Most Underrated Films

[Imran Siddiqui]

Almost Famous:

Another great movie. Cameron Crowe's life must have been pretty fun (I think 'Catch Me If You Can' will be another 'Almost Famous' in like 5 years... great flick, but mostly forgotten on lists).

As for funniest movies of the last 10 years, I'm gonna put down one of my original list... 'South Park'.

[kmad]

Memento

Why did everyone forget memento!

[Imran Siddiqui]

Oh that's right... so underrated we forgot it .

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by kmad
Memento

Why did everyone forget memento!

What makes Memento great is the way it is shot, If it was simply a begining to the end movie, it would have been fairly lame.

But it is shot the other way, so it's a great movie....to me anyway.

ACK!

[chequita guevara]

The Cable Guy, sadly, no one seems to like Carrey unless he's being a buffoon, but I think this was his best movie. He was wonderfully creepy.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Cable Guy

You guys (usually ) have great taste in movies .

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
The Cable Guy, sadly, no one seems to like Carrey unless he's being a buffoon, but I think this was his best movie. He was wonderfully creepy.

I don't say it very often, but, I agree with Che. I thought it was very funny...in a creepy way.

The best line of the movie:

"They didn't have knives and forks in medeival times, but they had Pepsi?"

ACK!

[Drake Tungsten]

I did like Vanilla Sky quite a bit, though.

I just watched Vanilla Sky last night. Had all the makings of a good film, but the story was so horrible that it overshadowed everything else.

[Xeones]

along with many already mentioned, i'll nominate

The Boondock Saints

[loinburger]

Huzzah for Boonduck Saints! Willem DeFoe kicks ass in that movie!

[Imran Siddiqui]

Willem DeFoe always playes wierdos and Boondock Saints is no exception .

[Drogue]

Eyes Wide Shut: Was slated by the critics as a mistake by Kubrick, but IMHO was one of his best. Sure it's sick, it's perverted, but it's a fantasy film, it's ment to be surreal. I think A Clockwork Orange was even more twisted, and although it was a good film, I'm not sure it deserved all the praise it got. Eyes Wide Shut is better, and I watch the DVD more.

I don't really look out for Tom Cruise films, but I don't avoid them. The only actor I avoid is Arnold Schwarzenegger, and I may make an exception for Terminator 3, which looks far better than the first two (which bored me stiff).

I think Jennifer Aniston is underrated as an actress. I always thought of her as someone there just for the look and smile, but after seeing The Good Girl, I changed my opinion completely. The film was quite good, but she was great as the lead. She took remarkable well to playing a downtrodden Texas department stor worker.

Also, and this will sound very strange, I was dragged to see Legally Blonde by my friend determined to get me to see a girly comedy thing. It was pretty good. It wasn't a great film, but very watchable and funny. Much as I feel weird saying it, it's a teen chick flick that I actually enjoyed. The second one looks crap though.

Memento is a good film. On the DVD it has the version forward too, and it works there and is more watchable, but doesn't have the impact or the cleverness of the backwards way. If it was made to be forwards, it could have looked good too, but it was great as it was IMHO. A few thigs hit me about it, like the way at the begining you take his polaroids to be the truth, and what's written on them as fact, whereas when you see them being made, they tell only a small part of the story about that person. I thought it was all very clever, but that was the main thing that hit me. Not that it was fun to watch, but that it was clever. I enjoyed it, and it's great to have a film like that in the mainstream, but i wouldn't watch it again and again. After the cleverness has warn off, there isn't much to be gained from watching it IMHO.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

My best friend is a writer in Hollywood.

Able to get any ideas through?

He's trying to decide which project to work on from the few that he's been offered. He' ghostwriting a book right now to pay the bills, and he tells me about the projects that come up. None of them have grabbed him, though several sound pretty interesting. As for me giving him ideas, I'll do so on a small scale when he's stuck trying to connect A to B, but generally he's not hurting for story ideas and from a selling the script standpoint he's much better off taking someone else's (someone with juice like producer or a more established writer) idea and working it up than just writing an unsolicited script and trying to sell it.

[loinburger]

Battlefield Earth is undoubtedly the most underrated movie of all time.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by loinburger
Battlefield Earth is undoubtedly the most underrated movie of all time.

You're incorrect. Battelfield Earth cannot POSSIBLY be underrated.