Underrated.
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Let It Be (Michael Lindsay-Hogg 1970)
Just saw the original Let It Be doc. When it first came out, it didnât get the best reviews, and reportedly looked terrible when briefly put out on home video, but I must say I thought this remastered version was great. Many call it a downer, but I donât get it. Maybe thatâs just echoes of the mood of 1970, when the movie was released immediately post-Beatles. (The Last Waltz, thatâs the rock doc that I find overly somber.)
If you donât want to weather the eight hours of Get Back, definitely worth a look. And maybe even if you do.
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Iâm at work so iâm still catching up with the start of this thread but i wanted to put down some movies i love that i feel are underappreciated (hopefully these havenât come up already):
Phase IV - Pretty weird artsy movie. I brought it up at the old place, people seemed interested in it. I hope to hear if anyone checked it out, need to rewatch this weirdness some day.
Really love the movie Ravenous. Slightly uneven and has some dated elements but i love it.
And i think a movie that is probably far from being underrated but i feel like it doesnât come up a lot is Gattaca.
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I hope youâve seen the movie Emma since Clueless is based on the book (Emma). I recommend doing a double feature, watch Clueless first, and then Emma. which made watching the latter more fun for me though i thought it was good on its own merits.
Did you watch this? I hope you did, itâs insane and bad but in the best of ways
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Speaking of Phase IV, see what you think of this.
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Amazing movie. I donât want to overhype it to those that havenât seen it. Itâs one of those that the less you know of it i think youâd get more out of the experience.
Great book but you have to be in the right frame of mind to read it. Itâs dark and has a pessimistic opinion on the nature of man, i would almost recommend watching the movie, then read the book. The movie i watched as a kid and it haunted me for years, read the book and loved it but itâs⌠rough.
Zardoz is⌠insane. From what i had read somewhere there was a copious amount of cocaine flowing during the making of this movie and it shows. I can tell that the director was trying to make it his opus, he had something important to say but in reality it comes across to me as a very vain, self-important project. Despite my criticism the movie takes huge swings that are fantastic to behold even if they donât fundamentally work.
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Demolition Man is a work of art. I wonât accept rebuttals 
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I also have a review of Zardoz somewhere up in this thread. It confused me, but I really liked it.
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Yeah i was quoting from your post/review 
i also like it, iâve seen it maybe 3 times? But it is quite a chaotic uneven movie, and somewhat pretentious but itâs the kind of movie that you could watch over some drinks with a group of friends and make fun of it or just take in the weirdness.
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As far as a movie that i felt was vastly overrated, and felt very disappointed by, was The Green Knight. Itâs directed and shot really well, has great music, editing, acting, all of it is good⌠but the script/story was very unapproachable. I have seen some challenging movies, where you have to put in a bit more work as a viewer but the experience seeing The Green Knight was frustrating because they try to stick very close to the poem that the movie is based on. As someone wholly divorced from the poem and ancient English literature I constantly felt like there was information was being withheld to me, after watching the movie I looked on Reddit and someone had fleshed out everything that I had missed and in hindsight the story made more sense but it just reinforced my feeling that the film was made to be unapproachable to a casual viewer. Instead of fleshing things out it would rather present you with less, the end result was a disjointed movie where things constantly happen and you have no idea why. And the more I thought about it after the fact, and the more I learned about the story the more frustrated I felt.
At the end of the day all I can say is that I hated it and would actively tell people not to bother with it. I also donât get it because universally i kept reading online how people loved it and gushed about it and i just wonder if i missed something. If youâve seen it Iâm curious to hear what your impressions were.
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Ah. Itâs been a while.
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iâll second this. Love that movie!
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As far as Iâm concerned Toecutter somehow survived that head-on with a semi and later returned with the new alias of Immortan Joe. I donât care if George Miller agrees with me or not.
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My daughter and I have been watching horror movies lately.
We watched Suspira - both the OG and a recent remake; we watched The Witch, which I enjoyed SO MUCH because I took a course in Salem Witchcraft and it was a fantastic way to step into their vision of the world.
We watched the Japanese original version of The Ring.
None of these were all that scary.
We wanted a movie that would scare the pants off us.
So, we watched The Exorcist.
And, maybe itâs just been too spoilered and too riffed on, but it was NOT scary in the least. I was so disappointed. The blood and vomit looked so fake, the story didnât make a whole lot of sense, and it wasnât very creepy.
Maybe you need to watch horror in a movie theater with other scared people?
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I want to recommend a Sean Connery movie that doesnât come up much, if at all. Itâs called Outland (1981), tone-wise itâs a mix of Sci-fi + a western sheriff trying and barely keeping the peace + a noir story, akin to a detective trying to untangle a conspiracy. It may not blow your socks off, but i had zero expectations when i saw it and by the end of it i was really on board. Really enjoyed how grounded and unpretentious it was.
The story is of a Federal Marshall (Connery) stationed in a mining colony on the Jupiter moon Io. Heâs trying to untangle a criminal web thatâs threatening to overtake the colony. Iâve youâve seen it iâd like to hear your thoughts on it
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Personally, I found the original Ring scary! Suspira is less scary and much more atmospheric (which ever version)⌠for myself, two of the scariest movies I saw in recent years were the Innkeepers and I am the Pretty Thing that lives in the house:
I love horror films, even ones I donât find scary⌠But lots of horror films rely on gore, but both of these I found more unsettling than the ones you mentioned⌠I also found The Haunting of Hill House (on netflix) to be pretty creepy and unsettling⌠Itâs a great series if youâve not watched that yet.
I wonder if most of us are so familiar with horror tropes at this point that itâs hard to actually be scared of such filmsâŚ
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Perhaps a different approach?
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Recently got into Petzold
Iâm almost afraid to learn the truth about lectures at the SenSBW. Or about Heinrich Heine.
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Oh, now thatâs a feel-good romp if ever there was one!
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I agree! I also liked the fact that it wasnât focused on the science and technology side of the story - theyâre mining Io, with everything that implies (space travel being the least of it), but itâs a story about the people. Not much character development beyond Conneryâs character and the doctor (Frances Sternhagen), but that sort of feeds the sense of the miners as just interchangable components.
Another Connery film I really like is Medicine Man, which also stars Lorraine Bracco.
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