :D

Wow, I thought I was the only one that saw that one! What a perfectly bizarre film.




Nope, I love that movie.  I worked at a video store that actually stocked it.  The day it came back broken I cried.  the funny thing is the only reason I first watched it was that it was filmed here in Utah.  Now I love it.


Saturday the 14th is also one of my favorite movies.  It is a hoot.

Nope, I love that movie.  I worked at a video store that actually stocked it.  The day it came back broken I cried.  the funny thing is the only reason I first watched it was that it was filmed here in Utah.  Now I love it.

No question, a very good, if off beat film.

A little off topic trivia on Rubin & Ed. There is an infamous incident on the David Letterman show with Crispin Glover. Glover almost kicks Letterman’s head off in demonstrating his karate skills. Letterman freaks, and Glover is banned from the show to this day due to his antics that night. Watching Glover you’d think he was completely insane or on drugs.
If anyone is familiar Rubin & Ed, notice that Glover is actually in still in character from the movie, all the weird clothing and with the disco platforms, which explains some of his behavior on Letterman.

All this talk has refreshed my memory of lesser known movies that I liked....

Has anyone seen these strange films? Some of my faves...

The Dark Backward - Difficult to describe this film, it’s dark, dirty, grimy and disgusting (but I still like it). Judd Nelson as a permanently sweaty, terribly unfunny comic that slowly rises to semi fame when a third arm starts to grow out of his back. This film is SOOO gross, and Bill Paxton does so many disgusting things its almost too much to take, but it IS a comedy and builds this “watching a train wreck” compulsion, you just have to watch the flick. Rob Lowe and Wayne Newton also appear to add more smarminess to the already over the top story. Look out for the ficticous product ads for "Glump Bacon Fat in a Can"  ::) and others, bizzare.

Arizona Dream - Starring Johnny Depp who is obsessed with fish, is picked by his uncle, (Jerry Lewis) to take over his Cadillac dealership. Depp meets Fay Dunaway and strike up a romance. This film is WEIRD. Along with fish that pop up, floating swimming across the screen randomly, Dunaways characters obsession with flying and Jerry Lewis’s bizarre quirks, it’s amazing that this is watch able at all. It plays like a strange drug induced dream, very, very bizarre film.

Liquid Sky – Someone already mention this. Punk rock, aliens, sex, drugs. I’ve rented this film at least 4 times and still haven’t been able to watch straight through. It’s like chewing on tin foil; I dare you to watch this one. ;)

Basket Case – Horror story about a ugly creature living in and carried around in a basket. This movie doesn’t deserve any further description, just a good BAD film, poor production, poor acting. Lots of laughs and fun.

Motorama - Road movie about a 10 yr old driving a classic Mustang around the country collecting Motorama cards from particpating gas stations for a mysterious prize. Strange enough, with a child driving around on a phone book to see the road, and block of wood to operate the pedals, but mixed in with cameos of Flea (Chili Peppers), Drew Barrymore, & Meatloaf make it even stranger.

Basket Case – Horror story about a ugly creature living in and carried around in a basket. This movie doesn’t deserve any further description, just a good BAD film, poor production, poor acting. Lots of laughs and fun.


I've heard about this film, Gumbypiz. I wouldn't mind having a look at it.

Anyone heard of the Australian/New Zealand based film called 'Bad Taste'. It was about a group of blokes that try to save the world from aliens that try to take over the world. There is an unbelievable scene in it where a guy falls and cracks his head on the floor and he spends the time to put bits of his brain back into his head.  ;D

That movie is fantastic! :D


I recommend this to anyone who has low self-esteem.  This movie means a lot to me. :)

There was a movie called Paradise with Pheobe Cates.




Cat

I'll add another one to the list

The Hand that Rocks the Cradle - A movie about a woman that looses her baby and tries to steal the life away from another woman. She tries to steal her kids and her husband away. Ernie Hudson is in the movie and he plays a retarded man that ends up helping out at the end. I like the movie, the plot, the characters and the ending.

I'll add another one to the list

The Hand that Rocks the Cradle - A movie about a woman that looses her baby and tries to steal the life away from another woman. She tries to steal her kids and her husband away. Ernie Hudson is in the movie and he plays a retarded man that ends up helping out at the end. I like the movie, the plot, the characters and the ending.



Oh,I love that movie! Me,my mom and my brother went to go see it when it came out.  :)

Basket Case – Horror story about a ugly creature living in and carried around in a basket. This movie doesn’t deserve any further description, just a good BAD film, poor production, poor acting. Lots of laughs and fun.



I saw this one many years ago at a friends house.  It would have been in the early 80's.  She was the first of my friends to get a video player and her dad would rent virtually any film for us to watch when we babysat her younger siblings.

I've a feeling this might have had an 18 rating?  (or X as it was then) most of the films we watched were  ;D.

Those are some great movies. Alot of them brought back memories.

The movie Bad Taste was done by a little known director called Peter Jackson (LotR). I also liked his movie (as gross as it was) Dead Alive. Another movie I liked along those lines was It's Alive and its sequels.

Here are some others:
The Changeling - eerie George C. Scott ghost story
Somewhere Tomorrow - a young Sarah Jessica Parker sees dead people
Worst Witch - a pre-Craft Fairuza Balk practicing being a witch
Society - Billy Warlock realizes his family is into more than just bonding
Meridian - a beauty and the beast tale done w/ a twist and Sherilyn Fenn
The Midnight Hour - a group of teen unleash the dead accidentally, of course

Fast Forward - a group of teens try to make it in New York

There was a movie called Paradise with Pheobe Cates.




Cat


I've seen that one. It's a nice little rip-off of The Blue Lagoon. Neither one of them was very good though. :P

I have another one to add to the list

Just one of the guys - A girl pretend to be a guy because she thinks her articles she writes are being discriminated against because she is a female.  She transfers schools and becomes friends with this guy, who she falls in love with. The movie has a lot of funny parts in it and the irony is that she's actually a really good looking girl so it's funny that people didn't catch on that she was a girl.  Like I said a lot of funny parts in the movie, the one that sticks out in my head right now is when she says to her friend that she likes "I have to tell you something Greg"  and he replys "I know..your gay", "No I'm not gay"  then it her secret of being girl isn't a secret anymore.

I have another one to add to the list

Just one of the guys - A girl pretend to be a guy because she thinks her articles she writes are being discriminated against because she is a female.  She transfers schools and becomes friends with this guy, who she falls in love with. The movie has a lot of funny parts in it and the irony is that she's actually a really good looking girl so it's funny that people didn't catch on that she was a girl.  Like I said a lot of funny parts in the movie, the one that sticks out in my head right now is when she says to her friend that she likes "I have to tell you something Greg"  and he replys "I know..your gay", "No I'm not gay"  then it her secret of being girl isn't a secret anymore.


Loved that movie :)....I think they had a Corey Haim movie, where he pretended to be a girl. Can't remember the whole plotline.

I saw a movie called "Cannonball" about a guy (David Carradine) who enters an auto race from LA to New York City....ironically, it came out the same year another racing movie came out called "The Gumball Rally" with Peter Sarazin...this was a race FROM New York City to LA....both from 1976

Those are some great movies. Alot of them brought back memories.

The movie Bad Taste was done by a little known director called Peter Jackson (LotR). I also liked his movie (as gross as it was) Dead Alive. Another movie I liked along those lines was It's Alive and its sequels.

Society - Billy Warlock realizes his family is into more than just bonding


Wow! I had no idea Peter Jackson was involved with that movie. Very funny. The cheap effects made the whole thing even more risible.

Ah! Society. An incredible film which features a really repelling end scene. Brilliant.

   Becket - Peter Glenville  (1964) - Based on a play by Jean Anouilh all around superb acting by O'Toole and Burton.
   The Beast - Kevin Reynolds (1988) - only major production I know of featuring the Soviet/Afghan War of the 80's.  Actually scandalous in it's day.

I have another one to add to the list

Just one of the guys - A girl pretend to be a guy because she thinks her articles she writes are being discriminated against because she is a female.  She transfers schools and becomes friends with this guy, who she falls in love with. The movie has a lot of funny parts in it and the irony is that she's actually a really good looking girl so it's funny that people didn't catch on that she was a girl.  Like I said a lot of funny parts in the movie, the one that sticks out in my head right now is when she says to her friend that she likes "I have to tell you something Greg"  and he replys "I know..your gay", "No I'm not gay"  then it her secret of being girl isn't a secret anymore.


thats one of those movies they play on Comedy Central all the time that i cant stand....wow, movie wise, they really went downhill...wait, thats a different post

thats one of those movies they play on Comedy Central all the time that i cant stand....wow, movie wise, they really went downhill...wait, thats a different post


I know what you mean by those movies you can't stand....but as far as Comedy Central is concerned about going downhill? Hmmmm I remember when they used to play Dogma a movie I hate worse than anyother movie ever made and I married an Axe Murder a movie that makes absolutely no sense, all the time. Now they play a lot of Kingpin and the older comedies...which I enjoy. So I say they've gone uphill..........a battle of perspective.

I know what you mean by those movies you can't stand....but as far as Comedy Central is concerned about going downhill? Hmmmm I remember when they used to play Dogma a movie I hate worse than anyother movie ever made and I married an Axe Murder a movie that makes absolutely no sense, all the time. Now they play a lot of Kingpin and the older comedies...which I enjoy. So I say they've gone uphill..........a battle of perspective.


I remember along time ago in the early 90s whent hey had "British comedy Wenesday" ..that was funny.....


Personally I love Dogma, and So I married an axe murderer has its points, but they havent really been good with getting good movies ...ever......or at least since they stopped showing Monty Python


every now and then they show a good movie, but that's often offset by crap like "Zapped!"......


show wise, I guess theyve always been good...though, they have had their share of crap there...but usually on the TV show field, they do better

I really don't know whether these are well known or not, but I saw and very much enjoyed two, recently, that might(?) qualify, here: The Lost Skeleton of Cadavera and Bubba Hotep.  When I was a kid, I loved the old Riings On Their Fingers, Bells On Their Toes and Cheaper By the Dozen movies and all of the old  Blondie and Dagwood movies -- they were probably quite well known in their day, but I haven't seen any of them in at least 25 years. 

Personally I love Dogma,




Well Billy ... I won't hold  it against you.  I fell asleep during that movie!

There's a little known movie I really like called "A Walk On The Moon".  I also like a lot of foreign films.  What is with people and sub-titles!  ::)  I know a few people who won't see a movie if it's sub-titled because they say takes away from the film.  I particularly like the work of Director, Pedro Almodovar.  Some of his films are my favourites.

I did see the preview for Bubba Hotep and wanted to see it.

Here are some more I thought of:
Hunk (cheesy 80's movie)  :)
Subspecies (I believe there is a triology)
Cube

I've thought of a couple more.

Elvira Madigan

Bound By Honor (Benjamin Bratt's third movie :o)

  Quote by Harmonica :Their are 2 movies from Lifetime that I really like and you might be able to help me out with them

1 is where this young guy gets this young  girl pregnant and at first the girl wants nothing to do with the baby at all, but the boyfriend wants the baby, So he ends up being the one to take care of it and about 6 months later the girl comes around and wants her baby all of a sudden and the boyfriend spends the entire movie fighting for custody of his baby. I don't remember how it ended but I think the custody ended up going to the mother, because I remember watching this movie with my mother, and her saying the father should of gotten custody.

The other movie is about a mother trying to prove that her son was killed by his girlfriend. She ends up proving it at the end by finding his blood and some other clues, but supposivley his body was dumped at sea so it was never found.  It's based on a true story

and I'll add a third movie in...I didn't really like it but it has the Wonder Year's Whiney Cooper in it and it's about this black market agency that hires men to get women pregnant so they can steal the babies away and put them up for adoption.  It has another good actress in it that has twins taken away from her.

You know these?


The First one is Unwed Father starring Brian Austin Green and Nicholle Tom
I'm still trying to figure out the second one if you remember any actors or actress let me know and I might be able to tell you the second movie.
The Third one is Moment of Truth Movie:Cradle of Conspiracy starring Danica McKellar(Wonder Years)

I've thought of a couple more.

Elvira Madigan

Bound By Honor (Benjamin Bratt's third movie :o)


I remember seeing Elvira Madigan, it was so romantic, I wanted to run away to a french chateau
and live on bread and cheese with Clint Eastwood. 

The First one is Unwed Father starring Brian Austin Green and Nicholle Tom
I'm still trying to figure out the second one if you remember any actors or actress let me know and I might be able to tell you the second movie.
The Third one is Moment of Truth Movie:Cradle of Conspiracy starring Danica McKellar(Wonder Years)


How does Unwed Father end?  Tell me more about it...I liked it

Don't know any actresses or actors from the 2nd movie...sorry

How does Unwed Father end?  Tell me more about it...I liked it

Don't know any actresses or actors from the 2nd movie...sorry

  I really don't remember how Unwed Father ends it has been a long time since I have seen it but it  is coming on Lifetime channel September 27th @2 pm et/pt
I think I may have found out the second movie does When He Didn't Come Home sound familiar it comes on Lifetime channel September 5 @ 5pm et/pt here is a brief summary of this movie  Stars:Patty Duke, Kelly Rowan, Robert Floyd and Rosemary Dunsmore
A woman's 26-year-old son is killed — and the mother suspects his wealthy, hot-tempered fiancée.
 

You know I looked up Unwed father and I don't know if that's the movie or not...it seems to new 1997 just seems to new.

I have one way and only one way to find out.  Did he drive a small red convertible in the movie? If the answer is yes, then that's the movie I'm looking for.

I also thought of The Watcher in the Woods and Anna to the Infinite Power.

I also thought of The Watcher in the Woods and Anna to the Infinite Power.


I actually kind of like Anna to the Infinite Power-even though the critics panned it.



Cat

I actually kind of like Anna to the Infinite Power-even though the critics panned it.



Cat
Me too. But I think the idea of cloning like that was not a believable idea back then.

Drop Dead Fred.  I love this movie!

Also, everytime Unwed Father and Fifteen and Pregnant is on, I have to watch it. 

Drop Dead Fred.  I love this movie!

Also, everytime Unwed Father and Fifteen and Pregnant is on, I have to watch it. 
I love Drop Dead Fred, the mother is so like mine its scary, so I can relate alot.
I also like 15 & Pregnant.

I also like The Lady in White.

Yes that is the movie then.

And I'll say Drop Dead Fred is a good one.

So many funny parts in that movie....Great movie...

Oh, Phantom of the Paradise

Speakin of USA, remember when they used to show those crazy Highschool/teenager movies? Well though I've seen and forgotten tons of them theres one title I can't get out of miy head:
HARDBODIES Does anyone remember this?

Speakin of USA, remember when they used to show those crazy Highschool/teenager movies? Well though I've seen and forgotten tons of them theres one title I can't get out of miy head:
HARDBODIES Does anyone remember this?
Yes, I remember that as well as Fraternity Vacation, Up The Creek, etc... ;D

I actually have Up the Creek on video.




Cat

Better Off Dead  :D

I'll add a new one to the list.

Cop n a Half - I thought it was more popular than what it was but the more people I talk with about it, the less they seem to know about it.

Anyway Better Off Dead has John my man Cusack in it....so your not alone their.

Another Better Off Dead fan here, too.

Oh, Phantom of the Paradise


Oh yes, I know Phantom of the Paradise .

I think that was the re-working of the Phantom of the Opera set in the 70s filled with garish images and music.