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Obscure movies you really loved.
In response to DollyStanford's thread about classic movies you've never seen, and great movies you hated.
I started thinking how I really can't watch many movies all the way through - very short attention span. However; there are a few movies that draw me in. There is something about the stories in some movies that just capture me. However; they are usually not movies that many people talk about. I thought maybe other people had some obscure movies they really loved. Who knows, maybe I'll find another movie I can sit through.
For me:
Second Hand Lions. Great storyteller movie.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Don't ask me why. The story just captured me, and I loved it.
Big Fish. I was the oddball here. Unlike the first two, NOBODY else in my family liked this movie. The story was sad, then took an odd twist at the end, but I actually enjoyed it a lot.
Maybe I'll think of others, but I'd like to hear the odd or "not popular" movies you liked.
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A long time family friend got married and her priest got sick. They sent a fill in priest and he sounded just like the priest in the movie. It was so hard not to laugh during the ceremony.
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Re: Obscure movies you really loved.
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Originally Posted by larry.gray
A long time family friend got married and her priest got sick. They sent a fill in priest and he sounded just like the priest in the movie. It was so hard not to laugh during the ceremony.
Mawwaige ... I would've had to have gone outside in order to maintain decorum.
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Big Fish. I was the oddball here. Unlike the first two, NOBODY else in my family liked this movie. The story was sad, then took an odd twist at the end, but I actually enjoyed it a lot.
LOL, you should hang out with my comparative literature crowd here at college. These are not oddballs around here!
I like Waking Life, The Middle of the World (O Caminho das Nuvens) ...has a great soundtrack as well as story and scenery... and Bonneville (it's a Mormon movie and has great scenery and also wonderful soundtrack.)
I also enjoyed
The Visitor
The Station Agent
Win-Win (all of these by the same director)
and Everything Must Go...
Cedar Rapids and I think it was Teen Fiction or something like that.
don't forget Groundhog Day and a documentary, I forget what it's called, it's about a woman who kidnaps a Mormon guy. Also the movie "I Am",
I write movie reviews from a Comparative Literature perspective. It's a lot of fun...I have a volunteer job at an independent movie theater. I see a lot of movies. Cannot ever get enough of them.
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Centurion
Limitless (don't like Bradley Cooper, never expected to like it, totally loved it)
Limitless was a very good film, saw it a few months back on netflix. Very clever idea, though if you think about it too much there are a few wholes... still just a truly worthwhile to watch thriller.
Centurion I liked as well, it was unusual in that you don't see many Roman era films like that one (lol took 3 years of Latin because I liked Roman history/mythology as a kid).
I enjoyed the Christian Bale dystopian movie Equilibrium. People are executed for sense crimes, or showing emotions after WW3, and he is one of the key agents in hunting down those who collect art and music. I think it came out at the same time as a really popular movie, so it flopped. Uses alot of fascist architecture in Berlin as a backdrop.
Serenity is one of my all time favorite movies. Seems to have a strong following, but not many people really know about it. I write SF as a hobby, and really enjoy character-based science fiction.
Ryan Reynolds did a Canadian film call Foolproof that was really good. I bought it off the internet for next to nothing, and we watched it several times. They are just pretty normal people who have play this game of pulling off great robberies, but never actually do them until they get trapped into it by a mobster.
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Obscure movies you really loved. 
