Hudson Hawk was forgotten for a reason, but I think it's time for 90s style farcical romps to make a comeback. Everybody's taking their movies too seriously these days.
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Seeing this has made me want to dig out The Last Boy Scout for a rewatch.
Brazil 1985 it may not be forgotten but it's great.
I just found out Vineagar Syndrome is doing a 4K version of Swimming to Cambodia. Already ordered.
Bonus: Norm Macdonald's "Dirty Work" too!
At least I stumbled upon it by accident and never heard something about it before.
Radioland Murders (1994)
A frenetic comedy mystery set during the debut live broadcast of a radio station in 1939. More than anything else, it's a terrific exercise in film and sound editing, as the programs and musical numbers being performed on stage intertwine with the action backstage. It can be sort of difficult to appreciate if you're fixated on having a single, steadily unfolding narrative, since it constantly jumps around between different characters and different settings, but if you just relax and let it wash over you, you'll discover that it is a single, steadily unfolding narrative - it was just assembled from a whole bunch of separate but oddly interlocking pieces.
The General (Buster Keaton)
Is Time Bandits forgotten? I like that one.
Is it? They made a Time Bandits TV series last year, didn't they?
I would argue the TV remake is already forgotten...
Well, sometimes shows just pass me by and I don't know about them until years later. I'm ok with it, I hate getting hooked on something only for it to end prematurely.
- Quadrophenia 1979
- The Warriors 1979
- The Omega Man 1971
- A Clockwork Orange 1971
None of these are forgotten, they're all well known classics.
They are classics, but if I were to ask anyone under 25 if they've seen them I wager not many would.
Kids aren't a good bar. I work with people who have never seen Ghostbusters.
Just because children don't know about them doesn't make them forgotten.
What the hell are you smoking, if nobody over 25 knows it then it is forgotten to at least the younger folk. Why are you being sopetty about this, it’s kind of weird.
I guess the children can't read, won't read, or will just get strangely antagonistic whenever anyone suggests that their ignorance is not a virtue or particularly unexpected. People can't know everything from birth. Young people learn about stuff as the age. You're probably one of the lucky 10,000 multiple times a day. Young people not knowing about something is not and never has been a sign that something is being forgotten. It's just the way it always has been. They haven't forgotten, they just haven't discovered it yet. No one is surprised or worried by this except you.
What's your definition of forgotten?
It Happened One Night (1934).
Saw "Race With the Devil" when I was a kid and it scared the bejeezus out of me. I have yet to see it pop up anywhere in life thereafter (I haven't looked for it specifically). It starred Peter Fonda and Warren Oates.