Share Something You Love That's Underappreciated

[warm slurm]

Is there something you absolutely adore, yet nobody else seems to know about it? Could be anything -- a tv show, a movie, a game, a book, a band, maybe even just a song. I love finding underappreciated classics, I don't know if anyone else does.

Mine would be The Comeback. It lasted one season on HBO before getting cancelled due to low ratings. Lisa Kudrow got an Emmy nominated (which she should have won), but after it finished nobody ever seems to remember it. I've yet to meet anyone who has actually seen it. I think Lisa Kudrow does one of the best performances I've ever seen on a tv show; she blows everything she did with Phoebe Buffay out of the freakin' water. Her acting in the penultimate episode (and the last, in fact) is fantastic. The Comeback, along with Arrested Development, is probably my favourite show of all time.

The cast also includes Malin Akerman and Kellan Lutz before they became big.

A scene lol:
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So share too, I'd really like to see if there's some awesome stuff I don't know about!

 

[Sleekgiant]

Spoiler: Ronald Jenkees

Spoiler: Renard's music

That is all for now.

 

[Dark Knifer]

System of a down

Oh, something that's under appreciated...

System of a down

Something that not a lot of people know about...

System of a Down

All-right I'll answer for real this time. There is this band that not a lot of people know about called System of a down VIZA. It's a really good band, but very few people know about it.

Spoiler: I say it deserves some attention...

 

[baconsarnie]

subtitled foreign films, too epic to be dubbed in english

also focus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFDW9b_ejfI

 

[aPod]

Eggs:

For too long they've been accused of causing cholesterol. People do not always understand that it does, but it raises Good Cholesterol which actually protects your heart and Arteries.

I love eggs, I eat at least 8 a day. Might be too much for most people but eggs are highly nutritious and you should be eating them.

 

[Anarchemitis]

One of the most singularly understated and phenomenal machinimas ever made was made by LitFuse Films two years ago, slated to be the first installment of a larger series of biographies of the fictional character of Jack Stone, but was cancelled after the first short when the director and animator of the project both got jobs at Bioware.
The work itself is a testament to the vocal narration by the writer and the voice actor as well as the music, all coming together and making the visuals almost entirely subordinate to their efforts. As an animation student I should be outraged at the limitations that are present because of the nature of character animation in Source Engine games and machinimas, but the narrative works so hard it doesn't bother me.

Spoiler

Stone killed his wife because of an affair.

 

[Gigano]

The ever underappreciated gem that is Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (When they Cry).

It does have an official review [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/reviews/anime/6503-Anime-Review-Higurashi-When-They-Cry] and a small following [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/Higurashi-no-Naku-Koro-ni] on this site, but no one's ever heard of it where I live, nor can it really be appreciated enough as a brilliant psychological horror mystery.

 

[Nouw]

Luca Turilli, we need more Symphonic Power Metal fans! MORE!
[sub]His second album which is my favourite, is in a Sci-Fi setting and the lyrics show a story.[/sub]

Moon, a fantastic indie Science Fiction thriller which should be watched especially if you liked 2001.

 

[The Small Cheese]

The Dire Staits album Love over Gold. The songs are each very long, but as a whole the album is just great.

 

[Mr.Pandah]

Luca Turilli, we need more Symphonic Power Metal fans! MORE!
[sub]His second album which is my favourite, is in a Sci-Fi setting and the lyrics show a story.[/sub]

Moon, a fantastic indie Science Fiction thriller which should be watched especially if you liked 2001.

I'll agree with you on Moon...but I do enjoy having that in my arsenal of movies that I've watched and not many others have.

Hmmm...Is Streetlight Manifesto underappreciated? I don't even know anymore.

I do love sitting around with a bunch of people and just bullshitting. I think that is greatly underappreciated.

 

[Mr. Omega]

Silence. Everybody hates it when things are quite, but just find a good place with no noise. It's really calming.

 

[Beat14]

Watching the world go by.

 

[Kursura]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Sky Odyssey for the PS2. One of the only games of it's kind (a half sim, half arcade, all flying adventure), well made and yet nobody seems to have even heard of it.

 

[[.redacted]]

I'll just do one of a few categories...

Music: Disarmonia Mundi
Anime: Claymore
Game: League of Legends

[sub]League may be big elseware, but where I come from nobody has ever even heard if the genre.[/sub]

 

[BioHazardMan]

We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel. History nuts' wet dream.

 

[Falseprophet]

The sadly underappreciated mid-90s sci-fi series, Space:Above and Beyond. A great portrayal of Earth's war against an unknown and powerful alien enemy from the front lines, with a lot of allusions to WWII and other historical events. A nice complement to Babylon 5, another show at the time with similar themes, although B5 tended to focus more on the politicians and generals.

Best scene from S:AAB--T.C. McQueen, a member of a human underclass of test-tube soldiers created to be cannon fodder, was the greatest human ace until a war wound grounded him and he became the CO of the Wildcards, the main characters of the show. In this episode, after one of his people is killed by an unstoppable enemy ace, he risks death to fly again because no one else can do the job:

 

[Geekosaurus]

Spaced. I know this has a pretty good cult following, but it still seems like more people should be aware of this.


Ok the video wont embed, but watch it on YouTube - it's worth it.

 

[tomtom94]

My answer for this used to be Rise Against (I live in the UK) but as word has spread around my area of their awesomeness, they don't really count.
[small]new album in two months...[/small]

So instead I'm just going to post this song, from the third album by Lostprophets (well known here, less so in the States I gather)


I don't hear this talked about, I highly doubt the band play it live, and it was never released as a single.
The lyrics of the chorus are so strange I prefer the mondegreens I heard originally, it's very poppy in contrast to the band's earlier work, and the title's a typo.
But in spite of all of the above I absolutely love it, I'd say it's on a par with all the other awesome songs the album includes (and there are several).
I guess it's the vocals, they're very singalongable.

 

[Hiikuro]

Moon, a fantastic indie Science Fiction thriller which should be watched especially if you liked 2001.

Moon was, indeed, fantastic. Really made me think. And the soundtrack was amazing, thanks to Clint Mansell!

On that note, the movie "pi", and any movie by Darren Aronofsky (some of them are widely known).