[Film] The Most Underrated film ?

[Barham's tash]

K-Pax were harshly panned.

Completely agree. Watched it again this week before this thread arrived and think it was truly superb in almost every way. What it doesn't have going for it now is perhaps it is just a touch way to saccharine in it's stereotypical depiction of a nuclear American family in the 90's/early noughties.

But the ability of the narrative to question the reality of the situation - is he really from K Pax or isn't he? - how does he help 'cure' some of his fellow in patients is it otherworldly or simply common sense approach to therapy for various mental afflictions/conditions?

For me I was left with a sense of well being and belief that challenging the status quo with logic and common sense are as valuable a tool as using established methods to get results.

30 years on I still can't understand how "Strange Days" wasn't a hit at the time, and hasn't received anything like the attention I think it deserves since.


Edit ...turns out there were positive reviews at the time .... But hardly anyone went to the cinema to watch it. I did, loved it. $40/50M to make. Took less than $10M.

Also watched this - have had a lot of time on my hands since moving out here in March....

Astonishing that a film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and a screenplay written by James Cameron in the science fiction genre with such a strong cast - Ralph Fiennes, Angela Basset, Juliette Lewis and Tom Sizemore - would fail so badly at the box office.

I think Back to the Future Part 3 is underrated compared to the first two.

Personally I love westerns and sci-fi so BTTF3 is right up my alley.

Again watched ALL of the BTTF series one after another in the last two days. Think BTTF3 is my favourite of the trilogy. So much going on and was produced just at the cusp of when FX were getting more sophisticated yet didn't over rely on them. The Delorean's time bending trips look superb but understated and the time travelling train at the end are brilliantly understated.

This is also the one franchise I wish they had one more crack at rather than the two mediocre efforts of Indiana Jones gave up. Yes I know of course the huge struggles of Michael J Fox but perhaps one last hurrah and a profit share to the benefit of his Parkinson's foundation could have truly life changing opportunities for sufferers in the future. We can but dream.

 

[Gabbafella]

It's still Leave No Trace, maintaining 100% on RT and a masterpiece.
Always warming to hear the effect it has on the emotional Kermode.

Me and the Mrs watched this the other day and it's right up there with the most boring tripe we've ever watched.
Nothing happens, literally nothing happens in the entire film. It doesn't explore his PTSD or how it affects his relationship with his daughter at all and that is effectively what the film is about.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

BTTF 3 is definately better than BTTF 2 which was a bit of a mess and on a par with BTTF 1

 

[Braggfan]

BTTF 3 is definately better than BTTF 2 which was a bit of a mess and on a par with BTTF 1

I totally disagree. BTTF 2 is arguably the best of the trilogy (although the first is very good). And actually the only one of the the three that is genuinely under rated.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Me and the Mrs watched this the other day and it's right up there with the most boring tripe we've ever watched.
Nothing happens, literally nothing happens in the entire film. It doesn't explore his PTSD or how it affects his relationship with his daughter at all and that is effectively what the film is about.

Each to their own, I guess!

 

[The Clamp]

It's still Leave No Trace, maintaining 100% on RT and a masterpiece.
Always warming to hear the effect it has on the emotional Kermode.

Again, highly regarded and widely seen.

 

[Motogull]

Mods to merge?

[Film] - Underrated Films

So much for the overrated films. What about the most underrated ? August Rush

www.northstandchat.com

 

[Gwylan]

The Duellists. One of Ridley Scott's early films (it may even be his first) and it's a mini masterpiece. It stars Harvey Keitel and Keith Carradine as the eponymous protagonists, army officers in Napoleon's army. Beautifully shot and acted: I like it more than any Scott's later, more lauded, films.

 

[Blue3]

Everyone knows about it. It’s a very well rated film, regarded as a classic and always included in top 100 movie lists.

Nobody knows about it?

Stuff and nonsense.

Anyway, the thread is about most underrated films and Brazil is not underrated. It’s regularly praised.

It is around my cohort of family and friends and That’s probably more to do with who’s friends and family hold knowledge of popular culture

 

[Jasetheaceisback]

Last of the Mohicans

It's got action, history, romance, Daniel day Lewis, Michael Mann, a great soundtrack. I've never understood how it's not regarded as one of the best films of all time

The score itself makes the movie one of the greats...

 

[Is it PotG?]

Again, highly regarded.

Not by Gabbafella

 

[Jasetheaceisback]

The Way. 2010 directed by Emilio Estevez and starring his father, Martin Sheen. Others steal the show in an oddball mix of characters including a weird and wonderful cameo from James Nesbit. Hard not to get choked up at the Cathedral scene in Santiago de Compostela towards the end of the movie...

 

[cheshunt seagull]

A couple of films from overseas that I think merited wider exposure here.
'Hit The Road' An Iranian family's road trip with a heartbreaking conclusion.
'Las Bestias' A very disturbing Spanish film with echoes of 'Deliverance' but a much more interesting message.

 

[Gabbafella]

Not by Gabbafella

I really wanted to like it. Ben Foster is an excellent actor and I've enjoyed watching Thomasin McKenzie in a couple of films, I just felt it was really flat, the lack of background for Foster's character made him quite bland.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Mods to merge?

[Film] - Underrated Films

So much for the overrated films. What about the most underrated ? August Rush

www.northstandchat.com

That was over 7 years ago

 

[The Clamp]

The Way. 2010 directed by Emilio Estevez and starring his father, Martin Sheen. Others steal the show in an oddball mix of characters including a weird and wonderful cameo from James Nesbit. Hard not to get choked up at the Cathedral scene in Santiago de Compostela towards the end of the movie...

A wonderful film.

 

[johnjim]

Restless Natives, a bit under the radar but if you can't smile at that film, you're odd. Magic sound track as well

One of my all-time favourites

“Ronnie. Ronnie Witherspoon.”

Great film.

 

[The Clamp]

Not sure about underrated but quite overlooked are the superb

A Simple Plan
Narc
The Nice Guys

 

[papachris]

A

a quite beautiful film I saw quite recently at the cinema, it might still be on release. It's an animation made in Latvia but as there is not a single word spoken it doesn't matter. But it has been winning awards. It's not for small children but older children and adults should understand the message

 

[jakarta]

Ridley Scott's debut film , set in the Napoleonic era; The Duellists.

Made in 1977 for virtually nothing, is visually sumptuous and has a superb cast. It is based upon a Joseph Conrad story of two French cavalry officers who duel continually (one reluctantly and the other one psychotically) over the course of the Napoleonic Wars.

I'm not going to give you the ending except neither die and one wishes he was dead...