Underrated films worth watching!

[Guest]

GATTACA

[LHoffman]

Oh, I have one! Not Sci-fi, but definitely underrated: The Eagle Has Landed.

Michael Cain, Robert Duvall, Donald Sutherland, Donald Pleasence… fictional WWII plot to kidnap Winston Churchill. Not extremely popular but I think it is great.

[Witt]

I loved The Eagle Has Landed!

[Boyardee]

Evil dead

[Canuck12]

@CWO:

@Canuck12:

Eyes Wide Shut

I saw it when it came out and afterwards I didn’t feel it had been worth watching.  I thought it was slow, pretentious and unengaging.  A friend of mine was even harsher about the film: he said (sarcastically) that the film was an artistic triumph because only a cinematic genius like Kubrick could succeeed in making sex look so stupefyingly boring.

You saw the theatrical release where the studio edited out most of the sex, eh? Yeah that would be a bummer.

Ironic how the ratings system ruined Kubric’s film in the name of decency while simultaneously increasing children’s access to an adult film.

See the NC-17 version.

[Canuck12]

Also, way underrated:

Rescue Dawn

[CWO Marc]

@Canuck12:

You saw the theatrical release where the studio edited out most of the sex, eh? Yeah that would be a bummer.

Nope.  The movie ratings system in Quebec is less puritanical than in some other places.  The version which got an R in the US (after being cut down from NC-17) was released here as a mere 14+.  It didn’t even rate a 16+ or an 18+.  But my point wasn’t that the sex was absent, my point was that it was boring and pretentious.

[Canuck12]

I also live in Quebec (get together for a game sometime?)

But the R rating is not the one you want, its the NC-17 or unrated. (I’m not sure.)

I guess if you found it boring that’s okay. Kubric isn’t for everyone. (I found Space Odyssey to be mind-numbing) But I really dug the Shining and EWS. It just hits home on so many human emotions.

Yeah, most movies these days move quicker. But I have a little place in my heart for directors like Scorcesse or Kubric or Coppola That take a little more time with the scenes and let the actors do the storytelling rather than the director. It’s a character drama and some people just don’t dig character dramas.

(Seems like Tarantino is the only one who gets credit for taking his time with scenes these days, I guess because all his characters are 1 dimensional and therefore easier to “get.”)

[wheatbeer]

The Road to Wellville  :-D

[Canuck12]

Just saw “21” not reviewed very well. Not inventive film-making but a pretty entertaining story. Also, somewhat true.

[ghr2]

Rock of Ages & 21 Jump Street & Stargate

[Canuck12]

Stargate seconded. Definitely underrated.

[Canuck12]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

[LHoffman]

@Canuck12:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

II: Secret of the Ooze …    By FAR the BEST!