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Re: Top Ten Overrated Movies
Originally Posted by davidlynchfan
(Post 9790821)
I think I'm starting to like No Country for Old Men more than ever. -wink-
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Re: Top Ten Overrated Movies
Originally Posted by mike45
(Post 9790631)
I think all of the films except Apocalypse Now are overrated. Apocalypse Now is one of the greatest films ever made.
Originally Posted by NoirFan
(Post 9790561)
10 off of the top of my head:
Scarface (1983) * Forrest Gump Boondock Saints No Country for Old Men Network * The Curious Case of Benjamin Button * Magnolia * Shawshank Redemption Slumdog Millionaire Easy Rider* * All films I own! |
Re: Top Ten Overrated Movies
Any list of Top 10 overrated movies that does not include 2001 and The Dark Knight is an epic fail in my book.
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Re: Top Ten Overrated Movies
Originally Posted by scott1598
(Post 9790872)
fixed.
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Re: Top Ten Overrated Movies
Originally Posted by Giles
(Post 9790768)
it comes to no surprise for me to state that "I" find 'Chasing Amy' more overrated than 'Clerks' but of course everyone on this board knows I have a disdain for it. :D
The biggest seems to be that Alyssa is a lesbian, but she pretty much admits to Holden that she is bi-sexual (in the bit "explaining" why shes with him"). Holden's problem is still the still the same (not feeling adequate), but whole "shes a lesbian sleeping with a guy" conflict/stuff is rather moot. Back to the topic at hand. Why isn't "Fight Club" listed? That movie is so overrated it isn't even funny. |
Re: Top Ten Overrated Movies
I would say Boondock Saints, Donnie Darko, Fight Club, a few others.
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Re: Top Ten Overrated Movies
Fight Club probably isn't a contender due to the overwhelming negative reaction the movie recieved when it was initially released. Only since DVD has it garnered it's following/retractions from certain critics.
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Re: Top Ten Overrated Movies
All of the classic, foreign, independent/cult and other non-hollywood type films that I have ever seen have met or far exceeded hyped expectations when viewed through my thick rimmed, rose/misty water colored memory glasses.
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Re: Top Ten Overrated Movies
I've got to add my all-time favorite overrated movie to the list: Taxi Driver. It just did nothing for me except bore me.
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Re: Top Ten Overrated Movies
Originally Posted by jmsmath
(Post 9791835)
I've got to add my all-time favorite overrated movie to the list: Taxi Driver. It just did nothing for me except bore me.
"Someday a real rain will come and wash scum like you off the internet." |
Re: Top Ten Overrated Movies
Originally Posted by AnonomusBob15
(Post 9791766)
Fight Club probably isn't a contender due to the overwhelming negative reaction the movie recieved when it was initially released. Only since DVD has it garnered it's following/retractions from certain critics.
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Re: Top Ten Overrated Movies
OVERRATED:
1. Godfather 1 & 2 (Raging Bull is 100 times better than these two) 2. Casablanca (dated garbage) 3. Jaws (zzzz...zzzz...what a shark fin? oh...zzzz...) 4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (zzzz) 5. The Good, the Bad, the Ugly 6. Once Upon A Time In America (this just seems so bad) 7. Memento (Should I like this film?..wait I forgot....should I love this film?...wait I forgot) 8. American Beauty (was great at the time, but has quickly dated) 9. Chinatown (zzzz...band aid is still on his nose? zzzz....Mother and Sister!!! oh..zzzz) 10. Seven Samurai (okay the first time...snoring the second time) 11. Sound of Music(this is a classic, but not Bedknobs & Broomsticks? Just another live-action Disney-like film) 12. The Wizard of Oz (just a good children's movie but nothing that special) 13. Rocky (zzzz....fight scene! zzzz....good movie, but Rocky 4 is more entertaining) |
Re: Top Ten Overrated Movies
everyone's a comedian
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Re: Top Ten Overrated Movies
Any movie by Kevin Smith.
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Re: Top Ten Overrated Movies
Originally Posted by Double_Oh_7
(Post 9792429)
Any movie by Kevin Smith.
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Re: Top Ten Overrated Movies
-Crash
-Million Dollar Baby -Dark Knight -Donnie Darko -Deer Hunter -Finding Nemo -Spirited Away -Irreversible (not sure how 'rated' it is) -Any Star Wars -The Matrix -The Wrestler -Fargo -Children of Men -The Curious Case of Benjamin Button -Twelve Monkeys -Super Troopers Probably forgot a ton. |
Re: Top Ten Overrated Movies
Originally Posted by Yeti4623
(Post 9790634)
No Country For Old Men takes the the whole bakery.
Originally Posted by onebyone
(Post 9790640)
Yep, my first instinct of how to answer this thread would be to list that movie ten times and call it a day.
Originally Posted by Giles
(Post 9790761)
:thumbsup:
Originally Posted by The Cow
(Post 9790775)
:up: :up:
Originally Posted by jmsmath
(Post 9791835)
I've got to add my all-time favorite overrated movie to the list: Taxi Driver. It just did nothing for me except bore me.
Originally Posted by Ash Ketchum
(Post 9792092)
As Travis Bickle would say:
"Someday a real rain will come and wash scum like you off the internet." |
Re: Top Ten Overrated Movies
Originally Posted by UAIOE
(Post 9791386)
Why isn't "Fight Club" listed? That movie is so overrated it isn't even funny. 1.this movie is AWESOME and COOL (late teens) 2.seedy movie, fairytale fiction for serial killers, ugly surroundings, man-children, angsty bitching blah. 3.you know this is actually okay since i get the ending says everything before was wrong so it's cool! 4.eh fuck it anyway since that doesn't make watching the rest of the movie any better, actors are unlikable twats. i hope the last phase will be with me forever. :) |
Re: Top Ten Overrated Movies
Originally Posted by Skyclad01
(Post 9790789)
Rocky Horror Picture Show
A Clockwork Orange Batman Begins The Dark Knight Star Wars 1, 2, 3 Borat |
Re: Top Ten Overrated Movies
Here's a hint, a film isn't necessarily bad or overrated because you didn't like it.
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Re: Top Ten Overrated Movies
Originally Posted by toddly6666
(Post 9792376)
OVERRATED:
1. Godfather 1 & 2 (Raging Bull is 100 times better than these two) |
Re: Top Ten Overrated Movies
Originally Posted by Mountain Biker
(Post 9791219)
Any list of Top 10 overrated movies that does not include 2001 and The Dark Knight is an epic fail in my book.
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Re: Top Ten Overrated Movies
Fight Club & The Usual Suspects belong on any list of overrated films. Both films are completely dreadful, and yet have garnered an inexplicable amount of praise from so many people. It actually makes me sick thinking about it. Also agreed with The Dark Knight & The Matrix. I'd also add Se7en and Benjamin Button, two more David Fincher pieces of shits, to my list of overrated films. I'm no fan of Tarantino's either, though his films don't piss me off the way Fincher's do.
Also, what's up with the hate for NCFOM? I thought most people generally recognized it as the only time this decade where the academy got it right. |
Re: Top Ten Overrated Movies
By and large, the directorial oeuvre of Clint Eastwood is fairly overrated. I certainly don't intend to besmirch all of his directorial work, but the critical praise bestowed on several of his films, including an entirely undeserved Best Picture Oscar for Unforgiven, is beyond reasonable justification. Gran Torino, in particular, was a very weak effort.
For me, Million Dollar Baby was the result of an ill-advised attempt to combine two pretty good films together into one. The result was a bit of a disaster. As a sports movie (its first 2/3 or so), I thought MDB was pretty damn good actually. |
Re: Top Ten Overrated Movies
- I always thought Forrest Gump was overrated. It was an entertaining movie, but people LOVED that movie in the summer of '94.
- Million Dollar Baby. I liked, thought was a good movie, but Best Picture???? - Return of the King. I loved Fellowship and Two Towers, but thought this was overbloated. - Casino. I LOVVVVEEE Goodfellas, but found this to be Goodfellas-lite. The first part of the movie is great, but the second act drags, and just doesn't have that freshness that Goodfellas had. - Gladiator. It is a fun, entertaining movie, but Best Picture??? - |
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