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Underrated Movies.

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The Man Who Would Be King
The Great Muppet Caper
Better Off Dead
A Fish Called Wanda
Following
Snatch
Max
Robot Stories
I Heart Huckabees
The Science of Sleep
Stranger Than Fiction
Be Kind Rewind
 
Deckerd said:
A fish called Wanda was huge.
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Was it? OK, just looked it up on Box Office Mojo, and it was the 12th highest grossing movie in 1988. So yes, pretty successful, but it's largely faded from public consciousness since then. I don't know, are we really being that stringent about "underrated" that it wouldn't count?
 
How about Peter Jackson's The Frighteners? That was a box office disappointment and long forgetten about, but on hindsight a good movie.
 
chrisspringob said:
Deckerd said:
A fish called Wanda was huge.
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Was it? OK, just looked it up on Box Office Mojo, and it was the 12th highest grossing movie in 1988. So yes, pretty successful, but it's largely faded from public consciousness since then. I don't know, are we really being that stringent about "underrated" that it wouldn't count?
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Uh, yes? For you and siwilliams: Underrated does not mean "movies that were successful decades ago but we don't talk about much anymore". It's not my opinion, it's just not what underrated means in any discussion I've ever had about such a topic. What is with people on the internet not giving a shit about what words mean? "I think I'll call this orange an apple today, are you really going to be so stringent that you won't allow me to do so?"

An underrated movie is one that did bad or less than expected box office business and got little critical acclaim (or possible derision), that you happen to think was more worthy than that. Period. I haven't seen a thread on Terminator 2 lately, does that mean it's underrated? :wtf:

If you think Waterworld was a great movie, that would count. If you think Star Trek V deserves more respect than what it gets, that would count. A Fish Called Wanda was a highly successful, Academy Award winning movie, how anyone could submit it as an overrated movie is beyond me.

And I don't know anything about people "poo-pooing" the original Batman movie. It's started to show it's age a bit and it's definitely a product of it's time, but until the recent Batman movies came out most people considered it the best Batman movie, Nicholson's joker an icon, and it still appears on most people's "best superhero movie" lists when they spring up. Again, not a movie I'd consider underrated.
 
Siwilliams said:
jongredic said:
SCANNERS!
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Is that movie as gross and disturbing as it sounds and looks like?
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It was cheesily fab. Our next door neighbours had one of the first VCR players on the market. It had a slo-mo feature on the controls and they kept playing that exploding head over and over. We had a huge argument over who actually survived at the end too. Marvellous stuff.
 
^Greatest Canadian movie ever made. :lol: Michael Ironside is the greatest movie villain in any movie he's in. The most evil smile in the business.
 
Deckerd said:
Siwilliams said:
jongredic said:
SCANNERS!
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Is that movie as gross and disturbing as it sounds and looks like?
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It was cheesily fab. Our next door neighbours had one of the first VCR players on the market. It had a slo-mo feature on the controls and they kept playing that exploding head over and over. We had a huge argument over who actually survived at the end too. Marvellous stuff.
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Yeah, that is the one scene I have seen, with the disturbing music
 
'Scanners' is a cult classic like 'The Thing', 'Tremors' and I suppose to an extent 'Donnie Darko' so I don't think it can be classified as "underrated".
 
Greg Cox said:
To my mind, an "underrated" is something that came and went without getting the attention it deserved, like maybe FREQUENCY or THE DESCENT, not some of the biggest hits of their time.
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That's pretty much the way I see the definition in this context. Of course perceptions are going to change over time, so a film that was have been hugely popular when it was originally released can easily lose points over time. That does not mean it is underrated, per se.
 
Greg Cox said:
TedShatner10 said:
How about Peter Jackson's The Frighteners? That was a box office disappointment and long forgetten about, but on hindsight a good movie.
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That's a perfect example of a great, underrated movie!
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Agree. First time i saw Peter Jackson's movie. I was quite happy when i heard he would be directing LOTR trilogy.

My movie list is Starman staring Jeff Brigdes and Karen Allen, Frantic starring Harrison Ford(his best movie) along with Regarding Henry. Far & Away starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, Waterworld & Postman staring Kevin Costner. While You Were Sleeping starring Sandra Bullock.
Medicine Man starring Sean Connery
 
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1.) Star Wars: ROTJ (didn't know how hated it was until I started hanging out around here- loved it as a kid and it is still one of my favorite Star Wars movies- the EWOKS never bothered me THAT much when there was so many other better things about the movie)
2.) Transformers the Movie (1986) (one of my FAVORITE movies from when I was a kid and it is still one of my favorite movies as an adult - I still listen to the soundtrack a LOT)
3.) Star Trek III: The Search For Spock (loved them stealing the Enterprise and blowing it up later- even though some parts of the movie kind of dragged)
4.) Frequency
5.) Titan AE
 
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