What's Your Favorite Underappreciated Movie? 2141
Moses Lawn asks: "With the impending re-release of Spirited Away, I've been wondering about this. There are a lot of movies I love that no one else seems to know about. Some of them disappeared from theaters within a week, some came out years ago and seem to have been forgotten. Here are a few of my favorites: The Hot Rock, The Pope Must Diet (formerly 'The Pope Must Die'), They Might Be Giants, and The Big Hit. Maybe you like these, too. Maybe you think they stink up the joint. So what are your favorite forgotten movies?"
Mine? (Score:4, Informative)
The Boondock Saints
It rocks
As for underrated TV shows, my all-time favourite is Vengeance Unlimited, with Firefly being a close second. I heard a rumor that Firefly is coming out on DVD! woo!
Dark Star (Score:3, Informative)
Four guys on a small ship for 20 years in deep space looking for unstable planets with the ever complaining Pinback, the alien beachball and of course a deep philisophical argument with a bomb.
Re:The Ruling Class (Score:3, Informative)
-Peter
Underappreciated Movies: Oscar (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Hudson Hawk (Score:5, Informative)
Crispin
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Re:Easy (Score:3, Informative)
The plot for "Strange Brew" was a ripoff of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'!!! Really!
--jeff++
Re:The Boondock Saints (Score:3, Informative)
The Movie Which Invented the Indoor Car Chase (Score:3, Informative)
How 'bout the movie that invented the indoor car chase (yes... indoor car chase), and still reigns champion of Hollywood automotive carnage? (And these aren't shitty little imported cars, either, these are real American cars with man-sized 7.2L V8 engines doing over 120 miles per hour through the streets of Chicago.)
I cried the first time I saw it, but I love it.
"Well, thank you very much, pal. The day I get out of prison, my own brother picks me up in a police car."
"Shit!" "What?" "Rollers." "Rollers?" "Yeah." [interspersed flawlessly on the beat with Sam and Dave singing Soothe Me]
"They've probably got SCMODS... State, County, Municipal Offender Data System."
"You want out of this parking lot? Okay..."
"Baby clothes? This place has got *everything*!"
"I hate Illinois Nazis." [while stuck in a traffic jam caused by the Illinois Nazi Party.]
[at a country and western bar] "What kind of music do you normally have here?" "Oh, we've got both kinds... country AND western."
"It a hundred and six miles to Chicago. We've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses."
Never mind the cameos by Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Cab Calloway, James Brown... The movie is pure genius.
I've never met anyone under 24 who's seen it, until I forced them to. Every single one of them has loved it. I'd expect the same of most of the Slashdot crowd.
Aretha Franklin's character, waitress: "We got two honkies out there, dressed like Hassidic diamond merchants. They look like they from the CIA or something..."
Her Hubby, cook: "What do they want to eat?"
"The big one wants dry white toast."
"Elwood!"
"The little one wants four fried chickens and a Coke."
"Jake! Shit, the Blues Brothers!"
This is the movie that demanded an FAA UNairworthiness certificate [imdb.com] for a Ford Pinto station wagon.
The Blues Brothers, 1980. Buy, rent, borrow or download this movie.