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Lots of people have favourite movies that were big hits, but what about those that you thought were really, really good - but bombed at the box office for some weird reason. Even if the film didn't do so well, perhaps it has a great line in it?
One of mine is "Tremors" from 1990. The best line is, "...but I want to live for the three days"!
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That must be one of the few flops of director Ridley Scott: Legend[^] 
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Curry plays that role fantastically, like the transvestite in Rocky. Full of dark sexual menace, he is an expert at it! 
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Finally we found a good Curry 
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The movie I would pick is "Trancers". A definite B movie, almost no film production budget, but it just worked.
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A long time ago my wife and I watched an indie film about a guy who got trapped in a neighborhood house for 4 to 5 days, lived on what he could find in the fridge etc. The last scene of the flick was him sitting with his buds telling the story and the last line was: "You know the worst part? There was no beer." At that point I had realized we had seen something and that it had our attention the whole time.
For the life of me I don't remember what it was called.
+1 for Tremors. "They're under the gall dang ground!" 
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Howard the duck, think that was the name. So stupid it was cool.
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Did you notice Howard's cameo at the end of [^]Guardians of the Galaxy?
Will Rogers never met me.
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Don't remember if I saw Guardians but clip was cool. Damn AZ is hot, heading to north rim today. Came up from Phoenix 109 to Zion 94 bearable.
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Great timing, Mike! The temp dropped 10 degrees yesterday, and is supposed to climb back to normal by the end of the week. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Yeah we're in Fredonia right now and its 80s so yeah we hit it right, at least here. We were going to Yellowstone in a couple of weeks but temps there are getting cold so I think we will try going this week, temps are supposed to rise for several days. Haven't drove in the snow for many years and never pulling a camper.
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An old Mel Brooks film - The Thirteen Chairs. Never seen it associated with his film lists, but I think it was one of his best.
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stoneyowl2 wrote: Never seen it associated with his film lists
Could be because you're one chair off...
The Twelve Chairs (1970) - IMDb[^]
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Right you are! Still a good movie....
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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The Man from Earth . The Man from Earth - Wikipedia[^]
Low budget movie with really good story line.
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Does Fight Club qualify? It's IMHO a masterpiece, among the best movies ever made, but AFAIR wasn't exactly successful.
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One of Peter Jackson's pre-hobbit films - Braindead[^]
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Braindead (or Dead, Alive in some places) is a great horror comedy. And his two earlier movies (meet the Feebles and Bad Taste) were similarly great if you like the genre
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Little Shop of Horrors
Ultra low budget, greatest comedy scene ever - the Dentist - Steve Martin & Bill Murray.
Also Sigourney Weaver & Dan Ackroyd !!
Several versions and endings - all great.
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Black Dynamite. A hilarious movie that deserved much more love than it got.
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