Off the beaten path movies

Michael Mann's first movie....THIEF........James Caan...went to Gunsite for training.

WAY OF THE GUN.....great movie! Wonderful Gun Handling!!!

HEAT......always good.

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man.......first 5 minutes Only.

Thunder Road....Robert Mitchum.....1958.....cool Moonshining movie.
 
The White Disease.
review quote:
Made in 1937 and based off a play, The White Disease (or Skeleton on Horseback, which I personally prefer)
is doubly morbid, featuring both a fascist leadership whipping up a pro-war sentimentality and a pandemic
which originated in China (it's also given a Chinese name). Yeah, you read right.
The White Disease is basically a pandemic film hardly anyone's heard of or seen.
 
I don't believe that anyone has mentioned

Seven Psychopaths

which I find odd, considering this group. 🤔
 
Eraserhead
 
A couple of odd movies that I enjoyed, from back in the 90s when we first got DirecTV and I would turn on the movie channels during the wee hours:
Silence Like Glass
Female Perversions
Requiem for a Dream
And lastly, in the 90s I enjoyed Jacob's Ladder which really left me on the edge of my seat at the end wondering what the hell is going on as it got more and more weird, until it all clicked at the very end.
 
Since we lost Rutger Hauer recently I'll go with...

www.imdb.com

Hobo with a Shotgun (2011) - IMDb

Hobo with a Shotgun: Directed by Jason Eisener. With Rutger Hauer, Pasha Ebrahimi, Robb Wells, Brian Downey. A homeless vigilante blows away crooked cops, pedophile Santas, and other scumbags with his trusty pump-action shotgun.
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Two Lane Blacktop w/James Taylor and Brian Wilson.

Perhaps the worst movie I've ever seen BUT its real star is the big block 55 Chevy, which does a great job in the real lead role.
 
Green Room
I just started rewatching it tonight as I ate dinner
You'd recognize three or four folks in it, including Patrick Stewart and Anton...something. He was in the new Star Trek movies and died in a Jeep accident when the parking brake self-released. And there's a girl youll recognize.

It's good. Some gore. And bad language.
 
Men at Work. Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen.

Bugsy Malone, 1976 with an all kid cast. Scott Baio was the lead actor with Jodie Foster.
 
Stout said:
Since we lost Rutger Hauer recently I'll go with...

www.imdb.com

Hobo with a Shotgun (2011) - IMDb

Hobo with a Shotgun: Directed by Jason Eisener. With Rutger Hauer, Pasha Ebrahimi, Robb Wells, Brian Downey. A homeless vigilante blows away crooked cops, pedophile Santas, and other scumbags with his trusty pump-action shotgun.
www.imdb.com www.imdb.com
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The hitcher
 
A clockwork orange


1. Vanishing Point (1971)​


A 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T—white with a 440 and four-speed—fresh off the showroom floor, is driven flat out through the Southwest by a pill-popping ex-cop with little to live for. That’s Vanishing Point, one of the greatest road movies off all time. Even the E-body’s Colorado license plate, QA-5599, has become iconic in the Mopar community. Chrysler loaned the studio four cars for filming, three with the 440 four-barrel and four-speed combination and one with a 383-cu-in engine and an automatic transmission. They were all badly abused during production, after which they were returned to Chrysler and crushed. Sad, considering the car destroyed at the end of the movie was not one of them—it was a 1967 Camaro shell filled with explosives.
 
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More off the beaten path for US..as in U.S., this Brit movie, I think, is hilarious.
The Full Monty.
Oi, @NCLivingBrit , what you think mate?
 
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Comedy isnt your sort of thing, you Brits really are grumpy... ha
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HMP said:
Comedy isnt your sort of thing, you Brits really are grumpy... ha
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Most comedies these days aren't that funny. One about male strippers appealed even less lol
 
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Most comedies these days aren't that funny. One about male strippers appealed even less lol
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'These days' being 1997.
You should give it a watch. Dont worry, it wont turn you gay, you wont see any dongs etc
Worst you'll see is is bare butt. Twice. One being a woman's. Or not, enjoy your day.
 
HMP said:
'These days' being 1997.
You should give it a watch. Dont worry, it wont turn you gay, you wont see any dongs etc
Worst you'll see is is bare butt. Twice. One being a woman's. Or not, enjoy your day.
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Anything past 85 is these days lol
 
Dark Knight of the Scarecrow

Film made for TV in 1981. Anyone remember that one?
 
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Dark Knight of the Scarecrow

Film made for TV in 1981. Anyone remember that one?
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Without looking it up, I vaguely remember a handicapped student that the popular kids tricked into dressing up as a scarecrow and somehow he was killed. Then came back for revenge against them. Or something like that.

I think I saw it as a teen well past it’s release date (I certainly didn’t see it in 81 as I was born in 81) but I think I rented it from blockbuster and watched with my girlfriend (now wife).
 
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