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

  • 02-09-2020 6:52pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,297 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


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

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Pulp fiction


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    The Godfather and Bridesmaids in the same sentence?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,227 ✭✭✭jj880


    Birdman


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭Notmything


    Dunkirk, 1917. Over hyped and rubbish


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Scarface.

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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,987 ✭✭✭0ph0rce0


    Hereditary

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,512 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    The Guard.
    The Young Offenders.


  • Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Miami Vice movie


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,324 ✭✭✭Tilikum17


    Scarface.

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

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,721 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    Miami Vice movie

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


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  • Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭Segotias


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Notmything wrote: »
    Dunkirk, 1917. Over hyped and rubbish

    1917 was not great

    Dunkirk was one of the best WW2 movies ever made


  • Registered Users Posts: 94 ✭✭Lost implants


    Anything with superheroes.

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


  • Registered Users Posts: 470 ✭✭catrat12


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,721 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,127 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    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.

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



  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,779 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,016 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


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

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,721 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy



    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!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,127 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


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

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



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,845 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Notmything wrote: »
    Dunkirk, 1917. Over hyped and rubbish

    Dunkirk

    Absolute rubbish.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41 Erranged


    Scarface.

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

    The chainsaw scene has a lot to answer for


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,016 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    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.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 692 ✭✭✭unhappys10


    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...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,352 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Cardboard Gangsters.

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,845 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Super hero movies are 99% scutter


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,239 ✭✭✭Be right back


    The English patient.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 692 ✭✭✭unhappys10


    Super hero movies are 99% scutter

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,845 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    1917 was not great

    Dunkirk was one of the best WW2 movies ever made

    Not at all. Pacing awful. Way too long.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,845 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    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


  • Registered Users Posts: 471 ✭✭Piehead


    Uncut Gems. Awful noisey unlikeable rubbishy garbage


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 692 ✭✭✭unhappys10


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

    Scutter confirmed.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    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?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,845 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,016 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Super hero movies are 99% scutter

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

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,258 ✭✭✭Kaybaykwah


    Super hero movies are 99% scutter

    Emmm, sorry, you left out the 1%.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 692 ✭✭✭unhappys10


    unhappys10 wrote: »
    Unless you're putting the Marvel universe in the 1%, you're scutter

    What's in the 1% out of interest?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,016 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    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.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭DrGreenThumb82


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭Notmything


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,230 ✭✭✭jaxxx


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,845 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,127 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    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.

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



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    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 :confused:

    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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 154 ✭✭Nexytus


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,488 ✭✭✭Deep Thought


    Training Day.. absolute ****e

    The narrower a man’s mind, the broader his statements.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,739 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    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


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