The rule is that if a movie is good, it will become popular because people will be talking about it. Then they will be able to share their opinions on it, what they liked and what they didn’t like, was it like they expected it to be, but there are exceptions to this rule.
There are movies that some individuals consider to be the best they have ever seen, but it seems that others haven’t even heard of them. It’s a shame that good movies with interesting plot lines and good acting work aren’t seen by more people, but Reddit user darkweirdvalley probably changed that by asking “What’s a movie you love that you swear no one ever talks about like the world has forgotten it?”
More than 35k people joined the thread to share what they think are cinematographic masterpieces more people should know of and to find like-minded people. It’s safe to say that the movies they mentioned are not forgotten and they finally found someone to talk to about them.
Upvote the answers that you agree with the most and if you think that there are more movies that deserve more recognition, let us know in the comments!
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#1 The Birdcage (1996)
LandLadyAndTheTramp said:
The Birdcage
ThatsMyOnionJerk added:
The Birdcage is comedy royalty in my mind. I mean, Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Diane Weist, Gene Hackman, Calista Flockhart, Christine Baranski and Hank Azaria!
Everyone played their roles to perfection, either over the top yet endearing, or the straight man role that facilitated the comedy.
Seriously im going to watch it now.
437points
#2 The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
The gods must be crazy.
411points
#3 Death Becomes Her (1992)
Death becomes her.
My all time fav movie, amazing cast and plot but I have never found a single soul who would praise it with me :/
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402points
#4 A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
A Fish Called Wanda. I don't know anyone irl, under the age of 40, that knows this movie! It's one of the funniest movies ever. My favorite Kevin Kline movie, hand down!
390points
#5 Constantine (2005)
Constantine with Keanu Reeves and Rachel Weiss. Love that movie, but no one ever seems to know what I’m talking about
364points
#6 Batteries Not Included (1987)
I searched (this thread) and didn't find it (listed already), so (I decided to add)
Batteries Not Included.
It's a cute little 80s movie about some alien robots who took up residence in this old apartment complex and when the residents are threatened with eviction so the place could be torn down, the robots help the tenants and the tenants help the robot aliens. Anyways, I enjoyed it.
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334points
#8 Short Circuit (1987)
Short Circuit, literally everyone that I talk to has never watched it, or heard of it. It's sad too, because I love that movie so much.
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285points
#9 The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
"Does your dog bite?"
"No"
(dog snarls and bites him)
"I thought you said your dog doesn't bite?"
"That is not my dog"
"No"
(dog snarls and bites him)
"I thought you said your dog doesn't bite?"
"That is not my dog"
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274points
#10 Grosse Point Blank (1997)
Grosse Point Blank. Hitman goes to high school reunion.
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274points
#12 Flight Of The Navigator (1986)
Flight of the Navigator
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#13 Ladyhawk (1985)
OVS2 said:
ladyhawk
manrealityisab***h responded:
A great 1980s sword and sorcery movie.
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236points
#14 Stardust (2007)
Cat-aclism said:
Stardust
AEsylumProductions added:
Who would've thought Tristan would turn out to be such a great Daredevil?
231points
#15 Secret Garden (1993)
pseudologiann said:
Secret Garden (1993)
alpevado shared:
Funny story with this one. I studied the book at school, so I had read the book a lot. That year for my birthday the movie came out around the same time. I have a fractured family structure so none of them really talk to each other. For some reason nearly every family member decided that they wanted to take me to a screening of the film. So I saw the film nearly 7 times in the matter of two weeks.
My grandma was one of the last, I didn’t have the heart to tell her I had already seen it 6 times already. We were sitting and watching and unintentionally, I was saying the lines word for word. My grandma noticed and she asked “have you seen this already?” I responded “no, it’s just very accurate to the book” to which she replied “wow, you must have read the book many times.
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231points
#17 Enemy Mine (1985)
Enemy Mine.
The end scene still gets me.
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222points
#18 So I Married An Ax Murderer (1993)
So I Married An Ax Murderer
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221points
#19 Drop Dead Fred (1991)
Drop Dead Fred "That's not how the pigeons do it!!" "Cobwebs" Absolutely fell in love with Rik Myall from the very first time I saw that movie!!
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213points
#20 Evolution (2001)
Evolution, by the late Ivan Reitman, with David Duchovny and Julianne Moore.
198points