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Originally Posted by wilky61
I also feel that Fight Club is vastly overrated by the general populace because I think the average person loves this movie for all the wrong reasons and I think the average person just gets caught up with the OMG PLOT TWIST or the terrorism crap at the end of the movie and entirely misses the very clever social satire on contemporary masculine and corporate America presented within the movie's first hour. Once again, don't get me wrong. I like this movie, I like it a lot in fact. But every time I see it listed at the very top of somebody's top 20 list, I wince and wonder if they too like it for all the wrong reasons.



A little pretentious? That is pretentious, people that make statements like that like to think they are "in the know" about something.

Agree theres no right for someone to tell you the reasons you like a movie are right or wrong. Just like in the Lost thread someone told me I was watching the series for all the wrong reasons, bull, there is no wrong reason to watch a TV show.

That said I would agree with this as well

Soderburgh:
Overrated: Traffic
Underrated: The Limey

Two different genres, but the first two movies that came to mind....

Overrated: The Wedding Crashers

Underrated: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Apparently so did many posters in this thread.

Farrelly Brothers

Overrated: There's Something About Mary
Underrated: Kingpin

Granted these aren't high works of art, but figured I'd throw it out there. I don't hate There's Something About Mary, but I'm not wowed by it either, thinking its merely a decent comedy. Somehow it became one of those movies that just takes off at the box office. Kingpin, on the other hand, I find to be hilarious and a really great comedy. And yet it didn't do nearly the business of the Farrelly's movies released right before it (Dumb & Dumber) or after it (There's Something About Mary).

I know I did. Sorry.....

Sadly, I still haven't seen this. Then again, at a production rate of 3 to 5 films per year, he makes it difficult to keep up ....

Overrated: DVD Talk members' understanding of the terms "overrated" and "underrated".

Underrated: Sticking to the rules set by the OP.

I only did so after others...I'm a follower.

As far as Independence Day goes...I thought the movie was considered a blockbuster hit.

I have to disagree

Overrated: Casino

Underrated: Mean Streets

Huh!? It was a blockbuster. But is it highly rated by movie goers and critics? For the most part, no.

If anyone did that there would be nothing on DVDTalk to read!! :D

7 Book Series into films

Overrated: Harry Potter
Underrated: Chronicles of Narnia

Overrated - Forrest Gump

Underrated - Pulp Fiction


I say this because Gump beat Pulp for best picture. Such a crime.


Overrated - Dances with Wolves

Underrated - Goodfellas


Same reason.

I dont really think that is a question to anyone except The Academy. :0

I'd rather say:

Overrated: Forrest Gump
Underrated: the Shawshank Redemption

for your very reason.

I agree with every goddamn word!

My picks:

Overrated:
(as much as I like them) the films of Martin Scorsese.

Underrated:
The films of John Huston.

If we're not doing films from the same director anymore:
Overrated: Shawshank Redemption
Underrated: Escape from Alcatraz

Overrated: Pretty in Pink/Sixteen Candles
Underrated: Planes, Trains & Automobiles/Some Kind of Wonderful

*first thing that popped in my head...

Quentin Tarantino:

Overrated: all of them, but especially Reservoir Dogs
Underrated: True Romance

Uh, there seems to be a gap in logic regarding your choices. Unless of course, you mean Tarantino directed films.

Ugh. Don't remind me. Duvall turns in such a horrible performance that she almost single handedly turns a near masterpiece into almost unwatchable every time she's one screen.

The scene where she's running through the halls with that giant knife turns what should be a frightening sequence into a candidate for the most unintentionally funny scene ever.

It's no wonder Kubrick had such a difficult time with her during filming.

Ok, I was equating Independence Day as being highly rated since it was a blockbuster hit. Not necessarily the same thing.

Had to bump this, an interesting thread.

James Cameron:

Overrated: Aliens, T2 (both are vastly inferior to their predecessors, IMO)
Underrated: The Terminator

Quentin Tarantino:

Overrated: Pulp Fiction
Underrated: Jackie Brown

Wes Craven:

Overrated: Scream
Underrated: New Nightmare

David Fincher:

Overrated: Fight Club
Underrated: Zodiac

Pixar:

Overrated: The Incredibles
Underrated: A Bugs Life

Martin Scorsese:

Overrated: The Departed
Underrated: The King Of Comedy

Altman:

Overrated: M*A*S*H
Underrated: Images

Lang:

Overrated: Metropolis
Underrated: Blue Gardinia

Huston:

Overrated: The Misfits
Underrated: Fat City

Hawks:

Overrated: The Big Sleep
Underrated: El Dorado

Coppola:

Overrated: The Godfather
Underrated: Rumble Fish

Fellini:

Overrated: 8 1/2
Underrated: Variety Lights

Ford:

Overrated: The Searchers
Underrated: Hangman's House

Cassavetes:

Overrated: Faces
Underrated: A Child is Waiting

Nolan:

Overrated: Memento
Underrated: Following

Romero:

Overrated: Dawn of the Dead
Underrated: Martin

Cimino:

Overrated: Deer Hunter
Underrated: Heaven's Gate

Murnau:

Overrated: Tartuffe
Underrated: Phantom

Elia Kazan:

Overrated: Splendor in the Grass
Underrated: Panic in the Streets

Weir:

Overrated: The Last Wave
Underrated: The Plumber

Oliver Stone:

Overrated: Platoon
Underrated: Talk Radio

Fassbinder:

Overrated: Merchant of Four Season
Underrated: Fear of Fear

Ray:

Overrated: Rebel Without a Cause
Underrated: Party Girl

QFT. I'll never understand why so many people prefer Dawn to Night.

Rob Reiner

Overrated: This Is Spinal Tap

Underrated: The Princess Bride

Just curious, who exactly is saying The Misfits is a good film?

I'll play along:

Kubrick

Overrated: 2001
Underrated: Eyes Wide Shut

De Sica

Overrated: The Bicycle Thieves
Underrated: The Children are Watching Us

Bertolucci

Overrated: The Last Emperor
Underrated: The Conformist

Truffaut

Overrated: Jules et Jim
Underrated: Day for Night

Kurosawa

Overrated: Rashomon
Underrated: High & Low

Coens

Overrated: Fargo
Underrated: Miller's Crossing

I think it is a very good film, featuring Marilyn Monroe's finest dramatic performance. The Misfits enjoys a rather lofty reputation, due in no small part to the morbid mystique surrounding the final appearances of Monroe and Clark Gable, as well as the film being one of Montgomery Clift's final starring roles. What I find grating and forced about the film is the attempt by Arthur Miller to turn the Monroe character into some kind of idealized, almost mythological saint - there is no end of flowery, laudatory dialogue from Gable and Wallach heaped upon her, and it grows tiresome after a while. Most of the films I labeled as overrated I still hold a positive opinion of.

Overrated: Lord of the Rings

Underrated: Son of the Mask

Overrated: Spiderman

Underrated: The Quick and the Dead

Overrated: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Underrated: Alexander

Overrated: Mamet
Underrated: Parker

How can a film that is considered the best film ever and IS the best film ever be overrated?

Instead of "playing along" you should have looked up "overrated" in the dictionary.

overrate o·ver·rate
–verb (used with object), -rat·ed, -rat·ing.
1. to rate or appraise too highly; overestimate;
2.
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