Most Underrated Films
Most Underrated Films
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#0Most Underrated Films
Posted: 7/9/05 at 2:57am
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
I Heart Huckabees
Waking Life
The Ladykillers (What seems to be a lowbrow dark comedy is actually a very philosophical treatise on the nature of morality)
About Schmidt
The Big Lebowski (Always felt like the philosophical/existential overtones were never really noticed)
#1re: Most Underrated Films
Posted: 7/9/05 at 3:20am
WARNING: You probably will hate most of the films on my list.
I just don't feel these films got the response that they should have:
A.I.
May
8MM
House of 1000 Corpses
Femme Fatale
The Rules of Attraction
Sky Captain...
Clue
The Mothman Prophecies
About Schmidt
From Hell
Identity
Fatal Attraction
The Cell
Urban Legend
Speed
Contact
Batman Forever
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare
Solaris
The Girl Next Door
Postcards from the Edge
Mrs. Doubtfire
House of Wax
The Bourne Supremacy
Matchstick Men
The Remains of the Day
My Cousin Vinny
Joy Ride
The Rules of Attraction
Cold Mountain
Vanilla Sky
School of Rock
Bringing Out the Dead
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ('03)
Stepmom
The Manchurian Candidate ('04)
Dick
Clueless
Minority Report
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
Jackie Brown
The Emperor's New Groove
Dark City
Sleepy Hollow
The Parent Trap '98
Scream 3 (yes, I said it!)
The Wedding Singer
Legally Blonde
The Life Aquatic
Updated On: 7/9/05 at 03:20 AM
#2re: Most Underrated Films
Posted: 7/9/05 at 3:23ambroadway, I actually agree with a lot of the films on your list!
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#4re: Most Underrated Films
Posted: 7/9/05 at 4:48am
bway - while I, too, appreciated some of those movies, I might disagree that they didn't get attention. Especially Fatal Atraction, Postcards From the Edge and About Schmidt. One I did like that really wasn't embraced much - I think unfairly - was A.I.
For me, even though it was only intended to be a silly, light romantic comedy, Overboard got unnecessarily drummed. I found it to have a lot of heart, and it truly makes me laugh.
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#5re: Most Underrated Films
Posted: 7/9/05 at 12:09pm
Still feel Phantom movie was overrated, in the media and especially the critics, and Shumaker and Webber were blasted for history and personal taste.
Totally agree with Rules of Attraction, awesome movie!
Field of Dreams
meh, know there's more too early to think...
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#6re: Most Underrated Films
Posted: 7/9/05 at 12:17pm
Ah Rules of Attraction is such a messed up movie...
How about The Forgotten with Julianne Moore...
So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.~Office Space
#7re: Most Underrated Films
Posted: 7/9/05 at 1:18pm
Broadway, some of the movies on your list make me CRINGE that anyone would consider them underrated - you have GOT to be kidding me. The Cell? House of Wax? Sky Captain?
Maybe you just like horror movies, but come on!
Whatever. My list:
The Rules of Attraction
The Dreamers
Requiem for a Dream
Dancer in the Dark
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#8re: Most Underrated Films
Posted: 7/9/05 at 1:23pm
Munk-
We have to get one thing straight, because it is getting way out of hand: It is my opinion. I don't care what anyone else thinks.
Both "The Cell" and especially "Sky Captain" had acclaim from some major critics, so why are you questioning me? If anything "Sky Captain" had predominately positive reviews, so (if I'm playing your game) you are in the minority on that one. In all seriousness, this has got to stop. I don't mean to be rude, but do we understand each other?
Updated On: 7/9/05 at 01:23 PM
#9re: Most Underrated Films
Posted: 7/9/05 at 1:28pm
I don't care what critics said - it's their opinion - I don't care what other people think.
I'm just curious as to how you can say something like THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE is underrated. I'm not saying you're stupid or tasteless, I'm just baffled.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#11re: Most Underrated Films
Posted: 7/9/05 at 2:45pmWas Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind underrated? If it was, and I don't think it was, I'd like to add that to the list.
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
#12re: Most Underrated Films
Posted: 7/9/05 at 2:50pmI thin it would be more clear to everyone if someone defined what underrated meant....
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka
Over_the_Moon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/05
#13re: Most Underrated Films
Posted: 7/9/05 at 2:55pm
Le Papillon
The Sweetest Thing
"what have we learned? Don't smoke... don't do drugs and don't sing 'Defying Gravity'." -CATSNYRevival
ConvinceMe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/05
#14re: Most Underrated Films
Posted: 7/9/05 at 3:08pm
The Village
Duet For One
Femme Fatale
Exorcist 3
Blow Out
The Producers
ConvinceMe2 is dead. Long live BrendanStryker!
#15re: Most Underrated Films
Posted: 7/9/05 at 3:36pmAdd Storytelling to Munk's list and you have my list.
#16re: Most Underrated Films
Posted: 7/9/05 at 3:49pm
"I'm not saying you're stupid or tasteless, I'm just baffled."
Huh?
ConvinceMe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/05
#17re: Most Underrated Films
Posted: 7/9/05 at 3:51pmCraig, I took it to mean films that were either not critical or commercial successes.
ConvinceMe2 is dead. Long live BrendanStryker!
#18re: Most Underrated Films
Posted: 7/9/05 at 4:42pmTo me, underrated means films that were not as well-received as I think they should have been.
#19re: Most Underrated Films
Posted: 7/9/05 at 8:02pm
Craig...I agree...
Many titles on this thread were well recognized by critics and the public.
Underated would be films like
"Sarafina"
or
"Girlstown"
(Yet, the latter was in theatres longer than Sarafina)
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
#20re: Most Underrated Films
Posted: 7/9/05 at 9:32pmI just saw a movie called "Me and You and Everyone We Know". It's AMAZING. Go see it.
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#21re: Most Underrated Films
Posted: 7/9/05 at 9:38pm
I just saw a movie called "Me and You and Everyone We Know". It's AMAZING. Go see it.
I saw it too. It's incredible.
QueenMuppet
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/29/04
#23re: Most Underrated Films
Posted: 7/10/05 at 3:47am
House of Sand & Fog
QM
'He really wasn't good as Fieyro. Is it just me or does he sort of come across as a pimp? Just...the hand motions I've seen him do and the attitude..not that Taye is a pimp.' - SallyBrown on Taye Diggs as Fiyero
#24re: Most Underrated Films
Posted: 7/10/05 at 9:33am
Underrated by whom? Lots of the movies listed were huge critical successes.
And, really, who cares what the audience that made 'Shrek 2' into the third highest grossing movie of all-time thinks?
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