What is the Best Underrated Movie?

[Minako]

[COLOR=DarkRed][FONT=Trebuchet MS]My favorite underrated movie is [U]Newsies[/U]. It is a musical set in 1899 in New York. It sounds weird, but watch it, it's good.

Anywho, what I'm trying to get across is What is your favorite underrated movie and why? If you want, you can say what movies you think should be underrated..If you understand that! :sweat:

~Minako ^_~[/FONT][/COLOR]

[Shi no Tenshi]

Benny and Joon. A Johnny Depp film, it's adorable because it's an alternative love story without being dark or morbid. I don't know if it's actually underrated or not though... at least I think it is.

My boyfriend is the king of underrated movies, his collection is based around them so he'd probably be able to answer this question better than me.

[Zen]

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[B]Stealing Harvard[/B] is by far one of the funniest movies I've seen and probably Tom Green's greatest movie role ever where he isn't a complete idiotic jacka-- (which he kinda is in the movie, but in a more intellegent mannor). I loved the story and the jokes they put it, many of which would fly over your head depending on your sense of humor. Luckily I had a good one and laughed most of the movie.

And I quote:

[B]Girlfreind:[/B] "Your Waking Everybody UUUP!!!"

[B]Tom Green:[/B] "Mwua! Mwua! Mwua!"

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[ChibiHorsewoman]

[color=darkviolet]Just remember, you asked for this input.

[b][u]Best Underrated movie[/u]

Mystric Pizza[/b]

One of Julia Roberts first movies. I haven't seen it in a while, but I thought it was quite sweet.

One you may not have heard of that I saw a few weeks ago: [b]Amarilly's Clotheline Alley with Mary Pickford[/b]

In this one she's a poor girl who gets tricked by a rich play boy. But of course she succeeds in the end. The lines that they show her saying are kind of funny. Even for this day and age

This movie was shot back in 1918 so it has no sound except for a piano in the background and no color.

The annoying part of silent movies is that they only give out a few lines here and there. The rest of the time you have to pretty much make up the lines in your head. Which can lead to some hilarious results. Of course they do give you some choice lines in silent films. One of my favorite from this one is: [b]Don't breath a word of ths to anyone, but Amarilly's getting gay with some dude.[/b] This can be taken a bit out of context since the meaning they were going for was happy.

There was also a funny scene where these three neighborhood girls where trying to figure out where Amarilly got her muff. One of the girls mentions that she hasn't seen her cat around lately.

Maybe it wasn't an underated movie back in it's day, but not enough people really talk about classic movies like that. I love my classic movie channel :love: I guess maybe I like more of the older movies because they seem to have worked harder with less.

[b][u]Most overrated movie[/u] [/b]

I'll probably get some negative feedback for this one, but: [b]Blair Witch Project[/b] No contest.

Everyone kept talking about how great a movie it was and how it scared them. Everyone including my friend Amanda's brother, which is how I wound up seeing it with two of my friends.

None of us thought it was the least bit suspenseful. I thought the R rating was just because of all the f's in the character's dialog. It seemed like some reason to swear for a good two hours. Don't get me wrong, I swear as much as everyone else, but I do know you can make a good movie without saying f this and that for 120 minutes. After the movie Amanda, Becky and I all went to Hollywood video to complain to Amanda's brother.

Now, after a while I thought, maybe I just didn't see it in the right setting. So after Blair Witch came out on HBO, I sat down and watched it with my brother. Nothing. and my brother also thought it sucked.

For a suspense movie, it didn't make me suspenseful in the least. And I scare and get suspensed (is that the correct term?) very easily. Heck, I jumped at the preview for Anaconda Search for the Blood Orchid when I went to go see White Chicks this afternoon. I can't even watch the previews for Lost without wanting my stuffed cow with the Ft. Polk t-shirt. But I'm convinced my friend's six year old could have sat through Blair witch and only come out of it with a mouth like a Drill Sergeant.

So there are my choices. Read them and wonder what I do with my spare time when I can't watch movies from the 1910's[/color]

[Rikoshi-Sama]

I can't really think of a best underrated movie. However, I can think of one trilogy/movie that is highly Overrated and that would be The Matrix. No offense to any of the fans out their but these films ripped off a couple of other forms of film and media from other countries. And to top it off the storyline and acting for the last two installements was just dismal and yet still people praise this series and overrate it.