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The most underrated movies of all time
BrunoPress (via MSN.com) ^ | 06 January 2023

Posted on 01/06/2023 12:54:21 PM PST by zeestephen

A Photo Gallery of Twenty-Nine Films - Almost all of them produced in the last twenty-five years - Almost all of them with top tier actors or directors

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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I didn't like the movie versions of Captain from Castile or Prince of Foxes. Neither did justice to Shellabarger's books.

Catana Perez in Captain from Castile is one of the greatest heroines in all literature, and this was not developed in the movie. Also I thought Tyrone Power was miscast.

In the movie version of Prince of Foxes the entire crux of the story was left out: the Sainte. The scene in which she confronts Cesare Borgia, the embodiment of evil, is one of the best in literature. Borgia, hoping to entrap her into heresy and turn her over to the Inquisition asks if she hears the voice of God. She replies that she does. He asks why he doesn't hear it, and she replies (to paraphrase) that it is because he will not listen. That moment was spellbinding. They left the whole thing out of the movie.

41 posted on 01/06/2023 2:22:41 PM PST by Savage Beast (Americans DESPISE the corrupt elites, their media toadies and their corruption of the US government!)
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To: zeestephen

Haven’t heard of any of them.


42 posted on 01/06/2023 2:23:05 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: OKSooner

There is a nod to Stalag 17 in a lesser known movie called Escape To Athena.


43 posted on 01/06/2023 2:24:48 PM PST by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: BlueLancer

I enjoyed this movie.


44 posted on 01/06/2023 2:25:59 PM PST by dforest (Joy Behar is a big mouth cow.)
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To: Psalm 73

Have seen some and liked the ones I saw, especially Waking Ned Devine. My go to for this category is older, My Favorite Year.


45 posted on 01/06/2023 2:26:25 PM PST by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: Vendome

Agree on “ Chef”. Fun movie


46 posted on 01/06/2023 2:28:23 PM PST by GQuagmire
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To: zeestephen

‘Good Time’ (2017)
‘The Rules of Attraction’ (2002)
‘Disobedience’ (2017)
‘Stardust’ (2007)
‘99 Homes’ (2014)
‘Chloe’ (2009)
‘Empire Records’ (1995)
‘The Village’ (2004)
‘Seeking a Friend for the End of the World’ (2012)
‘Jennifer’s Body’ (2009)
‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’ (2011) - we are!!
‘Annihilation’ (2018) - loser
‘The Fountain’ (2006)
‘Mississippi Masala’ (1991
‘Owning Mahowny’ (2003)
‘Chef’ (2014)
Two for the Money’ (2005)
‘Near Dark’ (1987)
‘Perfume: The Story of a Murderer’ (2006)
‘That Thing You Do’ (1996)
‘Sleeping with Other People’ (2015)
‘The Assassination of Richard Nixon’ (2004)
‘The One I Love’ (2014)
‘In a World’ (2013)
‘Sunshine’ (2007)
‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ (2002)
‘Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!’ (2004)
‘Daredevil’ (2003)
‘Vanilla Sky’ (2001)


47 posted on 01/06/2023 2:29:04 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Gene Eric

Thanks. I’ve seen two on this list: Chloe and Annihilation. That was long enough ago that I don’t have a strong recollection, other than that I found them watchable but not something to which I would return. In both instances, I think I was attracted by some of the actors involved. Which is what makes this list interesting. There are a LOT of big names here, both actors and directors. Sometimes a film has worthy ambitions and plenty of talent attached, but just doesn’t stick the landing.

Anyhow, I’m a sucker for the most overlooked/most underrated lists. Bookmarking this for future reference.


48 posted on 01/06/2023 2:29:56 PM PST by sphinx
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To: BlueLancer

Agreed! Very satisfying movie.


49 posted on 01/06/2023 2:32:04 PM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell..)
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To: PIF

I don’t think I’ve seen any of those you listed.


50 posted on 01/06/2023 2:36:08 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Political Junkie Too

yep


51 posted on 01/06/2023 2:44:41 PM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: Texas resident

Just watched Zulu the other day. I had forgotten what a great movie that was. Forgotten history - and 100% acceptably NON-WOKE!!!


52 posted on 01/06/2023 2:45:41 PM PST by The FIGHTIN Illini ("Let Us Never Forget What They Have Done")
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To: 21twelve

“...but movies “today” are made by people that want to make money...”

I remember a quote, from Charlton Heston, I believe. Something to the effect that the problem with making movies as Art is that it’s a Business, and the problem with making movies as a Business is that it’s Art.


53 posted on 01/06/2023 2:47:03 PM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: BlueLancer

One of my favorite movies...and I’m not much of a movie watcher.


54 posted on 01/06/2023 2:49:27 PM PST by chalkfarmer
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To: OKSooner
My exact thought when I saw the header. They better have Stalag 17 in there or it's a bogus list.
55 posted on 01/06/2023 2:50:52 PM PST by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: PIF

Wow...never heard of any of them. But then I haven’t been in a theater since 2005. However, I think Perfume must be based on a book by a German author I read in the 80s. That was a freaky book so may have to hunt down that movie.


56 posted on 01/06/2023 3:02:14 PM PST by meowmeow (In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
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To: zeestephen

Christine!


57 posted on 01/06/2023 3:02:25 PM PST by citizen (Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people - John Adams 1798)
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To: 21twelve

I remember what Siskel adn Ebert said years ago.

“The early movie makers were raised on great literature and they made movies of great literature.
Today’s movie makers were raised on comic books.”


58 posted on 01/06/2023 3:04:04 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: zeestephen

Never seen any of them...and never will.


59 posted on 01/06/2023 3:05:35 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (No Doubt Now: Stolen Election)
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To: zeestephen

Strange Brew with Bob and Doug, the Makenzie brothers!


60 posted on 01/06/2023 3:05:36 PM PST by Poser (Cogito ergo Spam - I think, therefore I ham)
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