Films you can’t forget, but weren’t great
Discussion
I must have watched thousands of films over my lifetime. The vast majority I can’t remember. I expect many I could watch now and not remember having seen before.
Some films I thought were brilliant the first time I watched them and they have stuck in my memory eg Goldfinger or Star Wars. However there are also films that I can’t say I enjoyed but burned themselves into my head. I think a good example is Eraserhead. I only saw it once, close to 40 years ago (on Channel 4). I can’t say it was a good film but it has stayed with me, particularly the scenes with the baby.
What films have you seen that weren’t necessarily good or enjoyable but you can’t forget?
Some films I thought were brilliant the first time I watched them and they have stuck in my memory eg Goldfinger or Star Wars. However there are also films that I can’t say I enjoyed but burned themselves into my head. I think a good example is Eraserhead. I only saw it once, close to 40 years ago (on Channel 4). I can’t say it was a good film but it has stayed with me, particularly the scenes with the baby.
What films have you seen that weren’t necessarily good or enjoyable but you can’t forget?
How I Won the War. A weird 60's type film. Had John Lennon in it, I still quote it today, but it's not good, it is just...odd. I'll need to rewatch it. In the 80's and 90's we had so many old less well known films screened, with so few channels, today wit the exception of Talking Pictures (best channel left on the box) even the channels dedicated to films only show the same ole same ole.
Ee's workin' is ticket.
Ee's workin' is ticket.
The Philadelphia Experiment - 80s sci-fi flick based on the conspiracy theory usually shown as weekend matinee/tea time movie on BBC1. I've always remembered the scene with a struck by lightning whilst lying in a hospital bed.
cuprabob said:
Howard The Duck
Jizz mopper who makes out with Lorraine Baines McFlycoppernorks]The Long Goodbye [ 1973 said:
a rare ho-hum Altman film, unremarkable crime thriller with the
even more remarkably dull actor Elliot Gould.
I just remember it for Gould smacking his pretty girlfriend in the face with a coke bottle, it was utterly shocking
and came from nowhere.
That wasn't Gould, that was the bad guy IIRC.even more remarkably dull actor Elliot Gould.
I just remember it for Gould smacking his pretty girlfriend in the face with a coke bottle, it was utterly shocking
and came from nowhere.
Ivo Shandor said:
How I Won the War. A weird 60's type film. Had John Lennon in it, I still quote it today, but it's not good, it is just...odd. I'll need to rewatch it. In the 80's and 90's we had so many old less well known films screened, with so few channels, today wit the exception of Talking Pictures (best channel left on the box) even the channels dedicated to films only show the same ole same ole.
Ee's workin' is ticket.
A very odd film with a varied cast, I've not seen it since that screening in the mid '80s but for some reason bits of it are etched into the memory. Lennon's little speeches to the camera were even odder and he only did it as a diversion from being a Beatle, while he was in Spain filming he got quite homesick and wrote 'Strawberry Fields Forever'.Ee's workin' is ticket.
A couple more shown around the same time which were very hit and miss are 'Secret Ceremony' with Liz Taylor, Mia Farrow and Robert Mitchum and 'Smashing Time' with Rita Tushingham and Lynne Redgrave. The latter was almost a pastiche of a typical swinging sixties comedy caper, but is only just watchable for the wonderfully grotty location filming.
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