Favorite Underrated Films?

[mongers]

The Changeling, not the recent one, but an older 70s horror film with George C. Scott. Always sends chills down my spine.

It's an excellent movie - one of my favorites in the genre - but I dunno if it is underrated: seems to me it is generally regarded as excellent.

I'm sure I've watched it, can recall it was rather good, but not a lot else.

My vote goes for 'Electra Glide in Blue', I bet it would be real cheesy if I saw it again.

[Ideologue]

Existenz.
Probally one of the few films to handle video games well. It really is very good. But nobody has heard of it.

I've heard of Cronenberg's 1999 bowel movement.

***

I've mentioned Joe Dante's Explorers before.  It's probably the movie with the most points in both columns, being both criminally underrated (to the extent it rates at all--I don't believe it even has a proper DVD in print right now) and of the highest quality (I gave it an A+).

Otherwise, maybe the Truman Show?  I don't know if I want to say it's underrated, because it released to good reviews and afaik financial success.  However, no one really talks about it anymore, which is a shame, since it's probably the best movie of the 1990s and one of my favorite of all time, and manages to be prescient science fiction at the same time it undertakes its religious allegory, so seamlessly that apparently a lot of people never even grasp what it's doing on the latter end (which, to be fair, means that a lot of people are kinda dumb).

Prince of Darkness and In the Mouth of Madness are highly underrated, even by people who ostensibly have a love for John Carpenter films (Ghosts of Mars is not underrated ).

And there's always Temple of Doom.

[Ideologue]

The Changeling, not the recent one, but an older 70s horror film with George C. Scott. Always sends chills down my spine.

It's an excellent movie - one of my favorites in the genre - but I dunno if it is underrated: seems to me it is generally regarded as excellent.

I just watched this a couple of days ago, and while it's good, I dunno if I'd go as far as excellent.  It's also not much of a horror film--more of a mystery.

I kept wanting someone to say that maybe if Joseph had been this active when he was alive maybe his dad wouldn't have drowned him.

I thought they didn't do as much with the most interesting idea the movie had as they could have--I mean, they treat the senator as essentially complicit, but I couldn't help but see him as a victim himself, and a rather sympathetic character.

[Ed Anger]

Killing Zoe.

[Scipio]

Zero Effect.  Hands down, Bill Pullman's and Ben Stiller's best performances.  Really good stuff.

Exorcist III.  A little hamfisted, but George C. Scott chews the scenery like a badass.

The Spanish Prisoner.  Campbell Scott does his best I'm Not George C. Scott performance; Steve Martin is a perfect con man.

[Eddie Teach]

The Spanish Prisoner.  Campbell Scott does his best I'm Not George C. Scott performance; Steve Martin is a perfect con man.

That was a good 'un.

[11B4V]

The Mechanic (Orignal)
Leaving Las Vegas
King of New York
Outland
The Professional
Devils Rejects
Kindergarten Cop

[Ed Anger]

Outland.

Professional: 12 year old Natalie Portman :boner:

[Josephus]

The Changeling, not the recent one, but an older 70s horror film with George C. Scott. Always sends chills down my spine.

It's an excellent movie - one of my favorites in the genre - but I dunno if it is underrated: seems to me it is generally regarded as excellent.

I just watched this a couple of days ago, and while it's good, I dunno if I'd go as far as excellent.  It's also not much of a horror film--more of a mystery.

I kept wanting someone to say that maybe if Joseph had been this active when he was alive maybe his dad wouldn't have drowned him.

I thought they didn't do as much with the most interesting idea the movie had as they could have--I mean, they treat the senator as essentially complicit, but I couldn't help but see him as a victim himself, and a rather sympathetic character.

All good points. Though I still call it a horror, in that it's a haunted house thing. And the wet ball bouncing down the stairs always gets me.

[Eddie Teach]

Leaving Las Vegas

Won Nicolas Cage an Oscar. You think it's even better than that? 

[CountDeMoney]

My current fave "underrated" film is probably still Primer.   I've met a disappointingly few number of people that have ever seen it, or even heard of it.

[Ideologue]

My current fave "underrated" film is probably still Primer.   I've met a disappointingly few number of people that have ever seen it, or even heard of it.

Oh?  That's a shame.  I thought it kind of blew up and it was pretty widely seen.  It is rather good.  Oh of course I only movies I watch are thoroughly esoteric so what do I know?

Though I still call it a horror, in that it's a haunted house thing. And the wet ball bouncing down the stairs always gets me.

True, but it's not very far into it before you realize the ghost is basically benign--at least in the sense that he harbors a very targeted hatred--and only wants his own back.

[CountDeMoney]

Oh of course I only movies I watch are thoroughly esoteric so what do I know?

This is true;  those and shitball old movies, you've missed everything else in between.

[Drakken]

Straw Dogs. Whether you liked it or not, it hits you in the guts
Happiness.
Unfaithful
A Perfect Murder
Queen Margot
Bram's Stoker's Dracula
Christine
Halloween III

And I will always have a soft spot for Porky's.