Underrated Films

[The GWD]

Why don't we just say "every good movie since the inception of film is overrated" to cap off all this retardation?

But, Bixby you bastard, we're talking about underrated films now. Ha! I make you look foolish when I quote you entirely out of context.

What's all the hoopla about? Everyone is arguing who has choosing the most OVERrated movies. Well, overrated means bad. And bad means... well, not good. I want a good, positive poll. Which would be the opposite which means here is your place to put your most UNDERrated movies. The movies that kick ass but no one's looking.
Here are a few of mine;
Starship Troopers: I loved this movie when it first came out, and I still love it today. It's not cinematic brilliance, but it's damn entertaining in the vein of Paul Verhoeven's other sci-fi endeavors, "Robocop" and "Total Recall"
Near Dark: One of the best vampire movies ever made. I know this one has a cult following, but it never got the notoriety it so richly deserves.
Election: Lots of critical raves, but no-one seems to know about this great movie, with Matthew Broderick doing an polar opposite of Ferris Bueller as the foil to Reese Witherspoon.
Flirting With Disaster: David O. Russell's comedy gem that very few people seem to know about. This movie is over 10 years old and is one of Ben Stiller's funniest movies, way better than that "Meet the Parents" shit.
Nixon: Stone's second U.S. President biopic was just as entertaining as "JFK", moreso because of Anthony Hopkins and Joan Allen playing their roles to a T.
Miller's Crossing: My favorite film from the Coen brothers, got critical raves but never got the play that "Fargo" and "No Country For Old Men" received.
The Sweet Hereafter: Atom Egoyan's adaptation of Russell Banks' heartbreaking novel is a brillant movie, if not just as heartbreaking as the book. Still, the performances are great, especially Ian Holm's and Sarah Polley's.
Also vastly underrated:
The Limey, Strange Days, Empire of the Sun, Safe (starring Julianne Moore), Heat (Michael Mann's film is a work of art), Pitch Black (Vin Diesel can has good movie??) and Jacob's Ladder.

I don't talk as much as Vox. How about

Death to Smoochy. Yeah. Smooch Heil, Smooch Heil!

[Face]

you're welcome

[Face]

:)

[Archetype]

Heat? I saw that movie 13 years ago!

[Bastard]

Bubble Boy is an underrated film. I don’t mean the film where John Travolta dies either, although that film was also hilarious.

[bixby]

They Live
The Rocketeer
Insomnia (Nolan version)
The Rescuers Down Under (childhood classic)
Sunshine--While I agree that the Freddy Krueger looking killer introduced in the third act was way, wwwaaayyyy unnecessary, everyone in the cast delivers a great performance, especially Chris Evans, who outright kicked ass in this film. I've also got to give Danny Boyle and Alex Garland props for taking chances with the story, even if it's messy as all hell near the end.

[Archetype]

They Live
The Rocketeer
Insomnia (Nolan version)
The Rescuers Down Under (childhood classic)
Sunshine--While I agree that the Freddy Krueger looking killer introduced in the third act was way, wwwaaayyyy unnecessary, everyone in the cast delivers a great performance, especially Chris Evans, who outright kicked ass in this film. I've also got to give Danny Boyle and Alex Garland props for taking chances with the story, even if it's messy as all hell near the end.
Nice list, I haven't seen The Rescuers Down Under in forever.

[Spanky]

High Fidelity

[heelsguy]

"The Family Man" is underrated. Tea Leoni in the shower grinding to "Beast of burden" was a memorable scene. good casting with jeremy piven, don cheatle and others.
good time of year to see it.

[Change]

They Live

QFT! Also Conan The Barbarian.

[freegood]

I like Nick Cage movies that don't make a lot of money.

Lord of War
Adaptation
Matchstick Men
Leaving Los Vegas

[mongo]

http://www.axelmusic.com/resources/covers/0/027616724823.jpg

[Jericho]

Hey, why do you get a pool cue?

[Archetype]

Screwed was pretty funny too.

I like Nick Cage movies that don't make a lot of money.

Lord of War
Adaptation
Matchstick Men
Leaving Los Vegas

Hey, you forgot the tartar sauce.

[El Torpedo]

At least I didn't get my nose bit off by a Saigon Whore!

[Jericho]

Note To Self: I don't want to live

[Jericho]

What I don't understand is... when you owe a bookie a lot of money, and he, say, blows off one of your toes, you still owe him the money. Doesn't seem fair to me. Especially when he's gonna kill me in four days anyway.

[mongo]

hey, mildred!

[Jericho]

Wait, you guys are brothers?

It's a long story

My dad boned his mom

Okay, it's a short story

[mongo]

are those prostitutes? i mean, who are these girls?

[Jericho]

Mr. T? Are you saying that you bet on Rocky 3 and that Rocky would lose


Well, hindsight is 20/20

[mongo]

back then, we didn't have those fancy birth control methods, like pulling out!

[mongo]

in the land of the skunk, the one nostriled man is king!

[Archetype]

Dr. Farthing, what happened to your arm?


Well, it was either from sleeping on it the wrong way or bookmakers throwing me out of a speeding car.

[Jericho]

So there you are, tubby. Look like a bucket of lard on a bad day. You baby gorilla. Why don't you work in a zoo, and stop bothering people? Got a call yesterday from Baskin Robbins. They said that they're down to only five flavors. You're swelling up as I talk to you.
No sir, I was laughing earlier when you were talking to his belly

[El Torpedo]

It smells like fish in here...

[Archetype]

Now, let me ask you, are you a betting man?

I don't know... Sure.

Well, if someone was taking bets on your father's bout with death, I'd bet everything I own on death. It's a good bet.

Couldn't you have prepared him a little for that??

Oh, well, kinda thought I did with that uh, little betting analogy.

[Candycane]

Is an underrated movie considered to be like a "cult classic" or sleeper film?

Anyway I think Very Bad Things ranks up there, the movie is hysterical and yet dark. I also think Go and True Romance qualify, but do they? They are amazing films I'm just not sure if everyone vanilla and mainstream knows of them.

[Jericho]

Is an underrated movie considered to be like a "cult classic" or sleeper film?

Anyway I think Very Bad Things ranks up there, the movie is hysterical and yet dark. I also think Go and True Romance qualify, but do they? They are amazing films I'm just not sure if everyone vanilla and mainstream knows of them.
Go is one of my top 10 all time films

[Bill Paxton]

"oh no, he got my chainsaw away from me and now hes using it on me! ARGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!"

[Archetype]

I liked Very Bad Things until Kobe Thai died.
But that was when it got good.

[Titus_Pullo]

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[Jericho]

God, I hear that shit all the time from my friends. Am I the only one that thought Dark City sucked dick?

I feel the same about Donnie Darko. What?

[Archetype]

http://i35.tinypic.com/2qssyde.jpg

I'm actually writing a report on that and the Platonic ideals represented in it as we speak.

[Face]

God, I hear that shit all the time from my friends. Am I the only one that thought Dark City sucked dick?

I feel the same about Donnie Darko. What?
I'll second you on DD, I just don't get it... but Dark City is fucking awesome!

[Bastard]

The Hidden - An excellent movie about a fun loving alien that enjoys loud rock music, fast cars, and violence. It also happens to takeover people’s bodies to go on crime sprees until the human is killed and then the alien just moves onto another host. One of the funniest scenes is when the alien takes over a stripper’s body and bangs someone to death.

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[Archetype]

Evil Aliens: poorly made, badly scripted movie about an eerie, pancake-boobed, 5th rate reporter, who goes to check out a broad who claims she was raped by an alien. OK, so it's not that underrated, but it's got some really odd, funny parts.

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[Change]

Suburban Commando

[BillyZoom]

Bad Company (1995) with Lawrence Fishburne & Ellen Barkin

Nelson Crowe (Fishburne to Barkin's character): You and I are forever. I decide when forever ends.

My favorite Barkin movie and 3rd favorite of Fishburne's outside of Apocalypse Now and The Matrix series.

[Andy1234]

Barry Lyndon
Kubrick movie, get's better every time

[ruffdog]

Harsh Times

[Jericho]

http://www.nbcuniversalstore.com/img/product/resized/00006048-435249_400.jpg

[ruffdog]

I was like 'EMILIO!'

[Bastard]

http://www.nbcuniversalstore.com/img/product/resized/00006048-435249_400.jpg


That film would have been great if Denis Leary had killed Emilio.

[vasili denisov]

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[Change]

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane is mega underrated.

Conversation with Zuzu Petals was like masturbating with a cheese grater: slightly amusing, but mostly painful.

[El Torpedo]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/69/Joe_dirt.jpg

[Andy1234]

Loved King of the Hill. Is it on DVD yet?

[Datači]

more like Andy1235

[Okie Medicvet]

The most underrated movie of all time:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070643/

[Hobnail_Boot]

http://i43.tinypic.com/hrfq1j.jpg

Carwash (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074281/) is one of the most underrated films of all time and I'm serious. Watch it. You'll thank me later.

[Hobnail_Boot]

I like Nick Cage movies that don't make a lot of money.

Lord of War
Adaptation
Matchstick Men
Leaving Los Vegas
Face/Off (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119094/) is also generally awesome. "I'm Castor fucking Troy!"

http://i42.tinypic.com/28anhjk.jpg

[Le Goat]

Face/Off was good for it's day. Now it's just 'that one film' after The Matrix took that gun-fight genre to the next level.


but as for Nick Cage movies, Lord of War is damn good and so is Family Man.

Other than that he blows

[heelsguy]

"the deep" (1977)

nick nolte, robert shaw, lou gossett jr., and those fabulous nips of jacquelin bisset

[freegood]

Death to Smoochie...underrated dark comedy.


lulz on the Family Man.

[Das Kahlua]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0767806808.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[Diesel]

http://z.about.com/d/homevideo/1/0/K/3/bedazzled.jpg

It was awesome...

http://thecia.com.au/reviews/b/images/bedazzled-800.jpg

[Okie Medicvet]

I highly recommend this movie to EVERYONE.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101371/

[The GWD]

I'm not clicking some fucking link without knowing exactly where I'm going. Give me a title, bitch.

[Jericho]

Okie's a stupidass

[bootska]

Face-off was one of the worst movies of all time.

The two worst actors of all time in one movie, epic.

[}{arlequin]

Face-off was one of the worst movies of all time.

The two worst actors of all time in one movie, epic.
john woo can't be that bad.

[heelsguy]

john woo can't be that bad.

yet another movie with white doves flying out everyone's asses...a la MI: 2

[}{arlequin]

don't forget the slo-mo aiming guns at each other moments

[Mustard]

The New Guy
Child's Play 3
Star Wars
Friday and Next Friday

[SammyKC]

http://i22.tinypic.com/esiyj8.jpg

[Hobnail_Boot]

Face-off was one of the worst movies of all time.

The two worst actors of all time in one movie, epic.
yet another movie with white doves flying out everyone's asses...a la MI: 2
don't forget the slo-mo aiming guns at each other moments
Fuck all 3 of you! Face/Off was fucking awesome and you know it! If you don't believe me, see my post from above (http://forum.gorillamask.net/showpost.php?p=534643&postcount=52) where mention how awesome the movie is.

[Change]

Face/Off fucking ruled!

[banethejuggalo]

Iron Giant
Point Break
Rock-a-doodle (was i the only one that saw this as a kid?)
Joe Dirt
"You're gonna stand there, owning a fireworks stand, and tell me you don't have no whistling bungholes, no spleen spliters, whisker biscuits, honkey lighters, hoosker doos, hoosker donts, cherry bombs, nipsy daisers, with or without the scooter stick, or one single whistling kitty chaser?"

[dick_darlington]

The New Guy
Child's Play 3
Star Wars
Friday and Next Friday
are you serious?!?! any movie starring dj qualls must be considered shitty by default. who would be convinced that dj qualls is a badass?

[scraty55]

PCU
Cabin Boy
The Hot Chick - proof that rob schnieder will do any script, and rachel mcadams as a stripper :)

[Mustard]

are you serious?!?! any movie starring dj qualls must be considered shitty by default. who would be convinced that dj qualls is a badass?
Am I serious? Are you daft? I put Star Wars on the list!

[SammyKC]

http://media.teamxbox.com/bradygames/warriors/warriors_cover.jpg

[Bastard]

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m24/Arrogant__Bastard/uncommon_valor.jpg

It is often overlooked and underrated but Uncommon Valor is a good film. It had a great cast that included Gene Hackman, Fred Ward, Tex Cobb, Robert Stack, and Patrick Swayze. Tex is pretty funny in it, especially when he’s kicking swayze’s ass.

[FrozenBagel]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blood_of_Heroes

[heelsguy]

http://imagecache.allposters.com/images/pic/MG/203502~The-Burbs-Posters.jpg
it's on HBO right this minute

[Okie Medicvet]

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Club Paradise
My Bodyguard
Five (1951)

[Archetype]

http://media.teamxbox.com/bradygames/warriors/warriors_cover.jpg
The Warriors sucked. If anything, it's overrated.

[Okie Medicvet]

Blasphemy!

I have daydreams about them doing a sequel and throwing in zombies.

[Sarxos]

http://www.iwatchstuff.com/images/2006/03/mission-impossible-3-poster.jpg

[mongo]

http://absolutemichigan.com/blogs/tcfilmfestival/files/2008/09/hamlet.jpg

[Mustard]

I want to see that.

[dudenamedric]

Road House

[Mr. Bateman]

http://www.iwatchstuff.com/images/2006/03/mission-impossible-3-poster.jpg

best mission impossible.

[Okie Medicvet]

Why? Do we get to watch tom die?

[Hoser]

http://imagecache.allposters.com/images/pic/MG/203502~The-Burbs-Posters.jpg
it's on HBO right this minute

I have this on DVD and have never seen it. I should probably get on that.

[highone]

I wouldn't say MI3 is the best of the three but I do love that scene on the bridge with the Predator Drone.

[Zoso]

Green street hooligans
Detroit Rock City

[NoGravitas]

http://moviechopshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/first-contact.jpg


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Just watched this again tonight. At least as good as the new film if not better.

[DDAA]

http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/ss12/DUGDO/TokyoDriftercover.jpg

Aspects have dated a bit but it still stands as a unique document of its time. You can see it's influence on a lot of modern film.

[VG1506]

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane is mega underrated.

Conversation with Zuzu Petals was like masturbating with a cheese grater: slightly amusing, but mostly painful.

I had totally forgot about this movie... this is a truely underated movie

[IdiotBrain]

http://www.trendyink.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/felon-2008.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515ZERWGXAL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

http://www.tracksounds.com/images/misc/salton_sea_big.jpg

[Change]

Yeah i agree Felon was great and Val was rocking the shit outta that Goatee and Reading glasses combo.

[Okie Medicvet]

Night of the Comet. Campy fun with scary parts.

[VG1506]

http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/tt247/VG1506/frighteners05.jpg

[highone]

I'm happy to see Frighteners and First Contact in this thread. You are not alone in your enjoyment of these films!

[lowboy]

Used Cars
The New Guy
Blast From The Past

[ed92]

"the answer man" not hilarious, but i enjoyed it.
"captain ron" 2 or 3 great lines. enough to spend 90 minutes on.

[thagamesova]

Face/Off (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119094/) is also generally awesome. "I'm Castor fucking Troy!"

http://i42.tinypic.com/28anhjk.jpg

This.

[azngzus]

I have to go with Super Troopers, littering and.....

[3rdWorldDetroit]

The Beast Master

[dafrk3in]

Has anyone seen Brick? It's pretty sick :)

[winkeraw]

"The Family Man" is underrated. Tea Leoni in the shower grinding to "Beast of burden" was a memorable scene. good casting with jeremy piven, don cheatle and others.
good time of year to see it.

/agree Family man is a great movie.

[winkeraw]

The Count of Monte Cristo is a great movie that did not receive enough credit.

[bumpjl]

london was pretty good

[Mister Mobius]

Crossworlds w/Rutger Hauer kicked ass.

[Mister Mobius]

Killer Clowns from Outer Space

[Mister Mobius]

Garbage Pail Kids

[Mister Mobius]

Married to the Mob

[Mister Mobius]

Puppet Master

[LethalStrike]

Brazil

[dafrk3in]

Ummmm, Brazil is good

[dafrk3in]

Donnie Darko is better though