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Underappreciated Welcome to the seventh edition of "Underappreciated". The previous posts came in threes, first with the lower budget films, Joe Versus the Volcano , Equilibrium , and The Last Ride , and then later with the big budget films, Terminator Salvation , RoboCop (2014), and The Flash . But this one is a one-off. Once again, to be underappreciated is to have deserved better audience response, critical response, or both. UHF (1989) | Comedy + Parody This post was teased a few months ago right after I returned from hiatus when I discussed Weird: The Al Yankovic Story as part of SEVENSES: Biopics . If you do not want to take the time, I shared that "Weird Al" Yankovic's album Even Worse was the beginning of my fandom. His career prior and since was a series of ups and downs but one thing is for sure, he has proven he is not just a novelty like many artists whose genre is comedy and/or parody. However, one of those low points was his album just prior to E...

This post will be a spinoff of sorts of "Into the Fray". There is enough debate in the subject matter for it to be similar, but also different enough since the goal is not to declare a definitive winner. Akin to "Into the Fray," there are contenders, but dissimilarly there is not criteria to choose them. They simply are, and there are more than four. It could be measurable by another set of criteria, but which is best really depends on objective. Still, some common criteria are inevitable. Star Wars: The  Watch Order Debate Star Wars has a public history of nearly fifty years, with the novelization of the first film predating even it by around seven months. To date, there have been twelve films theatrically released, eleven of them live-action (plus another scheduled to release shortly). Since the single fully animated movie, The Clone Wars , was actually a big screen pilot for the small screen series of the same name, we are only looking at the live-action films. L...