Most Overrated Movie and Why

[varulfic]

2001: A Space Odyssey

Yeah, it's visuals might have been impressive back in the day, and it sure is a movie unlike anything else, with it's minimalistic dialogue and long classical music filler scenes. It shows how versatile Kubrick was as a director. But the movie is still boring as fuck. And that just cancels out everything good about it. The bit with Hal 9000 is pretty much the only part of the movie that's not sleep inducing, and that's just about 20 minutes out of the 2 ½ hour long ordeal.

 

[Nazulu]

I assume you mean "What popular movie didn't you like?"

Whenever people use the words overrated and underrated they seem to assume that their opinion is somehow superior to everyone elses.

'What popular movie didn't you like?' is a very different question. Just because you don't agree with a lot of the answers (and some of those really are just movies they didn't like) that doesn't mean they're not being honest. If you have read any of the posts, a lot of the reply's say they liked the movies but didn't believe they deserved such praise.

Actually, from what I've gathered looking at this thread, what people really are saying is:

"I'm too young to pay attention to this film"
"I'm too lazy to read subtitles"
"I didn't understand it, hence it's a terrible film and people are stupid for liking it"
"I got bored, it didn't have enough action"

All faults of the viewers, not the films, hence the argument of anything being overrated is utter tripe and useless itself.

I don't see the generalization at all, are you saying this for all or just some? Or some you strongly disagree with? If your saying all then your opinion is utter tripe.

 

[Nazulu]

'What popular movie didn't you like?' is a very different question. Just because you don't agree with a lot of the answers (and some of those really are just movies they didn't like) that doesn't mean they're not being honest. If you have read any of the posts, a lot of the reply's say they liked the movies but didn't believe they deserved such praise.

Okay. "What popular movie didn't you like as much as most other people?"

Better?

No. lol

Maybe you should ignore these threads if they annoy you.

As for most other people, I seriously doubt it. I always find with 'everything' they are hated more than loved. It's only when something entertains more than a million people who have seen it that the fans are heard and the news spreads.

 

[dodged]

Well, where to begin... it would have to be the dark knight, for the pure overration of Ledger, i bet the same script could be given to anyone else and still be played as good; it wasnt the acting that was good, it was the writing.. That, and christian bale can act about as good as a bacon sandwich. My second most overrated bad film had to be the 'hangover 2', i actually paid in the cinema to see it; it was the only comedy film i never laughed once through, the plot was all over and the characters scripts were wrote under the concept - 'act stupid and stressed, its so much funnier.' which didn't pull it's weight for me. it shoved random things in my face so often i didn't understand the concept of what people thought comedy was by the end of it.

 

[Durgiun]

2001: A Space Odyssey, without a doubt.

 

[Soulpunch]

I Could Say Avartar. Boring, But Ohh Is Pretty. I Can Understand Why you would like the movie, but it was just too generic to me.

 

[TheDooD]

I'm going to get a lot of flame for this but the Dark Knight. As a Batman fan, I didn't the portrayal of the Batman/Bruce Wayne. They get the small stuff right like Lucius Fox, James Gordon, Alfred and Harvey Dent (although tacking him onto the movie was an overload) and Heath Ledger was an awesome Joker(seriously, every actor that plays the Joker suits the style) but the movie was too all over the place, Batman wanted a wife (the hell?) And that voice. The fight scenes were boring and came off as slow and the movie was too damn long. It's a decent movie but the main character has been watered down and rather than BE Batman/Bruce Wayne, we have a guy pretending to be Batman as opposed to actually being Batman.
Let the flame war begin!

nobody would really flame you about batman's performance, overall he was the weak point about the movie. The reason why Joker always works because that his character he can be any kind of personality. Even a loving father like Joker would work because that how his character.

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I'll say the entire Star Wars series because the cool part about the universe is not in the movies it's in the books and the games. Then the main series its all about how one with so much potential fucked up due to petty reasons and how his kids end up fixing it. I could get into more detail but nah.

 

[Crazy Zaul]

The godfather 1/2/3, goodfellas, pulp fiction cos they are all talk no action.
Bladerunner, some others I cant think of now. oh yer Scott Pilgrim. Superbad and almost everything with Seth Rogan in it.
Donnie Darko, All mad max films, Napoleon dynamite.

 

[Jake0fTrades]

Twilight, it doesn't even deserve what little credit it has.

 

[General_Potatoes]

Sucker punch. At least I think it was over-rated.

 

[Ytinasni]

Inglorious Basterds. Tarantino has made nothing so far to show me he's as good as people say. The main thing I disliked about the movie was that it was advertised as a comedy and everyone said it was hilarious, and it was not funny at all. 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.

Avatar is also up there. It's a gorgeous movie, but sometimes the plot just broke the fourth wall so hard. Examplse: unobtanium; predictable plot. I enjoyed watching it, but I don't think it's a phenomenon, and it's one of those movies I'll only watch once.

I loved Basterds, but it's not my favorite Tarantino film. The language/subs issue is a taste thing. It was well done. It's funny you should mention Basterds, because it relates to what you said about Avatar...

Warning: I'm going to be a huge nerd here and correct you. I hope this doesn't sound condescending. Fourth-wall breaking is a specific form of meta-fiction. It refers to, and only to, a character addressing the audience directly, as in the Bloodpool comics and the horrific (don't waste your time) Funny Games. Calling the sought-after material "unobtainium" isn't even really metafiction. Even if it weren't based on an engineering term, referring to something in this way isn't 4th wall breaking or metafiction. Metafiction is when a character addresses or acknowledges that he/she is a character. Stranger than Fiction is a fantastic example of this, as is Inglorious Basterds, specifically the very first scene, wherein the fantastic Christoph Waltz tells the farmer that he's exhausted all of his French and asks if he can finish the conversation in English. But Tarantino doesn't stop there - he didn't do it just for a dumb joke. He then uses that literary device to the story's end. The English is used to conceal from the Jews hiding under the floorboards that Col. Landa knows they are down there, and is about to kill them. It made the scene all the more gripping.

Two things struck me harder walking away from Inglorious Basterds than anything else: the first scene involving the title characters takes for ever but never ceases to be entertaining or stops serving the story, and proves that quite a bit of story can be pulled out of one scene, and the movie itself is a statement about the power of cinema. OK, and the standoff in the bar was one of the scariest things I've seen in a theater since the OD scene in Pulp Fiction.

Speaking of, go find a copy of that movie. Now. It'll change your view of Tarantino.

As far as taste goes, you just described every reason I think tarantino is an overrated director, he can direct great scenes but outside of the few setpiece moments in his films which are genuinely excellent, the rest of his films are boring, in pulp fiction the best parts are the "do you know what marcellus wallace looks like" and the od sequence. for basterds is was the opening, the bar, the end and when the chick meets the jew hunter again. all of the other parts were mediocre to me at best.


edit: on topic, aside from tarantino films, I'd have to say titanic, it was too long for a drama/romance movie. had they focused more on the actual people of the events and real stories it would have been better and possibly could have been longer without being boring.

What about the dance scene, the ending, Butch going back to save Marsellus, "Zed's dead, baby," and The Wolf?

It's been a few years, those were just the scenes I could recall off of the top of my head. It was good movie, just not the end all be all that so many people seem to say in my book.

 

[22steve5150]

the twilight movies. they shouldnt have been made, shouldnt have made a dime, have garbage for a plot, the most pathetic excuse for vampires in any movie or tv show ever, one of the most pathetic self centered unsympathetic little brats ever to be a lead female character, and have set new lows for shameless marketing gimmicks. these movies are PROOF that teenage girls ALL seem to have some kind of mental disorder! SPARKLING VAMPERS?!?!?!?! GIVE ME CANCER NOW GOD!

 

[Talydia]

I'm going to jump on the bandwagon for hate the avatar bandwagon...

It certainly looked good, but I hated how they took their moral, and instead of slipping it into the story, they took it, stuck it on a the end of bat, and beat you in the face with it.

 

[RantingLombax]

Napoleon Dynamite- I heard from many people that it's a very funny movie. I Didn't find any thing funny in it. Plus the Nerd stereotype has been done way better. in other movies