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Top Ten Most Underrated Films

sojourner said:
One of my favourite films of all time THH!

Harold and Maude is an absolute classic as well, for me
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Agreed. Anything with Jean Rochefort. I saw H&M last year. I'd never heard of it. Great film.

Seconds

Aguirre Wrath of God (not exactly obscure but neither is it mainstream)

Watership Down

Mother and Son

Once Upon a time in the West (superior to Leone's Eastwood films)

The Taking of Pelham 123

Night of the Hunter (so slated when it came out that Laughton never directed again - pity)

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (much better than I was expecting and very faithful to the book)

Rope

Oh Lucky Man (it's a bit of a mess, but a very enjoyable mess)
 
zed said:
Finally!!!! Someone else who's seen it. :cool:

Had the same effect on me too. Great, great film.
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Someone took me to see it at the soho Curzon, I had no idea what it was about but I thought it was amzing. I think it's got the most tension in anything ever filmed.
 
Dr_Gonzo said:
Can't think of ten but off the top of my head here are a few:
Jesus' Son
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that was the first one that came to my head when I saw this thread... :cool:

also:
* Riding in cars with boys
* Little Big Man (One of my favourite movies of all times)
* Safe ("Safe" has been described as a horror movie of the soul) - the one with Julianne Moore, directed by Todd Haynes
* Dogville
* Fitzcarraldo (is it underrated though, I wasn't around when it first came out so I'm not sure) and also the documentary 'My best friend' werzog made, about his relationship with Klaus Kinski
* Me and You and Everyone We Know

can't think of anymore right now...

e2a: I remember reading Harold & Maude way back, then watching the movie, both are classics!
 
Iemanja said:
that was the first one that came to my head when I saw this thread... :cool:

also:
* Riding in cars with boys
* Little Big Man (One of my favourite movies of all times)
* Safe ("Safe" has been described as a horror movie of the soul)
* Dogville
* Fitzcarraldo (is it underrated though, I wasn't around when it first came out so I'm not sure) and also the documentary 'My best friend' werzog made, about his relationship with Klaus Kinski
* Me and You and Everyone We Know

can't think of anymore right now...
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I'm surprised more people haven't seen it. It's got a well known cast so anyone looking at the films the actors have been in should find and it's a great film. I'm not a big fan of Jack Black but he is perfect in it and has some classic lines.
 
The Driver
Hannibal Brooks
The Natural
Larger than Life
The Parallax View
Midnight Run
Sling Blade
Une liason pornographique
The man who wasn't there
Primer
 
Yeah I think Casino was underrated in a way, any reviews always compared it like a poorer retread of goodfellas, whereas in reality it was just Goodfellas x 100, plus I liked the whole angle that goodfellas was a study of the foot soldiers and with Casino it was more to do with the leaders of the Mafia.
 
Dubversion said:
1 Harold & Maude
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Is cool..but does appear in the 1001 films you must see before you die book.

A very underrated film imo is King Creole (by far the best Elvis film, but everyone seems to think that is Jailhouse Rock).

The cradle will rock is also underrated - just didn't get shown in most cinemas in the UK, flopped in the US, but is fantastic.

Soldier Blue is justly maligned (yes, I know that's oxymoronic!) but has elements of greatness that no-one seems to appreciate apart from me.:)

Nadja is well cool. Another vampire themed film with a difference that was once underrated was Cronos, but since Devil's Backbone and now Pans Labyrinth it is receiving the attention it deserves.

The Hammer Horror series of silly sexploitative 70s vampire films; Lust for a Vampire, Vampire Lovers, Vampire Circus and Twins of Evil are justly ridiculed, but are also wonderful. Although I don't think they are really underrated since everyone knows the're shite, but a fair few of us love 'em anyway.

Bunuel's The MilkyWay is slurpily goodly but seldom appears in lists of great Bunuel films.

My final choice is the fabulous Mars Attacks! Everyone seems to hate it, but it is really very special.


And my absolutely final no 11 is 12 Monkeys. A masterpiece.
 
Dr_Gonzo said:
Yeah I can't believe 13 Tzameti didn't get more attention, I nearly burst a blood vessel from holding onto the seat so hard watchind it.
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own it but somehow still haven't watched it.. i'll remedy this at the weekend
 
Iemanja said:
* Little Big Man (One of my favourite movies of all times)
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But it is widely regarded as a classic and is listed in 1001 films you must see before you die so is it really underrated? (though Halliwells gives it only one star).
 
littlebabyjesus said:
Once Upon a time in the West (superior to Leone's Eastwood films)
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absolutely. it's heresy, apparently, but i find the eastwood ones a bit 'meh', but this is faultless.

littlebabyjesus said:
Night of the Hunter (so slated when it came out that Laughton never directed again - pity)
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not sure this is underrated any more - it's almost famous BECAUSE it was so underrated (and also brilliant)

littlebabyjesus said:
Oh Lucky Man (it's a bit of a mess, but a very enjoyable mess)
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a scary mess. drove my best mate - who was teetering on the edge of a schizophrenic breakdown - completely batshit and was the last thing he saw before he was sectioned. he tried to rationalise his situation by relating to scenes from the film. Very hard for me to consider objectively over that :(
 
Sigmund Fraud said:
The Driver
Hannibal Brooks
Sling Blade
The man who wasn't there
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yes, yes, yes and yes. this is why i like threads like this. They remind you and provoke you.. Ollie's best film, Hannibal Brooks
 
Groucho said:
Nadja is well cool. Another vampire themed film with a difference that was once underrated was Cronos, but since Devil's Backbone and now Pans Labyrinth it is receiving the attention it deserves.
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is that the one with the girl from Hartley's Amateur? Elina or something?
 
Dubversion said:
i was obsessed with Hartley movies for a while. anything with Martin Donovan, who is so fucking cool :)
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Yes, me too, but now I find all that clipped dialogue a bit too mannered and difficult. I wish someone would just say 'erm' or 'um', just once.
 
i'm having a brain fart and can only think of films i've seen in the last two weeks - but given that timeframe:

bad santa

big fish - not that it's a great film, but it got so much abuse and it's actually rather lovely.
 
littlebabyjesus said:
Yes, me too, but now I find all that clipped dialogue a bit too mannered and difficult. I wish someone would just say 'erm' or 'um', just once.
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yeh, it's like the first Hartley movie you see is always your favourite. then....

Trust was my first - i love that. But Amateur works best as a proper film, if you see what i mean

eta: and i love the way he kept making Donovan dance :D
 
I liked Amateur so much I went out and bought the screenplay! But is it underrated? Critics (well the ones who write for movie mags anyway) like Hal Hartley don't they?
 
Augie March said:
Classic? It means that I think the film has a timeless quality and that it's a great example of film-making.
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Fair enough. I think it's a great example of film-making too. Not classic though - because there's no such thing as a classic film... but that's a different thread. :)
 
New York New York
The American Friend
The Wages of Fear
The Tin Drum
Fear Eats the Soul
Uzak (Distant)
Head-On
Big Wednesday
Melvin and Howard
Diner
 
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