underrated movies

[Sean-AMN]

name a movie you feel not enough people have seen or you feel doesnt get the respect it deserves?

office space, i can watch that movie like 10000000000 times...

lock stock and 2 smoking barrles, while snatch gets all the credit, this is the film that started it all and in many ways i feel its better

[Boondock Saint]

i think one of the most underrated movies ever has to be "rushmore". many people don't like it at all, but it really is one of the best movies i've ever seen...and it's SOOO frickin' funny. i think a lot of people have seen it, but that they just don't get it, and therefore say things like, "it sucks" or "that's not funny" or other crap like that. it's just underrated by the general public.

[Idol Australian]

i agree with lokc, stock and snatch comments. but my vote is for cube, donnie darko, the city of lost children and the visitors. foreign movies rock! (but down under, nearly eveything is foreign)

[Silliw 2]

The Relic. That movie was great.

[McBizzel]

Muppet Christmas Charol, Man, I love that movie, Michael Cane is the PERFECT choice for that role, seriously. --~

[Santo]

Training Day. Sure it got some props, but Denzel Washington offered such a perfect role in that movie. The streets, the scenes, the acting, the story, everything went down flawlessly. I highly recommend it to anybody who hasn't seen it yet.

[Wh|tE gUy]

Originally posted by Santo
Training Day. Sure it got some props, but Denzel Washington offered such a perfect role in that movie. The streets, the scenes, the acting, the story, everything went down flawlessly. I highly recommend it to anybody who hasn't seen it yet.
Ya, if the guy gets an oscar for the role i doubt its underrated

Anyways I'd say the most underated movie is... actually office space is pretty underated. Dogma too. I know some(not all) Kevin Smith fans that dislike it cause it differs so much from the rest of his films while the non KS fans havent heard of it

[Nintendo Survivor]

I thought Super Troopers was kinda underrated. I don't here much about it, but I thought it was funny as hell.

[Boondock Saint]

i think that perhaps the most underrated comedy of the nineties is 'so i married an ax murderer'. that movie's hilarious, but hardly anyone i know has seen it. it's right up there with wayne's world and austin powers in how funny it is, and that's just reason enough to watch it...

[Santo]

One movie that I forgot about that definitely is underrated is Memento. Probably one of the best movies I've ever seen and it grossed less than 30 million in the box office.

[Wh|tE gUy]

Ya, most of Guy Richies movies are undereated IMO

[Boondock Saint]

yeah, all both of them that are worth a shit. memento's by christopher nolan and stars guy pierce, if that's what you're referring to, white guy.

lock, stock...; and snatch are the guy ritchie films...well, and that piece of shit with his wife, swept away...i wouldn't say that's overrated. but, you're right, two outweighs one, so most of them are underrated.

[David85]

Billy Eliot, of course no one here would understand it, but still a great movie.

[[GCA] BMaN]

The Burbs

Hellz Yea

[Santo]

Snatch was definitely a great movie. Brad Pitt rocks the house off.

[Boondock Saint]

the burbs is a good flick, but a fair amount of people know about it...especially if they were in their teens/twenties in the eighties, when it came out...

also, i never saw billy elliot. i wanted too though.

[David85]

Billy Elliot = great movie

If anyone watches it every, watch the thingie that explains what the roits are about, the movie will make a lot more sence. :)

Never heard of the Burbvs, but I was born in 85 so ya, I wouldn't.

[Boondock Saint]

i was born in 84, but man i watch a lot of fucking movies. oh well. i recommend it. tom hanks is the man...when he's not with meg ryan.

[motyang]

"Nell" probably?

[David85]

If Tom Hanks is in it then hell ya I'll find it somewhere.

[JustUsOwls]

Any Bill Murray movie.

[Boondock Saint]

Originally posted by JustUsOwls
Any Bill Murray movie.

i don't know...the man who knew too little wasn't the greatest thing ever...and that one he did with the elephant. man, he was in a slump for a couple years there...

but i enjoyed watching the man who knew too little...just wasn't the greatest thing ever.

i think that silent films are completely underrated. some of my favorite films are silent, but now everyone looks at you like you're stupid for watching a movie where you can't hear people talking...but i think it's great. you have to be more visual and cinematic when there's no audible dialog...

[Santo]

I looked into a lot of silent films over the past year, most notably the phantom of the opera, just for myself to expand my horizons. I went into them completely unbias and came out, completely disappointed. I tried to appreciate the films for their artistic value but got nothing besides being bored out of my mind. Granted they were exceptional for their time, their time was a LONG ass time ago.

[Boondock Saint]

did you watch the greats? "nosferatu", "the cabinet of dr. caligari", the buster keaton flicks (i personally think he was better at physical comedy than chaplin, although i love chaplin as well), "the hunchback of notre dame", "birth of a nation", "faust", and my all-time favorite (and one of the best movies ever made, imo) "metropolis"

i just think that there's really something to silent film, something that many people write off just because they're slower and don't have dialogue. and i think it's a shame that people are so into a movie being in your face and loud that they give up on reading into a movie and seeing what it says about your society...silent films are especially relevant today, both in content and in meaning.

[[GCA] BMaN]

The Money Pit = OMG funny

[battousai1373]

Office Space and The Boondock Saints are both incredible movies that are severely underrated. I think Spaceballs is a bit underrated too.

[Eddz]

Originally posted by David85
Billy Eliot, of course no one here would understand it, but still a great movie.

WHAT?!

Billy Elliot had so much hype over here in the Uk that the other movies just died..

I think it sucks, personally!

[David85]

Well in the USA it is under rated. See? You prove my point, you prob wouldn't understand it or relate to it.

[Wh|tE gUy]

Someone needs to establish a definition for "underrated"

[Linque]

Underrate (un'der-rat'), v.t.: 1.) Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

This movie is so underrated it defines the word!

No, the movie isn't based on ANY FF game--but that isn't the standard set by Square. Every FF before it had been a completely original endeavor, so they kept the formula.

Excellent technical achievement (graphics, voice-acting, sound, etc.) as well as engaging story and incredible imagineering!

It was criticized, but unfairly!

[Eddz]

Originally posted by David85
Well in the USA it is under rated. See? You prove my point, you prob wouldn't understand it or relate to it.

I understand it fine, but I don't relate to it at all.. Are you a male ballet dancer? If so, feel free to relate to it! However, most of the population of the world is not made up of male ballet dancers, so that's probably why people are not relating to it.

I sat through the whole thing and can't express how lame it was! I guess it was mainly because of the super-hype but then again, I get bored of movies like that..

[Boondock Saint]

i don't think the money pit's underrated...i just think it sucks.

[GBA]

Dumb and Dumber.

[[GCA] BMaN]

Money Pit sucks? Ok ill let that one slide even though that is just plain oiut BLASPHEMY. Anyways I went to go see Master And Commander awhile back and thought it was a great story. I beleive that movie was underrated very much.

[Jaga]

Space Jam is under rated, I remember like everyone I knew saw that movie, and then on ESPN I saw it was one of the worst movies with an athlete in it.

[David85]

Originally posted by Eddz
I understand it fine, but I don't relate to it at all.. Are you a male ballet dancer? If so, feel free to relate to it! However, most of the population of the world is not made up of male ballet dancers, so that's probably why people are not relating to it.

I sat through the whole thing and can't express how lame it was! I guess it was mainly because of the super-hype but then again, I get bored of movies like that..


You didn't understand the movie.

[Boondock Saint]

Originally posted by [GCA] BMaN
Anyways I went to go see Master And Commander awhile back and thought it was a great story. I beleive that movie was underrated very much.

ok, i think that you need to actually know what underrated means....

master and commander has been on so many lists this year, it's not funny. then, people loved it when they went to see it. and now, it's been nominated for a golden globe as best picture, and will most likely gain some sort of oscar nod. that, my friend, is NOT at ALL what you would call underrated...AT ALL!

[Wh|tE gUy]

Originally posted by David85
You didn't understand the movie.
I f*cking hate that response, regardless of what movie it is or who is saying it. It is as if a person is not allowed to hold an opinion that differs from yours* without you trying to feel superior than them.

"You didn't like the movie because you didn't understand it. I did, therefore I am smarter than you"



*By you/yours i mean the infinitive or hypothetical "you" not a specific person.

[McBizzel]

I think that Orgy of the Dead is the most underrated piece of cinema ever made. It's simply a masterpiece, plus I only know a handful of people who have ever seen it, and they only saw it because I rented it. --~

[Eddz]

Originally posted by David85
You didn't understand the movie.

Yes, I just think it sucks.

[Wh|tE gUy]

Ya, there is a difference between relating to and understanding a film.

[Link]

Originally posted by JustUsOwls
Any Bill Murray movie.

Yes, I loved Kingpin, but was that movie underrated?

[Jaga]

Bill Murray was in Space Jam

[Lovebird]

did downfall get any awards back when it came out, cause i love that movie and i love michael douglas...o, and if someone could help me, i rented this harrison ford movie once, but don't remember the name and it rawked da haus! it was about this dude and his wife go to france and she is kidnapped and there's a bomb and junk....he meets up with this chick and she helps find the wife....anyone have any clue wat i'm talking about?