What's the most obscure movie you've seen in theaters?

What's the most obscure movie you've seen in theaters?

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the passion of the christ

Demon (2015)

Polish horror movie. Only showed in one theater here and only 3 other people were in the theater
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yugioh movie with my nan

The director of this movie offd himself in his hotel room while still promoting it at movie festivals

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a little known gem called batman and superman - rise of justice
Pure based kino

Star Wars the force awakens.

What Is It?

I managed to catch a limited run of Ong Bak right before it got an official DVD release. Not really that obscure but it was at the time.

I saw a movie about two aliens who start a pop band. It played for one night only. I don't even remember the name and I'm not sure it was ever released, which is weird because it was pretty good.

Heima

what a fucking soyboy

Hey, I've seen that movie! Greenaway isn't exactly an obscure director. Is that the D.C. Pop-up? That's where I saw It Follows.
Saw this one too. AFI in Silver Spring played it.

Daft Punk's Electroma

Me again. Most obscure thing I've seen in theater was Promise of the Flesh, at the Avalon, also in D.C. Same director as the original version of The Housemaid, which didn't get it's Criterion release until 10(?) years after I saw this?
Also, got to see Genius Party and the world premiere of Genius Party Beyond at the Kennedy Center.
Uh... also saw the premiere of the unbelievably shitty Star Trek podcast movie Trekoff: The Movie at the AFI as well last summer.

>Star Trek podcast movie
That sounds unbearable

>a film by sigur ros

>tfw no arthouse flicks in the middle of nowhere

probably The Master and I was shocked we even got that.

Oh shit, you got to see a screening with Crispin?! I want to see It Is Fine so bad.

The Lure at AFI Fest last year. It was a obscure horror musical coming of age story about a mermaid and it was actually fucking good, a year later it’s on Criterion so it’s better known now.

I hated that movie - it was an insult to Eisenstein, although /ourguy/ thought it the bravest performance of the year.

Most obscure? I saw Kids in the theater when it first came out. Also saw Lost Highway for the week or so it was out.

>Sigur Ros

Was it good?

>Greenaway isn't exactly an obscure director.
Eh, what I really meant was "post rare stubs" as in movies that were hard to catch in theaters

>Is that the D.C. Pop-up?
Yep, have to park near the smelly Chinese butchers

Rosetta

I live in a third world shithole, back in the day when there weren't so many theaters around and capeshit didn't exist they used to show really obscure and weird fucking movies, eastern european and other Gummo-like shit. Most of the movies felt like a fever dream. I don't remember any names tho

In the last year I saw Igrok (1974), the skippers wooing (1922) and Paradise (1928) at the cinema

I liked it

Best F(r)iends starring Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero. It’s only been shown three times worldwide, thus far. Might not be obscure come next year.

Other than that, Victor Crowley, Berter Watch Out, Infinity Baby. I only started regularly going to the indie theater regularly the past few months

The Big Year

Nobody watched this shit when it was in theaters

I'm not gonna watch a movie made by musicians, especially musicians who can't even tell the difference between an electric guitar and a fucking cello

Comfy as fuck.

The interviews with the band are a bit bland but the shots of Iceland and music is brilliant.

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>Jack Black manages to pork Rashida Jones

on the silver globe

Something that came out just a few years ago. Mississippi (I think) something. It was about two guys who struck up a weird friendship in a bar, one (or both) was a gambler. One of them tries to get back in touch with his ex wife. One of them gets stabbed early on but it's not too serious. I think at the end they are in some big, run-down building (a casino?) and there's an altercation in a restroom. Nothing really happens in the movie though, they're mostly drifting and talking shit. I could have sworn either matthew mcconaughey or William Macy were in it but I just checked and apparently they weren't (I would have recognised the title). I think there was a well known name in it.
An absolute nothing of a movie. I don't know how shit like that gets made. It wasn't trying to be one of these small-scale well-crafted arty films, it was just dull and didn't seem to have any aspiration it 'missed'.
I only watched it because I was with a friend and he suggested it as we wanted to watch something and that stood out to him. There was only two other people in the theatre and I'm sure this was on a weekend.

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I'm convinced I might be the only person still alive who ever watched this in theatres

I just pulled my finer out of my backside and did some basic Googling. It was Mississippi Grind. Grossed 130k which sounds about right.
I know Rotten Tomatoes can be bullshit at times but 91%?! Fuck me. There's a fair chance I was drugged up at the time but this is just weird.

one of the early pokemon movies with my friends. when we got there the theatre was literally empty

I can guarantee that every pokemon movie has had sold out theaters in Japan

>all these movies with 5 IMDb votes or more

not good enough imo

>pokemon
>obscure

>unlimited access arthouse theaters across the country
feels good

going to watch a pokemon movie in the theatre was probably pretty obscure back then. everyone just waited for dvd releases or whatever

Why would you expect some empty plotless indie film to ever have less than 85% on RottenTomatoes? You’re mistake desu

. .. How fucking old are you?

I watched the first pokemon movie in the ciname with a friend in primary shcool

25

FUCK I WANT TO SEE THIS AGAIN
It's about an autist taking advantage of everyone he meets and forcing himself on them

That's it!

Just googled it. Apparently it was released on American Netflix. It was a cozy little film.

I saw Free Willy but Andre was for girls. Do they still make these sorts of kid flicks? They were huge when I was a kid.

No, Pixar killed the genre

Nice - thanks for that.

Oh yeah, and I went to two nights of Crispin Glover movies with the forced Q and A's. Stupidly sat at the front first night not realizing we'd be trapped.

I later foun a rough as guts vhs rip of the first film we saw on CG. The second one isn't anywhere to be found outside of his screenings.

I also watched the full Cremaster Cycle in the theater about ten years ago at a cinema that has since shut.

You can get copiea online or varying quality.

Pokémon was at it's peak back then wtf. How is Pokémon the first movie obscure?

This.
Dad wanted to see it because he actually grew up in the town of the film. I've been there many times since his family still lived there. Even as a little kid I felt kind of embarrassed for him at how shitty the production was in parts of the movie.

I wish I lived in a city where they have pop-up theaters and retro showings

tdkr