Underappreciated flicks

Looks like we've now found two of the 15... I saw it, too, and loved it.

 

Don't know if this has been mentioned, but from a cast that featured the likes of John Cusack, Dan Aykroyd, Minnie Driver and a pre-Entourage Jeremy Piven to the dead-on soundtrack, the definition of underappreciated movie is "Grosse Pointe Blank."

 

I see the Yahoo! critics have "Vantage Point" currently grading out at a C.

Au contraire.

I saw it last week and could not take my eyes off the screen for an hour and a half. Mesmerizing movie.

 

Did you ever see "Finding Graceland"? They somehow got Fonda to be a decent Marilyn Monroe lookalike.

Fonda in "Single White Female" ... wow.

 

Make that three. I even listened to the commentary track on the DVD ... twice. Pathetic, I am.

As long as we're posting crap masked as "underappreciated" gems, I humbly submit the 1987 Rutger Hauer/Gene Simmons classic "Wanted Dead or Alive." Or how about Simmons' memorable big-screen debut in the 1984 Tom Selleck vehicle "Runaway."

Watched both more than I care to admit.

 

The Man Without a Face

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107501/

 

"hiding out"

late '80s vehicle for jon cryer. so-so flick but i'm in love with annabeth gish, so sue me. 8) 8) 8)

 

Col Beauregard,

In fact, my high school buddy Malcolm MacRury, a minister's son, wrote the screenplay for The Man without a Face. (He did a couple of episodes of Deadwood too.)

Saw The Counterfeiters last night. Daniel Day-Lewis should give back Karl Markovics's Oscar. A couple of other nom-worthy performances. If you get a chance--and winning best foreign fil, it should be playing a lot of places and on DVD soon--see it.

YD&OHS, etc

 

Is that so? Some call it santized. I say your friend turned water into wine. The book is a miserable and dreary piece of shit. This movie doesn't spell anything out, but forces you to decide and determine the truth, like tutor and pupil.

 

I highly recommend both August Rush and The Hunting Party. August Rush is a "feel-good" movie about an orphan hoping to find his parents through music, while The Hunting Party is a black comedy about reporters Richard Gere and Terence Howard seeking out a war criminal in Bosnia on a lark and end up being suspected of being a CIA hit squad. And yes its based on a true story.
Also saw Across the Universe and enjoyed the filmmaking, but didn't give a crap about any of the characters.

 

The thing I found funny about that movie is that every poster and advertisement billed it as "Jon Cryer is Hiding Out." And Jon Cryer was pretty damn close to unknown at that point. A star vehicle for a guy who isn't close to a star.

 

you mean, "pretty in pink," didn't make him automatic box office? i'm shocked! shocked, i tell you!!