Most underrated and overrated movies ever

Underrated: Hell or High Water. One of my all time favorite movies, and somehow the studio that produced it thought it was bad, and didn't put any money into advertisements, so it was released without most people even knowing it was in theaters. Shows you how stupid movie execs really are.

Overrated: Aliens (Alien 2). Pretty simple shoot-em up that gutted the original's cool idea for an ultimately fairly medicore 'Nam in Space 1980s action flick.

Underrated: Alien 3. It clearly has flaws, but brought existential horror back to the franchise (if only shortly). Subverting the suger-coated happy ending of Aliens right at the start was a genius move among others.

Zweischneid said:

Overrated: Aliens (Alien 2). Pretty simple shoot-em up that gutted the original's cool idea for an ultimately fairly medicore 'Nam in Space 1980s action flick.

Underrated: Alien 3. It clearly has flaws, but brought existential horror back to the franchise (if only shortly). Subverting the suger-coated happy ending of Aliens right at the start was a genius move among others.

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Lanx said:

i can't get past the faux-asians

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Soygen how does that make you feel?

Void said:

I know this board and other niche fans are an exception, but Dredd is ridiculously underrated by the rest of society. I mean, most non-woke critics love it, so "underrated" might be the wrong word, but maybe "underexposed"? We all know how great it is, but people have either never heard of it or think I'm talking about the Stallone version. The ones I do convince to watch it love it, but they just don't even know it exists until then.

Fuck, now I'm sad. If I had $100 million to throw away, I'd fund two more movies with Urban and Thirlby (sp?) to reprise their roles.

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This conversation occurred earlier in the thread years ago and this specific movie was brought up. There are a lot of movies being listed as underrated that are actually very highly rated that just need a broader audience. Also, Dredd is awesome.

Zweischneid said:

Overrated: Aliens (Alien 2). Pretty simple shoot-em up that gutted the original's cool idea for an ultimately fairly medicore 'Nam in Space 1980s action flick.

Underrated: Alien 3. It clearly has flaws, but brought existential horror back to the franchise (if only shortly). Subverting the suger-coated happy ending of Aliens right at the start was a genius move among others.

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I didn't know that Rian Johnson was on this forum.

Zweischneid said:

Overrated: Aliens (Alien 2). Pretty simple shoot-em up that gutted the original's cool idea for an ultimately fairly medicore 'Nam in Space 1980s action flick.

Underrated: Alien 3. It clearly has flaws, but brought existential horror back to the franchise (if only shortly). Subverting the suger-coated happy ending of Aliens right at the start was a genius move among others.

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Wow, I didn't think there was someone this stupid on the entire planet. I've literally never seen anyone who said they disliked Aliens, which is one of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time, and at the same time liking Alien 3, which was one of the worst sequels ever made. Let me guess, Battlefield Earth is your favorite movie of all time?

Let him carry on. Please Zw.. list more movies that you hate.

It's a sure fire way to get a list of movie Gold.

Zweischneid said:

Overrated: Aliens (Alien 2). Pretty simple shoot-em up that gutted the original's cool idea for an ultimately fairly medicore 'Nam in Space 1980s action flick.

Underrated: Alien 3. It clearly has flaws, but brought existential horror back to the franchise (if only shortly). Subverting the suger-coated happy ending of Aliens right at the start was a genius move among others.

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Sugar-coated happy ending? Do you not recall an entire squadron of marines getting iced and only 3 people and half an android surviving? Did you miss the implications of Newt being the lone surviving colonist after the only other surviving colonist begs the marines to kill her before she is literally eviscerated by a chestbuster?

It is nice that you confuse the studios intransigence concerning the original scripts of Alien 3 with a brilliantly planned subversion of expectations. Pro tip: they just needed a convenient way to get rid of the other actors because the studio fucked up and greenlit a cheaper script that didn't include them.