Good (not Great) Movies that got no love

[bironi]

Body Parts

Virtuosity

Just one genre that came to mind. Got anything?

[1centaur]

Some got no love from audiences but plenty of critic love, and some vice versa. No love from either AND good for many on this forum? That will be something to see.

A movie I just saw that did bad box office and had an audience review WAY lower than the critic review on Rotten Tomatoes but I liked a lot was Don Jon. That's a snappy directorial debut and ScarJo did some really good acting there.

[goonster]

Let it Ride

[downtube]

Harold and Maude

[jtakeda]

Mr. Nobody

[slidey]

A Good Year

[Fixed]

Rush
Cheers

[Admiral Ackbar]

boogie nights

[Chris]

Real Genius

[wtex]

Lawn Dogs with Sam Rockwell

[Uncle Jam's Army]

Blow (very underrated job by Johnny Depp)
Anywhere But Here (great job by Natalie Portman, Susan Sarandon, too)
After Dark, My Sweet (probably Jason Patric's best acting)
Bottle Rocket (first Wes Anderson movie I saw)

[Hindmost]

A Good Year

I give this 1 1/2 stars yet I think I have watched it four times. Must be because of scenes in Provence and Bonnieux.

[poff]

Starship Troopers

[slidey]

Marion Cotillard :p

I give this 1 1/2 stars yet I think I have watched it four times. Must be because of scenes in Provence and Bonnieux.

[cmg]

Happy Accidents with Marisa Tomei. she's great in it.

[don compton]

Body Heat
The Year of Living Dangerously

[slidey]

Basic
In The Loop (this rates as 'Great' in my view though)

[Aaron O]

I second Virtuosity...
The Fallen
Insomnia
Dark Man
The Mask of Zorro
Jacob's Ladder
Blood Simple
A Simple Plan
Drag me to Hell
Death to Smoochie
Quick Change
Cookie's Fortune
Lone Star

[oldpotatoe]

5TH Element

[ultraman6970]

Year one? :D

[fuzzalow]

I enjoy good films but could not tell anyone if they were good or whether they got no love. The only thing that one could judge accurately about them is that they were not made with the intent of the mass market, lowest common denominator blockbuster (i.e. any franchise or comic book based film).

Solaris - directed by Steven Soderbergh. As famously recounted by Clooney "You do films for them in order to be allowed to sometimes do a film for you"; this was not a film for the box office Hollywood "them". An atypical remake of the original Russian film that manages not to screw up by dumbing down in the tidy manner of Hollywood storytelling. Examples of foreign film remakes that Hollywood had butchered would be "der himmel über Berlin" as "City of Angels" and "Abre los Ojos" as "Vanilla Sky".

Der Untertag - noteworthy for portrayal of German WW2 leadership as not a lampooned caricature of grotesque evil, even that the results of what they did were exactly that. The Hollywood stereotype runs more along the portrayal as done by Ralph Fiennes in "Schindlers List".

Dead Man - directed by Jim Jarmusch with music by Neil Young

Mulholland Drive - directed by David Lynch. Don't know if this is before or after Lynch started doing television which might tip this film into shooting for mass market off of his TV notoriety. But a stupendous film even if that were the case.

Gone Baby Gone - directed by Ben Affleck. Possible overlooked because as a film done by Affleck during his years from being banished from A-List Hollywood.

[R2D2]

District 9

My wife hates it..............

[PQJ]

Bowfinger

My blue heaven

(Yes, I'm a Steve Martin fan)

[PQJ]

boogie nights

Rated as one of tarantinos top 20 movies of all time. A great flick, IMO. Speaking of underrated, I think wahlberg is a great actor himself.

[LJohnny]

Donnie Darko
13 Tzameti

[oldpotatoe]

District 9

My wife hates it..............

Loved that one, also Solaris and 'Moon'.

[R2D2]

Loved that one, also Solaris and 'Moon'.

District 9 is up there with Blade Runner.
Hoping there is a sequel.

[thirdgenbird]

Donnie Darko

Yes.

[FritzWhite]

Ok, I'll put Breaking Away here. Not that it isn't a beloved movie, but I don't think a lot of younger people have probably even heard of it.

The dad is really funny.

Also, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a funny movie from when Steve Martin was in his prime.

[William]

The Thing (John Carpenter)

It bombed when it came out fighting the likes of E.T. and others at the time. Love that movie, and it still stands up today in the effects department without CGI.








William

[FritzWhite]

The Thing (John Carpenter)

It bombed when it came out fighting the likes of E.T. and others at the time. Love that movie, and it still stands up today in the effects department without CGI.








William

I second The Thing! Is it ok to post a youtube clip?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjIXwkX1e48

[firerescuefin]

All the Pretty Horses

[R2D2]

I second The Thing! Is it ok to post a youtube clip?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjIXwkX1e48

The original was great also.
I always have people try to find James Arness in the original.

[J.Greene]

Death Proof.

[victoryfactory]

That Thing You Do

[William]

I second The Thing! Is it ok to post a youtube clip?



You gotta be elfin kidding......:eek:





;);):D

William

[pinkshogun]

Unbreakable. bruce willis and samuel jackson are the stars. sorta sci-fi comic bookish but serious none-the-less

[bambam]

Citizen X - I believe an early HBO movie with Stephen Rea about the Russian Serial killer.

[ceewho]

I feel like District 9 got a lot of love, but it is still really good nonetheless.

A Serious Man
The Brothers Bloom

[spacemen3]

Here are some of my under-appreciated favorites:

Killing of a Chinese Bookie: Director Cut
Mongol
Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos
24 Hour Party People
Black Lightning
CQ
Equilibrium
Gattaca
Stander
Star 80
Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
Stroszek
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

[avalonracing]

That Thing You Do

I'm really surprised to see this movie listed. It was the first modern movie that came to mind as a "good but not great movie that got no love".

Tom Hanks wrote and directed this movie and as much as I love his work in things like Saving Private Ryan or Castaway if I were stuck on a plane with him I would probably want to talk to him about this movie. Although he would probably rather talk about how I got into the corporate jet that he is most likely flying in.

That said, That Thing You Do is most likely to be considered a good and not great because it is just a "feel-good" movie and it is hard for anyone to say that those kind of movies are great (like Breaking Away for instance). Personally, I think that they are both are great movies. Sure I love dark, heavy, epic films but a film doesn't have to be Goodfellas or Metropolis to be great.

[slidey]

I'm really surprised to see this movie listed. It was the first modern movie that came to mind as a "good but not great movie that got no love".

Tom Hanks wrote and directed this movie and as much as I love his work in things like Saving Private Ryan or Castaway if I were stuck on a plane with him I would probably want to talk to him about this movie. Although he would probably rather talk about how I got into the corporate jet that he is most likely flying in.

That said, That Thing You Do is most likely to be considered a good and not great because it is just a "feel-good" movie and it is hard for anyone to say that those kind of movies are great (like Breaking Away for instance). Personally, I think that they are both are great movies. Sure I love dark, heavy, epic films but a film doesn't have to be Goodfellas or Metropolis to be great.

That Thing You Do

Another vote for That Thing You Do. Very peppy title track to boot!

[parco]

Max starring John Cusack. Everyone should see this movie.

[oldpotatoe]

Max starring John Cusack. Everyone should see this movie.

Yowser..never heard of it..looked it up..surprise!!

[SpokeValley]

District 9

My wife hates it..............

Good film and Mrs.Valley liked it.

Serenity is pretty danged good.