Most Overrated film?

ziedth · 11-12-2008 12:18pm #1

What would you consider to be the most overratted film? (Aside from the Obvious Titanic)

I know i'm going to be murdered for this but in the words of Peter Griffin "its time to tell you my Dark Secret I never careed for the Godfarther".................

Monkey61 · 11-12-2008 12:21pm

"Heat" bored me to tears. I keep meaning to give it another go - but really I just don't know if I can do that to myself.

Vegeta · 11-12-2008 12:28pm

Shawshank Redemption

Maybe its because I watched it about 4 years after it came out and people constantly told me how great it was and therefore could never live up to my expectations.

Thought it was just an ok film, I was constantly waiting for something amazing to happen and it never came. Its very average

Xavi6 · 11-12-2008 12:29pm

Anchorman

starn · 11-12-2008 12:32pm

How to kill a mockingbird. I only saw this film about 6 months ago. Cant say I thought a whole lot of it.

Otis Driftwood · 11-12-2008 12:34pm

I sense a lock coming.

The dark knight easily wins it for me.Some others include

Superbad
REC
Dawn of the Dead remake
Wedding Crashers
Oldschool
I spit on your grave

dome22 · 11-12-2008 12:35pm

Would have to say Vanilla Sky,

ReacherCreature · 11-12-2008 12:36pm

Apocalypse Now was very overrated for me.

starn · 11-12-2008 12:48pm

dome22 wrote: »

Would have to say Vanilla Sky,

Does anyone, aside form TC really rate Vanilla Sky

Vegeta · 11-12-2008 12:55pm

starn wrote: »

Does anyone, aside form TC really rate Vanilla Sky

Vegeta hangs his head, stares at ground while kicking little pebbles and in a small voice says "I thought it was good"

doubledown · 11-12-2008 12:58pm

LONE STAR, directed by John Sayles.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116905/

Read a few rave reviews and decided to go and check it out in the cinema. Absolute pants and bored me to tears.

I didn't walk out though. I would never walk out of a movie, although I came close with Indy 4!

TMoreno · 11-12-2008 12:59pm

Amelie. I know a lot of Non French speaker loves it but it's just boring.

Morlar · 11-12-2008 12:59pm

E.T. original or re-edit. Also American Grafitti.

Anything by woody allen.

DanGlee · 11-12-2008 1:00pm

Pineapple Express.

The trailer was brilliant and it look SO funny... but it was just some overrated, stoner flick that dragged on far too long... and I like Seth Rogan... which made it extra disappointing!

jobucks · 11-12-2008 1:03pm

my other half will kill me for saying this but.... Jurassic Park, all of them. It is on every single weekend on one channel or another... so, so over it

Karl Hungus · 11-12-2008 1:03pm

There is no over-rated. There's just films some people love that don't appeal to you.

Feelgood · 11-12-2008 1:06pm

Debbie Does Dallas.

Technically she didn't do Dallas, she did a very small percentage of the people that live in Dallas.

bullvine · 11-12-2008 1:07pm

Jackie Brown, Just found it so boring.

Burning Eclipse · 11-12-2008 1:07pm

DanGlee wrote: »

Pineapple Express.

The trailer was brilliant and it look SO funny... but it was just some overrated, stoner flick that dragged on far too long... and I like Seth Rogan... which made it extra disappointing!

Was that highly rated at all? Entertaining, that's about it. Again, coming from a Seth Rogen fan.

doubledown · 11-12-2008 1:07pm

Feelgood wrote: »

Debbie Does Dallas.

Technically she didn't do Dallas, she did a very small percentage of the people that live in Dallas.

I never manage to get through the whole film. The first 5 minutes are good though!

Morlar · 11-12-2008 1:07pm

Karl Hungus wrote: »

There is no over-rated. There's just films some people love that don't appeal to you.

Thats a matter of opinion really.

There are movies that are inexplicably/ disproportionately critically praised and do huge business but in the cold light of day dont stand up to the test of time or to much at all really.

jobucks · 11-12-2008 1:11pm

Morlar wrote: »

Thats a matter of opinion really.

There are movies that are inexplicably/ disproportionately critically praised and do huge business but in the cold light of day dont stand up to the test of time or to much at all really.

Kinda like sex in the city

Morlar · 11-12-2008 1:15pm

jobucks wrote: »

Kinda like sex in the city

Managed to avoid being dragged to that one

I think some movies have better marketing and promotion than script/originality & so make a huge splash in pre-release marketing and on opening. Then critics/audiences go with the flow then a couple of years later people who missed all that watch it and go 'what the hell was that all about ? thats crap !'

'Basic instinct' would be another that springs to mind. * Also the last temptation of christ.

jobucks · 11-12-2008 1:20pm

Morlar wrote: »

Managed to avoid being dragged to that one

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Didn't go see it either, but a stab in the dark is that it aint all it was cracked up to be

Same with the Simpsons movie, watched it when it came out on dvd and really it didn't justify all the hype

ben bedlam · 11-12-2008 1:24pm

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.

cmcsoft · 11-12-2008 1:25pm

Sliding Doors

Galvasean · 11-12-2008 1:32pm

jobucks wrote: »

my other half will kill me for saying this but.... Jurassic Park, all of them. It is on every single weekend on one channel or another... so, so over it

:eek:Say what you like about number 3. Just leave my baby alone!

Gotta ad Superbad to the list. I did actually like it, but the way people rant and rave about how brilliant it is. It was a funny enough movie with a couple of stand out scenes, but was let down by a schmaltzy ending that just fell into place. Saviour of the comedy genre? FFS

Pigman II · 11-12-2008 1:35pm

Pants Labyrinth and everything else by Guillermo del Toro for that matter.

Danbo! · 11-12-2008 1:40pm

Anchorman and sideways

Carturo · 11-12-2008 1:40pm

These threads are ridiculous. You get people naming a great movie, saying it's overrated when they clearly couldn't know anything about films if that's their opinion. It's like a Take That fan slagging Jimi Hendrix.

Go away.

Actually I will.

asdasd · 11-12-2008 1:42pm

Gotta ad Superbad to the list. I did actually like it, but the way people rant and rave about how brilliant it is. It was a funny enough movie with a couple of stand out scenes, but was let down by a schmaltzy ending that just fell into place. Saviour of the comedy genre? FFS

Hardly overrated though. It had very little critical aclaim, and not much press. On release at least. The raving was , presumably, word of mouth.

Well you have to come to these things fresh. I saw it on a plane, didnt know anything about it, expected to stop watching it after a few minutes ( teenage comedy) and move onto to something else, but I thought it was great.

doubledown · 11-12-2008 1:50pm

Carturo wrote: »

These threads are ridiculous. You get people naming a great movie, saying it's overrated when they clearly couldn't know anything about films if that's their opinion. It's like a Take That fan slagging Jimi Hendrix.

Go away.

Actually I will.

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.

Galvasean · 11-12-2008 1:52pm

doubledown wrote: »

Critics and audiences alike tend to get swept away for a variety of reasons but ultimately they end up being wrong.

*Recalls a time when the Phantom Menace was considered great*

Einstein · 11-12-2008 1:55pm

Napoleon Dynamite.

Watched it the other day.

Painful.

eddhorse · 11-12-2008 1:55pm

I agree with Carturo, people have very varied opinions.

Such as :
Vanilla sky is one of my favourite films,
As is Shawshank Redemption and Apocalypse now.

If there is a film that is hyped up by critics and other people and you dont like it then its not the film its YOU !

doubledown · 11-12-2008 1:56pm

Galvasean wrote: »

*Recalls a time when the Phantom Menace was considered great*

By who exactly? Critics were decidedly lukewarm (no pun intended) on its release, were they not? Of course a movie like that is critic-proof anyway, like the latest Indy flick. No matter what kind of reviews it gets people will still see it in droves.

Galvasean · 11-12-2008 1:57pm

eddhorse wrote: »

If there is a film that is hyped up by critics and other people and you dont like it then its not the film its YOU !

No you're wrong, everybody is stupid except me!

Galvasean · 11-12-2008 1:59pm

doubledown wrote: »

By who exactly? Critics were decidedly lukewarm (no pun intended) on its release, were they not? Of course a movie like that is critic-proof anyway, like the latest Indy flick. No matter what kind of reviews it gets people will still see it in droves.

I just remember when the film came out people were blown away by it. Of course once they got over the special effects it was quickly exposed for the mess it was.

DeepBlue · 11-12-2008 1:59pm

Citizen Kane.

The Chessplayer · 11-12-2008 2:00pm

The Lord of the Rings was fairly awful. Had to leave that one half way through

pixelburp · 11-12-2008 2:10pm

There's one more secret I feel I have to share with you. I did not care for The Godfather.

doubledown · 11-12-2008 2:13pm

pixelburp wrote: »

There's one more secret I feel I have to share with you. I did not care for The Godfather.

Why not? Let me guess - because it insists upon itself?

Nolanger · 11-12-2008 2:14pm

The Apartment.

markesmith · 11-12-2008 2:16pm

On the way out here, so I'll be quick...

OP, it's an infamita to call the GF films "overrated". You need to practice omerta. In fact, you really should have gone unreg for that post...:pac:

Agree with Einstein's post here on Napoleon Dynamite, thought it was just crap. A good approximation of US white trash MTV-led culture, but crap nonetheless.

I would say Lord of the Rings is very overrated. I understand people like the story, but Peter Jackson drained everything out of that bloody film. Look at the follow-up, King Kong...he didn't so much take his time with the story as - oh, insert witty metaphor here.

Cursory glance at IMDB top 50 (http://www.imdb.com/chart/top), starting at the top. Overrated: Dark Knight (great flick, but 4th best film ever?). And North By Northwest. That show's nothing on Vertigo!

poundhound · 11-12-2008 2:34pm

Shawshank Redemption.Its basically Midnight Express tarted up for Hollywood and mass appeal.Midnight Express was a more hard hitting and emotional film.

mikep · 11-12-2008 2:42pm

I have to throw this one in....

Pulp Fiction...there, I said it! Pulp Fiction is totally overrated...

Feelgood · 11-12-2008 2:44pm

mikep wrote: »

Pulp Fiction...there, I said it! Pulp Fiction is totally overrated...

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...

DanGlee · 11-12-2008 2:47pm

Vantage Point
Superman (new one)
Burn After Reading

Inevitably the list will be endless with what somebody find good and somebody finds overrated. I loved all the Star Wars films, but I'm a Star Wars nerd...

Each to their own really!

pixelburp · 11-12-2008 2:49pm

doubledown wrote: »

Why not? Let me guess - because it insists upon itself?

heh.

Well to answer the question seriously, I think The Matrix is vastly over-rated beyond belief.

starn · 11-12-2008 5:36pm

DanGlee wrote: »

Vantage Point
Superman (new one)
Burn After Reading

Inevitably the list will be endless with what somebody find good and somebody finds overrated. I loved all the Star Wars films, but I'm a Star Wars nerd...

Each to their own really!

Yeah Burn After Reading is pants.

The Shawshank Redemption
The Godfather [Both Apocalypse Now and The Conversation are vastly supierior]
Edward Sccisorhands and almost everything else by Tim Burton [except Ed Wood]
Crash
Scarface
The Big Lebowski [Oh Brother Where art Thous and Fargo are far better]
Sin City

dodgyme · 11-12-2008 5:57pm

`do like some coen brothers films but
1./ fargo (yaaaaw!) and
2./ no country for old men ??. I think people liked fargo at the time just because it was coen brothers.

hated film 3./ something about mary. spunk in hair jokes is basically used when you arent able to write jokes and I am not a prude, - walked out of that film.

4./ clockwork orange (am I even allow to say that?):eek:
5./ Eat the peach (liked coz it was made in ireland, god they were miserable times)

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