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

AMKC · 02-09-2020 6:52pm #1

I will start with "The Godfather"
and "Bridemaids" ⁷Both totally way overrated.

Ipso · 02-09-2020 6:54pm

Pulp fiction

SEPT 23 1989 · 02-09-2020 6:57pm

The Godfather and Bridesmaids in the same sentence?

jj880 · 02-09-2020 6:58pm

Birdman

Notmything · 02-09-2020 6:58pm

Dunkirk, 1917. Over hyped and rubbish

JohnnyFlash · 02-09-2020 7:04pm

Scarface.

Pacino is extremely hammy as an actor, and the movie is loved by scumbags.

0ph0rce0 · 02-09-2020 7:04pm

Hereditary

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

whisky_galore · 02-09-2020 7:04pm

The Guard.
The Young Offenders.

02-09-2020 7:04pm

Miami Vice movie

Tilikum17 · 02-09-2020 7:05pm

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Scarface.

Pacino is extremely hammy as an actor, and the movie is loved by scumbags.

Pure ****e. The movie I mean.

AndyBoBandy · 02-09-2020 7:06pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Miami Vice movie

I don’t think there’s anyone that thought this wasn’t an utter stinking pile of sh1te!!!

Segotias · 02-09-2020 7:06pm

Something about Mary.
Anything with Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler, Farrelly Brothers, Will Ferrell

SEPT 23 1989 · 02-09-2020 7:07pm

Notmything wrote: »

Dunkirk, 1917. Over hyped and rubbish

1917 was not great

Dunkirk was one of the best WW2 movies ever made

Lost implants · 02-09-2020 7:07pm

Anything with superheroes.

No one wearing a cape has ever saved the day, so grow up.

catrat12 · 02-09-2020 7:08pm

Used to love scarface in my teen age years even had a poster up in my room watched it again few years back and can’t believe how bad an actually film it is

AndyBoBandy · 02-09-2020 7:08pm

Anchorman.

Anchorman 2

Both utter rubbish.

Stopped watching the 2nd one after 30 minutes as it didn’t illicit a single laugh from myself or OH.

odyssey06 · 02-09-2020 7:08pm

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

1917 was not great
Dunkirk was one of the best WW2 movies ever made

Dunkirk was a good movie, don't think it was over-rated.

But there was a BBC TV docu-drama narrated by Timothy Dalton starring Benedict Cumberbatch that was much better at telling the story.

Say Your Number · 02-09-2020 7:10pm

I'll be eaten alive for this but I saw Blazing Saddles and thought it was fine and not THE GREATEST FILM OF ALL TIME as I was expecting, also the 'You wouldn't get away with that now' sh1te that people come out with gets on my nerves as well.

EmmetSpiceland · 02-09-2020 7:10pm

‘Zoolander’.
‘Team America: World Police’.

AndyBoBandy · 02-09-2020 7:10pm

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Dunkirk was one of the best WW2 movies ever made

Is there a better version of it, like a directors cut where the timeline isn’t all over the place? I liked it but the whole timeline changing thing is annoying as fcuk!!

odyssey06 · 02-09-2020 7:10pm

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

Beechwoodspark · 02-09-2020 7:11pm

Notmything wrote: »

Dunkirk, 1917. Over hyped and rubbish

Dunkirk

Absolute rubbish.

Erranged · 02-09-2020 7:11pm

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Scarface.

Pacino is extremely hammy as an actor, and the movie is loved by scumbags.

The chainsaw scene has a lot to answer for

EmmetSpiceland · 02-09-2020 7:11pm

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

Is there a better version of it, like a directors cut where the timeline isn’t all over the place? I liked it but the whole timeline changing thing is annoying as fcuk!!

Sorry, no. That’s Christopher Nolan’s “thing”, everything has to be fractured, and convoluted.

unhappys10 · 02-09-2020 7:12pm

Lost implants wrote: »

Anything with superheroes.

No one wearing a cape has ever saved the day, so grow up.

You're some craic at socially distanced gatherings I'd say...

endacl · 02-09-2020 7:12pm

Cardboard Gangsters.

I know. Nobody ever claimed it was great, but I can’t pass up an opportunity to reiterate how shyte it is.

Beechwoodspark · 02-09-2020 7:12pm

Super hero movies are 99% scutter

Be right back · 02-09-2020 7:14pm

The English patient.

unhappys10 · 02-09-2020 7:14pm

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Super hero movies are 99% scutter

Unless you're putting the Marvel universe in the 1%, you're scutter

Beechwoodspark · 02-09-2020 7:15pm

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

1917 was not great

Dunkirk was one of the best WW2 movies ever made

Not at all. Pacing awful. Way too long.

Beechwoodspark · 02-09-2020 7:15pm

unhappys10 wrote: »

Unless you're putting the Marvel universe in the 1%, you're scutter

I’ve given most/all a chance and I stand by that. Absolute landfill garbage

Piehead · 02-09-2020 7:15pm

Uncut Gems. Awful noisey unlikeable rubbishy garbage

unhappys10 · 02-09-2020 7:16pm

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

I’ve given most/all a chance and I stand by that. Absolute landfill garbage

Scutter confirmed.

IAMAMORON · 02-09-2020 7:16pm

Aĺl the marvel crap. I cannot warm to it.

We are also all victims of internet rating sites like rotten tomatoes.

I have seen some great movies that i found highly entertaining but were not rated online.

Do yourself a favour and check out poorly rated movies, there are some greats out there. If it is garbage after 15 minutes just turn it off?

Beechwoodspark · 02-09-2020 7:17pm

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Aĺl the marvel crap. I cannot warm to it.

We are also all victims of internet rating sites like rotten tomatoes.

I have seen some great movies that i found highly entertaining but were not rated online.

Do yourself a favour and check out poorly rated movies, there are some greats out there. If it is garbage after 15 minutes just turn it off?

Agreed. The marvel crap as you put it is landfill rubbish

EmmetSpiceland · 02-09-2020 7:17pm

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Super hero movies are 99% scutter

Oh, we’re including kid’s films? I thought ‘Shark Tale’ was shíte.

02-09-2020 7:17pm

odyssey06 wrote: »

Dunkirk was a good movie, don't think it was over-rated.

But there was a BBC TV docu-drama narrated by Timothy Dalton starring Benedict Cumberbatch that was much better at telling the story.

it's not about the story

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

Dunkirk portrayed this brilliantly, ( as seen in the cinema) put you there and maintained the tension to the end

It's probably the best war movie ever made.

Those who don't get it or are looking for some sort of fake plot should stick to Saving Private Ryan type stuff!

Kaybaykwah · 02-09-2020 7:18pm

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Super hero movies are 99% scutter

Emmm, sorry, you left out the 1%.

unhappys10 · 02-09-2020 7:19pm

unhappys10 wrote: »

Unless you're putting the Marvel universe in the 1%, you're scutter

What's in the 1% out of interest?

EmmetSpiceland · 02-09-2020 7:19pm

odyssey06 wrote: »

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

It had a good enough “ending”, if it had stopped half an hour earlier and not been so, utterly, ridiculous.

02-09-2020 7:20pm

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Not at all. Pacing awful. Way too long.

Dunkirk was only 1h 46 mintues.

That's easily on the short side for movies these days

DrGreenThumb82 · 02-09-2020 7:24pm

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.

Notmything · 02-09-2020 7:25pm

glasso wrote: »

it's not about the story

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

Dunkirk portrayed this brilliantly, ( as seen in the cinema) put you there and maintained the tension to the end

It's probably the best war movie ever made.

Those who don't get it or are looking for some sort of fake plot should stick to Saving Private Ryan type stuff!

Personally I experienced no tension in the movie. I preferred the BBC docudrama. The characters were real and I felt their experiences came across better. I would say I prefer the 1958 version too. But it's about personal taste.

Dunno why you had to make a remark about the tastes of other posters tho.

jaxxx · 02-09-2020 7:26pm

Frozen. Most absolute trash over-rated turd cum that Disney ever produced!

Inception - I just didn't get it, at all.

Anything with Brad Pitt.

Entire Fast and Furious franchise.

Anything with Dwayne Johnson - I like him, but he pretty much just plays himself in literally every movie.

Max Mad Fury Road - again, I just didn't get it.

Frodo - I like the Lord of the Rings movies (not the Hobbit trilogy however). But Frodo always annoyed the absolute f*ck out of me. F*ck you Frodo, Samwise was the true hero!

Jurassic World - was pure utter crap IMO.

SEPT 23 1989 · 02-09-2020 7:28pm

glasso wrote: »

it's not about the story

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

Dunkirk portrayed this brilliantly, ( as seen in the cinema) put you there and maintained the tension to the end

It's probably the best war movie ever made.

Those who don't get it or are looking for some sort of fake plot should stick to Saving Private Ryan type stuff!

The film score from the beginning was like a vice slowly closing

The panic the absolute terror of war

And of course the sound of the spitfire

Beechwoodspark · 02-09-2020 7:28pm

Notmything wrote: »

Personally I experienced no tension in the movie. I preferred the BBC docudrama. The characters were real and I felt their experiences came across better. I would say I prefer the 1958 version too. But it's about personal taste.

Dunno why you had to make a remark about the tastes of other posters tho.

Yes -

Dunkirk had zero tension. Boredom throughout.

Shame on Christopher Nolan, he did a crap job directing that film.

That bit with Harry styles in the wrecked boat was so so so so bad and seemed to go on for ever.

odyssey06 · 02-09-2020 7:29pm

glasso wrote: »

it's not about the story
War is War, not about fantasy one-person heroes who killed 50 in a day, a mother's last son or sanctimonious messages
Dunkirk portrayed this brilliantly, ( as seen in the cinema) put you there and maintained the tension to the end
It's probably the best war movie ever made.
Those who don't get it or are looking for some sort of fake plot should stick to Saving Private Ryan type stuff!

The best war movie ever made?
Ok, I'm declaring it over-rated now.

There was no fake plot to the TV version of Dunkirk, it was capable of giving viewers an understanding of the wider picture of the battle, what was at stake and engaging you with the fate of real characters through that battle.

02-09-2020 7:29pm

Notmything wrote: »

Personally I experienced no tension in the movie. I preferred the BBC docudrama. The characters were real and I felt their experiences came across better. I would say I prefer the 1958 version too. But it's about personal taste.

Dunno why you had to make a remark about the tastes of other posters tho.

I just made a comment about another war movie

the whole point of Dunkirk was that it's not really about the characters -> "War is War".

that's why the characters aren't laboured over or their backstory explored -> it's about what happened then and there, the immediacy of the situation

It's not a documentary, not sure why it's being compared to one

it's also Nolan's highest-rated movie by a mile - by users and critics alike (so can't just say it's all critics)

https://www.metacritic.com/movie/dunkirk

Nexytus · 02-09-2020 7:30pm

DrGreenThumb82 wrote: »

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

The warden was personally amassing loads of dodgy money from the prison. He needed
to launder that money. He wouldn't know how himself. He can't go to a regular accountant.
The prisoner has the skills. And he controls the prisoner completely. Can put him in solitary
confinement or have him beaten, extend his sentence etc. He never conceived that
the prisoner could or would escape.

Deep Thought · 02-09-2020 7:30pm

Training Day.. absolute ****e

Quantum Erasure · 02-09-2020 7:30pm

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.

The Green Mile too...

And The Fugitive, wasn't written by King though

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

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