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

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    #902
    TheBlackPill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 321 ✭✭TheBlackPill


    Lost in Translation.
    Enjoyed the film. Really identified with the Bill Murray character.
    Wife hated it, the emotional affair at the centre of the film probably worried her.
    but it is hugely overrated.


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    #903
    Strumms
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    TheBlackPill wrote: »
    Lost in Translation.
    Enjoyed the film. Really identified with the Bill Murray character.
    Wife hated it, the emotional affair at the centre of the film probably worried her.
    but it is hugely overrated.

    It’s got a weird charm and uniqueness. I love the cinematography it’s an absolutely stunningly beautifully shot film. Soundtrack is amazing, beyond good. Casting was genius but I think it’s the kind of film from a storyline and plot perspective that maybe once you’ve seen it, it’s a bit... not that rewatchable, probably due to there being somewhat lack of dialogue in places.

    First film I ever saw with my IFI membership.


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    #904
    OneEightSeven
    Registered Users Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭OneEightSeven


    I tried to watch Avatar, twice, but it just bored the shíte out of me.


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    #905
    littlevillage
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    El Gato De Negocios wrote: »
    Chris Nolans Batman franchise, particularly part 2. Grand fluff movies but other than that they have little to offer.

    Literally just watched the Dark Knight rises last night ... (the one with Bane as the bady)..... Needless to say, I didn't get to the end. Its terrible shyte.

    The Dark Knight... was OK.... Heath Ledger got an Oscar etc.

    Don't even remember Batman begins... I think Liam Neeson plays some kind of wise warrior monk, that trains Batman in martial arts... I'm sure it was pretty awful too.


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    #906
    circadian
    Registered Users Posts: 6,944 ✭✭✭circadian


    Interstellar can **** right off. I love a good sci-fi. I love time travel and things to do with spacetime.

    I do not like a film that spends 90 minutes explaining these things and then completely ignore them.


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    #907
    colly10
    Registered Users Posts: 3,008 ✭✭✭colly10


    The Irishman - Dull with little if any plot, forgotten what it was about, if anything. No idea what made it popular


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    #908
    loyatemu
    Registered Users Posts: 14,890 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    colly10 wrote: »
    The Irishman - Dull with little if any plot, forgotten what it was about, if anything. No idea what made it popular

    Hype - Scorsese, DeNiro, Pacino and Pesci together on a 5 hour gangster epic...

    It wasn't terrible but it was way too long, and the de-aging effects were ropey.


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    #909
    Butson
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    3 Billboards.

    Crap.


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    #910
    FarmerBrowne
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    The Hurtlocker, absolute muck.


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    #911
    recyclops
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    driver

    good soundtrack and nothing else, horrendous, thought being hungover was the problem the first time so gave it a second chance, nope still terrible


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    #912
    McGinniesta
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    Scarface.

    Possibly the most overrated film of all time.


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    #913
    Snickers Man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭Snickers Man


    Erranged wrote: »
    12 years a slave,

    This! Most overrated tosh ever.

    All the insight, balance and empathy of Hellcats of the Navy, or Rambo.


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    #914
    smilerf
    Registered Users Posts: 2,585 ✭✭✭smilerf


    I personally think Taxi Driver is overrated


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    #915
    growleaves
    Registered Users Posts: 7,770 ✭✭✭growleaves


    Ladygoodman1 wrote: »
    thats awful brad pit one. The tree of life i think was called. I know.people pretend like it for fear looking stupid. Its the epitome of the emporers new clothes in a film.

    It was publicly booed by the audience when it was screened at Cannes.

    I liked it a lot and went to see it twice but in some ways it was the epitome of the Art Film. It was very self-consciously artificial and with overly sincere sentiment so I don't blame anyone for not liking it.


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    #916
    Poor_old_gill
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    The Guard is sh*te, pure sh*te.

    Tries too hard to create juxtapositions and has too much idiotic paddy whackery in it.

    It's like a 90 minute long Rory's Stories sketch


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    #917
    ChippingSodbury
    Registered Users Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭ChippingSodbury


    FarmerBrowne wrote: »
    The Hurtlocker, absolute muck.

    Didn't like it first time I saw it. But I watched it again a year or two later and I enjoyed it. The loooooong scene when they are under fire from the snipers in the desert is tension at its best because it's different to most films in that the baddies have a good aim and the goodies sometimes miss. The length of the scene gives it a sense of reality.

    No Country For Old Men: now there's a load of ****e...


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    #918
    TCDStudent1
    Registered Users Posts: 3,018 ✭✭✭TCDStudent1


    Poor_old_gill wrote: »
    The Guard is sh*te, pure sh*te.

    Tries too hard to create juxtapositions and has too much idiotic paddy whackery in it.

    It's like a 90 minute long Rory's Stories sketch




    Now, that is over-rated (albeit not a film)


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    #919
    AllForIt
    Registered Users Posts: 8,353 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    There was a time when Some Like It Hot and Vertigo another time, were considered the best movies ever made.

    For me SLIT is only an average film. I think what happened was that at the time it was considered the best movie ever made and no one dared to contradict that since, not even decades later, for some odd reason.

    I liked Vertigo but not only is it not the best movie ever made but it's not even the best movie Alfred Hitchcock ever made. Surely Psycho and even Birds are better than Vertigo.


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    #920
    Mad_maxx
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    Butson wrote: »
    3 Billboards.

    Crap.

    mcdonagh is incredibly over rated


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    #921
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users Posts: 20,158 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    mcdonagh is incredibly over rated

    Frances McDormand, I think you mean.


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    #922
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    El_Duderino 09 wrote: »
    Frances McDormand, I think you mean.


    Director is mcdonagh


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    #923
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users Posts: 20,158 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    Director is mcdonagh

    Fair one.


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    #924
    2lazytogetup
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    banie01 wrote: »
    Good popcorn movie, but far too much weight attached to it as culturally significant.

    As for their staying low key and inconspicuous whilst in Korea...
    WTAF?

    Giant black folk strolling around any part of east Asia...
    Are NEVER not going to stand out.


    What the hell is a popcorn movie


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    #925
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Burn After Reading.

    God awful film.


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    #926
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    2lazytogetup wrote: »
    What the hell is a popcorn movie

    I assume he means a movie that you can enjoy without analysing or thinking too much about it.


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    #927
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users Posts: 20,158 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    Burn After Reading.

    God awful film.

    Just watched it again the other weekend. Loved it. I'd say if you like some of the coen brothers movies you probably like the rest of them and it probably works the other way around too.


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    #928
    KungPao
    Registered Users Posts: 4,782 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    I think Titanic (1997) is overrated, people thinks it's a great film but I think 'A night to remember' (1958) is a much better account/film about the ill-fated liner .....
    I don't believe it was ever really rated.

    And the Celine Dion theme was pure cheese, and called that at the time. The "king of the world" nonsense was also noted.

    Everyone's always said the fluffy love story was boring - but once the berg is hit it get's fairly interesting, at least.

    Nazi Germany made a movie about the Titanic also, must watch it some day.


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    #929
    Capt'n Midnight
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    KungPao wrote: »
    Nazi Germany made a movie about the Titanic also, must watch it some day.
    It's one of the better ones.

    A Night To Remember is still the best.

    Titanic ? it's premise is that you can't lible the dead otherwise they couldn't have made it.



    The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1943) is an amazing film when you consider the problems they had making it. It's up there with Ivan the Terrible (1944) as a film that couldn't possibly be made by those people at that time in that place.

    Pulgasari is a little easier to understand. The North Koreans kidnapped a South Korean director and forced him to make a Kaiju movie.


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    #930
    Capt'n Midnight
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    KungPao wrote: »
    Nazi Germany made a movie about the Titanic also, must watch it some day.
    It's one of the better ones.

    A Night To Remember is still the best.

    Titanic ? it's premise is that you can't lible the dead otherwise they couldn't have made it.



    The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1943) is an amazing film when you consider the problems they had making it. It's up there with Ivan the Terrible (1944) as a film that couldn't possibly be made by those people at that time in that place.

    Pulgasari is a little easier to understand. The North Koreans kidnapped a South Korean director and forced him to make a Kaiju movie.


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    #931
    trellheim
    Registered Users Posts: 5,898 ✭✭✭trellheim


    Thin Red Line - three hours of my life I wanted back after that pretentious crap . Three hours better spent staring at your own navel.


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