The Full Monty. A most excellent film. Was billed here as a sort-of dodgy "adult" movie, which is rubbish. It really covers all sorts of topics very well, and it amazes me that it didn't make more of an impact on America. (The only scene people remember from it is the unemployment line.)
Speaking of random, random films ... Adventure of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is another similar type film that, because of its supposed theme/target audience, was not generally well recieved in the US. Yet it addresses issues that many US film makers are hesitant to tackle.
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A movie that I don't think gets even a speck of the appreciation it deserves is "Clerks". The writing in that movie is brilliant!
A film that got panned but I loved was a Sherlock Holmes spoof called Without A Clue, starring Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley.
A film that got panned but I loved was a Sherlock Holmes spoof called Without A Clue, starring Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley.I love Michael Caine! He's great! :D
My parents rented The Full Monty when I was 5 and they let me watch it. I didn't understand it one bit.
"My parents rented The Full Monty when I was 5"
oohh... I've just aged about 20 years as i read that!
oohh... I've just aged about 20 years as i read that!
gattaca is a great sci fi movie imho but not many people seem to like it
It was a good movie to watch in school...
The Full Monty is a fantastic movie! I got my mom to sit and watch it with me one day and I'm cracking up at all the jokes even tho I've seen it so many times... and she's just sitting there. At the end she was like "Yeah it was good, but I had a hard time understanding them. They were really British." *face-palm* I was so sad for her right then.
I'm probably the only person on earth who thinks that 'The Lost World' was better than the first Jurassic Park movie.
I still don't understand why people say so much crap about that movie.
I still don't understand why people say so much crap about that movie.
!! You used face-palm!
*every looks at U_P weirdly*
*every looks at U_P weirdly*
!! You used face-palm!
*every looks at U_P weirdly*
Haha! Well I think the action of "face-palming" correctly described my degree of exasperation with my mother. Plus it is amusing.
There are lots of heavily underappreciated movies.
Psycho Beach Party
Tremors
Rope
I Bury the Living
Velvet Goldmine
Au Revoir, Les Enfants
The Green Mile (got cheated out of several Oscars)
Singles
L.I.E.
I'm sure I could think of others, but I'm groggy.
Psycho Beach Party
Tremors
Rope
I Bury the Living
Velvet Goldmine
Au Revoir, Les Enfants
The Green Mile (got cheated out of several Oscars)
Singles
L.I.E.
I'm sure I could think of others, but I'm groggy.
The Green Mile (got cheated out of several Oscars)
Totally agree. Too X-Files like for the Academy, but nevertheless an excellent film.
I don't know which one is the most underated movie in history, but I know for a fact that "The English Patient" is definitely the most overated after winning 9 Oscars for 3 hours of absolute boredom.