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

[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

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Agree....

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

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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...)

[Papist]

[quote name='Era Might' timestamp='1294941504' post='2199684']
Bwhahahaha. The movie with Anthony Hopkins as a ventriloquist? That movie is weeeeeird. I saw it a few years ago lol.
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Yes. As an adolescent, it totally freaked me out.

[Starets]

I remember Watership Down. I still cannot listen to "Bright Eyes" without getting all teary-eyed. I saw "mazes and Monsters too. I didn't know Tom Hanks played the main character. It struck me as a hatchet job on D&D and as it turns out the author is or at least was an anti-D&D crusader. Here are another couple:

[url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082096/"]Das Boot[/url] It's 1942. You are in a German U-Boat. You are being hunted. Rated [b]R[/b] for Language and Violence. German with English subtitles.

[url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050976/"]The Seventh Seal[/url] It is the mid 1300s and the Black Death is sweeping across Europe. A knight returns home to Sweden afte rthe Crusades and plays chess with Death. Many other things happen as well. One of the finest movies ever made. The Existentialism, however, is about as subtle as a bull elephant in heat. Swedish with English subtitles.

[CatherineM]

The saddest part about that Steven movie is that the kid died a few years later in a motorcycle accident.

Magic is a scary movie. The scariest scene is where he is behind the curtain so you only see the doll, and when it moves in the background, you think it has come to life or something.

[Brother Adam]

[quote name='Staretz' timestamp='1294943424' post='2199703']

[url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050976/"]The Seventh Seal[/url] It is the mid 1300s and the Black Death is sweeping across Europe. A knight returns home to Sweden afte rthe Crusades and plays chess with Death. Many other things happen as well. One of the finest movies ever made. The Existentialism, however, is about as subtle as a bull elephant in heat. Swedish with English subtitles.
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Pure classic. Does not belong in this thread as an obscure movie though.

[YMNolan]

You'd think some of these obscure flicks would be available for streaming on Netflix. They aren't.

[MissScripture]

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

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They made us watch that in English class in high school. We were all like, are they high???

[quote name='Staretz' timestamp='1294943424' post='2199703']
I remember Watership Down. I still cannot listen to "Bright Eyes" without getting all teary-eyed. I saw "mazes and Monsters too. I didn't know Tom Hanks played the main character. It struck me as a hatchet job on D&D and as it turns out the author is or at least was an anti-D&D crusader. Here are another couple:

[url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082096/"]Das Boot[/url] It's 1942. You are in a German U-Boat. You are being hunted. Rated [b]R[/b] for Language and Violence. German with English subtitles.

[url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050976/"]The Seventh Seal[/url] It is the mid 1300s and the Black Death is sweeping across Europe. A knight returns home to Sweden afte rthe Crusades and plays chess with Death. Many other things happen as well. One of the finest movies ever made. The Existentialism, however, is about as subtle as a bull elephant in heat. Swedish with English subtitles.
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We watched Das Boot in German class in high school (wow, my highschool sounds like a movie theatre! lol) and all I remember of it is a guy who is all sweaty while red lights are flashing. lol

[Starets]

Another couple movies then:

[url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090570/"]84 Charing Cross Road[/url], an american writer and a british bookseller correspond and become friends. Stars ann bancroft and Anthoy Hopkins. Based on a true story and follows the novel of the same name very closely.

[url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067144/"]The Go Between[/url] Follows the novel fairly closely. Set in England around 1900. a 13 year old boy becomes go-between for an aristocratic lady and a peasant farmer neighbor.

[Sarah147]

[quote name='Brother Adam' timestamp='1294181955' post='2196671']
Ill go first -

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The Peanut Butter Solution.

Most of us who remember this bizarre movie are told we are liars and that it never actually existed. For some reason it is impossible to find now and disappeared as fast as it appeared. Maybe because they realize that the film makers were probably high when they conjured it up. Still, it would be amesome to get this on DVD so we could relive the good ol days.
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I saw that when I was a kid. That movie freaked the heck out of me!

Edited January 30, 2011 by JoyfulLife

[Pontifite 7 of 10]

Warriors of Virtue
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They all look like frank the rabbit...