Underrated Movies Appreciation Thread

[IndieMatty]

Not big blockbusters, not psuedo artsy movies, just guilty pleasure, 2.5 star movies that you think most people will enjoy:

Examples:

Tin Cup
Easy Money

[lucas9000]

some movies i enjoy that aren't exactly masterpieces of cinema:

zoolander
boiler room

there are more but i'm drawing a blank right now.

[Soul Daddy]

Cannibal: The Musical

[BellyBuster7]

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo

[Duke]

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Not big blockbusters, not psuedo artsy movies, just guilty pleasure, 2.5 star movies that you think most people will enjoy:

Examples:

Tin Cup
Easy Money

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I learned a long time ago that I have no idea what most people would like.

~D

[Rhone]

I have a fondness for Sneakers, early '90s movie with Robert Redford. Is this flick underrated, or do most people appreciate it? No one really talks about it too much. Not a great movie, but a good time for 90 minutes.

[chaas4747]

A Knight's Tale

[CheckFold]

Bring It On, Breaking Away, Overboard

[IndieMatty]

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Bring It On, Breaking Away, Overboard

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Quality Crap.

[slickpoppa]

So I Married an Axe Murderer

[lucas9000]

nice avatar. "he's a cool dude."

[IndieMatty]

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some movies i enjoy that aren't exactly masterpieces of cinema:

zoolander
boiler room

there are more but i'm drawing a blank right now.

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God, I really hate Zoolander. Ever since the Waterboy I hate movies with characters in like a completely unbelievable character the whole time.


Boiler Room is VERY watchable.

[LotsOfOuts69]

Fear
Italian Job
Escape from Alcatraz (1979-clint eastwood)
Pitch Black

[Chairman Wood]

Joe Dirt
Antz

[brokedickrooster]

Animal Factory
The Way of the Gun
Boondock Saints

[mmbt0ne]

A list of movies I'll always watch if they're on:

Empire Records
That Thing You Do
Bring It On
Varsity Blues
Mallrats
Can't Hardly Wait

So yeah, 3 Ethan Embry movies, cheerleaders, high school football, and stoners.

[lucas9000]

i just thought of another: pirates of the carribean. i'm a sucker for johnny depp.

[mmbt0ne]

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i just thought of another: pirates of the carribean. i'm a sucker for johnny depp.

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Not big blockbusters

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[fsuplayer]

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i just thought of another: pirates of the carribean. i'm a sucker for keira knightley.

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FYP

[lucas9000]

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i just thought of another: pirates of the carribean. i'm a sucker for johnny depp.

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Not big blockbusters

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my bad.

[fsuplayer]

Twister (i dont think it was big in the box office, but i could be wrong.)

cant beat it with the sound turned way up.

[IndieMatty]

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A list of movies I'll always watch if they're on:

Empire Records
That Thing You Do
Bring It On
Varsity Blues
Mallrats
Can't Hardly Wait

So yeah, 3 Ethan Embry movies, cheerleaders, high school football, and stoners.

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I agree 100%. I [censored] love Empire Records and all the others.

<font color="white"> (I saw Can't Hardly Wait in the theatres....twice) </font>

[IndieMatty]

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i just thought of another: pirates of the carribean. i'm a sucker for johnny depp.

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JD is my fav actor.

I'll watch anything of his. So let's add Nick of Time to the list.

[Roan]

i agree with sneakers, others i'll always watch:

tremors
high fidelity (might not be underrated enough for this thread)
toy soldiers

[mmbt0ne]

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toy soldiers

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AWESOME

[fsuplayer]

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toy soldiers

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AWESOME

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by far the best answer yet.

[swede123]

Suicide Kings...hell, anything Christopher Walken has a role in is well worth watching.

Swede

[mmbt0ne]

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A list of movies I'll always watch if they're on:

Empire Records
That Thing You Do
Bring It On
Varsity Blues
Mallrats
Can't Hardly Wait

So yeah, 3 Ethan Embry movies, cheerleaders, high school football, and stoners.

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I agree 100%. I [censored] love Empire Records and all the others.

<font color="white"> (I saw Can't Hardly Wait in the theatres....twice) </font>

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Jennifer Love Hewitt is gorgeous. Plus, Dharma's an angel whore, and Seth Green's a wigger. A+ on all fronts.

[Kailia Marie]

Moulin Rouge.

[Sporky]

13th Warrior
Pitch Black

both have some pretty big names...well vin wasn't big back then, but i can't remember them being in the theatre for over a week or two. nothing special about either of them, but they're pretty good for some reason.

[VBM]

does Blue Crush qualify as a blockbuster? b/c it's definitely a guilty pleasure-ish movie for me.

i had really low expectations for AvP, and it did suck, but not *quite* as bad as i anticipated...

...my wife can't understand why i must watch Happy Gilmore every time its on...but i think most here probably would...

[DireWolf]

CrossRoads.

No, not the britney spears one.

[Alobar]

I get stuck watching Wargames, and Iron eagle *shudder*, everytime they come on.

Tremors
knockaround guys
blue crush

[Alobar]

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13th Warrior


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ugh, its a toss up between that and "reign of fire" for the worse movie of all time that looked like it would be good.

[faman]

Super Troopers

"Canada eh? Almost made it."

[lucas9000]

blue chips

afaik it didn't do too well, but i really like it.

[Soul Daddy]

Real Genius

[jnalpak]

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Tin Cup


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hardly underrated

[nicky g]

Sea of Love

Fallen

[Alobar]

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Super Troopers

"Canada eh? Almost made it."

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This is one of the top 10 comedies of all time....clearly waaaaaay to good for this thread

[IndieMatty]

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Super Troopers

"Canada eh? Almost made it."

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This is one of the top 10 comedies of all time....clearly waaaaaay to good for this thread

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[IndieMatty]

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Tin Cup


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hardly underrated

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As in everybody knows how awesome it is?



Here's another "The Replacements"

[Duke]

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I have a fondness for Sneakers, early '90s movie with Robert Redford. Is this flick underrated, or do most people appreciate it? No one really talks about it too much. Not a great movie, but a good time for 90 minutes.

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It is a great movie.

~D

[Duke]

Local Hero.
Bottle Rocket.
Gattaca - only because it's not on the IMDB top 250 and should be.

~D

[xadrez]

Good call on "Easy Money"

Id like to add the first 2/3rds of "The Exorcist 3"

[Pocket Trips]

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Local Hero.
Bottle Rocket.
Gattaca - only because it's not on the IMDB top 250 and should be.

~D

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There are at least 3000 films ever made that are better than Gattica...nevermind 250

[jnalpak]

two words: MIDNIGHT MADNESS (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081159/)

[Eurotrash]

PCU (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110759)


somebody else has to love this movie

[kipin]

The Godfather
Star Wars
Lord of the Rings
The Shawshank Redemption.

[shant]

Sneakers is the [censored].

[WEASEL45]

The Big Hit
Confidence

[_2000Flushes]

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Real Genius

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Great movie. Uncle Rico played the long-haired super-genius who lived in the closet.

-2kF

[Reef]

Barbershop

[Gin 'n Tonic]

Johnny Mnemonic
Grosse Point Blank
Repo Man
Ghost in the Shell
Pi
Dark City
Solaris (1972 original)

[ucfryan]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00003IPFK.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[PhatTBoll]

SLC Punk
Donnie Brasco
Candyman

How's that for genre-crossing?

[dr_venkman]

"The Bounty", newer version with Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins.

"The Mosquito Coast" - one of the best Harrison Ford movies ever.

"Cool Hand Luke"

[tripdad]

Bandits. rolling on the floor funny the whole way through.

cheers!

[Edge34]

Out Cold

[emil3000]

Starship Troopers

[kevyk]

The Shawshank Redemption is in my top two movies of all time, but I don't think it's underrated. Everyone I know or meet loves it.

My nomination is The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Well-known but under-appreciated.

[thatpfunk]

pcu is amazing.

[texaspimp]

The Whoopee Boys - Paul Rodriquez and the Danny Noonan from Caddyshack

Adventures of Ford Fairlane - Diceman!!

[IndieMatty]

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SLC Punk
Donnie Brasco
Candyman

How's that for genre-crossing?

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Excellent.

[shant]

Is From Dusk 'Til Dawn underrated?

[IndieMatty]

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Not big blockbusters, not psuedo artsy movies, just guilty pleasure, 2.5 star movies that you think most people will enjoy:

Examples:

Tin Cup
Easy Money

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Here's some more...

Two Ninas (Ron Livingston movie)

Baseketball

Just One Of The Guys

Back To School


Oh and I am completely a sucker for Copland. That movie is highly under appreciated.


"You had your chance, and you blew it!"

[JPotMaster]

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Twister (i dont think it was big in the box office, but i could be wrong.)

cant beat it with the sound turned way up.

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38th highest domestic box office ever
Twister WB $241,721,524 1996

[shant]

Teen Wolf
Joy Ride

[NutCrackerr]

Return of the Living Dead

[Rockatansky]

The Way of the Gun
The Game

[_2000Flushes]

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Johnny Mnemonic
Grosse Point Blank
Repo Man
Ghost in the Shell
Pi
Dark City
Solaris (1972 original)

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If you liked Johnny Mnemonic, you'll love these:

Chill Factor
Fearless
3000 Miles to Graceland
Reindeer Games
The Transporter
Freddy Got Fingered
Cube
Feeling Minnesota
The Core

-2kF

[Rockatansky]

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some movies i enjoy that aren't exactly masterpieces of cinema:

zoolander
boiler room

there are more but i'm drawing a blank right now.

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I also second Grosse Point Blank and Dark City. Pi and Gattica are too good to be included in this thread.

[IndieMatty]

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The Way of the Gun
The Game

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Ni Han

[ClassicBob]

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PCU (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110759)


somebody else has to love this movie

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Watch it every time it comes on.

[Lumpy]

Ronin
For Love of the Game

[thirddan]

a

[Edge34]

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The Way of the Gun

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You better shut that bitch up before I come over there and fuckstart her head! (or thereabouts...)

One of the best opening lines, EVER. /images/graemlins/cool.gif

[Ulysses]

Wow. I have watched every single movie mentioned in this thread so far.

[Blarg]

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Bring It On, Breaking Away, Overboard

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Quality Crap.

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Breaking Away was an excellent movie, nominated for a bunch of oscars, and got at least one. This movie may be underrated now, but it was huge when it came out. Very funny and sometimes moving.

[J_V]

You didn't.

[the42]

The Sure Thing ( best 80's movie ever ) Cusack

[Rhone]

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I have a fondness for Sneakers, early '90s movie with Robert Redford. Is this flick underrated, or do most people appreciate it? No one really talks about it too much. Not a great movie, but a good time for 90 minutes.

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It is a great movie.

~D

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C'mon, it's a good movie, but people throw around the word great too lightly. But I'm glad others appreciate it too.

[Blarg]

The Silent Partner -- unbelievably great crime film/character study; I could see this one a thousand times, but you can't find it anywhere anymore.

After Hours -- super funny Scorcese flick that everyone I knew used to agree was basically my life story. Eerily accurate.

Diary of a Madman -- my favorite Vincent Price movie ever; very chilling and incredible original(taken from an old French short story, but the idea is very original and unusual)

Alice in the Cities -- Wim Wenders film that had a kind of longing and sadness to it that I've never seen before or since, and I saw it 20 years ago

The Black Marble -- Joseph Wambaugh's novel turned movie, some really excellent parts, some very funny, some incredibly moving

A lot of people are naming their favorite movies, not just ones that are particularly underrated, so I'll violate a little too, by adding one that isn't underrated for fun, but for how good it really is, I think -- Cool Hand Luke. I think that movie is a lot deeper and better than some people give it credit for. They don't make movies like that anymore; I put its themes and character development in a category with Catch 22(the book, not the movie). They don't make movies like that anymore, and I'm not sure they ever will again. I think that part of the human spirit may have been smothered, or be hiding very deep underground.

[SinCityGuy]

Midnight Run (http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2322556?htv=12) with Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin.

[Blarg]

Not sure how underrated that one is, but it was very good. It was pretty popular when it came out. I guess it's underrated now in the sense of few people seem to have heard of it or remember it, and it's definitely worth a rental. It was the first time DeNiro did comedy, and everyone was kind of surprised how well he did it.

[Crveballin]

The Game
Equilibrium
Underworld
12 Monkeys

[Rushmore]

...of ones not mentioned so far:

River's Edge
Lone Star
Badlands
One False Move
Salesman
American Movie
At Close Range

I own them all, yet cannot turn them off if I am channel surfing and happen upon them. They are all that good.

I would say that of this list, Lone Star is the most underappreciated.

[JMP300z]

some good mentions such as all ethan embry (just bought cant hardly wait the other day), bottle rocket, and Out Cold (although it gets progressively unfunny as it ends).

Ill add:

Go
Saving Silverman
Waiting for Guffman
Cheats (cheaters?)
Orange County

[Dr. Strangelove]

Baseketball
Remains of the Day

Sneakers is 2 hours and 10 minutes I believe.

Commando
Miller's Crossing
Outta Sight
American Flyers (cheesy 80's movie about bike racing, Kevin Costner)

[sfer]

That's a fantastic movie. The kind where if I'm channel surfing and it's on a local station with the dialogue all mangled I'll still watch it. Again.

[Blarg]

Badlands was very good. Not sure how underrated it is. It's just mostly unknown except to movie buffs.

[Pompey]

Memento
Contact

Both def. underrated mainstream movies.

[the42]

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Midnight Run (http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2322556?htv=12) with Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin.

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"Why are you so unpopular with the Chicago Police department" Love that movie great pick.

Another good one with Grodin is him and Jim Belushi don't remember the name but funny. belushi breaks out of prison with a couple days left on his sentance to see the Cubs play in the Worls Series. Funny but doesn't deserve to be on this list. Although the movies are very similiar

[Blarg]

Memento is kind of a cult classic; I don't think that would enable it to be considered underrated.

[jaybee_70]

The Professional
Deep Cover

[thatpfunk]

Showdown in Little Tokyo
Over the Top
Toxic Avenger

[jaybee_70]

Forgot about The Way of the Gun. Good stuff.

[[censored]]

Conan the Barbarian, Starship Troopers.

[deacsoft]

Requiem for a Dream
Memento
The Way of the Gun
The Virgin Suicides
Entropy

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also, searching for bobby fischer is very good

[jaybee_70]

Gross Pointe Blank
From Dusk til Dawn

[Rockatansky]

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Wow. I have watched every single movie mentioned in this thread so far.

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And perhaps starred in a few as well...

http://community.middlebury.edu/~mobrien/covers/Blue%20Demon%20y%20las%20Seductorias.jpg

[astroglide]

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Requiem for a Dream
Memento

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http://www.imdb.com/chart/top

requiem = 51
memento = 23

plus they're gigantically hyped

[astroglide]

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also, searching for bobby fischer is very good

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i thought that too. i recalled seeing 3/4 of it at a friend's house when i was a teenager and i thought it was a great motivational/uplifting kind of movie. bought it based on that impression a couple months ago, rewatched it and thought it was terrible.

[thatpfunk]

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Requiem for a Dream
Memento

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Both of these movies are popular.

[jaybee_70]

n/m

[Crveballin]

Big Trouble in Little China

[[censored]]

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Big Trouble in Little China

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Good one

[TripleH68]

Let it Ride. Funny movie about gambling.

[Rushmore]

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Badlands was very good. Not sure how underrated it is. It's just mostly unknown except to movie buffs.

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Wouldn't this make it "underappreciated?"

It's not like I pulled out some "Pane y Tulippi y Chocalat" bullshit. This is a great movie with Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek, for cryin out loud; the fact that nobody has ever heard of it means that it went largely unnoticed, and that, to me, is "underappreciated."

[StevieG]

I watch "Outland" (1981) the rare times it is on cable.

It's basically High Noon, set in space, with Sean Connery playing the guy cleaning up the town, and Peter Boyle playing the heavy. They turn in great performances, and so does the actress that later played Cliff Clavin's mother on "Cheers".

Looked it up on IMDB, her name is Frances Sternhagen

[Blarg]

Not really. I think it was appreciated by its target audience, which is not really a big one. I don't think a high percentage of people have ever gone in for movies like this.

And it's heading on 30 years old. Look at the movies mentioned here. Most of them are from the last five or ten years, and a lot of them are even blockbusters. Many of them are/were quite popular. People have no memory for movies, and lots of the people here are kids, so it's no surprise they don't remember the golden oldies. It's not a matter of underrating them so much as being fixated on the present and blind to the past.

Plus I think a lot of people misunderstood "underrated" as a concept and just applied it as if it meant "some of my favorites, possibly even ones that aren't on constant t.v. and cable rotation." Many of them aren't even close to underrated.

I'm sure some of my favorites, like "Shadow of a Doubt," which Hitchcock considered his personal favorite, are equally unknown to most people, especially on this forum, but how underrated they are is arguable. A lot of them, and a lot of people in general, are just too young to have seen it, much less have any opinion on it. Badlands is kind of like that; a really, really good movie, but one that isn't so much underrated as unknown to anyone who's not a film buff. I haven't met a film buff who hasn't rated it highly yet.

[Rushmore]

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Not really. I think it was appreciated by its target audience, which is not really a big one. I don't think a high percentage of people have ever gone in for movies like this.

And it's heading on 30 years old. Look at the movies mentioned here. Most of them are from the last five or ten years, and a lot of them are even blockbusters. Many of them are/were quite popular. People have no memory for movies, and lots of the people here are kids, so it's no surprise they don't remember the golden oldies. It's not a matter of underrating them so much as being fixated on the present and blind to the past.

Plus I think a lot of people misunderstood "underrated" as a concept and just applied it as if it meant "some of my favorites, possibly even ones that aren't on constant t.v. and cable rotation." Many of them aren't even close to underrated.

I'm sure some of my favorites, like "Shadow of a Doubt," which Hitchcock considered his personal favorite, are equally unknown to most people, especially on this forum, but how underrated they are is arguable. A lot of them, and a lot of people in general, are just too young to have seen it, much less have any opinion on it. Badlands is kind of like that; a really, really good movie, but one that isn't so much underrated as unknown to anyone who's not a film buff. I haven't met a film buff who hasn't rated it highly yet.

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This is a reasonable response.

That said, what about the others on my list?

[Jon34]

1) Dirty Work
2) Top Secret
3) The Saint

others:
UHF
the Ref


boondock saints is too good to be in this list.

[Blarg]

One False Move was really good but very disturbing. Really, really hard to watch. I seem to recall a bit of cheating or notable implausibility at the end, but it's been years since I saw it.

River's Edge was also very, very good. I remember when the original incident flared up that it was based on. Stephen King later did his own take on the found body scenario in Stand By Me. River's Edge wasn't underrated at the time, and got lots of good press and was talked about a lot. I think it had a few oscar nominations and won for best screenplay or something? Really good movie that I think has been imitated a bit by lesser movies.

I haven't seen the others on your list.

[DcifrThs]

Chapman's films

1) the great dictator: in this film (which got him exiled from the US to france) he mocked hitler by making a guy Himler, dictator of Tomania (german) pre wwII. he speaks a funny sounding made up german. chapman plays both himler and a jewish barber who saved as SS soldier to be in the first world war and who lost his mind and gets out thinking nothing has changed at the time tomania is being overrun by the "nazi"esque soldiers picking on the jews. in the end, there is the greatest speech in cinematic history (2nd only to Network - a 70's era drama about a dan rathers type anchor who says he's gunna kill himself on the air. great movie)

2) city lights: another chapman classic that is seroiusly heartwrenchin in its scerenity and complexity. yet it still has an utter simplicity about it. this movie is vastly underrated because it was made during the transition to "talkies." he started out making it a silent movie but the world changed in the middle of him making his movie (unimaginable in todays world). he then decided to satirize himself and make fun of the silent films in thismovie. the characters talk but in wierd unexpected kinda voices and the score (which he composed and directed) is simply perfect.

basically, charlie chapman is the singular greatest director/writer/composer (movie wise) i have ever watched in action (he acts very well too but doesn't get the greatest ever title for that). and yet nobody knows who he is or what he's accomplished.

underrated is an understatement for a man of this talent.

-Barron

[Blarg]

Chapman???

A true fan.

[zephed56]

Pootie Tang

http://www.laqat.com/movie/poster/2001/pootie_tang.jpg

[Sponger15SB]

I'm shocked nobody has mentioned...

The Cable Guy

[IndieMatty]

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I'm shocked nobody has mentioned...

The Cable Guy

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I was actually waiting for you in this thread. For some reason I knew you'd have a good one.

[DcifrThs]

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Chapman???

A true fan.

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LOL...didn't even NOTICE it...clearly its chaplin, dont know what i wrote chapman.

-Barron

[Phoenix1010]

Some movies I have a strange fondness for:

Jumanji
The Neverending Story
The Wizard
Demolition Man
Kindergarten Cop (or anything with Arnold in it)
Little Giants
Spawn
Battle Royale
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Frailty

[Bob L]

Van Wilder
Roadtrip
True Romance
Clerks
Pump up the Volume

[youngndumb]

Boondock Saints

edit:
From Hell, Dark City

[pshreck]

Srange Days.

Oh, and I would have enjoyed this thread more if 50% of the movies weren't actually underrated at all. The OP starting off with Tin Cup certainly didn't help things...

[youngndumb]

Agreed on the whole underrated thing.
Oh, and Strange Brew is pretty much the greatest drinking movie of all time and i would wager that less than 10 percent of you have seen it.

[BWebb]

Two I liked:

Very Bad Things
Death to Smoochy

[Crveballin]

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Agreed on the whole underrated thing.
Oh, and Strange Brew is pretty much the greatest drinking movie of all time and i would wager that less than 10 percent of you have seen it.

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I even know the drinking game. Drink a shot of beer every time they say "eh". Nothing like growing a mouse inside a beer bottle.

[Eihli]

Fulltime Killer

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286635/

[youngndumb]

Three of us in college probably watched Strange Brew 15 times and not a one of us knows how it ends. I have bits and pieces in my head but could not tell you for the life of me what actually happens in the last half hour

[Freakin]

Arizona Dream (old school Depp flick). Good luck finding it (especially on DVD).

Freakin

[thatpfunk]

Almost forgot Igby Goes Down.

I think easily one of the best movies of the past 5 years, yet you hear very little about it.

[jlpadge21]

I can't believe only one person said Equilibrium.
I would add the first Friday.
Slingblade.

[Blarg]

Nobody underrated Slingblade. It got a friggin oscar (or more?) and made Billy Bob Thorton a star.

That's why this thread has become beyond silly.

[bernie]

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I have a fondness for Sneakers,

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Then you'll also like 3 Days of the Condor.

Which the story is suprisingly relevant to today.

b

[bernie]

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After Hours -- super funny Scorcese flick

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The one with the guy stuck in the Soho district for a night? Great flick. Im glad to see it in here. I was going to mention it.

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[Blarg]

Yeah. Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Cheech and Chong. Great stuff, one thing after another.

[i wanna be me]

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Almost forgot Igby Goes Down.

I think easily one of the best movies of the past 5 years, yet you hear very little about it.

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I really disliked this movie. Seemed to jump all over the place.

[Sykes]

Wow.

Donnie Darko.
The Big Kahuna
Cheaters
Animal Factory
That Thing you do (Very good movie IMO)
Down Periscope
War Games (Doubt it's overrated though)
Contact
The Pentagon Wars (Based on true events)

[Shakezula]

"Slam", gritty story of streetwise poet, starring Saul Williams.

"Zero Effect", a comedy about the world's greatest detective, starring Bill Pullman.

[Shajen]

Things to do in Denver when your dead

Over the top

Space Balls

The Princess Bride (eh, maybe not, seems pretty damned popular)

Good thread yo.

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And Sgt. Bilko
And McHale's Navy

[jakethebake]

The Sure Thing
Six-String Samurai
Lake Placid
The Night Before /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[zaxx19]

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Almost forgot Igby Goes Down.

I think easily one of the best movies of the past 5 years, yet you hear very little about it.


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I really disliked this movie. Seemed to jump all over the place.


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Um, no you must have been stoned bc this movie really didnt jump around at all it centered on one boy and his family.......

heres to hoping you were stoned while watching it....

[IndieMatty]

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Down Periscope

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And Sgt. Bilko
And McHale's Navy

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Wow. can't believe I forgot..

My Blue Heaven.

"Arugala...it's a vegatable"

[Matt Flynn]

my first love was in that as the girl that takes their order in the McDonalds.

[NoPeak]

All The Right Moves
Breakdown
Lake Placid
Last American Virgin
Surviving the Game
Bound

[mostsmooth]

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also, searching for bobby fischer is very good

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i thought that too. i recalled seeing 3/4 of it at a friend's house when i was a teenager and i thought it was a great motivational/uplifting kind of movie. bought it based on that impression a couple months ago, rewatched it and thought it was terrible.

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i watch it every time its on

[IndieMatty]

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All The Right Moves
Breakdown
Lake Placid
Last American Virgin
Surviving the Game
Bound

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Breakdown is an awesome movie.

[astroglide]

your friends and neighbors

[Rhone]

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I have a fondness for Sneakers,

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Then you'll also like 3 Days of the Condor.

Which the story is suprisingly relevant to today.

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Cool, I'll check it out. thanks.

[bernie]

Lots of good ones on here.

Here's one that I don't think many on here have seen.

Kissing Jessica Stein.

Fantastically written, brilliantly acted.

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[trying2learn]

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Let it Ride. Funny movie about gambling.

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You knew! You knew, you knew, you knew...and you didn't bet it!?!?!

priceless

[Iplayragstoo]

Dawn of the Dead (both old and new versions)
Escape from NY (first one)
last American Virgin (circa 1982)
House of Games - [censored] awsume movie /images/graemlins/grin.gif