Underrated films or films that surprised you.

[j2sgam]

[KendrickPanther]

Boondock Saints. Came out right after columbine I believe so it was either scrapped from theaters or released with no fanfare. I caught it on DVD in college.

[KendrickPanther]

Captain America. I had kind of grown accustomed to the paper thin plots and cheesy jokes in Marvel movies. They were basically all flash and no substance. However I was surprised with how much I enjoyed Captain America.

[Floppin]

Blood of Heroes (The Salute of the Jugger) 1989 movie about a brutal blood sport set in a post apocalyptic setting. Amazing.

[Johnny Rockets]

Movies that were surprisingly better than I expected:

Children of Men

Gone Baby Gone

Bridesmaids

Boy with the Striped Pajamas

[Zaximus]

They Live. Underated sci-fi film, and could be even more relevant nowadays. Plus, Rowdy Roddy Piper...

[Floppin]

Event Horizon.

[KendrickPanther]

Vanilla sky was interesting, until the last 5 minutes.

[Guest Irv]

fire with fire with josh duhamal and bruce willis

[Sapper]

'This Means War' of this past year REALLY surprised me. I turned it on for noise but ended up going credits to credits. Not a great movie, but a lot better than I expected.

[Bronn]

Beasts of the Southern Wild isn't underrated though. Considering how small it was originally, it really blew up. And it got the critical success it deserved.

I think I was more surprised with that one than thinking it was underrated.

I'd never heard of it really, until this chick at work that I talk movies/tv with was telling me about it. It sounded crazy, but interesting.

I had tears in my eyes at one point.

Beautifully shot, and very surprising film for me.

[pstall]

i'lll toss out a couple of pearls for now.

Session 9 and Buddy Boy.both WAY under the radar and both knocked me over. BB really stayed with me for some time.

[kman72]

Boondock Saints- one of my favorite movies

[DC Amp]