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  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,740
    I’m not sure how well it was received- but I really liked Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing....not normally my thing.
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,740
    edited March 2018
    .......although I also loved Oldman and Roth in Rozencrantz & Gildenstern (sp) are dead.

    Maybe I’m not the total council estate common scum that I always assumed I am ?!?
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,783
    golfaddick said:

    AddicksAddict said:

    stonemuse said:

    I really rate Children of Men but no one else seems to have heard of it.

    Au contraire, mon ami. Best thing I've seen Clive Owen do.
    Inside Man surely.
    Is that from his gay porn period?

    Seriously, I haven't seen it so I'll give it a look.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,783
    i_b_b_o_r_g said:

    johnny73 said:

    ValleyGary said:

    Starship Troopers

    It's underrated because the majority of people missed the point of the film completely. The heroes are fascists!
    Are they??? Might need to give that a watch, could be my new favourite film

    It's a militaristic, fascist society. The male and female leads themselves are more young, dump and full of it than fascist.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,783
    Rufus is a dogs name said:

    City of God
    I Am Sam
    Battle Royale
    Mean Streets

    All good films but Battle Royale and Mean Streets both got lots of praise on release or soon after so hard to call them underrated.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,783
    AddickUpNorth said:

    Sightseers definitely deserves more recognition. British dark humour at its best.


    Hilarious in places and at times your sympathies are with them.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,783
    IdleHans said:

    Someone on here once recommended The Station Agent.
    Very little happens but like the films @daveaddick mentions, it's a fabulous small, character driven piece which I absolutely loved.
    I'll look out for your recommendations, thanks.

    I think that was me and if it wasn't I should have done so. Your summation is spot on.
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    AddicksAddict said:

    Rufus is a dogs name said:

    City of God
    I Am Sam
    Battle Royale
    Mean Streets

    All good films but Battle Royale and Mean Streets both got lots of praise on release or soon after so hard to call them underrated.
    City of god won the Oscar for best foreign film and is widely regarded as one of the best non English speaking films of all time (it is).
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,783
    McBobbin said:

    Bigbadbozman said:


    Glengarry Glenross

    Pretty sure this is "critically acclaimed" if not well known. Pity, because it's awesome.
    Correct on all counts.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,783
    Charltonparklane said:

    Love Honour and Obey

    In my top 10

    Most people I speak to have never heard of it.


    Not just those you speak to.
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  • harveys_gardener
    harveys_gardener Posts: 7,038
    edited March 2018
    Ran - Kurosawa
    Wall-E
    Le Mans
    World's Fastest Indian
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,849
    Grosse Pointe Blank
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,849
    Baz Lurhmann's Romeo + Juliet with Leonardo Di Caprio and Claire Danes
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,617
    Not sure, if it's underrated, but forgotten how good In Bruges is.
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,359
    There's Only One Jimmy Grimble
    Plus these two Australian film;
    Kenny and The Castle.
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,359
    Dark Star
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,736
    guinnessaddick said:

    Not sure, if it's underrated, but forgotten how good In Bruges is.

    Great film . I think I’ll watch it again this weekend
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,617
    edited March 2018
    Bedsaddick said:

    guinnessaddick said:

    Not sure, if it's underrated, but forgotten how good In Bruges is.

    Great film . I think I’ll watch it again this weekend
    That's for John Lennon, you Yankee fcukin' c@nt!
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    I'll never forget whatsisname.

    Of it's time, but forgotten.
  • Lazy_eye_metaphor
    Lazy_eye_metaphor Posts: 1,959
    NapaAddick said:

    For me, the movie a lot of my friends hate but I love... love does not even begin to describe what I think of it.... "Mulholland Drive" by David Lynch.

    I think it's the best movie I've seen the last 20 years. Once one starts to understand what is actually happening in the movie (which often takes at least 2x) it just becomes a great movie about the human condition. It's like a Picasso on celluloid.

    This
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  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    ken_shabby said:

    High Plains Drifter
    Dark Star

    Dark star was quite highly rated in its day!
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    Life is beautiful may scrape onto the list. It isn't under rated I suppose so that is why I say scrape, and the star got best actor I think at the Oscars, but being an Italian film with subtitles many might not give it a chance. I think they would soon forget they were reading the subtitles and just get totally gripped if they tried it.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,736
    Human Centipede 3
  • harveys_gardener
    harveys_gardener Posts: 7,038
    charltonkeston said:

    There's Only One Jimmy Grimble
    Plus these two Australian film;
    Kenny and The Castle.

    See you and raise you with 'Lantana'
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,783
    letthegoodtimesroll said:

    American Graffiti

    If you haven’t seen it and you like early 1960s American cars and music and spotting lots of major Holywood/movie industry stars at the outset of their careers or letting the penny drop where and what certain references/things are all about then this is the film for you.

    As a side, I see Jaguar pictured one of their new cars outside a Mel’s Diner the other day...

    Along with Bladerunner, my two most favourites films. Again, though, underrated?

    As an aside, I thought of Lady Bird as a poor American Graffiti with less jokes and less great music.
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,443
    AddicksAddict said:

    letthegoodtimesroll said:

    American Graffiti

    If you haven’t seen it and you like early 1960s American cars and music and spotting lots of major Holywood/movie industry stars at the outset of their careers or letting the penny drop where and what certain references/things are all about then this is the film for you.

    As a side, I see Jaguar pictured one of their new cars outside a Mel’s Diner the other day...

    Along with Bladerunner, my two most favourites films. Again, though, underrated?

    As an aside, I thought of Lady Bird as a poor American Graffiti with less jokes and less great music.
    I thought Lady Bird was a better film - not meant to be a comedy and music not really a major part of it. The two films are quite different but for me I thought Lady Bird was a really good film about growing up and explored the difficulties of a relationship between mother and daughter. American Graffiti is a more lightweight film and has a different tone to it.


  • RedArmySE7
    RedArmySE7 Posts: 5,407
    It actually won quite a few awards and got a bit of critical acclaim but no one I know has seen it and that is...

    My Life as a Courgette.

    French animation film which I thought was brilliant.
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,740
    RedArmySE7 said:

    It actually won quite a few awards and got a bit of critical acclaim but no one I know has seen it and that is...

    My Life as a Courgette.

    French animation film which I thought was brilliant.

    Seems a bit niche for me. I’d have thought that kind of film would only be of interest to a very marrow demograph.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    SuedeAdidas said:

    RedArmySE7 said:

    It actually won quite a few awards and got a bit of critical acclaim but no one I know has seen it and that is...

    My Life as a Courgette.

    French animation film which I thought was brilliant.

    Seems a bit niche for me. I’d have thought that kind of film would only be of interest to a very marrow demograph.
    You'd be a Wally to miss it
  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,749
    I always enjoy Mike Newall's 'Into the West' as just a really lovely, moving, funny, family film, though it rarely gets shown as is no longer available on most formats.

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