Underrated films - Page 3

TheUltimateBum · 01-15-2025, 06:01 PM

The 1962 version of Phantom of the Opera is a movie that needs more appreciation and notice, especially with Herbert Lom's performance as the Phantom.

*Andrew NDB* · 12-22-2025, 02:45 PM

On a Christmas note, any idea why Santa Claus from 1985 never really caught on as a popular Christmas movie?

*ssjup81* · 12-28-2025, 11:39 AM

A while ago I showed Coola_Yagami a movie that I feel is underrated. Slingblade. It’s such a quirky film. Not politically correct by today’s standards but I liked it back then and still enjoyed it now. It stars Billy Bob Thornton. Anyone else ever seen this film.

*Andrew NDB* · 01-12-2026, 02:45 PM

Here's one. I've never seen it... but I want to!

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Originally Posted by ssjup81

A while ago I showed Coola_Yagami a movie that I feel is underrated. Slingblade. It’s such a quirky film. Not politically correct by today’s standards but I liked it back then and still enjoyed it now. It stars Billy Bob Thornton. Anyone else ever seen this film.

Underrated? It won an Oscar and was the talk of the time for a while. I also got the cops sent after me because of it. I was using a Sling Blade soundboard with my buddies one morning and we called a hospital with it. Turns out they didn't like the whole, "I killed a man with a lawnmower blade. Hit him two good whacks with it... second one plumb took his head off!" bit.

*Prowler* · 01-12-2026, 03:40 PM

I think Irréversible (2002) by Gaspar Noé is underrated.

I can't really come up with an argument to defend my statement, but it's the kind of movie that no one who watches it is just indifferent about. People either "love it or hate it".

*IMJ* · 01-13-2026, 11:47 AM

Speaking of Billy Bob Thornton, "Pushing Tin" is underrated as hell.

**Barkworm** · 01-13-2026, 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Here's one. I've never seen it... but I want to!

Oh my god. That looks AWESOME.

*ssjup81* · 01-17-2026, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Underrated? It won an Oscar and was the talk of the time for a while. I also got the cops sent after me because of it. I was using a Sling Blade soundboard with my buddies one morning and we called a hospital with it. Turns out they didn't like the whole, "I killed a man with a lawnmower blade. Hit him two good whacks with it... second one plumb took his head off!" bit.

Seems no one around me outside of my parents had even seen it. Others around me had never heard of it, so I just figured it was underrated. I don’t remember how things were when it was originally out, though.

*Andrew NDB* · 02-11-2026, 04:35 PM

Was just on a smuggler kick and I was thinking about 2 movies that probably deserved a whole lot more credit than they got:

Lord of War, with Nicolas Cage:

American Made, with Tom Cruise:

Lord of War was about a real-life arms smuggler (the one we released to Putin in exchange for the lesbian basketball player potsmoker) which is now getting a sequel and American Made is about a real-life drug smuggler who smuggled drugs for Pablo Escobar who got machine-gunned for snitching.

*IMJ* · 02-11-2026, 06:33 PM

Well if we are going that C-list Sci-fi route I'd say "Solarbabies" is way underrated and ton of fun.

*CyberCubed* · 02-11-2026, 07:36 PM

Grudge Match 2013 has Stallone vs Robert De Niro in the boxing ring, but it isn't a Rocky movie.

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02-11-2026, 06:33 PM	#50
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12-28-2025, 11:39 AM	#43
ssjup81 Foot Elite Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Central Virginia (Back in the US) Posts: 4,734	A while ago I showed Coola_Yagami a movie that I feel is underrated. Slingblade. It’s such a quirky film. Not politically correct by today’s standards but I liked it back then and still enjoyed it now. It stars Billy Bob Thornton. Anyone else ever seen this film.

02-11-2026, 04:35 PM	#49
Andrew NDB Weed Whacker Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Auburn, WA Posts: 34,559	Was just on a smuggler kick and I was thinking about 2 movies that probably deserved a whole lot more credit than they got: Lord of War, with Nicolas Cage: American Made, with Tom Cruise: Lord of War was about a real-life arms smuggler (the one we released to Putin in exchange for the lesbian basketball player potsmoker) which is now getting a sequel and American Made is about a real-life drug smuggler who smuggled drugs for Pablo Escobar who got machine-gunned for snitching.

02-11-2026, 07:36 PM	#51
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