Off the Beaten Track Movies

Kevin Miller · Post by **Kevin Miller** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 9:32 pm

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

Thomas Maurice Booth · Wed Feb 08, 2006 1:44 am

American Booty
Girls Gone Wild: Doggystyle
Debbie Does Dallas

TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:11 am

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

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 10:25 am

bloke wrote: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 · Post by **Captain Sousie** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:39 am

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 · Post by **Joe Baker** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 2:52 pm

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

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TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 4:20 pm

Joe Baker wrote: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 · Post by **JCalkin** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 4:30 pm

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 · Post by **prototypedenNIS** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 5:52 pm

JCalkin wrote: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 · Post by **ken k** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 6:01 pm

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

This is Spinal Tap

ken k

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 7:42 pm

schlepporello wrote: 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 · Post by **cornholio** » Sat May 04, 2013 11:13 am

schlepporello wrote: Dr. Strangelove

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

oldbandnerd · Post by **oldbandnerd** » Sun May 05, 2013 9:32 am

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 · Post by **pwhitaker** » Mon May 06, 2013 7:44 am

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 · Post by **Uncle Buck** » Mon May 06, 2013 9:37 am

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 · Post by **ZNC Dandy** » Mon May 06, 2013 1:08 pm

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

sousaphone68 · Post by **sousaphone68** » Mon May 06, 2013 4:55 pm

here are my contenders

Our man Flint (parody of the Bond movies from the 60's)
Mystery Men
The Party
The Italian Job (1969 version)
Micmacs
Man bites dog
Delicatessen

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