Post an Underrated Movie

[Cuffmeister]

Win/win with Paul Giamatti, I know it has a great RT score but never hear the film get any love
In terms of rotten tomatoes score, we're the millers

 

[Deleted member 110072]

This is why the audience score matters more. Critics can be self righteous jackasses sometimes.

I'd say its "good but not classic" cinema that often suffers the most from critics, if you have such a film that for some reason has a negative climate around it then its much more likely to not get its due,

A recent example for me would be the live action Ghost in the Shell, on its own terms I thought that was actually a very good bit of cinema but white washing fuss ment it really didn't get its due.

 

[raty tat tat]

Win/win with Paul Giamatti, I know it has a great RT score but never hear the film get any love
In terms of rotten tomatoes score, we're the millers

Win/Win is good movie if any one hasn't seen
it yet watch it.

By the Sword is another one I suggest.

 

[ufcfan4]

Dang Rambo 4 is one of my favorite Stallone movies along with Rocky IV and they couldn't even crack 40%. Neither could Bloodsport? It looks like critics hate having fun while watching movies.

I feel like Rambo (IV) is the second best of the franchise after First Blood. Arguably the best.

 

[Pessimystic]

Mechanic would have been legendary if they had recast Jan Michael Vincent. Bronson gave one of his best performances but it was dragged down by the other lead.

He was ok, but I suspect they wanted a pretty face for the role. Another underrated Bronson flick is Hard Times -1975.
The dude was in good shape for a man his age.

 

[Pessimystic]

Wonderland - 2003 John Holmes crosses Eddie Nash.

 

[gondo]

 

[Amerikuracana]

Planet of the apes 2002

 

[Plutoburn]

Didn't check the thread but I want to mention Bad time at El Royal. It's a recent movie but it bombed at the theater. It doesn't really follow the traditional 3 act storytelling narrative and I think maybe that's why it was a bit odd for the audience but I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's like a mystery action thriller roll into one.

 

[val_lixembeau]

A recent example for me would be the live action Ghost in the Shell, on its own terms I thought that was actually a very good bit of cinema but white washing fuss ment it really didn't get its due.

Wow, I completely disagree. I hated the new Ghost in the Shell but was fine with the "white wash".

The director seems to have told ScarJo to act in a very robotic manner, and that completely undercuts the message that she can keep her humanity even if her entire body has been replaced.

Also, instead of addressing over twenty years worth of GiTS (holy crap, might even be approaching thirty years now that I think about it) that has happened since the original manga, they basically just re-hashed the first anime movie and even re-created scenes from it. How boring.

Society's understanding of AI, transhumanism, and even just the Internet are completely different than they were way back in 1990 and the movie didn't add ANYTHING to that discussion. At that point, all you have is a generic action thriller, but they didn't even lean too much into Section 9 and it's competition with the other security apparatus, which is relevant after 9/11 and Snowden.

Bleh.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Wow, I completely disagree. I hated the new Ghost in the Shell but was fine with the "white wash".

The director seems to have told ScarJo to act in a very robotic manner, and that completely undercuts the message that she can keep her humanity even if her entire body has been replaced.

Also, instead of addressing over twenty years worth of GiTS (holy crap, might even be approaching thirty years now that I think about it) that has happened since the original manga, they basically just re-hashed the first anime movie and even re-created scenes from it. How boring.

Society's understanding of AI, transhumanism, and even just the Internet are completely different than they were way back in 1990 and the movie didn't add ANYTHING to that discussion. At that point, all you have is a generic action thriller, but they didn't even lean too much into Section 9 and it's competition with the other security apparatus, which is relevant after 9/11 and Snowden.

Bleh.

The first film is really by far the best Ghost in the Shell for me(the sequel has its moments as well), granted I'v not seen all the series but they always seemed like lower grade anime geeky fanservice to me.

Wouldn't say the live action version was as good as Oshi's film but I think it obviously takes the same characterisation, showing the loss of the characters humanity which is present in a more subtle fashion.

 

[deviake]

 

[Rozko]

That opening scene is the moral high point of the film and it only gets better as a movie

 

[ObamaPhoneLady]

Just watched this again. Saw it years and years ago before I was married. This shit hit me hard this time.

 

[ObamaPhoneLady]

Ben Kingsley recently played Adolph Eichmann a high ranking Nazi, was a jew in Schindler's List, and was also Ghandi... wat?

I had to sit through some idiot saying he could 't pull off playing the Mandarin in Iron Man 3 while I was getting a haircut once.

 

[ObamaPhoneLady]

This is up there with A Time to Kill for GOAT 'get drunk and shed manly tears movie.'

 

[Ballsaque]

Planet of the apes 2002

Nop its correctly rated as trash.

 

[Grassshoppa]

 

[Jack Stevonovich]

AMAZING! INSTANT CLASSIC!

 

[SamSchmidt]

I'm watching Sunshine right now. I forgot how badass this movie was. Completely underrated!