I agree on the Fight club most people were not willingly to give it a try because of its name at that is a shame.
Dirty Dancing: Havanna Nights was also overlooked .Despite what most people thought it was not a remake.It was wonderfully refreshing and I loved it.

I agree! I rented out this movie a couple of months ago even though I had never heard of it and I was suprised by how brilliant it was! Drew Barrymore did a great job!

Natural Born Killers . The direction and everything is amazing. The idea's warped. It's a messed up movie. But it's good. And no one I know has heard of it.

I agree with the Breakfast Club! I love that film but I'm the only one who has heard of it out of my friends which I find shocking as I think it's such a great movie and it proves people can change other people's live for the better.

I also think that Swordfish was totally overlooked. It had some big names in and it didnt end up doing very well at the box office, but now it has become a big cult hit. I mean it is a good story with a good twist in it! And Hugh Jackman is gorgeous in the film:)

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!

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.

I loved this film. I thought it was great.

yeah I agree with everyone who said Donnie Darko, good good movie....

I think Remember the Titans was somewhat overlooked -- it could've done for more recognition than it got, especially from the Academy and all those bastards who love nothing more than a good kissing-their-own-ass session. I loved it -- Denzel was great, the cast was great -- it was just a good, wholesome movie. :)

Indeed, Denzel always does a greeat job. Loved The Hurricane.


Also, Super Troopers. Funny ass ****.

I agree with the Princess Bride, that is a movie that if you've seen it, you've loved it.

oh yeah totally Super Troopers, thats one of the best comedy's to come out in years, not a big blockbuster but turned out to be a lot better then some of the stuff that's been turned out in the last few years , but it was great......

Simply Irresistible w/ Sarah Michelle Gellar was pretty overlooked in my opinion. I :love: that movie!

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The Fith Element - couldnt agree with u more on RTT. I think it was a great movie and makes me cry every time i watch it - it wasnt even released at the cinema if i rember correctly over here. Another movie with denzel that i feel was overlooked in the UK was John Q another brilliant performance.

I think American history X isnt given as much credit as it deserves again Ed is fantastic and deliveres a great performance but i think alot of people dont give it a chance as by word of mouth it seems to concerntrate on the violent moment that nearly everyone i know has to look away from the screen and most people make up their mind that they dont really fancy it .

A lot of these movies I totally agree with like Donnie Darko, Dancer TX and American History X. Another one of my favorites that a lot of people have never heard of is "Say Anything".

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Here are four comedies that you should rent and enjoy with some beer:

1) "Spirit of '76", starring David Cassidy (yes, Partridge Family DC). Shaun Cassidy has a major supporting role, and there are a bunch of other people you will recognize from '80's tv shows. It was in theaters for about one week in the late 80's. I saw it during a matinee, with about 2 other viewers in the multiplex, and LMAO.

About a hundred years from now, something vital is missing from US society, and the leaders of the day decide they must send someone back in time to 1776, to ask the founding fathers what to do. So they turn to the greatest physicist of their era, played by David Cassidy. However, he makes a mistake, and instead of taking his time machine back to 1776, they go back to 1976. It sounds lame, but it's really funny. "That '70's Show" fans will especially enjoy it.

2) "Zoolander" with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson, playing sworn rivals in the cutthroat competitive world of male modeling. The dance scenes are hilarious. Definitely funnier than "Starsky and Hutch".

3) "The Twelve Chairs" by Mel Brooks. This dark comedy set in the Soviet Union in the '20's has several fortune hunters competing to find a hidden stash of diamonds. Dom Deluise is especially absurd as a corrupt Orthodox priest.

3) "Earth Girls Are Easy". I was physically in pain from laughing so hard by the time I left the theater. This is the first movie I've ever heard of that starred Geena Davis or Jeff Goldblum. The plot has to do with aliens from outer space landing in LA, but it's really a satire about Southern California in the '80's.

4) "Hairspray", one of John Water's "mainstream" films (ie, no coprahaghia), and the vehicle that launched Rikki Lake to stardom. It has to do with integrating the cast of a 60's tv dance show reminiscent of "American Bandstand", and fat acceptance, among other worthy causes, but it's never preachy. Another one that made me laugh until my stomach ached.

One caveat: best watched on a big screen. I once talked a friend into renting it on video, after having seen it in the theater, and had to explain a number of the sight gags, because they relied on small visual details that we couldn't see clearly on the tv.

A few more that aren't quite as funny, but definitely have their moments:

1) "Shadow of the Vampire" stars John Malkovich as Franz Murnau, director of "Nosferatu", the first vampire movie. It's a fictional recreation of the filming of the movie, starring Willem Dafoe as the actor who plays "Nosferatu", who either thinks he really is a vampire, or actually is one. I think this is the look that inspired Dafoe's head-shape as the Green Goblin in "Spiderman".

2) "Critical Care": James Spader stars as a doctor in a dark satire about the medical ethics surrounding the decision on whether to 'pull the plug' on a terminally ill patient.

3) "One, Two, Three" by Billy Wilder, is a Cold War satire starring James Cagney as Coca Cola's chief executive in West Berlin (the movie was made in 1961), whose boss demands that he break up a romance between the boss's daughter and her communist East German boyfriend.