Underrated movies

[KeithTalent]

I just watched Event Horizon again the other day and remember how much I liked it.

It did pretty poorly at the box office and you never really hear about it, but I love it and consider it underrated!

So I'm wondering what other underrated movies are out there!?

KT

PS: I searched through OT, but most of the movie threads are only about best/worst, oh and the sideboob thread.

Edit: compiled the list.

Compiled list of movies so far in alphabetical order

12 Monkeys
13th warrior
25th Hour
28 Weeks Later
Accepted
Adaptation
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
All the Real Girls
A Bronx Tale
A Perfect World
A Scanner Darkly
Awakenings
A Waking Life
Antitrust
Attack the Gas Station
Baseketball
Battle Royale
Battlefield Earth **(only if you have not read the book)**
Beerfest
Belle Epoque
Better Luck Tomorrow
Better Off Dead
Black Hawk Down
Black Rain
Blade Runner
Blue Velvet
Boondock Saints
Bowfinger
Box of Moonlight
Brazil
Breakdown
Bullworth
Camp
Cat People (80's version)
Circuitry Man
Clerks 2
Coming to America
Crank
Crazy People
Cube
Dark City
Dead Alive/Braindead
Death and the Maiden
Deathrace 2000
Death to Smoochy
Demolition Man
Dirty Work
Down in the Valley
Dragonslayer
Elizabeth
Employee of the Month
Enemy at the Gates
Equilibrium
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Event Horizon
Everything Is Illuminated
Evil
Exotica
Fletch
Flower Drum Song
Freddy Got Fingered
Freeway
Gadjo Dilo
Gallipoli
Ginger Snaps
Grandma's Boy
Gymkata
Hackers
Hair
Hard Boiled
Hedwig And The Angry Inch
High Fidelity
Hoodwinked
Hudsucker Proxy
Imposter
Innocent Voices
Joe Dirt
Joe Versus the Volcano
Just Cause
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Kinightriders
Knight's Tale
L.A. Story
Labyrinth
Lady Snowblood (Shurayukihime)
Last Action Hero
Layer Cake
Les Diaboliques
Liberty Stands Still
Little Children
Logan's Run
Man on Fire
May
Mindwalk
Minority Report
Monkeybone
Multiplicity
Mute Witness
My Blue Heaven
My Sassy Girl
Mystic River
Nick of Time
Of Mice and Men
Orgazmo
Orlando
Over the Top
Paths of Glory
Peaceful Warrior
Perfect Blue
Perfume: A Story of a Murderer
Pi
Poolhall Junkies
Pootie Tang
Pure
Quatermass And The Pit
Quills
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Raising Arizona
Rare Birds
Red Planet
Reign of Fire
Requiem for a Dream
Return of the Living Dead
Ridicule
River World
Roadie
Ronin
Roots
Rounders
Salvador
School for Scoundrels
Schultze Gets the Blues
Shakes The Clown
Show Me Love
Sixteen Candles
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
So I Married an Axe Murderer
Stand By Me
Starship Troopers
Strange Brew
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
Tampopo
Tank Girl
Thank You for Smoking
The Arrival
The Core
The Crossing Guard
The Edge
The Fisher King
The Game
The Hidden
The Island
The Jacket
The Life of David Gale
The Machinist
The Man from Earth
The Man With One Red Shoe
The Matador
The Mosquito Coast
The Nines
The Other Side
The Postman
The Right Stuff
The Spanish Prisoner
The Sweet Hereafter
The Truman Show
The World's Fastest Indian
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias)
Thirteenth Floor
Time Bandits
Total recall
Trading Places
Tremors 1 & 2
United 93
Videodrome (director's cut)
Volunteers
Waterworld
Xanadu
Xtro
Zardoz
Zoolander
Zulu

 

[yankeesfan]

Zoolander

 

[SVT Cobra]

Black Hawk Down


Not enough people realize it is the greatest movie ever made, actually the best thing ever made.

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: yankeesfan
Zoolander

Is there more to life than being really really ridiculously good looking? Love that.

 

[esquared]

Imposter - with Gary Sinise. Sci-Fi from another Philip Dick short story. Blade Runner, Minority Report and Total recall were also made from Philip Dick stories for those that didn't know.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: yankeesfan
Zoolander

:thumbsup:
The did a perfect job of creating a goofy world and then having the characters take the world completely seriously. Monty Python would approve.

Mine:

Tank Girl

Lori Petty, Naomi Watts (much cuter as a brunette), Malcom McDowell, good times.

 

[KeithTalent]

Agree with Zoolander.

Have never seen Black Hawk Down, Platoon was one always one of my favourites.

I really like Minority report as well, which surprised me.

KT

 

[Jeff7]

I liked Hoodwinked, but it didn't do so well, and I don't think the critics cared for it much.


Hoodwinked 2 is on the way.

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
I liked Hoodwinked, but it didn't do so well, and I don't think the critics cared for it much.


Hoodwinked 2 is on the way.

Lol, you have to love when a movie gets panned and does not make a lot of money, yet they make a sequel anyway. :thumbsup:

KT

 

[lyssword]

another vote for zoolander

 

[gar3555]

Beerfest and Grandma's Boy, I enjoy nothing more than drinking and watching them

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: gar3555
Beerfest and Grandma's Boy, I enjoy nothing more than drinking and watching them

Never seen Beerfest but Grandma's Boy made me lol in more than a few spots; good times! :thumbsup:

KT

 

[Flyback]

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[gar3555]

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: gar3555
Beerfest and Grandma's Boy, I enjoy nothing more than drinking and watching them</end quote></div>

Never seen Beerfest but Grandma's Boy made me lol in more than a few spots; good times! :thumbsup:

KT

yah, it is hilarious as a gamer, and beerfest is hilarious as an alcoholic. oops. I gave that up too easily, but seriously every time I watch beerfest I can't help but drink. I guess Pavlov had it right.

 

[Fenixgoon]

i hated zoolander. blackhawk down is one of the best movies i've ever seen though. amazingly well done. i should read the book

 

[chuckywang]

Les Diaboliques

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
i hated zoolander. blackhawk down is one of the best movies i've ever seen though. amazingly well done. i should read the book

The book is the best thing in the world, made or natural, the movie is only second to the book.



Also Beerfest sucked.

 

[dotcom173]

grandma's boy. there are some others, my brain just isn't working correctly today

 

[Dean]

Fake Purse Ninja's


Oh wait that wasn't made, but for comedy I vote for Bowfinger. It poked fun at Hollywood, and everyone in front and behind the cameras.

Eddie Murphy had two great roles in the movie, one a cult following mega-star and the other as his overly nerdy brother. Steve Martin was an Ed Wood type B movie director who decides to have Murphy star in his movie, without Murphy even knowing it.

Good laughs

 

[gar3555]

Originally posted by: dotcom173
grandma's boy. there are some others, my brain just isn't working correctly today

One of my fave things about Grandma's Boy is that my fiancee thinks it's hilarious, and she isn't even into video games.

 

[compnovice]

Hmmm ... so many votes for Zoolander...
I did start watchig the movie, but gave up in 10-15 mins... I shoulld probably give it another shot..

 

[CKent]

Last Action Hero... everyone hates it, I loved it

 

[Turnpike]

Tremors 1 and to a lesser extent 2. 3 and 4 were pretty lousy.
Orgazmo.

 

[sandorski]

Ya, Zoolander was pretty good, I still think the sex scene was out of place in it, but overall a really funny movie.

One movie that wasn't mentioned, probably because it is Hated by all, is Battlefield Earth. Ya, it was over hyped and the marketing gave a completely wrong impression of the movie(that of being huge battles and whatnot), by itself it is a decent movie. I haven't read the book either, so maybe the movie has nothing to do with the story in the book and if it's not, then I can understand why people hate the movie. I just think that one needs to forget all the stuff leading up to the movie and view it for what it is rather than what one expects it to be.

[puts on flame suit and waits for the deluge!]

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: KeithTalent

Lol, you have to love when a movie gets panned and does not make a lot of money, yet they make a sequel anyway. :thumbsup:

KT

It was reported to have had a budget of $15 - $20 million, depending on the source. Hoodwinked 2 should have a budget twice that.
Shrek had a budget of $60 million.

Total gross: $109.5 million

It's profitable, so they might as well go for a second one.