OHNOTHEYDIDNT has a two lists: 100 Most Underrated movies and 100 Worst Reviewed Films.
My take (on the ones I've seen) follows:
I take exception with the ones in italics.
Emphatic agreement in bold
Underrated
1. Miller's Crossing
Brilliant film. Pitch perfect.
2. The Thin Red Line
Contemplative and moving. Not your typical war movie. Borders on the existential nature of warfare.
4. Road To Perdition
The best non-superhero adaptation of a comic book to date.
5. Casino
9. Fresh
A little known film but very well done. Inner city noir thriller.
10. Bringing Out The Dead
15. Ronin
18. In The Company Of Men
20. Kundun
Visually stunning.
24. True Romance
25. Requiem For A Dream
Overdone. Not a bad film but veers off course and violate suspension of disbelief.
26. Strange Days
28. Any Given Sunday
So many naked men in this movie it makes Top Gun look straight.
29. Leaving Las Vegas
30. Eyes Wide Shut
31. Men Of Honor
Excellent film about one man fighting the odds and winning big.
32. A Soldier's Story
33. The Insider
34. Empire Of The Sun
35. Carlito's Way
36. Chasing Amy
37. Heat
39. A Bronx Tale
41. Clockers
42. Donnie Brasco
46. American Psycho
Couldn't watch more than a few minutes of this dreck. Read the book and am forever mentally scarred for doing so. Making this into a movie was a bad, bad idea.
49. Cop Land
50. Enemy Of The State
Noisy summer movie. Jump cuts come so fast and furious should include a warning for epileptics
57. The Color Purple
60. Ninth Gate
61. Rushmore
62. Menace II Society
64. Vanilla Sky
66. Independence Day
Should have just made the trailer and left it at that.
68. Dead Again
Excellent neo-noir murder mystery with a twist.
70. Darkman
Couldn't decide whether it wanted to be a comedy or an action movie. Aimed for both and hit neither.
72. The Game
76. Very Bad Things
Wanted to be a dark movie and wimped out in the third act and tried for dark comedy which fails miserably.
82. Pitch Black
84. Crash
Underrated!? Overpraised methinks.
85. Boomerang
Eddie Murphy as Eddie Murphy. Well directed but ultimately missing something.
86. Bulworth
Really? Beatty is flat and unengaging. The
88. Amistad
91. Before Sunrise
92. Jacob's Ladder
93. Hook
95. Chaplin
Worst reviewed
88 - Elektra
Fans of the comic wept.
87 - White Noise
Good premise, started out OK and by the middle you think you're watching a different movie.
86 - Darkness Falls
Meh. Not that bad. Not great either.
85 - Gods and Generals
I rather enjoyed it. More about the causes of the war and why it was fought than how. Stephen Lang at his finest.
47 - The Adventures of Pluto Nash
I didn't make it through the opening scene and I'm a Jay Mohr fan.
30 - Darkness
Again, this one wasn't that bad. Good job setting the mood. A little slow but overall better than average for horror movies.
14 - Battlefield Earth
Hands down one of the best worst movies ever. Watching this train wreck is just amazing. The preposterousness of the story is beyond your wildest imagination.
12 - Godsend
I love DeNiro but this was not a good movie. Great acting all around but they're swimming in air. There's nothing to move the story.
My take (on the ones I've seen) follows:
I take exception with the ones in italics.
Emphatic agreement in bold
Underrated
1. Miller's Crossing
Brilliant film. Pitch perfect.
2. The Thin Red Line
Contemplative and moving. Not your typical war movie. Borders on the existential nature of warfare.
4. Road To Perdition
The best non-superhero adaptation of a comic book to date.
5. Casino
9. Fresh
A little known film but very well done. Inner city noir thriller.
10. Bringing Out The Dead
15. Ronin
18. In The Company Of Men
20. Kundun
Visually stunning.
24. True Romance
25. Requiem For A Dream
Overdone. Not a bad film but veers off course and violate suspension of disbelief.
26. Strange Days
28. Any Given Sunday
So many naked men in this movie it makes Top Gun look straight.
29. Leaving Las Vegas
30. Eyes Wide Shut
31. Men Of Honor
Excellent film about one man fighting the odds and winning big.
32. A Soldier's Story
33. The Insider
34. Empire Of The Sun
35. Carlito's Way
36. Chasing Amy
37. Heat
39. A Bronx Tale
41. Clockers
42. Donnie Brasco
46. American Psycho
Couldn't watch more than a few minutes of this dreck. Read the book and am forever mentally scarred for doing so. Making this into a movie was a bad, bad idea.
49. Cop Land
50. Enemy Of The State
Noisy summer movie. Jump cuts come so fast and furious should include a warning for epileptics
57. The Color Purple
60. Ninth Gate
61. Rushmore
62. Menace II Society
64. Vanilla Sky
66. Independence Day
Should have just made the trailer and left it at that.
68. Dead Again
Excellent neo-noir murder mystery with a twist.
70. Darkman
Couldn't decide whether it wanted to be a comedy or an action movie. Aimed for both and hit neither.
72. The Game
76. Very Bad Things
Wanted to be a dark movie and wimped out in the third act and tried for dark comedy which fails miserably.
82. Pitch Black
84. Crash
Underrated!? Overpraised methinks.
85. Boomerang
Eddie Murphy as Eddie Murphy. Well directed but ultimately missing something.
86. Bulworth
Really? Beatty is flat and unengaging. The
88. Amistad
91. Before Sunrise
92. Jacob's Ladder
93. Hook
95. Chaplin
Worst reviewed
88 - Elektra
Fans of the comic wept.
87 - White Noise
Good premise, started out OK and by the middle you think you're watching a different movie.
86 - Darkness Falls
Meh. Not that bad. Not great either.
85 - Gods and Generals
I rather enjoyed it. More about the causes of the war and why it was fought than how. Stephen Lang at his finest.
47 - The Adventures of Pluto Nash
I didn't make it through the opening scene and I'm a Jay Mohr fan.
30 - Darkness
Again, this one wasn't that bad. Good job setting the mood. A little slow but overall better than average for horror movies.
14 - Battlefield Earth
Hands down one of the best worst movies ever. Watching this train wreck is just amazing. The preposterousness of the story is beyond your wildest imagination.
12 - Godsend
I love DeNiro but this was not a good movie. Great acting all around but they're swimming in air. There's nothing to move the story.
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