Most Overrated film?

Mal-Adjusted

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

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

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

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

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

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

jane86

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

The Royal Tenenbaums was shite, in my opinion.

PeakOutput

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

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;)

Dublin_Andy

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull...

i dont understand how people can say they loved it and will watch it again and again...

it was crap and thats an understatement...

i was always a huge fan of the original trilogy... gritty, exciting,wonder,adventure,violent and a bit of the supernatural.

this new one went way over the top... the CGI was so bad... the first bloody shot of the film was a CGI praire dog...

Indiana Jones is about realism and proper stunts... im sure alot of people watched Indy when they were a kid and have lost count of how much they watched the old ones...they are classics

the new one didnt capture the magic of the old ones...its a definition of how films are today...

everybody is invincible and can do outrageous and unbelievable stuff...

they dont make them like they used to thats for sure

Wacker

The Chessplayer wrote: »

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

Your story doesn't check out. There's three of them!

Wacker

johnson1 wrote: »

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.

I actually quite liked the film, but your post was hilarious!

jane86

Mal-Adjusted wrote: »

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!In YOUR opinion) are overrated In MY Opinion, i can't take you that seriousley:D;)

I can't take someone seriously when they don't use capital letters and punctuate correctly. If it makes you feel superior to like these films then good for you. I think they are overrated along with the following:

Batman Begins
Forrest Gump
The Maltese Falcon

SoulReaperDan1

Has anyone mentioned Lost in Translation with Bill Murray and Scarlett Johannson? Damn that was 2 hours I genuinely wished I had back. I was really looking forward to it after the critical acclaim it recieved too.

How about underrated films? Mine have gotta be From Dusk till Dawn and Pitch Black I think

tony 2 tone

Yes! Finally, other people that thought Gangs of New York, and American History X were terribly over rated! Also the Kill Bills were really over rated. Shocking over indulgence from Taranteno.

Heisenberg.

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albert-bundy

Ya got to admit i found that painful to endure,but does brad pitt really deserve to be cast in what should have been a deep focused role..it was like joe black meets bonanza

albert-bundy

SoulReaperDan1 wrote: »

Has anyone mentioned Lost in Translation with Bill Murray and Scarlett Johannson? Damn that was 2 hours I genuinely wished I had back. I was really looking forward to it after the critical acclaim it recieved too.

How about underrated films? Mine have gotta be From Dusk till Dawn and Pitch Black I think

see its all about relevence... as a gentleman (i am ok no smart comments ) who is heading towards bill murrays age. this movie is a source of hope and inspiration.if he can pull scarlett j. "surely i can pull the polish girl working in the deli of me local spar".
hold on wow lets make that movie.
when albert met gosia. aka diary of a polish deli sausage handler

ThOnda

How come that there were mentioned already quite a few films, that have a little more hidden story line. The films that are more about personal development, internal fights and thoughts.
I always thought that word overrated should be used for commercially hyped and advertsied films, that are genuinely not good. Like 300 or Last Action Hero.
This kind of thread seems to be really pointless.

Mal-Adjusted

jane86 wrote: »

I can't take someone seriously when they don't use capital letters and punctuate correctly. If it makes you feel superior to like these films then good for you. I think they are overrated along with the following:

Batman Begins
Forrest Gump
The Maltese Falcon

it doesn't make me feel superior, only an idiot would think it does. i like them becase they're good films:)
nice try though:D

newballsplease

the godfather

newballsplease

tony 2 tone wrote: »

Yes! Finally, other people that thought Gangs of New York, and American History X were terribly over rated! Also the Kill Bills were really over rated. Shocking over indulgence from Taranteno.

american history x is a fantastic film- 10/10 i dunno what planet your on.

Mal-Adjusted

newballsplease wrote: »

american history x is a fantastic film- 10/10 i dunno what planet your on.

saying something is overrated does NOT mean you dont like it. for instance, i love both LOTR and the Matrix, but i still think they are both very overrated, as is the new Doctow Who television series.

overrated films i HATE include Godzila (54)

Running Bing

How long has it been on this thread since somebody actually gave a compelling argument or a good reason as to why a film is overrated?

Threads like this are absolutely pointless if every post is just going to be:

"X film...that was crap"
"Y film.....it was boring"
"The following are overrated: A film, B Film, C film, D film"


Hardly constructive stuff is it....not that I would expect anybody to give a good reason or a compelling argument as to why they feel the Godfather, Citizen Kane or Taxi Driver are overrated;)

Mal-Adjusted

very well, i'll justify why G'54 is overrated.
It is claimed to be a pioneer of great visual effects. in reality, it was outdated even for then. the guy in a suit several sizes too bug looks less real than the monsters from King Kong, which was made in 1933! now, if a film had visualls that were outclassed by a film that's 21 years older, i'd want my money back. it's like comparing the visuals in Sunshint to those of Highlander.

the much Lauded anti-nuglear message of the film occupies less than three sentences at the end and a handfull more throughout. this is not something to judge a film by! Supernam IV: The quest for peace has a stronger anti-nuke message...and that was still a bad film.

The acting is so wooden i thought for a moment Pat Kenny was in this film, but for a monster flick, i guess acting talent doesn't matter.

The science. Mother...Of ...God! in this excuse for a movie, they think Godzilla (Gojira, whatever) is an ancient god from the Jurassic period (so far so good) two million years ago. ?? what? don't you mean 150 millipn years ago? also they found some Trilobites from the Jurassic period (Really, the last died out in the Devonian) 2 million years ago (Really 359)

The reason this is overrated is that it was the most expensive (and most popular) japanese film of it's time. America loved creature features at the time and just latched onto it. it's now become almost taboo to speak ill of it, (similar to the Godfather and Pulp Fiction)

tony 2 tone

newballsplease wrote: »

american history x is a fantastic film- 10/10 i dunno what planet your on.

Hey, you're entitled to your opinion, and so am I. Didn't do any thing for me. Never said it was bad.

Hande hoche!

Casino Royale (2006)

Hogzy

Karl Hungus wrote: »

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

+1

irish_bob

tony 2 tone wrote: »

Yes! Finally, other people that thought Gangs of New York, and American History X were terribly over rated! Also the Kill Bills were really over rated. Shocking over indulgence from Taranteno.

i cant remember whether or not gangs of new york was highly rated , personally i thought it sucked balls

as for american history x , i think it is possibly a little over rated

i think the 1st batman movie with christian bale is over rated
i think all the harry potter movies are over rated , so too the chronicles of narnia , someone mentioned x men , i never could get any of those



btw , can i add one of my favourite underrated movies , jackie brown