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Underrated films that people seem to think are a rubbish but really are not

  • 07-10-2020 12:23AM
    #1
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,796 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Has this been done yet?

    Anyway, my vote goes to Airheads (1994).

    People went mad about Wayne's World back then, watch it now - bloody hell, best of luck getting to the end. The sequel is dire stuff too.

    Airheads, while it's similar (and tbf arguably a copy of Waynes World) early-mid '90s nonsense, it has something about it. It features, Adam Sandler, Steve Buscemi, Brendan Fraser, Cosmo Kramer, Fat Tony/that bloke from Criminal Minds/Chuck McGill...and MORE! (well maybe one or two more).

    The Lone Rangers live on.


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  • #2
    Rothko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,998 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    The Cable Guy.


  • #3
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,796 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Rothko wrote: »
    The Cable Guy.

    Good shout.


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The Room.


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 996 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The Black cauldron


  • #6
    Cake Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,950 ✭✭✭Cake Man


    Waterworld always seemed to have got terrible reviews but I really liked it.


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
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    The Counselor - 2013

    Great cast (Bardem, Fassbender, Cruz, Diaz, Pitt, Catface from Game of Thrones)

    Stylish and sexy, some great dialogue (script by Cormac McCarthy) and a great morality play. Diaz is great as an absolute uber cnut.

    Extended cut version is even better.


  • #8
    ToddDameron
    Closed Accounts Posts: 381 ✭✭ToddDameron


    I really like The Island of Dr Moreau but I can fully understand why someone would think that it's terrible.


  • #9
    Realt Dearg Sec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,459 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    glasso wrote: »
    The Counselor - 2013

    Great cast (Bardem, Fassbender, Cruz, Diaz, Pitt, Catface from Game of Thrones)

    Stylish and sexy, some great dialogue (script by Cormac McCarthy) and a great morality play. Diaz is great as an absolute uber cnut.

    Extended cut version is even better.

    Great call, I watched this on a flight once and thought it was amazing and a devastating ending, couldn't get it out of my head. Read the reviews and it was panned. Still think of the closing scenes from time to time.


  • #10
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Juno.

    I think it got too hyped at the time and people turned against it. Plus a wise-cracking teen is off-putting to many. But Ellen Page was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar for it and I completely understand why. She’s finds the vulnerable note that prevents Juno from being totally obnoxious.


  • #11
    auspicious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭auspicious


    Rubber
    ( it may actually be rubbish)


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  • #12
    Kaybaykwah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,422 ✭✭✭Kaybaykwah


    glasso wrote: »
    The Counselor - 2013

    Great cast (Bardem, Fassbender, Cruz, Diaz, Pitt, Catface from Game of Thrones)

    Stylish and sexy, some great dialogue (script by Cormac McCarthy) and a great morality play. Diaz is great as an absolute uber cnut.

    Extended cut version is even better.



    I Mona have to watch that one one of these days. It's availabel on pay per in Amazon Prime. Don't know if it's the extended version though.


  • #13
    .anon.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭.anon.


    Taffin. It has everything - car chases, explosions, a future James Bond, Frank Kelly, Dermot Morgan, Jonathan from Bosco, George from Glenroe, Bela from Fair City.

    If you think it's rubbish, then maybe you shouldn't be living here.


  • #14
    MosherRock426
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35 ✭MosherRock426


    The new guy


  • #15
    radiata
    Closed Accounts Posts: 386 ✭✭radiata


    MosherRock426 wrote: »
    The new guy

    That film is hilarious


  • #16
    pgj2015
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,466 ✭✭✭✭pgj2015


    I liked Jane got a gun. Looked up the reviews on rotten tomatoes and they were bad but I went to see it anyway and enjoyed it, couldnt understand why it got bad reviews.

    Budget $25 million[2]
    Box office $3.8 million[3]


  • #17
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,477 ✭✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    The Butterfly Effect (director's cut) the ending in this version is essential to the whole story, I'd probably have a different opinion on the film if I'd seen a different version

    The Hole, Kiera Knightly film. Good story, well told


  • #18
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    They Live


    such good analogies in that film ...


  • #19
    rapul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭rapul


    The Jacket, Adrian Brody at his best imo


  • #20
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,548 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    The ones that spring to mind

    The relic...90s monster movie...I have always loved it.

    Some others

    Super
    Walk hard the dewey cox story
    Sunshine


  • #21
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,507 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    CLUE!



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  • #22
    fonecrusher1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,976 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    Superman vs Batman (2016)

    Yes its got flaws but I enjoyed it.


  • #23
    dzsfah2xoynme9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 326 ✭✭dzsfah2xoynme9


    I still love both of The Matrix sequels..


  • #24
    lapua20grain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭lapua20grain


    John Carter a really good movie very underrated


  • #25
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,507 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    AIRPLANE!


  • #26
    fonecrusher1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,976 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    AIRPLANE!

    Its not underrated. If anything its slightly overrated. Great show though.


  • #27
    I see sheep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭I see sheep


    Con Air

    "a terrible war imposed by the provisional IRA"

    Our West Brit Taoiseach



  • #28
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,311 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid


  • #29
    [Deleted User]
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    The Woodsman with Kevin Bacon.

    What happens a paedophile when he has served his sentence.

    EDIT: I've no sympathy for such people.

    Point of film is, if one thinks about it is what does society do with such people, later on?


  • #30
    OU812
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,111 ✭✭✭OU812


    KungPao wrote: »
    Has this been done yet?

    Anyway, my vote goes to Airheads (1994).

    The Lone Rangers live on.

    Love that movie
    Rothko wrote: »
    The Cable Guy.

    So dark. Brilliant flick.

    Two that I keep coming back to are Rock Star & Rock of ages. Neither should be regarded as high quality, but I love them.


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  • #31
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,548 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    AIRPLANE!
    Shirley you cannot be serious?!


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