> The performances were mind-blowingly good, especially the drummer!

He was neither rushing nor dragging?

I'd say it's a weird movie from the 80s. Projecting your own perception of how you think it's seen based on the fact that you personally don't know anyone who has brought it up, is pretty meaningless.

Well, Scorsese has made a ton of movies, include some big commercial hits with critical acclaim and which left a dent in the culture. You check the Scorsese's popularity rank in Letterboxd and After Hours is 14th, ahead of movies like Cape Fear and Mean Streets (both of which were parodied and referenced in pop culture), The Age Of Innocence and The Last Temptation of Christ (both of which garnered a lot of critical acclaim and nominations/awards).

You check how many "fans" it has and it has 2k, well above the 700 Hugo has, which was a far bigger movie, aimed at the general public and with a big marketing machinery behind it.

Like I said, After Hours is obviously not a movie meant for mass appeal and most people in the general public will not have heard of it, but that hardly means it's truly obscure. Not being popular doesn't mean it's obscure it just means it's not popular.

"Underappreciated" or "underated" is usually the term people use when they watch a movie they loved, and they had never heard much fuzz about it, but trust me, this movie is not obscure, it's plenty appreciated within the circles where this kind of movie would be enjoyed, which is obviously not for the masses.

And yeah, it's amazing and unique.

When you gotta go, you gotta go: https://youtu.be/WYCo-3pw52o?t=273