I really wish that TV stations expanded their horizons and played movies we haven't seen in years or cult classics that deserve a shot.
So many of the same shit over and over and over and over. Worse is the stupid remakes that suck balls or worse yet the horrible prequels/sequels.
I'll start with two:
One on One
starred: Robby Benson, Annette O Toole and GD Spradlin.
Plot: High School All Star BB players goes to college and is not so special anymore
Divorcing Jack
only known actor/actress is Rachel Griffiths
Divorcing Jack is a 1998 satirical black comedy. The plot is set around the Northern Irish reporter Dan Starkey who gets entangled in a web of political intrigue and Irish sectarian violence, at the same time as Northern Ireland is set to elect a new Prime Minister. Writer Colin Bateman adapted his own 1995 book as the screenplay.
I would also love to see "The White Shadow", "James at 15" and "Family" television series replayed from start to finish. [Reply]
Better off Dead - John Cusack as Lane Myers. "2 dollars" boy, "Pure snow" what's not to love?
Hamburger: The Movie - Just watched this the other day. It's a classic 80's B movie. Racist, sexist, picking on fat people and Dick Butkis calls an effeminate guy a "f*ggot" so this would never fly today. But I remember watching this all the time on HBO w my parents. Times have changed a lot. [Reply]
Certainly not "good", but should qualify as "cult classic". I recall seeing this back in the early days of Showtime, but haven't seen it anywhere in many years.
I saw Martin Sheen's first movie role, The Subject Was Roses (1968) on TCM ~15 years ago. Very subdued movie that is based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning play. The two parents in the film were nominated for Oscars, with Jack Albertson (Grandpa Joe in the Gene Wilder Willy Wonka), winning.
It's the only notable American movie I can think of that I can't find on Amazon available for rent. [Reply]
It's occasionally shown on TV, but the 1931 version of Dracula is amazing.
Made during the infancy of film making, yet they nailed it. The sets, the lighting and the general atmosphere were stellar.
Bela Lugosi took Dracula from the page to an incredible personification of the character. To this day every interpretation of Dracula comes from his ability as an actor.
In a dystopian, polluted, hyper-consumerist, overbearing bureaucratic totalitarian future somewhere in the 20th century, Sam Lowry is a low-level government employee who frequently dreams of himself as a winged warrior saving a damsel in distress. One day, shortly before Christmas, a fly becomes jammed in a teleprinter, which misprints a copy of an arrest warrant it was receiving. This leads to the arrest and death during interrogation of cobbler Archibald Buttle instead of renegade heating engineer and suspected terrorist Archibald Tuttle.
Fire in the Sky An Arizona logger mysteriously disappears for five days in an alleged encounter with a flying saucer in 1975. His co-workers endure ridicule and contempt as they are wrongly accused of murder.
This early 90s movie was one of the most underrated alien/UFO type of movies that I've ever seen. Ignore the 42% rating on Rotten Tomatoes because it features some really legit terrifying scenes in it with some good performances from its talented cast.
I'm glad that I own it on dvd because I can't recall the last time I've seen it featured on tv. [Reply]
