Wilder Napalm - Two brothers who are firestarters (yeah like the Steven King story) have been estranged for years. One is settled down trying to live a normal life (albeit with a wife who has slight pyromaniac issues), the other ran away and joined a circus. Now the circus has come back to town and fireworks ensue...

Sorry to disagree with you, Metro, but 'The Gods Must Be Crazy'?! Sad, simplistic slapstick and satire so broad it goes beyond the obviousness of the worst observational standup you ever saw...

Disagree all you like, Bravus! Here's a helpful article along those lines:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individuality

Haven't actually watched the film since grade school. Needless to say the anthropological meta of world culture I find inexhaustibly fascinating. The movie introduced me to the notion of pre-biased tagmemic assessment, a conceit which awes me to this day.

UberDog:

"Xenogenesis" is a short dress rehearsal of Jim's favorite filmic motifs. Robots, space travel, power suits . . . The title cards are pure 80's homebrew hacker chic.

The story is a "Cameronian" love child of BSG and Forbidden Planet.

It's his garage-built 1978 demo reel and can be viewed here.

Man, I loves me some Gods Must Be Crazy! I'll agree it's all about the silly slapstick but I still laugh a lot when I see it even to this day...

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Originally posted by Metro Dynamics:
It's a slippery slope for every submission here -- but some more than others. Like Primer . . . overlooked?

Plus this previous comment,

"Real Genius immediately evokes an entire subgenre of mid 80's movies. Kid geniuses, with enough electronic junk, can do anything. The closest we come today are independent emaciated z-budget self-serious Primers and etc."

To the larger geek community, yes. I considered that it isn't overlooked in our little corner of the cosmos, but if that's the yardstick we could knock out most of the ones people have listed. Hell, I watched Real Genius just a couple of weeks ago.

Catch-22

The first twenty minutes in the weird future club are way cool, the beleaguered Mad Max is not so much:

Nothing but love, Peter.

Beautiful Voight shot, RUR. He's less delicately effeminate, nowadays. Great GI Joe headsculpt.



Bad Lieutenant, Chelsea Girls, Django, Ender's Game, Fern Gully, Piranha, Piranha II (Argentinian poster), Pirates of Silicon Valley, The Postman (1997), The Quiet Earth, Rocketeer, Treasure Planet

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Originally posted by Metro Dynamics:
Ender's Game

There's an Ender's Game movie? As in, based on the book by Card?

That's pretty overlooked alright--Netflix doesn't even list it!

Not exactly. I needed twelve posters to fill the grid.

I pretend it's the Ender's Game they were "in talks" to make with HJ Osment back in the late 90's. That said, the LDS production company attached at the time was more obscure than Sanchuniathon, so who knows if Netflix'd list it.

Italics to help distinguish titles from commentary:

anyone lived in a pretty (how) town (George Lucas interprets e.e. cummings at USC, 1967), Burden of Dreams ("It is the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder." --Herzog), Incident at Loch Ness ("The truth did not seem ecstatic, it seemed vulgar and pointless." --Herzog)

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Originally posted by Metro Dynamics:
Not exactly. I needed twelve posters to fill the grid.

Yeah, I was thinking there goes more pearls before swine.

There's also (not) Jodorowsky's Dune

More comprehensible might have been Ridley Scott's attempt (scroll down).

Absolutely the move "Class of 1984", an absolute rental classic.

IMO it has some truly great cinematic scenes in it, almost genre iconic.

A ˜Nazi punk' surprises his band teacher by playing the piano.

A ˜coke slut' takes off her clothes to join the gang.

The gang leader sets up a teacher by running his own melon into a bathroom sink.

And the violence is truly inspired. I mean inspired.

Plus Alice Cooper does one of my favorite Alice songs for the movie introductory sequence.
"Take a look at my face. I am the future."

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Originally posted by NeverBelieve:
Just seen Clerks II.

Kevin Smith's films are overlooked.

me agree. agree alzo "the way of the gun" & "bad lieutenant" & quite a few prev mentioned films.

don't know if this is overlooked anywhere elze but finland, whenever i've started talking about this coen brothers film to my countrymen i might as well have been speaking neptunian, again

Here, we cherish all Neptunians.

PS,

Goodbye, WALL-E. You had a nice run, Johnny 5.

Bad Futures Edition!



Dune Warriors -- David Carradine stars in this nonbudget postapocalyptic pastiche. I like the supposedly quarry-faced opus caementicium tavern -- quite undisguisedly gray-painted plywood, worse looking than an underfunded high school play! And oh so great therefore.

Empire of Ash -- it was only the relatively recent indexing of every movie under the sun online that I've been able to rediscover this picture. What stuck with me after viewing it on VHS with my friend Morgan, when we were not more than 12, was the ridiculous line: "Imma send you back to New Idaho!" An extremum of bad postapocalyptiana.

Millenium -- another 12-year-old VHS rental house find. I don't remember anything at all about jumbo jets or lightning ball effects, only the strongly Plisskenesque Kris Kristofferson, and the absolutely indelible method this bleak future employs to eliminate spent cigarettes -- simply toss yours aside and it will be zapped out of existence by ubiquitous, sourceless lasers.

Hm. There remain entire mountains of material to be wrung out of this thread's concept. Oh, well.



Battle Beyond the Stars -- James Cameron as art director.

Galaxina -- sadly the sequel, Barbarella Does Galaxina, was never made.

I Wanna Hold Your Hand -- Zemeckis-Gale's debut. Nancy Allen scorches.

Krull -- just now noticed the two suns.

Langoliers -- remember this, on TV? Forget the pixely FX and blind girl. A thoughtful scifi.

Saturn 3

Space Hunter

Star Crash

Thundarr

Ultracop 2000 -- Hong Kong martial arts action, transplanted to Mars.

Yor

OK, first of all, The Postman was awful, terrible, not even so bad it's kind of good.

You are abusing the idea of "ovelooked" by substituting "overlooked with good reason."

Take Millennium, great concept, weak-ass execution.

I agree with Krull though, good 80's sci-fantasy.

Spacehunter was lame and I saw it in 3D when it came out.

Ice Pirates is way better.