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The most underrated movies out there...

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Some of your guys' idea of what "underrated" is makes me 😕

I'll name two.
Adaptation.
Mind the Gap
 
Originally posted by: Chiropteran
Boondock Saints. I don't care what the above posters posted, outside of your little pool of online friends the movie isn't very well known.

I'll add Starship Troopers and Robocop. Robocop's repution was destroyed by it's sequels, which were all trash IMO, but the original was an amazing movie.

Starship Troopers is underrated because people expected one of the following- a movie based exactly on the book, or an action movie like Star Wars. While on the surface the movie might seem to be a typical space action movie, it's really a political satire and viewed from that perspective it's a great movie. so what if it isn't exactly like the book, I read the book too and IMO a movie based exactly on the book would have been a very long and very boring movie, like The Thin Red Line.
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Starship Troopers has got to be one of my favorite scifi movies every and the original Robocop rocked but the sequels sucked monkey nuts.
 
Originally posted by: Chiropteran
Originally posted by: LS21
underrated is not the same as underexposed. so while it is underexposed, it is actually way way overrated for how good/bad the movie actually is
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I disagree. A movies success is based on it's exposure and ratings increase exposure. They may not be synonyms, but there is a relationship between the exposure a movie gets and how highly rated it is.

If Boondock Saints was as overrated as some posters think, it would have been released in theaters across the country and strongly promoted/advertised. The fact is it wasn't. It was released to only 5 theaters and was only showing for one week. And yet it still developed a huge following. If that isn't an underrated movie, I don't know what is.
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Overrated means it is rated too highly by people who have rated it, sheesh...
 
Originally posted by: rh71
I'm more of an action movie type and The Island was severely underrated. The marketing was non-existant and people didn't want to see a story about cloning, supposedly. It was also Scarlett's hottest appearance.
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Originally posted by: Descartes
I'm not sure if this qualifies as underrated, but I always thought The Good Shepherd didn't quite get the respect I thought it deserved. I think the same of Ocean's Twelve.
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Ocean's 12 was an excuse for a paid vacation in the French Riviera, not a movie.

Originally posted by: Chiropteran
Originally posted by: LS21
underrated is not the same as underexposed. so while it is underexposed, it is actually way way overrated for how good/bad the movie actually is
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I disagree. A movies success is based on it's exposure and ratings increase exposure. They may not be synonyms, but there is a relationship between the exposure a movie gets and how highly rated it is.

If Boondock Saints was as overrated as some posters think, it would have been released in theaters across the country and strongly promoted/advertised. The fact is it wasn't. It was released to only 5 theaters and was only showing for one week. And yet it still developed a huge following. If that isn't an underrated movie, I don't know what is.
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That's a cult movie, the very definition of it in fact.

For myself, I would say underrated movies: Fido; Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang; Pitch Black; The Others.
 
Originally posted by: pyonir
Some of your guys' idea of what "underrated" is makes me 😕

I'll name two.
Adaptation.
Mind the Gap
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Um.... Adaptation received 4 Academy Award nominations the year it came out. Chris Cooper won his for Best Supporting Actor. It was on countless top 10 lists.

Great movie but not what I'd called "underrated". Those that have seen it rate it very highly.
 
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