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Have you ever loved something, only to realize it’s a commercial flop or just obscure? What’s something that deserves more light than it got?
Tom Goes to the Mayor is a delightful series that really captures the feeling of living in forgotten small-town America and being crushingly poor.
I don't know if that's what the creators were going for but it resonated with me on that level.
Knowing Tim Heidecker, that's probably exactly what they were going for.
I actually really love the average to panned 2001 romcom Kate and Leopold. It's about a average woman working in advertising and a hunky duke(?) from centuries before who fell forward in time. Hugh Jackman and Meg Ryan, I think they have reasonable chemistry and there's a lot of good lines that are delivered well. It's a fun movie, and even if it's not good per se it's a good experience with fun vibes.
Henry Kuttner's short-ish story ‘Year Day’ from 1953 predicted how advertising will be in the future that we're on track to hit. The story was published in the collection appropriately named ‘Ahead of Time’.
Hyper Light Drifter for gaming.
Extol (Norway) for music, specifically the album "Burial".
Extol
Bruh... I didn't know anyone else had ever heard of this band lol.
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They are so underrated. It's crazy.
Haven't listened to them in years. I think "Synergy" was the last album of theirs that I listened to. I remember it being more thrashy than their previous stuff, but really good.
Oh wow, that album is over 20 years old. Ugh.
I had tons of fun with Battleborn! It was a FPS hero shooter/MOBA hybrid with co-op modes and Borderlands style load-outs, skill tree and gear. Unfortunately never became very popular and they shut it down after desperately trying to revive it by changing its model. The only MOBA that ever clicked for me.
Well I don't know if underrated is valid here, but a few movies by Anders Thomas Jensen like Adam's Apples and Riders of Justice.
Common ground is it's morbid humour.
The Jesse Owens Story (1984). Really good made for TV biopic. Won a primetime emmy. But has barely 300 total ratings on IMDB and so few on Letterboxd that it doesn't have an average score. Several cast members from the Roots miniseries.
Meet the Raisins (1988). The original 30 minute made for TV claymation special. Here on YouTube (lots of music missing) It was a spinoff of a highly successful marketing campaign (a 30 second commercial where raisins sing 'heard it through the grapevine').
Stella Glow!
I played it on the 3DS. The story is pretty good, the music is gorgeous, some of it is voice-acted, and I loved the JRPG and dating sim elements.
Apart from my spouse, I cannot find anyone else who has heard of, let alone played, the game so I can geek out with them over it. 😭
Gomi, an early $5 iOS game that involved eating successively larger objects until an objective was reached, utilizing the tilt feature. It had so much potential to be a game with a medium to large speedrun/highscore community.
