Most Underrrrated Movies...

A Bug’s Life
Cars
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
The Black Cauldron(yes, it was GOOD. THE END.)
Batman(1989 Keaton/Nicholson)
Treasure Planet(saw it on the Disney Channel the other day!!)
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Second Hand Lions

I can’t think of more right now.

EDIT: I removed that statement after realizing that only people on this site and at my school really “hate” it.

I have to agree on A Bug’s Life and The Black Cauldron. ESPECIALLY The Black Cauldron. Now, it wasn’t nearly as good as the books. In fact, it was loosly based on the first two. But, as a movie on its own, it was actually pretty watchable. And Gurgi is just too sweet X3 . I actually think that Treasure Planet’s popularity is pretty decent. I also concur with Atlantis. I enjoyed it; the humor was pretty good at times, especially regarding Mole’s origin. “You don’t want to know!”
Hm. Perhaps he was raised by the Underminer?

Now, for my list…kinda.
The Brave Little Toaster
The Brave Little Toaster: To the Resuce (definately not as good as the original, but it was better than the third part. Uuuurrrrgh :angry: )
Young Frankenstine…Fronkensteen…Abby Normal
Gone With the Wind (GOOD! MOVIE! Sure, it was the Twilight of its time, but it was still SO much better. I find it really funny that both the hearthrob actors of the heartthrob leading men didn’t like their characters :laughing: )
Galaxy Quest (My family watches it a lot. There’s one scene in particular that I just CAN’T watch [spoil]the pig-lizard turning inside-out XP[/spoil], but it was really good. With Alan Rickman as the Spock-like character. “By Grabthar’s hammer, you shall be avenged!” “By Grabthar’s…hammer…what a savings” He’s never saying that stupid line again!)

I think Of Mice and Men (John Malkovich’s 1992 one) is ridiculously underrated also, one of the few movies i openly cried at.

I haven’t seen that, but I might check it out if I ever see it in a store.

PLANET TERROR!

Yes! :smiley: And Death Proof… god, Kurt Russell was so funny at the end, and the car chase is one of the best ever filmed.

Silly Oz distributors separated the films in cinemas (it was billed as a double feature in America) so they could get twice the revenue. I was fortunate enough to have caught a bootleg copy (how about that, a bootleg of a grindhouse film!) screened by my university’s Film Society and it was one of my more memorable movie-outing experiences. :slight_smile:

“The Fountain” to me is one of the most under-rated movies of all time.

Can’t be underated if it actually is a terrible movie. :laughing:

Cats Dont Dance. Most people haven’t seen it, let alone heard of it. Tis a shame.

Seconded!

I just remembered while chatting with some members today… everyone who is a fan of Jackie Chan should check out his 2005 tour-de-force New Police Story. Quite simply, it’s one of the best ‘redemption-revenge’ flicks I have ever witnessed. His character literally goes through hell and back after a traumatic incident involving a gang of cop-killing robbers, and Nicholas Tse as his rookie partner helps him overcome his grief and regain his inner strength. And the stunts are simply his best since his glory days in the 90s.

I don’t think many would’ve seen in the States cos’ it was more of an Asian blockbuster. Be sure to watch the original Cantonese version with English subtitles, though the English dub’s pretty good too. That film is a heck of a lot better than the mediocre movies that followed (Rob-B-Hood, The Spy Next Door, etc.).

And the theme song is so awesome, even though I don’t know a single line of lyric, I absolutely love it (I even used it in one of my fan trailers! :smiley:

True that man, 2 and a half hours of explosions and action do not make a good movie.

I think The Road is pretty underated, I thought it was a great film.
I’m going to say I think A Bug’s Life is as well, every time I watch it I can’t understand why it isn’t more popular

Agreed. I like Danny and Sawyer. Also The Swan Princess.

Yes! Also check out Meet the Robinsons, one of Disney’s better 3D efforts.

YES! The Swan Princess! “I am a PRINCE!” He had nooo fear!

“Babe” is another one I just thought of. I just love that movie <3

Batman (1989) is overrated but The Incredibles isn’t underrated.

Hahaha! You’re funny!
I’m sorry you don’t enjoy good action films.

Funny, I was daydreaming the other day and the theme song just popped into my head. And I haven’t watched it since I was ten years old! :open_mouth:

This, I disagree. A lot of people are more familiar with Batman Begins, but you have to give Tim Burton credit for his art direction and Jack Nicholson for being a great Joker.

This, I agree. It has got the amount of attention it deserves, not more, not less. In fact, most people cite The Incredibles when asked to name a Pixar movie, from my personal experience. Also (again from my personal experience) most animation journals and magazines would cite The Incredibles, Wall-E and Up as Pixar’s best (often overlooking ABL, Monsters Inc or Ratatoulle). So there’s enough love for the Parr family as it is (in my most humble opinion).

This, I agree. Transformers 2 was a good action film. A great one, in fact. But it was a poor film as a whole.

If you’re a fan of Michael Bay, Bad Boys and The Rock are two of his underrated classics you should be checking out. Now those were good action films and films as a whole.

DW’s traditional animated movies may have been box-office failures, but they certainly had artistic merit.

Prince of Egypt was visually magnificent, but a bit of a religious movie and not exactly secular enough for mainstream audiences.

Same goes for Road to El Dorado, absolutely beautiful but a bit too much like Avatar and Pocahontas, where the pale-skinned foreigners falls in love with the beautiful native and saves her entire tribe from extermination.

Sinbad Legend of the Seven Seas was okay, but a tad predictable. But it is second-best in my books.

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron remains my all-time favourite. The protagonist is a true American hero in every sense of the word, and the conflict resolution with the antagonist is much more poignant and touching than the standard ‘Good guy wins, bad guy dies’ formula. Add that to some truly lush scenery of the American West, charming characters, and a sweeping soundtrack courtesy of Hans Zimmer, and you have an underrated classic from The-Studio-That-Must-Not-Be-Named.

Most of the movies I think are underrated are foreign films no one has ever heard of. Most of the Studio Ghibli films (other than Spirited Away, which pretty much everyone has seen) are relatively unknown. Princess Mononoke is a stunning movie, and Grave of The Fireflies is an amazing piece of cinema. Leon: The Professional is one of my favorite movies, but no one I know has seen it, along with Little Miss Sunshine and Arsenic and Old Lace.

And I’m sorry to anyone who enjoyed it, but Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was a very, very bad movie. It was almost painful to watch. The action sequences were okay, and the effects were good, but I almost walked out.

Basically 95% of the movies that are considered ‘old’ (say…1970 and under?) by most people of this generation between the ages of about 10-20 are. ::frowning:
(for example i could say ‘White Heat’ and nobody has heard of it)

And you could argue instead of being underrated, they automatically think it’s just pooorrrrr in comparison to their favourite modern Christian Bale or Will Smith movieeeee

Mars Attacks! (1996) This movie is better than any film based on a pack of bubble gum cards has any right to be. Not only is it a solid spoof that broke from what was then (and now again) tired ZAZ formula of comedy, a formula that hadn’t been topped since its introduction in 1980’s Airplaine!, but could actually function as a pretty decent update of the movies it was spoofing.

Anyone who says Tim Burton only makes one kind of movie or that Danny Elfman only makes one kind of score should watch this film. Still riding high after his masterpiece, Ed Wood, Burton turned in a movie that was equal parts every 50s B movie about flying saucer invasion ever made and just a dash of Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove. And sadly he thinks people are joking when they say they love this movie. He even went so far as to almost berate Chris Rock believing that the comedian was having a laugh at his expense.

If you haven’t seen this movie yet do it now! You won’t regret it! For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.

Well, Tyler, everyone at my school(and way too many people on this PIXAR FAN site) hate The Incredibles. I said nothing about critics, I mean what people say to me and point out to me. Oh, and BTW, making ME feel inferior and look imbecilic is very unoriginal; everyone I know does that. Thanks for ruining my day, but as a very busy, intelligent spaceman once said, “I don’t have time for this.” Thanks for your contribution to my inner turmoil; I do believe I shall slit my wrists now.