Underrated

Now when I say underrated I mean films that not many people saw or even knew were movies.

A perfect example is Donnie Darko, the film was great but now many ppl saw it. In fact it didnt even make 600,000 in the box office. But it got its dues on dvd makin over 10mil

Another i think is the Royal Tenebaums, people are rly that F-ed up (i would know)

not sure about the States but not many people in the UK saw The Station Agent but I loved it, hopefully more people will pick up the DVD out soon.

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Quick Change (1990 - Franklin & Murray)
Joe versus the Volcano (1990 - John Patrick Shanley)
Pennies From Heaven (1981 - Herbert Ross)
White Hunter, Black Heart (1990 - Clint Eastwood)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974 - Sam Peckinpah)
The Life & Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972 - John Huston)
My Name Is Nobody (1973 - Tonini Valerii)
Duck, You Sucker! (1971 - Sergio Leone)
Lord Love A Duck (1966 - George Axelrod)
Schizopolis (1996 - Steven Soderbergh)
City of Ghosts (2003 - Matt Dillon)
Chinese Box (1997 - Wayne Wang)
The Sugarland Express (1974 - Steven Spielberg)
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985 - William Friedkin)
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (1998 - Terry Gilliam)
The Butcher Boy (1997 - Neil Jordan)
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994 - Joel & Ethan Coen)
The Silent Partner (Daryl Duke - 1978)
The Long Goodbye (1973 - Robert Altman)
Parents (1989 - Bob Balaban)
Let It Ride (1989 - Joe Pytka)
The Yakuza (1975 - Sydney Pollack)
They All Laughed (1981 - Peter Bogdanovich)
And on and on and on....

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Gattaca
Butterfly Effect
Equilibrium

I definitely agree with Equilibrium.
I need to see Gattaca again before I can comment on it.
I wasn't that crazy about The Butterfly Effect, although I thought the premise was great.

Well, considering my avatar, I'd have to say The Limey.

Soderbergh seems to be an underrated director in general.

His remake of Solaris is another one that bears mentioning..

white oleander.... i know it doesnt do the book justice but it is such a beautifully done movie. the emotion of the characters permeates so well through the film

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Really unfortunate about this one, too. I think a lot of people faulted Steve Martin's character, a complete jerk, for being such a thorough and effective jerk.
And visually, just absoluetely unbelievable as well.

Everyone I know hates "Dude, Where's My Car?" The most underrated film of all time.

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Dudes underrated??? That movie was one of the most embarrassing pieces of tripe to ever come out of Hollywood. But there's always somebody out there with a poop fetish. I just never figured you were one of them.


I kid!!! I kid!!!

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okay what did you expect form "dude where is my car" the movie was supposed to be stupid and it succeded in that, otherwise it wouldnt be funny


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A movie+stupidity+success?

No.

Right off the bat I'll have to say American History X and Boondock Saints. Also I'd throw Face/Off in there...people always go "huh?" when I tell them about those movies.

The term underrated is such a subjective term. What makes a movie underrated solely depends on who you ask. Critics may like a film overall, such as the recently released The Notebook, but the audiences weren’t entirely bowled over by it. Does that make it underrated? A movie may not make scads of money in the box office, but completely rakes it in with its rentals, like Donnie Darko. Does that make it underrated? Movies may be old and outdated, but had, or still has, a huge cult following like the mesmerizing A Boy and His Dog. Does that make it underrated? Maybe it takes a specific taste to appreciate it like the one I just mentioned, so how can a movie like that be underrated when it wasn’t designed to be for everyone from the get go?

Viewers may love a film, but that depends on the target audience. I personally despise slasher flicks, most of the people I know do as well, so maybe all these bloody gore-fests that we avoid could be called underrated by somebody else who adores that particular genre. Take my pick, for example, of one of the most, at least in my eyes, underrated flicks ever; Doctor Zhivago. Critics were disappointed because David Lean had made such masterpieces as Great Expectations, Lawrence of Arabia, and The Bridge on the River Kwai and just could not see this one as a film that compared to the others. The movie didn’t earn what was expected, didn’t receive as many glowing reviews as the others either, and ask people who have seen some of his others whether or not they have seen this one and it seems that most have not. Yet, millions of lonely housewives, and one angry vet (me), all agree that it most certainly is a masterpiece of the highest order. I love this film. I adore it. If it had breasts I’d suckle them. Doctor Zhivago is an underrated masterpiece, and if any of you haven’t seen it yet, go rent it tonight. It is a beautiful story…a little melodramatic at the end…but perfect in almost every other way.

Gigli was horribbly underrated i thought. Nobody saw it, but when it came out on video, i found out that it was one of the greatest pieces of Modern cinema......ever! Specialists are predicting Gigli: Director's Cut to pull in at least 758 million at the box office during its Feburary 05' release. Not to mention Gigli 2 and 3, (Gigli goes Hawaiian and the Great Gigli Caper). Those are gonna blow us away.



snoogans.

Damn, dude. For a moment I thought you were serious. I was stressing about what kind of witty, yet extremely sarcastic, remark I was going to make...then Wham-O!

Thank doG!

Death To Smoochy. Great film.

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Big Trouble in Little China. ( 1986)
The Dark Crystal. ( 1982)
Labyrinth. ( 1986)
The Princess Bride. ( 1987)
Transformers: The Movie. ( 1986)
Return to Oz. ( 1985)
Bio-Dome. ( 1995)
Atlantis: The Lost Empire. ( 2001)
Gattaca. ( 1997)
The Fifth Element. ( 1997)
Dark City. ( 1998)
Starship Troopers. ( 1997)
Jury Duty. ( 1995)
Rob Roy. ( 1995)
The Aristocats. ( 1970)
Oliver and Company. ( 1988)
The Last Unicorn. ( 1982)
The Secret of NIMH. ( 1982)
Rock & Rule. ( 1983)
Resident Evil. ( 2002)
One Hour Photo. ( 2002)
Ringu. ( 1998)
Riki-Oh The Story of Ricky. ( 1992)
In The army Now. ( 1994)
Leon: The Professional. ( 1994)
Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday. ( 1993)
Demons. ( 1985)
Dario Argento's Phenomena. ( 1985)
The Beyond ( 1981).
Scanners. ( 1980)
Videodrome ( 1983).
Final Destination ( 2000).
Final Destination 2 ( 2003).
House of 1000 Corpses ( 2003).
The Fog ( 1980).
The Nutty Professor. ( 1996)
Wizards. ( 1977)

My choices for most underrated movies.

Go LordyLord I LOVE 'Doctor Zhivago' and so does every woman i know. swooooon, suckle my breast, ooooh sorry, got carried away

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