Post an Underrated Movie

[lifelessheap]

A critical darling sitting at 97% on RT.... My dude, that movie is not underrated. It got endless praise and love.

 

[lifelessheap]

See No Evil

Kane is a beast.

It was awful.

 

[Rozko]

People rarely talk about these good movies.

Elite Squad is a masterpiece

 

[TheNinja]

Chocolat

 

[chubbman]

It was awful.

Awfully good

 

[SamSchmidt]

Here is another I thought was great. Reminded me of Stand by Me a lil bit.

 

[PubliusVentidius]

''Nueve Reinas'' (Nine Queens), argentinian movie about two scam artists. Impressive for being a debut movie and Ricardo Darin was great in it.

 

[Gutter Chris]

I never thought Red White and Blue got the recondition it deserves

 

[Madmick]

A critical darling sitting at 97% on RT.... My dude, that movie is not underrated. It got endless praise and love.

97% on RT doesn't mean shit anymore.

The film wasn't underrated, I agree, but RT doesn't tell you that.

 

[Canned Tuna]

Both of these are masterpieces. The first is one of my favorite films of all time. It has to be one of the most underappreciated strokes of genius ever put to film.

This one isn't really underrated because everyone who sees it loves it (7.9 on IMDb), but it didn't get the admiration it deserved. It was almost entirely ignored during the awards season, and few people have ever even heard about it. Frankly, I enjoyed it more than Pan's Labyrinth or The English Patient, and if you watch it, you'll understand why I mention those films. It's shares the spirit of my favorite Tim Burton film, but I won't mention which that is.

Somewhat genderized mirrors of each other by Neil Labute, I promise that you will NEVER forget either if you watch them:

This one got more visibility than most I'll list, but it only grossed $21m domestically, and few appreciated how deep it was. Simply a crime that it didn't get a Best Picture nomination when War Horse and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close did. Christians, in particular, slept on it. I don't think they realize it is one of the most quintessentially Christian films ever made-- but hey, maybe that's why it didn't get nominations:

Yet another that is north of 7.0 on IMDb, but the Bronte sisters have been done to death on film, and this one stands head and shoulders above the rest. Mia Wasikowska is fire. Directed by Cary Fukunaga who three years later directed 8/10 of what is perhaps the finest season of television ever made in True Detective season 1. If you've never understood why girls are so crazy for the literature of the late 19th century's Victorian era...watch this, then watch Pride and Prejudice from 2005 with Keira Knightley based on the Austen novel. The stories are eternal. Those crooked-toothed bitches could write:

A coming-of-age tour de force for young men:

The movie that put Amy Adams on the map. One of the greatest acting performances ever given:

I'll probably come back with more, later. I best magazine in American film criticism is Film Comment, hands down. Their end-of-the-year Critic's Poll stands head and shoulders above shit like RottenTomatoes or Metacritic, and they don't look anything alike. Most of their movies aren't the type to be festooned during awards season, either. This is a magazine ran by people who know how to curate their reviewers, not just the films they feature for articles. It's humbling to look back and see how their lists have stood up from the late 90's and early 2000's. It's resisting the hyper-lliberal SJW agenda better than most stewards of high art, too. This is art:
https://www.filmcomment.com/

I haven’t seen a film adaptation of Jane eyre but had to read it in high school. I thought it was awful. I may have hated it more than it deserved because of teacher and her feminazi campaign, though. It was the third book in one semester that she insisted was first and foremost about how evil men are and how oppressed the heroine was.

 

[nick jacoby]

 

[Lovestorm]

 

[Madmick]

I haven’t seen a film adaptation of Jane eyre but had to read it in high school. I thought it was awful. I may have hated it more than it deserved because of teacher and her feminazi campaign, though. It was the third book in one semester that she insisted was first and foremost about how evil men are and how oppressed the heroine was.

I loathed the Victorian women writers in high school, too, but not for the puerile nonsense you're spouting. Maybe your lit teacher sucked. You missed the point of the novel. It isn't just Jane who is manacled by the moors of that society.

I'm not sure any authors I was forced to read in my youth have aged as well as these women.

Incredible horror. This is the sleeper horror of the decade for me.

 

[El Chimpo]

The Negotiator (all time fav sam l jackson movie)
Annihilation
Good Time
A Ghost Story
Mandy
Jane Got A Gun
Bone Tomahawk

 

[AgentSmecker]

This little curiosity from Michael Mann's formative years has been a favourite of mine ever since I first saw it as a kid and still to this day in spite of it's obvious flaws it captivates me with it's strange ethereal beauty.

Looking at reviews it seems this one's not so much underrated but rather underappreciated as I rarely ever hear anyone talk about its greatness but imo it's an absolute gem and easily Forest Whitaker's finest performance

 

[HomeRun916]

Starship Troopers

 

[Canned Tuna]

I loathed the Victorian women writers in high school, too, but not for the puerile nonsense you're spouting. Maybe your lit teacher sucked. You missed the point of the novel. It isn't just Jane who is manacled by the moors of that society.

I'm not sure any authors I was forced to read in my youth have aged as well as these women.

Incredible horror. This is the sleeper horror of the decade for me.

My lit teacher was horrendous. She was nearly unanimously disliked. She was an AP teacher, so she was disliked by the kids who actually gave a shit about school not just the morons who hate all authority figures.

 

[RDUBYA]