Overrated movies

[vote-me]

King Kong and Brokeback Mountian for me - whoever said 'Crash' was over-rated needs to go watch it again!

 

[operative_seven]

"Gladiator" was a good movie but how this over-hyped and over-rated film won 5 Oscars is beyond me.(maybe everyone was afraid of what Russell Crowe would do to them if it didn't win )

I was really anticipating a good old-fashioned Roman gladiator film but the movie just lacked that certain "something" that made it fall short of being an "epic". It seemed like a very hollow film.

I also didn't like way the fight scenes were filmed with that stop-and-go film technique. It just made the fight sequences confusing and it gave me a head-ache.

 

[LiquidSky]

I would have to add The Royal Tenenbaums as overrated. Actually, anything directed by Wes Anderson except Rushmore. His work is just so overbearingly pretentious, I'm not sure if I'm supposed to "get it."

And I liked bits and parts of Lost in Translation, but it was just too subtle for me. I don't have a particular problem against Bill Murray or anything.

I have to disagree with you. Anderson's films definitely appeal to my sense of humor. "Tenenbaums" was my favorite film of that year and the only film I can stand Paltrow in.

Loved "Lost in Translation" as well. Oh well, different opinions are what makes the world go round.....

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Overrated films for me:

Forest Gump

The English Patient (and I love the two lead actors)

Shakespeare In Love (Paltrow again. Yikes! Blanchett deserved the Oscar that year for her excellent performance in "Elizabeth")

 

[miztab13]

King Kong and Brokeback Mountian for me - whoever said 'Crash' was over-rated needs to go watch it again!

Umm.. no I don't think so. I already wasted my time first time I watched it, why the hell would I waste it again? It's the most over-rated movie this year. All the polls that ask which one of the 5 Best Pic Oscar nominees don't deserve to be there and Crash leads in all of them.

I couldn't even believe the same writer wrote Million Dollar Baby. Crash's script felt amateurish. The characters are caricature stereotypes. The editing was messy. Lots of cliched coincidences. It's manipulative. It doesn't make you think, everything in it was spoon-fed to the audience.

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This is one of the funniest things I've read about Crash.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10537583/

"Awful is the new Awesome" -

Kids, racism is really really really bad and wrong. Look, just watch this heavy, important movie about how everyone who lives in Los Angeles — all 12 of them — is super racist and awful. There. Did you watch it and pay very close attention? Good. Do you now understand the message? Because if you don’t then you’re going to have to watch it again. With Oprah. She thinks it’s as good as “Citizen Kane.” She said so on her show.
Why you should see it anyway: Because it’s really funny when Hollywood decides to tackle a serious moral issue and throw star-powered weight behind something that everyone but Neo-Nazis agrees on already. To ice the Let’s Pat Ourselves on The Back Cake, they’ll probably give it Oscar too. I know the scene where Racism pushes Sandra Bullock down a flight of stairs deserves some kind of award.

 

[atswimtwoboys]

Schindler's List is perhaps the worst movie ever made and certainly the worst thing to win the Oscar for Best Picture (but then, I didn't see Braveheart).

Actually, I find anything by Spielberg completely unwatchable. A second-rate technician who thinks he's profound. A cross between Michael Bay and Ron Howard.

And he seems to release a movie every two and half weeks.

 

[atswimtwoboys]

For me it's "Gone With The Wind". This huge epic story of some rich white woman, who practically looses everything she has (but her slaves). She was an evil hag. I wanted to slap the shit out of her. But maybe that's just me.

Best review of GWTW (isn't that abbreviation just too precious?) I've ever seen. As for slapping the shit out of Scarlet, considering how she loves being beat up by Rhett, she'd probably enjoy it.

 

[miztab13]

Umm.. no I don't think so. I already wasted my time first time I watched it, why the hell would I waste it again? It's the most over-rated movie this year. All the polls that ask which one of the 5 Best Pic Oscar nominees don't deserve to be there and Crash leads in all of them.

I couldn't even believe the same writer wrote Million Dollar Baby. Crash's script felt amateurish. The characters are caricature stereotypes. The editing was messy. Lots of cliched coincidences. It's manipulative. It doesn't make you think, everything in it was spoon-fed to the audience.

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This is one of the funniest things I've read about Crash.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10537583/

"Awful is the new Awesome" -

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Even the director thought it wasn't that good, but the test audience liked it so Lions Gate didn't let him edit the film.

 

[threepointshooter]

1. Dead Poets Society

My English Comp teacher made us watch this damn movie two years ago. It was AWFUL! Everyone was fighting to stay awake because we knew we were going to have a test over the movie. I am still shocked that people actually liked that movie. Wow. When I would tell people that I was watching this really boring movie in English they would ask what it was. When I would tell them, they would go on and on about how much they just loved it. I gave it a chance. It just didn't do anything for me. I realize that a lot of people liked this movie, but I am not one of them!

2. Hoosiers

I am a HUGE basketball fan. I love to play/watch basketball more than anything. People always said, "How can you love basketball so much and you have never seen that movie???" Well, a few years ago I actually sat down to watch it. BORING! Yea, it is a great story. Everyone loves the underdog. That is why March Madness is so much fun. This movie is just boring to watch. I don't know what it is. It might be the era. It might just be that it is kind of corny. I will take "Love & Basketball" or "He Got Game" over "Hoosiers" any day.

3. I don't really know that any of these next films were "rated" to begin with. I do know that I have heard them mentioned way more than they should be on my campus.
3a. The Dukes of Hazzard (My friends wanted to see it and I had little say in it. It is pure garbage.)
3b. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (CRAP! Will Ferrell was ok on SNL, but his movies aren't so great. I am sick of hearing people quote this one.)
3c. Napoleon Dynamite (This one really doesn't need too much description. Yes, it was kind of funny in a stupid way the first time you see it. There is FINALLY some backlash toward this movie. I think people are finally sick of hearing it quoted all the damn time.)

 

[HoustonTroy]

Anything by Michael Bay, Independance Day, Shreck I and II.

Yes I went there. I hate Shreck.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

Harry potter sucks

Harry Potter.......( I took my nieces and almost fell asleep)
and
Lord of the Rings

I hate them....... overrated crap

 

[thatcrap]

In my opinion:

1) The Sixth Sense (I struggled to stay awake) and almost everything else by M. Night Shymalan - I enjoyed Unbreakable (ironically the least-hyped of them all)

2) Star Wars Episodes I through III (thanks for ruining Star Wars, George Lucas)

3) The last 2 Matrix movies (It was no longer a novel idea)

4) Both the Minority Report and War of the Worlds (Spielberg's movies are overly-simplified and Cruise is an annoying freak)

5) The endings of Steven Soderbergh films (his movies are edgy and employ twists right up until the end, where they paradoxically end with the most-predictable endings ever) Anyone else notice this?

And much, much more.

BTW, I started a new thread with the most UNDERrated movies. Perhaps we can give each other ideas for the next trip to the movie store.

 

[operative_seven]

I agree enthusiastically with The Sixth Sense... and ANYTHING else M Night Shyamalan touches is complete crap. Oooooh, twist endings, big fucking deal.

I have to admit that "The Village" is one of my favorite guilty pleasures.

The "twist ending" was pretty easy to figure out about a 1/4 of the way thru the film but I enjoyed the movie for the "love story" it told and I thought the (music) soundtrack was outstanding.

 

[PhoenixRising]

Rent. This movie was absolutely terrible. Like a two hour root canal(actualy, I think I'd prefer the root canal...). All of my friends thought it was the best movie they've ever seen, but I couldn't stand it. The songs were the pits, the acting sucked, and the plot pissed me off(get a job and pay the fucking rent!).

Rant (not to be confused with Rent) over.

 

[juley]

1986 Box Office hit of the year: Top Gun. Was there even a plot?

 

[pausanias_usa]

At least Dead Poets Society had Robert Sean Leonard!

That said, it also had Robin Williams who has made an inconclusive step into drama.
Not gonna get an Oscar either way.

Speaking of RSL, he has a nude scene in Branagh's MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING that's kinda hot . . . saw him recently on a made-for-tv movie for the SciFi channel, of all places.

 

[JesseNYC]

The Exorcist! Absolutely Horrible! Not Scary! Stupid! And a waste of my life!

Lord of the Rings 1 & 2, I liked 3

Million Dollar Baby

The Sith Sense, when I first saw it I totally called that Bruce was dead.

 

[okiedokie]

anything with tom cruise in it for the past 10 or 12 years

 

[cityboy-stl]

Re: Overrated movies <- Goodfellas

Not very many people are going to agree with me probably...

Goodfellas​

1. They stole a lot of money.
2. They sold a lot of drugs.
3. They killed a lot of people.
4. They said the 'F' word five thousand times.

That's all there is to it. I hated that movie.

 

[DarkNeko]

Anything Peter Jackson touches is overrated (Lord of the Rings, King Kong)

 

[Spellbound]

Lets see:

Crash
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Anchorman
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Million Dollar Baby
Scarface
Fight Club
Donnie Darko
Signs
King Kong (original and '05 remake)
Mildred Pierce
The Star Wars trilogy
The Star Wars prequels
Forrest Gump
Napolean Dynamite
Shakespear In Love
The Matrix trilogy
A.I.
Spiderman 2
The Passion of the Christ
Independence Day
Troy
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Pirates of the Carribean
Rent
Clerks
Mallrats
Chasing Amy
Garden State
Mystic River
Ray
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Don't Look Now
Day of the Dead
Boondock Saints
Cabin Fever
Hostel
Saw
Saw 2
The Grudge