# Underrated, Unsuccessful or otherwise Unknown films you love. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 6, 2004, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-unsuccessful-or-otherwise-unknown-films-you-love/248935 "2004-06-06T10:15:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-unsuccessful-or-otherwise-unknown-films-you-love/248935/141 "2004-07-13T03:26:27Z")
Joe Dirt and Dickie Roberts. Neither one was very successful, but i really enjoy them both. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-unsuccessful-or-otherwise-unknown-films-you-love/248935/142 "2004-07-13T03:38:28Z")
[Student Bodies](http://www.us.imdb.com/title/tt0083133/) is a hilarious film! Made in 1981 it was a spoof of slasher films like Halloween & Friday the 13[sup]th[/sup]. Predates ‘Scary Movie’ by almost two decades! Also, although Something About Mary claims to have been the first non X film to show, ahem, jiz, this film beat them to it (sort of) again by almost 20 years! And [Return of the Living Dead](http://www.us.imdb.com/title/tt0089907/), written & directed by the great Dan O’Bannon, is one of the funniest movies of all time! Don’t bother with any of the sequels though. ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-unsuccessful-or-otherwise-unknown-films-you-love/248935/143 "2004-07-13T23:13:59Z")
Can I put in a plug for, _And God Spoke_\*? (think this is the correct title) ---
**Author:** ![aegypt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/76d3ee/32.png) [@aegypt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aegypt)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-unsuccessful-or-otherwise-unknown-films-you-love/248935/144 "2004-07-13T23:29:35Z")
> [@Rabid Child](#): > > [The City of Lost Children](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0112682/combined): A 1995 French film by the makers of the 2001 hit **Amelie**. Beautiful sets and great casting. The basic plot is about a man who can’t dream, so he kidnaps children in an un-named futuristic French city in hopes to steal their dreams and make himself younger. Ron Perlman plays One, a circus strongman whose “little brother” is kidnapped. He teams up with Miette, a streetwise nine-year-old girl to try and track down his brother. The cast of characters is wacky as well: Siamese twins, bumbling clones, and a brain in a jar that can see, hear, and talk with mechanical aids. That’s a wonderful, wonderful film. I’ve been wishing, ever since I saw it, to watch it at a movie theater (not at home) again. It’s like Roald Dahl metts Jules Verne meets Charles Dickens and then they do some really strange drugs and decide to make a movie together. ---
**Author:** ![Anyanka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@Anyanka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anyanka)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-unsuccessful-or-otherwise-unknown-films-you-love/248935/145 "2004-07-14T00:20:38Z")
I loved \*\*Made in Heaven \*\* , **Quick Change** and \*\*Night on Earth \*\* which have already been mentioned. I’ll add **Eve’s Bayou** , **Heartbreakers** , **Sliding Doors** and **Lake Placid** ---
**Author:** ![START](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@START](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/START)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-unsuccessful-or-otherwise-unknown-films-you-love/248935/146 "2004-07-14T01:27:38Z")
I did a thread like this before anyway I’m going to mention two, one was “Megiddo” by TBN Films, great movie but not enough promotion and I think reviewers were biased because TBN a religous cable network funded the movie and the other was “Freddy Got Fingered” in order to _get_ that movie you have to \*get \* Tom Green and apparently a lot of people don’t _get_ Tom Green eventhough his show was popular on MTV. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-unsuccessful-or-otherwise-unknown-films-you-love/248935/147 "2004-07-14T13:37:29Z")
**84 Charing Cross Road** (1986): A very charming movie about a book-loving woman in New York City (Anne Bancroft) who writes to a bookstore in London that specializes in rare books. The owner of the store, Frank (Anthony Hopkins), gets the letter and sends her the book, but the two start writing more letters back and forth to each other. Their friendship spans about twenty years (late 1940s to late 1960s, I believe). She also develops friendships with the other employees in the shop, without Frank’s knowledge. It has a sort of downer ending. The two never get to meet each other. Bancroft’s character almost gets to fly out to London, but has to use the money on an emergency surgery for her teeth (the scene where Frank gets the letter saying she can’t come is great acting because he looks devestated but can’t show it in front of his employees). Frank dies in the late '60s, before they could meet. But it’s a great movie anyway. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-unsuccessful-or-otherwise-unknown-films-you-love/248935.md?page=7)