What movie is extremely underrated, in your opinion?

[RevolutionaryActs]

Yes, I'm copycatting, but I think this might be a fun thread too! :P

[MissBrooks]

1. Happy Gilmore!

[jellybelly]

2. Gothika

[cdsilv]

6. Ray, O Brother, where art Thou, LadyKillers, SpiderMan 2, ...

the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Harry Potter series.

The Last Waltz.

I may not know art, but I know what I like.

[ghostsofgiants]

3. The Blair Witch Project

I loved that movie.

[jonnyblitz]

8. I loved that movie too

everybody seems to hate it. The end when the boy was facing the wall and the camera went dead was (((((((creepy))))) :wow: !

[mvd]

92. Agreed

The atmosphere here is much more chilling than in most of the slasher flicks. The unseen can be quite powerful.

[da_chimperor]

4. It's Pat

Sure, it was a horrible movie, but the sheer novelty value wasn't taken into consideration in any of the reviews.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110169/

[Liberal Veteran]

5. Gigli!

Someone had to be first!

[Paul Hood]

7. Blast from the Past n/t

[hangemhigh]

9. Life is Beautiful. Shadowlands. nt

[susanna]

44. I didn't see "Life is Beautiful"* but agree re: "Shadowlands"

* I am evil for having never seen Life is Beautiful. I know this and will take steps to rectify it.

That said, "Shadowlands" got to me, even though half-way through I did not think I liked it!

[cmkramer]

56. How can you say they were underrated?

Both films were recognized with award nominations by people in the industry. Life is Beautiful was nominated for Best Film, Best Foreign Film (winner)and Roberto Benigni won Best Actor. Shadowlands was also critically acclaimed.

[qnr]

10. Quest For Fire n/t

[amerikat]

14. dondera

Slobbering cavemen utter a word. Deer, food, hungry?.....great film. Few understand. I loved that film.

[arwalden]

11. Car Wash

[Patsy Stone]

12. So I Married an Axe Murderer

The beatnik poetry, the Scottish father.
"Head! Pants! Now!"

Love it.

[jeff30997]

19. I love that movie too !

I saw it a zillion times.

[Patsy Stone]

39. What's not to love...

Carry it hard hearted harbinger of haggis. Beautiful bemus-ed, belacose butcher, untrusting, unknowing, unlove-ed. He wants you back he screams into the night air like a firmean going into a window that has no fire... except the passion of his heart. I am lonely. It's really hard. This poem sucks!

[susanna]

41. "The Piper is down. I repeat, the Piper is down."

EXTREMELY underrated.

"hard-hearted harbinger of haggis."

That was a great movie. :-)

[Patsy Stone]

46. LOL! ...and her whereabouts were...unknown!

Thanks for that. I went back and read it. I cut and pasted it from a site and it was a bad version.

"Excuse me, I think there's been a mistake? I think I ordered the large cappucino?"

[GAspnes]

13. Honestly

"Real Genius", which came out the same summer as "My Science Project" (also underrated) and "Weird Science" which, because it included a half-naked woman, was considered the Big Thing. Val Kilmer showed a real talent for straight-faced humor and my sons and I have a dozen catch-phrases from Real Genius.

"The Abyss", James Cameron at his best (not Terminator, not Titanic). Tight-fitting science-fiction, great characters, terrific acting.

"Passon Fish", a languid, lovely look at love and redemption.

[Patsy Stone]

17. Real Genius

rocks so hard. Please, don't get me started!

[GAspnes]

22. "You're not Mitch!"

"Hey Lazlo! Want to see a demonstration of gravity?" <thud>

[Patsy Stone]

35. OK, I'll play

In the immortal words of Socrates, "I drank what?"

You're Chris Knight, aren't you?
I hope so. I'm wearing his underwear.

[GAspnes]

43. Can you pound a six inch nail through a board with your penis?

Uh, no.

A girl's got to have her standards.

That's one smart girl! Have you ever seen anyone so beautiful?

She's my daughter.

Oh, then I guess you have.

[Patsy Stone]

52. Mo...

You didn't straighten up the place, did you?
No.
Good, because all my filth is in alphabetical order. This for example was under "H" for toy.

The first thing you should do is get even with Kent. It's a moral imperative.

He's number one!

Are you okay?
No, not emotionally. No, I'm not. I'm disappointed. Not terribly, but still.

[GAspnes]

55. and the only double punchline

Kent: He hung up!

Jordan: They hung up!


Great thread. I thought I was the only person who'd seen some of these movies.

[ProfessorGAC]

75. OH! You Got The Reply Wrong!!!!!!

His first reply is "Not Right Now!"

Hence, he believes he will eventually be able to do it! Great subtext humor.
The Professor

BTW: Also one of my all-time favorite comedies.

[Ryano42]

103. Real Genius got me through Electronics School

I remember taking three exams in one day with that song "Number One" going through my head. Got two 100's and a 98!!! :D Made me consider switching my study course to lasers!

Michelle Meyrink :loveya:

[RevolutionaryActs]

24. Oh I love Real Genius! That movie is so great!

"Mitch, there's something you need to know. Compared to you, most people have the IQ of a carrot."

"You see Mitch, I used to be you. Lately I've been missing me so I asked Dr. Hathaway if I could room with me again and he said sure."

[GAspnes]

28. aaaand we're off!

"Your mother sewed license plates to your underwear? How did you sit down?"

"Are those the answers?"

"No, these are entries in the Frito-Lay contest no purchase required enter as often as you like. So I am."

"What did you do with the answers?"

"I memorized them."

"Well gee, Lazlo, I didn't get you anything."

[hickman1937]

29. "You rented my room?'

Loved Passion Fish too.

[Patsy Stone]

15. Showgirls

OMG. For the first 20 minutes, you're like, "This is the worst movie I've ever seen in my life!" Then a little bit later you're like, "I've got to own this movie!"

Reaally, truly, so bad it's great!

[karl meltdown]

16. the 13th Warrior

shows divergence and fate during twilight of dark ages.

[cruadin]

73. I agree with you on "The 13th Warrior"--

great movie that seemed/seems unappreciated.

[Sannum]

18. "Swept Away" with Madonna

:P Just KIDDING! Though I admit when it was on HBO, I was drunk, so it was a much less painful experience than I had expected.

[amerikat]

21. the origional film was way better

[amerikat]

20. Three days of the condor

CIA bookworm and report writer stumbles across a govt plot to take over the oil fields in the middle east.(circa 1974). Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, it's all coming true now.

[GAspnes]

27. agreed

I quoted the ending about two years ago on here, when it was obvious we were going to war over oil.

Higgins (Cliff Robertson): It's simple economics Turner. There's no argument. Oil now. 10 or 15 years it'll be food, or plutonium. Maybe sooner than that. What do you think the people will want us to do then?

Turner (Robert Redford): Ask them!

Higgins: Now? (shakes head) Huh-uh. Ask them when they're running out. When it's cold at home and the engines stop and people who aren't used to hunger ... go hungry! They won't want to ask ... (quiet savagery) They'll want us to *get* it for them.

[amerikat]

40. Thanks. I thought I was the only person that saw this movie

[Kat45]

58. I loved that movie.

I forgot about it. Thanks for reminding me.

[AllyCat]

106. That was a good flick!

Really liked it...too bad it's now true.

[BlueJazz]

23. The thirteenth floor (science Fiction)

The idea of having a computer powerful enough to create your own "world" (reality) and also travel to that world fascinates me..

[stevebreeze]

25. Big Trouble

Release date was pushed back after 9/11, due to content. The easy circumvention of airline security and a nuclear explosion, kept it from the big screen. Tim Allen stars in movie written by Dave Barry.

[Missy Vixen]

36. It's one of my favorites, too

We've told so many people about "Big Trouble".

Julie

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

26. True Romance

Love it. Great cast, interesting story... action, adventure, drama, romance. Highly underrated!

[susanna]

42. I loved True Romance...

I live a couple miles from the scenes shot in Detroit. Gary Oldman as the drug king was killer. I didn't even recognize him!

I agree with you on this one. Great movie, great performances from so many talented actors: Hopper, Pitt, Penn and who can forget the greatest of them all, Walken: "You're a canteloupe."

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

54. and... Val Kilmer as Elvis... and Tony Soprano,

Elliot: Hi. How are you? My name's Elliot, and I'm with the Cub Scouts of America. We're... we're selling uncut cocaine to get to the jamboree.

[fluffernutter]

30. The Door in the Floor;Swimming Pool;Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

[kodi]

31. Matewan

if you've seen it you know what i mean

[WindRavenX]

32. Spider-Man 1 and 2

Maybe it's because of my bias (Spider-Man IS the best comic book hero ever), but I thought the films were FANTASTIC. I even wrote about Spider-Man for a paper, and I got an A+ :)
I love liberal professors.

[brentspeak]

33. "Heaven Can Wait" with Warren Beatty (1978)

Well, not exactly underrated; more like, underappreciated.

It might be my favorite movie of all-time, so I'm biased.

[qnr]

38. I enjoyed it too. n/t

[RevolutionaryActs]

34. I'm adding my own now.... I say Moulin Rouge! is underrated.

My poor Moulin Rouge, Nicole didn't win the Oscar for best actress, Baz and Ewan weren't nominated AND they snubbed 'Come what may' for best song, yet they nominated that fricking song from Pearl Harbor that Faith Hill sang.. god I hate that song!

[Touchdown]

82. Joe vs. the Volcano

I just love that movie.

"You want her? You want him? You're married! Now jump in!"

[hickman1937]

37. Big Trouble in Little China

Waterlands, Inside Moves, lots more.

[GAspnes]

47. definately

Big Trouble was originally touted as a horror-comedy-kungfu-mystery movie. Kurt Russell was great.

[NuttyFluffers]

53. Big Trouble was fantastic

i wished there was a sequel. a bit too late now, though.

[NewJeffCT]

68. good movie

A lot of light hearted fun.

[NightTrain]

45. Two films from 1990.

LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN and THE TALL GUY.

Aside from both having come out during the same year, those two films have nothing else in common. LAST EXIT is a harrowing, nihilistic look at life at the bottom of the U.S. economic ladder, while TALL GUY is a screwball comedy about an American actor trying to make it on the British stage. But both films are excellent and highly underrated, IMHO.

[GAspnes]

48. a couple to add to my list

I read LETB but never saw the movie.

[GAspnes]

49. Remo Williams, the Adventure Begins

What is it with me and off-beat comedies?

[hickman1937]

50. I forgot my all time favorite movie

Local Hero

[NuttyFluffers]

51. Bubble Boy; Emerald Forest; Real Genius; My Science Project

The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming; Candleshoe; The Party; Dude, Where's My Car; Just One of the Guys; 10 Things I Hate About You; The Pest; Boomerang (if only for the memorable quotes); Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (billy zane is *perfect* in this role), i'm sure there's others i'm forgetting.

[TahitiNut]

57. Pumpkin

See? You never heard of it, right? I've never seen a movie so carefully kept just off the edge of sanity without falling. Awesome.

[politicat]

59. Enigma; The Reckoning.

Enigma is a quiet english thriller about the codebreakers at Bletchley Park who intercepted Nazi communications. I read the book, before I saw the movie, and was not happy with the book; no resolution. The film did a better job on that, though not on the realities of war on civilians. Kate Winslet didn't hurt, either.

The Reckoning is based in Barry Unsworth's Morality Play about a priest on the lam who hides out with a group of traveling players in 14th c. England and re-enacts a murder to prove the guilt or innocence of the accused. Beautifully filmed and very well done. Willem Dafoe and Paul Bettany played off each other really well.

Pcat

[mitchum]

60. Any Russ Meyer film...

it's a really stupid mistake to lump him into the "camp camp" with the wretched Ed Wood. Meyer's film are meticulously crafted and deal in contemporary myth. He was an American Genius

[blindpig]

71. yes

'Devils' was outstanding.

[davis_islander]

61. Jack the Bear

Wonderful movie

[davis_islander]

62. Jack the Bear

Wonderful movie

[obreaslan]

63. Rushmore!!!!

And any Wes Anderson film for that matter...

I also agree with the person who mentioned Oh Brother, Where Art thou!

[Crankie Avalon]

64. The King of Comedy...

...incredibly overlooked movie next to some of Scorsese's other ones--but really, really great, with a performance against type by DeNiro that ranks as one of his best. Also has Jerry Lewis's best performance (basically playing himself) and a young and intense Sandra Bernhardt. The late Tony Randall has a nice and memorable cameo and the film takes place in the New York of the late 70s/early 80s (a unique and colorful place that has pretty much been gentrified out of existence since) where even the extras included The Clash.

[non sociopath skin]

65. John Huston's "The Dead"

A near-perfect movie which is the one exception to the rule that James Joyce is unfilmable.

The Skin

[sans qualia]

66. The Fifth Element, Dune

Yes, I liked Dune. I apologize. And The Fifth Element was just really fun. :)

[Bridget Burke]

70. The thing about "Dune"---

As a whole, it was a mess. Parts were dreadfully nauseating. But the good parts were really, really good....

"The Fifth Element" took advantage of my weakness for good art direction with visuals straight from "Heavy Metal". Add some humor & I almost didn't mind Bruce Willis.

[T Town Jake]

67. Orson Welles "The Stranger" (n/t)

[Z_I_Peevey]

69. Down with Love

I thought it was nicely done...just the right amount of homage, just the right amount of lampoon. For those of us raised on Doris Day and Rock Hudson, it was quite the enjoyable movie. IMHO.

[greyfox]

72. Shallow Hal

The movie has a beautiful moral...

[wellstone dem]

74. What about Bob?

[ProfessorGAC]

76. One Of My Wife's All Time Faves!

Very funny movie. One she can watch over and over, and she's not like me in that regard. After a couple of times, she's unlikely to watch a movie again. Not this one. (Or Christmas movies.) She can watch it everytime it's on.
The Professor

[EOTE]

81. Fantastic movie!

Proves without a doubt that Bill Murray is one of the top comedic actors out there (Groundhog Day was also hilarious). My pick for underappreciated movie though is Grosse Pointe Blank. It was a sweet and quirky hitman romance. Don't see too many of those nowadays.

[ProfessorGAC]

83. Good Choice!

It's all so matter of fact! Yeah, i kill people for a living. Might as well take the hit and go to my reunion while i'm there! So casual, yet intense. It's a very good movie.
The Professor

[wellstone dem]

89. I'm on my second time this morning.

Your wife has good taste.

[Patsy Stone]

96. I'm FLYING..... FLYYYYYING! LOL! n/t

[Patsy Stone]

97. I'm SAILING!...SAAAAAAILING! (Sorry, brain fart above!) n/t

[Patiod]

77. Tombstone - Val Kilmer deserved Best Supporting Actor

for his amazing Doc Holliday, who stole the movie.

I also loved "How to Make an American Quilt", which is incomprensible to those without two X chromosomes.

[Beware the Beast Man]

78. Boondock Saints

Great flick, and a cult favorite.

[Dees]

79. Tom Horn...n/t

[mcscajun]

80. Hopscotch (1980)

Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Ned Beatty, Sam Waterston, Herbert Lom

Great cast, fun story, well directed.

Matthau the CIA agent who refuses to be sat down at a desk job by an overbearing pompous upstart boss leads US and Russian agents on a cat and mouse game.

Gotta rent it...or better yet, own it on DVD.

[Patsy Stone]

84. Galaxy Quest

I had to add it.

Sam Rockwell (Guy Fleegman): I'm not even supposed to be here. I'm just "Crewman Number Six." I'm expendable! I'm the guy in the episode who dies to prove how serious the situation is! I've gotta get outta here!

Sam Rockwell (Guy): I'm just a glorified extra, Fred. I'm a dead man anyway. If I'm gonna die, I'd rather go out a hero than a coward.
Tony Shaloub (Fred Kwan/Tech. Sgt. Chen): Guy, Guy... maybe you're the plucky comic relief. You ever think about that?

So many moments...

[ProfessorGAC]

85. Another Excellent Addition

Yeah, i love that movie too!
The Professor

[Patsy Stone]

88. It couldn't *be* much better... n/t

[Patiod]

94. Tony Shaloub was great

Very funny movie, but probably not appreciated by those who weren't somewhat "into" Star Trek or other SciFi.

[GAspnes]

98. "that episode was BADLY WRITTEN!"

and the inimitable "Whoever wrote this should DIE!"


I'm sure Sigourney loved being able to say what every actor has thought at one time or another.

[Patsy Stone]

100. The list goes on and on and on...

Gwen DeMarco: Look, I have ONE job on this lousy ship. It's STUPID, but I'm gonna do it, OKAY?


Gwen DeMarco: They're not ALL "historical documents." Surely, you don't think Gilligan's Island is a --

Mathesar: Those poor people!

Dr. Lazarus of Tev'Meck: By Grabthar's hammer, you shall be avenged!

[Ryano42]

104. "By...Grabthar's...hammer...

(gulp)

what a savings..."

LOL! B-)

[GAspnes]

105. good ones!

Guy: Ooooohhhh! That's not RIGHT.


Jason: Stay here and give us a signal.

Tommy: Oh -- like 'CAW! CAW!'

Jason: No! Use your communicator.


Jason: Okay, who wants the grand tour?

Guy: AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH!

TSgt. Chen: Now that was a hell of a thing ... what's the matter with them?

[terrya]

86. "Gods and Monsters"

A first rate film about James Whale, the openly gay director of "Bride of Frankenstein", among other films. The acting also is first rate, especially Sir Ian McKellan as Whale (Sir Ian SHOULD have won the Best Actor Academy Award that year, but he didn't)

T

[gpandas]

87. about schmidt

[StopTheMorans]

90. Napolean Dynamite

[48pan]

91. Strange Brew!

The MacKenzie brothers are way cool.

[Midlodemocrat]

93. Waiting for Guffman. Pure genius.

[Patsy Stone]

95. I never thought this was underrated

All of his stuff (Best in Show is my personal fav) is genius. They are a bunch of brilliant comedians.

Thanks for making me smile with the mere mention of Guffman!

Signed,
Corky St. Clair

[hickman1937]

101. Absolutly,

Guffman is my favorite C.G. movie. I love Corky.

[ZenLefty]

99. Ghost Dog: the Way of the Samurai

n/t

[NewJeffCT]

102. Lord of the Rings - the Fellowship of the Ring

I thought it was the best movie of the three. It was smaller & more intimate.