Some great obscure movies you may not have seen (or heard of).

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GNTLGNT

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Cool. I don't remember Huey Lewis in it.
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Zone D Dad

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Brick (2005) Joseph Gordon-Levitt

This is a noir mystery film where most of the characters are high school students. The movie is like an old detective movie but in a modern setting with young actors. This is from the same director that did Looper.

I liked Brick. At first I had to get past the premise, but if you just go with it, it's a clever little film.
 

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I watch a lot of horror movies. I am not sure they are all good but here is some of horror movies I seen. A tale of two sisters, Audition, Yakuza Apocalypse, Tears of Kail , within, cannibal holocaust.. Not all are best but I like them. I watch main stream stuff too.
 
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Time Bandits is pretty well known, I was actually tempted to include some other Terry Gilliam movies on the list but they're not really obscure. The only one that comes close to being obscure is Baron Munchausen, oh and maybe that Jabberwock movie he made that I've never seen.

I liked Munchausen. Another one he made that didn't get much play is Brazil. I can understand why both of them were commercially underwhelming, but man, they had their own vision.

I did rent Jabberwocky quite a while ago, especially since it was Gilliam. Can't tell you how it turned out. I fell asleep about 20 minutes in.

I don't know that Memento ever made much of a wave, but I thought it was a brilliant movie.
 

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I don't know that Memento ever made much of a wave, but I thought it was a brilliant movie.

I rented Memento when it first came out on DVD based on a review. I was so blown away that I ended up viewing it three times in the two days that I had it. It's still a fixture in my Netflix queue. I love it that much. Ironically, I think everyone that I encouraged to watch it ended up hating it. Go figure.
 

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I rented Memento when it first came out on DVD based on a review. I was so blown away that I ended up viewing it three times in the two days that I had it. It's still a fixture in my Netflix queue. I love it that much. Ironically, I think everyone that I encouraged to watch it ended up hating it. Go figure.

We watched it at another couple's home. They had a home theater set up. They were the kind of folks (maybe you guys are too) who buy a movie without knowing anything about it. They had bought Memento. So we sat in their home theater and watched it.

I was enthralled. A movie that made me think! My brain was fully engaged, beginning to end, which just about never happens in a movie. I sat there, scene after regressive scene, trying to figure it out, where they were going - or had been. I've never been so integrated into a plot of a movie, except maybe when I saw LA Confidential for the third time.

When the movie finished, Grandma had enjoyed herself, I was transported, and our hosts got up from their couch saying something on the order of, "Sorry we wasted your time." They were lost and hated it. They were astonished by my approbations.
 

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We watched it at another couple's home. They had a home theater set up. They were the kind of folks (maybe you guys are too) who buy a movie without knowing anything about it. They had bought Memento. So we sat in their home theater and watched it.

I was enthralled. A movie that made me think! My brain was fully engaged, beginning to end, which just about never happens in a movie. I sat there, scene after regressive scene, trying to figure it out, where they were going - or had been. I've never been so integrated into a plot of a movie, except maybe when I saw LA Confidential for the third time.

When the movie finished, Grandma had enjoyed herself, I was transported, and our hosts got up from their couch saying something on the order of, "Sorry we wasted your time." They were lost and hated it. They were astonished by my approbations.

It's so well structured. I can remember my re-watch and slowly picking up things that I glossed over initially, like the color footage being shown in reverse order, while the black & white tells it's story chronologically. Just brilliantly done.
 

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For those of you who like more serious animated movies, I would really recommend the Studio Ghibli film "Princess Mononoke", it's entirely hand drawn/painted, and is a magical film. (Not the kind of animated film you can show kids though). For the best experience I would recommend watching the original Japanese version with subtitles.
 
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For those of you who like more serious animated movies, I would really recommend the Studio Ghibli film "Princess Mononoke", it's entirely hand drawn/painted, and is a magical film. (Not the kind of animated film you can show kids though). For the best experience I would recommend watching the original Japanese version with subtitles.

We saw that a long time ago. I remember very little of it except that we enjoyed it.