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

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  • #152
    tylercheribini
    Registered Users Posts: 2,014 ✭✭✭tylercheribini


    Christopher Nolan-ites in general get on my tits, when is he going to come up with a gimick that doesnt involve gymnastics with time?


  • #153
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,133 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Erranged wrote: »
    Jaws
    Biggest hype job ever

    Intense experience... perhaps it hasn't aged well as it has been copied \ ripped off so many times.

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



  • #154
    Greyfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    joeguevara wrote: »
    If we presume the top was and the poster was lifted to allow Andy get through the hole, no way could he attach the bottom to ensure its taut.

    Your talking about a very small detail that only a film nerd would notice, Shawshank deserves it's reputation of best film ever made

    Some films like Shawshank, Braveheart, Gladiator, Pulp fiction, terminator 2 and SW the empire strikes back are truly great films that only a few fruitcakes don't like.


  • #155
    [Deleted User]
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    Erranged wrote: »
    Jaws

    Biggest hype job ever

    We're going to need a bigger thread.


  • #156
    Erranged
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41 ✭Erranged


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    Intense experience... perhaps it hasn't aged well as it has been copied \ ripped off so many times.

    I was poking fun at it slightly

    They demonised the shark


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  • #157
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    Cmar-Ireland wrote: »
    Star Wars 1 to 9

    The Revenant

    Joker

    Could never get Star Wars , watched the Mandolorian first few weeks of lockdown and it works as a western series more than a sci-fi series


  • #158
    Greyfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    The exorcist - about as scary as a man with trousers on his head


  • #159
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Zebra3 wrote: »
    The Batman movie from 1989.

    People were having strokes about it back in the day.

    Much ado about nothing.
    The 1966 film was much better.


    Some Bat-deduction at it's finest.


    Commissioner Gordon: It could be any one of them... But which one? Which ones?

    Batman: Pretty *fishy* what happened to me on that ladder...

    Commissioner Gordon: You mean where there's a fish there could be a Penguin?

    Robin: But wait! It happened at sea... See? C for Catwoman!

    Batman: Yet, an exploding shark *was* pulling my leg...

    Commissioner Gordon: The Joker!

    Chief O'Hara: All adds up to a sinister riddle... Riddle-R. Riddler!

    Commissioner Gordon: A thought strikes me... So dreadful I scarcely dare give it utterance...

    Batman: The four of them... Their forces combined...

    Robin: Holy nightmare!


  • #160
    fly_agaric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,972 ✭✭✭fly_agaric


    Tried to watch Roma on Netflix and failed. Think I got about 1/2 way and didn't go back to it. It is very pretty as far as I remember, shots could be photographs in a coffee-table book etc. but was anything happening at all? Does anything ever happen?


  • #161
    Capt'n Midnight
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    RandomViewer wrote: »
    Could never get Star Wars , watched the Mandolorian first few weeks of lockdown and it works as a western series more than a sci-fi series
    Try Firefly series and then Serenity. I'm still surprised that TG4 hasn't shown it.


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  • #162
    firemansam4
    Registered Users Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭firemansam4


    Cmar-Ireland wrote:
    Star Wars 1 to 9


    In fairness Star wars is like marmite, I'm surprised your the first to mention it.

    I was born in the late 70's and loved it as a child and still love them.


  • #163
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,332 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Titanic. It was sooooo fcuking long. The only redeeming feature of that film was the dude bouncing off the propellor when the ship was sinking.


  • #164
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Try Firefly series and then Serenity. I'm still surprised that TG4 hasn't shown it.

    Have seen both, Star Wars didn't have Summer Glau


  • #165
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    The Departed

    arrival

    close encounters of the third kind

    accopolypse now

    the deer hunter

    dances with wolves

    any of those worthy movies eddy redmayne only seems to do

    anything by martin mc donagh


  • #166
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Labyrinth. Absolute bollox. The fraggles in it were more convincing than Bowie.


  • #167
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    The Departed

    Is a very good film,


  • #168
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    brilou23 wrote: »
    Arrival is worse film I have seen.

    same here

    the liberal politics is the worst part


  • #169
    dotsman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,636 ✭✭✭dotsman


    The most recent one for me was Joker.

    It really came across as a remake of Taxi Driver (which I found to only be an "alright" movie to begin with) with a twist of "Requiem for a Dream".

    Making it a "comic book" character was just even weirder.


  • #170
    py2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,844 ✭✭✭py2006


    Greyfox wrote: »
    The exorcist - about as scary as a man with trousers on his head

    Ah now here. Don't get me started. You have to appreciate the era in which this movie came out. It may not scare todays audience but in it's day when horror was Dracula and Frankenstein this came out and scared people enough for ambulances to arrive in theaters.


  • #171
    storker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,688 ✭✭✭storker


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    UNLEASH HELL!

    I saw a signature somewhere that quoted that speech and added a little extra:

    "My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius...[etc]...and I will have my vengeance in this life or the next. Please leave your message after the tone."

    :D


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  • #172
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Dumb And Dumber, awful pile of twaddle. Everything in had been done before and better.
    Get Out, great concept but so many plot holes.
    Gladiator, just awful. Be honest aside from Maximus's speech how much of it does anyone remember?

    Gladiator is a movie i can endlessly watch

    in my top ten movies , i accept its not viewed as a classic by any means


  • #173
    con___manx1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭con___manx1


    Not really into superheros.
    Nealy half of the films in the cinema the last few years has a ****in superhero in it.
    When I was at school only the geeks were into superheros.


  • #174
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    py2006 wrote: »
    Ah now here. Don't get me started. You have to appreciate the era in which this movie came out. It may not scare todays audience but in it's day when horror was Dracula and Frankenstein this came out and scared people enough for ambulances to arrive in theaters.

    It's only 2 years older than Carrie, the ambulances and fainting patrons were gimmicks employed by the promoters,


  • #175
    nj27
    Registered Users Posts: 467 ✭✭nj27


    The Paranormal Activity series is really tedious dreck, and I say that as a fan of the genre. The concept isn't bad but it was poorly executed, no real tension and too many jump scares.


  • #176
    joeguevara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,099 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    The 1966 film was much better.


    Some Bat-deduction at it's finest.


    Commissioner Gordon: It could be any one of them... But which one? Which ones?

    Batman: Pretty *fishy* what happened to me on that ladder...

    Commissioner Gordon: You mean where there's a fish there could be a Penguin?

    Robin: But wait! It happened at sea... See? C for Catwoman!

    Batman: Yet, an exploding shark *was* pulling my leg...

    Commissioner Gordon: The Joker!

    Chief O'Hara: All adds up to a sinister riddle... Riddle-R. Riddler!

    Commissioner Gordon: A thought strikes me... So dreadful I scarcely dare give it utterance...

    Batman: The four of them... Their forces combined...

    Robin: Holy nightmare!

    Never knew that there was a 1966 movie but the series with adam west was one of my favourites as a young kid. Blew my mind last night while watching rocky three, when my mate said, buster Meredith who plays mickey was the penguin in the series.


  • #177
    storker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,688 ✭✭✭storker


    con___manx1 wrote: »
    Not really into superheros.
    Nealy half of the films in the cinema the last few years has a ****in superhero in it.
    When I was at school only the geeks were into superheros.

    The only Marvel comic series I ever enjoyed was "Dracula Lives!"


  • #178
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    My three favourite films are Die hard, Aliens and a 70s film called CharleyVarrick with Walter Mattau.

    My least favourite films are anything with Tom Cruise


  • #179
    py2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,844 ✭✭✭py2006


    RandomViewer wrote: »
    It's only 2 years older than Carrie, the ambulances and fainting patrons were gimmicks employed by the promoters,

    Yes but unlike horrors before it, it felt real and had the religious element (taken VERY seriously in those days).

    Very hard to explain to anyone these days. In it's day it had a massive impact.


  • #180
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Greyfox wrote: »
    The exorcist - about as scary as a man with trousers on his head

    ridicolous comment


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  • #181
    Mantis Toboggan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,099 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    Inception and Mad Max Fury Road.

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸



  • #182
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,304 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    same here

    the liberal politics is the worst part

    It's a while since I have seen it but I don't remember the liberal politics...

    Crash and joker would be the two that spring to mind. Oh and the post...Streep is terrible in if literally chewing the scenery


  • #183
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Mantis Toboggan wrote: »
    Inception and Mad Max Fury Road.

    agree on the former

    theme is great though


  • #184
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    joeguevara wrote: »
    Never knew that there was a 1966 movie but the series with adam west was one of my favourites as a young kid. Blew my mind last night while watching rocky three, when my mate said, buster Meredith who plays mickey was the penguin in the series.

    They used the submarine set from Voyage to the bottom of the sea painted pychedilic colours


  • #185
    Sleeper12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,155 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    Lost implants wrote:
    No one wearing a cape has ever saved the day, so grow up.


    Zorro? :)


  • #186
    Capt'n Midnight
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    RandomViewer wrote: »
    Have seen both, Star Wars didn't have Summer Glau
    or Gina Torres or Morena Baccarin or Jewel Staite or Christina Hendricks


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  • #187
    Gorteen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭Gorteen


    Star Wars (all of them)
    Bond Movies (all of them)


  • #188
    COVID
    Registered Users Posts: 630 ✭✭✭COVID


    Smacruairi wrote: »
    ....La La Land, The Hurt locker, Birdman, The Big Lebowski.

    Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.


  • #189
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,133 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Gorteen wrote: »
    Star Wars (all of them)
    Bond Movies (all of them)

    For Your Eyes Only is over-rated?

    Throwing a flag on this play...

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



  • #190
    Alejandro68
    Closed Accounts Posts: 412 ✭✭Alejandro68


    Bohemian Rhapsody. I don't know how they can be proud of that film.


  • #191
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    glasso wrote: »
    that summarises the problem with them perfectly!

    if people only knew that the infection would spread so much it could possibly have been killed off early.

    I think the opposite. The first two Blade films are pretty dark, breathtakingly violent and gritty in tone but have just about the right amount of humor too to lighten the mood.

    Marvel films are basically days out for the family now.


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  • #192
    Rothko
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    Get Out is the most overrated film of the last ten years.


  • #193
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Archeron wrote: »
    Titanic. It was sooooo fcuking long. The only redeeming feature of that film was the dude bouncing off the propellor when the ship was sinking.
    A Night To Remember is the best Titanic film, though I haven't seen the German one yet.

    Titanic is yet another film where they put modern characters in a historic setting it's so wrong !


  • #194
    Mr Meanor
    Registered Users Posts: 197 ✭✭Mr Meanor


    The Matrix, and all of the sequels

    The Thirteenth Floor had better style and aged better.


  • #195
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    A Night To Remember is the best Titanic film, though I haven't seen the German one yet.

    Titanic is yet another film where they put modern characters in a historic setting it's so wrong !

    Er... the one Goebbels sanctioned?


  • #196
    Capt'n Midnight
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    RandomViewer wrote: »
    Is a very good film,
    I'll wait a while before I watch Infernal Affairs.

    It's unreal that for certain genres how many good US films are just remakes or copies of better foreign ones.


  • #197
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,741 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Citizen Kane,


  • #198
    Andrewf20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭Andrewf20


    Brooklyn - a tedious, manicured story where all the cars are clean & everyone is impeccably dressed. Its a "nice" story but lacks anything in any way remarkable.


  • #199
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,840 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    Lost in translation


  • #200
    Rubberchikken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    Loved adam west as batman.

    Burgess meredith as the joker used to terrify me.

    Most overrated imo - anything with meryl Streep, al pacino, robert de niro.


  • #201
    mikeym
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,985 ✭✭✭mikeym


    Fifty Shades of Grey.
    Fifty Shades Darker.
    Fifty Shades Freed.

    All terrible movies.


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