I watched this for the first time last year. Blind buy, had never heard of it before, but thought 'Hey, early Bruce Willis, why not?' And I was literally blown away by how crazy and zany this movie gets.
I fucking loved it.
The part where Bruce Willis falls put of an ambulance onto a gurney and is being pulled behind the ambulance, catches a cigarette, takes a drag, then throws it away in disgust as he says 'Eww, menthol'
Movie is gold.
mainstream audiences don't like movies that feels like a live action cartoon and hudson hawk is one of the best examples of this i wish i had seen it as a child but still great
Oh, I'm under no aspersions that it's a quality movie. I mostly appreciate the wild ambition and overt silliness, plus I'm also a sucker[ when it comes to rubber-necking on troubled productions of this era. ](https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1991/06/03/how-51-million-hawk-soared-over-budget/)
I watched it again for the first time in almost 9 years.
The pacing is a bit rushed and it doesn’t breathe until the second half of the movie but it still holds up so well. It’s such a great story
The way you phrased this sounds like a criticism but it’s what elevates it to me. That and it still being a demo-worthy presentation. IMHO it’s the coolest looking movie ever made. The aesthetic informed so much visual design in movies for the decade after
Yeah, It’s a movie in my top five (and still in my top five despite my new opinion of it) but I felt I needed to be honest about it with my new viewing rather than just blindly love it.
It’s tough to cram all the exposition needed in a sequel like that, so the first 45 minutes are forgivable in a way. But it’s still a beautiful story despite that
I don't think this term was around when it was released, but it's an absolute vibes movie. I was so blown away by how it looks and sounds that I don't give a toss about any issues with pacing and story. Just blast it into my eyes and ears
Liked it, didn’t love it. The original however will always have a special place in my heart Such a retro look, like leafing through an 1980s magazine on computer graphics. Wished the sequel captured some of that, but they went a different direction. Hoping the upcoming threequel gets it right.
I think the issue is that it was a Roku exclusive. So unless you had a Roku stick you weren't going to watch it.
I loved it so it's a shame it hasn't made it to netflix.
Yeah this is it to be honest. I hadn't seen it until a couple months ago when I bought the Blu-ray. I knew it was on Roku the whole time.....but I don't have a roku device haha
I feel legit sorry for Taylor Kitsch. He’s a great actor and has an amazing agent who gets him amazing roles and then the movies just bomb. He was Gambit in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Set up for a sequel that never came. John Carter, obviously we know what happened there. He was in Savages which is a criminally underrated movie. He was on the worst season of True Detective and got no respect for how good his acting was because of how poor the writing was. Dude has had some terrible luck.
From Wikipedia:
"It grossed $284 million at the worldwide box office, resulting in a $200 million writedown for Disney, becoming one of the biggest box office bombs in history. With a total cost of $350 million, including an estimated production budget of $263 million, it is one of the most expensive films ever made."
It was a big flop for Disney, especially at the time.
Generally people didn't like it enough, reviewers were mostly lukewarm on it iirc, and it needed to compete with other movies that out around that time, The Hunger Games and The Avengers among them (they came out a few weeks later). And that, with an overinflated budget, doesn't really help.
Dredd absolutely rules. For me when I talk to others about it, a lot haven’t seen it, and those that have think it’s absolutely bananas good. One of my favorites.
Master and Commander: Far Side of The World.
A fantastic movie that got nominated for 10 (!) academy awards but seemingly disappeared almost immediately because it came out the same year as Pirates of the Caribbean and The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King and underperformed at the box office. It contains my favorite performances from both Russell Crowe AND Paul Bettany.
Great movie no doubt (probably the best movie on sea warfare). But how exactly is it underrated... it has a 3.9 rating on Letterboxd.
Might have underperformed at the box office, but definitely not underrated
GREAT choice, yeah that movie is definitely underrated. I personally didn't like the whole witch trial spin that they put on it cause why? No need the story is already fucking solid and the mystery in the lore is perfect BUT I have to say that despite that criticism, that movie is so true to the games. The atmosphere and general uneasy vibe to downright horrific visuals are fucking great. That movie drips with that game's vibe and I love it.
Holy shit haha yeah, I think the image of the twisted barb wire man crawling on the floor and pawing the wall is seared in my head. MAN they nailed the visuals in that film.
Eh, i think they did a decent job but I also think there’s some stuff that I really feel like showed a lack of understanding of the franchise and lore. For example the “armless man”. It’s clearly meant to resemble or even be a version of the lying figure from silent hill 2. But A: that doesn’t make sense cause that monster is specifically a manifestation of James’ psyche, and B: it doesn’t actually look like it. The lying figure is a surreal abstract thing that simultaneously looks like a bdsm practitioner, and a corpse struggling in a straight jacket. The armless man is just a creepy dude covered in skin with a vomit butthole on his chest. In silent hill 2 the lying figures appearance and vomit attack and their apparent suffering was all in part meant to call back to James’ wife’s illness. What is it meant to be in the movie? It’s just meant to be scary and for people who played the games to go “oh it’s that thing from the game!” I had the same problem with pyramid head showing up. He is specifically a manifestation of James’ psyche as well. A representation of his desire for punishment. He’s not just a spooky guy that chases people. Why is he in the movie??? Why is he showing up to protect this random girl and do generic slasher movie shit? That is not at all the role he was created for. They included him cause he’s iconic and they did some dumb rewriting of the lore to make it work. It’s a decent movie but I feel like if you’re a fan of the original games it falls very flat in quite a few ways.
This was my favourite video game adaptation until recent years, until The Last Of Us / Edgerunners / Fallout. Though they're all TV so I suppose Silent Hill still holds the best movie title. I loved that they kept Akira Yamaoka's music.
Yeah I thought this movie was great! Branagh is menacing. Washington holds his own. Pattinson’s supporting role is superb. Although it’s a bit complex and requires a rewatch, the storyline is engaging and fresh. Great flick
In the theater the sound was great in my experience. I threw on the 4K disc without bothering to fire up my sound bar and I had to turn it off and restart. If you've only seen it at home, I can see where you're coming from.
I thought maybe it's cause most people didn't see it in IMAX and waited until it was home (because it really went hard in nice theaters)
A year or two later I watched it again at home and still thought it was great.
Sometimes theres movie a little confusing but than you can look at all the YouTube essays explaining them and your enjoyment might rise a little and earn a rewatch. TENET is not one of those. Even once you understand it fully, still sucks
Spot on, and it always kills me that Tenet fans claim people that didn't like it just didn't understand it. No, we understood it just fine, it was just rubbish.
I'm a massive Nolan fan, but watching Tenet felt like I'd ordered Inception from Wish
i'd add that it's actually not that complicated, it's just told in a really convoluted way to try to pass as sofisticated. There were some cool idea, but it ultimately it was a kinda simple story and the events were glued together with spit and adesive tape. Why do things happen in the opera? EHHHHH, the sator square thing says opera...
Btw i always imagined Nolan as that kid that is obsessed with pop science. He reads a thing in focus junior and builds a movie around that. I hope he does not find out about bananas being radioactive or we'll soon see "The radioactive banana killer" in theaters.
I don’t care how far backwards they bend to try and explain it, there is simply no satisfying explanation for how the backwards-time-travelling bullets got to be in their targets in the first place. The bullets and holes appearing spontaneously a short time before being “unshot” just sounds like some bullshit they made up after they realized it didn’t really make any sense. Any premise that requires that much metaphysical nonsense to justify it just isn’t worth exploring, in my opinion.
Too many people watch it once and then judge it negatively based on their own misunderstanding of it. I very much enjoyed it the first viewing in IMAX 70mm, but it took 4 total watches in the theater and reading the screenplay to fully “get it”.
Oblivion is awesome. I watch it a few times a year. Surprised it never got more love.
I’ve learned some of the criticism comes from those who think it’s a semi-ripoff of Moon (and are offended by all the ‘borrowed’ themes), but that doesn’t bother me.
Actual consequences too, I could not believe the Gwen Stacey death, it was actually a pretty brutal way to go. Andrew Garfield was a great Spider-Man imo the best, I'm not the biggest fan of Tom Holland and Tobey was a little old for the part although he's supposed to be.
There's something about Out of the Furnace that just falls flat for me. I don't know what it is. All the acting is superb, it's a good dramatic story, and you have Woody Harrelson as a deranged redneck who's unnerving every moment he's on screen.
Despite all of that, something about it doesn't stick with me. It's one of those that I wish I liked more.
Out of the furnace was the first movie I recall seeing in theaters and leaving absolutely content. I wasn't blown away but I was in no way disappointed. I will stand by my claim that it is a perfect 8/10 movie.
100% never got the criticism of it. I think it was a timing issue. If it came out after Endgame, when ppl started growing tired of superheroes it would have been a monster hit.
> 100% never got the criticism of it.
Have you read the comic? I like the movie overall but there’s no denying it completely misses most of the points Alan Moore was trying to make.
Showed it to my partner for the first time a bit ago. She couldn’t believe she had never heard of it! It came with the clutter of “found footage” movies so I think it got lost in the crowd. Also, it has Michael B Jordan in it (as I recall)
This movie performed enormously well in India (not really a shocker but here me out). It made a shit load of money in India (for Indian standards), was a cultural phenomenon in the country, and played in theaters for over 8 months in a lot of cities. Massive fucking hit basically. It was only when I came to USA when I realized this movie wasn’t as big a cultural phenomenon around the globe. This movie is truly underrated in USA, not talked about as much as it should be.
I love this movie. It's not very popular in the Philippines where I'm from, although it did well in the box office, it wasn't really talked about or anything. It was more like a "wow, cool CGI movie" thing. The movie made a huge impact on me, despite being from a different culture I feel like Life of Pi impacts us all regardless of race or culture. It's a story of faith and resilience and hope and I wish people appreciated it more. RIP Irrfan Khan, you legend.
Smile (2022) is one I rave about a lot that seemed to gather a lot of hate @ 2.8 rating on letterboxd
It may have also been my personal experience with anxiety and phobias too, but it was a great example of like "my mind is not well, and nobody can understand". People don't take the protag seriously, don't sympathize with them, can't understand, etc. Maybe it just spoke to me in a way with that idk.
It just is so effective at being fucking scary and grotesque, lot of the cheap jump scares, and some things taken from the best movies.
People seem to throw it in with other like million bad horror such as Night Swim, The Purge, Imaginary, etc...and just think it's way better than people make it seem. It's not a 5 star to me but still a solid 4
I'm not sure how I feel about them making a sequel, the director would have moved onto something else, don't think it really needed one.
i liked smile but it suffered from exactly knowing what was going to happen and the common horror trope thats been going around. Oh no Im doomed. Oh other people in the past were also doomed. I figured out what they did wrong. JK Im still doomed.
It also didn't help that the trailer gave away almost every major scare. I try to avoid trailers when I can but the one for Smile was EVERYWHERE so I couldn't avoid it
2014 Godzilla just oozes atmosphere, I loved their take on it. They managed to make a semi grounded monster movie. But I totally get why Godzilla fans didnt like it.
Mayhem. If you thought The Belko Experiment didn't live up to your expectations or even if you thought it was good, Mayhem will blow your doors off. Steven Yeun and Samara Weaving kick so much ass
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I like Nolan. I'm not a fanboy, just like most of his films. Twice were on my own thinking I missed something the first time. The third time my kid asked me to watch it and he never asks to watch a movie so I watched it again
I’m gonna get crucified for this but the art direction, voicework, and score in The Boss Baby absolutely redeem that film. I think it has a lot more heart than people give it credit for.
Oh 100%. A Silent Voice is a far superior film. And the awful trailers definitely didn’t do Boss Baby any favors. The prompt just asked which films I find underrated, and I think people have been a bit TOO harsh on Boss Baby, awards aside.
The Invisible Man. I don’t know if underrated is the right word.
It was revived well at the time, but I feel it deserves more conversation after it’s initial release. I think it’s brilliant.
I feel like I understand *Tenet*, and I generally like it, but I wouldn’t call it amazing. Ironically (for a Nolan film) it has a really weak ending, whereas typically he spends the entire film building up towards an incredible ending. So for me it was a disappointment. I still find it entertaining though.
That said, to answer your question, the film I’ll choose to defend is *The Village*.
This will probably be unpopular, but some of Woody Allen’s lesser known and more recent films I actually really enjoyed. More so than some of his older really famous films.
It’s getting harder to find his newer movies to stream now, at least in Australia. And even in cinemas, out here they only play in small little Arthouse type cinemas.
But some examples I enjoyed are: ‘You will meet a tall dark stranger’, ‘Irrational man’, Magic in the moonlight’, ‘Whatever works’, ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’, and ‘Melinda and Melinda’.
Scorching Hot Take: X-Men Origins Wolverine is a classic, never understood the hate.
Another movie that i think is quite underrated is Glass, i get not liking the ending but it was really good nonetheless.
>Scorching Hot Take: X-Men Origins Wolverine is a classic, never understood the hate.
I think it's OKAY for the first half and I enjoy it, but then it just descends into ridiculousness.
Understand Tenet? The movie equivalent of an escher drawing?
Once you stop trying to understand Tenet it definitely becomes a better movie, also subtitles help.
On my fifth watch I figured out that Tenet backwards is teneT and I retroactively gave it an Oscar. To be specific, I gave it Dallas Buyer’s Club’s 2014 oscar for Makeup, but wrote Tenet Best Picture on it in Sharpie.
Ransom (1996) starring Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, Gary Sinese.
Sneakers (1992) starring Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Dan Aykroyd, River Phoenix, Ben Kingsley, David Strathairn.
Terminator: Salvation, Christian Bale was great, Anton Yelchin was great, action was awesome, no terminator movie will ever BE Judgement Day again, so stop comparing it, it's also the best terminator movie since 3, which is also not that bad
I haven't come across an under rated movie. If there's a movie I find really good or relatable I'll think about the movie and then I'll be logical for example the movie *she's out of my league* there is no Ryan Reynolds comedy there is no Brad Pitt there is no Margot Robbie. But it's a good movie but it shouldn't be ranked with wolf of wall street or anything like that because it's just not that good yk? Like it's good but not that good. Another example of this is "ten things I hate about you" that movie is absolutely hands down the best rom com out there but I also think it's matched with "the breakfast club" and "sixteen candles" even tho it's not the same but they all are classic rom coms. I don't personally think there's such thing as under rated I think they all are placed in the best possible rank for what the movie is. You all may not agree with me but if I say DC is better than marvel alot of people would speak up or if I say star trek is better than Star wars I'm 100% sure I'd get a down vote on this🤣. But hey this is my opinion and it's a penny for your thoughts anyways Imma go watch kingdom of heaven. If you want a list of romcoms ranked in what I think is best possible rank then just lmk
Tbh I see ppl defending this movie every fucking day on twitter. Even with the mediocre score its still overrated. Nolan fans have to just deal with the fact that the man is capable of missing. This film is a mess, sure is fun, but its not a great movie at all.
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
For me personally it is up there with the original trilogy for pure enjoyment. The series only really tanked on the 5th movie which WAS complete ass.
No One Will Save You is the best sci fi movie of the decade so far. The only criticism I see from people is that there’s little to no dialogue which shouldn’t really be a criticism.
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I watched this for the first time last year. Blind buy, had never heard of it before, but thought 'Hey, early Bruce Willis, why not?' And I was literally blown away by how crazy and zany this movie gets. I fucking loved it. The part where Bruce Willis falls put of an ambulance onto a gurney and is being pulled behind the ambulance, catches a cigarette, takes a drag, then throws it away in disgust as he says 'Eww, menthol' Movie is gold.
Now I'm adding it to my watchlist.
It's easily my favorite Bruce Willis movie now. Maybe I'll even rewatch it today.
Money will always be money. But GOLD, will always be... GOLD \*insane grin\*
Bonnie! Ball ball!
I literally popped in to drop this. You’re my hero. I’ll have to offer up Speed Racer … wait …
Same, this was a family favourite for me and my sister, we could never understand how underrated it was. Bunny! Ball ball!
mainstream audiences don't like movies that feels like a live action cartoon and hudson hawk is one of the best examples of this i wish i had seen it as a child but still great
Oh, I'm under no aspersions that it's a quality movie. I mostly appreciate the wild ambition and overt silliness, plus I'm also a sucker[ when it comes to rubber-necking on troubled productions of this era. ](https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1991/06/03/how-51-million-hawk-soared-over-budget/)
Tron: Legacy
I watched it again for the first time in almost 9 years. The pacing is a bit rushed and it doesn’t breathe until the second half of the movie but it still holds up so well. It’s such a great story
The way you phrased this sounds like a criticism but it’s what elevates it to me. That and it still being a demo-worthy presentation. IMHO it’s the coolest looking movie ever made. The aesthetic informed so much visual design in movies for the decade after
Yeah, It’s a movie in my top five (and still in my top five despite my new opinion of it) but I felt I needed to be honest about it with my new viewing rather than just blindly love it. It’s tough to cram all the exposition needed in a sequel like that, so the first 45 minutes are forgivable in a way. But it’s still a beautiful story despite that
I don't think this term was around when it was released, but it's an absolute vibes movie. I was so blown away by how it looks and sounds that I don't give a toss about any issues with pacing and story. Just blast it into my eyes and ears
Yes
Daft Punk: the movie
I rewatched it recently specifically for the soundtrack. A+
Liked it, didn’t love it. The original however will always have a special place in my heart Such a retro look, like leafing through an 1980s magazine on computer graphics. Wished the sequel captured some of that, but they went a different direction. Hoping the upcoming threequel gets it right.
Weird: The Al Yankovic story. Its probably the most perfect way to do a Weird al biopic
I fucking loved this movie and this is how I’m discovering that maybe others did not
It's absolutely perfect. I adore every moment
I think the issue is that it was a Roku exclusive. So unless you had a Roku stick you weren't going to watch it. I loved it so it's a shame it hasn't made it to netflix.
They just didn't market it properly, you can watch Roku stuff on any device now, it's just another streaming service.
Yeah this is it to be honest. I hadn't seen it until a couple months ago when I bought the Blu-ray. I knew it was on Roku the whole time.....but I don't have a roku device haha
After watching that I really doubt weird al actually exists.
This one didn't do it for me sadly. Also, my pick would be John Carter (2012).
I feel legit sorry for Taylor Kitsch. He’s a great actor and has an amazing agent who gets him amazing roles and then the movies just bomb. He was Gambit in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Set up for a sequel that never came. John Carter, obviously we know what happened there. He was in Savages which is a criminally underrated movie. He was on the worst season of True Detective and got no respect for how good his acting was because of how poor the writing was. Dude has had some terrible luck.
What exactly happened with John Carter?, I remember liking it heaps, didn’t realise it bombed
From Wikipedia: "It grossed $284 million at the worldwide box office, resulting in a $200 million writedown for Disney, becoming one of the biggest box office bombs in history. With a total cost of $350 million, including an estimated production budget of $263 million, it is one of the most expensive films ever made." It was a big flop for Disney, especially at the time.
Why did it flop so hard?
Generally people didn't like it enough, reviewers were mostly lukewarm on it iirc, and it needed to compete with other movies that out around that time, The Hunger Games and The Avengers among them (they came out a few weeks later). And that, with an overinflated budget, doesn't really help.
John carter is great tho
Man, I loved this movie as a kid. Really wish it had a sequel
Dredd (2012)
i feel like its not underrated
Judge Dredd (1995)
Dredd absolutely rules. For me when I talk to others about it, a lot haven’t seen it, and those that have think it’s absolutely bananas good. One of my favorites.
Master and Commander: Far Side of The World. A fantastic movie that got nominated for 10 (!) academy awards but seemingly disappeared almost immediately because it came out the same year as Pirates of the Caribbean and The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King and underperformed at the box office. It contains my favorite performances from both Russell Crowe AND Paul Bettany.
The ultimate dad movie. It’s awesome
Great movie no doubt (probably the best movie on sea warfare). But how exactly is it underrated... it has a 3.9 rating on Letterboxd. Might have underperformed at the box office, but definitely not underrated
What an incredible film.
Silent Hill
GREAT choice, yeah that movie is definitely underrated. I personally didn't like the whole witch trial spin that they put on it cause why? No need the story is already fucking solid and the mystery in the lore is perfect BUT I have to say that despite that criticism, that movie is so true to the games. The atmosphere and general uneasy vibe to downright horrific visuals are fucking great. That movie drips with that game's vibe and I love it.
The first half is wicked, as soon as they start explaining what’s going on it goes way down hill for me
Totally agree, they didn't need to do that. There's no need to explain shit just leave it up to our imaginations.
As a fan of the games, I’ll never forget the “Pyramid Head rips woman’s skin completely off” scene when I saw it in theaters.
Holy shit haha yeah, I think the image of the twisted barb wire man crawling on the floor and pawing the wall is seared in my head. MAN they nailed the visuals in that film.
Eh, i think they did a decent job but I also think there’s some stuff that I really feel like showed a lack of understanding of the franchise and lore. For example the “armless man”. It’s clearly meant to resemble or even be a version of the lying figure from silent hill 2. But A: that doesn’t make sense cause that monster is specifically a manifestation of James’ psyche, and B: it doesn’t actually look like it. The lying figure is a surreal abstract thing that simultaneously looks like a bdsm practitioner, and a corpse struggling in a straight jacket. The armless man is just a creepy dude covered in skin with a vomit butthole on his chest. In silent hill 2 the lying figures appearance and vomit attack and their apparent suffering was all in part meant to call back to James’ wife’s illness. What is it meant to be in the movie? It’s just meant to be scary and for people who played the games to go “oh it’s that thing from the game!” I had the same problem with pyramid head showing up. He is specifically a manifestation of James’ psyche as well. A representation of his desire for punishment. He’s not just a spooky guy that chases people. Why is he in the movie??? Why is he showing up to protect this random girl and do generic slasher movie shit? That is not at all the role he was created for. They included him cause he’s iconic and they did some dumb rewriting of the lore to make it work. It’s a decent movie but I feel like if you’re a fan of the original games it falls very flat in quite a few ways.
Yes
came here to type this. its crazy underrated.
This was my favourite video game adaptation until recent years, until The Last Of Us / Edgerunners / Fallout. Though they're all TV so I suppose Silent Hill still holds the best movie title. I loved that they kept Akira Yamaoka's music.
As far as video game adaptations is probably the best one.
Cloud Atlas, Take Me Home Tonight
cloud atlas was truly mindblowing for me for the first time. Had some deep thoughts afterwards
Cloud Atlas was awesome.
i think cloud atlas is becoming more appreciated as an ambitious product of it time
Swiss army man ! Very artistic movie with alot of meanings till the end... 9/10 for me .
First date with my now wife!
I loved it
I was so shocked to find out that people didn’t love Tenet like I did.
Yeah I thought this movie was great! Branagh is menacing. Washington holds his own. Pattinson’s supporting role is superb. Although it’s a bit complex and requires a rewatch, the storyline is engaging and fresh. Great flick
99% of the arguments I get into on Reddit are over this movie. It has a stranglehold on me
Maybe if I could acoustically understand anything in the movie, I’d love it, but as it stands, it’s meh
In the theater the sound was great in my experience. I threw on the 4K disc without bothering to fire up my sound bar and I had to turn it off and restart. If you've only seen it at home, I can see where you're coming from.
I saw it in the cinema and it was still completely inaudible
I thought maybe it's cause most people didn't see it in IMAX and waited until it was home (because it really went hard in nice theaters) A year or two later I watched it again at home and still thought it was great.
I literally saw it on my phone and still loved it, some of the best sequences in any Nolan film and the sound went hard even in the small speakers
I saw it at home. I'm not even a big Nolan guy, and I thought it was awesome.
Sometimes theres movie a little confusing but than you can look at all the YouTube essays explaining them and your enjoyment might rise a little and earn a rewatch. TENET is not one of those. Even once you understand it fully, still sucks
Spot on, and it always kills me that Tenet fans claim people that didn't like it just didn't understand it. No, we understood it just fine, it was just rubbish. I'm a massive Nolan fan, but watching Tenet felt like I'd ordered Inception from Wish
i'd add that it's actually not that complicated, it's just told in a really convoluted way to try to pass as sofisticated. There were some cool idea, but it ultimately it was a kinda simple story and the events were glued together with spit and adesive tape. Why do things happen in the opera? EHHHHH, the sator square thing says opera... Btw i always imagined Nolan as that kid that is obsessed with pop science. He reads a thing in focus junior and builds a movie around that. I hope he does not find out about bananas being radioactive or we'll soon see "The radioactive banana killer" in theaters.
I don’t care how far backwards they bend to try and explain it, there is simply no satisfying explanation for how the backwards-time-travelling bullets got to be in their targets in the first place. The bullets and holes appearing spontaneously a short time before being “unshot” just sounds like some bullshit they made up after they realized it didn’t really make any sense. Any premise that requires that much metaphysical nonsense to justify it just isn’t worth exploring, in my opinion.
The story sucks and it’s a meaningless movie
Too many people watch it once and then judge it negatively based on their own misunderstanding of it. I very much enjoyed it the first viewing in IMAX 70mm, but it took 4 total watches in the theater and reading the screenplay to fully “get it”.
Kick-Ass
I think people like/love Kick Ass, it’s the 2nd one you might have to defend.
I love both Kick-Ass movies
Yupppp
Oblivion And I just watched it last night with the isolated score. It is a whole new experience
Oblivion is awesome. I watch it a few times a year. Surprised it never got more love. I’ve learned some of the criticism comes from those who think it’s a semi-ripoff of Moon (and are offended by all the ‘borrowed’ themes), but that doesn’t bother me.
Out of the furnace,Tasm2
Y’know, I’m something of an Amazing Spider-Man 2 defender myself.
Me too, best vfx, best soundtrack, funny, fun action sequences and the best romance in all the spiderman movies.
Actual consequences too, I could not believe the Gwen Stacey death, it was actually a pretty brutal way to go. Andrew Garfield was a great Spider-Man imo the best, I'm not the biggest fan of Tom Holland and Tobey was a little old for the part although he's supposed to be.
There's something about Out of the Furnace that just falls flat for me. I don't know what it is. All the acting is superb, it's a good dramatic story, and you have Woody Harrelson as a deranged redneck who's unnerving every moment he's on screen. Despite all of that, something about it doesn't stick with me. It's one of those that I wish I liked more.
Great build up, just never hit the next gear.
I wish Tsm2 was the start of garfield run as spiderman
Out of the furnace was the first movie I recall seeing in theaters and leaving absolutely content. I wasn't blown away but I was in no way disappointed. I will stand by my claim that it is a perfect 8/10 movie.
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
Nocturnal Animals is a 10/10 but many people don‘t see the genius at play
Absolutely love this movie. I’ve seen it multiple times and the car scene still gives me chills
Sounds like a pretentious take
I loved it the first time. But after couple of rewatches, it lost all the magic and became extremely plain.
Watchmen
100% never got the criticism of it. I think it was a timing issue. If it came out after Endgame, when ppl started growing tired of superheroes it would have been a monster hit.
> 100% never got the criticism of it. Have you read the comic? I like the movie overall but there’s no denying it completely misses most of the points Alan Moore was trying to make.
Let Down by Radiohead
I don't really know if it's underrated anymore but Chronicle is one of my favorite movies of all time.
Showed it to my partner for the first time a bit ago. She couldn’t believe she had never heard of it! It came with the clutter of “found footage” movies so I think it got lost in the crowd. Also, it has Michael B Jordan in it (as I recall)
Life of Pi is not talked about enough. 🐅
This movie performed enormously well in India (not really a shocker but here me out). It made a shit load of money in India (for Indian standards), was a cultural phenomenon in the country, and played in theaters for over 8 months in a lot of cities. Massive fucking hit basically. It was only when I came to USA when I realized this movie wasn’t as big a cultural phenomenon around the globe. This movie is truly underrated in USA, not talked about as much as it should be.
I love this movie. It's not very popular in the Philippines where I'm from, although it did well in the box office, it wasn't really talked about or anything. It was more like a "wow, cool CGI movie" thing. The movie made a huge impact on me, despite being from a different culture I feel like Life of Pi impacts us all regardless of race or culture. It's a story of faith and resilience and hope and I wish people appreciated it more. RIP Irrfan Khan, you legend.
The Phantom of the Opera (1943)
Smile (2022) is one I rave about a lot that seemed to gather a lot of hate @ 2.8 rating on letterboxd It may have also been my personal experience with anxiety and phobias too, but it was a great example of like "my mind is not well, and nobody can understand". People don't take the protag seriously, don't sympathize with them, can't understand, etc. Maybe it just spoke to me in a way with that idk. It just is so effective at being fucking scary and grotesque, lot of the cheap jump scares, and some things taken from the best movies. People seem to throw it in with other like million bad horror such as Night Swim, The Purge, Imaginary, etc...and just think it's way better than people make it seem. It's not a 5 star to me but still a solid 4 I'm not sure how I feel about them making a sequel, the director would have moved onto something else, don't think it really needed one.
That title drop be bangin
i liked smile but it suffered from exactly knowing what was going to happen and the common horror trope thats been going around. Oh no Im doomed. Oh other people in the past were also doomed. I figured out what they did wrong. JK Im still doomed.
It also didn't help that the trailer gave away almost every major scare. I try to avoid trailers when I can but the one for Smile was EVERYWHERE so I couldn't avoid it
Babylon
Came here looking for this one and so happy others agree. Forget Barbie, this should’ve been the movie Margot Robbie won an Oscar for.
It's "Singin' in the Rain" on acid. But agreed, excellent film.
Jumper
The 2014 Godzilla, The Creator, The Killer, TDKR
2014 Godzilla just oozes atmosphere, I loved their take on it. They managed to make a semi grounded monster movie. But I totally get why Godzilla fans didnt like it.
They expected more kaiju action, plus they killed Cranston's character early 😅
Freddy got fingered, unironically
Proud.
Jennifer’s body
The Last Jedi is top 3 Star Wars
Its far from perfect but I'm always going to bat for this film. Its the only thing from the Disney era (except Andor) that has anything real to say.
Mayhem. If you thought The Belko Experiment didn't live up to your expectations or even if you thought it was good, Mayhem will blow your doors off. Steven Yeun and Samara Weaving kick so much ass https://preview.redd.it/1ajef1iefcxc1.jpeg?width=716&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=71485717693e11e780746c56361cd9b062400989
Zootopia
I've seen it 3 times and still a no from me dawg
What amused me is that you still watched it thrice despite not liking it.
I like Nolan. I'm not a fanboy, just like most of his films. Twice were on my own thinking I missed something the first time. The third time my kid asked me to watch it and he never asks to watch a movie so I watched it again
I would do that too if my daughter asks me to. You are a good parent. ☺️
That's what I keep reminding the 12 year old. Lol. Thanks
tenet defenders only defence is saying "you dont understand it"
Hellboy 1 and 2 till the end
With you on Hellboy 1.
Equilibrium 2002. Was sold as a budget Matrix, but really it's a spin on 1984. Sean Bean and Christian Bale with Sean Pertwee as the Villan.
Watched this during English class in hs after finishing 1984, loved it ever since
The Fountain by Darren Aronofsky, what a beautiful movie
Tenet is fucking amazing
Soul (2020)
So very good.
hubie halloween
David Fincher's The Killer
I genuinely don't get the hate for this film, it was really enjoyable.
I’m gonna get crucified for this but the art direction, voicework, and score in The Boss Baby absolutely redeem that film. I think it has a lot more heart than people give it credit for.
the lego movie oscar nom snub hurt the public perception of boss baby. did not deserve the hate
It still didn’t deserve the Oscar nomination. A Silent Voice was completely snubbed.
Oh 100%. A Silent Voice is a far superior film. And the awful trailers definitely didn’t do Boss Baby any favors. The prompt just asked which films I find underrated, and I think people have been a bit TOO harsh on Boss Baby, awards aside.
I really like Hal Hartley’s Simple Men (1992). But I’m the only one that I know who’s even seen it.
Oceans Twelve. It gets shit on so much but I absolutely love it.
Oh recent memory, definitely the creator. I will defend it till I die.
Death To Smoochy
Triangle of sadness, so good, funny, and a movie that makes you think too.
Definitely not Tenet
The Fountain
The Fountain (2006)
Death is the road to awe
This is my favourite movie of all time. Kudos.
The Invisible Man. I don’t know if underrated is the right word. It was revived well at the time, but I feel it deserves more conversation after it’s initial release. I think it’s brilliant.
Man of steel & First man.
I feel like I understand *Tenet*, and I generally like it, but I wouldn’t call it amazing. Ironically (for a Nolan film) it has a really weak ending, whereas typically he spends the entire film building up towards an incredible ending. So for me it was a disappointment. I still find it entertaining though. That said, to answer your question, the film I’ll choose to defend is *The Village*.
This will probably be unpopular, but some of Woody Allen’s lesser known and more recent films I actually really enjoyed. More so than some of his older really famous films. It’s getting harder to find his newer movies to stream now, at least in Australia. And even in cinemas, out here they only play in small little Arthouse type cinemas. But some examples I enjoyed are: ‘You will meet a tall dark stranger’, ‘Irrational man’, Magic in the moonlight’, ‘Whatever works’, ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’, and ‘Melinda and Melinda’.
Last Night in Soho. Top 5 movies of this decade for me
YES! It was my top film of 2021. Absolutely loved it.
Scorching Hot Take: X-Men Origins Wolverine is a classic, never understood the hate. Another movie that i think is quite underrated is Glass, i get not liking the ending but it was really good nonetheless.
My problem with Origins Wolverine is the final fight.
I watched Glass the other night, and man. I could totally go for a sequel with a non comic book cast of "superheros."
>Scorching Hot Take: X-Men Origins Wolverine is a classic, never understood the hate. I think it's OKAY for the first half and I enjoy it, but then it just descends into ridiculousness.
Understand Tenet? The movie equivalent of an escher drawing? Once you stop trying to understand Tenet it definitely becomes a better movie, also subtitles help.
Let Me In (the American remake of Let The Right One In)
Chappie with the weirdo’s from die antword. It is a great movie people either haven’t seen or don’t know about.
I hated Tenet so much.
had to scroll to the bottom to find the place to discuss disagreeing vehemently with OPs take
I couldn't wait for the movie to end. It wasn't too complicated or mind-blowing. Just boring. I rolled my eyes a lot too.
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Joe it’s top tier nic cage acting on conami code and not being too weird
Brother Bear
John Carter, Alien 3
Armageddon
Batman And Robin
On my fifth watch I figured out that Tenet backwards is teneT and I retroactively gave it an Oscar. To be specific, I gave it Dallas Buyer’s Club’s 2014 oscar for Makeup, but wrote Tenet Best Picture on it in Sharpie.
Ransom (1996) starring Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, Gary Sinese. Sneakers (1992) starring Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Dan Aykroyd, River Phoenix, Ben Kingsley, David Strathairn.
Lilo and Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch
Terminator: Salvation, Christian Bale was great, Anton Yelchin was great, action was awesome, no terminator movie will ever BE Judgement Day again, so stop comparing it, it's also the best terminator movie since 3, which is also not that bad
For me it is Filth (2013)
Cast A Deadly Spell
Teen beach, the greatest showmen, fear street
the meg, alien resurrection
'The Last Boy Scout' 'The Last American Virgin' (for the ending, if you know, you know) 'Night of the Demons'
Prometheus.
Payback 1999
A Scanner Darkly. Great story, great acting, and perfect use of a unique visual style.
RoboCop (2014)
They Cloned Tyrone
I haven't come across an under rated movie. If there's a movie I find really good or relatable I'll think about the movie and then I'll be logical for example the movie *she's out of my league* there is no Ryan Reynolds comedy there is no Brad Pitt there is no Margot Robbie. But it's a good movie but it shouldn't be ranked with wolf of wall street or anything like that because it's just not that good yk? Like it's good but not that good. Another example of this is "ten things I hate about you" that movie is absolutely hands down the best rom com out there but I also think it's matched with "the breakfast club" and "sixteen candles" even tho it's not the same but they all are classic rom coms. I don't personally think there's such thing as under rated I think they all are placed in the best possible rank for what the movie is. You all may not agree with me but if I say DC is better than marvel alot of people would speak up or if I say star trek is better than Star wars I'm 100% sure I'd get a down vote on this🤣. But hey this is my opinion and it's a penny for your thoughts anyways Imma go watch kingdom of heaven. If you want a list of romcoms ranked in what I think is best possible rank then just lmk
Tbh I see ppl defending this movie every fucking day on twitter. Even with the mediocre score its still overrated. Nolan fans have to just deal with the fact that the man is capable of missing. This film is a mess, sure is fun, but its not a great movie at all.
Not tenet
Recent but, Monkey Man
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. For me personally it is up there with the original trilogy for pure enjoyment. The series only really tanked on the 5th movie which WAS complete ass.
I couldn't agree more with the OP. Watching it again and again makes it even better!
No One Will Save You is the best sci fi movie of the decade so far. The only criticism I see from people is that there’s little to no dialogue which shouldn’t really be a criticism.
Speed Racer (2008) was insanely ahead of its time and is one of the best movies of the aughts and I will not be convinced otherwise.
Tenet is what I would call beautiful garbage, and I absolutely hated it. I wouldn't say it's underrated though, I think most people liked it.