Underrated movies
 

List' em.

Eurotrip-Way better than Road trip IMO. Funny all the way through.

Daredevil-Not the greatest movie out there, but it's better than people give it credit for, I think.

Krull-Rep for anyone who even knows what the hell this is.

[QUOTE=Fignuts]Eurotrip-Way better than Road trip IMO. Funny all the way through.
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Haha, my bro managed to set up his computer like dude in the movie so when he gets an e-mail it goes "Mail, Mutha Fucka".

To me "Slingblade" is terribly underated IMO.

I think everyone agrees that slingblade is pretty good, though.

American Psycho

and yeah i think everybody agrees slingblade is good

The Notebook

UHF. The critics I read were terrible, but I enjoyed it.

Jersey Girl: Not the best movie, but better then what people will think. Just cause it wasn't normal Kevin Smith movie and had Ben and Jennifer Lopez in it.

Street Fighter The LA Movie: I liked it.

Ishtar - one of the biggest flops in movie history but it was way ahead of it's time. It's hilarious

Starship Troopers.

Almost every aspect of this movie is terrible yet I still really enjoy watching it.

Co-ed showers

Kevin Sorbo acting like a true barbarian. Arnold couldn't have done it better.

As for me...the Puppet Master Seris. GO LITTLE PUPPETS!

Cable Guy is underrated, IMO.

:love:

I love "A Night at the Roxbury" too. :$

I agree to that, also reminds me of The Truman Show. I really enjoy watching that movie just to spot little clues along the way. I got most of them now though.

Jersey Girl was a-fucking-mazing.

Same thing with Spanglish.

I hate Truman Show. Thought it was really gay. Probably not bad by any means I just hated it. How much of a dumbass do you have to be? I know its a movie but the concept is pretty wtf.

The Outsiders
200 Cigarettes
Beautiful Girls
Eddie and The Cruisers II (bad acting but still a good flick IMO)

Wonderland

Jersey Girl and Spanglish both sucked dick. Fuck Ben Affleck - they didn't even give George Carlin any good lines. Spanglish was alright, I mean, Sandler did a great job, but his wife was fucking horrible and annoying throughout - not to mention there wasn't even a true ending. It was a major, major, major step down from As Good As It Gets for Mel Brooks.

Underrated movies:

The Karate Kid
Detroit Rock City (GREAT FUCKING MOVIE)
Dirty Work
Good Burger

Eyes Wide Shut
Vanilla Sky
Wonderland
Sexy Beast
Spartan
The Thin Red Line
Layer Cake
Dogville
The Frighteners
L.A. Confidential
Tombstone
Dirty Work
Daredevil
Spy Game

If your on Drugs

Rocky 4

:love:

The Rocketeer.

I do too. :love:

How can L.A. Confidential possibly be underrated?

lol. I know. It's just a movie that I don't think gets enough credit. Sure when it came out people talked about it but now, nothing. Just my experience from working in a video store and recommending it to people, and surprisgingly they have never even heard of it. Makes me angry.

Plus, the fact that Titanic beat it out for Best Picture when L.A. was clearly the better film, IMO.

Yeah but Titanic was gonna win no matter what.

Still though it won somethinbg like 67 various awards the year it came out. Still hard to put it in a list of under-appreicated movies.

I took the topic to be underrated by the general movie going public and not so much critics and voters etc. I dunno. I know what you're saying.

Yeah fair enough, the term underrated is highly subjective anyway.

I concur. This topic actually reminded me of the top 20 most OVERRATED movies list recently published in Premiere magazine. Clearly a list composed simply for amusement and to spark some sort of discussion, simply by some of the movies on it. I actually agree with some, others not. Totally subjective.

The Island and The Butterfly Effect were rather harshly pooh-poohed for my liking. Despite their plotholes and occasional shocking acting, there was much to admire in both films.

Wrong. "Krull"

Not "Kull the Conquerer"

You suck, just for remembering that Kevin Sorbo was in anything but cheesy TV shows.

Krull was the "Dungeons and Dragons" movie. Ken Marshall (like he's been in anything else) played Prince Colwyn. Has one of the coolest/weirdest weapons in ANY movie: the five-bladed "light up" sword.

Empire Records. :'(

Eight Legged Freaks
Kung Pow Enter the Fist
Joy Ride

Annihilation of Fish - underrated 'cause...it was never released in theaters or on video. Got to see a print at the Central Michigan International Film Festival. Totally worth it if you can find it. James Earl Jones = greatness

A Knight's Tale - the most fun movie I've seen in the last five years. Seriously.

The Recruit - a little better known (and more recent), but a good spy/secret agent flick with some decent characters.

Three O'Clock High - I had never even heard of this until a friend showed it to me. Awesome '80s teen movie. Think "High Noon" meets "The Breakfast Club."

Oh, and love for Kapoutman choosing "UHF." I adore that movie. Set aside the fact that I'm a Weird Al mark for a second, it's still worth it because Michael Richards was so incredibly funny. I'm still waiting for a network to pick up "Conan The Librarian."

Comeing this fall to Fox.

The Terminal- Got shit on by all the critics, so I didn't bother to see it. Was on HBO last night and turned out to be pretty damn good IMO. Some unfeasible things, but whatever.

The man who knew too little

For movies out right now I'm gonna say The Dukes of Hazzard not because it's necessarily a great film (it's not). It's just that it's getting absolutely trashed by everyone and I can't figure out exactly why, it doesn't have the usual poor low brow humour that most comedies that get trashed like this have, it's not really a terrible film at all, it's rather fun, not fantastic, not good just fun.

Brainscan

Krull - i suppose theres some sort of spoilers, though.. it was made in like 1987 so i dunno why anyone would bitch about spoilers :D

A movie about a young prince who's whole kingdom pretty much gets fucked up by some evil demon lord and steals the princes girlfriend. old guy comes to the kingdom, goes with prince to retreive glaive, prince proceeds to shove hand into molten lava to retrieve glaive.

they run into some crazy ass shit magician who can turn himself into animals, he played the teacher in willy wonka for those who need a visual reference, old man tells the prince the only way they can get his woman back is to find the demon lords dark citadel, which moves to a different location every day, so they go to some old seer guy for help, Emerald seer or whatever.

before the old man they run into some bandits and team up with them because the prince promises them freedom, yadda yadda yadda, CYCLOPSES AGHH!, they go into a quicksand marsh, OH NO HE HAS BLACK EYES! AGH!, yadda yadda, prince fucks up demon and they all live happily ever after.

Def. UHF...one of my favorite movies.

Other movies...I guess Kingpin, The Body (w/Antonio Banderas....I liked this movie alot)


Has anyone seen Shade? Pretty good movie that noone ever mentions

:y:

:yes:

:love:

I also think Dare Devil is way underrated. If you have not seen the Director's Cut on DVD go rent it right now. Go! This version is soooo much better than the theatrical version. Things that were kind of, "Ok, now why did they do that?" in the theatrical version now make sense and there's a bit more to the characters. As the first poster said Dare Devil is not the best movie ever but its still better (especially the director's cut) than people give it credit for.

Creepshow 2: I know it's not as good as the first, but it's a fun little movie if you give it a chance. Also, The 1st one who got pulled into the lake by the oil slick thing in "The Raft" was one of the hottest women alive (for her time) :D

"THANKS FOR THE RIDE, LADY!!!!!"

Devils Advocate

Pool Hall Junkies ( Christopher Walken :love: )

Snatch

I definitely agree with UHF, it's a funny movie

devil's rejects - simply becuase one of the best movies I've seen in years & you ask 10 people nobody will have seen if they have heard of it to begin with.

I think action movies today are very underrated I personally don't care about plot i just want action & explosions. Plots just get in the way. Keeping with that theme...

XXX:state of the union - "Welcome to the first ever tank jacking"

Any Steven Siegel direct to video movie in the last few years (exit wounds, half past dead etc..)

Substitute 2,3,4 much better than the first one in my opinion. 4 is the best one of the series.

Believe it or not, Exit Wounds and Half Past Dead were in theaters...

I must have blinked & missed them.

Eurotrip beats Road Trip because it's actually...You know, funny. People pan Daredevil for the wrong reasons IMO (Not that it doesn't have some reasons to slam it, but I think people are too anal). Krull. I own the movie and the book (Not sure if it's a novelisation or if the movie was based off it ) somewhere...Does that count?

2 things. 1, it's not that hard to create a .WAV file so your computer will say "Mail motherfucker."

2. New Rule: A movie cannot be underrated if it is either critically acclaimed or wins awards. We're not talking a Sundance Film Festival winner, people. This is like calling Shakespeare an obscure writer or Green Day underground. I don't care how much you love Star Wars or Eminem, they're not underappreciated. In fact, they're both making their creators money hand over fist.

Oh, and I'll say Equilibrium just because I never hear anyone mention it.

Probably because it's not as "deep" as the Matrix. :shifty:

The War (Kevin Costner flick)

The Postman.

I loved Equilibrium. Christian Bale>Keanu Reeves at playing the Neo-esque lead. The scene with the dogs really moved me, Bale played it perfectly.

just saw White Noise.

Amazing movie

Desperado

Once upon a time in mexico

Just saw "Crazy People" last night. Pretty funny. Dudley Moore is an ad writer who gets sent to an asylum for trying to make truthful ads, then his truthful ads wind up being massive hits. Good stuff.

Johnny Tsunami :y:

Dark City. Anyone else but me see this movie?

The Majestic

Batman & Robin.

:shifty:

Honestly, though, I'd say That Thing You Do is fairly underrated.

Excellent choice.

Team America

:love:

I know The Birdcage got semi-good reviews but I still think it's underated. It's one of the funniest movies in history IMO.

S.W.A.T.

Cop Land.

The Castle

The I Inside
The Way of the Gun

Krull; i saw it when i was a kid - dont remember much, dont think i'd want to see it again. i remember the dude had like a throwing star that would come back to him after he threw it (like a boomerang).

never saw Battlefield Earth, but Anaconda was totally stupid and sucked on all fronts.

seen it. own it as a matter of fact. don't like it.

Near Dark > The Lost Boys

Blood, Guts, Bullets, and Octane > The Usual Suspects

a lot of Kevin Costner movies > than Kevin Costner gets credit for

S.W.A.T. was one of the dumbest movies i've ever seen. it's right up there with 2 Fast 2 Furious.

+5

Employee of the Month


Fuckin crazy movie.

God, i fucking loved that film as a kid :'(

yea Battlefield Earth was pinned as like the worst movie of all-time. But I loved the movie

I just saw it for the first time this morning, I actually liked it. i was expecting something far far worse

Old thread i know, but I saw Krull when it first came out "on the big screen", I haven't seen it since :(

Snatch is a great film but is constantly overshadowed by Lock, Stock which is a shame because I prefer the former.

Since it's nearly Christmas, I'd also advice everyone to watch the Santa Clause with Tim Allen. Great family film and warms the seasonal spirit

That movie sucked big time. Towards the end I was just laughing out how stupid it became. I really didn't need the 50000000 twists it had.

The Great White Hype

Falling Down
Mad Max (overshadowed by the Road Warrior)
Road To Perdition
Tigerland
The Big Lebowski