What films are overrated, in your opinion?

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11 Nov 2011, 3:22 pm

For me, it would have to be a tie between Slumdog Millionaire and No Country For Old Men. Neither of these films are bad by any means, but they're not that good either.

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11 Nov 2011, 3:41 pm

didn't really care for Inception. I mean, it was cool and stylish and all...

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11 Nov 2011, 3:47 pm

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didn't really care for Inception. I mean, it was cool and stylish and all...

I agree with you on this

Inception was quite interesting and very shiny but didn't touch or stir or inspire me the way great films do.

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11 Nov 2011, 4:09 pm

I get a feeling that I've seen inception many times before.. Anyway all media is overrated these days why mention Hollywood separately. Push a lot of money into marketing, hire some A-listers and all is set for success.

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11 Nov 2011, 4:15 pm

Star Wars and Back to the Future. I thought they were okay, but I don't understand why so many people obsess over them.

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11 Nov 2011, 4:15 pm

Inception and Dark Knight.

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11 Nov 2011, 4:16 pm

Inception is a very good movie and a vast improvement over The Dark Knight, but I still consider Christopher Nolan the most hilariously overrated director of all time. A decade ago I was trying to convince everyone of how great he was and trying to get people to watch Memento and Insomnia, but now I'm afraid to mention that I think his Batman films are mediocre drivel, for fear of getting an earful of rage from his loyal zealots.

Every movie made after 1998 with "written and directed by Quentin Tarantino" in the credits has been torture for me. If he wants me to watch him masturbate for two and a half hours, he should be paying me, not the other way around.

I know it's fashionable to bash Avatar, but it's really amazing how bad the script is. The dialogue is right out of the Star Wars prequels. And while we're on that topic, I don't know how George Lucas managed to fool people into thinking that Revenge of the Sith is a good movie, but it's just as miserable as the two previous embarrassments.

Anyone who's read my "movie a day" topic already knows this, but I'm completely baffled by how loved The Thing from Another World is. Hands down, it's the most overrated horror film ever made. If you want a good 1950s horror movie, let me know, because I can recommend about a dozen off the top of my head that are ten times better.

If anyone finds these opinions offensive, keep in mind that I liked Dracula 2000 and Godzilla 2000, so I don't exactly claim to be a paragon of good taste.

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11 Nov 2011, 4:58 pm

MasterJedi wrote:

didn't really care for Inception. I mean, it was cool and stylish and all...

That would be a good shirt. I totally agree, but so many people insisted that it was amazing. Shutter Island was another Di'Caprio stinker (I have nothing against Leo, other than these two), I called the twist within the first 5 minutes and was uninspired from then on.
Another couple of stinkers were the Hangover and Bridesmaids. Everyone I spoke with who had seen either completely built them up, but watching the Hangover was about as nice as actually being hung over, and Bridesmaids, well, I don't even know how to adequately berate it. Now I immediately discredit anyone's opinion of movies or shows as soon as they mention that either of these was really funny.

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11 Nov 2011, 5:06 pm

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Every movie made after 1998 with "written and directed by Quentin Tarantino" in the credits has been torture for me. If he wants me to watch him masturbate for two and a half hours, he should be paying me, not the other way around.

Don't know what year Pulp fiction was, but everything after that was pretty abysmal. Can't understand what anyone gets out of Kill Bill or that

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11 Nov 2011, 5:12 pm

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Don't know what year Pulp fiction was, but everything after that was pretty abysmal. Can't understand what anyone gets out of Kill Bill or that

Pulp Fiction was 1994. Jackie Brown was 1998, and I enjoyed that well enough. But Kill Bill is just miserable, and Inglourious Basterds is the most insufferably boring movie I've ever had to sit through.

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11 Nov 2011, 5:27 pm

Is it too obvious to say Twilight?

Yes, also Inception. Flat, dull, uninteresting. A shame because the idea was promising.

Amelie. I know people love it. I just never felt anything for it.

Blade Runner. I know. It's a classic. It bores me though.

Star Trek IV. The one with the whales. Just no.

Titanic. Awful.

Anything with Adam Sandler in it.

Dune. Another one I should have loved.

I would say The Phantom Menace, but I'm not sure I've ever met anyone who liked it.

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11 Nov 2011, 6:01 pm

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Different strokes for different folks and all that jazz, but Nolan's Batman movies p*ss all over the Joel Schumacher instalments from a colossal height. Nolan basically revived the franchise after the bloated, neon-drenched and homo-erotic horror that was Batman and Robin, but if you don't like them, then i have no problem with that.

Most overrated movies ever? First off, Avatar. Basically it's Dancing with Smurfs with atrocious dialogue and crappy special effects that hurts your eyes.

Bridesmaids - Not funny, whatsoever.

There Will Be Blood = Overrated to an extreme, a zimmer-frame race at an OAP home would be more interesting.

2001: A Space Odysessy - It may be a classic to the casual observer but i nodded off several times and just find it boring and uninteresting.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy = *yawn*

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11 Nov 2011, 6:15 pm

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Nolan's Batman movies p*ss all over the Joel Schumacher instalments from a colossal height.

No argument there, but I'll still take Burton's movies any day.

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11 Nov 2011, 6:21 pm

Jory wrote:

LexingtonDeville wrote:

Nolan's Batman movies p*ss all over the Joel Schumacher instalments from a colossal height.

No argument there, but I'll still take Burton's movies any day.

And there's absolutely nothing wrong with difference of opinion, Jory. I happen to like the Burton movies too, i grew up watching Batman 89 and i still re-watch it from time to time, but stick it next to Begins and Dark Knight and it feels empty and dated behind Jack Nicholson's swagger and sneer.

You also can't compare Jack Nicholson and Heath Ledger, two completely different incarnations of the Joker with different agendas. Too bad Jack looks like a mobster in clown make-up and Heath gets under the mask and the skin in the most unpredictable and erratic manner.

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11 Nov 2011, 7:47 pm

Titanic

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11 Nov 2011, 8:12 pm

Partly agree with everyone about Tarantino. For me, Pulp Fiction is a film that is close to being a masterpiece. Kill Bill was horrendous, and Inglorious Basterds was quite enjoyable, but the drawn out scenes of exposition were very unnecessary and just a bore to sit through.

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