Off the Beaten Track Movies

[Joe Baker]

Why has no one yet mentioned Johnny Dangerously???

My father mentioned Johnny Dangerously once.... Once!

A couple more great ones:

Top Secret
The Frisco Kid
American Graffiti
The Inlaws (the old one; yeah, someone already mentioned it, but it deserves listing twice)
Stripes
The Emperors Club


Some old ones:
Bringing up Baby
Life With Father
The Long, Long Trailer
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
Around the World in 80 Days (1956 David Niven version)
Paleface
The Mouse That Roared

There are a bunch more that deserve mentioning just as much as these I guess, but these come to my mind as real winners just at the moment.
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Joe Baker, who loved that movie!!

[Lew]

A mighty wind...just strange

As long as you're mentioning A Mighty Wind, you have to add "This is Spinal Tap" (our knobs go up to 11), and "Best in Show." All a little quirky, but classic.

[windshieldbug]

Reefer Madness (1936 version)

[elimia]

Getting this back on track of the thread (offbeat movies)

In no particular order:

Obsure favs...
Basquiat (spelling?)
Amalie (in French, but charming little flick)
Momento (awesome, I'm still trying to figure it out)
Dune (the SciFi channel version, better than the David Lynch!)

Strictly 80s...
Once Bitten
Lair of the White Worm
Young Sherlock Holmes
Dragonslayer
The Hobbit (toon version)
Ishtar (YES! We finally have an Ishtar sighting)
Krull
The Princess Bride (Classic)
Howard the Duck

Classics...
The Apartment (w/ Jack Lemmon)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (Cary Grant)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (obscure but pretty bleah)

Just plain weird...
Naked Lunch (w/ Peter Weller; makes A Clockwork Orange look like Bambi)
Bad Lieutinent (w/ Harvey Keitel - I wouldn't recommend it to anyone)

[Kevin Miller]

Johnny Dangerously! That's a great flick you Fargin Bastage!

[Thomas Maurice Booth]

American Booty
Girls Gone Wild: Doggystyle
Debbie Does Dallas

[TubaRay]

It appears some of these movies are farther off the path than others.

[windshieldbug]

Why rent movies such as these when you can make your own at home, eh Schlep?

Oh, he likes the premise; he just hates to keep lifting up his shirt...

[Captain Sousie]

Troll 2. One of the worst movies of all time, and therefore one of the best.

Plan 9 From Outer Space. The cardboard gravestones are priceless.

Cat People. Woman changes into a panther and eats people, how can it get any better?

[Joe Baker]

Okay, I've thought of some more:

Rustler's Rhapsody -- A great western spoof
Start the Revolution Without Me -- French Revolution "Comedy of Errors" ripoff with Gene Wilder & Donald Sutherland
History of the World, Part I -- Mel Brooks
Young Doctors in Love -- Funny, but about a hundred F-Bombs
Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother -- Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman & Madeline Kahn
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy -- The ONLY Woody Allen movie I ever really liked
Unfaithfully Yours -- Dudley Moore decides to kill his wife and her lover
He Said, She Said -- Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth Perkins
She's Having a Baby -- Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth McGovern, kind of a chick flick but still really good.
The Burbs -- Tom Hanks' new neighbor is weird. VERY FUNNY!!
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Joe Baker, who was also tempted to mention Blade Runner, Soylent Green and Logan's Run -- but decided not to .

[TubaRay]

Joe Baker, who was also tempted to mention Blade Runner, Soylent Green and Logan's Run -- but decided not to .

And, boy, am I glad you didn't mention those three movies. Someone might have been completely confused if you had.

[JCalkin]

One of my favorites since I was a kid is Flight of Dragons:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... ct-details

Animated, notable voice talent includes John Ritter as the protagonist and (IMO) some of James Earl Jones's best work as the voice of Ommadon.


I also love They Live (1988), starring "Rowdy" Roddy Piper as a man fighting the alien hordes that control us while being disguised as humans. Piper can see them with his special sunglasses. My favorite line:
"I came here to do two things: chew bubblegum and kick ***. And I'm all out of bubblegum."

[prototypedenNIS]

My favorite line:
"I came here to do two things: chew bubblegum and kick ***. And I'm all out of bubblegum."

amazing, absolutely amazing

[ken k]

one of the strangest is the recent Napoleon Dynamite. So bizarre it is hilarious.

This is Spinal Tap

ken k

[LoyalTubist]

And in the scene where Jonathan Winters wrecks the gas station, the guy who played the scrawny attendant was acting the role with a broken wrist. The gloved hand was the one that was broken. He didn't care, he wanted to be a part of the film. Talk about dedication.

That was in Yucca Valley, just north of Palm Springs. Much of that area has hardly changed. And in the scene where the gas station is leveled to the ground, the movie crew was actually helping a project that was to be demolished. So the demolition is for real!

[cornholio]

Dr. Strangelove

I see your spacesuit, like, saved you from the acopalypse – so do you wanna, like, recopulate the earth?

[oldbandnerd]

Excalibur - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082348/" target="_blank
A really well made of version of the story of King Arthur . It uses a lot of Wagner music ( Prelude to Parsifal, Prelude to Tristan and Isolde, Siegfrieds Funeral March and O Fortuna) in the soundtrack and won an award for it costumes. It also has Patrick Steward ( still with no hair even though it was filmed in 1981) playing Leondengrace ,Guinevere's father.

Here's the trailer on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emF-m9qnF5o" target="_blank

"They Live" is also a good one. It has one of the best fight scenes I've seen in a movie .

[pwhitaker]

Hard Times with Charles Bronson, James Coburn and (one of my favorites) Strother Martin.

It's about underground bare-knuckle fights in New Orleans during the depression (Hoover's - not Obama's). One of the scenes is in a black Baptist church with an incredible gospel choir.

[Uncle Buck]

I don't think it's been mentioned already, but I think The Hudsucker Proxy fits the description in this thread. A great work by the Cohen brothers before they were as well known as they are today.

[ZNC Dandy]

"The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday." Lee Marvin, and Oliver Reed. Rife with hilarity, and a very humable soundtrack.