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What are some movies you've seen that they weren't a success by any means when they came out and today it seems like there might be a grand total of 5 people in the whole world who remember them, that you liked and would recommend to people?
First off, Paper Man from 1971, with Dean Stockwell. If anybody on here knows this movie, I will be genuinely surprised. A concept that seems very ahead of its time. It's about these students at a college where everything is hooked up to one computer system: lights, elevators, security system, even the students' equipment like a 'living' med-school dummy who's programmed to have symptoms and even die. Five of the students make a phony account to get a credit card, and then the school's computer starts killing them off one by one: prints up a medical report that a boy who has low blood sugar needs insulin, a girl who the elevator she's on stops between floors and when she's halfway out, the elevator sets itself to go back down to the last floor. A very creepy movie, and in my opinion very good, but not very mainstream, I found it on a pack of 100 crime/mystery movies.
Big Man on Campus (1989): Does anybody here remember Bob Maloogaloogaloogaloogalooga? Didn't think so, but damn he's hilarious to watch. He is a modern hunchback who lives in the clock tower with his mouse, Mocha, eats nothing but chocolate, and he tends to bounce bananas. He's discovered and suddenly becomes the subject of an experiment conducted by a professor and two college students to make him an intellectual member of society. VERY good movie, has a LOT of very good quotes. One I love, when they're doing word association, he picks up various objects, names them and their uses and drops them, 'Chair, sit on chair *drops chair*, pencil, draw *mimes drawing*, telephone, call, 411 for information, 911 for help, 976 for good time!'
Murder By Invitation (1941) Very good whodunnit. Sara Padden, I love her performance here as Cassandra Denham, whose relatives are trying to have her declared incompetent and put in the booby hatch so they can get her 3 million dollars. But she's too smart for that, the courts declare her sane, and she invites them all for a week-stay in her home so she can study them like lab rats and pick the one worthiest person of her fortune. But before that can be determined, somebody starts killing the relatives off one by one, and tied into the shenannigans are a reporter, his assistant, and his photographer. A great crime comedy.
The Legend of Billie Jean (1985) Pat Benetar calls this the worst movie ever made, and she did the soundtrack theme for it. I disagree, I fell in love with this movie upon first viewing, apparently it didn't do so well in its time which is odd because it seems to be an MTV market thing that the teenaged group was supposed to be blown away by but they weren't, but it's still a great movie with Helen Slater, Christian Slater (no relation) and their friends who mistakingly become wanted outlaws when they try to collect the money on a damaged motor scooter, and the adults want to see them locked up for shooting the man they went to collect from, but the teenagers want to see them get the money as Billie Jean Davy becomes a sensation all throughout Texas.
Shag (1989) with Phoebe Cates and Bridget Fonda: Set in 1963, follows the last weekend together adventures of four girls who will soon be off to college or marriage or Hollywood who run away to Mrytle Beach and break into one of the girl's parents' beach house. In my opinion a very good movie and apparently with some it's kind of a cult classic, they all know all the lines and everything.
Crazy in Alabama (1999) Why does nobody remember this movie with Melanie Griffith? A dual story movie about freedom, Griffith is an abused 60's housewife who has left her husband in the most unusual way, she cut off his head, but the kicker is she's taking it with her as she goes to Hollywood to become a TV star. At the same time, her nephew in Alabama gets involved in the Civil Rights movement when he is the only witness to the town's bigot sheriff killing a black boy at the public pool.
Those are a few for now, I'll put up more later on as I remember them, but how about everyone else?
First off, Paper Man from 1971, with Dean Stockwell. If anybody on here knows this movie, I will be genuinely surprised. A concept that seems very ahead of its time. It's about these students at a college where everything is hooked up to one computer system: lights, elevators, security system, even the students' equipment like a 'living' med-school dummy who's programmed to have symptoms and even die. Five of the students make a phony account to get a credit card, and then the school's computer starts killing them off one by one: prints up a medical report that a boy who has low blood sugar needs insulin, a girl who the elevator she's on stops between floors and when she's halfway out, the elevator sets itself to go back down to the last floor. A very creepy movie, and in my opinion very good, but not very mainstream, I found it on a pack of 100 crime/mystery movies.
Big Man on Campus (1989): Does anybody here remember Bob Maloogaloogaloogaloogalooga? Didn't think so, but damn he's hilarious to watch. He is a modern hunchback who lives in the clock tower with his mouse, Mocha, eats nothing but chocolate, and he tends to bounce bananas. He's discovered and suddenly becomes the subject of an experiment conducted by a professor and two college students to make him an intellectual member of society. VERY good movie, has a LOT of very good quotes. One I love, when they're doing word association, he picks up various objects, names them and their uses and drops them, 'Chair, sit on chair *drops chair*, pencil, draw *mimes drawing*, telephone, call, 411 for information, 911 for help, 976 for good time!'
Murder By Invitation (1941) Very good whodunnit. Sara Padden, I love her performance here as Cassandra Denham, whose relatives are trying to have her declared incompetent and put in the booby hatch so they can get her 3 million dollars. But she's too smart for that, the courts declare her sane, and she invites them all for a week-stay in her home so she can study them like lab rats and pick the one worthiest person of her fortune. But before that can be determined, somebody starts killing the relatives off one by one, and tied into the shenannigans are a reporter, his assistant, and his photographer. A great crime comedy.
The Legend of Billie Jean (1985) Pat Benetar calls this the worst movie ever made, and she did the soundtrack theme for it. I disagree, I fell in love with this movie upon first viewing, apparently it didn't do so well in its time which is odd because it seems to be an MTV market thing that the teenaged group was supposed to be blown away by but they weren't, but it's still a great movie with Helen Slater, Christian Slater (no relation) and their friends who mistakingly become wanted outlaws when they try to collect the money on a damaged motor scooter, and the adults want to see them locked up for shooting the man they went to collect from, but the teenagers want to see them get the money as Billie Jean Davy becomes a sensation all throughout Texas.
Shag (1989) with Phoebe Cates and Bridget Fonda: Set in 1963, follows the last weekend together adventures of four girls who will soon be off to college or marriage or Hollywood who run away to Mrytle Beach and break into one of the girl's parents' beach house. In my opinion a very good movie and apparently with some it's kind of a cult classic, they all know all the lines and everything.
Crazy in Alabama (1999) Why does nobody remember this movie with Melanie Griffith? A dual story movie about freedom, Griffith is an abused 60's housewife who has left her husband in the most unusual way, she cut off his head, but the kicker is she's taking it with her as she goes to Hollywood to become a TV star. At the same time, her nephew in Alabama gets involved in the Civil Rights movement when he is the only witness to the town's bigot sheriff killing a black boy at the public pool.
Those are a few for now, I'll put up more later on as I remember them, but how about everyone else?
havent seen it in awhile tho. 
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