Underrated movies

I WANT ROOM SERVICE!

fuck, that's like the perfect description of it. i have no idea why it has such a super mario bros feel to it, but it absolutely does.

I bet you love the matrix flicks, discord tranny!

don't forget motherfucking kitano and the digital ghost of his... wife? daughter? wasn't udo kier in this as well? the cast is absolutely incredible.

it really wasn't very good

>Johnny Mnemonic was one of the few movies I couldn't finish.
this

Unbelievably based, a million times this

Basé

seriously, the book of henry was based and redpilled regarding how a child's simplistic morality would affect a child genius.

The movie is actually about overthrowing the corrupt Pharmakom.

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daily reminder that the japanese cut is the only watchable version of this movie

What the fuck even was this flick?

I can relate to him in this.

Is the jap cut online to watch?

An attempt at trying to film William Gibson. They've all been bad, even that one people meme with Christopher Walken.

The ending is not very good but it’s very underrated

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this movie isn't even fun bad, its confusing how anyone could watch this and turn it in thinking it was worthwhile

yes and fairly easy to find

Loved it

It's an adaptation of a Phillip K Dick story though. Dick and Gibson are trash tier.

Japan puts out constant kino that america sleeps on

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Pendejo...

Dick is God tier, Gibson is trash tier

I liked it, too bad they couldn't got the right for Molly

>Johnny Mnemonic was a PKD story
Are you retarded? Do you have a legit mental handicap?

Dick is trash tier too.

no, her daughter died because if an illness that pharmacon already had the cure for but made more money with the treatment
The ghost was the former boss of the company wich had loaded her conscious into the matrix before dying

What is this masterpiece of cinema?

>They've all been bad, even that one people meme with Christopher Walken.
new rose hotel is one of the few american cyberpunk kinos. ya been filtered.

F is for fart a deep dive into the psyche of what encompasses the human experience

>I have low standards, so let me be the judge!
Cringe

No. A scanner darkly, book and film, are some of the best sci-fi of all time

>I have low standards, so let me be the judge!
Cringe

Richard Matheson's novel "I Am Legend" has been adapted to film at least three times, and none of these movies kept what was arguably the best part of the novel, the horrific twist ending.

I'm not sure why. Without Matheson's ending the theme of alienation never reached its appropriate crescendo. This has always been a minor geek gripe of mine.

Since this is an underrated movies thread, I’ll go ahead and post it.

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This movie sucks and is retarded.

kino
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This movie sucks and is retarded.

Fucking amazing. Has anyone made a soundboard from this and prank called a hotel with it yet?

>ROTOSCOPING

fuck off this movie sucked

Nice opinion, retard

Alex Jones was born for rotoscoping
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It's unbelievable how little this movie is talked about anywhere, imo it is easily one of Scorsese's best.
It is an interesting companion to Taxi Driver in that it explores similar themes of spiritual despair and masochism in a similar setting but it also stands up on its own. It's probably Scorsese's funniest movie, even more so than After Hours.
Even Nicholas Cage defenders don't bring this up that much even though he gives what is easily one of his greatest and most nuanced performances in it. The entire supporting cast is great as well, Ving Rhames especially is hilarious in this.
With the possible exception of Silence I don't think anything Scorsese's directed since is better than this. It's a crime that Shutter Island and The Wolf of Wall Street (not bad movies, but not as good as people argue) are so much more popular and acclaimed than Bringing Out the Dead.

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A comfy little movie that didn’t deserve to be forgotten.

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Dude. What the fuck? Gibson literally wrote the book.

>none of these movies kept what was arguably the best part of the novel, the horrific twist ending.
This one didn't?

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REPENT SINNERS

The novel ends with the main character realizing that the "vampires" have their own civilization now, that this is the new status quo that all of humanity has evolved into. He's been serial killing mutated but nevertheless sentient humans for years on end because he believed they were monsters.

That's what the title "I Am Legend" means. He's a walking nightmare for the form of humanity. Thus, his alienation is complete.

The movies always pussy out and make the dude a hero. He wasn't.

Underrated? Have you seen this board and the audience scores? If anything it's overrated

Yeah. Last Man on Earth ends with it being revealed that half the "vampires" he killed were sentient, they're rebuilding society and they want him dead for being a mass murderer. The only thing that actually changed is his own reaction to it, not the actual events

the ending of the book is spineless. the vincent price film had the right idea. the other two adaptations introduced the dumb cure bullshit and skip the question entirely.

Based

Is that Rich Piana?

Fair enough. I admit I haven't seen that film in a long while.

My memories are probably colored by reading about how much Matheson hated the film. I've always felt for the guy.

>that female on male rape scene that I've fapped to 500 times has an entire movie around it
Huh, the more you know

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Matheson is a bitch.

Yeah, that's the one he was directly involved in the production of. The adaptation was pretty straight except for Neville's own reaction at the end but I guess that's what infuriated him because it was missing the whole point.

I appreciated it though since a guy who went through the shit Dr. Neville did is allowed to miss the point. All time great title drop too.

>MONSTERS! You're all monsters! I'm a man. The last man on Earth.

Shit I just realized the book ended with a title drop too

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I don't know that I'd call it spineless. That ending was pretty heavy for the era it was published in.

Besides, it works because it ties together the thematic arc of the story, something good fiction writing should do.

There's at least three people involved in this discussion now but I'd just like to point out that I never liked the whole cucked "okay I guess you guys are right to execute me" attitude at the end

It seemed like a more believable narrative change, although not a more enlightened moral or thematic one, for Vincent Price to face the same events and circumstances but go down screaming "Fuck vampires, fuck mutants, fuck zombies and fuck jannies"

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It's literally one of my favorite movies to revisit and I had the exact same experience first time I watched it. And ofc OP is memeing prior to E3 most of the posters on this site were too young to have even heard of it. I even posted in in several cyberpunk threads and people were like "wtf is that." This site is full of posers.

tbqh i can see the book ending working in the context of 50s sci fi literature, but when it comes to 60s sci fi film you know audiences wanted something more dramatic and that's a good thing

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I can see that as a valid emotional climax for Price's character.

I just found it more horrifying an idea in the book's version. Here's this guy that's been the hero of his own mental narrative doing God's work in the End Times...only to realize he's been a massive piece of shit this whole time. I think that would utterly crush the vindictiveness out of most people.

I dunno. I can see it both ways. Kinda flipping on it as I write this out, actually.

i understand the idea matheson was exploring, i can even appreciate it to a small extent, but when i imagine myself in the same situation, i know how i'd react:

>"Fuck vampires, fuck mutants, fuck zombies and fuck jannies"

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Great casting on this one.

His acting is so good i felt like i was him. Couldnt stop the video till he was done. Amazing charisma.

That's perfectly valid.

Book nerds are rarely satisfied with film adaptations of their favorite works. It's a terrible mental rut to get into, that whole played out "but the book was better!" schtick. I regret that I indulge it it as much as I do. But I am trying to learn.

Not him but most people don't actually understand film. I realized this when one of my artists friends kept having extremely philistine opinions and couldn't read metaphoric foreshadowing or anything so I had him pick up some screen writing books I had read throughout the years and now he actually loves a lot of movies he previously thought were terrible.

Most people think films are just about some X factor of stimulation they couldn't even be able to articulate. They don't know there is a language. A lot of adaptations fall victim to this and are hated for not being a 1:1 for a novel or comic etc.

There's also three different adaptations and each one veers farther off course

Kinda hilarious how the only one that kept the book name was also by far the least accurate adaptation. Reminds me of Brad Pitt's World War Z

>i know how i'd react:
I could see people reacting in any number of ways to it, the book is still a fantastic ending even if you don't find your self insert reacting that way.

Watched it 5 times

Based, saw this in theatres as a young teenager and it's always stuck with me.

easily his second best film (after child of man)

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I'd have to chip in and vote this a personal 10/10 too

Could you recommend those books here?

On of my favourite psychological sci-fi horrors.

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The book's ending is shit.

Honestly even a dummies book would be good if the subject is completely foreign to you. Film is a visual medium and is meant to be interpreted through visuals and audio cues. Some of this requires an education in the classics and esotercia for full comprehension but it mainly just requires mindfulness and a knowledge of the proccess/purpose of screen writing. Almost any intro to screen writing book should help you. Again the Sreen Writing for Dummies isn't bad. "Writing Movies" is a good choice for understanding how the language interacts with the audience consciously and/or sub consciously. I'd be remiss if I pretended these are "the best" though. Literally most books I've read on the subject have been decent. Just make sure you don't accidentally pick up a book that is purely about formatting.

The ending is the best part my contrarian friend.

>I'm a monster because I killed things trying to kill me
Fuck off.

>doesn't understand context
>probably didn't even read the book
based brainlet user

Ok, I'll check those out. I have this book but it's not really what I wanted.

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This movie is part of the reason I became a dealer.

It takes time too. When i first got into film it took me about literally ~50 movies until I really felt confident about what I was looking at and was able to hang with more educated people in the subject. Part of the reason for this is you also need to learn the logistics of film making and that makes subtle things all the more impressive like perhaps something takes a mundane and otherwise unoriginal plot and perfectly adjusts it to fit a new theme that has never accompanied it before. Just shit like that. You wouldn't appreciate it as much unless you were aware how many movies tried to do this and failed or werent even allowed to be so bold in the first place.

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I love how the descent into madness is represented by the increasingly erratic behaviour of his various co-workers. Sizemore's performance was a beautiful thing.

Agreed. The reasoning behind why any particular adaptation succeeds or fails is likely worthy of its own branch of philosophy, but for myself it is never about the faithfulness of the direct plot point translation. What's important to grasp is the tone and texture of the original in the new medium.

Which sounds like pretentious gobblygook, but really isn't, because by some minor miracle it gets done now and then.

>productive and friendly discourse about the different I Am Legend adaptations

Great job lads. Here's mine. It has serious issues but no other movie I've seen feels similar except maybe The Edge, another underrated wilderness movie.

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Alright but don’t tell anyone I told you. Got to stay patrician.

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This movie is Kino. Here’s another.

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>when you don't know what underrated means

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