Yeti4623

What are some movies you think are too often overly criticized this decade? For me, Terminator 3 and the Planet of the Apes remake.

Jacoby Ellsbury

matrix 2 and 3

An4h0ny

No Country For Old Men

Palaver

Superman Returns

Shannon Nutt

The Passion of The Christ
Pearl Harbor
Fahrenheit 9/11

Hokeyboy

Offhand, I'd say Ang Lee's HULK. But there are better examples, and I don't have time for tonterias.

Randy Miller III

Be Kind Rewind is the first one that popped into my head, since it's a pretty recent release. Can't believe the hate that one got in some circles.

Hokeyboy

OH! Another one: Pixar's Cars. I thought it was a wonderfully funny and heartfelt movie that had the unmitigated temerity to be NOT quite as good as "The Incredibles" or "Finding Nemo".

Zen Peckinpah

Domino. Sure, the film's style is so godawfully out of its mind, but that's the freakin' movie. When arms are cut off in the first 5 minutes and used as collateral, two guys from Beverly Hills 90210 play themselves, and a plot device specifically references Point Break of all movies, you know this isn't a Terrence Malick film but special nonetheless. but I think the execution fits the film exactly and that it's a pretty awesome movie to boot. Also love the supporting cast (Rourke, Walken, Coleman, Lindo), and Mo'Nique actually shined in the film especially during the Jerry Springer scene. Even if he does cannibalize from True Romance's climax at the end it's a lot of fun.

I could also make an argument that Man on Fire is awesome, but it's more accepted than Domino. And though they're not this decade, I'll gladly give you good reason that The Last Boy Scout is a twisted, mean-spirited blast and that the director's cut of Revenge makes the film an intriguing supplementary experience to No Country for Old Men.

fumanstan

For me, best picture winners Gladiator and Crash.

Hokeyboy

A critically adored, box-office hit that won Best Picture and a slew of other Oscars is unfairly criticized?

wendersfan

Artificial Intelligence: A.I.

chris_sc77

Unfairly criticized:
Gigli. Despite Lopez's awful performance I think its a really enjoyable funny film with strange performances by Walken and Pacino. I would love to see the original final act of the film in which things got violent.
Southland Tales- It s very flawed but there is also so much to enjoy.

Overly Criticized:
Chicago- This movie was shit
Michael Clayton- Boring and frustrating

An4h0ny

i know at least a dozen people who's main comment about this movie is 'it sucks, the ending doesn't make sense'

half the people i talk to love it, half hate it and/or say it doesn't make sense

i've heard TONS of criticism of this movie and to me it's unfair and overly criticized... hence me posting it

to be clear, it was my favorite film of the year - and also one of the most heavily slammed as 'sucking'


i loved southland tales

jon lovitz ruled in that

The Antipodean

Pixar's CARS definitely
Spider-Man 3 (yes, worse than the first 2, but still 75% of a fine movie I thought)

I'll second AI, loved that movie

Hokeyboy

Wow... you're like the Bizarro-Muhlhauser.... is your name 'Jeff Schwartz', by any chance?

geicos27

Crash

wilky61

Crash

pjflyer

Pootie Tang

LolaRennt

Crash

An4h0ny

Pootie don't need no words. Don't even need no music.

Cardiac161

Spielberg's Munich. Personally think it's one of his best films but for some reason, quite a lot of people didn't like the ambiguity of the characters, the neutrality of the film and the gray message it provokes in the end.

Though a handful of critics praised it, I don't think it was commercially successful maybe due to it being a part of history that is largely forgotten.

NoirFan

Jonathan Rosenbaum has an interesting negative take on the film here. It has become fashionable to slam Donnie Darko and the film's obsessive fans, but I always thought it was a highly original piece of filmmaking, though certainly muddled plotwise.

Zen Peckinpah

That's because if you walk in expecting a harrowing but triumphant story like Schindler's List or Saving Private Ryan, you'll be caught off-guard by how dark and unflinching it is.

Ky-Fi

Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes
Ang Lee's Hulk
Spielberg's War of the Worlds
Singer's Superman Returns