Moon (2009) escaped many people's notice and was really good.
Don't read too much about it, there's a component of mystery that's better if it's not spoiled.
Don't read too much about it, there's a component of mystery that's better if it's not spoiled.
In my view, Moon wasn't underrated. It was very well received overall by both critics and those who saw it[1], which is inline with how I felt about it.
However, it wasn't a blockbuster, and so the chances are there are many who don't know about it and who would enjoy seeing it.
There's some I've enjoyed that got poor ratings, but not like they were objectively better than their reviews suggested, I was just willing to overlook their flaws.
I'm not sure if this is due to movie criticism improving, or my tastes just more closely aligning with modern trends or what. Feels like it didn't used to be true. Only thing I can guess at as a turning point was the existence of rottentomatoes.com.
For me personally I think that's a large part of it. For example I loved Dark Star, even though the main "monster" is literally and very obviously a beach ball. There was just so much else that I liked that the beach ball didn't put me off.
I've seen many movies with relatively poor ratings that I enjoyed quite a lot.
I looked it up and they _say_ the other movie was written before Moon came out, so it couldn't have copied, but feels like a pretty shallow denial to me. I suspect they just saw the screenplay or something, but what do I know.