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Posted: Jan 30 2009 08:04 pm

We've got the overrated thread, so here comes the underrated thread. As always, there will be much fighting and gnashing of teeth.

I'd like to nominate Vanilla Sky. The critics absolutely shit all over this movie, but it had a great cast and an interesting story. There are lots of great quotes too.

Posted: Jan 30 2009 08:22 pm

I'm going with Boon Dock Saints, it was barely mentioned when it was released and it was probably the best movie of the year.(whatever year that was...)

Posted: Jan 30 2009 08:31 pm

I'll go ahead and nominate my all time favorite movie, Real Men.

Posted: Jan 30 2009 08:32 pm

Paul Blart Mall Cop. People who never seen the movie insist on telling me it sucks. NO IT DOESN'T GO SEE IT!!!

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Pump up the Volume

The Mall Cop movie just came out. How the fuck can it be underrated when it hasn't had its run yet?

Posted: Jan 30 2009 09:14 pm

scamrock wrote:

I'll go ahead and nominate my all time favorite movie, Real Men.

Holy shit, I haven't thought of that movie in YEARS. Are you talking about that UFO flick comedy with John Ritter and Jim Belushi?

I think Idiocracy and Bubba Ho-tep were both brilliant.

Posted: Jan 30 2009 09:31 pm

GPFontaine wrote:

Pump up the Volume

The Mall Cop movie just came out. How the fuck can it be underrated when it hasn't had its run yet?

And furthermore, how can it be good at a PG rating?

Posted: Jan 30 2009 09:49 pm

Idiocracy was indeed great.

I nominate Hackers. The movie itself sucks, but it is the ultimate unintentionally hilarious computer movie.

Posted: Jan 30 2009 10:50 pm

Regarding Henry.

Fuck, is that movie awesome!

Posted: Jan 30 2009 10:58 pm

Hudson Hawk. I really like this movie, but I think I'm alone. And its not like other movies where its the cheese appeal like lets say The Last Dragon. I think its a genuinely funny comedy that people were determined to dislike.

Posted: Jan 31 2009 01:12 am

GPFontaine wrote:

Pump up the Volume

This. In fact, all of Christian Slater's early stuff is underrated. Pump Up the Volume, Heathers, Gleaming the Cube. Now he has all of those Worst Actor awards.

Undeath wrote:

scamrock wrote:

I'll go ahead and nominate my all time favorite movie, Real Men.

Holy shit, I haven't thought of that movie in YEARS. Are you talking about that UFO flick comedy with John Ritter and Jim Belushi?

Yeah. Its my all time fave. You know how everyone has a favorite movie from their childhood that nobody else does? That's mine.

"Holy shit! Clown attack."

"They took some of the CIA's best agents and dressed them up as clowns so they won't be recognized."

"So they won't be recognized?"

"They've gone bad."

"Bad Clowns?"

Posted: Jan 31 2009 01:35 am

TopShelf wrote:

I'm going with Boon Dock Saints, it was barely mentioned when it was released and it was probably the best movie of the year.(whatever year that was...)

That was the first thing that came to mind. I think it has a critical 19% on RottenTomatoes, when on the "fan rating" it has like, 84%.
I love a bunch of Kevin Smith movies that the critics hated (i.e. pretty much all of them.) 'Mallrats" in particular. Sure, there are a few unfunny/awkward moments in that movie (i.e. topless psychic, pretty much the whole opening.) but the rest of the movie is gold.

Posted: Jan 31 2009 01:42 am

Syd Lexia wrote:

I'd like to nominate Vanilla Sky. The critics absolutely shit all over this movie, but it had a great cast and an interesting story. There are lots of great quotes too.

All the hate for Vanilla Sky comes from the fact how it is a remake for a great Spanish sci-fi film, Open Your Eyes, which is praised among critics.

I would like to nominate The Fountain (criminally underrated).

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The Thirteenth Floor
The Butterfly Effect
Baseketball

Posted: Jan 31 2009 08:22 am

Cattivo wrote:

Baseketball

YES. Or pretty much any non-SP project Matt and Trey worked on.

Also, The Onion Movie, Amazon Women on the Moon, Run Ronnie Run, and The Adventures of Ford Fairlane.

Posted: Jan 31 2009 09:54 am

i have to point out The Last Dragon, although RGS did so earlier. i also have to agree w/BaseketBall. thats such an awesomely hilarious movie.

idk if anyone saw In Bruges, but i thought it was hliarious. it just took a while for me to get used to their accents.

and oz, i have to disagree on The Fountain. that had good potential, but somewhere along the way, it just lost itself and ended up being a mess imo

Posted: Jan 31 2009 10:32 am

Cattivo wrote:

The Thirteenth Floor

I completely agree. For some reason the years 1998 and 1999 saw a flood of movies that dealt with virtual realities or environments that turn out to be manufactured illusions: The Matrix, eXistenZ, Dark City, The Truman Show. Of those movies The Thirteenth Floor is easily the most underrated. Unlike The Matrix it keeps things interesting and takes its subject seriously until the very end and doesn't devolve into a mindless, albeit cool-looking, special-effects action spectacle in the second half of the movie. It also has a tighter plot than the previous adaptation of the novel, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's World on Wires, which is extremely slow and boring in parts.

As for me, I think The King of Comedy is Martin Scorsese's most overlooked movie. I guess it's because it's so painful to watch the first time. But the cast is fantastic and so is the direction and it gets only better with repeated viewing. I find it strangely fascinating to watch Rupert Pupkin get rejected again and again, but never admitting it, always making up excuses to explain away reality.

Posted: Jan 31 2009 11:47 am

I think the Saw movies are pretty criminally underrated. Most people think they are just run of the mill, brainless, gory slasher flicks but I have found all of them very entertaining, complex, and fun (except maybe Saw V which was simpler, but still entertaining). I can't understand why there's so much hate for the series.

Posted: Jan 31 2009 03:04 pm

username wrote:

and oz, i have to disagree on The Fountain. that had good potential, but somewhere along the way, it just lost itself and ended up being a mess imo

It is far from a mess. It is a finely crafted movie that doesnt waste a single frame to anything irrelevant.

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I thought strange wilderness was a fun movie to watch and for all it's idiocy it was very entertaining but the critics shit ALL over it. It has a zero on rotten tomatoes.

Posted: Jan 31 2009 04:30 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane.

I love this movie. It seems like everyone likes it, but that it is always either forgotten or overlooked. Hell, I own the movie and sometimes I even forget I have it.

I still use the Ford Fairlane toast when I'm at the bar or drinking with friends.
"Here's to you...SUCKIN' MY DICK!"

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I agree Panda. Horror movies, to me, are usually mindless popcorn flicks that you watch to waste time, but Saw's plot was actually good enough for me to buy it - and I never buy horror films on dvd.

Posted: Jan 31 2009 07:14 pm

Tyop wrote:

eXistenZ, Dark City

Those are both underrated as well.

Posted: Jan 31 2009 07:38 pm

Cattivo wrote:

I agree Panda. Horror movies, to me, are usually mindless popcorn flicks that you watch to waste time, but Saw's plot was actually good enough for me to buy it - and I never buy horror films on dvd.

I agree about horror movies being mindless popcorn flicks. But I don't watch them to waste time, I watch them because I can't think of anything else I'd rather be doing with my time. But you are right. Saw is the thinking man's horror. It's every bit as much of a thriller as it is a horror movie.

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green street hooligans gets my vote. I'd never even heard of it until recently and now i watch it every week with a passion.