Most Underrated Films
What is one film which is almost universally derided, but you can't help enjoying the devil out of?
Mine would have to "An American Werewolf in Paris".
Pure Metal
13-06-2005, 03:47
Gandhi never gets a look in anywhere, nor does Brewster's Millions with Richard Pryor... one of my all-time favourites, that :)
The Man Who Knew Too Little is severely underrated. It's great!
Dobbsworld
13-06-2005, 03:54
'After Hours', very funny. Very under-rated.
Druidville
13-06-2005, 03:55
Big Trouble in Little China. Classic Movie.
Haven't seen American werewolf in Paris but I loved the werewolf in London,have to give it a look.
Brewsters Millions was a pile of shite. :gundge:
I'll get back to you on my fave underated movie. :gundge:
Used Cars is a classic that is sadly under-appreciated and underrated. Kurt Russell > you.
Ellesmere Isle
13-06-2005, 03:58
Empire Records!
Pootie Tang is underrated. Again, sadly, sadly underrated.
UberPenguinLand
13-06-2005, 04:04
UHF. The best bits are the movie and TV show parodies.
Guy:"Where could I find books on astrology?"
Conan the Librarian: (Lift's guy into air)"Don't choo know tha Dewey Decimal System?"
Texpunditistan
13-06-2005, 04:37
Equilibrium (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238380/)
Vastly overlooked and underrated movie. Has the coolest fake martial art EVER (Gunkata).
Got to agree with Big touble in Little China,Kurt Russel was really funny
Fave underated movie,Wrestless Natives...great laugh :D
Gandhi never gets a look in anywhere, nor does Brewster's Millions with Richard Pryor... one of my all-time favourites, that :)
Gandhi...Amazing movie. Really should have made a bigger splash
Empire Records!
quite a good movie. Gotta love it
Pootie Tang is underrated. Again, sadly, sadly underrated.
Just reading that made my spleen hurt. (wow, I'm overtired)
Gandhi...Amazing movie. Really should have made a bigger splash
quite a good movie. Gotta love it
Just reading that made my spleen hurt. (wow, I'm overtired)
Gandhi wasn't underated,it won about a million oscars.
Thermidore
13-06-2005, 13:15
Elvira Mistress of the Dark
Ridiculously camp comedy with a very um... pneumatic protagonist - a hilarious movie
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...
...not the sequels, those sucked ass. The first one.
Gataway_Driver
13-06-2005, 13:52
Still Crazy & Elizabeth, There two British films that in my opinion were under rated
Demented Hamsters
13-06-2005, 14:33
Withnail & I
Sexy Beast, cause Ben Kingsley is simply phenomenal in it. Hard to believe it's the same guy who did Ghandi.
omg someone said equilibrium... yeah dude that movie rocks soo much.. its amazing... everyone says waterwolrd sucks but i thought it was pretty ok... the best funny movie ever is wrongfully accused.. but it never gets a second glance (except at my house!)
...the best funny movie ever is wrongfully accused.. but it never gets a second glance (except at my house!)
Wrongfully Accused is all right, but it isn't as good as some of Nielson's earlier comic rolls (Airplane!, Naked Gun etc). Having said that, you're the first person I've ever heard talking about it, so I suppose it is very underrated.
Maniacal Me
13-06-2005, 15:01
Equilibrium.
Crying Freeman.
Soldier.
Markreich
13-06-2005, 15:08
The Madness of King George.
The Motor City Madmen
13-06-2005, 15:12
The original "Gone in 60 Seconds", not that lousy remake.
and the first in the series "Johnny Wadd".
Dude, Where's My Car? (Come on, now... You know you love it. Shibby!)
Jaws 2 (Almost as good as the first)
Love Actually (no one talks about it, but IMO it's the ultimate romantic comedy)
Bad News Bears (They don't make kid movies like this anymore. Sad really. The remake could end up sucking.)
Escape From New York (My favorite movie, and severely under-rated.)
[NS]The Seven Darks
13-06-2005, 15:25
Repo Man - Some of the things in the background are even funnier than the movie itself
Buckaroo Banzai
Casino Royale - the best Bond ever made :mp5:
Joe
Dr. Strangelove
Maniacal Me
13-06-2005, 15:33
<snip>
Love Actually (no one talks about it, but IMO it's the ultimate romantic comedy)
<snip>
Dec: Billy, I believe you've brought a prize for our competition winners.
Billy Mack: Yes I have, Ant or Dec. It's a personalized felt tip pen.
Billy Mack: Hiya kids. Here is an important message from your Uncle Bill. Don't buy drugs. Become a pop star, and they give you them for free.
I think he made it the funniest RomCom ever.
Nureonia
13-06-2005, 16:06
Equilibrium (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238380/)
Vastly overlooked and underrated movie. Has the coolest fake martial art EVER (Gunkata).
I hate you so very, very much. It's like a crappy version of the Matrix had sex with a crappy version of Fahrenheit 451 and replaced books with emotions.
That's on my list of most OVERRATED films. EVER.
Anyway, underrated films? I can't think of any. Maybe Blazing Saddles, since I never hear anyone talk about that.
Carnivorous Lickers
13-06-2005, 16:41
"Raising Arizona"- with a very young Nicholas Cage.
That movies was hysterical and pure genius.
Brewster's Millions with Richard Pryor...
Ten million, ten million, ten million dollars!
And it's Brewster's Millions with John Candy, thank you! (go Canada!)
One of my favourites too:)
Il Postino is WONDERFUL!
Withnail & I
Another gem!
Tomzilla
13-06-2005, 16:48
Gojira
The original Godzilla film is such a great classic. Very good.
The Exorcist III
No one seems to talk about it. Got a lot of money. Better than the Exorcist II.
Guadalupelerma
13-06-2005, 16:53
Student Bodies! :D
Your voice sounds funny.
That's because I'm talking through a rubber chicken.
I thought it sounded like you were talking through a rubber chicken.
Ms. Vandyke. What's in a name? Everything!
Why do they always have to run!
Melbert sometimes pee red.
QuentinTarantino
13-06-2005, 16:55
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy was truely hilarious
Saint Uriel
13-06-2005, 17:10
Bringing out the Dead - Nicholas Cage, John Goodman, and Ving Rhames, directed by Martin Scorcese. The book is excellent too.
The Boondock Saints - just wonderful
Born in East L.A.
as long as you don't watch it on FOX. They edit everything for content on FOX.
The Motor City Madmen
13-06-2005, 17:25
Born in East L.A.
as long as you don't watch it on FOX. They edit everything for content on FOX.
They edit everything on network TV, not just FOX. ;)
Guadalupelerma
13-06-2005, 17:26
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy was truely hilarious
Well, it did cause a few....flipper babies....
Legend with super young Tom Cruise
and keeping with a unicorn theme The Last Unicorn
UberPenguinLand
13-06-2005, 17:31
I forgot Spaceballs. That movie is great.
"I'm a mawg, half-man, half-dog. I'm my own best friend."
And yes it is Mawg. In one scene in the Winnebago you can see a fire hydrant that says "Mawg" on it.
They edit everything on network TV, not just FOX. ;)
The took out the last ten minutes of the movie, when he beats immigration by marrying an El Salvadorian woman so she can stay in the country.
The Motor City Madmen
13-06-2005, 17:32
Out For Justice
Orgazmo
Gandhi wasn't underated,it won about a million oscars.
It won a lot of oscars, but relatively few people have seen it, and I haven't seen it on many top movie lists
Kroblexskij
13-06-2005, 18:30
red october, no-one i know knows it and its quite good
I Still Like Oranges
13-06-2005, 18:32
i love spaceballs too
The Elder Malaclypse
13-06-2005, 18:38
The Big Lebowski isn't too big in my country, but is it underrated in America?
Brobdingnia
13-06-2005, 18:40
Dr. Strangelove - heck yes
"You cant fight in here, this is the war room!"
Vital fluids and purity of essence!
Amason women on the moon!
It is brilliant!
Markreich
13-06-2005, 18:44
Dr. Strangelove - heck yes
"You cant fight in here, this is the war room!"
Vital fluids and purity of essence!
It's a great movie... a classic of the 20th Century...
but I wouldn't call it "under-rated". :)
Amason women on the moon!
It is brilliant!
Amazon...
red october, no-one i know knows it and its quite good
If you're talking about "The Hunt For Red October" you should check out a German film called "Das Boot". I've yet to see a submarine movie that can touch it.
Texpunditistan
13-06-2005, 22:11
OH... I forgot Finding Forrester (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181536/). VERY underrated and little-known Sean Connery movie.
Atilla- A good six hour film about Atilla (Pronounced as both Ah till a and a till a
Screwed- A kidnapping gone wrong
Miputakeli
13-06-2005, 22:23
Oh... anyone has seen "Death Race 2000", the movie which inspired "Carmageddon"? With Stallone and Carradine, a GREAT & very funny movie. I can't be the only one :confused:
Lascivious Optimus
13-06-2005, 22:33
Where the Red Fern Grows, the original 1974 Elanor Lamb adaptation of Wilson Rawls hauntingly inspirational book - not the remake. A chilling story, set during the Great Depression, which shows in remarkable clarity the relationship between a boy and his two hunting dogs. Of course the story delves much further into issues of the time, and into more metaphysical matter. I challenge, that there is not a person among us who would not cry in this film. Of course it falls short of the novel, but then, don't they all?
edit:
In addition, I should add the powerful and somehow overlooked 1993 film A Perfect World. Costner, Eastwood, Laura Dern and of course TJ Lowther all give incredibly moving performances. One of the most obscenely accurate portrayals of a childs need for a father figure. An unlikely premise, and one which casts a very different shadow on the theory of stockholm syndrome.