I usually rely on IMDB scores to choose what movies to watch. Fortunately I watched "Enemy" and was blown away how good this movie is.
I am surprised this one has a 6.8 score currently, so I wonder what other awesome movies I am missing or overlooking because of a low score.
Anybody can point me other movies that are so good like this and have an score below 7?
Not all of these are necessarily "masterpieces", but I think they deserve a vastly higher rating:
Vanilla Sky (2001) [current rating 6.9]
Triangle (2009) [6.9]
Nurse Betty (2000) [6.3]
Magic in the Moonlight (2014) [6.6]
Enemy (2013) [6.9]
House of Wax (2005) [5.3]
Scream 4 (2011) [6.2]
The Machinist and The Last Of The Mohicans were movies I found to be masterpieces but they only have scores of 7
shareSome movies that I can think of right now where I seriously disagree with IMDb score (7 or below) which I think we're very good (8 or more);
- Basic Instinct - 8/10
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - 8/10
- Australia - 9/10
- Thor - 8/10
- Prometheus - 9/10
- Batman v Superman 8/10
- Godzilla Final Wars - 8/10 (OK. This is more of a guilty pleasure.)
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It is unbelievable that Signs is less than 7 and *beep* age of ultron *beep* is more than 4!
To each their own
Every film under 7 that I rated 9 or 10. So I have rated 3900 films on IMDB. I am not real generous with 9's and 10's. I am with 8 and 7. But I was really surprised at how many films rated under 7 that I rated 9 or 10. I am sure that there are films that I rated 9 or 10 here that many will take issue with. After all, they are all rated below 7 by IMDB, but I just thought this would be fun to do after seeing this thread. These are not Masterpieces for the most part. Though I would call them some of the better films that I have seen in their respective genres. Few "Masterpieces" are rated below 7. If I called one film on this list a Masterpiece it would be Go Tell the Spartans. It was lost when it was released at the end of the Vietnam war, but in many ways I like it as much as Full Metal Jacket or Platoon. (I always felt Apocalypse Now is overrated. though a very good film)
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
Independence Day
Stripes
Melvin and Howard
Romancing the Stone
Last of the Dogmen
Cat Ballou
48 hours
The upside of Anger
Elf
joe 2013
Breakdown
Napoleon Dynamite
Dreamer
Heart and Souls
Patriot Games
MI 3
Step Brothers
Arthur 1981
Let It Ride
Something Wild
Who'll Stop The Rain
The Legend of Hell House
Stoker
Dance with a Stranger
Bottle Shock
Fly Away Home
My Life
Night of the Creeps
The Hot Rock
Bite the Bullet
Exodus
Risky Business
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Sleepless in Seattle
Flirting With Disaster
Shoot to Kill
Go Tell the Spartans
Panic Room
Body Double
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Unstrung Heroes
Hairspray 2007
City Slickers
Shrew's Nest
Ghost Town
The Man Who Fell to Earth 1976
The Proposal
Wanted
Analyze This
White Hunter Black Heart
The Krays
This Is the End
The Hunger
The Prince of Tides
Austin Powers: The spy who shagged me
Ransom
Australia
Polar Express
Stakeout
A Boy and His Dog
Extreme Prejudice
Fame
The Horse Whiperer
Q and A
Night Shift
Tin Men
White Palace
Robin and the 7 Hoods
Savages
Cellular
Under Suspicion
The Witches of Eastwick
Jamon Jamon
War of the Worlds 2005
Cobb
Spanglish
Salt
Losing Isaiah
Black Sea
Rancho Deluxe
Rat Race
Great Gatsby 1974
Sympathy for the Devil
The Fury
The Bedroom Window
Inserts
It Could Happen to YOu
Kill Me Again
Triple 9
Tightrope
White Mischief
The Big Picture
Alien: Resurrection
The Karate Kid 2009
The Ladykillers 2004
Duplicity
Foxes
Johnny Handsome
The Rachel Papers
Someone to Watch Over Me
The Mighty Quinn
Some Girls
Twins
Body Snatchers 1993
We are what we are
splice
Heaven's Prisoners
Color of Night
This is a great thread! Thanks OP and all posters.
Here is my humble list of movies with an imdb average below 7 that I rated 8 or 9
*Really great stuff:
These Final Hours
It Follows
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Vanilla Sky
*Acquired taste:
Intacto
Fido
Acción mutante
Gentlemen Broncos
Resolution
*Guilty pleasure:
Piranha 3D
*Cronenberg:
eXistenZ
Crash
Scanners
The Brood
*In addition a few movies that have better ratings but that I think are great and not well known:
Timecrimes
Cemetary Man
Wild Palms (TV)
Vanishing Point
Wristcutters: A Love Story
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
The Day of the Beast
The Neon Demon.
It Follows.
Under The Skin.
Bridesmaids.
Hard to tell, mostly because everyone has his own tastes: in a site like imdb, in order to achieve a high score, a movie must be both a masterpiece and mainstream (or historically acclaimed). My tought is that Enemy suffers from a mainstream distribution, but it has some elements that doesn't appeal a mainstream audience.
Anyway, my suggestion is Izo , by Takashi Miike.
Edit: rethinnking about that, for high rating, other option is that the movie is extremely mainstream: for me that means a useless movie, but strenght is in numbers :D
What comes to my mind is The Who's Tommy
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