Underrated movies...

[JudgeDredd]

Possibly...I just found it very chilling.

[morganbj]

I'll add two to the list.
 
Office Space
Last Starfighter
 
The latter has one of the best dialog sequences of all time:
 
<While the sigle starship waits "in ambush" for the enemy armada.>
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Alex:&nbsp; It'll be a slaughter!
Grig:&nbsp; That's the spirit!!
Alex:&nbsp; No, us!&nbsp; We'll be slaughtered!
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(Breaks me up.&nbsp; It really does.)
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[sol_invictus]

ORIGINAL: Prince of Eckmühl

I suspect that a lot of our readers have never heard of this film, but my vote goes to "The Mission:"

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi502333721/

PoE (aka ivanmoe)

I agree. I really like that movie. I will throw in my nominees and list Rob Roy and The Beast.

[anarchyintheuk]

Most of these are listed above . . .

Big Trouble in Little China - one of my favorite movies
Anchorman - never understood why that movie didn't do well at the box office
Galaxy Quest - ditto, Sam Rockwell's delayed reaction to beaming on the spaceship is a great scene
Barry Lyndon - liked the movie a little less as he started to lose body parts
Valmont
Little Big Man

[pasternakski]

ORIGINAL: E
Starship Troopers was about blasting bugs and using power armor. *grin*

Yah, you know? Shame the power armor didn't make an appearance in the movie.

I can't speak to the TV deal, as I completely gave up TV about 15+ years ago, although I started watching TV shows on DVD a couple years ago. So I have to amend my "I don't watch TV" to "I don't watch broadcast TV."

A man after my own heart. I just saw a couple of trailers where someone had cast McDowell as an overbearing jerk professor. You could see it wasn't gonna work.

[treespider]

ORIGINAL: bjmorgan

I'll add two to the list.

Office Space

Thank you .


"PCLoadLetter what the @$#! does that mean?"

[pasternakski]

ORIGINAL: Hertston

Judge Dredd. I enjoyed it and went to see it with a couple of die-hard 2000AD fans who also loved it. Being realistic, they did about the best they could with the subject matter, IMHO.

They Might be Giants. Forget 'Patton', this was George C. Scott's finest hour and one of the best movies nobody has heard of.

Silent Running. Anybody who thinks cute movie robots originated with R2D2 needs to watch this one. A classic sci-fi eco-cautionary tale to make grown men cry.

I wouldn't touch "Judge Dredd" with a plastic one, but GCS in "They Might Be Giants" is, as you say, magnificent. He was a lot better than many gave him credit for. I thought his work in "The Hustler" was fantastic, too.

I used to kind of like "Silent Running," the robots played by double-amputee dwarves (I know, I know, they weren't, but stupid comments like that stimulate discussion, don't they? Besides, that one other robot was, which is where I got the idea...) being one of the main reasons, but then got to thinking, "Why would a robot designer make them so slow and awkward?" It's the same kind of concern I had with a certain futuristic, super-powerful robot having an Austrian accent. Besides, the "green" message gets a little over the top for me, and I have never been a Bruce Dern fan (outside of a few roles as villains in Westerns).

[Mike Parker]

Okay
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"Yellowbeard" - Hilariously funny
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"Zorro the Gay Blade" - all I know is that the soldiers are very happy shooting the peeples who say they are not happy
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[pasternakski]

ORIGINAL: TulliusDetritus

Pasternakski, it's curious that you mention two Kubrick's works. "Barry Lyndon" and "A Clockwork Orange". To me almost masterpieces. A lot of people and / or critics didn't like them? Ok. But I don't think they are going to say "that's rubbish cinema" (if they say so, they should only watch TV films). Just like Citizen Kane or Dersu Uzala. Lots of people may not like them... but it's great cinema. And great cinema is far beyond this "underrated" thing [:)]

I mean, to use this analogy: Homer (Greek poet, not the Simpson guy [:D]) or Alighieri cannot be underrated. Never [8D]

Well, I am a dyed-in-the-wool Kubrick fan (except for that last Tom Cruise mess). I mean, it takes a genius to get that much acting out of Ryan O'Neal.

Even at that, I wouldn't elevate him to the same exalted status as Homer (who may never have existed as one man, but made a heck of a tour guide) or Dante (a one-trick pony, but what a trick it was).

[pasternakski]

ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk
Valmont

I liked "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" a lot more. Malkovich I thought to be terrific, and Colin Firth, much as we loved him in "Pride and Prejudice," just didn't have the sinister weight to play Valmont.

Little Big Man

Whenever I get around to concocting a list of my favorite movies, this one is always at or near the top.

[Charles2222]

"The Lighthorsemen"

Without a doubt, the best movie I have ever seen, which I had never heard about before. Saw it at a movie theatre when I thought there was nothing to see, and boy was I surprised. It's an Australian film that apparently won some of their Academy Awards. It's the only movie I can remember, that drew a VERY vocal response from me inside a theatre. I had no idea how the historic battle that is featured, turned out, which made it all the more dramatic. It even has something of an innocent love relationship which works VERY well with the film (was actually a historic relationship), and is probably what every guy would dream of with such relationships in war movies, unlike the one in the-movie-that-shall-not-be-mentioned.

[SeaMonkey]

"The Game"
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"Inside Man"

[SuluSea]

To End All Wars
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Great movie IMO.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n30mNPiXPgE
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[Jeffrey H.]

"The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou"
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Quirky funny, Bill Murray and Owen Wilson. Essentially a spoof on those old National Geographic TV series of Jaques Cousteau and crew filming squid and stuff that morphs into a storyline of it's own.
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[E]

ORIGINAL: Arinvald

I agree. I really like that movie. I will throw in my nominees and list ... and The Beast.

Good call! But I wonder if it was more of a situation of "not" rated (ignored) than underrated. The very, very few reviews I've seen were positive.

[USSAmerica]

ORIGINAL: treespider

ORIGINAL: bjmorgan

I'll add two to the list.

Office Space

Thank you .


"PCLoadLetter what the @$#! does that mean?"

"It seems you've been missing a lot of work lately...."

"I wouldn't exactly say I've been missing it." [:D]

I work in a cube farm for a big computer company. [;)]

[Doggie]

U-571, The Patriot, and Braveheart.[8D]

[SS Hauptsturmfuhrer]

My 3 favorite movies are all very underrated for the value they provide...

Cyborg (Jean Claude Van Damme)
Starship Troopers (Casper Van Dien)
Collateral (Tom Cruise)

[benpark]

"Brainstorm" is a lost classic that stars Chris Walken as a scientist that develops a device that can record the thoughts and experiences of the person wearing it. A different person can then "live" the recorded experience by wearing the device and viewing the recording. This is also Natalie Woods' last film. She died while filming it, so the use of body doubles is pretty creative. A great, weird film that gets pretty metaphysical.

Another would be the '70's comedy freak-out "The Groove Tube", which has a pre-SNL Chevy Chase and a young Richard Belzer acting (with others) in a series of skits. It's pretty damn funny for the most part.

That's two that come to mind right away, but there are dozens.

One more short one ("Rendezvous") that can be seen on "the YouTube":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gWpjvAyDZo

[Lützow]

Last Samurai (Tom Cruise)
Gladiator (Russel Crowe)