Most Overrated Movie and Why

[funguy2121]

- There's Something About Mary: I don't know how it's viewed these days, but back when it was first released it was treated as the shizzle of comedy.

Because it was. I loved 90's Farelly movies.

- Nolan's Batman movies: Superhero movies should not be uber-serious.

Tell that to Joel Schumacher

 

[thedevilscousin]

Casablanca

the story is overdone and predictable (yes even for the time), the acting is pretty bad, and the cinematography is mediocre at best. yet it is considered one of the best movies ever made

also the way the most under rated movie ever is Requiem for a Dream.

Ninja'd
Also agree on Requiem For A Dream.

 

[Stealthygamer]

"Why does almost everyone seem to be offering critically acclaimed blockbusters from before they were born?"..."an unqualified 'it bored me' suggests that the movie offers something that has passed the speaker by."

Case in point:

Every James Cameron Movie

Hell, I could tell you why I don't like your hyperactive, immature pony show for little girls. Can you give me one reason why you thought that Terminator, Aliens, T2, The Abyss, True Lies, Titanic and Avatar (oh, and Piranha 2) were all overrated? Is it because you were born in 1998 and saw Transformers and Mimic first?

I didn't find them boring they were just not as amazing as everyone says they are, they are good films

 

[thedevilscousin]

- Nolan's Batman movies: Superhero movies should not be uber-serious.
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You........ WHAT!? Superhero movies are supposed to be serious, Nolan't batman was in my opinion never THAT serious, if you want an uber serious superhero movie, watch defendor. Oh and Nolan's batman is considered that good because it's almost always compared to the worst batman movie ever, batman and robin.

Citizen Kane. It wasn't entertaining at all.

Yeah also pretty every character is terrible, not one of them likeable. It's only good because of groundbreaking cinematography(which still isn't as amazing today)

 

[GrungyMunchy]

That and I don't like watching characters talk in languages I don't understand about a plot I stopped caring about 10 minutes in, all while reading subtitles.

God forbid you come across any non-English speaking movie.

 

[elbrandino]

That and I don't like watching characters talk in languages I don't understand about a plot I stopped caring about 10 minutes in, all while reading subtitles.

God forbid you come across any non-English speaking movie.

It wasn't that, but that almost the entire movie was in subtitles, and they weren't expected. I don't mind subtitles if I know I'm going to see them, and I'm a slow reader, so when I have to read them, I often miss what's happening on screen.

As for this movie in particular, it was something everyone was saying was a comedy for some reason, and I thought realism was the last thing on the to do list for the creators. Often times when the subtitles were on, the scenes were boring and I had no idea what was going on or why I was supposed to care.

 

[Henkie36]

Dispicable me: After half an hour of watching it had gotten onle little smile on my face. It was just trying too hard.

Dazed and Confused: It's only entertaining when you are of the directors age. Otherwise it's just ''ok''.

Citizen Kane: Good, but nothing special for a movie which has been called for a long time now ''The greatest movie of all time''.

 

[funguy2121]

Dispicable me: After half an hour of watching it had gotten onle little smile on my face. It was just trying too hard.

Dazed and Confused: It's only entertaining when you are of the directors age. Otherwise it's just ''ok''.

Citizen Kane: Good, but nothing special for a movie which has been called for a long time now ''The greatest movie of all time''.

If you found Dazed and Confused unrelatable only because it took place at the end of the 70's, then I have to wonder if you've ever been to high school. This movie took place before I was born, and it's still one of my favorite Linklater films.

Is Saving Private Ryan then only worthwhile for members of the "greatest generation?" Are Alexander and Braveheart only for reincarnated ancient/mideval persons?

 

[funguy2121]

"Why does almost everyone seem to be offering critically acclaimed blockbusters from before they were born?"..."an unqualified 'it bored me' suggests that the movie offers something that has passed the speaker by."

Case in point:

Every James Cameron Movie

Hell, I could tell you why I don't like your hyperactive, immature pony show for little girls. Can you give me one reason why you thought that Terminator, Aliens, T2, The Abyss, True Lies, Titanic and Avatar (oh, and Piranha 2) were all overrated? Is it because you were born in 1998 and saw Transformers and Mimic first?

I didn't find them boring they were just not as amazing as everyone says they are, they are good films

If you were to name some of your favorite modern sci-fi and action films, I'd bet they are films that were dramatically influenced by Cameron, (early) Lucas and/or the Wachowskis. Aliens is to sci-fi horror what Die Hard is to the action film.

 

[mandaforever]

Avatar, no more needs to be said about that.

However, it's not aesthetically pleasing. Drawing a few pages worth of concept art for a creature is nothing compared to the work that goes into painstakingly rendering and animating a 3D model of it afterward.

Therefore, I think it's reasonable to demand that a film with such a gigantic visual effects budget should have some pretty damn amazing concept art to base it on. In Avatar, this is not the case. Every single alien element was just two or three basic objects thrown together, scaled up and painted bright, 'Windows default desktop background' colors.

:/

As a concept artist who knows about how things are usually done, I somewhat disagree with the first statement, since it usually takes one artist painstaking amounts of work that is trashed and then reworked along with extreme detail and texture and working anatomy to create a good piece of concept art, where modeling and rendering are split between multiple people to do because of the workload and the different skills each step takes.

I do agree with the second statement though....the concept art for Avatar was pretty unoriginal, and the colors and textures made me think that whoever invented these creatures was like "I'm just gonna throw a bunch of shapes into mudbox, and since we don't wanna do fur, I'm gonna make everything bright colors to distract from that and it will look badass"

 

[McMarbles]

I'm gonna say The Hudsucker Proxy. The whole thing feels like they were trying to create a classic '40s screwball comedy, but just comes off as overly affected.

Also, the remake of The Producers. The musical numbers seem to go on forever, plus it's just far too much time to spend with Matthew Broderick.

 

[Nightmare-Child]

Avatar get's my vote. It was pretty much Dune in the Rain Forrest.

 

[Mouse_Crouse]

Citizen Kane. It wasn't entertaining at all.

I hate to agree. But this. The movie may have been something special back in those days. But nobody that I know that has seen it recently gets the big deal.

 

[McMarbles]

I am legend.....basically a very bad job of ripping off 28 days later.

You know that's a remake of an old Charlton Heston movie, which itself is a remake of another movie, which itself was adapted from a short story? If anything, 28 Days Later is the ripoff.

 

[Mouse_Crouse]

"Why does almost everyone seem to be offering critically acclaimed blockbusters from before they were born?"

That is a valid point. And it does seem to happen a lot. However as much as I was unimpressed by Citizen Kane. On the other hand 12 Angry Men is my all time greatest film.

 

[mikeybuthge]

So... does everyone on this thread just not like movies or something?

 

[McMarbles]

3. The Dark Knight - For christs sake people, it's Batman! Not Hamlet! Lighten up for god's sake. You know if this movie was dark and nothing else that'd be fine but it dares to be faux-dark and boring too. I can accept anything but boredom, never have I cared less about the actions of characters than I have in this movie. Just a snooze from start to finish. The Joker sucked too.

The Joker was in that movie? I remember a greasy, unpleasant hobo in badly-applied clown makeup who kept taking time away from the villain that was actually interesting, Aaron Eckhart's Harvey Dent/Two-Face.

 

[Pharsalus]

Godfather. Juno was just odd, why was Michael Cera even in it aside from generating preview buzz?. And Avatar was polished crap, Ferngully was a much better telling of the same story.

OMG! You Ninja'd my topic! Good job!

OT: AVATAR. That was utter bs. It might as well have been called James Cameron's Final Fantasy. Way too familiar. Creature design was a freaking copyright infringement. Na'avi= Ronso, etc. Story sucked and I've never even seen Dances with Wolves. Only people I know who like it are old and/or unimaginative. Rented it from Redbox for a buck. That was stupid of me. Best part of the film was the freaking tree.

Sidenote: Leona Lewis did the theme songs for both FFXIII and Avatar. Hm...

I for one am sick of people who use the dances with wolves/Pocahontas argument just because it's bandwagon.
Avatar sucks not because of unoriginality but because the plot completely falls apart when you realize that the "hero" causes every problem, the avatar program clearly doesn't work, and the "Bad guys" actually seem to have a point.
Humans use technology to survive so we need to use the planets resources, the Na'vi on the other hand were just born with the entire planet under their control, they didn't earn anything and don't follow any form of societal advancement, meaning they are destined to die out anyway. because they are an inert species.
So why does the movie seem stuck on the idea that the na'vi are a superior race?
That's why it's not a good movie. So please, everyone, make your own reasons instead of bandwagon.
at least it was pretty.

So your saying the mostly complete genocide of the Native Americans was justified in the name of progress? Humanity probably could have survived without the ridiculously named unobtanium, they just wouldn't have turned a profit, that's what made them bad. It's a shallow plot sure but they are morally in the red.

 

[Ninjamedic]

The answer is 2012. But instead of ME explaining, I have a pinch-hitter for me. Take it away, Dara O'Briain!

That guy is hilarious. Here's to Brit comics!

Sorry about this but, HE IS IRISH and yet he has become more british than the queen, depressing.

Why does almost everyone seem to be picking critically acclaimed blockbusters from before they were born and only offering "it bored me" as an explanation? "It bored me" is not an assessment of a movie. "It bored me" with no characterization of how/why the film bored you makes it apparent that the something the movie offers has passed him/her by.

I see that as either:
1: They're hating on something because its cool
2: the film was so boring or unimpressive there isn't really anything memorable in it.