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

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    #332
    fly_agaric
    Registered Users Posts: 4,842 ✭✭✭fly_agaric


    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.


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    #333
    tylercheribini
    Registered Users Posts: 2,014 ✭✭✭tylercheribini


    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.

    Nope, The Guard was proper paddywhackery ****e, turned it off after 25 mins or so.


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    #334
    fly_agaric
    Registered Users Posts: 4,842 ✭✭✭fly_agaric


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    fb7.jpg

    Some uncanny valley stuff going on there alright.
    Zemeckis made "A Christmas Carol" using same technique I think, but thought that film was quite good (perhaps the unsettling nature of the animations fitted better with that story).


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    #335
    fly_agaric
    Registered Users Posts: 4,842 ✭✭✭fly_agaric


    tylercheribini wrote: »
    Nope, The Guard was proper paddywhackery ****e, turned it off after 25 mins or so.

    Good to know it was not just me then!:pac:


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    #336
    rdhma
    Registered Users Posts: 229 ✭✭rdhma


    Sorry to Bother You.
    A satirical comedy that is painfully unfunny. Scenes drag on and on.
    Worst movie I've seen in years.

    Black Panther
    Ropey CGI, but that is the least of its problems.
    It concerns a fictional independent black nation, where... -wait for it - the CIA ensure the correct warlord holds power. Are you kidding me?

    And some Irish movies:

    The Guard. Yeah, that was some hokey crap.

    Small Engine Repair. Transplant an obviously US based script to an Irish scenario. It just doesn't work.


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    #337
    raclle
    Registered Users Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭raclle


    joeguevara wrote: »
    Never understood why people rant and rave about Harry Potter. It’s basically about a nerdy orphan spending 7 years c0ckblocking his ginger mate.
    Greyfox wrote: »
    Because the books are amazing
    I like the books too but the movies are utter ****e.

    How Deathly Hallows Part 2 got 8.1/10 on IMDb and 96% on RT is beyond me.

    I bet non readers had fun trying to figure out what was going on and the ending was so bad


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    #338
    smilerf
    Registered Users Posts: 2,585 ✭✭✭smilerf


    12 Years A Slave
    Jaws
    Training Days
    Shawshank
    American Beauty
    Seven
    The Breakfast Club
    Four Wedding and a funeral
    Star Wars
    The original mad max


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    #339
    Zak Flaps
    Registered Users Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭Zak Flaps


    Would have been interesting if posters had to also include their top 3 movies in their posts.....just to check out their actual taste!


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    #340
    Necro
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,215 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    joeguevara wrote: »
    Gremlins was another repulsive film. How did the concept of a kid stealing a rare exotic animal of an illegal immigrant before forcefeeding it and brutally mutilating it’s offspring in horrific ways get sanctioned.
    joeguevara wrote: »
    While everyone laughed and joked about Wilson, leaving the cinema after watching castaway, I just shook my head thinking I sat through 2 hours watching a film about a fed ex employee getting lost on his way to work before committing postal,fraud.
    joeguevara wrote: »
    A Team is about War criminals who forcefuly sedate African American simpleton before destroying agricultural machinery that they have stolen from a barn
    joeguevara wrote: »
    Karate kid is the exciting story of a weird ex PoW who tricks deluded loner into doing DIY.
    joeguevara wrote: »
    Stand By Me is the coming of age film about. Laying child who forces friends watch him peel a leech off his genitals before finding a dead hobo.

    Mod:

    Can you kindly drop the weird real life comparisons? Thanks.


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    #341
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    Scarface.

    Pacino is extremely hammy as an actor, and the movie is loved by scumbags.
    Pfeiffer was brilliant in it tho


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    #342
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,310 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Great film, it'd be in my top 10, definitely ...


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    #343
    Optimalprimerib
    Registered Users Posts: 1,885 ✭✭✭Optimalprimerib


    Arrival has great reviews and is loved by critics, but anyone I know that watched it hated it. Me included.

    The same with the irishman

    Lately on kermode and mayo, the deer hunter was on their what to avoid on tv lists. This surprised me as I thought that it was a highly rated classic. But apparently it hasn't aged well due to the misogynistic and racist overtones.

    There are many popular films I dislike, but it doesn't mean they are overrated, I just don't like them.


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    #344
    Erranged
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    Optimalprimerib wrote: »
    Arrival has great reviews and is loved by critics, but anyone I know that watched it hated it. Me included.

    The same with the irishman

    Lately on kermode and mayo, the deer hunter was on their what to avoid on tv lists. This surprised me as I thought that it was a highly rated classic. But apparently it hasn't aged well due to the misogynistic and racist overtones.

    There are many popular films I dislike, but it doesn't mean they are overrated, I just don't like them.
    The deerhunter was never great imo

    Irishman was good

    Anything with Tom hanks is overrated


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    #345
    Optimalprimerib
    Registered Users Posts: 1,885 ✭✭✭Optimalprimerib


    Erranged wrote: »
    The deerhunter was never great imo

    Irishman was good

    Anything with Tom hanks is overrated

    I never even watched the deer hunter as it doesn't appeal to me, but it is an oscar winner and usually referenced as a classic. I checked metacritic and has an 83% rating with a 7.7 user score. So when I heard professional critics tear it apart, and it a way as if it is known that it is a **** film, it surprised me.


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    #346
    Yurt2
    Registered Users Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    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.


    You're not wrong. Everything bar In Bruges (mildly tolerable) from the McDonagh brothers is sub-Tarantino hackneyed sh*te. Seven Psychopaths made me want to cry it was so bad; I gave Three Billboards a go on the recommendation of a friend and wanted to throw my laptop out the window.

    The dialogue is always so cringe and always shooting to be clever. None of the stories seem to have any moral framework or say anything. Just random cobbled together vignettes trying to look cool.

    Honestly, I they get a free pass in the press in Ireland because they're Irish in Hollywood and they keep casting Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell.


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    Erranged
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    Optimalprimerib wrote: »
    I never even watched the deer hunter as it doesn't appeal to me, but it is an oscar winner and usually referenced as a classic. I checked metacritic and has an 83% rating with a 7.7 user score. So when I heard professional critics tear it apart, and it a way as if it is known that it is a **** film, it surprised me.

    The word 'clichéd' comes to mind when I think of the deerhunter


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    #348
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,310 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    >hasn't aged well due to the misogynistic and racist oveetones.

    Ah here, it's a classic, a piece of art.


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    #349
    golfball37
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    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    >hasn't aged well due to the misogynistic and racist oveetones.

    Ah here, it's a classic, a piece of art.

    Exactly this. It’s a nuanced look at the horror of war for a blue collar community of friends raised on a diet of no hope and patriotism.
    It actually has even more relevance today than ever.


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    #350
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    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


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    #351
    IAMAMORON
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    I always found the general theme and tone of the Christmas movie " It's a Wonderful Life" very unsubtle for Christmas morning, all things considered. I have tried to watch it a few times and quite literally lost the plot doing so. Suicide on Christmas morning? No thanks agus go phuck yourself más é do thoil é . I have toys n stuff to be playing with. Throw on the Wizard of Oz there please and get the fire going.


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    #352
    cj maxx
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    Withnail? and I had a cult following that I’ve never got. It’s supposed to be a ‘ classic ‘


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    #353
    myshirt
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    An American Tail


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    #354
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    I always found the general theme and tone of the Christmas movie " It's a Wonderful Life" very unsubtle for Christmas morning, all things considered.

    yep, i find it wrist slitting depressing even with the uplifting ending


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    #355
    happinessfr
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭happinessfr


    Parasite


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    #356
    mikemac2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,932 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    The Big Lebowski

    Actually every Coen Brothers movie


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    #357
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,618 ✭✭✭Feisar


    mikemac2 wrote: »
    The Big Lebowski

    Actually every Coen Brothers movie

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #358
    irishguitarlad
    Registered Users Posts: 2,752 ✭✭✭irishguitarlad


    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

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


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    #359
    kingtiger
    Registered Users Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭kingtiger


    I never really liked anything Christopher Nolan has ever done, all highly overrated

    "Memento" just about deserves a mention


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    #360
    kilns
    Registered Users Posts: 3,525 ✭✭✭kilns


    Get Out

    started off interesting but then it became cliched and the usual Hollywood ending


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    #361
    Claremorrisdub
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭Claremorrisdub


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    A.I. Artificial Intelligence from Steven Spielberg.
    One or two flashes of brilliance but otherwise a huge let down for me.

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


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