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

07-10-2020 7:25pm

Pretty much all the star wars movies after the original trilogy are at worst pretty decent and some are very good but you would get a pain in your head listening to so many Star Wars fans saying everything after episode 6 is terrible.

* 3 - 6 are excellent not saying otherwise.

I’ve even heard one or two saying the mandolorian is rubbish and it is absolutely superb. Some just can’t be seen to compliment anything recent.

Rothko · 07-10-2020 7:29pm

Sofia Helpless Den wrote: »

Pretty much all the star wars movies after the original trilogy are at worst pretty decent and some are very good but you would get a pain in your head listening to so many Star Wars fans saying everything after episode 6 is terrible.

* 1-3 are excellent not denying they either.

I’ve even heard one or two saying the mandolorian is rubbish and it is absolutely superb. Some just can’t be seen to compliment anything recent.

I think the prequels are slightly underrated, except for Attack Of The Clones. That was terrible.

Notmything · 07-10-2020 7:33pm

Thirteenth Warrior, Vikings action flick with Antonio Banderas

salmocab · 07-10-2020 7:35pm

Masters of the Universe, I’ve seen lots of giving out about it and to be fair it’s a distant cousin of the actual He-Man story but I loved it.

Quantum Erasure · 07-10-2020 7:44pm

Any Steven Segal film,

Lockheed · 07-10-2020 7:46pm

Uncut Gems, watched it and enjoyed it so much that I was genuinely surprised to see the reviews.

Quandary · 07-10-2020 7:49pm

I absolutely loved Event Horizon and was shocked to see it reviewed so poorly.

onform · 07-10-2020 7:53pm

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

Great cast, Bill Murray is excellent.

I think the movie might have got a bit of a backlash critically due to high expectations because it was Wes Anderson's next movie after The Royal Tenenbaums, which had been a big hit.

Great soundtrack also.

breezy1985 · 07-10-2020 7:56pm

rapul wrote: »

The Jacket, Adrian Brody at his best imo

Nope that award goes to the underrated Summer Of Sam

accensi0n · 07-10-2020 7:56pm

Lockheed wrote: »

Uncut Gems, watched it and enjoyed it so much that I was genuinely surprised to see the reviews.

Rotten Tomatoes: 92%
Empire: 5/5

Doesn't seem very underrated.

breezy1985 · 07-10-2020 8:06pm

glasso wrote: »

Highly annoying actress imo - even just annoying to look at before she starts speaking.

This movie was her high point really and has disappeared into minor exposure since. Not that I'm complaining about that.

Juno doesn't qualify for the concept of this thread really as it was well-reviewed / rated at the time....

I think that anything above about 55 or so on metacritic should be the exclusion bar for not being "under-rated"

Juno for example got 81 which is a very high score for a movie.

Just before she made the much better and little known Hard Candy

Agree with poster above that Event Horizons bad reviews are shocking and far play to whoever mentioned "13th Warrior" man what a forgotten gem

Also underrated is anything Ryan Gosling done before he became a.sex symbol like " Lars and the Real Girl" or " Believer "

blackbox · 07-10-2020 8:13pm

Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate. A great film that was slated by critics.

KungPao · 07-10-2020 8:27pm

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

Any Steven Segal film,

I genuinely like Under Seige 2: Dark Territory - 34% on RT.

Bad guys doing bad **** on a train, and our hero, the ridiculously named Casey Ryback, saving the day.

What's not to love?

Capt'n Midnight · 07-10-2020 8:54pm

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

Any Steven Segal film,

No. Just no.

Have you see the more recent ones on the low rent channels ?

He uses body doubles for EVERYTHING he can get away with. If you can't see his face it isn't him.

Realt Dearg Sec · 07-10-2020 9:04pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

No. Just no.

Have you see the more recent ones on the low rent channels ?

He uses body doubles for EVERYTHING he can get away with. If you can't see his face it isn't him.

To be fair he's a big fat pensioner.

salmocab · 07-10-2020 9:14pm

onform wrote: »

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

Great cast, Bill Murray is excellent.

I think the movie might have got a bit of a backlash critically due to high expectations because it was Wes Anderson's next movie after The Royal Tenenbaums, which had been a big hit.

Great soundtrack also.

I love that movie, I’m pretty sure they set out to make the worst produced movie ever, the sets, the continuity, rubbish. It works because of the crapness for me.

KaneToad · 07-10-2020 9:17pm

Lockheed wrote: »

Uncut Gems, watched it and enjoyed it so much that I was genuinely surprised to see the reviews.

I thought this was great. Sandler was very good. And, not to sound too wanky, I thought the cinematography was brilliant.

Alejandro68 · 07-10-2020 9:27pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

No. Just no.

Have you see the more recent ones on the low rent channels ?

He uses body doubles for EVERYTHING he can get away with. If you can't see his face it isn't him.

Not to mention of that reality show where he is with a sheriffs dept. doing busts. He clearly struggles to even get out of the police car.

Archeron · 07-10-2020 9:34pm

Silent Hill, fantastic atmosphere. The second one is worth a watch too if only to see Russell Howard on fire

KungPao · 07-10-2020 9:35pm

Alejandro68 wrote: »

Not to mention of that reality show where he is with a sheriffs dept. doing busts. He clearly struggles to even get out of the police car.

The bloke's pushing 70, leave it out.

A true legend of '90s cinema!

Alejandro68 · 07-10-2020 9:38pm

KungPao wrote: »

The bloke's pushing 70, leave it out.

A true legend of '90s cinema!

Ok and I won't mention Chuck Norris is way older and still run rings around him,lol.

07-10-2020 9:45pm

KungPao wrote: »

The bloke's pushing 70, leave it out.

A true legend of '90s cinema!

Seagal is a weird fcuker if you read up about him

Prone to making a lot of sh1t up and the odd bit of multiple sexual harassment also

The only watchable flick with him was that one on the ship where he killed a guy by making a bomb out of a half-dozen eggs in a microwave

07-10-2020 10:05pm

The Shawshank Redemption.

(Am I doing this right?)

But seriously, I have learned not to pay too much attention to horror movie review aggregates. A horror movie can be flawed in many ways and yet still be really good, it's a peculiar genre in that respect.

Also, I've noticed a general trend regarding review scores on the main sites (IMDB, Rotton tomatoes, etc) in line with new culture especially in the past year. If a movie ticks all the woke boxes, it will be highly rated. Might be a ****e movie though.
So these aggregate scores are less reliable these days, in my opinion.

Mad_maxx · 07-10-2020 10:09pm

I see sheep wrote: »

Con Air

Con Air is seen as a great stupid action movie

when i was twenty , i remember loving Armagedon , loved it the first three times i saw it , saw it several years ago and again recently , awful rubbish

i still love Con Air though

Mad_maxx · 07-10-2020 10:11pm

Your Face wrote: »

Starship Troopers

viewed as a near classic

Mad_maxx · 07-10-2020 10:13pm

Lockheed wrote: »

Uncut Gems, watched it and enjoyed it so much that I was genuinely surprised to see the reviews.

its great

Mad_maxx · 07-10-2020 10:13pm

Quandary wrote: »

I absolutely loved Event Horizon and was shocked to see it reviewed so poorly.

ever see the uncut version , holy crap , its beyond disturbing

Quandary · 07-10-2020 10:26pm

Mad_maxx wrote: »

ever see the uncut version , holy crap , its beyond disturbing

I have not :eek:

That's my Friday night movie sorted now!

dark crystal · 07-10-2020 10:30pm

Few films that were critically panned (that is the idea, right?) that I really liked are:

Far & Away

First Knight

Stayin' Alive

G.I Jane

Come at me bro!

PsychoPete · 07-10-2020 10:32pm

Any Nicolas Cage film

07-10-2020 10:33pm

Babe: Pig in the City

paleoperson · 07-10-2020 10:39pm

Johnny English.

Hogzy · 07-10-2020 10:48pm

The Village.

Absolutely loved it!!! M. Night Shyamalan loves a good twist

Capt'n Midnight · 07-10-2020 11:22pm

Deleted User wrote: »

The Shawshank Redemption.

(Am I doing this right?)

LOL way overrated.

If you only see one prison move watch Shawshank, because it copies from so many. . And all is through a nostalgia filter.

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) was about contemporary stuff. Still one of the best wham lines at the end.

paleoperson · 07-10-2020 11:24pm

Kangaroo Jack lol.

07-10-2020 11:39pm

dark crystal wrote: »

Few films that were critically panned (that is the idea, right?) that I really liked are:

Far & Away

First Knight

Stayin' Alive

G.I Jane

Come at me bro!

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/c8d5b034-f74f-4938-aa15-f7bc20919f0a#/vHPhIU7e5A.copy

faffingaround · 08-10-2020 7:18am

Roger Ebert gave it 3 and a half stars out of four and IMD rates it as 7.8 so it is rated highly but for me The Game with Michael Douglas is still an underrated thriller that seems forgotten about and rarely referenced.

Would love to be seeing that first time again!

Tired Gardener · 08-10-2020 7:25am

Rubber.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_(2010_film)

the purple tin · 08-10-2020 8:14am

Deleted User wrote: »

Babe: Pig in the City

Very dark for a kids' movie.

mariaalice · 08-10-2020 8:51am

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Heaven

I always thought it was very under rated apparently not.

I would be a fan of a lot of moody 1970s films and cinematography.

bigar · 08-10-2020 9:17am

Hudson Hawk

Hilariously funny and the best Bruce Willis movie after Die Hard.

08-10-2020 9:39am

Plenty of good shouts already. Can't believe event horizon was panned.

Here's mine:

Aliens 4. Not as good as 2 but still a very enjoyable sci fi movie that could have resulted in an excellent 5th based on earth hive novel.

Don't mess with the zohan. Incredible stupid film but I thought some of it was genuinely hilarious.

Southern comfort. Pretty poor reviews and accused of ripping off Deliverance but I think it's a genuinely brilliant movie and far superior.

Dredd. Much much better than I expected and one of the few movies that 3d worked in.

breezy1985 · 08-10-2020 9:44am

Joyeux Noel.

Based during the Christmas Truce and starring Daniel Bruhl before he broke into English movies.
And Guillaume Canet from France who never made it big outside home and was also in a French version of War of the Buttons which I never knew is all based on a French book originally.

Song For A Raggy Boy is another serious one that I'm surprised everyone hasn't seen

Montage of Feck · 08-10-2020 9:55am

The Chronicles of Riddick

yeppydeppy · 08-10-2020 10:13am

Crocodile Dundee I and II. I haven't see Crocodile Dundee in LA but I really like the first two.

mike_cork · 08-10-2020 10:33am

Notmything wrote: »

Thirteenth Warrior, Vikings action flick with Antonio Banderas

Absolutely cracking watch. Would seriously recommend it to those who've never seen it!

the purple tin · 08-10-2020 10:36am

yeppydeppy wrote: »

Crocodile Dundee I and II. I haven't see Crocodile Dundee in LA but I really like the first two.

I would give the third one a miss.

dzsfah2xoynme9 · 08-10-2020 11:08am

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

Plenty of good shouts already. Can't believe event horizon was panned.

Here's mine:

Aliens 4. Not as good as 2 but still a very enjoyable sci fi movie that could have resulted in an excellent 5th based on earth hive novel.

Don't mess with the zohan. Incredible stupid film but I thought some of it was genuinely hilarious.

Southern comfort. Pretty poor reviews and accused of ripping off Deliverance but I think it's a genuinely brilliant movie and far superior.

Dredd. Much much better than I expected and one of the few movies that 3d worked in.

I don't think anyone thinks that Dredd is bad. Quite the opposite. Everyone I talked to about it said it was fantastic, myself included. It's pretty much regarded as a cult classic now.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 08-10-2020 11:11am

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

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.

Went to see it in the cinema and left after about 30 minutes. Absolute Shiite.

08-10-2020 11:16am

Aadhya Bald Bellows wrote: »

I don't think anyone thinks that Dredd is bad. Quite the opposite. Everyone I talked to about it said it was fantastic, myself included. It's pretty much regarded as a cult classic now.

Yeah but it remains a bomb in both the cinema and the critics.

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

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