Underrated and overrated films (and other general filmy chat)

Updated list to date - be sure to let me know if I missed yours: (Chose not to do italics on every title or link to IMDB for readability)

Underrated

Aliens3 (daneel)
Alien Resurrection (possibly) (daneel/Steampunk Banana)
The Last Action Hero (daneel)
The Cable Guy (deneel)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (daneel)
Kentucky Fried Movie (Steampunk Banana)
Hudson Hawk (Steampunk Banana)
Rat Race (DioBurns)
Stranger Than Fiction (2006) (ActionAbe)
The Matrix (ActionAbe)
Wet Hot American Summer (codinghorror)
The Wind That Shakes The Barley (Ignatius)
Brazil (Ignatius)
City of Lost Children (Ignatius)
Miller’s Crossing (Ignatius)
Thirst (Ignatius)
But I’m A Cheerleader (Ignatius/Donald_Petersen)
Mystic River - (Ignatius)
Speed Racer - (Ignatius)
City of Lost children (Donald_Petersen)
Burn after Reading (pour_la_tete)
Wrath (ActionAbe)
Transformers (ActionAbe)
Hudsucker Proxy (Donald_Petersen)
The 13th Warrior (KarlS)
Unbreakable(KarlS)
Jennifer’s Body (Mindaysan33)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (IronEdithKidd)
Hot Tub Time Machine (IronEdithKidd)
Moon (IronEdithKidd)
Dark City (Donald_Petersen)
Big Fish (WearySky)
Map of the Human Heart (noahdjango)
Out of Sight (noahdjango)
Chameleon Street (noahdjango)
Everything Must Go (noahdjango)
Five Easy Pieces (miasm)
Starship Troopers (miasm)
Stalker (miasm)
The Fountain (miasm/noahdjango)
Tin Toy (ChickieD)
Toy Story (ChickieD)
All Studio Ghibli/Hayoa Miyazaki films - highlight on A Cat Returns (ChickieD) and Panda Go Panda ((Jonas Eggeater)/ChickieD) also:
Spirited Away (Jonas Eggeater)
Princess Mononoke (Jonas Eggeater)
Nausicaa (of the Valley of the Wind) (Jonas Eggeater)
The Castle of Cagliostro (Jonas Eggeater)
Porco Rosso (Jonas Eggeater)
Howl’s Moving Castle (Jonas Eggeater)
The Princess and The Frog (ChickieD)
Beauty and The Beast(ChickieD)
Anastasia (ChickieD)
The Cobbler and The Thief Recobbled Cut (on You Tube) (ChickieD)
The Watership Down (daneel)
Paulie (ChickieD)
Bubba Ho-Tep (Jonas Eggeater)
The Fall (KarlS)
Rope (penguinchris)
Never Let Me Go (WearySky)
The Raid (peregrinus_bis)
Sorcerer (miasm) - remake of Violent Road, also good
Sword of Desperation (miasm)
A History of Violence (miasm)
The Mouse That Roated (Jonas Eggeater)
Snow Dogs (JD_2020)
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (sam)
Gummo1 (sam)
Rushmore1 (sam)
Punch-Drunk Love (sam)
Moolaadé (same)
Fresh (noahdjang0)
The NeverEnding Story (Falcor)
Venus (wrecksdar)
Gettin’ Square (Kimmo)
Rushmore (Kimmo)
The Dark Crystal (Kimmo)
Once Were Warriors (wrecksdart)
Very Bad Things (drman321)
3000 Miles to Graceland (drman321)
True Romance (drman321)
Leaving Las Vegas (sam)
Be Kind Rewind (ChickieD)

Overrated

Crash (daneel)
Shakesspeare in Love (daneel)
The King’s Speech (daneel)
Lost in Translation (ActionAbe)
Little Miss Sunshine (ActionAbe)
All Wes Anderson after The Royal Tenenbaums (ActionAbe)
Lord of the Rings (Ignatius/sam)
Spiderman (Ignatius)
Anchorman (Ignatius)
Alexander (Ignatius)
Monster’s Ball (IronEdithKidd)
E.T. (Donald_Petersen)
Titanic (Donald_Petersen)
James Cameron’s entire opus (Mindaysan33/IronEdithKidd)
E.T. and all other Spielberg family friend fare (IronEditKidd)
Anything with Kevin Costner (IronEdithKidd)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (WearySky)
Avatar (daneel)
Tarantino post-Pulp Fiction: Vertigo, Brazil, Metropolis, and The Red Shoes (bwv812)
Star Trek Reboot (miasm)
The Hurt Locker (miasm)
The English Patient (miasm)
Apocalypze Z (peregrinus_bis)
All Disney moviews (noahdjango)
Spartacus (penguinchris)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (miasm)
Good Will Hunting (daneel)
Forest Gump (daneel)
Twilight (miasm)
Shawshank Redemption (sam)
The Green Mile (sam)
The Wolf of Wall Street (sam)
Narnia (Falcor)
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Next (sam)
Casino (drman321)
Ocean’s 11, 12, and 13 (drman321)
Mars Attacks! (daneel)
Showgirls (daneel)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (sam)

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