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Let The Right One In - best vampire movie ever (not the shitty American remake "Let Me In")
Alien Resurrection - generally hated by fans of the series but I love the inventiveness and stylishness. my favourite alien movie after the first one.
Anything by Werner Herzog
Agreed with above re: Wong Kar Wai, but not sure he is really underrated, critics generally love him.
Freddy got Fingered - universally panned but I think its some kind surrealist masterpiece (and I kinda like Tom Green)
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On September 27 2014 05:55 Liquid`Drone wrote:I don't know if I can think of any "underrated" movie.. People/critics usually rate movies according to how they felt about the movie, and I don't think I'm in any position to tell them that they actually felt differently about it, as I am not them. What makes more sense is to talk of under appreciated movies, essentially movies that should be watched by more people because they are awesome, but somehow have slipped under the radar. As such, I just have to mention the movie I finished 1 hour ago, because it is the first time in forever where I literally found myself thinking "wow, this might just be the best movie I have ever watched." It's not really underrated though, because I've yet to meet anyone who watched it and didn't absolutely love it, but it seems to have slipped quite a lot of people's radar. The Grand Budapest Hotel
Loved that movie, got it on blue ray and the soundtrack. ^_^ I enjoy most of Wes Anderson's work in general, particularly Rushmore and The Life Aquatic, but the Grand Budapest was right up there, if not surpassing his best work imo.
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Fear 1983 ‘Angst’ Directed by Gerald Kargl
One of the most realistic depiction of a psychopath ever. Very raw, very scary & very unknown film.
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MARTYRS
A French Horror movie, pretty crazy and fk'd up.
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On September 27 2014 05:55 Liquid`Drone wrote:I don't know if I can think of any "underrated" movie.. People/critics usually rate movies according to how they felt about the movie, and I don't think I'm in any position to tell them that they actually felt differently about it, as I am not them. What makes more sense is to talk of under appreciated movies, essentially movies that should be watched by more people because they are awesome, but somehow have slipped under the radar. As such, I just have to mention the movie I finished 1 hour ago, because it is the first time in forever where I literally found myself thinking "wow, this might just be the best movie I have ever watched." It's not really underrated though, because I've yet to meet anyone who watched it and didn't absolutely love it, but it seems to have slipped quite a lot of people's radar. The Grand Budapest Hotel
I don't know, man. Some movies really are underrated, because group-think is a real thing. Some movies are just never given a chance, get a horrible reception upon release and then either have to find an audience later, or never find an audience. Showgirls is the great classic example of this. A big budget NC-17 rated Showbiz satire from an a-list director and a hot writer that currently sits at 17/36%(critics/users) at rotten tomatoes. Love it or hate it, this movie is not bad from any technical measure, but some people did find it offensive and a lot of people seem to miss that its a satire and that means that this film's rating doesn't really reflect the movie, but rather the audience's taste(this is true I suppose for all films, although usually the films technical quality and the audience's response correlate. Audiences respond better to well made films). Nobody should go into Showgirls with their shot glasses and drinking games thinking they're getting Sharknado. They're not. They're getting an ambitious well made film that's not to everybody's taste. Showgirls is not under-appreciated, it is in the purest sense of the word, underrated. The rating undersells the film's quality.
So this is my long way of telling everybody to go watch Showgirls. It's great. Even people out there who do call it 'bad' are often secretly calling it great, as in, "that was a great bad movie."
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Snowpiercer was really great got but got no attention at all. The Chaser is an awesome korean thriller, alongside Memories of murders.
Can't think of another movie right now.
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On October 01 2014 00:57 sc2isnotdying wrote:Show nested quote +On September 27 2014 05:55 Liquid`Drone wrote:I don't know if I can think of any "underrated" movie.. People/critics usually rate movies according to how they felt about the movie, and I don't think I'm in any position to tell them that they actually felt differently about it, as I am not them. What makes more sense is to talk of under appreciated movies, essentially movies that should be watched by more people because they are awesome, but somehow have slipped under the radar. As such, I just have to mention the movie I finished 1 hour ago, because it is the first time in forever where I literally found myself thinking "wow, this might just be the best movie I have ever watched." It's not really underrated though, because I've yet to meet anyone who watched it and didn't absolutely love it, but it seems to have slipped quite a lot of people's radar. The Grand Budapest Hotel I don't know, man. Some movies really are underrated, because group-think is a real thing. Some movies are just never given a chance, get a horrible reception upon release and then either have to find an audience later, or never find an audience. Showgirls is the great classic example of this. A big budget NC-17 rated Showbiz satire from an a-list director and a hot writer that currently sits at 17/36%(critics/users) at rotten tomatoes. Love it or hate it, this movie is not bad from any technical measure, but some people did find it offensive and a lot of people seem to miss that its a satire and that means that this film's rating doesn't really reflect the movie, but rather the audience's taste(this is true I suppose for all films, although usually the films technical quality and the audience's response correlate. Audiences respond better to well made films). Nobody should go into Showgirls with their shot glasses and drinking games thinking they're getting Sharknado. They're not. They're getting an ambitious well made film that's not to everybody's taste. Showgirls is not under-appreciated, it is in the purest sense of the word, underrated. The rating undersells the film's quality. So this is my long way of telling everybody to go watch Showgirls. It's great. Even people out there who do call it 'bad' are often secretly calling it great, as in, "that was a great bad movie."
but you're rating it really highly. and someone finding it offensive is grounds for them rating it poorly. someone not getting that it's sarcasm is grounds for them rating it poorly. you can't say something is underrated without stating that something is objectively good - and you'll have a very hard time convincingly making that argument.
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A lot of these picks are really not underrated, (or under appreciated.)
Movies I would pick are the ones that time has almost completely forgot. For instance while a film like The Lost Boys is generally considered a cult classic, I would pick Ginger Snaps as the more underrated movie. It's smarter, funnier and more effecting as a coming of age story based around monsters.
Choosing movies that were panned upon release and you think are unfairly judged recently would work as well, but not recent movies like Let the right one in, or The grand budapest hotel, or The assassination of Jesse James. Those were all critical darlings when they came out.
Every horror fan has seen Carpenter's The Thing, but would any of them recommend Possession (1981?). For every Dawn of the Dead recommendation there should instead be a Dellamorte Dellamore. For every The Omen, an Alice, sweet Alice. Speaking of which, can you believe no horror movie has done what Alice did? Plot contrivances be damned! (Ok that one guy was an idiot, but seriously, its like watching every horror movie cliche fall apart before your very eyes.)
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Yeah, I guess we need to make the distinction between "underrated" and "just not very well known"
Showgirls is great by the way!
I love Verhoven he is remarkably consistent. I also have a soft spot for Hollow Man. I would say Flesh + Blood is pretty underrated too.
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On October 01 2014 04:20 Hexe wrote: A lot of these picks are really not underrated, (or under appreciated.)
Movies I would pick are the ones that time has almost completely forgot. For instance while a film like The Lost Boys is generally considered a cult classic, I would pick Ginger Snaps as the more underrated movie. It's smarter, funnier and more effecting as a coming of age story based around monsters.
Choosing movies that were panned upon release and you think are unfairly judged recently would work as well, but not recent movies like Let the right one in, or The grand budapest hotel, or The assassination of Jesse James. Those were all critical darlings when they came out.
Every horror fan has seen Carpenter's The Thing, but would any of them recommend Possession (1981?). For every Dawn of the Dead recommendation there should instead be a Dellamorte Dellamore. For every The Omen, an Alice, sweet Alice. Speaking of which, can you believe no horror movie has done what Alice did? Plot contrivances be damned! (Ok that one guy was an idiot, but seriously, its like watching every horror movie cliche fall apart before your very eyes.)
Yeah, well underrated is very subjective. All you see here mostly are popular films. A hidden gems topic would be much more interesting. Widen your horizon.
I go for Love Me No More 2008 ‘Deux jours à tuer’ Directed by Jean Becker.
A twisted tale that keeps you guessing. Highly recommend - and almost no one knows about it.
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On September 24 2014 08:43 jinorazi wrote:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683/The Man From Earth it all takes inside a cabin. its about a guy claiming he is thousands of years old and people debating if he telling the truth or not. the meeting takes place when a professor is retiring and this is their get-together. the debate is amongst professors and each use their respective fields to debate. i thought i was going to fall asleep within 5 minutes of watching it but i fcking loved it. i watched it and really liked it
only thing id have to add to this thread: im not even sure this movie is really unknown/underrated but none of my friends knew it http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758758/ truly great movie, watched it so many times :>
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Czech Republic18921 Posts
Man From Earth is amazing! I was privileged to watch it without any spoilers whatsoever and that made it so much better. I really liked Nymphomaniac and Upstream Colour recently, both excellent, imo. I want to see Nymphomaniac director's cut, but I can't find it anywhere. Apparently it's like over 5 hours long or something.
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On October 06 2014 22:36 teddyoojo wrote:Show nested quote +On September 24 2014 08:43 jinorazi wrote:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683/The Man From Earth it all takes inside a cabin. its about a guy claiming he is thousands of years old and people debating if he telling the truth or not. the meeting takes place when a professor is retiring and this is their get-together. the debate is amongst professors and each use their respective fields to debate. i thought i was going to fall asleep within 5 minutes of watching it but i fcking loved it. i watched it and really liked it only thing id have to add to this thread: im not even sure this movie is really unknown/underrated but none of my friends knew it http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758758/truly great movie, watched it so many times :>
It's at the IMDb Top 250 films and has over 300.000 votes.
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On October 01 2014 03:16 Liquid`Drone wrote:Show nested quote +On October 01 2014 00:57 sc2isnotdying wrote:On September 27 2014 05:55 Liquid`Drone wrote:I don't know if I can think of any "underrated" movie.. People/critics usually rate movies according to how they felt about the movie, and I don't think I'm in any position to tell them that they actually felt differently about it, as I am not them. What makes more sense is to talk of under appreciated movies, essentially movies that should be watched by more people because they are awesome, but somehow have slipped under the radar. As such, I just have to mention the movie I finished 1 hour ago, because it is the first time in forever where I literally found myself thinking "wow, this might just be the best movie I have ever watched." It's not really underrated though, because I've yet to meet anyone who watched it and didn't absolutely love it, but it seems to have slipped quite a lot of people's radar. The Grand Budapest Hotel I don't know, man. Some movies really are underrated, because group-think is a real thing. Some movies are just never given a chance, get a horrible reception upon release and then either have to find an audience later, or never find an audience. Showgirls is the great classic example of this. A big budget NC-17 rated Showbiz satire from an a-list director and a hot writer that currently sits at 17/36%(critics/users) at rotten tomatoes. Love it or hate it, this movie is not bad from any technical measure, but some people did find it offensive and a lot of people seem to miss that its a satire and that means that this film's rating doesn't really reflect the movie, but rather the audience's taste(this is true I suppose for all films, although usually the films technical quality and the audience's response correlate. Audiences respond better to well made films). Nobody should go into Showgirls with their shot glasses and drinking games thinking they're getting Sharknado. They're not. They're getting an ambitious well made film that's not to everybody's taste. Showgirls is not under-appreciated, it is in the purest sense of the word, underrated. The rating undersells the film's quality. So this is my long way of telling everybody to go watch Showgirls. It's great. Even people out there who do call it 'bad' are often secretly calling it great, as in, "that was a great bad movie." but you're rating it really highly. and someone finding it offensive is grounds for them rating it poorly. someone not getting that it's sarcasm is grounds for them rating it poorly. you can't say something is underrated without stating that something is objectively good - and you'll have a very hard time convincingly making that argument.
I can't make an argument that a film is objectively good, but I can make an argument why the popular opinion doesn't give a certain film enough credit. Maybe it's because the popular opinion on a film is some sort of reactionary misread, as I believe is the case with Showgirls, or maybe its because expectations at release were artificially high and the audience is reacting to that, as is the case with Prometheus, or maybe the film in question is underrated because it won an Oscar over other better films, as is the case with Crash, or maybe the film is underrated because the film was marketed to a wide audience predisposed to dislike it, as was the case with Noah.
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