Underrated movies....

X · September 15, 2007, 11:07:23 AM

Transformers The Movie. One of the few movies to make me cry. The benchmark in American anime.

davekill · September 15, 2007, 11:58:06 AM

Another underrated Kevin Costner film was "The Postman". A very good post-apocalyptic film.

From IMBD:
"The problem with this film is, that it's sci-fi, and as we all know, sci-fi has that nasty habit of making people think. And hay, who likes to do that nowadays? This film asks the question...what if, right now, all of civilization fell apart. no more super-market, no more police, no more government. The truth of all things would be revealed...money would be just green paper, your television would be a piece of junk, and everything that you lived for would take a back seat to survival. Who would you be? a Warrior, a wonderer, a tyrant, a diplomat? would the meek inherit the earth?

Ditto! :)

- Dave

X · September 15, 2007, 02:06:50 PM

Death To Smoochie!

Bryancd · September 15, 2007, 04:51:01 PM

Quote from: Jen on September 15, 2007, 08:34:11 AM
I like westerns too...I think Quiggly Down Under, staring Tom Selleck, was a good movie, I don't think it got nearly the kudos it deserved. I also liked Always. It was a great movie with John Goodman and Helen Hunt and a cameo appearance by Audrey Hepburn. Hummm, what else? A Sci-Fi movie I liked that I think was underrated: Enemy Mine with Dennis Quid and Louis Gossett, Jr.

I thought Always was well recieved as well as Enemy Mine. I liked both of those as well. I even though Quiggly was good, but I'm a huge Magnum PI fan.

Jen · September 15, 2007, 05:38:37 PM

Quote from: Bryancd on September 15, 2007, 04:51:01 PM
Quote from: Jen on September 15, 2007, 08:34:11 AM
I like westerns too...I think Quiggly Down Under, staring Tom Selleck, was a good movie, I don't think it got nearly the kudos it deserved. I also liked Always. It was a great movie with John Goodman and Helen Hunt and a cameo appearance by Audrey Hepburn. Hummm, what else? A Sci-Fi movie I liked that I think was underrated: Enemy Mine with Dennis Quid and Louis Gossett, Jr.

I thought Always was well recieved as well as Enemy Mine. I liked both of those as well. I even though Quiggly was good, but I'm a huge Magnum PI fan.

I guess they were well received...but not many people talk about them. They're overlooked when people discuss the best movies. In fact, you're the first person I know that has said they've seen any of them. :)

moyer777 · September 15, 2007, 06:34:08 PM

I really liked Enemy mine. that was a good show.

jedijeff · September 16, 2007, 09:24:17 AM

I always felt The Perfect Storm was an underated movie.

Darth Gaos · September 17, 2007, 11:55:56 AM

First let me say I wholeheartedly agree with the assessment of The long Kiss Goodnight...really fun flick and cool to see Gina Davis kicking some arse.

Second, to follow in line with the Waterworld discussion....My wife and I have also always enjoyed The Postman. I am really not sure why so many people hated this movie. It wasn't great I will grant you but I have always been a sucker for post-apocalyptic movies and this one was just a different take. My wife and I inevitably sit and watch it when it is on TNT.

X · September 17, 2007, 01:15:19 PM

There are a few movies I never tire of seeing. Krull, Monster Squad, Fifth Element, Ice Pirates, Trancers : With Jack Death, Criterion Armegeddon, Long Version Of Dune, Dune Mini, Serenity, and Underworld.

PepperDude · September 17, 2007, 01:32:10 PM

Wow. Trancers. . .I vaguely remember watching that when I was a little kid. . .something about some dude slowing down time or something right? I've always remembered that movie from time to time through the years.

Darth Gaos · September 17, 2007, 01:42:16 PM

The Pirate Movie: From 1982 with Christopher Atkins and Kristy MacNichol...A totally goofy but endearing sendup of The Pirates of Penzance. This movie is so off-the wall and hilariously even now.

Also in the pirate style movies....My wife loves Cutthroat Island and after watching it recently I am not sure why this one was soo panned either....it wasn;t bad at all.

Jen · September 17, 2007, 07:18:18 PM

Wow...Kristy MacNichol...When my sister was little she had her hair cut to look just like her. I haven't heard/read that name in a long time. I don't think I ever sawthat movie.

Jobydrone · September 17, 2007, 07:55:15 PM

Two movies that never get any cred that are absolutely great in my opinion are Scott Bakula's Necessary Roughness and Lord of Illusions. He had so many great roles before he joined the ST family, and these were two of his most unappreciated but best ones.

Underrated movies....

davekill