What are the most criminally overlooked films of the last ten years? Do you think they will eventually be appreciated for the masterpieces they are? Or are they bound for the dustbins, only to be discovered by true cineastes in the coming decades?
I am forever befuddled by the amount of people who haven't seen or haven't liked:
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Children of Men
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
United 93
A Serious Man
Honorable mention: Moon, The Proposition, Scott Pilgrim (very borderline).
I think these are honest to god great films. Masterpieces even. And yet, I suspect only Children of Men might gain Blade Runner type appreciation years after a lackluster theatrical release. Perhaps when people look back on the Coen Brothers' body of work and recognize them for what they are, as filmmakers to be considered alongside other greats like Scorsese and Kubrick and Wilder, A Serious Man will accrue greater respect.
What say you? Has it always been this way? What greats before this generation were lost and found? I know I'm forgetting some movies here too (or perhaps I overlooked them!).
I am forever befuddled by the amount of people who haven't seen or haven't liked:
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Children of Men
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
United 93
A Serious Man
Honorable mention: Moon, The Proposition, Scott Pilgrim (very borderline).
I think these are honest to god great films. Masterpieces even. And yet, I suspect only Children of Men might gain Blade Runner type appreciation years after a lackluster theatrical release. Perhaps when people look back on the Coen Brothers' body of work and recognize them for what they are, as filmmakers to be considered alongside other greats like Scorsese and Kubrick and Wilder, A Serious Man will accrue greater respect.
What say you? Has it always been this way? What greats before this generation were lost and found? I know I'm forgetting some movies here too (or perhaps I overlooked them!).






) Sorry, it was on tv last night, had to get some entertainment out of watching that somehow.