The Most Underrated film of all Time?

[The Wanderer]

Ok I'll post 1, you may like to post a list or whatever

Ok here goes

Heaven's Gate - Micheal Cimino - 1980

It's not a perfect film perhaps, that there are images as timeless as any ever filmed, I think the set for Casper, Wyoming is the Western Set I've ever seen and it's animated in a way that doesn't seem set up like in most films.

Ok the Harvard Graduation is a phenomenal sequence, everything composed in perfect symmetry, shot through with Romanticism and faded memories of the past

Vilmos Zsigmond's (Legend) Cinematography is Immaculate, the Interiors, textures of Cotton, Leather, Wood, Golden Light, Dust, Grain etc is captured like few other films

[The Ace]

My nomination would be 'Dark Star,' if they got rid of that lousy counry and western sound track.

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by The Ace

My nomination would be 'Dark Star,' if they got rid of that lousy counry and western sound track.

Ah, Ace, that's one of the things that makes the film... it's absolutely in line with the provincial nonsense of the ship's crew.

"Benson, Arizona, blew warm wind through your hair / My body flies the galaxy, my heart longs to be there. / Benson, Arizona, the same stars in the sky / But they seemed so much kinder when we watched them, you and I."

[Allegra]

I can't remember which film I've seen was underrated, but I've seen lots of overrated ones.

[HardScienceFan]

SF/F/Horror movie,or otherwise?

[The Wanderer]

Originally Posted by HardScienceFan

SF/F/Horror movie,or otherwise?

I meant any kind of movie, but S/F/Horror is you want

[The Wanderer]

Originally Posted by Allegra

I can't remember which film I've seen was underrated, but I've seen lots of overrated ones.

Sounds like you've seen all of Sam Mendes Movies

[HardScienceFan]

Originally Posted by The Wanderer

Sounds like you've seen all of Sam Mendes Movies

Hi Wanderer
Later on Flemish television is showing Lynch' s 'Lost Highway'
Your recommendation
Slightly off thread,but,
value Ur opinion
Is that one underrated,BTW?
OK underrated,here goes:
Simple Plan (Raimi)
Dark city
Adaptation
EUROPEAN MOVIES:
anything by tomTykwer(e;g;.Lola rennt) is probably underrated in America,at least,seeing as that his work needs English subtitles
La Haine ("HATE")is mentioned somewhere,Vincent Cassel is in that one),brilliant,also needs subtitles
Le Pact des Loups,ditto
Last one is visually brilliant,archetypically French(and not in the TRuffaut way!),contains brilliant fight scenes,and comes with my heavy recommendaton,if that counts for something.It's a grabbag,but darnit ,it WORKS!!!!

[williamjm]

Originally Posted by HardScienceFan

Le Pact des Loups,ditto
Last one is visually brilliant,archetypically French(and not in the TRuffaut way!),contains brilliant fight scenes,and comes with my heavy recommendaton,if that counts for something.It's a grabbag,but darnit ,it WORKS!!!!

Is that "Brotherhood of the Wolf"? It's certainly the best French historical epic/martial arts/action/horror/monster movie I've seen

Seriously, it is a very enjoyable film.

[HardScienceFan]

Originally Posted by williamjm

Is that "Brotherhood of the Wolf"? It's certainly the best French historical epic/martial arts/action/horror/monster movie I've seen

Yes,my friend,it is.
Yes,the French can make enjoyable movies,perhaps even better than Hollywood,but hey,that's just my taste.Now will you believe me when I say that some of the better movies will be the ones U see with subtitles?

[tangaloomababe]

I went to see Brotherhood of the Wolf at the cinema when it was released, I remember having to walk past a couple of dark alleyways in the dark, very aphrensively. An excellent film, beautifully filmed but very scarey. I agree with "Hard Science Fan" Its one of those movies that you have to watch with subtitles.
Another very good film, again french and beautifully filmed is A Very Long Engagement.

[The Wanderer]

Originally Posted by HardScienceFan

Yes,my friend,it is.
Yes,the French can make enjoyable movies,perhaps even better than Hollywood,but hey,that's just my taste.Now will you believe me when I say that some of the better movies will be the ones U see with subtitles?

The French have some of the Grestest Directors in the history of cinema


Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Louis Malle, Robert Bresson, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean Renoir, Jean Cocteau ,Jacques Rivette, Rene Clair, Henri-Georges Clouzot , Marcel Carné, Éric Rohmer, Marcel Ophüls, Georges Méliès and
The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicholas: the original founders of film

and that's before you get to modern film-makers Luc Besson, Jean Jacqcues Beneix, Jean-Pierre Jeanau, Patrice Leconte, Bertrand Blier etc

I almost forgot alot of the greatest filmmakers of other countries have made some of greatest films in France, perhaps because of their culture for it - The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Dreyer (Denmark) 1928, Luis Bunuel made a few films there too, Max Ophuls

Only America can Claim a better set of filmmakers and in my own opinion I think the French have had more diverse quality

[The Wanderer]

Hi Wanderer
Later on Flemish television is showing Lynch' s 'Lost Highway'
Your recommendation
Slightly off thread,but,
value Ur opinion
Is that one underrated,BTW?

I saw this in London in September 1997, haven't seen it since, though I still remember parts of it like Vivid dreams, as far as nightmares and dreamscapes go I prefer it 'Mullholland Drive' and 'Wild at Heart', though I think it's inferior to 'Blue Velvet' and 'The Elephant Man'

I think it should be talked about more, which is part of my definition of Underrated, yes

[pyan]

I was going to suggest Waterworld (1995) but wonder if I mean underestimated rather than underrated?

[williamjm]

Originally Posted by HardScienceFan

Yes,my friend,it is.
Yes,the French can make enjoyable movies,perhaps even better than Hollywood,but hey,that's just my taste.Now will you believe me when I say that some of the better movies will be the ones U see with subtitles?

I can certainly believe that - films like "The City of Lost Children" or "Pan's Labyrinth" are much better than the vast majority of SF/F films made in English.