movies you don't here much about anymore.

[Norbert]

Where have they gone.

UHF, which was the subject of a post is one example. Here are others I can think of.

FM
Tron
1941
Strange Brew (one of my all-time favorites)
Iron Giant

These are just a few of the movies that never get played on TNT and WGN and others never show because, I guess, they are never included in the movie packages these stations get. Some movies earn their proper place in TV purgatory because they just weren't that good. Still others weren't that bad.

What are some other lost movies.

[meegbear]

1. Strange Brew is one of my favs too

And in honor of the Passion - In God We Trust.

[kcwayne]

2. Lost

Little Big Man
The Ruling Class
The Parallax View
Joe

[Spirochete]

4. just watched Little Big Man

for the first time in many years. Mailed it back to Netflix Sat.

[Richardo]

5. Parallax View is one of my favorites...

...a little dated, but still effective. One of Warren Beatty's best performances.

A warm-up for director Alan J. Pakula's treatment of "All the President's Men". Another favorite... :thumbsup:

[Jade Fox]

28. Love that movie!

Good for when you're feeling really politically paranoid.....

[Norbert]

3. McCabe and Mrs. Miller

I actually thought this was one of Warren Beatty's better movies. I liked the intro song which was Leonard Cohen's "The Strangers Song."

[Brucey]

6. Reds.

[Love Bug]

7. Cartoon Network has played "Iron Giant" several times

[TheMightyFavog]

8. Oh, there's lots..

Big Trouble in Little China, John Carpenters Homage to those cool Kung-Fu flicks. The whole Hero becomes sidekick, sidekick becomes hero thing is way cool.

Tron isn't remembered because the fucking Academy screwed them out of a well deserved specail effects Oscar. The damn academy disqualified the film because they used computer graphics.

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension. Too bad that Peter Weller is known more for Robocop than for this great role. You can also see where John Lithgow got a lot of Dick Solomon from as well. Besides, how can you not forget any film that features Jeff Goldblum desssed up as a cowboy?

[Gildor Inglorion]

9. "You're A Big Boy Now"

"Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad" "The Black Hole" "Enemy Mine" "Staircase" "Equus"

[Dogmudgeon]

15. You're a Big Boy Now -- excellent movie! Rent it!

Absolutely hysterical. Rip Torn and Geraldine Page shoulda won Best Supporting Actor/Actress for their roles. And Michael Dunn and Elizabeth Hartmen should have been at least nominated.

Karen Black (Amy) and Peter Kastner (Bernard -- "Big Boy") were pretty damn good, too.

And it`s still in print!

--bkl
That Coppola boy, he's gonna be big some day!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

10. Politically inconvenient movies

Z: This movie premiered in 1969 with an all-French cast and taking place in an unnamed European country, but every knew that it was really the story of how a right wing miitary clique destroyed democracy in Greece.

The Battle of Algiers: This movie has always been controversial because it shows a terrorist group from the inside, in this case, Algerian Arabs fighting to win their independence from France. The director really plays with your head, drawing you into the terrorists' mindset but keeping you aware of the horror of their acts.

The Bank A recent Australian film about a young computer genius who visits a multinational bank and claims to have invented a program for predicting the stock market. When he is able to demonstrate that it works, he is hired at a fabulous salary. Politics within the bank get very complicated, and it appears that the young man is being corrupted by the system, but then...

I get a wide range of cable movie channels, but I have not seen any of these films on TV in the past three years. They may be considered "too controversial."

[Norbert]

26. Black Sunday

A fairly good movie but in light of 9/11 I don't expect to see this one on TV anytime soon.

[Loonman]

11. Hollywood Hot Tubs 1&2

Why aren't these on DVD, yet?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

12. Irreconcilable Differences

It was one of my favorite movies back in the eighties. I've ALWAYS been a Drew Barrymore fan.
Duckie

[Dogmudgeon]

27. Drew Barrymore was in that?

I'm a fan of Ms. Barrymore's ouvre, but never noticed that one.

By the way, Drew had a birthday yesterday. Shared the day with SNL's Rachel Dratch, according to the astrology column. (And I didn't get either of them a card!)

50 First Dates has been getting inexplicably good reviews. I wonder how much grovelling Mr. Sandler had to do to get her to sign on to it? :)

--bkl

[populistmom]

13. Iron Giant

Is one of our favorites. My boys love it and it's actually an interesting enough kid's movie (with some political messages behind it as well) that I enjoy it too. :)

[JCMach1]

14. This has played within the past year. I remember seeing it last

summer on one of the cable movie channels.

[everythingsxen]

16. The Black Hole

I used to love it as a kid.

I have seen it again not too long ago (on one of the Starz channels I think) and it still looks pretty good.

It was a fun movie, it just seems to have been overshadowed by other sci-fi...

[Burma Jones]

17. Kentucky Fried Movie and The Groove Tube

[pfitz59]

30. Saw KFM w/ Boy and His Dog

Stoned on some good Humboldt. Great day!

[Dogmudgeon]

18. The President's Analyst

If I ever become a Hollywood movie director, I'm going to re-make this movie. Then I'm gonna remake Lord Love a Duck.

Still in print -- DVD due in June.

--bkl
Rent. Watch. Laugh. Repeat.

21. who's really in charge? the phone company!!!

bwahahahaha

[Loonman]

19. Last Night At The Alamo

Classic.

[Dogmudgeon]

20. Lord Love a Duck

George Axelrod's almost-forgotten masterpiece. The definitive satire on pre-psychedelicized American youth.

Roddy MacDowell, Tuesday Weld, Harvey Korman, Ruth Gordon and lots of other characters -- including a pre-SubG Bob Dobbs!

Still in print and restored to its pristine beauty.

--bkl

[Dogmudgeon]

22. The Loved One

It's one of the most viscious movies ever made. Aimee Thanatogenous and Mr. Joyboy especially will leave you gasping for air.

Terry Southern and Christopher Isherwood co-wrote the screenplay. Sadly, out-of-print, but still circulating in the used-VHS market for about $50. It's also pretty easy to get by rental.

Read the book by Evelyn Waugh, too -- that's about 25 cents in your local used book store.

--bkl

[NightTrain]

23. My Favorite Year (1982)

One of the funniest movies of the Reagan era! Peter O'Toole was magnificent.

[everythingsxen]

24. Dragonslayer!

I was just thinking about it...

I miss that movie. It was seriously badass for it's day.

[kcwayne]

25. The Formula

Marlon Brando, George C Scott.

Great tale about murder and corruption over oil

[pfitz59]

29. Eraserhead

Toxic Avenger.
Swamp Thing.
Its Alive.
Them.