AsoTamaki: Underrated Films

AsoTamaki 10.06.11	Yeah, some of these only have instrumental scores. Oh well. Also, I know that Once is from Ireland. Feel free to rec anything similar to a particular film on the list.
BallsToTheWall 10.06.11	Once is quite hipsterish around in these parts, a good movie though. I wanted to see Broken Flowers.
zxlkho 10.06.11	Thirteen is basically the darkest teenage girl movie ever.... and it's really fantastic.
Trebor. 10.06.11	I love Ghost World
AsoTamaki 10.06.11	Definitely check out Broken Flowers. As many great performances as Bill Murray has had, I think this is one of his best.
BallsToTheWall 10.06.11	The Life Aquatic is my favorite of his although I haven't seen What About Bob to my family's chagrin.
omnipanzer 10.06.11	I don't know that any of these are underrated. Most of these are definitely not for everyone.
AsoTamaki 10.06.11	Haha, What About Bob was hilarious. It was the favorite of this older lady I used to do work for. Made me watch it three times. They're just underrated based on IMDB as I mentioned.
omnipanzer 10.06.11	"They're just underrated based on IMDB as I mentioned." I'm saying I don't agree with your presumption. I find most of these to be very slow movies that most would not get into. I like the ones of these I've seen 8/12 but I can recognize that out of all 8 most people that aren't cinema buffs probably won't like them very much (adequately represented by the number of votes). Have you seen "Cash Back" I think it would be right up your alley.
MisterTornado 10.06.11	Eyes Wide Shut.
AsoTamaki 10.06.11	I see what you're saying. Although, I think most of these would appeal to at least one fairly large demographic even if they aren't film buffs. Haven't seen Talk Radio or Cash Back. Will look into those.
jefflebowski 10.06.11	A Scanner Darkly
MarvellousG 10.06.11	Before Sunrise/Sunset are my two favourite films of all time, so you win.
AsoTamaki 10.06.11	I've seen everything by Linklater.
omnipanzer 10.06.11	Cashback (2006) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460740/ Ratings: 7.4/10 from 28,727 users
AsoTamaki 10.06.11	Cool. Seems interesting and I haven't seen the cast in 50 other things which is nice sometimes. Too bad it doesn't seem to be on blu-ray.
foreverendeared 10.06.11	Yeah Sunrise/Sunset were pretty great movies. Also Waking Life, yeah, basically any Linklater. Little Children is amazing. Once is great too. And now as I'm mentioning these movies, they are all fairly highly acclaimed, not underrated at all.
MarvellousG 10.06.11	Just saw you had Once and Waking Life too, two more films from my top 10. I think I reviewed the Waking Life OST on here a while ago, I LOVE that soundtrack
americanohno 10.06.11	"Thirteen is basically the darkest teenage girl movie ever.... and it's really fantastic." I haven't seen thirteen--i do remember watching an oprah segment years ago that talked about the film--but I've seen three Larry Clark movies (kids, bully, and ken park) so y'know I can say with pretty good authority that there's no way that's the case. anyway I think "A River's Edge" and "Trust (1990)" are far too unknown.
AsoTamaki 10.06.11	Oh, sweet. I didn't even think to look for the actual OST for some of these.
americanohno 10.06.11	okay I was being an asshole w/ that last comment about thirteen, you qualified your statement and i still came in and tried to one-up you. Also to be fair none of those Clark films I mentioned where strictly about teenage girls, just teenagers in general--regardless of gender. i apologize.
omnipanzer 10.06.11	"Seems interesting and I haven't seen the cast in 50 other things which is nice sometimes. Too bad it doesn't seem to be on blu-ray." (If memory serves) It started as a short film that was submitted to IFF and won a few awards. this movie is what resulted and is footage edited onto the original short.
greg84 10.06.11	I wouldn't say that any of these films was underrated tbh. Less than 50,000? What kind of indicator is that?
americanohno 10.06.11	okay I was being an asshole w/ that last comment about thirteen, you qualified your statement and i still came in and tried to one-up you. Also to be fair none of those Clark films I mentioned where strictly about teenage girls, just teenagers in general--regardless of gender. i apologize.
omnipanzer 10.06.11	Also recommend Three Colors Trilogy (French) starting with Blue moves to White and finally Red. Three Colors: Blue (1993) Ratings: 7.9/10 from 28,241 users Let me know If I can rec you any more like these.
AsoTamaki 10.06.11	Right, teenage girls. Those Larry Clark films do focus on some darker details, but was a bit more extreme in the portrayal. Thirteen had more of a "your daughter could be doing these things" kind of vibe. Overall, as a film, I think Thirteen is better made. Kids is great though. @omni: Oh, that trilogy is right up there with most of this list. Love it. Didn't include any non-English language films, but yeah. Feel free to rec them.
Trebor. 10.06.11	Not a whole lot of people have seen Citizen Cane or Seven Samurai
foreverendeared 10.06.11	"Not a whole lot of people have seen Citizen Cane or Seven Samurai" huh
Trebor. 10.06.11	Just sayin Specifically young people on IMDB
AsoTamaki 10.06.11	Seven Samurai (1954) Ratings: 8.8/10 from 115,305 users
foreverendeared 10.06.11	I can't give specific numbers, but I can say that votes of one website (however popular) isn't an indication of the amount of people who have seen a movie. Citizen Cane, I would venture to guess, has been seen by the majority of English speaking peoples over the age of 40. In other words, a shit-ton of people. Not sure about Seven Samurai (although it's enormously popular as well, just not as much in America), although I'd guess that's because the movie is like 15 days long.
AsoTamaki 10.06.11	Oh, no argument. 115k is a lot for IMDB. Even mega-blockbuster recent movies like The Dark Knight only have ~500k ratings. It's not like everyone who watches a movie logs into a website to rate it as soon as it's finished. I only made this criteria to qualify the term "underrated" in some way.
americanohno 10.06.11	i fink he was kiddin' maybe. another film i think is underrated is "Strang Circus" if like jodorowsky's (sp?) film you'll love it. Also there's two films i haven't seen that seem great but are pretty obscure: "Amer" -- which finally got an american dvd/bluray realese trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaEKIgHr1_0 and "Last Night at the Alamo" full movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ1v1jOthLo (in what looks to be poor quality but since the film doesn't have a dvd release that's prolly the besy ya gonna do) anyway this film had a huge influence on jim jarmusch and richard linklater.
americanohno 10.06.11	"i fink he was kiddin' maybe." ignore this sentence
foxblood 10.06.11	broken flowers had some badass music
AsoTamaki 10.06.11	The Sono Sion directed Strange Circus? I enjoyed it, but thought it perhaps a little bit too twisted. He's an amazing director though and I love some of his other works. Will check out the recs, thanks. @foxblood: For sure. Really diverse soundtrack too.
americanohno 10.06.11	yh man it's a fucked up movie I found real fun to watch. which may say a lot of unfortunate things about me. anyway yh man I'll check out thirteen since you like it more than clark's movies.
Voivod 10.06.11	1, 6, 7, 9 and 12 are so awesome...
Sanders 10.06.11	Once is one of my favourite films, the soundtrack's awesome.
InAbsentia 10.07.11	Ghost World is awesome.
InAbsentia 10.07.11	Oh and Submarine.
BallsToTheWall 10.07.11	Kubrick's 1955 Film Noir The Killing...fucking essential.
Trebor. 10.07.11	The Killing is on netflix instant btw
BallsToTheWall 10.07.11	Definitely netflix it, however I criterioned that shit like a boss.
AsoTamaki 10.07.11	You know, I didn't get to see Submarine. Heard good things about it though. I really just don't go to theatres that often these days. Will be anticipating the home release. @Balls: Definitely need to watch that. I'll admit to not having seen as many pre-1970s classics as I should.