Overrated Movies

[zeebo]

... I am going to add all the Christopher Nolan Batman stuff here. ...

I would totally add Batman Begins.  Wtf that plot made no sense.  I mean yeah, cool action scenes etc. but verdict is:  overrated.   

[Camazotz Automat]

Interstellar

It's already being touted as the film of the century prior to its widespread release.  If that's not overrated, I'm The Mad Hatter (I win either way.)

Check back with me in 2099, where my cremains are residing within a golden sphere-shaped urn and I'll let ya know what I think at that future when of this past visual spectacle and its claimed superiority century-wise.

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10

10 was not a 10, but the nation took to it like it took to Pet Rocks. It was like some awful brainwashing mind control pulse wave possession hoodoo fu that must have been tied to the at the time prevalent chem rails (dispersal by train, versus modern aero-delivery.) White middle-class female teens getting exotic hair braid jobs that could put your eye out if they shook their heads too much while they rolled joints that looked like unopened TAMPAX for gnomes.  Good times? Maybe for Dudley Moore.

lateral submission:

Any televised presidential campaign, past, present, future.

Lady Media doth protest too much methinks.

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[Yorkshire pud]

Although it risks alienating my public, those who say Gravity is over rated are wrong. It's fantastic, Visually wonderful in 3D. 3D was made for it.. Full stop, next line.

Argo is a good film too.

I watched the first Lord of the Rings and thought that was over rated. As is any Star Wars film after the first one. Titanic, jeeeze, that's shit.

The problem with box office receipts, is they don't reflect how good a film is. It just says how many paid to watch it. A more accurate measure would be if everyone who watched it in the cinema was given a touch pad on their seat that went live as the credits roll up. And the film is rated 0-10.

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

Although it risks alienating my public, those who say Gravity is over rated are wrong. It's fantastic, Visually wonderful in 3D. 3D was made for it.. Full stop, next line.

Argo is a good film too.

I watched the first Lord of the Rings and thought that was over rated. As is any Star Wars film after the first one. Titanic, jeeeze, that's shit.

The problem with box office receipts, is they don't reflect how good a film is. It just says how many paid to watch it. A more accurate measure would be if everyone who watched it in the cinema was given a touch pad on their seat that went live as the credits roll up. And the film is rated 0-10.

I've only watched Gravity on my little tablet, but I've watched it over and over.  Every time I get bored and start it I'm hooked.

[FightTheFuture]

Gravity was an amazing film. I rate it top ten ALL-TIME.

[zeebo]

Ok, just to double-down, here's a few controversial ones.  Now, like my original preface, I'm not saying these are bad films.  But still, I think they're way overrated.

Drive
There Will Be Blood
No Country for Old Men

(This oughta stir the pot.)

[Lt.Uhura]

Citizen Kane. I'm sick of seeing that piece of shit included in every "greatest movie" list.

I couldn't agree more.  I thought I was the only one.  Thank you.

Also...

Pulp Fiction.  Evita.  The Silence of the Lambs.  Mrs. Doubtfire.  Clint Eastwood's westerns (like watching paint dry.)  Sleepless in Seattle (and just about all 'Romantic Comedy')  M*A*S*H (both the movie and TV show)...to name a few. 

[Camazotz Automat]

Star Trek movies (PC)
Star Wars movies (Mac)

Apocalypse Now
Pink Floyd's The Wall

Almost anything with George Clooney. The hype rarely matches the reality. What was that overrated film wherein he was a frequent flyer and fired people? WOW. That was like counting a horde of BBs suspended in a mason jar of Dippity-Do.

Oh, and that old made for TV movie, starring Elizabeth Montgomery as Lizzie Borden, and she's walking around naked and covered blood, carrying an axe after giving so and so forty whacks.

Wait a second.  I loved that! It wasn't hyped enough!

(later, it was discovered that Montgomery was related to Borden, thus proving that soul transmigration into an actor/actress, while not common, is certainly possible and often is prevalent along genetic lines.  We're all waiting to see where Ernest Borgnine rears his astrally activated DNA.)

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[Roswells, Art]

There's Something About Mary

Sideways

[Roswells, Art]

I'm kind of embarrassed to admit I saw it but I fell victim to the hype.  It might go with out saying but...The Hunger Games.

[Uncle Duke]

Rocky Horror Picture Show
Shane
Patton

[Gd5150]

Gravity - I can't think of a film that generates more love/hate. The imdb boards on it are hillarious. Personally I liked it. The cinematography is groundbreaking. An extremely unique sountrack and editing style. Anytime a production team invents a new technique, style, it has to be applauded. Gravity is one of those movies that will change how everything is done. If you get a chance, watch the documentary on how it was shot, it's mindblowing.

[Camazotz Automat]

Citizen Kane. I'm sick of seeing that piece of shit included in every "greatest movie" list.

And yet I espy the gates of Kane's Xanadu as your closing graphic for The Spec Sheet finale.

http://www.ufoship.com/?cat=11

[yumyumtree]

Haven't read all of the replies yet, but agree on Gravity.

Beetlejuice--appalling waste of talent.

Paranormal Activity One--what was the deal with all the miles of fine print at the end.  Was I supposed to sit through that?

The English Patient.  I abandoned this one a few minutes in.  I felt like Elaine on Seinfeld. My reaction to the book by Canadian big deal author Michael Ondtaaje(sp)was identical.  We could also do a thread like this for books.

Platoon  I missed this one when it came out in the 80s, but saw it a few weeks ago.

[yumyumtree]

And yet I espy the gates of Kane's Xanadu as your closing graphic for The Spec Sheet finale.

http://www.ufoship.com/?cat=11

I have a friend who's a Welles buff.  He doesn't consider the film a piece of shit, but does consider it overrated.  Check out Touch of Evil.

[yumyumtree]

There's Something About Mary

Sideways

I liked Sideways, but was disturbed by the moral bankruptcy of some of the characters. Giamatti's character (a schoolteacher, yet) steals money from his mother to go on a wine vacation. Then Sandra Oh's character jumps into bed with some guy engaged to another girl and lets him bond with her child, then goes ballistic when she finds of the truth about him.  This is what happens when your'e promiscuous, Honey. A sizable chunk of the guys will be in other relationships that they haven't told you about. Don't introduce your child unless he's a keeper.  Listen to Dr. Laura. Also what's the matter with Merlot?  I drink that Charles Shaw Merlot all the time, and recommend it while listening to Dr. Laura.

[b_dubb]

Dr Laura is a bitter old hag.  There's not enough KY in the world for that dried up slab of she - jerky.

[zeebo]

I couldn't agree more.  I thought I was the only one.  Thank you.....

This sentiment is why I started this thread.   So often I'm like, wtf, was that really the movie everyone keeps talking about?   

[yumyumtree]

Everything Tarantino made after Pulp Fiction.

Anything by Oliver Stone.

Avatar

Agree on Avatar.  The remarkable FX and animations did not make up for the sometimes ridiculous content.

I would actually include Pulp Fiction in Tarantino badness and say after Reservoir Dogs.  Pulp Fiction sent a lot of bad messages to kids, etc.

[yumyumtree]

Star Trek movies (PC)
Star Wars movies (Mac)

Apocalypse Now
Pink Floyd's The Wall

Almost anything with George Clooney. The hype rarely matches the reality. What was that overrated film wherein he was a frequent flyer and fired people? WOW. That was like counting a horde of BBs suspended in a mason jar of Dippity-Do.

Oh, and that old made for TV movie, starring Elizabeth Montgomery as Lizzie Borden, and she's walking around naked and covered blood, carrying an axe after giving so and so forty whacks.

Wait a second.  I loved that! It wasn't hyped enough!

(later, it was discovered that Montgomery was related to Borden, thus proving that soul transmigration into an actor/actress, while not common, is certainly possible and often is prevalent along genetic lines.  We're all waiting to see where Ernest Borgnine rears his astrally activated DNA.)

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Oh, so agree on The Wall.  An attenuated MTV video.  You have to be a young teen or on drugs to see it as profound.

[zeebo]

Gravity - I can't think of a film that generates more love/hate. The imdb boards on it are hillarious. Personally I liked it. The cinematography is groundbreaking.....

Yep we've got opposing views already here.  I agree that the visuals and sound too were amazing.  I saw it at home, but I can imagine at the theater it would have been awesome. 

Unfortunately I just think the story/characters that tried to support all the visuals, fell flat as something impacting the earth at terminal velocity.  (Btw I blame the writers - I thought Sandra Bullock was great.)

[Roswells, Art]

I agree on Avatar.  I looked forward to that movie for months then when I finally got to watch it I couldn't finish it.

[coaster]

The most recent Planet Of The Apes was terrible

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Pulp Fiction sent a lot of bad messages to kids, etc.

How can you say that?  It's full of valuable life lessons for the kids, such as:

Never steal a brutal crime lord's briefcase.

Never sexually assault a brutal crime lord who knows people who can go medieval on your ass.

Stay out of seedy pawn/military surplus shops.

Don't snort any white powder unless you know exactly what it is.

If you're staking out someone's apartment waiting to whack them and have to use the toilet, take your gun into the bathroom with you so that your intended victim can't use it on you.


I know I'd be a lot better off today if someone had taught me those things at an early age.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Almost every biopic, because screenwriters can't resist creating scenarios that never happened and making up private conversations when they have no frickin' idea what really went on behind closed doors.  That really bugs me.   

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

Top Gun

It was cool and all that, but seemed to me at the time more akin to a teen angst movie than a good fighter plane flick.  It came out when I was testing to be an armed forces pilot (wanting to fly F-18s) so the guys in basic training were talking about it a bit.  When I got out I saw it and can't say it did anything for me.  I liked the music though.

I think it might have been a lesser known movie The Final Countdown that really piqued my interest in fighters when I was younger, or maybe I was already into them.  That movie focused more on carrier & aircraft operations and what-if scenarios, and not some run-of-the-mill love story.  I watched it again recently and still enjoy it.

btw someone commented on Clint Eastwood Westerns.  The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is my favourite movie of all time.  The visuals are stunning and the story is epic.  His others I can take or leave.  Although I had always thought of Eastwood as being the main draw, I've come to believe it is actually Eli Wallach's Tuco who makes the movie what it is.

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

As a side note, I think RGG overhyped Big Ass Spider a little.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

As a side note, I think RGG overhyped Big Ass Spider a little.

I suggest you watch it before passing judgement.  If it doesn't yank on your heartstrings, you'll have to be reported for being dead and not knowing it.

[Yorkshire pud]

Almost every biopic, because screenwriters can't resist creating scenarios that never happened and making up private conversations when they have no frickin' idea what really went on behind closed doors.  That really bugs me.   

You need to watch (if you haven't already) 'Twenty four hour party people'. The story of Factory Records; The Hacienda in Manchester and Tony Wilson who helped form both. That has a very funny 'I don't remember doing that' moment from the person who has a cameo role, who's younger self is played by someone else.

[Yorkshire pud]

How can you say that?  It's full of valuable life lessons for the kids, such as:

Never steal a brutal crime lord's briefcase.

Never sexually assault a brutal crime lord who knows people who can go medieval on your ass.

Stay out of seedy pawn/military surplus shops.

Don't snort any white powder unless you know exactly what it is.

If you're staking out someone's apartment waiting to whack them and have to use the toilet, take your gun into the bathroom with you so that your intended victim can't use it on you.


I know I'd be a lot better off today if someone had taught me those things at an early age.

And you have never let us forget it ever since!!