Underrated movies

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Let's have a thread for naming some movies that we think are underrated. Sometimes, we really enjoy a certain movie that the majority of our friends consider bad, or a movie that the box office defines as a flop. Can you think of any movies that you enjoyed despite the fact that they are unpopular?

I think "Lizzie Borden Took An Ax" was pretty good. I don't think it's a popular movie and it was probably a made-for-TV type of movie but Christina Ricci played the main character is she is a fantastic actress on my opinion.

Also this movie got me curious about the real Lizzie Borden so I did a little research online and watched a documentary about her and was surprised to learn how close tjis movie was to what actually happened during the murders and while she was on trial.

"The Lizzie Borden Chronicles" on the other hand sucked. It was historically inaccurate on so many levels and way too campy. They tried to turn Lizzie into some sort of scheming femme fatale when in reality the only reason she got away with the murders of her parents was because of poor police work, luck being on her side, and being a church lady from a respectable family who couldn't possibly have commited such a horrible act meant that the times were pretty much in her favor.

Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)

It's not THE best movie ever, but i like rewatching it. I like the story and that he finds love at the end.

Punch-Drunk Love starring Adam Sandler in an against-type role that should have scored him an Oscar nod.

Howard The Duck. It's considered a bad movie because when it came out people knew it was by George Lucas who created Star Wars. People were expecting an epic SyFy movie & instead Howard The Duck is a SyFy comedy. People were disappointed because it was not what they were expecting & the critics kept going on about how bad it was because of that. Howard The Duck would of done a lot better if people didn't know who created it, it was done by someone else, or if Star Wars had never came out.

All great crime films, but IMO are underrated:

Collateral

In Bruges

Seven Psychopaths

Panic Room

The Place Beyond The Pines

End Of Watch

Insomnia

Brick

Enemy

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

Sexy Beast

Gone Baby Gone

The Secret In Their Eyes

Nightcrawler

Inherent Vice

Miller's Crossing

Kill Your Darlings

The Bling Ring

Zodiac

Layer Cake

The Bank Job

Tower Heist

Rock & Rolla

(I'm sure there are many other films worthy of this list.)

Cthulhu.

Truthfully, just about everybody who's seen this movie has liked it. The problem is, not nearly enough people have ever watched it. The film is actually a retelling of Lovecraft's, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, though set in the Pacific Northwest sometime in the near future, rather than 1930's New England. Also, the lead character is not only saddled with facing the truth about his non-human lineage, but added is how he faces prejudice against his own homosexuality. I think this film is so underrated because it had been made with a shoestring budget, had limited release (if released at all beyond DVD), and only has Tori Spelling as the only recognizable cast member.

Superman 3.

At the time it was released it was considered sacrilege, decades later it is still a punch line but I thought it was a cool satire.

Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls Of Ga'Hoole. The story might be pretty basic and some of the characters might not be particularly complex, but the movie itself has a mythology that it wholeheartedly believes in while also having the best CG animation since Happy Feet (which makes sense as some of the people who worked on Happy Feet also worked on this movie). There are so many times watching this movie where I've felt like I was looking at real owls. Plus, I give Zack Snyder credit for trying to do a more family friendly movie after adult fare like 300 and Watchmen. For the most part, I can understand and accept when people say they don't care for this movie. What I can't accept and what really pisses me off is when they try to pass off that this movie is one of Zack Snyder's worst movies with some even claiming that it's worse than the theatrical release of Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice, not the badass R-rated extended cut of the movie. Really?!? You think that a harmless kids movie like LOTG is worse than a movie that took a big steaming dump on one of the most popular comic stories of all time? You have serious priorities to reconsider.