Most underrated movies growing up

For me it would have to be The Mighty Ducks trilogy. Movie is greatness

Fandango
Code Name Emerald
Go Tell the Spartans

Summer of 42. A teenage boy got lucky.

Stand by me was another good one.

Stripes

Indeed

Great choice

Chopper Sic’ .....

The Outsiders
Eddie and the Cruisers

Every Which Way But Loose - “Right turn Clyde”

Animal House

Porky's

Silverado
Revenge of the Nerds

Good one!

Fahrenheit 451
Soylent Green
Dirty Harry

The Usual Suspects

Raising Arizona.

Tremors

Jes... I though I was the only person that saw Fandango. Very good/funny movie. Interesting back story in that Steven Spielberg was the producer on the film, but pulled his name and killed their release budget because he didn't think it was any good. It's now a cult classic. If he'd thrown his name and money at a proper global release I think it would have been one of his more successful films.

Might Ducks Trilogy? Didn't know they made more than one. And it was baaaad.

Jason and the Argunauts……...whatever.....
Forbidden Planet...….
The Tingler, and any old Vincent Price movie...…...

Not a strong understanding of 'underrated' in this thread...

Sandlot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lixII1thTO4&t=16s

plus 1 for Raising Arizona

Another great one....

Blues Brothers

Ishtar

Sneakers

Eddie and the Cruisers and Raising Arizona are both excellent nominees.

I asked in many forums, and in many topics regarding "movies."

Where is this mystical "rating system"?

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I was about to type the same thing. Some big movies being listed.

Almost anything they showed on Dollar Night at the Drive In with your buddies and some beer.

Warriors - awesomeness

and later - Enemy at the Gates

Both good ones. I had forgot about Eddie and the Cruisers.

Both Fast Time and Risky Business are memorable. However, that may have been the company I was keeping at the time.

The 13th warrior was awesome too

I think so too. Many don't care for that film. My assumption is they didnt like the subtitles.

Blazing Saddles, because nothing like it could be made today.

1941

Blazing Saddles

Un Broken is another great ones. It was adapted from a true story. I read the book first. The movie followed the movie better than any I have ever sen. He was the epitome of a great American hero. He was offered a room in a hotel and great food if he would go on radio and pull a Tokyo Rose.

Dancer Texas Pop. 81

Great movie.

Both great movies. I watched Eddie and the Cruisers quite a few times when I was a kid.

I grew up vacationing at the Jersey Shore where that movie took place. Lived there for a couple years after college. Still vacation there with my family every summer. We just watched it when we were there a month ago. It’s a classic that a lot of people have never heard of.

Southern Comfort. I don't think it was ever terribly popular but it was a cool story line and it had some good actors in it.

diner
flamingo kid
breaking away
tin cup

The Man From Snowy River

I’ll never forget Stripes. That was the first movie I ever saw a naked woman in. Our parents were watching it and my cousin and I snuck around and watched. It gave us a lot to talk about camped out in the pasture behind the house that night. I think we were 8 and decided we needed to see a lot more naked women! I still remember the conversation.

Mac and Me
Howard the Duck
Little Monsters
Gleaming the Cube

The Frisco Kid

Never ending story.

Ladybugs

Most underrated movie of all time. . . It’s a Wonderful Life.

Damnation Alley. I still want a Landmaster.

It's been televised every year since 1946


Definition of underrated

: rated or valued too low an underrated movie/book

I don’t think it’s underrated. It’s on every Christmas 5 times a day.

Heavyweights - Ben stiller was awesome in it

The War - can’t beat a bunch of kids having a fireworks war to the death

Agreed

# of times it comes on doesn’t mean squat. I rarely find others who enjoy it like I do

you need new friends...

Rebound the story of earl the goat manigault

You wanna be friends skippy?

I thought we were, I'm kind of hurt

sometimes affirmation doesn’t hurt. Lol

Confirmation?

Worst underrated movie pick of all time. It’s also the most overrated movie of all time.

See there?

The Warriors released in 1979 gets an honorable mention. Joe Walsh wrote the song "In the City" for it.

Hooper !!! - the glorious brief nudit-y that jumped out of the cake truly surprised all attendees at my birthday party.

Muscle cars, stunts, fights, beer, beautiful 1970s women....made quite the impression.

Enjoyed the "Stripes" reference earlier. I've had those conversations way back when, too. So thankful to have grown up in a pre Internet, more innocent time.

Rudy

A Time to Kill. Another one that was adapted from a book by John Grisham.

Midnight Run, Hoosiers, Jennifer Eight, Gattica and many more...

Agree, wife loves it, I cannot stand it. She watches it every year...I sit outside sipping on a bourbon until it’s over.

My most underrated movie came out when I was two; 'The Enemy Below'. It was so good they even based a Star Trek episode on it.

Gone With The Wind. Another movie adapter from a book.

Baseketball

Space Balls

Spaceballs. Good one!

I sold a ranch that was once owned by Jimmy Stewart. Ranch was nice.


The movie kinda sucked however

I saw that listed this morning on some channel.

Red Dawn...

Taps...

Wolverines!

Best of the Best

X2

Iron Eagle

Early Costner flick, American Flyers about competitive cycling.

Remo Williams

Johnny Dangerously

so good they based a star trek episode on it - LOL! That's some solid criteria right there.

The Legend of Bagger Vance

Young Einstein.

"Lone Wolf McQuade" with Chuck Norris

So outlandish it was almost a comedy but definitely just fun to watch!

Battlefield Earth.

Great one, Return was good also!!

T.A.P.S.

Not from my youth but R.E.D. and R.E.D.2 were great movies

Good one!

Cloak and dagger.

Heartbreak Ridge

Up in smoke. Video NSFW...

Lucas
Christine
Falling Down
The Great Santini

Rad

+1

Road House.

"My Enemy My Friend," Just kidding, that movie really did suck. What about "Ironclad?" I'm not even sure that ever even made it to the theaters? Great movie.

The Hollywood Knights
Streets of Fire
Up the Academy
Up the Creek

"Going to pick up Eddie to join us"

Creature From the Black Lagoon

Unforgiven
American Graffiti
Blazing Saddles
Clit's spaghetti westerns
Blues Brothers
Stripes
Patton

I didn't know we were including "those" movies.

I was a teen age Frankenstein.

Can't believe no one has mentioned the Billy Jack movies! The original Tremors was probably one the the best B grade movies ever made. That and Beetlejuice.

You went to dollar night with your buddies?

All great.