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A lot of my fav movies have already been mentioned so I wonder how under rated they actually are. A couple I havn't seen mentioned yet that I think are underrated:
Lesbian Vampire Killers. That movie caught me so off guard and is possibly the funniest movie I've ever seen.
Blood of Hero's- Low budget (actually a high budget movie parading as a low budget movie) Simple yet entertaining especially the last match.
Romeo and Julliet with Decaprio. One of my favorite movies ever. Brilliant.
Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift. The Red headed step child of the franchise. My favorite of the Bunch...actually I like 1 and 5 almost as much but those movies had the advantage of having the original cast.
Gattica.
In Time.
Star Wars episodes 1-3. I don't care what anyone else says, I love those movies as much as the episodes 4-6. A lot of the backlash I feel lays with ppl romanticizing the original trilogy while at the same time not being able to see past the things they dislike about the newer trilogy to see the entirity of the movies. I actually find the newer movies superior in almost every way. (I still hate Jar Jar thou)
It's hard to decide what is underrated because most of my friends have similar tastes in movie's and I can't remember which movies were popular at the time they were in theatres. I'm trying to think of movies I liked but have heard bad things about or never heard of before I watched them.
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Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2013 7:28 pm
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The Professional (Jean Reno)
I don't know of anyone who thinks that the Professional isn't as good as it is. Everyone I have ever spoken to regarding it, loved the movie. I don't think it could be called Underrated.
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Last Action Hero. (Arnold Schwarzenegger, campy action-comedy that I really enjoy.)
Def one of my favorites.
The Long Kiss Goodnight (Geena Davis) Top Secret (Val Kilmer) The Score (Ed Norton, Robert DeNiro) The Professional (Jean Reno) Ronin (Robert DeNiro, Jean Reno)
Yes! Top Secret! There's a lot of people out there who don't know that movie. That's a classic! One of my favorite comedies.
Neek!!!
Wasn't sure if anyone would remember it.
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The Radish wrote:
The Long Kiss Goodnight (Geena Davis) The Professional (Jean Reno) Ronin (Robert DeNiro, Jean Reno)
3 of my favorite movies. Did you ever see the "alternate" ending of Ronin? Hated it. How could they do that to one of my favorite Irish girls?
Nope....never saw it.
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Willow
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I gotta agree with Willow, I loved that movie and I think it makes me a little... racist maybe, that watching tyrion in game of thrones reminded me of that movie.
Also Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is friggin awesome, and should be seen by everyone.
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Also Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is friggin awesome, and should be seen by everyone.
Yes.
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Love the hard way- adrien brody clockers- spike lee- not really sure if i would call this underrated< but seems like we are using the term loosely. city of gods and sin nombre- both foriegn gangster-life in third world ghettos movies- both were critically acclaimed but I m sure alot of Americans didnt see. Gentlemen Broncos- LOVE this comedy-kind of Napoleon Dynamite style movie Things to do in Denver when youre Dead-Andy Garcia, christopher Walken-gangster movie I hope they serve beer in hell- comedy like the hangover black dynamite-modern blacxploitation movie they ended up making a animated series out of. Big Fan- Awesome football movie! Twisted, very creative movie! Felon-Val Kilmer- one of the most realistic prison movies youll see. Life is hot in cracktown-Intense drug addiction movie like requiem for a dream.
I wanted to list a bunch more but they seem too mainstream to me! Half of these are questionable if they qualify for underrated? I d love to hear your guys opinions on any of these!
Funny, me who hates that kind of stuff really liked Willow. Don't remember it being underrated at all.
And The Usual Suspects?
Got big time attention in all the media. Daughter suggested I see it and loved it!
"Really? I live in Queens". hahahahaha
My favorite quote from that show tho was "Old McDonald had a farm, eieio. And on this farm he shot some guys".
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A Bronx Tale was pretty friggin good.
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SacHawk2.0 wrote:
The Usual Suspects
Wrong thread. This one belongs in the "overrated movies" one.
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The Usual Suspects
Wrong thread. This one belongs in the "overrated movies" one.
It shouldn't be in this thread but it doesn't belong in the other IMO.
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Great call on City of God. I want to slap any man in the face who hasn't seen that movie. It's required viewing.
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Great call on City of God. I want to slap any man in the face who hasn't seen that movie. It's required viewing.
Is that the Brazillian one? Yeah, it's quite good. I mean, I've seen grittier movies, but it's pretty gritty. It's sort of like a Brazillian 'Slumdog millionaire', except better.
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Are you trying to be hated, peaches?
By same filmmaker of City of God; Sugar. Really good TRUE baseball movie.
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Are you trying to be hated, peaches?
By same filmmaker of City of God; Sugar. Really good TRUE baseball movie.
Have not seen Sugar. The Slumdog comment was meant to wind you up.
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The Constant Gardener The prophecy In the mouth of Madness Moneyball starship troopers galaxy quest Moon Heartbreak Ridge
I don't know how underrated they are but every time they are on I will watch them.
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peachesenregalia wrote:
pehawk wrote:
Great call on City of God. I want to slap any man in the face who hasn't seen that movie. It's required viewing.
Is that the Brazillian one? Yeah, it's quite good. I mean, I've seen grittier movies, but it's pretty gritty. It's sort of like a Brazillian 'Slumdog millionaire', except better.
Sin Nombre is probably grittier- its about a kid in El Salvador trying to leave his gang, MS-13. Very, very gritty.
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RolandDeschain wrote:
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The Usual Suspects
Wrong thread. This one belongs in the "overrated movies" one.
I will cut you.
I'm calling it under rated because it didn't do well in theaters at all
Opened at 18th at the box office, never higher than 5th. It didn't get a huge following until it went to video. I still know a bunch of people that haven't seen it.
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Withnail & I? Does that count?
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I can't believe no one has mentioned Boondock Saints yet.
Maybe I'm way off base, but I thought it was an awesome movie. Right up next to the greatest movie of all time ... Kung Fu Hustle, which has already been mentioned
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I can't believe no one has mentioned Boondock Saints yet.
Maybe I'm way off base, but I thought it was an awesome movie. Right up next to the greatest movie of all time ... Kung Fu Hustle, which has already been mentioned
A gf had Boondock Saints as her fav movie and made me watch it with her and the whole time I was wondering what made her think that it was even a good movie let alone her favorite. Needless to say that I thought it was very below avg.
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ShyCheetah wrote:
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I can't believe no one has mentioned Boondock Saints yet.
Maybe I'm way off base, but I thought it was an awesome movie. Right up next to the greatest movie of all time ... Kung Fu Hustle, which has already been mentioned
A gf had Boondock Saints as her fav movie and made me watch it with her and the whole time I was wondering what made her think that it was even a good movie let alone her favorite. Needless to say that I thought it was very below avg.
Shy
He was obviously joking.
Fried Green Tomatoes. Lemon Sisters. Yaya sisterhood. Beaches.
Almost Famous. Brilliant movie. The only movie that has ever made me fall in love with a charachter. I would marry Kate Hudson as Penny Lane tomorrow if i could.
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Fried Green Tomatos & Beaches under rated?
What left field did that come from?
I believe a field of rainbows.
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Frost/Nixon
damn that's an underrated flick. And, I find most of Ron Hoawrd's stuff corny, but that's a gem.
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pehawk wrote:
Frost/Nixon
damn that's an underrated flick. And, I find most of Ron Hoawrd's stuff corny, but that's a gem.
Michael Sheen makes it. He's an actor that pisses me off. He has oodles of talent and acting chops, yet he does shite like Underworld, Twilight and Tron:Legacy. Not that I necessarily hated all of those movies, I like tron:legacy and some of the underworld movies - but he's immensely talented and just seems like he'd want to do some more prestigious roles.
Sachawk - GOOD CALL on Ninja scroll. I know Kearly's gonna come in and rant about how Ninja scroll is to anime what 'nevermind' was to Nirvana's music, but man do I like that one. Akira is still the pinnacle for me, but Ninja scroll is a film that everyone should see, whether you have interest in Anime or not. Fantastic movie.
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Sheen strikes me as a guy who doesn't care, which is why he makes those odd choices. And, usually a studio won't fund Damn United w/o him classing up a Tron a bit.
He's really talented, considering he's not American.
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Sheen strikes me as a guy who doesn't care, which is why he makes those odd choices. And, usually a studio won't fund Damn United w/o him classing up a Tron a bit.
He's really talented, considering he's not American.
The Damned United was amazing. He WAS Brian Clough in that film. "I wouldn't say I'm the best manager in England....but I'm in the top 1."
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And for some reason, I always want to tussle Sheen's hair. Tussle his hair as Sandusky or I would a young lad's hair.
I cant be alone in that.
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And for some reason, I always want to tussle Sheen's hair. Tussle his hair as Sandusky or I would a young lad's hair.
I cant be alone in that.
I think it's spelled 'tousle'.
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And for some reason, I always want to tussle Sheen's hair. Tussle his hair as Sandusky or I would a young lad's hair.
I cant be alone in that.
Crickets.
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No, that's not how its spelled. Racist grammar nazi.
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No, that's not how its spelled. Racist grammar nazi.
Yeah, it's definitely 'tousle'. 'Tussle' is something different.
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Well, literally (or figuratively), yes. But, no.
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Darko count as underrated?
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Darko count as underrated?
Hard to say. It didn't get much praise on initial release, but has become a cult classic. It would be like saying The Big Lebowski is underrated.
Now, I will say this about Darko - if you don't have the director's cut, you haven't really seen the movie yet. I like the mystique of the theatrical cut, but the director's cut makes for a much richer experience.
I'm gonna throw one out there - Chronicles of Riddick. Was hated by pretty much everyone, but purely as a sci-fi romp, I think it's very well done.
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I didn't mind Riddick at all. And I went in wanting to hate it.
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And some of us followed the Coen's way before Lebowski...so that's not underrated.
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Right, Lebowski's not underrated, but neither is Darko by that measure.
Tremors is a great film, as is Death proof. Not sure you could call any of Tarantino's films underrated, though.
I just watched a film called "The Trip" starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as fictionalized versions of themselves. I'm calling it underrated.
Brassed off.
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The Adjustment Bureau and State Of Play are 2 mainstream flicks with some big name talent that don't seem to get talked about much that I enjoyed quite a bit.
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Cloud Atlas - Seriously, if you guys haven't seen it you should.
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Cloud Atlas - Seriously, if you guys haven't seen it you should.
Haven't seen it. Heard less than flattering things from people I normally trust with movie opinions. If you burn me on this I will find you and I will destroy you.
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Tarantino was so "ashamed" by Death Proof, he took off to Europe to write Inglorious to "show Hollywood he still had the biggest dick around". Death Proof's never brought up, even by Tarantino fans.
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Tarantino was so "ashamed" by Death Proof, he took off to Europe to write Inglorious to "show Hollywood he still had the biggest dick around". Death Proof's never brought up, even by Tarantino fans.
I enjoyed it. Never saw the other one... what was it called.....?
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The Big Lebowski is underrated simply for the fact that it doesn't not garner the praise of the greatest movie ever made, which it clearly is.
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