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What do you think is the most underrated movie of all time?

Other really good, odd, older sci-fi: ZPG (1972, Oliver Reed and Geraldine Chapman), THX 1138 (1971, Robert Duvall), and The Illustrated Man (1969, Rod Steiger and Claire Bloom)

Tom said:
No, I haven't. But looking it up will have to see it because I definately am a Tim Curry fan! :D
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Legend is a classic. Tim Curry was awesome in that.

I am an old Rocky Horror cast member from back in the day. I did a decent Columbia, if I do say so myself. :D So naturally I was a Tim Curry fan. I had his pop records and everything. He was just as breathy in those as he was in RHPS, but some of the songs were really catchy.

He MADE Clue for me. Nobody else could have done that like he did.
 
Slithytoves said:
That's so weird. I just saw the remake of WotW last night on TBS. It was the first time I saw it. Loved Tim Robbins' character. I thought Cruise was better than usual in that role. Disappointed by the end, though. Clumsily handled...

Terrific movie and terrific performance by Bale. Speaking of young roles, I'm pretty much done with Mel Gibson but his performance in Gallipoli (1981) gets a free pass. The real stand-out was the other kid, though. Mark Lee...

I have a weird thing about Australian-made war films. Another fave is Breaker Morant, with Edward Woodward (The Equalizer TV series, The Wicker Man).
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The cinematography in the new War of the Worlds was great. And the initial setting in Bayonne NJ was really cool. Yeah, I though he did the best of those mentioned in that one. Robbin's was so creepy!

I thought the Aussie's did have a run of excellent films in the early 80's, but then again there were a bunch of excellent films at that time from elsewhere too. The films of the summer of 82 are still considered the high water mark.

Loved Gallipoli and Breaker Morant. Another mostly Aussie film with a good early Mel Gibson (and Sigourney Weaver) was The Year of Living Dangerously.
 
Tom said:
Another may-not-know-it was his role as Pennywise the evil clown in Stephen King's 'It'.
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Yeah I was surprised to discover that was him aswell that movie freaked me out when I was a kid,he also does voices for cartoons a lot,he did the voice for the villain hexxus in Ferngully the last rainforest,an animated movie that not many remember but I feel it was underrated,also Robin Williams made the voice of batty Koda in this and did it I think before he did Aladdin as the genie.
 
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Hopefully this will help dispel the unfortunate clown reference memories.

My favorite T.Curry film. I saw an interview where he said it was his favorite role too. This is the song Professional Pirate. :D

 
Slithytoves said:
I am an old Rocky Horror cast member from back in the day. I did a decent Columbia, if I do say so myself. :D So naturally I was a Tim Curry fan. I had his pop records and everything. He was just as breathy in those as he was in RHPS, but some of the songs were really catchy.
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His songs got airplay in my area so I heard and liked some of them.

Columbia! :) They showed that movie at a small cinema near me every Sat night for years. It was fun to go and watch the proto-cosplayers and audience. There was always all this stuff flying around the theatre. One night I saw this this thin little black line against the screen backround, and it got slowly larger and larger as I watched and then slam!... a piece of hardened toast whacked me in the forehead.:D
 
Tom said:
One night I saw this this thin little black line against the screen backround, and it got slowly larger and larger as I watched and then slam!... a piece of hardened toast whacked me in the forehead.:D
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Some people could throw those suckers like Shuriken. :p
 
I vote for The Order, staring Heath Ledger. It isn't a very well known film, and apparently not very well reviewed, but it is a very unique and excellent thriller, in my opinion.
 
Adora said:
im just wondering is there any movie that you think didn't get the attention it deserves there are a lot of highly overrated movies but is there any movie that you believe that deserves more credit than it got?
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Chappie was great, but got many bad reviews.

For documentaries, Dimensions - A walk through mathematics and How Far Away Is It are mindblowing, but maybe not well known. (I'm still working my way through the latter series.)
 
I thought of one just now I haven't watched it years but not sure if it's underrated or not it's disneys bedknobs and broomsticks with Angela Lansbury,I use to love that movie when I was little but you hardly ever see that movie at all on TV.
 
Brainstorm. This movie impressed me tremendously when I first saw it as a young kid. It is, kind of, a blend between The Internship and The Matrix, but predate both of them since Brainstorm was released in 1983. It features Nathalie Wood in her final role. Douglas Trumbull wanted to film some of the scenes in 60 FPS, but MGM backed out of that.
The movie touches, amongst other things, technological miniaturization, an out of body experience, has a slapstick scene, Internet (!), has government secrets (in the form of military appropriation, X-Files-like paranoia), etc.
It is one of the favourite movies of Bill Gates.
 
plaidInBlue said:
Brainstorm. This movie impressed me tremendously when I first saw it as a young kid. It is, kind of, a blend between The Internship and The Matrix, but predate both of them since Brainstorm was released in 1983. It features Nathalie Wood in her final role. Douglas Trumbull wanted to film some of the scenes in 60 FPS, but MGM backed out of that.
The movie touches, amongst other things, technological miniaturization, an out of body experience, has a slapstick scene, Internet (!), has government secrets (in the form of military appropriation, X-Files-like paranoia), etc.
It is one of the favourite movies of Bill Gates.
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I remember that one. Wasn't bad for the time. Has an odd legacy now. It was Natalie Wood, her co-star Christopher Walken and her husband Robert Wagner on the boat the night she drowned.
 
Michael Haneke's "Le Temps Du Loup" Time Of The Wolf (2003). It was a total box office failure, probably because it portrayed people caught up in the immediate aftermath of some unspecified apocalypse in an underplayed realistic manner rather than resorting to a load of CGI effects. Personally I'd include it in my top five movies ever because it's a movie that can be watched many times and yet still feels fresh. It's very ambiguous and doesn't spoon feed the audience, it leaves a lot of the interpretation of events entirely up to the viewer.

 
I've got a few - all science fiction style.

1. Explorers
A nice little film from 1985 about three kids who start getting odd dreams about creating a circuit board. After creating it, they discover it creates an electromagnetic bubble which surrounds a pre-determined area and that is capable of moving at near-limitless distances and speeds without the usual ill-effects from inertia. As such, the boys build a "ship" to ride around in before trying to find out where the dreams are coming from.
It didn't do well at the box office but it was a fun little movie and I enjoyed it.


2. Flight of the Navigator
Another movie from 1986 which shows a boy called David falling into a ravine and been knocked - only to discover when he wakes up that 8 years have passed with the only clue been a recently crashed spaceship, of which the pair seem to be linked.
The movie itself does become more like a kids movie later on with the boy going for a long joyride in the ship, but its fun and with a humorous little alien on board as well as Paul Ruben (the actor who plays Pee Wee Herman) doing the voice of the computer, you get some laughs.
Also, can't forget that classic Beach boys song:


3. The Last Starfighter
A movie gem from 1984, which shows a boy called Alex - who lives on a trailer park with his mum and little brother - get the top score on a Sci-Fi Arcade game called "Starfighter". Later he's approached by a man called Centauri, who is actually an alien and the game's creator - having created it as a test to find suitable pilots to fight on the Rylos side of a conflict between the Rylan Star League and the Ko-Dan Empire (which was the basis for the arcade game's story).
It's another film I do enjoy watching every now and then, even if some people call it a Star Wars rip-off. The film was directed by Nick Castle, who would later direct The Boy Who Could Fly in 1986 and even used footage of the Starfighter arcade game in the film.
 

The elephant man. Did not win a single oscar, but such a great film, with some really great actors including Anne Bancroft, Sir John Gielgud, John Hurt and Sir Anthony Hopkins; before he lost his hair and started eating liver with fava beans and chianti.
 
AGXStarseed said:
2. Flight of the Navigator
Another movie from 1986 which shows a boy called David falling into a ravine and been knocked - only to discover when he wakes up that 8 years have passed with the only clue been a recently crashed spaceship, of which the pair seem to be linked.
The movie itself does become more like a kids movie later on with the boy going for a long joyride in the ship, but its fun and with a humorous little alien on board as well as Paul Ruben (the actor who plays Pee Wee Herman) doing the voice of the computer, you get some laughs.
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That movie scared me so bad!
 
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