Most Overrated Movies of All Time

Bennie-Mac said:
The Dark Knight. It was entertaining yes, but it was being acclaimed to be some sort of masterpiece after its release which I disagree with. It's still the 8th best film of all time on imdb's top 250, I remember it being number one for a while, which I can only assume is down to Heath Ledgers death. He was a great performance wrapped up in an average high budget film.
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Exactly this.
 
buchtis said:
It was a BluRay Directors Cut, is that the one with the narration cut? It basically dragged on for so long that I started to get bored but thought i'd see how it pans out then I literally started to fall asleep. The one good thing I remember from it is just the way it looks if that makes any sense. Basically the movie looked gorgeous to look at with all the futuristic neon.
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Its what I always felt with bladerunner - they made a gorgeous representation of the original fiction but it never felt like it was fully utilised, often hinted at but there was so much they could have gone "bigger" with it.
 
This is going to get me a lot of hate but Citizen Kane, certainly didn't live up to the hype of constantly being voted as one of the best films of all time.

I also hated the ending, I much preferred the conclusion I had come to which was that he had led the media on a merry chase in order for his true character to come to light rather than the exorbitant media mogul he had become.

Oh, and No Country For Old Men, borefest extraordinaire.
 
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Lion King - What was with all the singing, dancing and romancing? should have been a 30 second montage of him getting buff, followed by a 2 minute fight where he gets his arse handed to him by scar as he limps off into the jungle, broken and beat.

Lion King 2 - He's down, he's out of fight, along comes the peppy coaches that are Timone, Pumba and Bobby - the polar bear (because let's be honest, the food chain and habits went out the window when the original bunch lived in a forest eating worms and apparently became 'strong'). Right back on track, knowing that he now must learn the cold hard life, he's taken to the North pole by Bobby, he goes through a rigorous training regime that requires he maul the **** out of the Eskimo in different manners. Once he can take on 'The Man', he can take on anybody. He Returns to pride rock, where Scar has died of old age, due to the trek to the north pole taking so long... He has a party, they all get drunk on Rifiki urine.
 
Antar Bolaeisk said:
Oh, and No Country For Old Men, borefest extraordinaire.
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Oh yeah forgot that one, if you don't catch onto the significance of the opening monologue, which most people probably won't on first watching, the rest of the movie makes no sense at all and even if you did get the meaning of the opening bit the bulk of the movie is spent with the actual storyline a background to the events unfolding onscreen which while it might be artsy or whatever just makes the movie unsatisfying to watch and leads to a rather damp ending.
 
buchtis said:
It was a BluRay Directors Cut, is that the one with the narration cut? It basically dragged on for so long that I started to get bored but thought i'd see how it pans out then I literally started to fall asleep. The one good thing I remember from it is just the way it looks if that makes any sense. Basically the movie looked gorgeous to look at with all the futuristic neon.
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Yeah, thats the version with the narration cut. Seems to be the most common version now, but it's crap for new viewers as they miss a big portion of the story without the narration. The narration isn't perfect, but it was added on after a test audience found the film hard to understand. Nothing's really changed in the 30 years it seems.

It feels more like an "ultimate fanboys" edition, rather than the definitive version of the movie. If you ever want to give it another go, or somebody else is looking to watch it for the first time, the original theatrical version is the one to go for. You'll fully understand the movie, and then be able to appreciate the "fanboy" edition for what it is.
 
shipinabottle said:
This thread is going to be a mess, people will always buck the trend.

Avatar - yes it's not a ground breaking story, screenplay or direction. But that's not the point, the technology created to bring this to the screen is what was so impressive, a massive jump in film making. that's why it's a staple in modern cinema, just like;

Titanic - This was UTTER TOSH, they took a disaster and romanticised it so much so that some of the modern generation think the actual disaster was fiction... Impressive creation, but by god this film sucked ***** as a story, screenplay or in the acting department. But hell the technology created and used was a big step in film, so has to be respected for that alone. Plus you got big 'date points' if you took a girl to see this!

Lord of the Rings - you may not like the story, but you have to respect, the detail that Peter Jackson brought to a very big adaptation. Nobody will match this as far as books to films go, at 11 Hours, 22 minutes long, the amount of material produced at such a high standard, is just insurmountable in my opinion.
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This. Avatar alone was a game changer in terms of visual effects. The fact we see so many 3D films now that utilise the tech that James Cameron had to have invented to make Avatar is a testament to how much it's changed things.

Not a single good review of the film I read stated it was any good from a narrative or acting perspective. So is the film really overrated when it's changed the way we perceive cinema?
 
Titanic. That film ruined the Oscars for me. How in the hell did it win best film?

Anchorman. I know most people seem to love it but it's total **** :D

The Blues Brothers. I just don't get it, what's so good about it?

Akira. It's not a patch on Grave of the Fireflies.
 
Rroff said:
Oh yeah forgot that one, if you don't catch onto the significance of the opening monologue, which most people probably won't on first watching, the rest of the movie makes no sense at all and even if you did get the meaning of the opening bit the bulk of the movie is spent with the actual storyline a background to the events unfolding onscreen which while it might be artsy or whatever just makes the movie unsatisfying to watch and leads to a rather damp ending.
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Heh. I think the movie is amazing.
 
Probably mentioned a few times in here but No Country For Old Men tops my list of overrated films.
Pile. Of. Cack.

Didn't much like Burn Before Reading either so maybe I just don't 'get' the Cohen brothers. Loved Fargo though..
 
napoleon dynamite is right up there, for me. I REALLY wanted to like that film. Watched it twice but decided its one of the worst films iv'e ever seen, and I've seen The Room lol.

The Royal Tenenbaums is another....awfully boring film. The first lord of the rings another - I saw enough of that to know i didnt need to watch the others. What a borefest.

ExRayTed said:
Probably mentioned a few times in here but No Country For Old
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oooh. And that! I would asy Anchorman as well but i really dont like Will Farell and and really dont like just about any movie I've seen him in. it's all stuck in the 80's slap stick comedy. Awful.
 
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I'm with the poster up there re:Blues Brothers

Citizen Kane. It's supposed to be this big deal. Snoooze!
Casablanca. Always fall asleep. Oh, and - over the top acting much?
Ghostbusters. Not funny. Not sci fi. Not a fairy tale. What was it meant to be?
Space Balls. No, I get Zuckerism and the whole "spoof" comedy movement in eighties - I liked Aeroplane at the time, but Space Balls just wasn't funny or anything. It was embarrassing throughout.
Agree with Godfather.
Avatar. No, it doesn't look "almost real". Not in the slightest. It suffers from the same movement and motion issues and over calculated gelo physics as most of the animations in films and games for years.


Just about every Hitchcock movie. Everyone tells me how big of a deal it is, but meh - most are badly paced, almost all are cliche, really bad special effects, completely not for me.
 
ExRayTed said:
Probably mentioned a few times in here but No Country For Old Men tops my list of overrated films.
Pile. Of. Cack.

Didn't much like Burn Before Reading either so maybe I just don't 'get' the Cohen brothers. Loved Fargo though..
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Nah, Burn After Reading isn't up to much, but then it wasn't that highly rated, so doesn't fit here. If you want to get your overrated rage on, watch The Big Lebowski and O Brother Where Art Thou.
 
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