Most Underrated Films

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


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

I don't think they have a word for how truly awful it was, so there for it's badness is underrated.

ACK!

[monolith94]

Zoolander is definitely underrated.

Among the hard-core film crowd, Vanilla Sky is a touchy subject - some hate it, while others love it.

I'm going to submit the film "Heartbreakers" as underrated.

[Boris Godunov]

Re: Most Underrated Films

The Royal Tenenbaums - Wasn't as bad as the critics made it out to be. Some good laughs, cute story. Not stellar, though.

The Big Lebowski - I remember when the end credits rolled, I felt I'd been drunk while watching it, but I wasn't. Should check it out again.

O'Brother Where Are Thou) - Entertaining enough, but could take it or leave it.

South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut - This is underrated? I thought it did pretty well and was reasonably popular. Certainly funny, if just for Uncle F*cker alone.

A.I. - Bleargh. Come on, this was sentimental drivel. The movie's last 45 minutes or so ruined everything. Kubrick should have risen from the grave to kick Spielberg in the ass.

Beetlejuice - Again, underrated? Beeltejuice was a hit. Put Burton on the map. The Day-O scene rawks!

Zoolander - You've GOT to be kidding me! It's TERRIBLE! The only funny parts are due to Owen Wilson and Will Farrell.

Clueless - I only laughed twice, both at lines her father said. "Get out of my chair!"

The Princess Bride - Now how could this remotely be underrated? It's one of the biggest cult classics around!

Minority Report - Bored me. Once I saw von Sydow, I knew what the ending would be...

Kentucky Fried Movie - It ain't no Amazon Women on the Moon!

Waterworld - Didn't deserve the bile, but doesn't deserved to be considered "good" either. Considering the outcome is decidely mediocre, the expense is appalling. The wettest disappointment since Raise the Titanic!

Last Action Hero - "That's the guy who killed Mozart!" Mostly forgettable, though. Except you can see Ian McKellan's first movie appearance.

Citizen Kane - Yeah, sooooo underrated, monkie.

The Fifth Element - Turgid.

Munchausen - Coooooool.

Memento - I forgot to watch the movie, too busy looking at Guy Pierce. There was a plot, right?

The Cable Guy - My favorite Jim Carey movie. Dark, moving and quite funny.

My own picks are:

Ghostbusters 2 - A damn fine sequel to the original, though admittedly inferior)

Without a Clue - Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Paul Freeman, Jeffrey Jones...and it's a hoot! Dr. Watson (Kingsley) is the real genius behind Sherlock Holmes (Caine), a drunken actor he's hired to fill the part so he can solve mysteries in cognito. The humor verges between slapstick and something more subtle, but it's all done with class.

Halloween - Dismissed by many as a mere slasher flick, it's actually extremely effective in creating a relentlessly creepy atmosphere. The last 15 minutes are stiflingly scary.

Yellowbeard the Pirate - Okay, it's a bad movie, but this how you should make bad movies. James Mason is in it, for cryin' out loud.

[monolith94]

Jesus Christ Gudonov, you're hard to please.

And the ending of A.I. was not sentimental in the least - it was decidedly cynical & tragic.

next time, you should pay more attention to Memento's plot - it's quite good.

[Sava]

Brazil Why can no one else see that this is probably the best movie of all time? Except for maybe Rushmore , which I won't put on this list, because lots of people recognize its fantasticity.

too ****ed up... sorry, but I have seen that movie, yet still don't know what the **** it was about...

Zoolander Funniest movie in the last 10 years, probably. Too good.

terrible

The Cable Guy - My favorite Jim Carey movie. Dark, moving and quite funny.

I didn't laugh the entire film... IIRC, quite a few people walked out of the theatre.

My Picks: (which will undoubtedly lead to other saying the movies sucked, but oh well... they smell)

Thirteen Days- It never quite got any attention, but IMO... good All the players in the Kennedy admin were casted and acted well. It was easy to feel the emotions surrounding the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Heat - Great crime drama. Pacino and DeNiro (although never in the same frame) were great. Classic method actor movie... and the shootout in the end was great. All-star cast in addition to Al and Bob(Sizemore, Val Kilmer, Ashley Judd, Jon Voight). For some reason, this movie is often overlooked in most discussions of Pacino or DeNiro movies.

[monolith94]

I thought the Cable Guy was great...

[KrazyHorse]

If....
Brazil
Freddie Got Fingered (an absolutely brilliant piece of comedy)

[KrazyHorse]

And I agree with Sik that Fear and Loathing was better than Brazil (but not than Munchausen), but I don't count Fear and Loathing as underratswd (I thought it got good revies etc

[KrazyHorse]

If.... wouldn't count either (since it won Cannes) but it has been comp,eteesly forgottebn

[KrazyHorse]

And Rushmore and Tenenbaums were also very good.

[Asher]

What was brilliant about Freddie Got Fingered?

[KrazyHorse]

Everything. Art of the Ridiculous. Heir to Python. I know it was genius because I practically pissed myseld laugjhin entire tiem.

[Sava]

Originally posted by Asher
What was brilliant about Freddie Got Fingered?

"Daddy would you like some sausage?"

this has become part of my vocabulary...

[KrazyHorse]

I'm the backwards man, the backwartds man. I can walf backwards faster than you can. I can walks backwards faster than you can.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
And I agree with Sik that Fear and Loathing was better than Brazil (but not than Munchausen), but I don't count Fear and Loathing as underratswd (I thought it got good revies etc

One reason that I like Fear and Loathing was that I have never seen a book turned into a movie so accurately and completely. A lot of that is because Thompson's writing is so full of (often hilarious) description and internal dialogue, and doesn't contain so much plot. Another big thing the movie had going for it was excellent casting. Del Torro and Depp are fantastic generally, and even more so in this film.