Obscure Movies We Only Vaguly Remember That Our Parents Never Should H

[Starets]

Here are another two good but obscure movies:
[url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053146/"]Black Orpheus[/url], a retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during teh Carnaval in Rio.

[url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074152/"]Small Change[/url]. No real plot, just a series of vignettes depicting life in a small french village

[Maximilianus]

Ooh I got one! "Red Sonya". Arnold, The lady from Rocky 4 that played the Russian lady, and Ernie Reyes Jr...well I actually remember a bit more than vaguely, still.

Edited January 9, 2011 by Maximilianus

[KnightofChrist]

Watership Down

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZcHLpjiEdw[/media]

[KnightofChrist]

The Adventures of Mark Twain for this scene alone...

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak3z2Pm7Iwg[/media]

[Seven77]

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I don't know if this fits the category you are going for, but I remember finding this movie to be extremely dark and bizarre as a kid, especially considering its departures from the first Oz movie. It's actually much closer to the books however than the first movie.
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lol. I also thought it was dark and bizarre--the only reason i watched it on video when i was 9 or 10 was b/c i loved reading the books.

[BG45]

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Tom Hanks plays what's D&D but all in name, and begins getting sucked into the game until he can't tell reality from fantasy.

[homeschoolmom]

[quote name='KnightofChrist' timestamp='1294535381' post='2197910']
Watership Down

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZcHLpjiEdw[/media]



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Agree....

[quote name='KnightofChrist' timestamp='1294535619' post='2197914']
The Adventures of Mark Twain for this scene alone...

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak3z2Pm7Iwg[/media]
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Creepiest movie ever.

[Lil Red]

okay, the title of this topic really bugs me because i don't know what it's supposed to say.

[Maximilianus]

[quote name='Lil Red' timestamp='1294802722' post='2199233']
okay, the title of this topic really bugs me because i don't know what it's supposed to say.
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I think the title is supposed to say [b][color="#8b0000"]Obscure Movies We Only Vaguly Remember That Our Parents Never Should Have Let Us Drink Kool-Aid With Out Dancing A Jig During The Ides Of March In July.
[/color][/b]But I could be wrong.

[Maximilianus]

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...this movie should be popular on phatmass, seeing as there is a cat infatuation here.

Edited January 12, 2011 by Maximilianus

[Not A Mallard]

huh, I can't remember any

[MithLuin]

I figured it was 'Obscure Movies our Parents should Never have let us Watch as Kids'

I agree with the first two: Peanut Butter Solution and Return to Oz. Also Watership Down. I love the book, but somehow, watching this movie didn't spoil it for me. I remember when they were scared and saying 'The Long Patrol! The Long Patrol' I though it was 'Troll!' and I wondered why they were being chased by trolls or trains.

Another I remember is 'The Green Stone'. [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366538/]imdb link[/url] Surprisingly enough, there are [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qtDeKEYYAk]clips[/url] on YouTube. I have no idea what it was about and only have very vague recollections of it.

Same for 'The Last Unicorn' - I remember that the colors were vivid, and something about the scene on the beach with the other unicorns trapped in the waves. I read the book when I was in college, but have no desire to rewatch the movie.

We got our first VCR when I was about 6, and the first two movies we rented were 'The Dark Crystal' and 'The Secret of NIMH'. My dad complained for years later that they went downhill from there. Not quite fitting the category of 'obscure,' my dad brought home 'Batman' and showed it to us. His logic was...it cost $5. I don't think he knew what 'PG' meant, or that maybe it wasn't a good idea to show the movie to his daughters, aged 4, 6 and 8. My poor little sister had nightmares (about multi-colored ghosts, but still), and despite owning the movie, I'm pretty sure we [i]never[/i] rewatched it. I was surprised in high school to learn that the Batman movies were actually rather...campy. I had a recollection of it being dark and terrifying . My mother complained that Jack Nicholson always 'plays himself', so apparently she thinks the Joker and 'Heeeeere's Johnny!' is how he is in real life!

My own movie-induced nightmare came from 'The Neverending Story.' Yep, the wolf's head falling on Bastian in the attic [i]terrified[/i] me. But I like the movie a lot and am glad I got to see it as a kid. Dreaming of being chased around my own house by talking wolves seems a small price to pay. And I think I was already scared of wolves, because my first nightmare that I have [i]any[/i] recollection of involved a wolf's head and a tornado...and the bedroom I had when I was 3-4 years old.

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjW30BiJ5gw]Gmork clips[/url]

Edited January 13, 2011 by MithLuin

[Era Might]

"I Know My First Name Is Steven." Saw it on TV when I was seven or so. It's about a kid who gets kidnapped and lives with his kidnapper until he's a teenager.

Edited January 13, 2011 by Era Might

[Era Might]

[quote name='Papist' timestamp='1294425906' post='2197616']
and Magic(1978)
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Bwhahahaha. The movie with Anthony Hopkins as a ventriloquist? That movie is weeeeeird. I saw it a few years ago lol.

[homeschoolmom]

[quote name='MithLuin' timestamp='1294936525' post='2199652']My mother complained that Jack Nicholson always 'plays himself', so apparently she thinks the Joker and 'Heeeeere's Johnny!' is how he is in real life!
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She's right! (at least imho).... I just rewatched "The Shining" (because of this thread) and was doing a little reading about it. Apparently Stephen King did not want Jack Nicholson for the role because he'd just done "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" a year or so before and people would associate his character with that one... which sorta ruins the whole Normal Guy Goes Crazy and Butchers His Family storyline that King wrote. He thought people would see him as a mental patient from the onset. Which... well... yeah... he doesn't really come off as Joe Everyman. He has that sneery kinda look... Anyway, King wanted someone like Harrison Ford. I think there was even talk of Robin Williams (Mork Goes Crazy-- Butchers Earth Family!!). That would have been really odd, since Robin Wiilliams and Shelley Duvall were in "Popeye" together that same year...

[quote name='Era Might' timestamp='1294939406' post='2199668']
"I Know My First Name Is Steven." Saw it on TV when I was seven or so. It's about a kid who gets kidnapped and lives with his kidnapper until he's a teenager.
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Kids should never watch that. What a horrible movie. (I remember watching that at some point...)