My favourite movie threads on Reddit all follow the basic formula of “why isn’t anyone talking about this movie?!” and then you click and it’s, like, Fight Club or Primer or Donny Darko.
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Groundhog Day is a perfect film. Discuss.
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You know, I fully understand the point you’re trying to make, but this is the first time I’ve ever heard of Primer. I was probably deployed in the Navy when it came out. So completely news to me.
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hey anyone heard of this “citizen kane” fella
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I'm also a fan of news threads like "Why isn't the mainstream media reporting on this story?" and it's a link to a story on CNN or the BBC.
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I also love people calling A Clockwork Orange and The Crow “cult movies”. They both made a ton of money at the box office, they’re not cult hits that gained followings in rentals etc. Cult doesn’t just mean “weird”.
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I don’t think Blue Ruin and Green Room are overhyped. Maybe I’m wrong but I don’t care.
Also The Green Knight and Greenberg. All the Greens
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They could be forgiven for thinking that no one speaks about Fight Club given rules 1 and 2 of Fight Club.
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Added all three of these obscure recs to my letterboxd. Can't wait to watch them and see what all the fuss is about.
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I’LL tell you what no one’s TALKING about: Richard Donner’s 1997 X-Files ripoff-attempt thriller Conspiracy Theory.
Well… except us 🤓🐈🐈⬛🐈🐈⬛
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Confessions of a Dangerous Script | Conspiracy Theory (1997) Movie Review
What if we King-of-Queensed The X-Files? Would that be good? 🤔
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I have to keep all of my hot Dandy Dust takes to myself.
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Primer is a funny example because it almost is actually an example of this but every four or five years somebody finds it/remembers it and it blows up for a hot minute and then recedes.
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The same people who say "Idiocracy is a documentary"
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There’s a certain core of Reddit Underrated Cinema - usually 00s, usually sci fi, vaguely indie. Primer, Moon, Children of Men, Serenity, Gattaca, etc
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In fairness, about a quarter of Reddit threads are "why isn't anyone talking about X" that had the same thing asked about it three times just yesterday.
Forums had this stuff figured out, and we threw it all away.
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I see stuff like this in threads asking for lesser known movies and people say stuff like Hot Fuzz, Let the Right One In, Glengarry Glenn Ross, and Airplane (not making these up)
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yes, dillon. i have seen jackie brown.
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The "I BET NOBODY WILL POST THIS IMAGE..." of Reddit.
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are you familiar with le hidden gem citizen kane?
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Basically this Jim Gaffigan bit:
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On the one hand, I try to be understanding; maybe they're really young or really sheltered/oblivious, or both. On the other hand, you're posting this on the internet; maybe do a quick search to see, if y'know, folks are, or have talked about it.
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"This movie has no cultural impact! I never see anybody make memes about it on my favourite Marvel Instagram meme pages!"
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I see that so often with extremely popular horror movies
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Mine are The Big Lebowski. I need to know WHY the Chinaman pissed on The Dude's rug.
Second place, Snatch. Brad Pitt, lead character, you cannot understand a word he says except Periwinkle Blue
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The movies I'd like to see more love to are UA93, Duel, and basically any train movie.
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Can't wait for someone to do it with Avengers in like 5 years
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And then it’s always the assassination of Jesse James
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As a Primer (budget: ~7 thousand featuring: two dudes) evangelist since the late aughts, I'm gonna have to protest saying it's the same level of notoriety as Fight Club (budget: ~60 million featuring: E Norton+ B Pitt) or Donny Darko (budget: ~5million featuring: J Gylenhall, D Barrymore)
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Pretty rampant in the gaming community and music community too. I've often felt there is a hivemind approach on Reddit, it's much less common on specific internet forums and even if you get an answer like that at the very least they will give reasons for it rather than just stating a popular opinion
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i mean, one of those three, there are very explicit rules against talking about, so...
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The ever-refreshing feed nature of the internet has done a lot of harm. Unless something is constantly getting reposted, it gets "forgotten". And if something gets constantly reposted it overstays it's welcome.
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Guys wanna yap
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To be fair I haven’t heard anyone bring up Primer in at least a decade
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But those are the only three movies I talk about! ;)
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Honestly yeah. It may sound trivial but there are vast patches of cultural illiteracy and it’s nice seeing a 12 year old peek out of it. We can either encourage them to dig deeper into media or we can do what is happening here and mock them for sticking their neck out and they go back to schlock.
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Did you know Marlon Brando found a cat on the set of the godfather? The cat in the movie broke his toe while kicking a helmet in a chase scene, the scream is real because the director didn’t tell the cat they made a real pirate ship.
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Most of the time someone says something is underrated, I think they underestimated it themselves, saw it for the first time and then assume everyone else is them
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also one of my favourite genres of tumblr post – “why is no one talking about this?” on a post with thousands of notes full of people who are, in fact, talking about this
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reminds me of my favorite youtube comment genre, "who is here in 2025" about songs with 3 billion views
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Also good is "[movie] is my favourite movie, I have watched it every weekend for 15 years. Today I just noticed [obvious and fundamental plot point that is critical for the movie to work even a little]". It is infuriating. /r/movies just does not watch movies.
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I saw someone on Reddit claim Lucas sold Star Wars because the prequels flopped so hard and I just think some people interact with the world entirely through the stupidest internet takes.
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A lot of gen Zers/alphas haven't watched movies from before they were born, so they have no idea about classic 90s/early 00s movies that millennials take as a given. We're just getting old. We should be happy when new people discover those movies.
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“I review this unappreciated masterpiece: Goodfellas”
