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Most Underappreciated/Underrated/Overlooked Films
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"Little Murders" w/Elliot Gould, Donald Sutherland, and Alan Arkin. The few minutes of Arkin's homocide detective rant and Gould's soliliquy about somebody reading his mail are unforgettable.
Really? It's #35 on IMDB's top 250, with more than 162,000 votes.
+1.
+10, absolutely hilarious all the way through. Though it's shown on Comedy Central often now so it's probably not very unheard of.
Adding Ong-bak to the thread. Amazing movie.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a brilliant film. I saw it on a plane for the first time, and burst out laughing so many times I know I must have pissed off everyone else on the flight. But staggeringly funny, and underrated.
Children of Men, on the other hand, was terrible.
Glad there's another fan of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
I personally liked the premise and feel of Children of Men. Thought Cuaron did well.
Oh yes! Amazing. Pretty much anything written Charlie Kaufman. Have you seen Synecdoche New York? In my opinion it's even better.
All great films.
I'll add:
You And Me And Everyone We Know
Last Days
Elephant
Jerry
The Secretary
and in an incredibly B movie way
Suburbia
It isn't that either. Every time this topic comes up, Donnie Darko is listed more prominently than any other title. Absolutely nothing against the movie or it's fans, but it's popularity demonstrates it isn't underrated, overlooked, or under -appreciated.
I saw the title of the thread, and came here to mention Dark City, only to see that it was the first movie mentioned
...Yes!
Other than that....
Stand by me
L.A. Story
Bubba Ho-Tep
probably others that I can't recall at the moment
Agreed, ditto, +1, what have ya. Sure, a bit of suspension of disbelief is needed, but Equilibrium is a cool sci-fi action film, featuring Christian Bale before he became a household name. Howard Stern once said he liked this even better than The Matrix (not that he's a respected film critic or anything).
+1 on Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. I absolutely love that film.
I'm going to catch some heat for this, but...
A Lot Like Love.
Yeah, yeah - it's a sloppy romantic comedy with Ashton Kutcher in it. In everything else he's ever done he annoys the piss out of me, but I genuinely think this is a funny, well written movie in which he's not totally awful.
You may commence throwing overripe fruit now.
Okay, half-assed attempt to redeem myself:
- Slap Shot (underrated here, at least, but maybe only because there are about four other people in the country who like hockey)
- 25th Hour
- Fever Pitch (football version, not baseball version)
I'm going to catch some heat for this, but...
A Lot Like Love.
Yeah, yeah - it's a sloppy romantic comedy with Ashton Kutcher in it. In everything else he's ever done he annoys the piss out of me, but I genuinely think this is a funny, well written movie in which he's not totally awful.
You may commence throwing overripe fruit now.
Okay, half-assed attempt to redeem myself:
- Slap Shot (underrated here, at least, but maybe only because there are about four other people in the country who like hockey)
- 25th Hour
- Fever Pitch (football version, not baseball version)
Office Space
Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte
High Fidelity
BAT21
Desperado
The Game
That's all I can think of right now.
Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte
High Fidelity
BAT21
Desperado
The Game
That's all I can think of right now.
I LOVE David Lynch. I don't care what the naysayers think. His films are the best trip you can go on without using LSD.
Unforgiven is a brilliant, intelliegnt movie and agree also re American Psycho.
Goodbye Lenin is great, bitter-sweet, funny and yet quite sad with a wonderful soundtrack by Yann Tiersen (same chap who composed the music for Amalie). Others I personally rate highly, which seem to be overlooked/underrated and underappreciated include:
Lone Star
Jesus of Montreal
Au Revoir les Enfants
My Life as A Dog
I'm sure others will occur to me but each of these were movies of intelligence and multi-layered and challenging story-telling. Simply brilliant, movies I have no problem watching again.
Cheers and good luck
I agree wholeheartedly that Donnie Darko is in no way underrated or overlooked. Rather, it's pretty popular.
Let me add some more (quite indie) stuff:
The Squid and the Whale
The Science of Sleep
Franklyn
Dear Zachary
Ghost Dog (Forest Whittaker = amazing in this)