re: under rated movies........

Dramas

25th Hour
Bamboozled
Bound (Actually a pretty good film in addition to Gina Gershon's lesbian scenes)
Buffalo '66
Layer Cake
Once Upon a Time in America (I know it is well-known, but it is not as popular as Heat, Goodfellas, Casino, Godfather, etc.)
One Hour Photo
Pay It Forward
The Butterfly Effect (While Ashton Kutcher is a huge tool, he did a decent job in this movie, but the critics didn't want to give him any credit)
The Machinist (By far Christian Bale's best acting role)
The Woodsman (The protagonist of this movie pretty much guaranteed it wouldn't get mainstream success)
United States of Leland (Much better than Half-Nelson)

Comedies

Burn After Reading (At least based on the comments on this board)

Death to Smoochy (Ed Norton has some of the funniest scenes ever: My Step-Dad's Not Mean, He's Just Adjusting and I'm Rainbow fricking Randolph) I guess this scene might be NSFW, at least according to YouTube, but I don't think it is a big deal

Outside Providence (Alec Baldwin does an amazing job)

Pretty Persuasion (The dinner scene between James Woods, Jamie King, and Evan Rachel Wood is great: Family Around the Dinner Table)

Road Trip

Slums of Beverly Hills

That Thing You Do

1. The Count of Monte Cristo Action, adventure, revenge, and a villian that captivates you (which is what makes a good movie great, i.e. Die Hard). It isn't so long that you tire of it and it isn't so short that it feels crammed in together.

2. X-Men 2 This was way above the level of a normal comic book hero movie. It had the perfect amount of rise and fall in the action. You start off being amazed by the opening scene. And you get some catharsis after the dam busting scene. Just about the right amount of length. Awesome flick.

3. Star Wars- Attack of the Clones I know I just lost some of you here, but sandwiched in between Jar Jar and Darth Vader being a bitch was a really action packed movie. You have to get around Anakin's shitty acting and Samuel L's monotone speaking, but the fights are awesome. Jango vs. Kenobi, the execution scene, the battle, Yoda vs. Dooku. I found this movie quite entertaining.

Yeah, I wouldn't consider those underrated movies at all.

Collateral

FWIW, except for being about 30 minutes too long, I liked Speed Racer.

I always loved Assassins. Banderas v Stallone.

the fall

ride with the devil

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Squirt Queens 4

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really? usually sequels aren't thought of a better than the original.