Underrated movies...

[Arsan]

ORIGINAL: JRodda


I love Peckinpah's 'Cross of Iron'.  Definitely one of the best, most underrated WW2 films.  I felt like I was really watching the Eastern front; the battle scenes were astounding!  Can you say steel breeze??  Also one of James Coburn's greatest performances.  In fact the film had a great cast all the way around, including Maximillian Schell, David Warner, and James Mason, and Austrian actress Senta Berger was so hot she'd set the next galaxy on fire!!!  [;)]

I also have 'The Wild Bunch' in my Netflix queue.  Didn't really care for this one when I saw it as a kid, so I'm giving it another try. 

Yes! cross of Iron fits perectly on this underrated thread.
Haven't thought about it! Awesome film.
And one of the few american WW2 films with eastern front setting.

After seeing the absolutely great "Wild Buch" add to your list other Peckimpah "must sees" like "Pat Garret&Bily the Kid", "Major Dundee", "Ride the high Country"...
Nobody can mix violence and lyricism like Sam could [&o]
And the casts are incredible too!
Besides the usually great leading roles there is a "wild bunch" of habitual supporting cast actors that were top notch. Warren Oates for example is one of my all time favorite.

Regards!

[SS Hauptsturmfuhrer]

I haven't see that Cross of Iron movie.  I'll have to put it on my must see list after all this raving.

[TulliusDetritus]

"I'm a huge Kubrick fan, and consider him the greatest film director of all time" - JRodda

Same here. On my book he is one of the best directors. And as Pasternakski mentioned he made very different movies. A true genius, this Mr Kubrick (did you know that he was agoraphobic?).

SS Hauptsturmfuhrer, indeed, you must watch the Cross of Iron movie. James Coburn is excellent, along with all the other actors. Great movie.

[pasternakski]

ORIGINAL: TulliusDetritus
(did you know that he was agoraphobic?).

I was a bit put off by the agora myself until I learned to speak Greek.

Cross of Iron ... Great movie.

Contains an excellent scene depicting why you don't want to interrupt milady's bath.

Back on topic (an unusual impulse for me, of course), I really enjoy the two campy "Three Musketeers" movies directed by Richard Lester ("A Hard Day's Night, "Help!", et al.) in the early 1990s. Even if you don't find them funny, just seeing Racquel Welch at the height of her "powers" is worth the price of admission (and she does a nice "dizzy, clumsy broad" character that contributes a lot to the fun, too).

[TulliusDetritus]

"Contains an excellent scene depicting why you don't want to interrupt milady's bath" - Pasternakski

Yessss... and the hardcore nazi (hated by all the members of Steiner's squad) gets what he deserves... Not a sweet death [:D]

[gunny]

ORIGINAL: SS Hauptsturmfuhrer

I haven't see that Cross of Iron movie.  I'll have to put it on my must see list after all this raving.

Don't see the sequel tho, it was really bad and deserves to be under rated. seeing steiner fight the very guys he survived the russian fron with made no sense. Richard burton plays steiner, and the same German actors who survived from the original are in it.

[Grell]

I would have to say the movie "Gettysburg" by Ted Turner. It might not be historically accurate but what a great movie that is!

Regards,

Grell

[Brigz]

ORIGINAL: pasternakski


Spielberg? Lucas? Sorry, you got some kinda fun stuff, but not the likes of Stanley's stuff. Stone? Please. Coppola? You got a nice little niche, not more. Scorsese? de Palma? Okay. I like yez where ya iz, but not out here in "greatness" territory.

Spielberg! SPIELBERG!! Slowly I turn... I know this thread is about under-rated movies, but Spielberg is one of the most over-rated directors of all time. "1941" After seeing that I hated the man.

[IronDuke_slith]

ORIGINAL: Titanwarrior89

How could I forget that one. That was a good movie. Infact I bought that one.[X(]

ORIGINAL: Jevhaddah

By Dawn's Early Light

Cheers

Jev

Dawn's Early Light

If you're referring to the 1990 nuclear war flick, then whilst the movie was fine, try the book...

Trinity's child

Absolutely outstanding. Twice as deep, three times as gripping and pretty revealing about how a nuclear exchange might have panned out. I couldn't put it down.

Regards,
ID

[pasternakski]

ORIGINAL: Dave Briggs
Spielberg! SPIELBERG!! Slowly I turn... I know this thread is about under-rated movies, but Spielberg is one of the most over-rated directors of all time. "1941" After seeing that I hated the man.

Ah, Dave... Dave? DAVE?!

Dave's not here!

I tellya, I am so glad to find somebody who agrees with me about this hockey puck. Especially somebody whose other opinions I have always respected (but don't push yer luck).

I was silent for ET ... but then, after a whole bunch of other losers, Amistad came along.

I became militant. Started drafting a sharia under which you could eat pork, but Spielberg had to be in it.

Finally, there was Schindler's List.

I issued a fatwa and tried to start a jihad, but nobody believed I could come through on the 72 virgins in heaven thing.

One more from this hoser, and it's time to cross the streams...

[Titanwarrior89]

Best part of that movie was when the cannons opened up. The movie overall wasn't that bad. I liked it.[:)]

ORIGINAL: Grell

I would have to say the movie "Gettysburg" by Ted Turner. It might not be historically accurate but what a great movie that is!

Regards,

Grell

[Titanwarrior89]

Another movie that didn't do well in the theaters but has come along very well on the tube is "It's a Wonderful Life". I do like the movie. But from what I understand it didn't do well at the time of release.[X(]

[Brigz]

How about "The Scorpion King"? I actually liked this movie. Found it very entertaining.

Can't stand or understand Pro Wrestling but I like The Rock.

[E]

ORIGINAL: SuluSea

To End All Wars

Great movie IMO.

Watched this on your recommendation. Very good movie. Should've been titled "The almost real story about the bridge on the river Kwai." I hadn't heard of it before, and upon watching it then checking around the web, I find it was pretty faithful to the autobiographical book of the real story.

ORIGINAL: Charles_22

"The Lighthorsemen"

Without a doubt, the best movie I have ever seen, which I had never heard about before.

Watched this one based on this thread. Seemed a bit disjointed and/or missing something to make it a good movie. But it was interesting to watch the charge.

ORIGINAL: pasternakski

Ah, Dave... Dave? DAVE?!

Dave's not here!

Don't answer the phone, even if it's me calling!

[Jeffrey H.]

ORIGINAL: pasternakski


Ah, Dave... Dave? DAVE?!

Dave's not here!

Ummm, Earache My Eye ?

[Erik Rutins]

Definitely agree with Cross of Iron.

[EUBanana]

ORIGINAL: Titanwarrior89

Best part of that movie was when the cannons opened up. The movie overall wasn't that bad. I liked it.[:)]

General Armistead was so cool in that. [:D]

I especially liked the bit where it was a Confederate rebel who explained to the British observer what being American was all about. I thought that was a nice touch, that it was a rebel, not a union man who did it. Brother vs brother and all.

[Sarge]

1) Wicked Spring
Spoiler alert !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5ooBiCLlqA

2) The Revolution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s08ucJsHVgE

[Ironclad]

The Silent Partner - a great but little known film. Quality cast - Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York, Celine Lomez, clever plot, screenplay by Curtis Hanson.

[Gil R.]

ORIGINAL: Mike Parker

Okay

"Yellowbeard" - Hilariously funny

"Zorro the Gay Blade" - all I know is that the soldiers are very happy shooting the peeples who say they are not happy

Amazing. Someone else remembers "Zorro the Gay Blade"?!? That movie was on all the time, day and night, when my family first got HBO. I must have seen it a dozen times. "Wholly Moses" was the other movie that played incessantly back then.

Since I guess I should contribute something, for whatever reason the first movie that comes to mind is "Under Siege 2: Dark Territory." Not that it's even close to my favorite movie, but to me there needs to be a criterion for "underrated," and I'd think that any movie getting less than a 6.5/10 rating at IMDB would count. This one gets a 5.0, but it's at least as entertaining as most highly-rated action movies. (For the record, "Zorro, the Gay Blade" gets a 5.5/10 rating, which is higher than I would have expected.)

I'll now go back on my self-proclaimed criterion and throw "The Mission" into the mix (despite its 7.4 rating), simply because I think it is one of the most perfect movies I've ever seen, but no one ever mentions it, I never see it on TV, and it seems to have been completely forgotten.