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Titanic makes my list.
Matrix was just OK. Gladiator. One of the few blind DVD buys. Put me to sleep. Wish I had an hour. I could name many movies that could fit the bill. |
Originally posted by Pauly G**amn. If Lawrence of Arabia is just *okay* please do us all a favor and list some films that you feel are superior so the rest of the world can get up to speed. Casablanca North by Northwest Pulp Fiction Unforgiven Raiders of the Lost Ark Empire Strikes Back Saving Private Ryan It's a Wonderful Life Braveheart These are atop my list of favorite movies. Just because you liked LOA and I didn't doesn't make you right. I have watched all of the films that I listed as overrated. I did not enjoy them. Here they are again if someone wants to dispute my opinion. Lawrence of Arabia Citizen Kane Raging Bull Oh yeah, I will add one more that I watched this weekend... Midnight Cowboy (didn't enjoy it) |
Forest Gump
Shakespeare in Love Titanic The English Patient |
Originally posted by chente Forest Gump Shakespeare in Love Titanic The English Patient IMHO, 'Saving Private Ryan' should have won Best picture over it!! |
Anything directed by Ridley Scott or Michael Mann
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Memento
The Shawshank Redemption The Usual Suspects American Beauty The Silence of the Lambs Midnight Cowboy Raging Bull Goodfellas Taxi Driver Scarface Forrest Gump Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Annie Hall Not that I neccessarily dislike all of these movies - but I do think they are grossly overrated. For example - looking at the IMDB rankings, The Shawshank Redemption is ranked #2. Sure, it's a good movie and all - but #2 all-time? Hardly. |
Eventhough I absolutely love these movies, I do find that the Star Wars movies with their popularity is a bit overrated
The LoTR movies and the Matrix movies are also a bit overrated. Pains me to say so tho, because I enjoyed all these movies a lot. |
Royal Tenenbaums and Rushmore just didn't live up to all the glorious reviews, IMO.
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Originally posted by chente Forest Gump Shakespeare in Love Titanic The English Patient also Kevin Smith's movies... i dunno i just couldn't take his jokes very well... |
The Godfather movies. They are good, but not great.
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Chicago - perhaps the most overrated movie of all time.
A few others that come to mind.... Vertigo Punch Drunk Love Picnic at Hanging Rock Moulin Rouge Gladiator Rebecca |
Matrix 2 and 3.
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thought of 2 more
the goonies ferris beuhler's day off (good movies, just not deserving of the hype they get for being "classics") |
Originally posted by brizz Chicago - perhaps the most overrated movie of all time. A few others that come to mind.... Vertigo Punch Drunk Love Picnic at Hanging Rock Moulin Rouge Gladiator Rebecca |
I would say Lord of the Rings 1 and 2, but then again, some people's heads would collectively explode with the mere thought of the LOTR films not being all they're hyped up to be. No word yet on if ROTK will live up to the hype, obviously.
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Originally posted by huh? Matrix 2 and 3. |
I can't think of a list of films right now, so i'll just have to mention ones i've seen recently:
Kill Bill Royal Tenembaums Spiderman |
Big Lebowski- witty remarks and constant cursing makes a good movie not.
Fight Club- A 2 hour long film about corporation bitching gets tiresome as does the angsty moaning about how we haven't evolved from primordial sludge. Pulp Fiction- Enjoyable to watch, but definitely not as much praise as it deserves. |
Casablanca
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Lost in Translation (more than any other movie I can think of)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Gladiator Monster's Ball Panic Room Suspiria THX 1138 American Psycho |
Holy thread resurrection!
Citizen Kane is generally touted as great simply because of all its technical accomplishments. For instance, Wells pretty much invented the tracking shot. |
Originally Posted by Fred C. Dobbs
Which films do you think are overrated? I'm talking mainstream films and cult films. I think this would be interesting to see which films people feel are overrated.
My list: SEVEN SAMURAI HORROR OF DRACULA (I prefer CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN. Seriously overpraised) THE BIG SLEEP (I love Bogart, he's my favorite actor of all-time, but in this one, he might as well be [badjoke]Humphrey BORE-gart[/badjoke]) PSYCHO THE GODFATHER (Part II is MUCH better) DR. ZHIVAGO (Overlong costume drama. Hated it) ALL ABOUT EVE MY FAIR LADY THE GRADUATE THE EXORCIST FIGHT CLUB THE MATRIX LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS SOME LIKE IT HOT (I love Billy Wilder. ONE TWO THREE, SUSNET BOULEVARD, and DOUBLE INDEMNITY are all great, but I didn't like this at all) ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (I prefer DePalma's PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE) DUCK SOUP (I love The Marx Brothers, but I didn't care for this one) SCARFACE (Remake) STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE JAWS Please don't bash me for my opinions. That's all I am, another opinion. Don't like it? No problem. But lets not start a flame war over this. |
Originally Posted by FRwL
Godfather II- the young Vito parts were good while the Pacino parts were meandering, over indulgent, all the method brooding with outbursts of yelling gets really boring. The Pacino parts weren't from the book. I say take the young Vito parts from GFII and put them into GFI and then burn GFII.
Big Lebowski- witty remarks and constant cursing makes a good movie not. Fight Club- A 2 hour long film about corporation bitching gets tiresome as does the angsty moaning about how we haven't evolved from primordial sludge. Pulp Fiction- Enjoyable to watch, but definitely not as much praise as it deserves. :shrug: |
Shut the fuck up, Donny!
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Originally Posted by T1000
Shut the fuck up, Donny!
rotfl |
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