Flipside: What Movie was Widely Panned or Ignored that YOU Really Liked?

[Dalton Mac]

I have a few:

Sunshine (sci-fi)
Hardware (sci-fi)
84 Charlie Mopic (war drama)
The Woodsman (drama)
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (horror-crime and way better than the original)

I may post more if/as they occur to me.

[MaryMagdaline]

1. Le Divorce

Last Days of Disco

[Laffy Kat]

2. "Beetlejuice"

When I saw it people were walking out of the theater but we were hysterical. My friend and I were laughing so hard some others in the audience were giving us dirty looks. Guess we were in a silly mood, although I still enjoy that movie.

[Glorfindel]

3. Southland Tales

Latter Days
Wing Commander
Gosford Park
Mixed Nuts
Batman and Robin

[MattP]

4. Last Days of Disco was great a freaky one i like is Phantom of the Paradise

It was a flop but it was Brian de Palma and it is now looked back on fondly

[Lochloosa]

5. The Air I Breathe. I mean, look who stars in it!

Four stories are linked by a Chinese proverb and overlapping characters. A usually unadventurous man (Forest Whitaker) loses big on a horse race and robs a bank to pay off a gangster (Andy Garcia). The gangster's nephew goes on the town with a hit man (Brendan Fraser) who can see into the future. The hit man falls for a pop star (Sarah Michelle Gellar) whose contract is owned by the gangster. The pop star has a rare blood type sought by a doctor (Kevin Bacon) trying to save the love of his life.

[Squinch]

6. Ishtar! Laughed myself silly.

[gratuitous]

10. I'll second Ishtar

One review I read about it noted all the carping about the incredibly huge, wasteful budget (cost about triple what it should have in those days) for the bit of fluff that was Ishtar. But really, whose money was it? As I recall, the reviewer said, "Does Ishtar have $50 million worth of laughs? No, but what do you care?"

[CatMor]

29. I too really enjoyed Ishtar....

had me laughing.

[First Speaker]

7. Costner's Big Three: Robin Hood, Waterworld, The Postman...

...all very underrated, in my opinion. Especially The Postman, one of the most beautiful films ever made, and its message is more relevant today than ever...

[Iggo]

21. "I know you. You're famous."

"I used to be. Sort of."

There's still people mad at me for liking that movie.

[MattP]

8. Grease 2

[shenmue]

9. Glitter

[Dalton Mac]

18. A sensitive, nuanced exploration of the human condition

Excellent choice!

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

11. Johnny Dangerously

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[Iggo]

22. "You know your last name's an adverb?"

[sakabatou]

12. In the US or worldwide?

[Dalton Mac]

14. Your Choice

Anything goes!

[sakabatou]

15. I don't know

Maybe Eternal Sunshine?

[Upthevibe]

34. I think The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is held in high regard...

I thought it was excellent and that Jim Carrey was amazing in his role.

[sarge43]

13. The Thirteenth Warrior n/t

[BlueCaliDem]

28. One of my faves, as well!

Still loved the part where Antonio Banderas' character learned to speak Norsemen. Well done.

[sarge43]

31. I love "Show me drawing sounds".

What a telling way to describe writing.

[BlueCaliDem]

33. Loved that,too! Buliwuf was an amazingly charismatic leader!

I love that movie so much that I watched it more than a few times on HBO until they stopped running it. Then went and bought it. lol

[Grassy Knoll]

16. Second Hand Lions

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

25. I loved that one!

[dembotoz]

17. Howard the duck

[Dalton Mac]

19. Kicking for Fairness

Check the times of posting.

[fNord]

20. Hedwig and the Angry Inch

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[Floyd R. Turbo]

23. Heavens Gate

[eppur_se_muova]

24. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The Eighth Dimension

Never got the audience it deserved, but it has its cult of those "in the know". Just a wonderfully wild, weird movie. And John Lithgow.

BTW, it turns out this is a real person.

[getting old in mke]

26. This one

plus "Last Days of Disco" as mentioned multiple time above.

[AJT]

27. Dodgeball

If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.

[Kirk Lover]

30. Malibu's most wanted. n/t

[BlueCaliDem]

32. Oh, there's so many!

Corrina, Corrina
The 13th Warrior
The Great Wall
The Gift (2000 with Cate Blanchett)