# Underrated Movie Recommendation Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 4, 2013, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-movie-recommendation-thread/646056 "2013-01-04T14:24:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-movie-recommendation-thread/646056/21 "2013-01-04T21:06:25Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Another good one is Super 8. > > [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1650062/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1650062/) > > From IMDB: > > It’s a great action movie. The person I saw it with said it was basically Goonies with a lot more action. I didn’t really get the Goonies feel but it does focus mostly on this group of kids and it follows them through the movie. The train wreck in the beginning hooked me on it. It felt like the first episode of Lost and the plane crash. It was really cool. Hmm… Super 8 was a big summer blockbuster, i don’t think it was underrated at all. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-movie-recommendation-thread/646056/22 "2013-01-04T21:10:16Z")
**Tucker and Dale vs _Evil_** > **[Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010) ⭐ 7.5 | Comedy, Horror](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1465522/)** > > 1h 29m | R [QUOTE=IMDB] Tucker & Dale are on vacation at their dilapidated mountain cabin when they are attacked by a group of preppy college kids. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-movie-recommendation-thread/646056/23 "2013-01-04T21:23:39Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > I’ll vote for **Quick Change** with Bill Murray, Geena Davis and Randy Quaid. Oh yeah, it’s so underrated/under-recognized I’d even forgot it’s one of my all-time favorites! ---
**Author:** ![Roadfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@Roadfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadfood)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-movie-recommendation-thread/646056/24 "2013-01-04T21:29:35Z")
You all will probably tell me that this one isn’t “under the radar”, but I had never heard of it until I stumbled on it a few years ago: “[Paycheck](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338337/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)”, starring Ben Affleck. Really cool movie with lots of twists and a very satisfying ending. ---
**Author:** ![Eugene\_of\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@Eugene\_of\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eugene_of_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-movie-recommendation-thread/646056/25 "2013-01-04T21:47:57Z")
Another vote for **Tucker and Dale**. Being from Georgia I could relate to the premise. Pretty cute and worth a look. Also, stars Katrina Bowden. Can’t think of a lot but one I do recall recently is **The Woman in Black** with Daniel Radcliffe/Harry Potter. Actually pretty good ole spook flick. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-movie-recommendation-thread/646056/26 "2013-01-04T21:58:30Z")
Not long ago I saw Spirits of the Dead (1968) on TCM! Haven’t seen that in, well, decades…does this one count as underrated? Because nobody has ever seen it besides me, AFAIK! Bridgette Bardot, Jane Fonda, Terrrence Stamp - when I mention it I get “?” ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-movie-recommendation-thread/646056/27 "2013-01-04T22:11:28Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Hmm… Super 8 was a big summer blockbuster, i don’t think it was underrated at all. It was? Damn, where have I been. I never heard of it until a little bit ago when at a friends house and we watched it on Netflix. > [@Roadfood](#): > > You all will probably tell me that this one isn’t “under the radar”, but I had never heard of it until I stumbled on it a few years ago: “[Paycheck](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338337/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)”, starring Ben Affleck. Really cool movie with lots of twists and a very satisfying ending. I’ll second this too. I’m not sure how big it was at the time because the first time I saw it I rented it from Blockbuster. I thought it was smart as well as fun. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-movie-recommendation-thread/646056/28 "2013-01-04T22:23:12Z")
It’s been mentioned here before, but it’s worth repeating – [Lars and the Real Girl](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0805564/), an unexpectedly sweet and funny movie about a shy man whose girlfriend is an inflatable. I suspect some folks might pass on it, thinking it’s pervy. It’s not. Also, I vote for not commenting on whether a recommended film is “underrated”. There’s nothing wrong with a thread about good movies that may have slipped under some people’s radar. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-movie-recommendation-thread/646056/29 "2013-01-04T22:36:40Z")
> [@Moonchild](#): > > [Out of Sight](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1083436-1083436-out_of_sight/), directed by Steven Soderbergh. I loved that movie. Clooney was great, Don Cheadle was scary as hell, and Steve Zahn was wonderful as the hapless Glenn. I love the scene where Jennifer Lopez casually busts the arm of the guy who wants to “tussle” with her (If I’m remembering the scene right). > [@chinchalinchin](#): > > **Primer**!!! > > It’s the best time travel movie out there and it looks like the creators literally shot the movie in their basement. I’d be surprised if the movie cost over twenty thousand dollars. Wiki says it was produced for the princely sum of $7,000. I think I liked that movie, but it went way the hell over my head. I don’t know if I have anything much to add to the thread. My movie tastes are boringly mainstream (when I have the time to watch movies these days). So, uh… how about _ **Dinner Rush** _? Not underrated, as it ranks pretty high on Rotten Tomatoes. But maybe under-seen. I don’t recall it getting much attention back in 2000, and Wiki says Leonard Maltin included it in his book _151 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen_. It’s a good movie that takes place almost entirely inside a restaurant. Danny Aiello and John Corbett are both great, but then they always are. Kitchen chaos, snobbish customers, powerful critics, bookmakers, hit men, and a guy who pulls a muscle in his leg trying to have stand-up-sex with his girfriend. Good movie. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-movie-recommendation-thread/646056/30 "2013-01-05T00:52:50Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > It was? Damn, where have I been. I never heard of it until a little bit ago when at a friends house and we watched it on Netflix. > > I’ll second this too. I’m not sure how big it was at the time because the first time I saw it I rented it from Blockbuster. I thought it was smart as well as fun. I liked **Paycheck** , too. After **A Scanner Darkly** , it’s probably the most faithful adaptation of a Philip K. Dick story out there (read his original short story), although inevitably padded. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-movie-recommendation-thread/646056/31 "2013-01-05T01:13:00Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > It was? Damn, where have I been. I never heard of it until a little bit ago when at a friends house and we watched it on Netflix. Well, it was directed by JJ Abrams and produced by Steven Spielberg, hard to fly under the radar with those names attached :). ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-movie-recommendation-thread/646056/32 "2013-01-05T01:14:50Z")
> [@chargerrich](#): > > and is also the film debut of the lovely [Melissa George](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0313534/). I lurve Melissa George, so I’ll name another movie with her–one I learned about in another thread here at SDMB: _ **Triangle** _. Melissa is the lead, and its a kind of suspense/thriller/psychological/horror movie. It’s very cool–and I would recommend not reading any spoilers about it before watching. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-movie-recommendation-thread/646056/33 "2013-01-05T01:35:10Z")
**Millions** Directed by Danny Boyle after **28 Days Later** and before **Sunshine**. Charming story about two young brothers who find a large bag of money from a robbery. I didn’t know about it until at least a couple of years after it came out. I get the impression that not a lot of people saw it and apparently it didn’t have a wide release. I bought a copy of it for $1.50 when the local Blockbuster went out of business. > **[Millions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millions)** > > A million is 1,000,000. > Millions or Million may refer to: ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-movie-recommendation-thread/646056/34 "2013-01-05T02:07:52Z")
> [@Moonchild](#): > > [Out of Sight](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1083436-1083436-out_of_sight/), directed by Steven Soderbergh. > > Just a smart, fun crime drama and a rare great romantic comedy. Deserved a Best Picture nomination over Amistad, IMHO. Great Chemistry between Clooney and Jennifer Lopez. And some great stunt casting. And playing on Netflix right now! And it inspired a really good TV series, _Karen Sisco_. Which unfortunately only lasted a single season and has never been legally released on dvd. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-movie-recommendation-thread/646056/35 "2013-01-05T02:15:18Z")
_[7 Faces of Doctor Lao](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057812/)_ ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-movie-recommendation-thread/646056/36 "2013-01-05T02:21:53Z")
Finally got home to have a look at my netflix history. I’m going to leave out classics that are probably ultimately well known (_ **Bringing Up Baby** _) but somewhat lost due to their age. On the other hand, cult classics like _ **Delicatessen** _ should get a nod. The first of the Jeunet/Caro films, it isn’t as visually stunning as say, _ **City of Lost Children** _, but the plot actually hangs together. It has that brilliant mix of darkness and whimsy that’s these guys’ calling card. (Later, when they split up, Jeunet continued to really bring the whimsy with _ **Amelie** _ and _ **Micmacs** _, but the darkness got dialed back significantly.) _ **The Foot Fist Way** _: Hilarious indie comedy about a rather stereotypical martial-arts instructor. _ **The Frisco Kid** _: Western comedy features Gene Wilder as a young rabbi alongside Harrison Ford. Need I say more? Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford, in case you missed it the first time. 😃 _ **In the Mouth of Madness** _: One of the best Lovecraft-inspired films ever. Not tied directly to any story, but very much in the Lovecraft spirit. Best of all, it mostly doesn’t try to show you the eldritch horrors–it leaves that up to you, just like HPL did. _ **Quills** _: Geoffrey Rush as a heroic(!) Marquis de Sade. _ **Stardust** _: I think this one sort of slipped under the radar. An excellent fun fantasy–a friend sold it to me as being “sorta like _ **The Princess Bride** _”, and it is. Not exactly, but it rhymes, if you know what I mean. Anyway… I think that’s enough. ---
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**Kung Fu Hustle** - hilarious martial arts movie that’s like Looney Toons meets Kung Fu. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-movie-recommendation-thread/646056/38 "2013-01-05T03:11:13Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > **Millions** > Directed by Danny Boyle after **28 Days Later** and before **Sunshine**. Charming story about two young brothers who find a large bag of money from a robbery. I didn’t know about it until at least a couple of years after it came out. I get the impression that not a lot of people saw it and apparently it didn’t have a wide release. I bought a copy of it for $1.50 when the local Blockbuster went out of business. > [Millions - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millions) I really liked this movie. And as for my own recommendations, I liked [The Prophecy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prophecy), about a war between angels; basically eschatology (with Christopher Walken in a really fun role). Kate Beckinsale starred in a 1995 film version of [Cold Comfort Farm](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Comfort_Farm_%28film%29) that I enjoyed and she was also in a small caper comedy called [Shooting Fish](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_Fish) that was fun. I really liked [Across the Universe](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Across_the_Universe_%28film%29), a musical film set to Beatles songs by the director of the stage version of the Lion King. And [Flipped](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped_%28film%29) was a small film by Rob Reiner about a romance between two teenagers. Finally, [I.Q.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.Q._%28film%29) was a romantic comedy starring Meg Ryan, Tim Robbins and Walter Matthau. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-movie-recommendation-thread/646056/39 "2013-01-05T03:27:03Z")
_As It Is in Heaven_ – a 2005 Oscar nominee for best foreign film, a very low key story of a famous music conductor (played by Michael Nyquist of the _Dragon Tattoo_ trilogy) retiring for health reasons and returning to his small home town. Available on Netflix Streaming. Spring Forward – another small film where almost nothing happens but intelligent conversation between stars Ned Beatty and Liev Schreiber. Also available on Netflix Streaming. _Let’s Kill Uncle_ – a young (12 years old) heir realizes his uncle is trying to kill him for his fortune, and decides to kill uncle first. _Passport to Pimlico_ – a small London neighborhood secedes from England. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-movie-recommendation-thread/646056/40 "2013-01-05T03:41:42Z")
I can heartily second The Frisco Kid and Quick Change. My nominations would be: Gattaca Frailty Mystery Men [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-movie-recommendation-thread/646056.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-movie-recommendation-thread/646056.md?page=3)