Underrated Movies - Page 2

ontheEdgeof17 · #16 03-29-2005, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by hayley

I can't think of anything else. Except The Sweetest Thing. lolol.

Much love for that movie!

I think Serial Mom is underrated. It is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen.

dissention · #17 03-29-2005, 11:31 AM

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I think Serial Mom is underrated. It is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen.

"Pussywillows, Dotty."

Honey, every John Waters movie is underrated. That man is genius.

strandinthewind · #18 03-29-2005, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by skcin

Legends of the Fall - loved everything about it- the actors, the script, the cinematography. I thought it was spectacular.

Grumpy & Grumpier Old Men - I think they get blown off as silly fluffy comedies, but the chemistry between the actors is amazing.

YEP!!!!!!!!!

I also think "House of Spirits" was underrated

hayley · #19 03-29-2005, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

Much love for that movie!

I think Serial Mom is underrated. It is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen.

I LOVE Serial Mom. Not a huge John Waters fan, but Serial Mom is a favorite.

dissention · #20 03-29-2005, 11:35 AM

How about Altman's "3 Women"? That's his finest movie, it blows away everything else on his resume, yet it gets no recognition whatsoever. I was orgasmic when it was finally released on home video last year, almost 30 years after it came out.

dissention · #21 03-29-2005, 11:43 AM

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Originally Posted by trackaghost

what about 8 Women?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283832/

That's a great film.

Of course it's great, Isabelle Huppert and Catherine Deneuve are in it.

Ozon's Swimming Pool was fab, too, but that got praised pretty well, so I don't know if it's very underrated.

ontheEdgeof17 · #22 03-29-2005, 11:46 AM

Identity is underrated, too. It might have been slighty overdone, but I think it is a fab movie.

strandinthewind · #23 03-29-2005, 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by dissention

Of course it's great, Isabelle Huppert and Catherine Deneuve are in it.

Ozon's Swimming Pool was fab, too, but that got praised pretty well, so I don't know if it's very underrated.

I thought Swimming Pool was overrated

I liked it, but it dragged too much for me. But, to each their own!!!

wondergirl9847 · #24 03-29-2005, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by skcin

Legends of the Fall - loved everything about it- the actors, the script, the cinematography. I thought it was spectacular.

Grumpy & Grumpier Old Men - I think they get blown off as silly fluffy comedies, but the chemistry between the actors is amazing.

Love Brad, hated Legends. Blergh. I don't like many romantic movies, I'm such a tomboy. LOL

Both of the Grumpy Old Men movies ALWAYS get me laughing, I love them and speaking of, The Odd Couple is one of my favorite movies.

amber · #25 03-29-2005, 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Lux

A film I thought was particularly underrated was The Ice Storm. American Beauty was a poor man's/shallow person's unoriginal version of The Ice Storm. There's brilliance in so many elements of it but I couldn't be arsed boring people with it.

You could bore me with it - I adore that movie (Ice Storm) and thought the same about American Beauty (although I enjoyed it). I didn't know Ice Storm was underrated, though.

amber · #26 03-29-2005, 12:30 PM

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I was just thinking lately how amazing Hayao Miyazaki is. Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away are just fantastic films.

You? Are right.

Spirited Away was just beautiful...
Apparantly I can't think of any movies until someone else mentions them...

dissention · #27 03-29-2005, 12:31 PM

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You could bore me with it - I adore that movie (Ice Storm) and thought the same about American Beauty (although I enjoyed it). I didn't know Ice Storm was underrated, though.

Annette Benning was the only thing I liked about American Beauty, she was *so* good. Kevin Spacey is one of the worst actors I've ever seen and the movie itself was so incredibly hokey that it made me chuckle.

"Sometimes there's just so much beauty in the world" while he's watching a video of plastic bag blowing in the wind.

Talk about intellectual masturbation!

amber · #28 03-29-2005, 12:34 PM

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Annette Benning was the only thing I liked about American Beauty, she was *so* good. Kevin Spacey is one of the worst actors I've ever seen and the movie itself was so incredibly hokey that it made me chuckle.

"Sometimes there's just so much beauty in the world" while he's watching a video of plastic bag blowing in the wind.

Talk about intellectual masturbation!

Yeah, Spacey again. I really enjoyed all the other performances, that next door neighbor gay guy was great, and I loved Mena Suvari...

It's no Ice Storm, though, that's for sure...

dissention · #29 03-29-2005, 12:34 PM

Speaking of The Ice Storm, Sigourney Weaver's new movie Imaginary Heroes is pretty good, too. The plot is an absolute mess (suicide to incest to drugs to life-threatening illnesses to affairs in only 90 minutes), but it's still quite funny and satisfying for some reason.

dissention · #30 03-29-2005, 12:37 PM

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Yeah, Spacey again. I really enjoyed all the other performances, that next door neighbor gay guy was great, and I loved Mena Suvari...

It's no Ice Storm, though, that's for sure...

Aside from Spacey, that guy was what ruined the movie for me. Not the actor, Chris Cooper is always good, but the character and the twist of him being gay was just ridiculous. I must say, though, that the scene at the end with Benning going berserk and smelling her husband's clothes after he's murdered was incredibly well done. That's the one scene that has stuck with me.