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Your Favourite Underatted Film

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Films come and go some good some bad but every so often a film comes along that does'nt get the respect it deserves and its quickly forgotten or just ignored to get the ball rolling here are my favourites:

Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls
Alien 3, I'm a David Fincher fan I love the visual look of the film
Chaplin
Dead Presidents
Cross Of Iron
Barry Lyndon
 
The Empty Mirror
Quills
Onegin
Mother of Mine
Utena: Adolescence Mokushiroku
The Last Unicorn
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

...and pretty much about every other film I've ever liked, lol, except for Amadeus and Der Untergang, which were properly recognized.
 
Spider-Man 3
Predator 2
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Superman Returns
 
My favourite underrated film would probably be 'Adventureland' which stars Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg.
 
I never hear anyone talking about the film "May" (a film about a lonely girl trying to connect more and more desperately to people around her after a terrible childhood) which I think is a tremendous movie
 
Another I've thought of is "Scarecrow" with Al Pacino and Gene Hackman about two drifters hitchhiking across America - how a film with two brilliant actors falls under the radar is shocking
 
Corrina, Corrina (Whoopi Goldberg)

There's just something about it that I can watch over and over...
 
SamChip1988 said:
Another I've thought of is "Scarecrow" with Al Pacino and Gene Hackman about two drifters hitchhiking across America - how a film with two brilliant actors falls under the radar is shocking
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I completely agree with that, I was actually going to mention it myself. I love it, I think Pacino and Hackman were great together.
 
jay_bee said:
I completely agree with that, I was actually going to mention it myself. I love it, I think Pacino and Hackman were great together.
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Very true, they work really well together - on the IMDB page for the film it says that in interviews that Gene Hackman has said that the movie is his favorite performance from his career :) I love films like that one that have you laughing then tearing up ect like a rollercoaster
 
These are my favorites:


Contact
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken
Flight Of The Navigator
The Strangers
American Werewolf In Paris
The X Files Movie (The first one)
Rose Red
Children Of The Corn
Thinner
Pet Semetary 2
Firestarter
Anne Of Green Gables movies
Schindler's List


I never hear anyone ever talk about these movies. Though that last one I had mention is a very hard movie to watch.
 
Definitely Transformers: The Movie (that's the 1986 animated one)!!!!
 
SamChip1988 said:
Very true, they work really well together - on the IMDB page for the film it says that in interviews that Gene Hackman has said that the movie is his favorite performance from his career :) I love films like that one that have you laughing then tearing up ect like a rollercoaster
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Yeah, I read on the IMDb page that they actually went hitchhiking through California together to get into their characters. Now that's commitment!
 
jay_bee said:
Yeah, I read on the IMDb page that they actually went hitchhiking through California together to get into their characters. Now that's commitment!
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It sure is! Can you imagine driving a long and seeing Al or Gene with their thumbs out at the side of the road?
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I've been watching a few films the last few days and as far as underrated goes I've gotta add "Behind The Mask: The Rise Of Leslie Vernon" and "Session 9" to the list - fab movies
 
SamChip1988 said:
It sure is! Can you imagine driving a long and seeing Al or Gene with their thumbs out at the side of the road?
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I've been watching a few films the last few days and as far as underrated goes I've gotta add "Behind The Mask: The Rise Of Leslie Vernon" and "Session 9" to the list - fab movies
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Haha, I'd pick Al up, Gene would have to fend for himself. :evil:

I haven't seen Behind the Mask, but I really liked Session 9. I tend to avoid recent horror movies, I prefer older ones. I'm currently obsessed with Dario Argento's work.
 
It's gotta be 'Keith' starring Jesse McCartney. I just love the film so much. Great acting I'd say :)
 
The Return Of The Living Dead

This is the only zombie movie (Apart from it's sequels) that actually have Zombies eating brains
 
jay_bee said:
I haven't seen Behind the Mask
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I highly recommend it - It starts off in handheld documentary style with a crew following a serial killer as he prepares a murder spree and then the last 30minutes or so is like a normal movie showing how it ends up playing out - it's tongue in cheek for the most part and gives the horror genre a good ribbing :)
 
SamChip1988 said:
I highly recommend it - It starts off in handheld documentary style with a crew following a serial killer as he prepares a murder spree and then the last 30minutes or so is like a normal movie showing how it ends up playing out - it's tongue in cheek for the most part and gives the horror genre a good ribbing :)
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I'll have to check it out, thanks for the recommendation. :)
 
I'll have to say The Crow (both actually), The Basketball Diaries, Memories of murder, Old Boy, Gegen die Wand (Head on) , and No man's Land
 
Ben said:
I'll have to say The Crow (both actually), The Basketball Diaries, Memories of murder, Old Boy, Gegen die Wand (Head on) , and No man's Land
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The Basketball Diaries & Oldboy good call
 
Catch Me If you Can
Road To Perdition
Gran Torino

These movies were critically and comercially successful overall, but were snubbed at Oscars.
 
I have many, many films that i love that are totally underated!
One of my fave childhood films is one called 'Stepping Out'.
It's has Liza Minnelli, Shelley Winters and Julie Walters staring in it, and is a wonderful story adapted from a play about a has-been Broadway performer (Minnelli) who now gives tap lessons to a group of misfits who, through their dance classes, bond and realize what they can achieve. I love how to start you get a basic perception of all these different charactors, then as the film goes on, you get to know their story, why they are like they are.
Its a real shame, I cant find this to buy on DVD, only on VHS can you believe??!
If anyone can find where I can buy it on DVD, let me know!

xxx
 
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