Overrated and disappointing films

He is kinda the same person in a lot of those movies. Got a bit type cast with the crime and mob stuff.

Taxi Driver and The Deer Hunter are great though. Never warmed to Raging Bull.

Not really overrated because most people agree with you that it's shte.

Silent night, sky were hyping this one for Xmas, pile of shite joel kinneman is the star

Tom " I do all my own stunts you know - I'm great aren't I " Cruise, aaaaaargh😤

Fair enough. Sorry, was being a bit of a dlck. Wasn't feeling the Xmas spirit yesterday!!!

The fighter. Now Bale and Wahlberg did a good job but the script annoyed me. How do you leave out anything to do with Arturo Gatti in a biopic of Mickey Ward

A lot of best picture Oscar's nowadays are picked by and for people who can spend their life watching movies which is why they can watch these really slow movies in the middle of the day without failing asleep after a long day of work.

Roma is the perfect example of this for me.

Beau is Afraid is essentially a three hour wánk without a satisfactory ending

The Searchers?

So much going on in that movie, not least amazing cinematography. It's not the traditional western, it's highlighting parts of the history of the west that aren't often told, at least not at that time. The characters are imperfect and a product of their life experiences. I guess superficially it looks like the usual western but it isn't.

Hard to put a movie like this in context. So many modern movies are disposable entertainment moving to fast to tell any meaningful story.

Worth reading the wiki on it ... explains it better.

Couldn't agree more. In the book the shark has a reason for being territorial, no idea if that's something sharks do.

I think its a great sequel. Someone here said it was too long. That they could chop an hour out of it I'll agree with that. Probably takes too long to get to the point, and you dropped out before it starts to come together.

I think it works because it moves original story on, adds to it while not detracting from the original movie or the original characters. But could do with better editing.

Too often they make a sequel that ruins the original for me, or a prequel.

Yeah bit overrated for me too. You agree Dave don't you... Dave...

Well, Hooper mentions "territoriality" in the film and that it was a theory he agreed with, and during the 70's there was a lot of debate amongst marine biologists about that kind of thing. But I think the general idea now is that sharks just roam about and the largest will get the best hunting spots without necessarily staking any kind of claim. But if the feeding is good, a shark will hang about for a while and take advantage of the opportunity. So, while 'Jaws' isn't really correct about this, it isn't entirely wrong either.

But if sharks really wanted to stake out beaches and eat people, they could do it with impunity and beaches would become no go areas for humans.

It's well known that shark attacks are a result of mistaken identity/curiosity i.e. thinks humans are a seal or other prey. There's feck all meat on a human. It's mostly bone so why bother intentionally attacking us.

I gave out about it in the "what have you watched recently" thread so I'll put it here as well. The Blues Brothers. It's just not funny, I've never got it - a lot of shouting and running around, some good music but no real plot. Yet so many people love it.

Continuing the Dan Akroyd theme, I rewatched Ghostbusters over Xmas and it hasn't aged very well IMO and relies way too heavily on Bill Murray insulting people, but it does at least have a plot (and to annoy people further I'm going to say I thought female reboot wasn't as bad as many people said).

Yeah, I've seen loads of articles recently with shark footage taken from drones above beaches in San Diego, it looks like they are mostly ignoring people.

Avatar: From a technical POV, a gamechanger (For better or worse). As a movie? I was never gone on it. As has been said so many times by so many people: Dances With Aliens

Titanic: Again, from a technical POV, great. But as a movie, completely flat and cliché. There was only one tiny scene I liked in it: The look of joy and wonder on a little girl's face as she sees the distress signals being fired while surrounded by disaster.

Forrest Gump: Once again, from a technical POV, amazing at the time. But, I don't know if it was me being in a bad mood when I saw it first but I HATED (And still HATE) the message of that movie: Everyone seems to think that it's "Oh anything is possible". For me, what I took was "Do what you are told. Follow orders and you will succeed. Rebel and you'll die of AIDS". I never met anyone else who took the same meaning I got from it so I think I was just in a bad mood. I appreciate the cinematography and pacing and music etc but hate the message.

The Searchers: Can't agree there. Thought (And still think) it's a masterpiece. Especially when you consider when it was made. Making the protagonist and most famous cowboy in the world a racist bad guy? Ballsy

Ghostbusters: I have to disagree here too. I loved Ghostbusters (And still do enjoy the first one). That cast? At that time? My God. All it was missing was (thankfully now) Chevy Chase.

I do think The Dark Knight is a better film than Batman Begins but I thought the ending was rushed. It should just have been the corruption of Dent by The Joker and 3rd film could have been about Dent. Having said that, I wasn't initially gone on The Dark Knight Rises (Film 3). Thought it was over-long and I had spotted the twist very quickly. BUT it was a much better film once I rewatched it. Not as tight as the others but Joseph Gordon Levitt was as excellent as I remembered (Just for the love of GOD take out that "Oh you should go by your middle name" line. PLEASE) - Well all the cast was excellent and even Bane was understandable (Well, for a Nolan film anyway)

And, in fairness, that seems to be the general consensus. Just me being in a bad mood/whatever the first time I saw it :)

Me too.

I didn't get it but it was on lots of film of the year lists.