Most Underrated Movies

[QUENTIN]

Here's my most underrated movies

Fight Club
Dark City
Jackie Brown
Drugstore Cowboy
Eyes Wide Shut
Your Friends & Neighbors
River's Edge
He Got Game
Talk Radio
Hard Eight
Nixon
Kalifornia
True Romance
Zero Effect
When Harry Met Sally
Wayne's World
My Own Private Idaho
Beautiful Girls
Natural Born Killers
The American President
Eve's Bayou
The Big Lebowski
Fresh
Honeymoon in Vegas
After Hours
Kingpin
The Grifters
Sid & Nancy

[QUENTIN]

no one?

[Silent Bob]

I guess you said them all, my man but I really liked Magnolia and not too many people saw that (I'm guessing)

[retardinAz]

Mallrats. Just because all of the critics hated it, but it was actually quite good. Same goes for Dogma and Chasing Amy, they didn't get much response from critics or movie-goers, but they were both GREAT movies.

[retardinAz]

Also:
Clerks
The Shawshank Redemption
Pulp Fiction
American History X
The Usual Suspects

These movies are so perfect in any way that whatever is said about them, it is underrated.

[cow]

The Color Purple is a good little movie that is way to under rated, and of cource Glory is under rated /ubb/wink.gif /ubb/smile.gif

[samiam418]

When Harry Met Sally
Heathers
The Three Musketeers(Tim Curry)
You've Got Mail
The War of The Roses
Kingpin
10 Things I Hate About You
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
Thats all I can think of right now

[T-DawG]

Underrated Movies (in no order)

Gattaca
Red Violin
Messenger Joan Of Arc
In The Company Of Men
Clock Watchers
The Relic
Mimic
Bottle Rocket
The Minus Man
Fresh

[doctor drew]

Quentin,

Funny you should mention it, but the Big Lebowski definitely qualifies as underrated in my books. The first time never really did anything for me but after repeated viewings, I can't get enough of the brilliantly written and often hilarious dialogue.
(ie: That's what you get when you fuck a stranger in the ass, Larry!")
The ensemble cast is great (Goodman, Buscemi, Moore) especially John Turturro (as Jesus the bowler) A solid pick for an underrated film.

'drew

[Celestial-being]

Some underrated movies:

Return To Paradise
Quiz Show
Swimming With Sharks

[Kaku]

One film I think that is underrated is The Hard Way with James Woods and Michael J.Fox....
but hey that's just me...

[Kaku]

Yeah T-DawG
Bottle Rocket is one of my all-time fave films!
i also think these are underrated:
copland
existenz
fallen
falling down
the goonies (classic adventure /ubb/smile.gif)
the iron giant
the lost boys
office space
payback
trading places
videodrome
what's eating gilbert grape?

[T-DawG]

Hey Kaku!

Gots to give ya props for "The Iron Giant."

A great movie, very unappreciated and unrecognized movie!

[Kaku]

Yeah thanx T-DawG!
I also got the R2 DVD of it - but it only has a music video, a featurette (with Vin Diesel as a Troy McClure-type host!) and a trailer.

[This message has been edited by Kaku (edited 09-09-2000).]

[cow]

frequency is also a good, but under-rated movie

[retardinAz]

Fallen?! Underrated?! Anything you say about Fallen is an overstatement, it is one of the most over rated movies ever. Even if you say that it sucked, that is overrating it.

[McBain]

You are all forgetting

TOP SECRET!
2010
HAIR

No thats better.

[Brock Landers]

Most of the movies listed here are good films (what the fuck is up with "Teaching Mrs. Tingle"?)...and most of them were given good ratings and reviews...so I guess my question is, is this just another favorite film list?...because most of these films were never underrated...

How was "Sid & Nancy" underrated?...almost every critic out there thought it was a masterpiece...a real-life Romeo & Juliet...

"Pulp Fiction" was on a ton of top-ten lists for that year and highly rated...

"The Grifters" got wide praise as a great film...

"Quiz Show"?, "BottleRocket"?, on and on...I don't understand how any of these were underrated...maybe overrated at times...

[ToasT]

Starship Troopers and Contact(great movie,DAMNITT)

[QUENTIN]

Brock - I am not just saying critically, look at 3 things A) yes many critics loved Sid & Nancy...but how many people have seen it? And of those how many have loved it? A great film that goes unseeen is Underrated.
B) Pulp Fiction is my all time favorite film, every great thing everyone says about it is underrating it. C) The Grifters was mostly well received (most importantly by the best and most important critic: Ebert) but it had some mixed reviews, also certainly more than Sid & Nancy but it is mostly an unseen film. I rented it from my local video storee, and apprent;y forgot to rewqind it, then when I rented it again 7 months later it was at the exact same point in the film, no one had rented it in atleast 7 months, and it wasn't seen much when it came out either.

The rest are mostly underrated due to not being seen by the public, but they are not mine so I shall let the people who posted them defend them....

[This message has been edited by QUENTIN (edited 09-12-2000).]

[Brock Landers]

If your "underrated" rules apply for everyone than let me list these as just a few underrated films, because not everybody liked them, they had mixed reviews, they don't get rented very often at my video store and I know lots of people who have never seen them...

- Every Stanley Kubrick Film
- Every Alfred Hitchcock Film
- Every Sam Peckinpah Film
- Every Akira Kurosawa Film
- Every David Lean Film
- Every John Woo Film

What I am trying to say is that most films don't get seen by a wide audience and the ones that do always have mixed reviews...at the video stores I go to, the "library" (films that aren't new releases) racks are always full and the only films gone are the latest from Julia Roberts, Disney, Adam Sandler or other such dreck...the video stores I go to usually have a zillion copies of "My Best Friends wedding" and 1 or 2 copies of anything good or worthwhile as far as films are concerned...When I try to talk to most people about a certain film or director, they are completely lost and don't know anything about it unless it won an Oscar or was another "Jurassic Park" or starred Tom Cruise...It is unfortunate, but reality...

It sounds like you are saying that "underrated" and "overrated" are subjective terms, because you say that because a film is your favorite...then it must be underrated...

I would definitely disagree that "Natural Born killers" went unseen...it was probably one of the biggest films of that year...mainly because of its infamy...and "The american president" was one of the most mainstream films around...tons of people saw it and liked it...maybe you are referring to Home Video Rentals...maybe that would make sense...but otherwise...films like "Jackie Brown" were seen by everybody and for the most part liked...

[sid33]

Quentin..great list ...loved True Romance, Drugstore Cowboy, Jackie Brown, Kalifornia and Eve's Bayou + The Director's Cut of Natural Born Killers(would have used the other ending)...here is a couple of movies I believe to be underappreciated Donnie Brascoe, One False Move, Fargo, Slingblade, Killing Zoe, Body Heat, Presumed Innocent, Blood Simple, Red Rock West and maybe Things to do in Denver When You're Dead...just my opinion..

[roann]

Good choices, in particular Swimming With Sharks. Incredible movie that was seen by about 3 people. Let me add a couple more:

Out Of Sight
Your Friends and Neighbors

[QUENTIN]

isn't Your Friends & Neigbors on my list? And sip I agree with all of your list, except Presumed Innocent. And I think a lot of people atleast on this board have seen Swimming With Sharks, myself included.

[ToasT]

Out of Sight really sucked.
Pardon my rudenicity.

[sid33]

Thanks for the reply Quentin...didn't care for Presumed Innocent or don't think it is underrated? I enjoyed the movie and the book especially liked the ending..who would have thought?

[roann]

Yeah Quentin, I don't know why I didn't see YF&N the first time I scrolled through.

Out of Sight ruled, Toast. I'm no George Clooney or a Jennifer Lopez fan and that's why I probably avoided it at the theaters. I should know by now that I've never seen a Steven Soderbergh movie that wasn't far and above the flotsam and jetsom that passes for entertainment out there.

[Terminator]

Big Trouble in Little China has got to be the most under rated film of all time. Also Benny and Joon, Johnny Depp and Mary Stuart Masterson were great and made this one of my favorite movies. /ubb/biggrin.gif /ubb/biggrin.gif

[Puck Bond]

agree with most of those quentin but here are a couple i thought of

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Mumford (w/Jason Lee, this film just made me feel good)
Romper Stomper (1992 Aussie flick with Russell Crowe about skinheads check it out raw and powerful!)
Hate or La Haine(french film) great movie about diverse youths living in Paris!

[Kaku]

Howdy
Yeah I agree with you Terminator on Benny & Joon - Depp was kinda like Chaplin in that film, like in the restaurant with the two plates /ubb/biggrin.gif. I also liked BTLC, but I wouldnt say it was the most underrated /ubb/tongue.gif

[SonicDeathMonkey]

I would have to say the two movies I think of are The Big Lebowski(one of my favorite movies of all time) and Office Space. Both of which are the funniest movies in a long while.