Most over-rated film thread!

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Post your most over-rated films that most people consider to be decent.

I have a few.

I've never really seen what was considered so good about Raging Bull. The original Rocky knocks it out in the first round.

Apocalypse Now is also a vastly over-rated movie. People have got far too excited about it's cinematography rather than the plot.

I watched The Manchurian Candidate yesterday after being recommended it. I was disappointed to say the least. Totally over the top plot and for a 2+ hour film, it lacked any real excitement whatsoever.

You can also throw The Matrix into the pot. Totally over-hyped rubbish.
 
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But it's impossible to rate a film in an absolute way. You either like it or you don't.

If you don't like a film that many others do, then that does not make that film over-rated.

Sometimes I just 'don't get' what others see in a particular film. But different folk want different things from their movies. Story telling covers such a wide arc of human experience, and the forms in which they can be told, I see it as a positive thing that I can love / hate a film that someone else loves / hates.
 
banja said:
But it's impossible to rate a film in an absolute way. You either like it or you don't.

If you don't like a film that many others do, then that does not make that film over-rated.
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I'm talking about films that often appear in 'The 100 Greatest Movies of All Time' or similar lists supposedly chosen by experts.

A lot of films seem to be given 'The Classic' label just because they are the first of their genre or have groundbreaking special effects or cinematography.

I also forgot to mention Badlands. That's another film that i'd heard a lot about yet i thought it was very bland.
 
Have to agree about Apocalypse Now it wasn't a bad film but I didn't think it was exceptional in any way.
 
ElRazur said:
I think the first matrix is an exception.....but not the other matrixes.
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only saw the first one, that was bad enough to make sure I didn't watch any of the others
 
The godfather trilogy, i onyl say this however as scarface is far superior and its only 1 film!
 
EasyG said:
The godfather trilogy, i onyl say this however as scarface is far superior and its only 1 film!
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You're very, very, very weird. :p

I'd say that Battle Royale and Equilibrium are two of the most overrated films ever, I just can't see the attraction of either. :confused:
 
All of the Lord of the Rings films, utter utter borefest. I don't think I've managed to watch any of them in their entirety without falling asleep.
 
I think we had one of these ages ago.

I said it then and i'll say it again. I was forced to sit through the mind-numbing boredom known as Platoon by no other than a film student. What an absolutely tedious film. Dreadfully over-rated! All of my housemates agreed and we never let him live it down. "Yeah, but at least it's not as bad as Platoon"
 
fozzybear said:
Apocalypse Now is also a vastly over-rated movie. People have got far too excited about it's cinematography rather than the plot.
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"Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life."

How's about that for cryptic :cool:
 
i agree with a clockwork orange good but not fantastic.

cast away was mentioned but that is a good film as are the x mens

pulp fiction is over rated, in fact any tarantino film is i think
 
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