UnderRated Movies

#1

What’s your favorite movie that got low ratings, or was good but no one heard of it? Whats it about and why did you like it?

Here’s Mine:

Miracle Mile (1988 )
One of those cool real-time movies where a man recieves a phone call about the nuclear apocloypse. He has one hour to find his girlfriend and get the hell out of LA.

I loved the premise, and everything was so overly intense it was almost laughable. Especially when everyone learns an hour later that nukes are coming and are killing each other to get out. My second favorite cold war movie to Red Dawn.

Cheesy Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N5FBXs1ZWw

#2

I really liked The Core (2003), a typical sci-fi film about some guys who need to drill a hole all the way down to the center of the Earth and set off some nuclear bombs to restart the rotation of the planet’s core.

What I liked the most about the film (which was voted the worst science fiction film ever), was the portrayal of the genius hacker, Theodore Donald “Rat” Finch. DJ Qualls was assigned the role, and man, was the perfect for it! Skinny, pale and pretty much a weakling - no offense, but I find that much more realistic than the typical image of the cool guy who wears nice-looking, modern glasses, hacks into the CIA’s database and somehow always maintains a perfect semi-mohawk thanks to some superpowerful hair gel.

Besides, before being caught by the cops at the beginning of the film, the Rat grabbed all his CDs with suspicious software, threw them into the microwave and cooked 'em up. And seriously, would anybody who isn’t familiar with the computing world have thought of that?

Yeah, I don’t even know what I’m saying. Guess I just like DJ Qualls. I suffer when I remember that Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 5.3 out of 10.

#3

It was funny when the black guy melted for no reason

#4

Hahaha, yeah. Numerous scientific inaccuracies FTW.

#5

GGH has been prowling this thread, I wunder wat hes got

#6

Batman Begins. I like it almost as much, if not as much, as TDK.

#7

^

Agreed, though I wouldn’t call it underrated by any stretch of the imagination.

#8

I like Liam Neeson, so I love Batman Begins. I hate to see he gets killed at the end… Or does he?

#9

That’s what I always appreciated about that ending. However, TDK over did it with the ambiguous fates of Sal, Two Face and to some small degree, The Joker (yeah sure, we can assume he was locked up in Arkham, but damn that needed to be an actual scene and not just an implication fans would pick up on).

I feel I have to add Terry Gilliam’s Brazil to this list.

#10

Batman Begins isn’t an underrated movie. It’s great, and when it came out everyone said “it’s great” and it made a lot of money. That’s pretty much the definition of a highly and correctly rated movie.

#11

What I meant was more that many people seem to have forgotten how epic Batman Begins was since TDK came out, and honestly it’s just as enjoyable. It’s not underrated in the sense that people think it’s bad, just in the sense that it’s overshadowed by its sequel.

#12

I found this flick to be largely underrated, as long as you remember it’s a comedy first and pseudo sci-fi second, it’s enjoyable.

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#13

Revolver by Guy Ritchie.

#14

The Way of the Gun. It is a very subtle movie for all of its action sequences. There isn’t really any point where everything is explicitly told to the viewer. You have to watch and pay attention to know what is going on. And the action sequences make a hell of a lot of sense too. I love it so much.

#15

It was a decent enough flick. I felt it was trying to cash in on what Boondock Saints did though. Still good film.

#16

Ha ha! Sir, if you think Boondock Saints was anything but an attempt to cash in on what Tarantino’s films did (and a poor one at that), you’ve got another thing coming. I’m not saying it’s a bad movie (hell, any movie that kills a man by dropping a toilet on his head and has a flamboyant transvestite Willem Dafoe is all right in my book), but if you think a single frame was an original attempt at filmmaking, you be wrooong, son!

EDIT: Oh, and underrated movies? Swordfish, man. The opening scene is one of the coolest I’ve ever seen, and while the rest of the movie seems to have been made by the kids who were too mentally disabled to make it on the shortbus, it has a topless Halle Berry and a flying helicopter/bus. Oh, and Wolverine hacking a government mainframe with a gun to his head and a mouth on his cock.

#17

I think Robert Rodriquez would have been the better director to quote, I find he had much more to do with (re)kicking off of gunfighter movies than Tarantino did. Closest would have been Reservoir Dogs, and that still doesn’t jive with the gunfighter feel that Rodriguez was pulling off with El Mariachi, Desperado, etc, which Boondock Saints most definitely felt like.

#18

Perhaps. I always felt that Saints owed more to Tarantino than Rodriguez, but I dunno. The prayer they recite before executing some cat definitely is ripped straight from Pulp Fiction.

#19

I’ll give you that one.

The crazy assed fight scenes (choreography and all) not to mention the eccentric characters ring more of Rodriguez’ style to me.

Tarantino was much more about the hipster dialogue and whatnot until he got acquainted with Rodriguez.

I was too young (not yet born) to know if this flick was underrated at the time, but considering it seems to be one of his less known films I’m throwing in Peter Sellers’ The Party in this thread. Absolutely hilarious.

#20

I actually liked Batman Begins more than The Dark Knight.

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