Most Overrated film?

AnonoBoy · 11-12-2008 6:50pm

I hate this type of threads normally.

But I find El Topo fiercely overrated.

paulieeye · 11-12-2008 6:56pm

Lost in Translation...cept johansen in her skimpies...she pretty

Lamper.sffc · 11-12-2008 7:21pm

The Departed.

While its not a bad film (starts off well and goes downhill). Its definitely not as good as everyone made it out to be. Some very poor acting in parts.
They should have stuck closer to the original. (Especially with the end)

I always thought the fact that Martin Scorsese won an oscar for this was a token gesture. He created much better films and didnt win an oscar for them when he should have (Goodfellas to name but one) and then they nominate Mark Wahlberg for an Oscar for best supporting actor :eek:. He was one of the reasons the film started to grate on me.

Shacklebolt · 11-12-2008 9:54pm

Feelgood wrote: »

Too right, the fooking thing is backways or sideways or some crap.

If the story just ran normally from start to finish, everyone would think it was sh1te...

You could say the sam about many films such as Memento.

damselnat · 11-12-2008 10:03pm

Shacklebolt wrote: »

You could say the sam about many films such as Memento.

But that's the point of Memento, you're supposed to be as lost as he is!
Can't say I cared much for Pulp Fiction either, but then I'm not a Tarantino fan so that's probably why.
Have to agree with Crash. Can't believe that won an Oscar. Political correctness gone mad........
Pirates of the Caribbean....I don't know, maybe it was just Orlando Bloom, or maybe Keira Knightley, or maybe the whole obvious blockbuster-y-ness of it all, it really didn't do it for me

MisterAnarchy · 11-12-2008 10:19pm

So many pet hates for overrated films
Donnie Darko,Fight Club,Fargo,American Beauty,The Departed,Sideways.
All critically acclaimed but I thought they were very average films .
Other films are just dreadful
Chicago,Juno,Napoleon Dynamite.
I could list 100's of overrated films to be honest,certainly alot more than underrated ones.

Mal-Adjusted · 12-12-2008 12:24am

first off, bieng over-rated does not mean i dislike a film...then again,
overrated
Juno. liked it, not oscar worthy.
Indy IV. rubbish
Cloverfield.
The prestige. crap ending
Mission:impossible
Godzilla (54) useless, not even as good as the 98 remake

underrated
The thing
The Matrix sequeals
Citizen Kane
Speed 2
the "Tremors" films

overrated directors
Tim Burton
Quintin tarrintino

L31mr0d · 12-12-2008 2:03am

Titanic

dodgyme · 12-12-2008 10:52am

gangs of new york

Alarums · 12-12-2008 11:17am

I always thought 2001 was boring crap.

shane86 · 12-12-2008 11:29am

American History X was as cheesy and cliched as you can get. And talk about unrealistic, despite the brutal nature of the murder Norton commited he seemed to (judging by his brothers age when he went in/came out) got out of prison within about three years. Utter sh1te.

Cloverfield was lauded by some (not all) critics. Awful, brainless film with a script that must have ran to all of three pages.

No Country for Old Men was average, the murder rate just became laughable halfway through tbh.

Back in the day I saw Pulp Fiction maybe 6 times. It was repeated lately and I didnt bother with more than 40 mins. Great in its day, but maybe it just hasnt aged well.

Otis Driftwood · 12-12-2008 12:08pm

I thought Requiem for a Dream was terribly over rated.I saw it for the first time about a month ago.Pretty boring IMO.

Pat Mustard · 12-12-2008 12:18pm

Gone With the Wind. 4 Hours you can never get back. Frankly my dear, so what...

irish_bob · 12-12-2008 1:11pm

Alarums wrote: »

I always thought 2001 was boring crap.

+1 , i would add almost any kubrick to that although unlike most people , i liked AI , i think the shinning is over rated and not all that scary to be honest

ive always thought blade runner was over rated , left me cold , then again , maybe that was the idea

Das Kitty · 12-12-2008 1:42pm

I cannot believe that Crash (2004) has only been mentioned once up to this point.

It won a host of Oscars, it scores 8.1/10 on IMDB (191st best film of all time), hacks loved it.

When I saw it I wondered whether everyone else had been given a lobotomy going in the door. It was the most trite, preaching, piece of eye-melting brain-contamination I'd ever encountered.

It's basic "message" is "Everyone's racist but it doesn't make you a bad person". I got that in the first half hour. Every 5 minutes after that it was like being hit in the face with a shovel with the same message in a bludgeoning "did you get that?" kind of way.

And then there's the painful string of unbelievable coincidences that's masquerading as a plot.

It was like being condescended to by primary school child. And the fact that everyone else was believing the BS that it was "important" and "worthy" was what tipped it over the edge for me.

Most Overrated Film Of All Time!!!

Lamper.sffc · 12-12-2008 6:27pm

Cant agree with you on Crash. Very good movie.
May have been over hyped a bit alright but still a good flick.
The film was trying to show all the different ways people are racist. Not just the one message of racism repeated.
The coincidences where not meant to be taken as fully believable. It was just a method of story telling to intertwine the various stories. Just my opinion.

Galvasean · 12-12-2008 7:31pm

I'd say almost every film that won the best picture Oscar is overrated.

Shacklebolt · 12-12-2008 8:51pm

shane86 wrote: »

American History X was as cheesy and cliched as you can get. And talk about unrealistic, despite the brutal nature of the murder Norton commited he seemed to (judging by his brothers age when he went in/came out) got out of prison within about three years. Utter sh1te

I liked that film but yes that aspect of it was ridiculous-the guy who stole a TV was in jail longer that the neo-nazi murderer.

Mal-Adjusted · 12-12-2008 10:09pm

Donnie Darko is terribly overrated

Heisenberg. · 12-12-2008 10:43pm

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Blazer · 13-12-2008 2:50am

Old Country for Old Men---Was very good upto the end..sure it's supposed to be artistic..but damnit cohen brothers..I wanted my shoot em up ending. I felt like I was robbed afterwards.

Apocolypse Now- Christ that was boring as fcuk. Definitely most over-rated film.
Platoon/FMJ are miles better.

jane86 · 13-12-2008 5:52am

Shawshank Redemption - bored me enough that my ass got numb

One Who Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest - fast forward is the button I should have pressed!!

The Departed - didn't like the ending and I found Nicholson irritating. Also, it has Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg. Usually I go through a whole film of theirs usually thinking it's the other one!

Citizen Kane - Where do I start?!!

MadPatrick · 13-12-2008 6:04am

Walk The Line, I liked Johnny Cash, but after seeing that I think I hate him. The guy was a bible-bashing hypocritical dickhead, and I don't care much about them. The movie was so slow and nothing happened. It sucked big floppy horse-nuts.

seanybiker · 13-12-2008 6:17am

godfather has to be the worse over rated film ever. Fair enough if your young its cool to say you like it. In all fairness its ****e in my opinion. Same with scar face. People love it but anyone ya talk to about it just says say hello to my little friend. Two mediocre films at best in my opinion.

seanybiker · 13-12-2008 6:22am

ben bedlam wrote: »

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Every review Ive ever seen of it speaks of it in glowing terms. There is actually no plot to that mind-numbing, dull, stupid film; its just Johnny Depp and Benecio del Toro meandering through Las Vegas doing drugs for 90 minutes. Complete rubbish.

Ya might want to watch it again bud. Tis on a little longer than 90 minutes.

MementoMori · 13-12-2008 10:07am

Das Kitty wrote: »

I cannot believe that Crash (2004) has only been mentioned once up to this point.

It won a host of Oscars, it scores 8.1/10 on IMDB (191st best film of all time), hacks loved it.

When I saw it I wondered whether everyone else had been given a lobotomy going in the door. It was the most trite, preaching, piece of eye-melting brain-contamination I'd ever encountered.

It's basic "message" is "Everyone's racist but it doesn't make you a bad person". I got that in the first half hour. Every 5 minutes after that it was like being hit in the face with a shovel with the same message in a bludgeoning "did you get that?" kind of way.

And then there's the painful string of unbelievable coincidences that's masquerading as a plot.

It was like being condescended to by primary school child. And the fact that everyone else was believing the BS that it was "important" and "worthy" was what tipped it over the edge for me.

Most Overrated Film Of All Time!!!

Totally agree - it was god awful muck with a horrendous script and some eye-bleedingly bad performances

The Oscars it won were Best Picture, Best Writing (Original Writing) and Best Editing. I think people will look back on this as one of the legendary screw-ups by the Oscars.

Woden · 13-12-2008 10:23am

Blade Runner. Watched it straight after reading the book. What a let down.

albert-bundy · 13-12-2008 10:33am

Dare i say a person who does not care for the godfather has no understanding of the art of movies.but aside from that worst film on a personal basis in last few years was the latest x files effort should have left well enough alone

albert-bundy · 13-12-2008 10:39am

jane86 wrote: »

Shawshank Redemption - bored me enough that my ass got numb

One Who Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest - fast forward is the button I should have pressed!!

The Departed - didn't like the ending and I found Nicholson irritating. Also, it has Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg. Usually I go through a whole film of theirs usually thinking it's the other one!

Citizen Kane - Where do I start?!!

where do you start...wow ok throw out the westlife collection.stop watching soaps ,and realise the green party is never going to rules the world...then when you join the rest of us in the land called planet earth watch those movies again....if still not getting it ok try zombies flesh eaters from kenmare, might be more in line with your tastes

albert-bundy · 13-12-2008 10:42am

doubledown wrote: »

Good idea. You do that.

How can you saw you know more about films that anyone else here?

It's a fact that there are loads of movies that are critically lauded at their time of release but with the benefit of hindsight are clearly overrated. Critics and audiences alike tend to get swept away for a variety of reasons but ultimately they end up being wrong. Of course it's also a matter of individual taste as to whether a movie is good or not, but that's not what's being discussed here.

take that fan slagging jimi hendrix

summed it up perfect thank you.

albert-bundy · 13-12-2008 10:45am

have to say vanilla sky just did nothing to me did not get it but... it was a specif gendre and some movies you just have to be in the mood to watch

ThOnda · 13-12-2008 12:16pm

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas? Apocalypse Now? Come on. If you don't understand the film, don't write that it is overrated.

Dark Knight, that is overrated film. Only one good thing about the whole film is the Joker.

jane86 · 13-12-2008 12:25pm

albert-bundy wrote: »

where do you start...wow ok throw out the westlife collection.stop watching soaps ,and realise the green party is never going to rules the world...then when you join the rest of us in the land called planet earth watch those movies again....if still not getting it ok try zombies flesh eaters from kenmare, might be more in line with your tastes

"Wow ok", it is my opinion that these are some of the most overrated and boring films ever made. YOUR opinion is that they are worth wasting a few hours of your life watching them. Well done.

Personally, I compare films an actor/director has done to the new one I watch. The Departed for example is by far a let down when I compare it to Goodfella's. I don't know where to start comparing the work of Nicholson

In regards to Orson Welles I much preffered The Third Man.

You sir need to accept that everyone has their own opinions whether you agree with them or not. Another narrow-minded person :rolleyes:

Galvasean · 13-12-2008 1:15pm

ThOnda wrote: »

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas? Apocalypse Now? Come on. If you don't understand the film, don't write that it is overrated.

Dark Knight, that is overrated film.

You didn't understand Batman?

Mal-Adjusted · 13-12-2008 1:20pm

jane86 wrote: »

"Wow ok", it is my opinion that these are some of the most overrated and boring films ever made. YOUR opinion is that they are worth wasting a few hours of your life watching them. Well done.

Personally, I compare films an actor/director has done to the new one I watch. The Departed for example is by far a let down when I compare it to Goodfella's. I don't know where to start comparing the work of Nicholson In regards to Orson Welles I much preffered The Third Man.

You sir need to accept that everyone has their own opinions whether you agree with them or not. Another narrow-minded person :rolleyes:

er...oookay...you know, you shouldn't judge a film compared with other films that have the same actor, nor should aomeone really judge a film on whether a directors prevous films are any better...take the film on its own merits and stop wasting your own time.

Godzilla '54 overrated pile of crap.

jane86 · 13-12-2008 2:12pm

Mal-Adjusted wrote: »

er...oookay...you know, you shouldn't judge a film compared with other films that have the same actor, nor should aomeone really judge a film on whether a directors prevous films are any better...take the film on its own merits and stop wasting your own time.

Each to their own way of critiquing a film. BTW Are you the same poster? The bad grammar seems too a like.

johnson1 · 13-12-2008 2:23pm

the assanation of jessie james by the coward............... god, even typing the name bores me.

The most boring movie i have ever seen it was painfull.

albert-bundy · 13-12-2008 4:31pm

jane86 wrote: »

"Wow ok", it is my opinion that these are some of the most overrated and boring films ever made. YOUR opinion is that they are worth wasting a few hours of your life watching them. Well done.

Personally, I compare films an actor/director has done to the new one I watch. The Departed for example is by far a let down when I compare it to Goodfella's. I don't know where to start comparing the work of Nicholson In regards to Orson Welles I much preffered The Third Man.

You sir need to accept that everyone has their own opinions whether you agree with them or not. Another narrow-minded person :rolleyes:

you are comparing total different gendres from different eras .. and of course your choice is respected thats why we allow women to vote now

Mal-Adjusted · 13-12-2008 6:29pm

jane86 wrote: »

Each to their own way of critiquing a film. BTW Are you the same poster? The bad grammar seems too a like.

? one spelling mistake does not constitute bad grammer. the sentance is a bit unwieldy, but there's nothing wrong with it...or is this a really bad attempt at an insult?

irish_bob · 13-12-2008 7:19pm

heres another i just thought of , close encounters of a 3rd kind

Mal-Adjusted · 13-12-2008 7:30pm

irish_bob wrote: »

heres another i just thought of , close encounters of a 3rd kind

really? iv'e heard that it was very good but nothing too amazing

Running Bing · 13-12-2008 7:35pm

Judging by a lot of posts in this thread a more apt title would be "Films that are highly rated that you did not like".

Didnt like Citizen Kane? The Godfather? Fine! Thats your opinion and your more than entitled to it but their not overrated.

Dublin_Andy · 13-12-2008 9:26pm

Feelgood wrote: »

Too right, the fooking thing is backways or sideways or some crap.

If the story just ran normally from start to finish, everyone would think it was sh1te...

thats whats makes Pulp Fiction so good... its a series of interlinked storys...its not supposed to run normally from start to finish...thats why its called Pulp Fiction (a big jumbled ball of fiction matter)...

for me Shawshank Redemption, Blade Runner was boring and such an anti climax and the Departed was good but not brilliant

Freshly squash · 14-12-2008 12:54am

Theres a few
Blade Runner-I understand how influential it was but bloody hell the story is uninvolving
Spirited Away- Why was this mediocre movie praised to high heaven?
Batman Begins- It's simply not very entertaining
The Prestige-It was a pretty good movie but a long way from a masterpiece
Lost in translation-Pure self indulgent tripe

allybhoy · 14-12-2008 1:28am

Lads calm down with the thread, its only opinion at the end of the day.

Its hard to know what hype is really, like is it movies that are hyped up by the studios that turn out to be a terrible dissapointment or are they movies that have gotten huge critical acclaim but when you see them your like..eh wtf?

Anyways Here's my list.

Pearl Harbour
American Gangster
The Departed
Burn after Reading
Taxi Driver
English Patient
Titanic
Any of the Spiderman's, especially 3.

Mal-Adjusted · 14-12-2008 1:49am

how can spiderman 3 be overrated? it's generally accepted as bieng a bad film anyway.

jane86 · 14-12-2008 1:52am

Mal-Adjusted wrote: »

? one spelling mistake does not constitute bad grammer. the sentance is a bit unwieldy, but there's nothing wrong with it...or is this a really bad attempt at an insult?

No, look at your post and their post. They're written in the same way. Turn a page now

Brian · 14-12-2008 1:55am

The Royal Tenenbaums was shite, in my opinion.

PeakOutput · 14-12-2008 2:09am

allybhoy wrote: »

The Departed
Burn after Reading

the departed? just did a search to find a thread on it as im watching it again for about the 30th time its a legitimate modern classic imo. even better after being in boston this summer...oh the memories

burn after reading is utter rubbish though

Mal-Adjusted · 14-12-2008 2:33am

jane86 wrote: »

No, look at your post and their post. They're written in the same way. Turn a page now

silly statement. it's just as logical to say that OUR posts are the same because they have some of the same letters.:P

anyway, seing as you think The Shawahank Redemption and Citizen Kane (two fantastic films!) are overrated, i can't take you that seriousley:D;)

Most Overrated film?

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