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Eraserhead, David Lynch. 1977
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Favorite obscure films
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JAWS was directly inspired by the made for TV movie "Duel." It's all about predator and prey...the chase. Instead of the headlights and grill of that truck driving through the desert terrorizing people...it became black shark eyes and teeth swimming through the ocean.
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I tried to watch that once. I really really tried but couldn't do it. It was as painful as Zappa's 200 Motels...and I'm a Zappa fanatic.
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Ha. I watched it late one night into the early morning hours. Couldn't wrap my head around it.
So, years later I sat and watched it again. A little more lucid this time. Yet, the results were the same.
Couldn't wrap my head around it.
A lot of visuals to try and dispose of in the inner sanctum of my mind.
I highly recommend it for everyone...
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One about the clash of cultures when French traders and missionaries begin to interact with Native Americans. As I recall, it was pretty confusing as to the film maker's point of view and sympathies, but maybe I need to see it again. Not a light and breezy feel good movie by any means.
One about the clash of cultures when French traders and missionaries begin to interact with Native Americans. As I recall, it was pretty confusing as to the film maker's point of view and sympathies, but maybe I need to see it again. Not a light and breezy feel good movie by any means.
Huey, Dewey and Louie.
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First you wanna kill me, now you wanna kiss me. Blow.
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Maybe so, but the movie itself is an incredibly slow mover. I had never seen "The Hired Hand". Just now suffered through thirty minutes of it - all I could take. It's another that's certainly not an obscure film.
It was made during an era when lots of bad movies were made. Warren Oates had many good roles, but, as I recall, all but one or two such roles were as a supporting character actor in '50s, '60s, and maybe early '70s TV shows, often westerns.
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Ok!
You want Warren Oates- Peter Fonda obscure?
No Problemo!
‘Race With the Devil.’
Running through the Texas Boondocks in a motorhouse being chased by a Satanic Cult!
I have asked Satanic Cults in Texas if they planned to chase me.
They all said no, they were waiting for some Hollywood types.
You want Warren Oates- Peter Fonda obscure?
No Problemo!
‘Race With the Devil.’
Running through the Texas Boondocks in a motorhouse being chased by a Satanic Cult!
I have asked Satanic Cults in Texas if they planned to chase me.
They all said no, they were waiting for some Hollywood types.
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Well, let's get really obscure.
I'm not sure 1999's Plunkett & Macleane ever made it into the theaters. If it did, I don't remember. And if it did, I doubt it made much money.
It's a fun film about two down-on-their-luck Englishmen who become gentlemen highwaymen in the mid-Eighteenth Century. Even the soundtrack is fun. And Liv Tyler is her usual stunning self.
Critics, especially Roger Ebert, didn't care for the film, which is all the more reason to watch it and just enjoy it for what it is. I think it's beautifully photographed.
Did I mention it's fun?
I'm not sure 1999's Plunkett & Macleane ever made it into the theaters. If it did, I don't remember. And if it did, I doubt it made much money.
It's a fun film about two down-on-their-luck Englishmen who become gentlemen highwaymen in the mid-Eighteenth Century. Even the soundtrack is fun. And Liv Tyler is her usual stunning self.
Critics, especially Roger Ebert, didn't care for the film, which is all the more reason to watch it and just enjoy it for what it is. I think it's beautifully photographed.
Did I mention it's fun?
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