Movies You feel don't get respect.

Easy Mac · 02-23-2003, 10:38 PM

I was flipping channels this evening, and I came across The Great White Hope, a boxing comedy with Samuel Jackson, Damon Wayons, Jeff Goldblum and Jamie Foxx. Everytime this movie comes on, I sit and watch it till the end, I've probably seen it like 45 times. No other movie makes me do this. It's just so funny and stupid its great.

So what movie do you feel gets no respect that you watch no matter what.

P.S. The same holds true for Die Hard 1 & 3.

Lathum · 02-23-2003, 10:45 PM

Cocktail

AgPete · 02-23-2003, 10:49 PM

Brewster's Millions

It's no Lawrence of Arabia, but I always sit down and watch it when it's on TV.

Neuqua · 02-23-2003, 10:51 PM

Am I the only one in America who laughed his butt off watching The Guru? Uh, am I the only one in America who actually went to the theatre to see The Guru?

Hilarious.

Neuqua

Vince · 02-23-2003, 10:52 PM

The Neverending Story

Great movie

oykib · 02-23-2003, 10:53 PM

'The Great White Hype'?...

To each his own...

I agree with 'Cocktail', though. It has one the greatest movie quotes of all time. "Talking is overrated as a means of communication."

But I have to go with 'The Sandlot'.

Fidatelo · 02-23-2003, 10:53 PM

Dude Where's my Car. I absolutely love that movie, but 9 out of 10 people seem to think it's terrible.

JeeberD · 02-23-2003, 11:01 PM

Duuude!!!!

Sweeeet!!!!!

Easy Mac · 02-23-2003, 11:02 PM

Dude Where's My Car is amazing... I watched that today.

Hawaii Warrior · 02-23-2003, 11:28 PM

A Walk To Remember

Poli · 02-23-2003, 11:33 PM

The only movie I will stop and watch over and over is Rudy.

Now I don't have that problem since I got the DVD for Christmas.

mrushh · 02-23-2003, 11:36 PM

I love The Princess Bride

stkelly52 · 02-23-2003, 11:59 PM

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Originally posted by mrushh
I love The Princess Bride

I agree, this is one of the best movies that I have ever seen. However, I don't think that it fits the catagory. This movie is loved and memorized by millions.

My movie that I love that didn't get much respect was Anna and the King (not the King and I). It is a great example of coss cultural relationships

korme · 02-24-2003, 12:03 AM

Joe Dirt. A comedy classic that I feel not enough people realize.

Ryche · 02-24-2003, 12:15 AM

Leap of Faith and Other People's Money. Great comedy performances by Steve Martin and Danny DeVito that seemed to have slipped under the radar.

INDalltheway · 02-24-2003, 12:33 AM

We just finished watching Anna and the King in my World Civilization class. I thought it was amazing how the King had 50+ kids!

Chief Rum · 02-24-2003, 12:35 AM

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Originally posted by INDalltheway
We just finished watching Anna and the King in my World Civilization class. I thought it was amazing how the King had 50+ kids!

You no doubt have never heard of Shawn Kemp then.

Chief Rum

Lathum · 02-24-2003, 12:36 AM

Summer Catch is entertaining as well as Beavis and Butthead do America

Chief Rum · 02-24-2003, 12:48 AM

dola,

There are a LOT of choices for me here, but it's hard to say what's truly underappreciated.

One that leaps to mind for me is Diggstown, starring James Woods, Lou Gossett Jr., and a yet unknown (and very, very appealing) Heather Graham. It's one of those movies that will have you laughing throughout, and then the ending will make you want to stand up and give applause.

I'll second the Miracle Mile nod. Not too many people seem to even know that one exists. But I was locked into place by that one.

Some others off the top of my head...

XMen, which was on Fox tonight. Yeah a lot of people saw it, but I think it's really undervalued as a blockbuster that actually employs actors instead of physical specimens. I'm not a comic book fan at all, and still have never read an XMen comic, but I am definitely seeing X2 on the first night.

Unbreakable may be Shyamalan's best. Everyone talks about Sixth Sense and Signs, but I think the movie he made between the two is very underrated.

Shoot To Kill is a fun killer hunt through the backwoods starring Sidney Poitier and Tom Berenger (before he became a B-movie king). It never got a lot of respect, but I always thought that was a thrilling movie, and at times very funny, too, for its fish out of water moments.

Shattered was another one with Tom Berenger among others. It's a very well done whodunit which practically no one seems to remember. And, no, I'm not a big Berenger fan, he just happens to be in the last two I mentioned.

Dances With Wolves got a lot of props when it came out and in the Oscars, but, IMO, too many people nowadays dismiss it because it stars Kevin Costner, and really he's the only person of note that you really focus on throughout the movie. So anti-Costner fans can't stand it, but I still think it's one of the most beautiful, epic and eye-opening movies made in the past twenty years.

There are lots of others, of course, but I'll stop here before I go on all night.

Chief Rum

bbor · 02-24-2003, 12:51 AM

Unbreakable was awesome

How bout these..

Primal fear.....Malice.....Mystery Alaska......Battlestar Galactica

DaleJrFan81599 · 02-24-2003, 12:52 AM

LOTR : The Two Towers, it was screwed over at the Oscars, or whatever award-awarding program it was. An insult to our freckly, journalism class, 24 hour a day logged on to the internet friends.

HornedFrog Purple · 02-24-2003, 01:00 AM

Let's see....

A.I.: I think this movie is great.

Baby Boy: It was not a movie directed towards the masses, but it hits home for me.

Platoon and Apocalypse Now Redux. A couple of my favorite war films. AN Redux is even better with the additional hour of added scenes, if you haven't seen it and liked the original, I recommend it.

Airplane: I don't think I ever laughed as hard during a movie.

Seven: I dunno, something about this movie is just cool.

Heat: Just a killer movie with a killer script.

Oops forgot one. The Color of Money. Love it.

Bad-example · 02-24-2003, 01:08 AM

Defending Your Life

Starship Troopers

Henry and June

Miami Blues

PilotMan · 02-24-2003, 01:14 AM

Color of Money came to mind when I saw the category, but it did win awards.

Unbreakable is a good movie.

Primal Fear is another I second.

The most right now that I can think of is John Q with Denzel Washington. The movie got so intense that I had to pause to catch my breath. Especially if you have kids, it is a absolute must see.

sabotai · 02-24-2003, 01:28 AM

Brain Donors

TLK · 02-24-2003, 01:40 AM

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Originally posted by oykib

I agree with 'Cocktail', though. It has one the greatest movie quotes of all time. "Talking is overrated as a means of communication."

Cocktail is filled with great quotes.....

"Days get shorter and shorter, nights longer and longer, before you know it, you life is just one long night with a few comatose daylight hours."

" I don't care how liberated this world becomes - a man will always be judged by the amount of alcohol he can consume - and a woman will be impressed, whether she likes it or not. "

"Coughlin's law: never tell tales about a woman no matter how far away she is, she'll always here you. "

and the best of all.....

"There are two types of people in this world..... the workers and the hustlers.... the workers don't hustle and hustlers don't work....."

TLK

Lathum · 02-24-2003, 01:51 AM

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Originally posted by TheLionKing
Cocktail is filled with great quotes.....

"Days get shorter and shorter, nights longer and longer, before you know it, you life is just one long night with a few comatose daylight hours."

" I don't care how liberated this world becomes - a man will always be judged by the amount of alcohol he can consume - and a woman will be impressed, whether she likes it or not. "

"Coughlin's law: never tell tales about a woman no matter how far away she is, she'll always here you. "

and the best of all.....

"There are two types of people in this world..... the workers and the hustlers.... the workers don't hustle and hustlers don't work....."

TLK

Actually I think the best is " Everything ends badly, otherwise it wouldn't end"

Honolulu_Blue · 02-24-2003, 01:52 AM

Two off the top of my head.

Big Trouble In Little China. Univerisally panned and an utter flop at the box office. I can see where most people would be put-off by it because it's pretty goofy, but it's a classic. Jack Burton rules.

Rob Roy. This is a great movie. The main character is as honorable and solid as any lead in any movie I've seen. The villian, played wonderfully by Tim Roth, is as vile as possible. The movie got swallowed up by "Braveheart" which came out a few weeks or so later. It's a very different film and highly reccommended.

One more. The Three Amigos. I find it funny. So very, very funny.

astralhaze · 02-24-2003, 01:56 AM

AI definately. I loved it. Then was amazed when everyone said they hated it.

Grosse Pointe Blank. Most people who have seen it like it, but not many have seen it. More should.

The Man Who Wasn't There. Same as above.

sterlingice · 02-24-2003, 02:23 AM

A.I.: I think this movie is great.
I think the movie was amazing, except... The directing was beautiful and there are just some beautiful shots all done just with lighting and glass... but... in the end it comes down to the fact that the movie fell apart in the last 30 mins. Great movie minus 30 mins.

Unbreakable is a good movie.
I loved unbreakable. Although I just had this feeling that it made a great story plain but told it well. I know, that didn't help articulate how I felt at all.

Airplane: I don't think I ever laughed as hard during a movie.
I think it's pretty highly regarded as one of the best comedies in history.

SI

andy m · 02-24-2003, 03:15 AM

'the taking of pelham 1,2,3' - this film is spectacularly well casted. the script is funny as a bastard yet not in an overbearing way, and overall it is a practically perfect film. the final shot of garber peering back in the door makes me crumple into fits of laughter every time i see it.

incredibly under-rated film.

and man, that funk soundtrack, especially at the start. class!

oykib · 02-24-2003, 03:20 AM

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Originally posted by sterlingice
A.I.: I think this movie is great.
I think the movie was amazing, except... The directing was beautiful and there are just some beautiful shots all done just with lighting and glass... but... in the end it comes down to the fact that the movie fell apart in the last 30 mins. Great movie minus 30 mins.

SI

A.I.?!

Someone hurry and get me a copy of 'Great White Hype'.

sterlingice · 02-24-2003, 03:46 AM

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Originally posted by oykib
Someone hurry and get me a copy of 'Great White Hype'.

Not all of us can be snooty movie critics about everything we watch. Some of us actually enjoy watching movies

SI

Fritz · 02-24-2003, 05:43 AM

havent we had this question four or five times in the last four or five weeks?

Blackadar · 02-24-2003, 05:58 AM

Bad-example, you and I strongly agree on Defending Your Life. Great movie.

oykib · 02-24-2003, 06:05 AM

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Originally posted by Blackadar
Bad-example, you and I strongly agree on Defending Your Life. Great movie.

"I'ma gonna giva you nine-a pies"

Blackadar · 02-24-2003, 06:10 AM

"My 3 percent is swimming"

"Little brains"

"What are you?" "Lunch."

Of course, the montage sequence of blunders is classic.

Ben E Lou · 02-24-2003, 06:20 AM

DOC HOLLYWOOD

"Doc Hogue does the complete Walt Whitman if you don't monitor his drinkin'"--That line just KILLS me every time.

AIR FORCE ONE

Gary Oldman is the consummate villain. He has a chilling monologue in this one: "When the capitalists are dragged from the Kremlin and shot in the streets; when our enemies run and hide in fear at our name; when Mother Russia becomes one great nation again and when America falls to her knees and BEGS our forgiveness; then I will be satisfied." How's that for a list of demands by a hijacker???

ACStrider · 02-24-2003, 06:24 AM

I feel like I posted on another thread this very same thing but...

I nominate Glory...Matthew Brodrick, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Cary Elwes, and it didn't even get NOMINATED for best picture!!! Well written, great acting, and one heck of a soundtrack.

oykib · 02-24-2003, 06:29 AM

Here's one that SI can get me back for nominating-- "Popeye."

That movie always has me in tears. I know people are thrown off by the singing. But that movie is hilarious.

P.S. that has to be the best casting in a book/comic book to movie translation there has ever been.

Senator · 02-24-2003, 06:36 AM

Vision Quest.

"You have to go for all the answers, man. Vision Quest!"

"I don't even know what the questions are, Kuch."

"You don't have to."

and this exchange:

"HEY SHUTE!"

"Yea, do I know you?" says Shute as he is walking up a flight of bleachers with a telephone pole across is shoulders.

"Louden Swain, Thompson High."

Pause. Then recognition.

"Think you'll make the weight?"

"I don't know, I hope so."

"I hope so too."

Ksyrup · 02-24-2003, 07:59 AM

Bob Roberts.

As a conservative, I can't believe I even watched this movie, let alone liked it, but it was just so well done that I've seen it over and over. I need to get it on DVD.

Tim Robins and his flaky wife need some hobbies. I think that's why so many ultra-rich people fly off the liberal deep end. They've got nothing better to do with their time and money.

Bee · 02-24-2003, 08:16 AM

A couple that already were mentioned, but I agree totally with:

Starship Troopers

Big Trouble in Little China

Diggstown

I think all 3 fit in the category of movies I really enjoyed but get no respect.

Aylmar · 02-24-2003, 08:31 AM

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Originally posted by ACStrider
I feel like I posted on another thread this very same thing but...

I nominate Glory...Matthew Brodrick, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Cary Elwes, and it didn't even get NOMINATED for best picture!!! Well written, great acting, and one heck of a soundtrack.

I don't know that you can make a case that Glory was slighted. It won three Oscars, a Golden Globe, and a Grammy, after all.

Maple Leafs · 02-24-2003, 09:27 AM

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Originally posted by Shorty3281
Joe Dirt. A comedy classic that I feel not enough people realize.

Joe Dirt was on the movie channel a few weeks ago. I had nothing to do, so I figured I'd watch a few minutes just to see how awful it was. I ended up laughing through the whole thing. Just a funny movie, whatever the critics say.

TroyF · 02-24-2003, 09:48 AM

I have to go with the guys who said Defending Your Life. What a fantastic movie. I can watch it over and over.

One I always watched as a young one was The Last Starfighter.

Suicide Kings is also a brilliant movie IMO.

TroyF

Fritz · 02-24-2003, 09:54 AM

Stright to Hell
Repo Man

A pair of often overlooked movies.

Bee · 02-24-2003, 09:59 AM

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Originally posted by TroyF
I have to go with the guys who said Defending Your Life. What a fantastic movie. I can watch it over and over.

One I always watched as a young one was The Last Starfighter.

Suicide Kings is also a brilliant movie IMO.

TroyF

The Last Starfighter is also a good one. I also liked Red Dawn when I was younger.

FBPro · 02-24-2003, 10:01 AM

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Originally posted by Hawaii Warrior
A Walk To Remember

Yes......

JeeberD · 02-24-2003, 10:09 AM

Hell yeah, Red Dawn was awesome. Nothing like a group of teenagers defending the free world from Communist invaders to get my blood pumping.

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oykib College Starter Join Date: Oct 2000	'The Great White Hype'?... To each his own... I agree with 'Cocktail', though. It has one the greatest movie quotes of all time. "Talking is overrated as a means of communication." But I have to go with 'The Sandlot'.

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INDalltheway College Benchwarmer Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Chicago	We just finished watching Anna and the King in my World Civilization class. I thought it was amazing how the King had 50+ kids!

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Chief Rum Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Where Hip Hop lives	dola, There are a LOT of choices for me here, but it's hard to say what's truly underappreciated. One that leaps to mind for me is Diggstown, starring James Woods, Lou Gossett Jr., and a yet unknown (and very, very appealing) Heather Graham. It's one of those movies that will have you laughing throughout, and then the ending will make you want to stand up and give applause. I'll second the Miracle Mile nod. Not too many people seem to even know that one exists. But I was locked into place by that one. Some others off the top of my head... XMen, which was on Fox tonight. Yeah a lot of people saw it, but I think it's really undervalued as a blockbuster that actually employs actors instead of physical specimens. I'm not a comic book fan at all, and still have never read an XMen comic, but I am definitely seeing X2 on the first night. Unbreakable may be Shyamalan's best. Everyone talks about Sixth Sense and Signs, but I think the movie he made between the two is very underrated. Shoot To Kill is a fun killer hunt through the backwoods starring Sidney Poitier and Tom Berenger (before he became a B-movie king). It never got a lot of respect, but I always thought that was a thrilling movie, and at times very funny, too, for its fish out of water moments. Shattered was another one with Tom Berenger among others. It's a very well done whodunit which practically no one seems to remember. And, no, I'm not a big Berenger fan, he just happens to be in the last two I mentioned. Dances With Wolves got a lot of props when it came out and in the Oscars, but, IMO, too many people nowadays dismiss it because it stars Kevin Costner, and really he's the only person of note that you really focus on throughout the movie. So anti-Costner fans can't stand it, but I still think it's one of the most beautiful, epic and eye-opening movies made in the past twenty years. There are lots of others, of course, but I'll stop here before I go on all night. Chief Rum __________________ . . I would rather be wrong...Than live in the shadows of your song...My mind is open wide...And now I'm ready to start...You're not sure...You open the door...And step out into the dark...Now I'm ready.

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Honolulu_Blue Hockey Boy Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Royal Oak, MI	Two off the top of my head. Big Trouble In Little China. Univerisally panned and an utter flop at the box office. I can see where most people would be put-off by it because it's pretty goofy, but it's a classic. Jack Burton rules. Rob Roy. This is a great movie. The main character is as honorable and solid as any lead in any movie I've seen. The villian, played wonderfully by Tim Roth, is as vile as possible. The movie got swallowed up by "Braveheart" which came out a few weeks or so later. It's a very different film and highly reccommended. One more. The Three Amigos. I find it funny. So very, very funny. __________________ *Steve Yzerman*: 1,755 points in 1,514 regular season games. 185 points in 196 postseason games. A First-Team All-Star, Conn Smythe Trophy winner, Selke Trophy winner, Masterton Trophy winner, member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, Olympic gold medallist, and a three-time Stanley Cup Champion. Longest serving captain of one team in the history of the NHL (19 seasons).

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astralhaze College Prospect Join Date: Dec 2002	AI definately. I loved it. Then was amazed when everyone said they hated it. Grosse Pointe Blank. Most people who have seen it like it, but not many have seen it. More should. The Man Who Wasn't There. Same as above. __________________ I can understand Brutus at every meaning, but that parahraphy threw me for a loop.

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andy m High School Varsity Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: norwich, UK	'the taking of pelham 1,2,3' - this film is spectacularly well casted. the script is funny as a bastard yet not in an overbearing way, and overall it is a practically perfect film. the final shot of garber peering back in the door makes me crumple into fits of laughter every time i see it. incredibly under-rated film. and man, that funk soundtrack, especially at the start. class! __________________ mostly harmless FOFL 2009 champs - Norwich Quagmire Last edited by andy m : 02-24-2003 at 03:18 AM.

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Blackadar Retired Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Fantasyland	"My 3 percent is swimming" "Little brains" "What are you?" "Lunch." Of course, the montage sequence of blunders is classic. Last edited by Blackadar : 02-24-2003 at 06:10 AM.

02-24-2003, 06:20 AM	#38
Ben E Lou Morgado's Favorite Forum Fascist Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC	DOC HOLLYWOOD "Doc Hogue does the complete Walt Whitman if you don't monitor his drinkin'"--That line just KILLS me every time. AIR FORCE ONE Gary Oldman is the consummate villain. He has a chilling monologue in this one: "When the capitalists are dragged from the Kremlin and shot in the streets; when our enemies run and hide in fear at our name; when Mother Russia becomes one great nation again and when America falls to her knees and BEGS our forgiveness; then I will be satisfied." How's that for a list of demands by a hijacker??? __________________ The media don't understand the kinds of problems and pressures 54 million come wit'!

02-24-2003, 06:24 AM	#39
ACStrider High School JV Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Austin, TX	I feel like I posted on another thread this very same thing but... I nominate Glory...Matthew Brodrick, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Cary Elwes, and it didn't even get NOMINATED for best picture!!! Well written, great acting, and one heck of a soundtrack. __________________ "I'm evil." "Oh you are not!" "Oh I am too." -- Brak

02-24-2003, 06:29 AM	#40
oykib College Starter Join Date: Oct 2000	Here's one that SI can get me back for nominating-- "Popeye." That movie always has me in tears. I know people are thrown off by the singing. But that movie is hilarious. P.S. that has to be the best casting in a book/comic book to movie translation there has ever been.

02-24-2003, 06:36 AM	#41
Senator FOFC's Elected Representative Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The stars at night; are big and bright	Vision Quest. "You have to go for all the answers, man. Vision Quest!" "I don't even know what the questions are, Kuch." "You don't have to." and this exchange: "HEY SHUTE!" "Yea, do I know you?" says Shute as he is walking up a flight of bleachers with a telephone pole across is shoulders. "Louden Swain, Thompson High." Pause. Then recognition. "Think you'll make the weight?" "I don't know, I hope so." "I hope so too." __________________ "i have seen chris simms play 4-5 times in the pros and he's very clearly got it. he won't make a pro bowl this year, but it'll come. if you don't like me saying that, so be it, but its true. we'll just have to wait until then" imettrentgreen "looking at only ten games, and oddly using a median only, leaves me unmoved generally" - Quiksand

02-24-2003, 07:59 AM	#42
Ksyrup This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off. Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: In Absentia	Bob Roberts. As a conservative, I can't believe I even watched this movie, let alone liked it, but it was just so well done that I've seen it over and over. I need to get it on DVD. Tim Robins and his flaky wife need some hobbies. I think that's why so many ultra-rich people fly off the liberal deep end. They've got nothing better to do with their time and money. __________________ M's pitcher Miguel Batista: "Now, I feel like I've had everything. I've talked pitching with Sandy Koufax, had Kenny G play for me. Maybe if I could have an interview with God, then I'd be served. I'd be complete."

02-24-2003, 08:16 AM	#43
Bee Pro Starter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Fairfax, VA	A couple that already were mentioned, but I agree totally with: Starship Troopers Big Trouble in Little China Diggstown I think all 3 fit in the category of movies I really enjoyed but get no respect.