Underrated Movies???

[phillybri]

Anyone that reads Bill Simmons' columns on ESPN.com's Page 2 has probably read this piece.

http://espn.go.com/page2/s/simmons/030808.html

There are some absolute gems in here for me. "Eddie and the Cruisers", "Last American Virgin", etc...

But, for my money "Just One of The Guys" has to be the most underrated movie of the 80's or any other era.

Just a classic....Anyone got some other suggestions???

[muchacho]

1. Donnie Darko

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[RandomKoolzip]

7. 2 votes for "Donnie Darko."

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[RandomKoolzip]

8. 2 votes for "Donnie Darko."

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[7th_Sephiroth]

70. lets see

Jack Frost (the killer snowman movie, not the family movie) Punch Drunk love, six string samurai, and the sailor moon hentai cosplay special

[Susang]

74. Manhunter

I'm on a big Brian Cox kick tonight. William Peterson and Joan Allen ain't too bad either!

[nostamj]

24. if you haven't seen Donnie Darko...

i also recommend it. watched it twice the first time i rented it. totally unique.

[Richardo]

2. Dark City

:thumbsup:

[quispquake]

32. Thumbs up to both Dark City & Donnie Darko...

Two of my favorites...both very unique movies...

[everythingsxen]

40. I concur..

Dark City and Donnie Darko are awesome films.

Another vote from me: Boondock Saints.

[terrya]

3. "Primary Colors"

I liked this movie very much. John Travolta gives a (rare) good performance. Actually, solid performances all around (with Emma Thompson very good as the Hillary character, and Kathy Bates wonderful playing the Betsey Wright part)

This was a very underrated Mike Nichols film.

[wryter2000]

4. Not a serious movie by any means

Encino Man was an utter delight. Definitely silly, but the world needs silly sometimes.

[Character Assassin]

5. "Parents". Cannibalism isn't cannibalism unless it starts at home

God, what a black, black ball of yucks that movie was.

Randy Quaid's greatest roll. Evah.

[BigMcLargehuge]

17. Parents was a great metaphor for how kids view parental sexuality

what a great flick. I still remember seeing that for the first time and just being amazed at how good it was.

[Character Assassin]

29. Oh, cool angle! Never thought of it that way. Hmmmm.....

I really dug the leftovers scene.

[DuctapeFatwa]

6. Real Women have Curves, Baran -

NO! I will not start, there are too many!

[RandomKoolzip]

9. Catch-22.

I thought it was better than the book. Nobody ever talks about it, but it's a masterpiece, and WAY better than MASH, IMHO.

Others:
The Chocolate War
World Acoording to Garp
Helter Skelter
Seize the Day

[Breezy du Nord]

50. Didn't know Catch 22 was a movie even nt

[MissMarple]

10. Streets of Fire

And he compares Michael Pare in Eddie and the Cruisers with Chris Klein. There is no comparison, Michael Pare is so much better.

And Hollywood Knights. Did anyone mention that?

[phillybri]

11. Michael Pare peaked on "The Greatest American Hero"...

Stand and Deliver is one I forgot to mention. AWESOME movie....

[MissMarple]

12. Well,....hm... so it goes. And what has Chris Klein been doing lately?

And he's just too pretty. :D

And I loved Stand and Deliver.

[phillybri]

13. He'll probably end up doing Skinemax flicks or stright-up porn...

:evilgrin:

[BigMcLargehuge]

18. another vote for Streets of Fire!

Totally underrated. What great dialogue, so rough and earthy. I loved it.

[GOPisEvil]

25. Hollywood Knights!

A true under-rated classic! :thumbsup:

[ProfessorGAC]

27. I Love Streets of Fire

Everything about that movie flips my whistle. My bands have been doing the song from the closing credits (The Fixx, Deeper & Deeper) since that movie was new. I never get tired of that movie or that song.
The Professor

[underpants]

14. From Justin to Kelly

Anyone who has seen it can not deny the chemistry that they share. However I was really not expecting so many money shots as there were in that movie.

[phillybri]

16. You'd have to staple my balls to the TV to get me to watch that!!!

:puke:

[underpants]

19. Come here

Oh man (I'm assume man) I am laughng my ass off. Thanks I needed that it has been an unbelieveably difficult week.

I was actually going to see if my wife would waste the time to watch it this weekend just for the hell of it (yeah that kind of week) but I'm hiding the staplers.

[BigMcLargehuge]

20. you'd have to staple phillybri's balls to the TV to get ME to watch that

it's more satisfying to flush 10 bucks down the crapper just to watch the spin.

[underpants]

21. You too come here

[Screaming Lord Byron]

15. Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, Return of the King.

Definitely totally underrated.

[RandomKoolzip]

26. Your ironic sense of wit is SO subtle it's impossible to prove it exists.

You ARE kidding, right?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

28. Hey, I'll laugh at anyone, myself, whatever.

I like LOTR, but the whole thing is getting blown way out of proportion. The films are very good, Jackson's a very good filmmaker, but ultimately, they're just films, so I was satirising that.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

37. Irony is just a euphemism for laziness and boredom, anyway.

which works for me.

[roguevalley]

67. here here on LOTR

[GOPisEvil]

22. Sneakers

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/

[phillybri]

34. I forgot that one!!!!

What a lineup of actors!!!

Aykroyd, Redford, Poitier, River Phoenix, James Earl Jones, the guy that played Gandhi...

That is a "Murderer's Row" of acting!!!

[GOPisEvil]

35. Ben Kingsley...lol...

Don't forget Mary McDonnell, Timothy Busfield...

[phillybri]

36. Tim Busfield: With "Revenge of the Nerds" AND "Sneakers" on your resume...

You really don't NEED to work anymore!

[GOPisEvil]

38. Almost enough to forgive him for "thirtysomething"...

He better be glad he was on The West Wing. ;-)

[Sentath]

56. Did you ever notice

That EVERYTHING except the main title came up as an anagram?

Huh, wonder why ( ;

[noonwitch]

23. Night Shift is a hilarious movie

Is "Fast Break" the b-ball movie starring Gabe Kaplan? The one scene I remember about that movie is that GK is the coach of this inner-city team, and he's driving them to Vegas for some tournament. The guys start smoking weed in the car and a cop gets behind them with his lights flashing, so everyone in the car starts eating the weed, so they won't get busted. The cop passes them by.
Also, I think there was a girl on the team who bound her breasts up and pretended to be a guy until the end of the movie.

It was a funny movie, one that my mom brought us to see at the theater when we were junior high aged.

[Whitacre D_WI]

30. Tank Girl.

I thought it kicked ass. Then again, I never read the comic, so I didn't have any high expectations to fulfill.

I also find Johnny Mnemonic to be the best Keanu Reeves film ever. His range of expression (running the gamut from passive disinterest to constipation) seems quite well suited to a character with a computer in his brain.

What is the common link?





That's right. Ice-effin-T.

[Loonman]

31. "A Better Place"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305750211/qid=1071687934/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-7959838-8165569?v=glance&s=dvd

[Faygo Kid]

33. "Santa Fe Trail"

Ok, flame me, Reagan played Custer in it. And, the history is, shall we say, weak. But, Raymond Massey gave one of the great performances in film history as John Brown; Errol Flynn and Olivia DeHavilland were as ever great entertainment, and Van Heflin - in his film debut - was brilliant. Also, I thought it captured well the "spirit" of those unbelievable times. Well done Hollywood Hokum, but in my opinion a tremendously underrated film.

[LiviaOlivia]

53. Yes indeed, Massey was brilliant. eom

[hel]

39. Zero Effect

"The world's most private detective"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120906/

[phillybri]

75. Excellent pick!!!

None of my friends know this movie, but it is friggin awesome!

[skypilot]

41. Twin Peaks:Fire Walk with Me

I loved this movie. I thought it was brilliant, disturbing, and truly terrifying in some parts. It's strange that so many people who liked the series didn't like the movie. Go figure.

[the_boxer_]

42. The Thin Red Line...

The movie is just poetic...

[Screaming Lord Byron]

43. Dead Man, Faraway So Close n/t

[dontomas]

44. What about....

1. Stripes
2. Flash Gordon - the one with the Queen soundtrack
3. Dave
4. Big Trouble in Little China
5. Porky's

[grannylib]

45. "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" gets my vote. Stellar performance

by Leo DiCaprio as Arnie, and I loved the scene where Gilbert takes his GF to meet his mom, and the GFs response to mom.
Great flick!

[stanwyck]

46. Another vote for Gilbert

Leo was so good. And any movie with Johnny is alright by me. Like offbeat, non-Hollywood movies.

[frogfromthenorth2]

47. Mosquito Coast

With Harrison Ford....

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0091557/

[jobycom]

71. I thought I was the only one who liked that film

Harrison Ford was wonderfully pathetic in it. His character, I mean, he was good. It was the film that made me start seeing him as a serious actor.

[Emboldened Chimp]

48. The Quiet American

It was barely released because chickenshit Harvey Weinstein was afraid that a movie critical of US foreign policy (i.e. CIA arming Vietnamese terrorists) wouldn't fly in a post-9/11 world. He ruined the chance for people to see a brilliantly acted film by Michael Caine. Caine was robbed of a deserved Oscar.

[Spirochete]

49. Tigerland

Frequency
Pump Up the Volume

[ldoolin]

52. Another vote for Tigerland

One of the best Vietnam flicks ever made.

Also in the criminally overlooked Vietnam movie column: 84 Charlie MoPic

[LiviaOlivia]

51. Zefferelli's 'The Champ', a Jon Voight classic

Starlight Hotel
The Earthling
Mountains of the Moon
Mindwalk
After Dark My Sweet
The Black Marble

There are so many.

[ikojo]

54. Liberty Heights and the Apostle

Liberty Heights is a Barry Levinson movie about growing up in Baltimore in the mid to late 1950s. It stars Adrian Brody (of the Pianist fame and a hottie IMHO). The movie covers racial integration, the decline of burlesque in an age of television (Adrian Brody's father owned a burlesque theatre) and simply being Jewish at a time when Jews were not fully integrated or allowed to integrate into American society. There is a scene where the younger brother wants to swim at a local pool but cannot because no Jews or dogs are allowed.

The Apostle stars Robert Duvall (and I think it was written by him) as a very flawed fundamentalist Christian preacher in Texas. He is married to Farrah Fawcett and has stepped out on her several times in their marriage. In the movie she has left him and is seeing the youth director of the church. The movie takes off once Duvall in a fit of rage kills the youth director by hitting him upside the head with a baseball bat. Duvall then runs and becomes a preacher of a one room church in Louisiana, which he shares with the previous black preacher. Great movie!!!!!

[AmandaRuth]

55. my choice

would be a movie called Smoke Signals

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[kanrok]

57. Ishtar

[Djinn]

59. Three Kings

was marketed really badly - atleast here in Oz - as a shoot em up US soldiers save the world kind of thing which was stupid as anyone who wanted to see that kind of movie probably would have found 3 Kings shit (too much politics, too much from the Iraqi perspective and too "left") and other who would have enjoyed it stayed away in droves.

That George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg are in it might not have helped but it's no hollywood blockbuster - and walhbelrg is actaully beleivable

[populistmom]

60. The World According to Garp

1982- Robin Williams, Glen Close, and May Beth Hurt

It wasn't as good as the book (they never quite are), but a damn good movie. Always on my list of all time favorites.

[loudnclear]

61. "Blood Simple"

Most underrated of all time.

[Richardo]

64. Still my sentimental favorite Coen Bros movie

great first film!

[bubba_fett]

62. Hudsucker Proxy

Supposedly Coen brothers' big flop, I loved it. Maybe I'm biased, I like anything by the Coen bros.

[proud2BlibKansan]

63. Phenomenon

[jayfish]

65. At Close Range.

Jay

[area51]

66. "Underrated Movies"

Lost Boys (1987).

[ochazuke]

68. Jeremiah Johnson

some say he's dead...some say he never will be.

Great minimalist style and soundtrack underrated, too.

[Cooley Hurd]

69. Something Wild...

A movie that had something for everyone - sex, violence, dark humor and the greatest soundtrack:
"I won't go anywhere, without my cherokee chief..."

[jobycom]

72. A Dream of Passion-- anyone ever seen it?

[Paul Hood]

73. Blast From The Past

I didn't expect much from this movie, but I thought all the performances were great, and it was much funnier than I expected.

[jpgray]

76. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen--that movie is awesome (nt)