Most Overlooked Movies of all Time

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Definitely Riding in Cars With Boys. It was such a well made movie and didn't get nearly enough attention as it should have.
 
Yes yes yes completely agree couldn't agree more. No one watched it, it's such a shame when it's such a wonderful movie. Nothing was overly done. I wish I could force everyone into a giant room and play Eternal Sunshine for them so that the whole world can experience the greatness that is Eternal Sunshine :lol:
 
I aGRRE WITH you and Nikki. Movie still gets me weepyeyed at the end. My all time favorite movie.


I sorta disagree with the first two listed, Sum of All Fears and Figth Club, i mean it's hard to overlook mainstream Ben Affleck and Brad Pitt movies. I was watching previews for Sum of All Fears for over a month wanting to see it, and I thoguht it was excellent, Fight Club i didn't have any interest in, then when an Ex had me watch it, i was still wondering what all the hype was about.

I think What A Girl Wants is overlooked, at least here. It was sorta out for a couple weeks, then was done. But it's a really good feel good movie. With a major hottie in the lead.

I think some forgotten, but favorites for all of us would be like Mallrats and Breakfast Club, movies that you love to death, but they seem to drift from your thoughts for 11 months out of a year.
 
I agree,

Some I think are overrated:

Playing By Heart
Meet Joe Black


there's more I can't think of..

oops meant "Overlooked". :D
 
i have a few movies i think have been overlooked.

the first one being 'the wedding date.' it is fun and funny and debra messing is cute there are so many funny and endearing moments. it also stars dermot mulroney, the girl who plays her english cousin is hilarious, you cannot stop laughing at her, and there are some english actors you might recognize, (the lieutenant who's in love with kiera knightly in pirates, for one. it also has the musical talents of maroon 5 'secret' and michael buble 'sway, & save the last dance for me'

another film that i think people missed out on was 'quigley down under'. tom selleck was excellent in this, he has the just the right touch for westerns. laura san giocomo was perfectly cast as his foil/love interest, and it goes without saying that alan rickman did his best to steal the show. he didn't manage it this time, though. i fell in love with all the aborigines people in the film, they had the sweetest faces. the music was just right, too, and was put in at the perfect moments.
 
I'd like to add Radio to the list.

This is based on a true story and stars Cuba Gooding Jr. as a mentally handicapped teen and Ed Harris as the rural football coach who befreinds him when the rest of the town they both live in shuns him (Radio).

Moving, not overly sappy and just good old dramatic entertainment about the human spirit and how we have lost something in how we relate to one another in the modern age.

I am surprised Cuba didn't get another best supporting or lead actor nod because you truly believe he is mentally handicapped AND about 17 years younger than he is.
 
I totally love A Life Less Ordinary. It was such a quirky, strange story that I can understand why it wasn't a big smash, but it truly is a great movie that wasn't given it's rightful due.
 
The Princess Bride (1987)~ Cary Elwes is a brilliant actor. He is one of the few male actors who can play the heroic male with a sense of wit and comedy. He is wonderful in any role he assumes and this movie is no exception. The film appeals to all audiences and yet has a mature theme. The cast is great as a whole. The famous names really add to the spectacle.

My Best Girl (1927)~ Mary Pickford and Buddy Rogers have an amazing chemistry together. The story is a classic love story with just enough comedy to keep people interested. I melt at all of the sweet little scenes.

Grand Hotel (1932)~ Although it was loved in its time, the movie is pretty much forgotten today other than the film buffs that take an interest. The all star cast acts out an interesting German novel about five ordinary people who happen to be staying in the same hotel. A poor dying man goes to spend his savings on a fine end at the same hotel where his boss works. He hires a prostitute/stenographer who finds herself in love with a penniless Baron who falls in love with the aging dancer Grusinskaya. Wonderfully played and filmed.

Blonde Venus (1932)~ Many think this movie is only notable for the scene where Marlene Dietrich emerges from a gorilla suit to turn into the gorgeous Venus at a nightclub. The story runs deeper; she works at the nightclub to pay for her husband's operation. She falls in love with young Cary Grant. When he husband finds out, she takes their son played by the adorable Dickie Moore to hide because nothing can take her son from her. It is subtle and yet much deeper even thought the storyline is much like many other movies of the time.

The Cat's Meow (2001)~ This movie set in the 1920s features Kirsten Dunst, Eddie Izzard, and Cary Elwes in a movie about a real incident that got blown out of proportion by the rumor mill. One board William Randolph Hearst's yaght the Oneida, Thomas Ince suffers from an ailment and dies. According to rumors of the time, Hearst shot him, taking him for Charlie Chaplin who he suspected was sleeping with Marion Davies, the mistress of Hearst. The story might not be true, but the movie is lots of fun, especially the Charleston scenes. Eddie Izzard is PERFECTION as Chaplin; he may look nothing like him, but he plays him as if he were Chaplin in a past life.
 
The Sure Thing - totally overlooked John Cusack 80s romantic comedy. (Soo much better than Say Anything) It's really funny, and to me it has more depth and heart. The characters have that classic bantering love/hate relationship that everyone loves.
 
I'm under 25 :look: and I can quote the movie line for line :lol: It's one of my favorite films, along with St Elmo's Fire, Sixteen Candles and Oxford Blues. I think it still picks up viewers, but I don't think 80s movies are generally popular right now. It'll all change in ten years or so, when all the Brat Pack movies become as popular as the Rat Pack ones. I'm waiting for the day the Breakfast Club is given the Oceans 11 remake treatment, personally :P
 
i think Donnie Darko was overlooked i mean its a really gd film, and well really confusin bt still

i think etenal sunshine was underated 2, watched it and thought it was great! i told my friends, i'd watched it and they jst looked at me as if i was mad!
 
Trust me the Breakfast Club was not an over-looked movie. It is one of the most popular teen movies ever...if not the most popular, and it starred the Brat Pack. You must remember that it is a mid-80's movie so I could see younger people not having heard of it, but it was a very popular movie. Not exactly the definition of an over-looked movie, IMHO.
 
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