Overrated films that people seem to think are a great but really are not

ShatterAlan

DrGreenThumb82 wrote: »

The Shawshank Redemption

A successful banker that is wrongly jailed? Hilarious.

The Warden and the Guards entrusting an inmate with their financial affairs? Even funnier

Rich well to do banker befriending benevolent black murderer in prison, inviting him to join him in Mexico if he ever gets out? In 1947 America?

It's a liberal wet dream that's totally divorced from reality. Unsurprisingly written by Stephen King, who has a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

1968 America.

Erranged

fryup wrote: »

any Quentin Tarantino movie,

can't understand why so many fawn over him is it "uncool" to say you don't like his movies?? The Emperor's New Clothes and all that

stylish violence my ass its self indulgent crass tripe

I’m shutting your butt down!

Greyfox

irishguitarlad wrote: »

Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown were good, the rest is shíte.

Pulp fiction and Kill Bill vol 1 are masterpieces
Inglorious B and Django unchained are excellent
Hateful 8 was garbage

Beechwoodspark

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

What actually happened in the movie? Other than a **** load of people standing on a beach waiting for their turn on the pedalo?

Oh and a reformed robber playing his now famous emotionless teenager that barely speaks role.

Who is the reformed robber?

Wombatman

Hard to believe Wes Anderson has avoided the chop thus far.

Church on Tuesday

fly_agaric wrote: »

The Guard? Failed to make it all of the way through this one as well.
Was finding the jokes cringe inducing, but then I believe I have a shrivelled, atrophied sense of humour.:(
Maybe I'll dig the DVD out and try again.

Awful film. Brendan Gleeson looks embarrassed to be in it.

castletownman

A lot of these recent, well-regarded films all basically have the same concept: journey through life with nothing really happening during the whole film. Its almost like you are seen a Philistine if you say you don't 'get' them either.

I am talking about:

Boyhood
Manchester by the Sea
Ladybird
Brooklyn
Birdman
Lala Land
Three Billboards....

magic_murph

Black Panther.
I appreciate the cultural impact it had but as a movie - terrible

The last avengers movie - shocking bad.

Feisar

Greyfox wrote: »

Pulp fiction and Kill Bill vol 1 are masterpieces
Inglorious B and Django unchained are excellent
Hateful 8 was garbage

I used to think that about Kill Bill however, hmm. To many nods to chop socky from Hong Kong film houses. Blood spraying from a severed arm like someone turned on a shower head?
"If I can see further than you, it's because I am standing on the shoulders of giants". The idea isn't to hunker down to the same level as the past.

Edit - that's not homage, it's laziness. Homage would be taking the past and using it to help break through to new ground.

murpho999

Claremorrisdub wrote: »

agreed, only time i left the Cinema before the end of the movie - when the text "3000 years later" appeared. i just had enough :-)

So you left with about 10 minutes to go after watching for around 130 minutes and then missed the whole point of the film?

murpho999

For me most films with either Ben Stiller or Will Ferrell in it (I'd give him credit for Elf & Stranger Than Fiction).

People referring to Zoolander or Anchorman as comedy classics are just misinformed imho.

xzanti

Anything with the word Star or Galaxy in it.

Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Hunger Games. I know it's not a film but Game of Thrones.

Anything with Adam Sandler.

youcancallmeal

castletownman wrote: »

A lot of these recent, well-regarded films all basically have the same concept: journey through life with nothing really happening during the whole film. Its almost like you are seen a Philistine if you say you don't 'get' them either.

I am talking about:

Boyhood
Manchester by the Sea
Ladybird
Brooklyn
Birdman
Lala Land
Three Billboards....

Boyhood is the only one that matches your concept description. All the others are based around a significant event in the life of the protagonist. Birdman was indeed a load sh*te though

murpho999

xzanti wrote: »

Anything with the word Star or Galaxy in it.

Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Hunger Games. I know it's not a film but Game of Thrones.

Anything with Adam Sandler.

I always find it strange to rule out an entire genre and probably judging them without watching them.

Like all other genres there are good and bad films that exist within it. It's all down to writing and acting.

DSN

Couple which stick out in my memory as ones I really looked fwd to due to all the hype & then I was like wtf...

Mulholland Drive
Birdman
Breaking the waves
Manchester by the sea

I am going to give it another go but disappointingly could not get into Once upon a time in Hollywood.

alchemist33

castletownman wrote: »

A lot of these recent, well-regarded films all basically have the same concept: journey through life with nothing really happening during the whole film. Its almost like you are seen a Philistine if you say you don't 'get' them either.

I am talking about:

Boyhood
Manchester by the Sea
Ladybird
Brooklyn
Birdman
Lala Land
Three Billboards....

A lot of literary fiction is like this - unlikeable characters doing f*** all in a middle class fashion.

But I take issue with you on 3 Billboards. That was a fantastic film

xzanti

xzanti wrote: »

Anything with the word Star or Galaxy in it.

Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Hunger Games. I know it's not a film but Game of Thrones.

Anything with Adam Sandler.

Lord of the rings?

You shut your filthy whore mouth

fryup

Erranged wrote: »

I’m shutting your butt down!

yep, throws a hissy fit when a valid question is asked of him

no.8

xzanti wrote:

Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Hunger Games. I know it's not a film but Game of Thrones.

xzanti wrote:

Anything with the word Star or Galaxy in it.

xzanti wrote:

Anything with Adam Sandler.

Lazy comment 'anything with the word Star or Galaxy in it' xD

Are you a flat Earther by any chance??

sameoldname

Inside Llewyn Davis: A miserable film about miserable things happening to miserable people.

sydthebeat

sameoldname wrote: »

Inside Llewyn Davis: A miserable film about miserable things happening to miserable people.

Cracking soundtrack though

Humberto Salazar

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - maudlin ole rubbish.

Wolf of Wall Street - thoroughly dislikeable characters throughout.

EmmetSpiceland

sameoldname wrote: »

Inside Llewyn Davis: A miserable film about miserable things happening to miserable people.

You left out the cat.

I thought it was a great film, took me a good while to realise it was Oscar Issacs and not Jake Johnson playing the “lead” though.

Greyfox

xzanti wrote: »

Anything with the word Star or Galaxy in it.

Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Hunger Games. I know it's not a film but Game of Thrones.

Everyone has different tastes, i absolutely love all the above, particularly GOT. Once you've tried them for 30 mins though if there not your cup of tea that's grand

mousblaster17

Any science fiction movie. Period.

Ash.J.Williams

Ipso wrote: »

Pulp fiction

Ah here

Greyfox

mousblaster17 wrote: »

Any science fiction movie. Period.

I think people who think this way are missing out on some of the best things life has to offer

storker

Greyfox wrote: »

Everyone has different tastes, i absolutely love all the above, particularly GOT. Once you've tried them for 30 mins though if there not your cup of tea that's grand

I'm not into fantasy (well, fantasy horror - yes, fantasy magical powers/lands/creatures - no) but I enjoyed GoT and LOTR. Alright, Frodo gets a bit annoying in TT and RoTK, and when GRRM's direction ran out in GoT it really showed, but any work can have weaknesses.

A good story well told can transcend even subject matter that isn't normally your thing.

murpho999

mousblaster17 wrote: »

Any science fiction movie. Period.

Ridiculous.

Films ranging from 2001 A Space Odyssey to Star Wars, Close Encounters of The Third Kind, ET, Star Trek, Blade Runner, Back to the Future, Gravity, Passengers, Alien to name just a few are all completely different and are as good as bad as any other film in other genres.

You can't just classify them as all the same, that's lazy and ignorant.

Ash.J.Williams

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