Overrated Movies

[Gd5150]

I liked Sideways, but was disturbed by the moral bankruptcy of some of the characters.

I love that movie. Think it's friggen hilarious! The moral bankruptcy is so realistic its one of the most real films ever made. If you ever want to laugh watch the commentary from Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church. So hilarious the guys just bag on themselves the whole time. Really funny!

[Mind Flayer Monk]

Apocalypse Now

The pre-Heart of Darkness/up the river part of this movie is phenomenal.
The Vietnamese lady acting like she is going to get on the helicopter and then throwing a hand grenade in it.
The river boat inspection and the boy who get his face smashed with the rifle butt and just stares back with the defiant grin.

[VtaGeezer]

Apocalypse Now

Yes, plus all other movies starring Marlon Brando.

[zeebo]

Apocalypse Now

Star Wars

Napoleon Dynamite.

Sideways

Well I guess I deserve it for starting this thread, but I love all these movies.   

[b_dubb]

Well I guess I deserve it for starting this thread, but I love all these movies.   

Sideways I didn't care for really.  But the others are classics.  How could Apocalypse Now be overrated?  CHARLIE DON'T SURF ASSHOLE

[Mind Flayer Monk]

Well I guess I deserve it for starting this thread, but I love all these movies.   

Yes, zeebo. Only Walter Matthau will emerge unscathed.

[zeebo]

... How could Apocalypse Now be overrated?  CHARLIE DON'T SURF ASSHOLE

"Never get out of the boat." Absolutely goddamn right.  Unless you were goin' all the way .... Kurtz got off the boat. He split from the whole fuckin' program.  

Just friggin great.

[Eddie Coyle]

    My ex-wife was galled that I didn't like Saving Private Ryan. I think that lead to the divorce nearly as much as my underachieving slothdom and alcoholism.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

"Never get out of the boat." Absolutely goddamn right.  Unless you were goin' all the way .... Kurtz got off the boat. He split from the whole fuckin' program.  

Just friggin great.

"Never get out of the boat" is valuable advice for avoiding just about any situation that has the potential to turn ugly, and I'm a firm believer in it.  It's definitely helped me stay alive and out of prison for many years. 

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

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

Those are merely cautionary tales.  Scoff if you must, but the next time you mistake heroin for cocaine and it results in someone going medieval on your bum and then shooting you with you own gun before you can finish fastening your trousers, don't say I didn't warn you.

[Camazotz Automat]

Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal.

Without a doubt, and like Apocalypse Now, I liked it well enough. Beautiful scenes. But had read so much about how superior it was... yet while watching it, just kept thinking, The Death character sure does remind me a lot of Q from STTNG.

One that I flip flopped on after I viewed it in its entirety: 

Where Eagles Dare.

For me, it lives up to any hype. I felt I grasped what all the hoopla was about regarding Richard Burton.

Imagine watching Where Eagles Dare, but then immediately being subjected to Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace.

Holy God. Who needs Guantanamo tactics when you could torture someone to talk by repeated exposure to Jar Jar Binks clips? (Worse, imagine an interrogator wearing a JJB suit.)

As witnessed by a lot of the films on my Halloween list, I'm certainly no stranger to self destruction - it's almost always a good thing to traverse the chasm of a self imposed ~dark night of the soul~ - yet I've never been able to finish watching Phantom Menace.  It was the Ewok Enigma all over again:

Why do you hate us, Mr. Lucas, why?

Heh.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Why do you hate us, Mr. Lucas, why?

Heh.

If we were playing a word association game, "inadequacy" and "compensation" would be my first responses.

[Camazotz Automat]

If we were playing a word association game, "inadequacy" and "compensation" would be my first responses.

Stewie Griffin from a lost Family Guy script, talking to his teddy bear:

"See that giant slug-like creature, Rupert? Its name is Jabba the Hutt. It represents George Lucas' penis. I imagine it took one hell of a mohel to take that baby down, if you know what I mean. Haha. Oh, and notice Carrie Fisher is chained to it. Funny, that."

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Stewie Griffin from a lost Family Guy script, talking to his teddy bear:

"See that giant slug-like creature, Rupert? Its name is Jabba the Hutt. It represents George Lucas' penis. I imagine it took one hell of a mohel to take that baby down, if you know what I mean. Haha. Oh, and notice Carrie Fisher is chained to it. Funny, that."

Yeah, that chain leash and skimpy space bikini says way more than we ever wanted to know about the mind of GL.

[PB the Deplorable]

There's Something About Mary...

I thought it was just me

... Pink Floyd's The Wall...

I love Pink Floyd, this movie was unwatchable


I've been pretty good at picking out movies I like, so not too many unpleasant surprises.

The 4th, 5th, and 6th Star Wars movies (episodes 1, 2 and 3) would qualify as overhyped letdowns

Any Romantic Comedy is overrated, seeing as how they are nearly all boring and tedious.  Same with most comedies, actually (but def not all).  Hint:  if the trailers and commercials for a movie or TV show aren't funny, the rest of it won't be better


Favorite movie of all time - Apocalypse Now.  But the directors cut was overrated - and by that I mean the extra scenes were really bad

[Camazotz Automat]

I love Pink Floyd, this movie was unwatchable

PF is absolutely one of my favorite bands, both old and new material.

Not crazy about Roger Waters' solo efforts, but thoroughly enjoyed his Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking album waaaaaaay back when.

[zeebo]

PF is absolutely one of my favorite bands, both old and new material. ...

I read somewhere that at some point PF was prepared to do a sountrack for an alternate version of Dune.  My mind can almost hear it.  It's probably my favorite movie that was never made.

[Camazotz Automat]

I read somewhere that at some point PF was prepared to do a soundtrack for an alternate version of Dune.  My mind can almost hear it.  It's probably my favorite movie that was never made.

Just imagining PF tackling that project warms my hematite heart.

Speaking of alternate versions of Dune... I've never watched the four hour series featuring William Hurt.  Supposedly, it's better than Lynch's film.

Once again, was scanning a wall full of VHS tapes at a thrift store on Friday and saw the four hour Dune for fifty cents. Snagged.

Sunday will go like this: Watch Dune 30 minutes, switch over and watch the Dallas Cowboys losing in London for 2 minutes, then back to Dune for 30 minutes, Cowboys 2 minutes, repeat. 

I do have a minor wager against "America's Team."

... favorite movie that was never made.

Sounds like a topic to me.

[PB the Deplorable]

PF is absolutely one of my favorite bands, both old and new material...

You've probably seen these, but in case you haven't

Live at Pompeii?  I liked that one a lot

There is also La Carrera Panamericana, documentary of a 1992 road race through Mexico following the route of the race held annually during the mid-1950s.  All the cars are from that period.  Music by PF, David Gilmore and Dave Mason had a car in the race.  Nice cinematography

Another was the French flick La Vallee, filmed in New Guinea, music by PF (Obscured by Clouds was based on the soundtrack).  I liked it

[WildCard]

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.

HaHaa!  Up in the Air. I loved that.

I'm a gourmand rather than a gourmet. So, even though I love Star Wars, Star Trek, Batman, Tarantino, etc., I'll defer to more sophisticated tastes than mine. But -

Crash

No.

      Overated film: Network.

No.

Babel

No.

Apocalypse Now

NoNoNoNoNoNo!

[albrecht]

Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal.

It is weird that "Seventh Seal" became his most popular movie (at least in the general world of non-Scandanavians or film buffs.) He makes much better ones, in my opinion, "Wild Strawberries" is amazing and best, but arguable.

I concur with post re: "Saving Private Ryan." I almost have gotten into fights over the fact that I cannot take Tom Hanks in serious roles, though Apollo 13 was good. But his shipwreck movie "Castaway" was especially bad. Ridiculous and I laughed at, supposedly, tense points (like him talking to a volleyball and seeing the whale's eye.) I love Tom Hanks: Volunteers, Money Pit, and the hilarious, and under-rated, "The 'Burbs." I thought his Dragnet remake with Ackroyd was hilarious also.

[ItsOver]

It is weird that "Seventh Seal" became his most popular movie (at least in the general world of non-Scandanavians or film buffs.) He makes much better ones, in my opinion, "Wild Strawberries" is amazing and best, but arguable.

I concur with post re: "Saving Private Ryan." I almost have gotten into fights over the fact that I cannot take Tom Hanks in serious roles, though Apollo 13 was good. But his shipwreck movie "Castaway" was especially bad. Ridiculous and I laughed at, supposedly, tense points (like him talking to a volleyball and seeing the whale's eye.) I love Tom Hanks: Volunteers, Money Pit, and the hilarious, and under-rated, "The 'Burbs." I thought his Dragnet remake with Ackroyd was hilarious also.

Don't forget "Bachelor Party."  Pre-Kitean mug shot days.

[wr250]

whatever this movie is on lifetime network. i dont want to know what its called. it is so bad it makes me want to watch 10 hours straight of bee-und beeleaf.

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

Fargo.

[Camazotz Automat]

This is an entertaining thread/monster you've created, zeebo.  Very interesting experiment!

Schindler's List

I liked it okay, but enjoyed far more the Seinfeld episode wherein he and his date were seen making out in the theater while watching Schindler's List.

[albrecht]

Don't forget "Bachelor Party."  Pre-Kitean mug shot days.

True, though I haven't forgotten, I've been to too many bachelor parties that rivaled the high-jinx in that movie (no tranny though I won't say anything else) and the movie was quite popular and still frequently shown on tv. The lesser shown ones, like The 'Burbs, are underrated but really, really hilarious- both as a slapstick comedy and some darker satire about suburban life (what "Neighbors" tried to do with, although good, less effect.) In any event Hanks is good in comedic roles and not in serious roles (at least to this expert.)

[zeebo]

This is an entertaining thread/monster you've created, zeebo.  Very interesting experiment!....

Yeah there's been some curious and bold entries so far!  Feels good to come clean on some of these doesn't it?

[b_dubb]

Yeah, that chain leash and skimpy space bikini says way more than we ever wanted to know about the mind of GL.

How about the way GL is attempting to rewrite film history by making it impossible to get a copy of the film that was released in theaters in 1976?

[zeebo]

I agree with those who said Crash.  Here's some more:

Pretty Woman
Love, Actually
Star Trek IV (the one with the whales)
Skyfall (started well, but went off the rails)
Slumdog Millionaire

[PB the Deplorable]

Zombie Strippers. 

Big disappointment.