i enjoyed josie and the pussycats but probably because it was a parody of the music industry. I'm a drummer and studied music business in school so I enjoyed it thoroughly! Du Jour was so funny
yeah one of my favorites too but i wouldn't call it underrated....isn't it the highest grossing independent comedy ever? Shot for like 30K and grossed well over 3 million awhile ago....
Koopa right about Clerks... As a Kevin Smith's classic... the first film sometimes have a loyal following or be superior than the others, but it depends on you view it. *i don't know* Adaptation is pretty underrated in terms of public awareness. Charlie Kaufman will always be synonymous with either Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or Being John Malkovich, but both films are amazingly crafted... Maybe I am being bias here, cos Adaptation is one of my personal "all time" greats
maybe i thought CLerks was under rated because i hadnt seen it untill about a month ago, and i wondered y nobody ever made a big deal about it to me
Hustle.(1975) The last time I saw this movie on TV it was in the early hours of the morning. All the dramatic highlights had been edited out rendering it into a piece of junk TV drama that the film was satarising in the first place. Such editing shows absolute contempt for the director. The only critic that has any regard for the film is David Thomson in his book The Biographical Dictionary of the Cinema. The Funhouse (1981).Directed by Tobe Hooper who made the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Josie and The Pussycats is a great music industry satire if you ask me. Those "product placement" gags are inspired. Goldmember was the best in the trilogy. The first was a good start, the second was largely a repitition of the first, the 3rd has less Fat Bastard, which kind of says it all. And PPG is a delilerously trippy example of kenetic U.S almost-anime, which is postmodern almost to the point or rediculousness. Also added to the list for me is Loony Toons: Back In Action (proof - http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/43/down.htm), the potentially anti-capitalist sentiments of which are overlooked, so it's radically frantic structure. Technically, it's a bad film, but it's the best kind of bad. Also D.E.B.S. which would appear, to my untrained eye anyway, to be a great piece of feminist camp, i suppose, which dismantles the mechanisations of the Hollywood action film behind-the-scenes, as you are watching. I love crap movies. I'm convinced there's more to them than people tend to think.
I am far too tired to come up with my own but I fully agree, Equilibrium, Adaptation and Pumpkin were underrated. And I LIKED Starship Troopers!!!!!!!!!
Flesh and Blood. I absolutely love that movie and I thought it was a very well-done piece on the brutality of not only the life of a mercinary, but of love. Princess Caraboo. A great story of the most elaborate, widespread deception ever. That's all I can think of for now.
I liked Primer... Also, I don't think The Buddy Factor AKA Swimming with Sharks got the recognition it deserved..
i think that alot of people overlook the brillance of wes andersons movies the see it once and all the little joke go over their heads and the end up thinking wes is trying to make comedies when he is not funny. So for my list : bottle rockets Rushmore The royal tenenbaums the life aquatics
