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

Quantum Erasure · 02-09-2020 9:32pm

All the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films, apart from the scenes with Gollem

fly_agaric · 02-09-2020 9:33pm

Gorteen wrote: »

Star Wars (all of them)

On Star Wars they are kids films that adults seem to be infatuated with due to the good memories of the films & toys from their youth (so they must be doing something right). People get upset when a new Star Wars film is made and does not live up to the memory created of ones they saw in their youth. IMO they can now (as adults) appreciate the shallowness of the plots, the cardboardy characters, hammy acting and flowery screen-writing!
Or perhaps changing culture vs their youth being reflected rubs them up the wrong way. It is not for them (us) any more.

Parabellum9 · 02-09-2020 9:35pm

Donnie Darko - load of bollix

Capt'n Midnight · 02-09-2020 9:36pm

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

Er... the one Goebbels sanctioned?

Have you seen the 1943 Münchhausen ?

It's epic.

And that's before you realise they had black actors in 1943 Berlin when the RAF and the USAAF were trying night and day to wipe the city off the map.

Homelander · 02-09-2020 9:37pm

1917 and Dunkirk spring to mind for me. Neither what I'd call a bad movie obviously, but found both over-rated for different reasons.

Dunkirk just didn't gel with me or instill that sense of dread/discomfort that other people speak about. I get what Nolan was doing, just didn't resonate with me.

1917 looked good but was just plain daft from a plot POV with constant ridiculous conveniences.

Another one is Black Panther. Again, not bad, but it's for sure far closer to the bottom of the Marvel pile than the top. Very generic movie even as comic book movies go.

Psychlops · 02-09-2020 9:39pm

Inception, Dunkirk, 1917, Any new Star Wars Movie.

gmisk · 02-09-2020 9:41pm

Alejandro68 wrote: »

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

In fairness production was a mess on that film (Singer seemed to be a train wreck) they had to get dexter fletcher to do a load of reshoots. But even before that a tonne of people seemed to drop out of lead role Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Whishaw I think? The editing was a mess the fact it won an oscar for it is a disgrace.
Critical reviews were also not great.

The things it had going for it were the music and even more so Rami Malek who was brilliant I thought.

gmisk · 02-09-2020 9:44pm

Psychlops wrote: »

Inception, Dunkirk, 1917, Any new Star Wars Movie.

I actually thought rogue one was very good.
The last jedi was a lot of fun don't really understand the hate it got especially from fans.

blade1 · 02-09-2020 9:45pm

The last Mad Max.
A big ball of shîte!

Sardonicat · 02-09-2020 9:46pm

There will be Blood was an awful film which could have been incredible. For me, the pacing was so off it destroyed the film

Weepsie · 02-09-2020 9:48pm

Be right back wrote: »

The English patient.

Are you Eaine Benes?

For me, Inception. Wouldnt call it ****e, and it looked good, but it was just a lot of best bits of sci-fi.

Achebe · 02-09-2020 9:48pm

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.

If the film addressed racism, you'd probably say it was too "woke".

Anyway, that character wasn't black in the original story. He was called Red because of his red hair.

Sardonicat · 02-09-2020 9:50pm

Birdman. Utter toss.

Mervyn Skidmore · 02-09-2020 9:51pm

Watched Gladiator for the first time ever last week. Mediocre at best.

Sawduck · 02-09-2020 9:52pm

Every star wars movie
Ladybird
Avengers movies
Black Swan
Almost every woody allen movie especially manhattan
Patton
Avatar
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The Expendables
Paranormal Activity

Capt'n Midnight · 02-09-2020 9:53pm

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

All the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films, apart from the scenes with Gollem

Lord of the Rings is pretty good.
Sam Neill should have been Elrond and Arwen should have been thinner, blonder and more elf like.

Hollywood could have totally ruined it. Like they did with the Hobbit films. On the internets there is an edit which removes the stuff that wasn't in the book. And there's lots of padding in those films.

On a similar note the best order to watch the Star Wars films is in Machete Order

First, let me say this: for people that couldn’t care less about the prequel trilogy, I suggest Harmy’s Despecialized Editions.
...
If the “proper order” for Star Wars for you is the original trilogy and nothing else, stop reading now and find the Despecialized Editions.

Denny61 · 02-09-2020 9:54pm

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Dunkirk

Absolute rubbish.

I agree .absolute tripe ...most of the movie..you just see soldiers standing around .as if waiting for their dinner .in fact at times I thought my sky box had gone in to pause all of its own...there.was so little happening...and when a certain singer from the band one direction in it...sadly says enough....utterly pathetic movie

mobileforest · 02-09-2020 9:59pm

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!!

maybe Nolan will make a cut in chronological order for the DVD like they did with Memento. Im old. Remind me. Do they still make dvds

TheValeyard · 02-09-2020 10:00pm

Reading some of the replies here.....

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Alejandro68 · 02-09-2020 10:01pm

I will go way back! The Breakfast Club, St.Elmo's Fire, Sixteen Candles, and Weird Science. How many of you had to Google those titles?lol

02-09-2020 10:01pm

Some of you people are a disgrace!!!!!!!!!!

quickbeam · 02-09-2020 10:02pm

Shawshank Redemption. Don't get me wrong, it's a good film - definitely worth seeing. But how it tops everyone's "Best Movie Ever" list is beyond me, so definitely counts as overrated.

Star Wars - first three movies, only ones I saw, but mostly mildly entertaining at best.

First two Godfathers - I didn't see the third.

Interstellar - which breaks my heart to say because I've loved every Christopher Nolan up to then, but that really didn't do it for me. Dunkirk was pretty good, but confusing. I don't mean the different timelines confusing, but just all the soldiers looked the same to me so I'd no idea who was who for the majority of the running time.

Pretty much 90% of films that won the Oscar for Best Film. If you want to see the actual best films of the year, the Best Screenplay categories usually are a better indication.

blade1 · 02-09-2020 10:03pm

Alejandro68 wrote: »

I will go way back! The Breakfast Club, St.Elmo's Fire, Sixteen Candles, and Weird Science. How many of you had to Google those titles?lol

Kelly lebrock in weird science! Oh yeah!!!

JasonStatham · 02-09-2020 10:04pm

Hellbound Hellraiser 2. What crap.

quickbeam · 02-09-2020 10:05pm

JasonStatham wrote: »

Hellbound Hellraiser 2. What crap.

Oh yeah, that highly acclaimed film!

02-09-2020 10:05pm

quickbeam wrote: »

Oh yeah, that highly acclaimed film!

Alejandro68 · 02-09-2020 10:07pm

All the Van Damme films. Every single one!lol

banie01 · 02-09-2020 10:09pm

gmisk wrote: »

I actually thought rogue one was very good.

Agree, it's the only one of the modern SW films I have any grá for.

Very much a WW2 movie in the mould of The Eagle has Landed, Where Eagles Dare or Guns of Navarone.

A hopeless mission accomplished at huge cost.
It's the ultimate fan service, and the ending of the movie coinciding with Vader.
It's very underrated if anything.

odyssey06 · 02-09-2020 10:14pm

Alejandro68 wrote: »

I will go way back! The Breakfast Club, St.Elmo's Fire, Sixteen Candles, and Weird Science. How many of you had to Google those titles?lol

Over-rated? Compared to what?

They were quintessential 80s movies thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining back in their day.
I think we need to distinguish between over-rated and "of their time" \ haven't aged well.
No one is claiming they are classics for all time.

JasonStatham · 02-09-2020 10:14pm

Alejandro68 wrote: »

All the Van Damme films. Every single one!lol

Sacrilege! Can't beat a good bit of JCVD.

Awol, one of his finest films, haha.

Church on Tuesday · 02-09-2020 10:15pm

Alejandro68 wrote: »

All the Van Damme films. Every single one!lol

Get out ta ****!

Arghus · 02-09-2020 10:15pm

Joker is painfully, painfully overrated. Not a bad film as such, but highly derivative of other superior films. People claiming that it's a vital piece of meaningful art need to watch more movies; if you've never swum in the ocean, then a swimming pool can feel deep.

The Hangover is a load of crap.

Most Christopher Nolan films are good, but are extremely overrated by a cohort of fans.

Marvel movies are overrated. They can have their moments, but there is a definite formulaic sameyness to them.

joeguevara · 02-09-2020 10:18pm

Found Groundhog Day quite repetitive.

joeguevara · 02-09-2020 10:19pm

Dtp1979 wrote: »

Lost in translation

Couldn’t understand it at all.

StevenToast · 02-09-2020 10:19pm

The correct answer that the thread is looking for is Avatar (I hated that film)...

Now Close this thread....too many great films are being sullied...

banie01 · 02-09-2020 10:20pm

StevenToast wrote: »

The correct answer that the thread is looking for is Avatar....

Close the thread....too many great films are being sullied...

Avatar...
A poor fern gully remake, populated by giant smurfs!

Gregor Samsa · 02-09-2020 10:24pm

gmisk wrote: »

The last jedi was a lot of fun don't really understand the hate it got especially from fans.

Nobody hates Star Wars more than modern Star Wars fans. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

Capt'n Midnight · 02-09-2020 10:26pm

Alejandro68 wrote: »

All the Van Damme films. Every single one!lol

they aren't overrated though

JCVD is like Schrödinger's cat.

It's simultaneously the most Jean-Claude Van Damme film ever made AND the least Jean-Claude Van Damme film ever made.

And you won't know till you watch it.

Zaph · 02-09-2020 10:27pm

Alejandro68 wrote: »

I will go way back! The Breakfast Club, St.Elmo's Fire, Sixteen Candles, and Weird Science. How many of you had to Google those titles?lol

What have you got against John Hughes??!!!

I'm a Star Wars fan, but I'll be the first to admit that none of the films would trouble Citizen Kane or The Godfather in the most highly rated stakes. But I think the point that a lot of people miss about the original trilogy, and in particular the very first film, is that there was nothing like it when it came out. Before then most science fiction films were low budget with dodgy effects. Star Wars raised the game significantly, even if those effects look pretty dated now. I was 10 when I saw it in the cinema and I had never seen anything like it before, and neither had anyone else. It then spawned a culture that is commonplace nowadays, but before then there were no movie superfans, no merchandise and no movie franchises. This is why the film is held in such high regard by people of my generation, not because of the script or the acting, we all know they're average at best, but simply because it was so different.

mobileforest · 02-09-2020 10:32pm

The last few Marvel movies. FFS. let it die. I was big into marvel comics as a kid (had my own box at the comic shop for new editions) but ended my collection literally after I discovered it was more fun spending my money on girls (seriously, my collection abruptly stopped after my first date as a teen). It was great reliving my youth when a few films like spider-man, ironman, etc came out but holy crap, let it die. The last few like the two-part Avengers movies were tiresome. I'm not even sure how they ended despite watching them. Also, the amount of grown men and women going all fanboy over these creeps me out. There are literally guys in their 40s wearing comic book characters designed for children on their shirts. Also, I think some of this is a bit phoney as I see guys I grew up with getting on with it and damn well know they weren't into it as a kid. Also, someone going all fanboy on marvel and DC because they are all comic book heroes? Never happened. It would be like someone saying they are huge football fans and then expressing how much they always loved two rivalling teams. As a kid who spent more time playing D&D or TMNT role-playing games and reading comics than playing sports I can tell you die-hard Marvel and DC fans mixed about as much as die-hard Star Wars and Star Trek fans did. Weirdly being a nerd (or at least pretending you were one) has become cool now. Personally it just creeps me out and I wish Hollywood would just move on to some other trend. What happened to that monster movie reboot that was suppose to happen? Did Cruise kill it with the mummy?

Capt'n Midnight · 02-09-2020 10:34pm

banie01 wrote: »

Avatar...
A poor fern gully remake, populated by giant smurfs!

No.

It's reverse Pocahontas.

The real Pocahontas story is

cf. John Rolfe.

Mulbert · 02-09-2020 10:35pm

The Blair Witch Project is the only film that I sat through and nothing actually happened throughout. Pure hyped up scutter

SATSUMA · 02-09-2020 10:35pm

The shape of water.

Complete nonsense.

Keyzer · 02-09-2020 10:35pm

Piehead wrote: »

Uncut Gems. Awful noisey unlikeable rubbishy garbage

There was one tremendous scene in that movie though

;);)

Capt'n Midnight · 02-09-2020 10:36pm

joeguevara wrote: »

Adam Sandler's

I stopped reading at that point

mobileforest · 02-09-2020 10:37pm

joeguevara wrote: »

Adam Sandlers Big Daddy is basically about a man who kidnaps a kid and makes him urinate in public all to sleep with a cheating slut.

Sandler struck comic gold with Happy Gilmore and then has been trying to find it again every since without success.

Finty Lemon · 02-09-2020 10:40pm

Michael Collins was a crock of dung

Sammy_Jankis · 02-09-2020 10:41pm

All the Harry Potter; don’t get it.

Lord of the rings; rubbish.

All the transformers; just crap.

Zak Flaps · 02-09-2020 10:41pm

glasso wrote: »

agreed.

Loved "Midsommar" though.

But some people seem to be vice-versa on these two movies.

I'm one of them. I loved Hereditary, but thought Midsommar was only ok.

monkeysnapper · 02-09-2020 10:43pm

If I ever go on tv program room 101 I'm putting this thread into room 101 ....

Theres a huge amount of bad taste here...I cant read any more .... my eyes are bleeding....

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

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