Forgotten films you remember -

[Idiotron]

CB4 (1993)
Chris Rock and his 2 buddies from the ghetto start a gangsta rap group (based on N.W.A.)
The movie is a parody of the early 90's US rap scene and it's full of so many great jokes, I'm really surprised this was never re-discovered because you could make 200 memes out of this.
Here are some bits I really love:

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Also, Happily Never After (which triggered some kind of visceral emotion within me) looks like it was made by the Igor people. Let me guess.

It's not. The same people behind Happily Never After made Space Chimps.

 

[MysticMisty]

I'd love for the old-school goofball spoof movies to come back, but the problem is that Setzer and Freiburg pretty much killed the genre in the late 2000's with their shitty spin-offs of Scary Movie (Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet The Spartans, etc.)

The thing I really hate about their movies is that they assume their audience is literally retarded and both explain the jokes, and make a big about anything even vaguely out of the ordinary. Compare that to Airplane! which presents all the crazy in a matter-of-fact, dry manner and assumes the audience is smart enough to get it. It's so disappointing that the genre is dead indefinitely because those lazy and talentless hacks.

Prince of Egypt, fucking fantastic film that I almost never hear about, probably because fedora tipping and being more gruesome than the average Disney film.

This is genuinely surprising, Prince of Egypt was huge in the late 90's/early 00's. Even non-religious families like mine watched it and loved it. The animation is really good, too.

 

[Product Placement]

Cats Don't Dance, back in the 90s when WB where trying their hands at 2d animated movies and it ended up grossing around 10% of it's budget making it the biggest flop they had. In truth it;s alright movie with a nice setting and no irritating characters that plague many other animated kids movies, only 75 minutes not a bad watch to pass the time when looking after kids.

Spoiler: trailer

Ticks, a horror movie about mutate ticks, not an amazing movie but enjoyment to be hand, most stand out thing Alfonso Ribeiro (Carlton from Fresh Prince) playing a getto thug.

Spoiler: trailer

The Birds II: Land's End, yeah that happen in the mid 90s as a TV movie and yes as bad as you are thinking it is

The Protagonists, the first movie from Luca Guadagnino who later went on to make movies like Call Me By Your Name and I Am Love, this movie is pretty bad and up it's own ass, so a good thing that it's now forgotten

Spoiler: trailer

Gerry, Casey Affleck and Matt Damon get lost in a hike in the desert with no supplies, that really all the movie is, not hard to see why it's forgotten

 

[Syaoran Li]

The thing I really hate about their movies is that they assume their audience is literally retarded and both explain the jokes, and make a big about anything even vaguely out of the ordinary. Compare that to Airplane! which presents all the crazy in a matter-of-fact, dry manner and assumes the audience is smart enough to get it. It's so disappointing that the genre is dead indefinitely because those lazy and talentless hacks.

Call me an optimist, but I think you could bring back the spoof movie if you had a good script and worked on a low budget. Aiming for the Direct-To-DVD/Direct-To-Streaming market would be a good way to do it and avoid the stigma of a box office flop.

As for Setzer & Freidberg, I think the reason they did their awful movies is because it was part of some weird Uwe Boll-esque "Springtime for Hitler" ploy where the studio was trying to make intentional flops and make the money in tax write-offs.

Much like how Uwe Boll stopped making shitty video game movies after Germany closed the relevant legal loopholes that made his movies popular, Setzer & Freiburg pretty much ceased making their awful garbage around 2011-2012 or so.

 

[Overly Serious]

It's easy to pick out films I've enjoyed that are less well-known but ones that are actually forgotten is hard.

I don't know if this is forgotten or not and it's not that old. But it does seem like a lot of people never saw it and I never seem to hear it come up, so... Le Pacte des Loups.

I seldom recommend it to people because I always tell them like crazy not to watch the English dubbed version. Then that person gets hold of the English dubbed version and watches it and it drives me fucking crazy. It has some of the worst voice casting I have ever heard and transforms a movie I really think is fantastic into a cheap parody.

The movie was described to me as a "French historical kung-fu werewolf movie". Which isn't accurate. But it did set me up for going into the movie with wide open expectations which is necessary. A really good cast ranging from Vincent Cassell to Monica Bellucci to Mark Dacascos and Samuel Le Bihan. Plus a lot of really good supporting actors. The special effects are a little dated but the costumes and sets are good and the story is great fun - especially for people interested in the time period of the French Revolution.

But please, for the sake of my heart if nothing else, don't watch the English dub version.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Hidalgo was a pretty good movie from the mid-2000's starring Viggo Mortensen in the lead role. Best way I can describe it is that it's a weird mix of a Western, a racing movie, and Lawrence of Arabia.

It was part of a last gasp of Westerns in the 2000's after their brief revival in the 90's. Some of the other "last gasp" Westerns of that time include Open Range, 3:10 To Yuma, Shanghai Noon, and American Outlaws, all of which I enjoyed unironically.

 

[Idiotron]

As for Setzer & Freidberg, I think the reason they did their awful movies is because it was part of some weird Uwe Boll-esque "Springtime for Hitler" ploy where the studio was trying to make intentional flops and make the money in tax write-offs.

Except that all of their movies made a profit because they were cheap as fuck to make and even a $15 million total box office gross was a success.

I Come In Peace (1990)
It's basically Lethal Weapon meets The Terminator except with aliens instead of robots from the future.
I should have mentioned it here a few days ago because it's also a Christmas movie, my favorite Christmas movie.
There are 54 explosions in it (I counted).
Here's a trailer:

The movie is so forgotten that it's been on Youtube in full for 5 years and the studio doesn't seem to care so, if you want a late Christmas movie (that also works on any other day of the year), here you go:

 

[Product Placement]

Hidalgo was a pretty good movie from the mid-2000's starring Viggo Mortensen in the lead role. Best way I can describe it is that it's a weird mix of a Western, a racing movie, and Lawrence of Arabia.

It was part of a last gasp of Westerns in the 2000's after their brief revival in the 90's. Some of the other "last gasp" Westerns of that time include Open Range, 3:10 To Yuma, Shanghai Noon, and American Outlaws, all of which I enjoyed unironically.

Thanks for reminding me about Hidalgo meant to check that one back when it came out, never did.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford was another good one during that era.

 

[MysticMisty]

Except that all of their movies made a profit because they were cheap as fuck to make and even a $15 million total box office gross was a success.

I think the only reason they stopped was because even idiots weren't turning out anymore. Otherwise they'd still be around making cringe parodies of current movies, like "Sci-fi Movie".

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

Hidalgo was a pretty good movie from the mid-2000's starring Viggo Mortensen in the lead role. Best way I can describe it is that it's a weird mix of a Western, a racing movie, and Lawrence of Arabia.

It was part of a last gasp of Westerns in the 2000's after their brief revival in the 90's. Some of the other "last gasp" Westerns of that time include Open Range, 3:10 To Yuma, Shanghai Noon, and American Outlaws, all of which I enjoyed unironically.

Speaking of Hidalgo, The Black Stallion Returns was a pretty good watch - A kid-friendly adventure that was as decent as the film that preceded it.

 

[Idiotron]

I think the only reason they stopped was because even idiots weren't turning out anymore. Otherwise they'd still be around making cringe parodies of current movies, like "Sci-fi Movie".

Yeah, I looked it up and their movies stopped making money after 2010 and they stopped in 2015.
Apparently, they're making another one.
This time, it will be a parody of the Star Wars sequels, I guess they wanted to wait for the trilogy to be over.

 

[MysticMisty]

Apparently, they're making another one.
This time, it will be a parody of the Star Wars sequels, I guess they wanted to wait for the trilogy to be over.

Motherfuckers, I know I said "Sci-fi Movie" two posts ago, but I had no fucking idea they were actually doing it. Worse, I original wrote that "Sci-fi Movie" would be loosely based around the new Star Wars movies and then took that part out because I didn't like the way it flowed, and the fact that Star Wars is over (currently) and these hacks base their shit around trailers of upcoming movies plus one movie that actually came out just ahead of them writing the script, so doing it 2+ years later goes against their MO.

I just hope it doesn't see the light of day, I was glad they weren't shitting up the parody genre anymore.

 

[Yamma Damma]

The appropriately titled The Forgotten from 2004.

Two reasons I remembered it was because I saw it on a date and it had this really stupid funny thing where every time a character believes the heroine's story, """they""" pull a Poochie and suck them in the air because their planet needs them they're ruining the experiment. What's the experiment? Seeing how long Julianne Moore can believe her dead son even existed when all traces of him are erased.

From what I remembered it didn't know what it wanted to be: a psychological thriller or some sci-fi bullshit.

 

[Max Doof]

The appropriately titled The Forgotten from 2004.

Two reasons I remembered it was because I saw it on a date and it had this really stupid funny thing where every time a character believes the heroine's story, """they""" pull a Poochie and suck them in the air because their planet needs them they're ruining the experiment. What's the experiment? Seeing how long Julianne Moore can believe her dead son even existed when all traces of him are erased.

From what I remembered it didn't know what it wanted to be: a psychological thriller or some sci-fi bullshit.

I barely remember it too but it had something to do with ayy's right?

 

[Dubu Kimchi]

The Woman Chaser starring Patrick Warburton. I saw this at the Crest Cinema in North Seattle back in high school and it started my phase of trying to see more obscure shit in theaters. This was years before Netflix got started, and this film only received a VHS release. I would love to see it again and see if it is half as good as I remember, or just shit like my high school buddy said.

 

[Dom Cruise]

All those "arthouse" indie genre flicks, usually foreign, from the mid to late 2000s that were usually known for being really violent and really edgy that I used to read about on Ain't It Cool News, movies like High Tension, Martyrs, Frontier(s), Inside, Timecrimes, Let The Right One In and A Serbian Film, they all seem pretty forgotten today.

The only one I actually bothered to watch was Timecrimes and it was actually pretty awesome and not nearly as extreme as some of those other movies, with a lot of fun, mind bending time travel shenanigans, it was slated to get a Hollywood remake but sadly never did.

The "arthouse horror" subgenre still continues on to this day with movies like Hereditary to be fair, but they don't seem to be quite as extreme with the gore.

Cats Don't Dance, back in the 90s when WB where trying their hands at 2d animated movies and it ended up grossing around 10% of it's budget making it the biggest flop they had. In truth it;s alright movie with a nice setting and no irritating characters that plague many other animated kids movies, only 75 minutes not a bad watch to pass the time when looking after kids.

Spoiler: trailer

Cats Don't Dance and the only other movie from the same studio, The Pagemaster, were two movies I loved as a kid that no one either seems to be remember today or talk about very fondly.

 

[Autumnal Equinox]

Tom and Huck. Mid 90s Disney adaptation of the Mark Twain novel that actually turned out pretty good. I liked it as a kid at least. Never hear it being mentioned.

 

[ProfDongs]

There are two that usually come to mind for me. One is Vice Squad which was never a really big movie from what I can tell, but it's a really solid cop movie about two guys working vice to try and find a pimp named Ramrod. Wings Hauser plays Ramrod and pretty much makes the movie with how much of a gigantic piece of shit he is. Only found out about it because of O&A a lot of years ago but it's really solid and seems like it's completely unknown.

The other is The Right Stuff which apparently got a show on Disney even though it cuts out anything to do with Chuck Yeager which made it sound really dumb. The movie is about Chuck Yeager being a test pilot and breaking the sound barrier as well as the Mercury Seven astronauts going through various stages of Project Mercury. I have never heard anyone mention or talk about this and when I saw it I was blown away with how good it was.

 

[Max Doof]

I'd say most of John Singleton's filmography has been largy forgotten except for his debut. Like did you know he directed the second fast and furious movie? He actually was a pretty decent action director and never took himself too seriously imo.

Also kinda in the same vain, Irvin Kershner's final film was actually robocop 2. The director of the greatest star wars films final directorial was funny enough a sequel to another great sci-fi.