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

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  • #62
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 19,205 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    0ph0rce0 wrote: »
    Hereditary

    I love the "genre" but there's no convincing me that this wasn't a big pile of shíte

    agreed.

    Loved "Midsommar" though.

    But some people seem to be vice-versa on these two movies.


  • #63
    sameoldname
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 902 ✭✭✭sameoldname


    La La Land: Waiting for two vapid arseholes to figure out what vapid arseholes they each are.

    ...And from the same director:
    First Man: Portrays Neil Armstrong as basically an unhinged sociopath who no self-respecting space agency would put anywhere near a spacecraft.

    I did enjoy Whiplash though.


  • #64
    Relikk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭Relikk


    Inception
    Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
    Mad Max: Fury Road
    The Exorcist


  • #65
    storker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,761 ✭✭✭storker


    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    The Revenant.

    The bear should have won the oscar instead of DiCaprio.

    The bear was really well done - that attack scene was quite shocking.


  • #66
    storker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,761 ✭✭✭storker


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    There is a few wind up merchants on here

    No wind-up in my post.


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  • #67
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    storker wrote: »
    No wind-up in my post.

    What was the problem with Godfather 2?


  • #68
    [Deleted User]
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    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    The Revenant.

    The bear should have won the oscar instead of DiCaprio.

    true.

    I was really hoping that he got skewered up the hole by a branch to be honest when he fell of the cliff onto that tree

    Pumpkin head (great one Depp!) definitely didn't deserve an oscar for that


  • #69
    py2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,845 ✭✭✭py2006


    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.

    Wtf???

    That has to be a wind up???


  • #70
    BobbyMalone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 ✭✭BobbyMalone


    glasso wrote: »

    War is War, not about fantasy one-person heroes who killed 50 in a day, a mother's last son or sanctimonious messages


    I thought it was a very good film, but some of the subplots could easily be described by the above.


    tastyt wrote: »
    Someone just said the Godfather part 2 ......

    Please close this thread



    It's the whole point of the thread!


  • #71
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 96,590 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    The Lavender Hill Mob

    BBC had it on a while back. With the proper introductions. And it didn't even raise a smile.

    I'll watch The Ladykillers or Kind Hearts and Coronets over and over again.


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  • #72
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,345 ✭✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    I did not care for the Godfather, it insists upon itself....


  • #73
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,469 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    The Revenant.
    The bear should have won the oscar instead of DiCaprio.

    I thought the first 30 minutes were brilliant.
    The rest of the film you may as well have read the Wikipedia synopsis.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #74
    unhappys10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 692 ✭✭✭unhappys10


    Something isn't overrated if 1 or 2 people on here A didn't understand it or B didn't like it.
    Surprise surprise, different people like different things.


  • #75
    Uriel.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,059 ✭✭✭Uriel.


    One upon a time in Hollywood
    Broke back mountain
    Unbreakable


  • #76
    Lirange
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,145 ✭✭✭Lirange


    American Beauty
    The Irishman
    Notebook
    Lost in Translation


  • #77
    [Deleted User]
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    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    I did not care for the Godfather, it insists upon itself....

    It can't really hold a candle to this recent Irish Classic!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipx6iA2CR1g


  • #78
    unhappys10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 692 ✭✭✭unhappys10


    Lirange wrote: »
    American Beauty
    The Irishman
    Notebook
    Lost in Translation

    Lost in Translation is excellent.

    Go wash your mouth out with soap, or wash your hands seeing as you typed.


  • #79
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,183 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Blade runner 2049

    Not anywhere near as good as the original


  • #80
    py2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,845 ✭✭✭py2006


    The Joker was good but it disappointed me when I finally got around to seeing it. Overhyped Taxi Driver rip off (in parts).

    I never got into a the earlier Tarantino flicks (pulp fiction etc). They were different at the time but that doesn't equate to greatness. However I have enjoyed some later work.


  • #81
    Alejandro68
    Closed Accounts Posts: 412 ✭✭Alejandro68


    My friends love the Blade films, watched them one night with them. Meh...


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  • #82
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Deep Thought wrote: »
    Training Day.. absolute ****e

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  • #83
    sameoldname
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 902 ✭✭✭sameoldname


    Lirange wrote: »
    Lost in Translation

    I think that's a film where if you relate to the main characters you'll love it but if not, I can understand why people wouldn't like it.


  • #84
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,345 ✭✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    I don't like many 'super hero' films, probably including all the marvel ones, but one that did stand out as good was X Men First Class, probably to do with more storyline and less 'action' scenes


  • #85
    Smacruairi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,481 ✭✭✭Smacruairi


    Black panther.


  • #86
    Capt'n Midnight
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    py2006 wrote: »
    Wtf???

    That has to be a wind up???
    Shawshank is OK if you've never see films like

    Birdman of Alcatraz

    I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

    Cool Hand Luke


  • #87
    unhappys10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 692 ✭✭✭unhappys10


    Smacruairi wrote: »
    Black panther.

    I liked it, but I think the whole black cast thing blew it way into overrated territory.
    It was decent, but not what it's made out to be.

    Probably the most overrated film in this thread from that point of view.


  • #88
    ShatterAlan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭ShatterAlan


    I was bombarded by friends extolling how great a movie American Beauty was, so I watched it.


    Yeah? Is that it? I thought it was crap.


    The Blues Brothers also just annoyed the sh1t out of me.
    Pulp Fiction was pretty bad but Tarantino's appearance in it and his crappy acting made it even worse.
    A lot of epics that are hailed as great movies are really not that great. Case in point A Bridge Too Far. Ryan O'Neil and Elliot Gould's acting is just pathetic. Connery's scathing put down at the end was memorable but I suppose maybe the movie is just dated.


  • #89
    sameoldname
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 902 ✭✭✭sameoldname


    Smacruairi wrote: »
    Black panther.

    In my opinion it committed the cardinal sin for an action movie; it was boring.


  • #90
    [Deleted User]
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    Smacruairi wrote: »
    Black panther.

    indeed. bog standard film that surfed the woke wave


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  • #91
    py2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,845 ✭✭✭py2006


    I've a mate who didn't like E.T when he saw it as kid and he's an 80s kid!!! I mean the guy has no soul or heart.


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