Most underrated movies
Discussion
As a companion to the overrated movie thread I thought I would start one for the opposite.
A thread for hidden gems, films that seem to be overlooked.
Of course feel free to post what you like, but putting in something that everyone seems to know about and enjoy would be a waste of time.
I will get things started with my recommendation for.
The Rocketeer. In my mind a virtually flawless movie. Chock full of set ups and pay offs, great performances and a soaring score.
For me a 9.5/10 film that no one really talks about…
A thread for hidden gems, films that seem to be overlooked.
Of course feel free to post what you like, but putting in something that everyone seems to know about and enjoy would be a waste of time.
I will get things started with my recommendation for.
The Rocketeer. In my mind a virtually flawless movie. Chock full of set ups and pay offs, great performances and a soaring score.
For me a 9.5/10 film that no one really talks about…
Not sure about underrated, but one film I personally love and seems nobody else has really heard of it or knows much about is Until the End of the World.
First time I saw it, just blew me away. The whole trip of it, the cinematography, and where it eventually ends up.
I have the extremely long director's cut which is due for an airing in an up and coming gloomy Autumn or Winter day, as I haven't watched it in over a decade.
Underrated is hard to quantify really, but I think this qualifies.
First time I saw it, just blew me away. The whole trip of it, the cinematography, and where it eventually ends up.
I have the extremely long director's cut which is due for an airing in an up and coming gloomy Autumn or Winter day, as I haven't watched it in over a decade.
Underrated is hard to quantify really, but I think this qualifies.
Hidden Figures: I watched it for the first time a few years ago.
It was on TV, & one of those 'give it a go films'... No Apollo 13, but still a really good film.
The last woman died only a few years ago.
Another one I caught recently... a bit surreal, but engaging...
WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING.
It was on TV, & one of those 'give it a go films'... No Apollo 13, but still a really good film.
The last woman died only a few years ago.
Another one I caught recently... a bit surreal, but engaging...
WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING.
Edited by Milkyway on Monday 31st August 11:58
Milkyway said:
Hidden Figures: I watched it for the first time a few years ago.
It was on TV, & one of those 'give it a go films'... No Apollo 13, but still a really good film.
The last woman died only a few years ago.
Another one I caught recently... a bit surreal, but engaging...
WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING.
I like "Hidden Figures" but it is woefully historically inaccurate in places (a bit like "The Right Stuff" - which I also like and, in my view, is also underrated).It was on TV, & one of those 'give it a go films'... No Apollo 13, but still a really good film.
The last woman died only a few years ago.
Another one I caught recently... a bit surreal, but engaging...
WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING.
Edited by Milkyway on Monday 31st August 11:58
Lion with Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman is a great film based on a true story, about a young boy who is separated from him family in India and is adopted by Australian couple and then later on tries to find his family with no where to start apart from a few memories of his home.
I don't know if it's underrated but does need to be seen.
I don't know if it's underrated but does need to be seen.
Eric Mc said:
I like "Hidden Figures" but it is woefully historically inaccurate in places (a bit like "The Right Stuff" - which I also like and, in my view, is also underrated).
That's the problem with the 'Based on true events' type films.They have to mess about with them so much for drama / added effect.
TBH... a lot of them leave me cold.
(Please, for once... just tell the real story)
Edited by Milkyway on Monday 31st August 12:13
Milkyway said:
That's the problem with the 'Based on true events' type films.
They have to mess about with them so much for drama / added effect.
TBH... a lot of them leave me cold.
(Please, for once... just tell the real story)
They kind of ignored the existence of the NACA entirely. The black ladies had been hired by the NACA starting back in 1948. NACA (like many scientific and engineering reasearch orgnisations of that era) used female "computers" and had done so since they were set up in 1916/17. They were veterans and pretty much fully integrated into the organsiation by the time it was rebranded and expanded as NASA in 1958.They have to mess about with them so much for drama / added effect.
TBH... a lot of them leave me cold.
(Please, for once... just tell the real story)
Edited by Milkyway on Monday 31st August 12:13
The Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough also had a large female computer "pool". The job of these ladies was to check and correct the calculations made by the (mostly) male scientists and engineers.
The scene with the smashing of the toilet sign never actually happened in real life The discrimination regarding the facilities was true but when the director of the NACA, Robert Gilruth found out what was going on, he ordered it stoppped - and it was stopped.
Dr Gilruth is never mentioned in the film. The character played by Kevin Costner is KIND OF based on him but they don't use his real name.
The scene where Johnson rushes her calculations to MIssion Control on foot is total nonsense. Johnson was based at NASA HQ, which was (and still is) at Langley, Virginia, just outside Washington DC. For Project Mercury, Mission Control was based at Cape Canaveral so if Johnson had hand delivered her calculations directly to the control centre she would have had to run about 700 miles to get there
But taking all these Hollywood silly simplifications into account, I still think it's a worthwhile film and a story worth telling.
Edited by Eric Mc on Monday 31st August 13:02
grumbledoak said:
Dark City (1998) was a commercial failure. Quite dark thematically and slightly more complex than the public like.
Equilibrium (2002) was criticized as a copy of The Matrix but there is more to it than that.
Dark city is one a few people have recommended. I will try and find it somewhere. Equilibrium (2002) was criticized as a copy of The Matrix but there is more to it than that.
Equilibrium was criticized as a copy of the Matrix, but there was much less to it than that...
Milkyway said:
The Thirteenth Floor: If you like Matrix type films... you might enjoy this one.
(Not to be confused with Thirteen Ghosts).
I'm fairly sure i saw that when it was released on home video. I seem to remember people dressed as if they were in a detective story and something to do with lifts..(Not to be confused with Thirteen Ghosts).
robemcdonald said:
I'm fairly sure i saw that when it was released on home video. I seem to remember people dressed as if they were in a detective story and something to do with lifts..
Been a long time... but I think there is flour to floor action. 
(Sounds like The MATRIX stole it's thunder).
NB: SIMONE with Al Pachino is a good film too.
(But not his best role though).
Edited by Milkyway on Tuesday 1st September 15:05
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