It's hard for anything to be under the radar nowadays

Good point BTW Star Wars was under the radar until that first weekend.

Agnzona said:

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Good point BTW Star Wars was under the radar until that first weekend.

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Yeah, Star Wars opened in only 40 theaters its opening weekend and they had to force distribution on the national level by tying it to another more anticipated movie.
Pretty remarkable.

An Aussie house guest made me watch this with her 15 years ago. Loved it.

Speaking of Aussie movies, The Babadook was fantastic! This is a horror/psychological show that is really well done. Only saw it released at Alamo Drafthouse.

I'd like to point out that I've already declared The Castle as the greatest movie ever made.

I saw a movie in college one night on one of the movie channels called "Thursday" that I absolutely loved. Its about a retired hit man in Houston that has a day where his past comes back to him. It's pretty crazy. Aaron Eckhart and Thomas Jane early in their careers. I loved it.

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0124901/

My all time favorite western is a bit of an unknown from Sam Peckenpaugh called "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid". Kris Kristofferson as Billy the Kid and Bob Dylan as one of his crew. Not sure if it's really "unknown" but very few people I know have seen it.

Here's another really good one you might not have heard of

It's just not a very happy movie.

Bobba Fett in his best role

Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Big Fan

Scarecrow (1973)

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The King of Kong: A Fistfull of Quarters. A documentary that is so hilariously on point, I thought it was a mockumentary. couldn't have been done better by Christopher Guest. And this was real! Love this show.

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Watched this earlier because of this thread. Holy F some of those guys are messed up. Great movie though.


Oh, and there's about to be a killscreen if you're interested.

Here is a scattershot of some lesser known films I've enjoyed
"It follows" is a solid horror film from this last year that has not got much attention.

"The Man from Earth" is an excellent dialogue driven movie that is thought provoking, and is movie I've never heard mentioned here or really anywhere.

"Animal Kingdom" is a great Aussie crime drama that might have been mentioned her once or twice.

"Blue Ruin" is a great revenge film that a lot of people love on Reddit, but never seen mentioned here.

"Green Room" is a frickin awesome quasi-horror film filled with neo-nazi skinheads trying to kill the late, great Anton Yelchin.

"Moon" is a great sci-fi flick with Sam Rockwell being amazing, as always.

"Mean Creek" is a great film if you like feeling depressed for a few hours.

"Six Degrees of Separation" is probably Will Smith's best performance of his career, and probably the only one where it felt like he truly took a chance.

"The Man from Nowhere" and "I saw the Devil" are excellent Korean films that are by no means "unheard of", but I have not seen mentioned on this board.

There are a ton more that I can't think of off the top of my head

Who here has actually been to DOM rock from fandango?

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Run, *****, Run.

just kidding. that was terrible.

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Never saw it, but I'll raise you:

Run Ronnie Run

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SLC Punk

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Troll Hunter

boboguitar said:

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Troll Hunter

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Agree. Rare Exports is another in the same vein.

Groove

Hard Eight
The Cooler
The Castle (Australian comedy)

Love and a .45

Upstream Color. (Same dude who made Primer)

Anyone else seen Knockaround Guys with Vin Diesel, Seth Green, Barry Pepper, John Malkovich and Dennis Hopper? Lots of big names, but definitely seems under the radar. It was the first R rated movie I ever snuck into and maybe that's why I still love it.

D.A.R.Y.L

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boboguitar said:

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Troll Hunter

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Agree. Rare Exports is another in the same vein.

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So I just re-watched troll hunter last night, still just as fantastic as I remember.

I've seen a lot of recs for rare exports, going to check that one out tonight.

Not sure how well known it is since I had never heard of it til I saw it on TBS/TNT (or something similar) but... Frailty.

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Probably the least-viewed thing I've see (that was good) was Bottle Shock.

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first thing i thought of. i saw it in the theaters with a girl that i had been dating that was huge into the wine scene. it was just randomly on plus Alan Rickman.

Aldo the Apache said:

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4 Lions

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i've made this recommendation a number of times. only one of my friends has watched it after i told him about it.

dcAg said:

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Hard Eight
The Cooler
The Castle (Australian comedy)

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granted it was an Indie flick. but, the Cooler is widely known.

Okay, I've got two- and I've never seen them mentioned anywhere on this forum:


GREAT low-budget comedy featuring Seth Myers and John Cho as crappy film students who scam their way into the Montreal Film Fest.


This is definitely my favorite movie that I've never heard anyone talk about it, save for my best friend who's been in and out of the music biz over the past 30 years. It truly is the Spinal Tap of country music, and it features many stars before their time, with some cameos thrown in for good measure. Lauren Graham and Kathy Griffin fighting over the protagonist (Lauren Graham especially plays the Country Yoko Ono role so damn well), David Koechner as the empty-headed sidekick trying to convince everyone he's someone he's not, Henry Winkler as the fake country producer, Jason Priestly as the current country star, and plenty more infinitely-watchable characters and scenes. Unfortunately it's extremely hard to find, and I've never seen it available digitally. But I promise it's worth a viewing for some good laughs and parody of the 90's country scene

Has anyone ever seen "Rolling Kansas"? One of those college type movies that would come on Comedy Central on Sunday afternoons

A lot of garbage picks on this thread.

After watching Green Room, which might be the best thing I've seen this year, I found the same guy directed Blue Ruin. Blue Ruin is on Amazon Prime currently, highly recommend.

Brotherhood of the Wolf

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Brotherhood of the Wolf

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Excellent choice, plan on rewatching it before halloween.