Most Overrated Movie and Why

[Victory2Assault]

I hate to break it to you, but 2001, Citizen Kane and the Godfather are all great films, and if you don't like them or have to have them explained, then you probably aren't qualified to give an opinion in the first place, though you certainly have a right to your opinion in general.

Absolute pretentiousness.

"I like these films and believe they carry fantastic messages. Anyone who does not like them either has poor taste or doesn't understand them".

What rot. Some people don't like them because they simply don't like them. It doesn't mean they don't understand film.

Some people do have poor taste in films. I have a friend who loves every single movie that comes out, and he criticizes me and a few others for not liking some of his favorites. Most of the time I get the "You don't like it because everyone else likes it" bull every time. It's only when I start to pick the movie apart and really get into why I hate certain movies that people understand what I think. I'm not a hard guy to please, I love my action-adventure movies, sci fi, and westerns but I like movies that have great plots.

For me The Godfather and Part 2 are among the best movies I've seen. The casting was perfect, acting is solid and script was written very well. I will admit them being long did detract me for a while from watching them, but if you sit with an open mind and don't write off a movie you may actually enjoy it.

I think what people need to do is sit down with your friends or peers, watch a movie and discuss it. I've done it on several occasions, more recently with the comic book movies. It's a real solid way to understand what people like/dislike about things. Regardless if you think a movie sucks or can't finish it cause it's boring, you could surprise yourself when you watch it with others.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Touche. I only knew that the characters were based on actual people, or at least I thought this was the case. Sorry you didn't enjoy the movie. I thought it was a good one myself. It feels like you have a very set idea on what a war movie should be and disliked the ways that this one strayed from that. I agree with your point about Joseph Fiennes' character, but this didn't detract from my enjoyment of the film. Even in a movie based on an actual conflict I don't need the film to be realistic to be enjoyable. Not if I like the other aspects of it.

*meh* Unfortunately, I make 'demands' (shall we say) of faithful visual aesthetic and historical relationships/events in the war films I watch... which is why I 'enjoy' relatively few of them (but occasionally I make concessions e.g. A Bridge Too Far, they hashed up Harzer & Harmel to make Gen Ludwig, and Kelly's Heroes, which is just a straight up comedy, and I treat it as such, rather than a war film). The thing is, though, I go into thems not wishing to be entertained, but convinced of how depressing it is. And to go for the Battle of Stalingrad example, why I consider 'Stalingrad' to be far superior, even though as a spectacle, it is not enjoyable in the slightest.

Ah well, courses for horses, I suppose.

 

[putowtin]

mine?

Dances with Wolves
Really didn't enjoy the movie, it wasn't that it was too long, but it did drag, boring and Kevin Costner couldn't act his way out of a damp paper bag.

Lord of the Rings, "It can't be cut down to two movies", oh it could have been, and some of the acting in there was utter shite

Titanic, just sink! stop turning it into a (done a million times) poor character falls in love with rich character movie, oh and stop turning the real life, saved passengers characters, in to stereotypical bad guys.

(Oh and I refuse to watch Avatar so I can't comment on it)

 

[jonyboy13]

No flame shield.

Watchmen. That was a horrible, horrible movie. There was nothing good about it except Mr. God, and he was quite boring most of the time.

 

[SillyBear]

I hate to break it to you, but 2001, Citizen Kane and the Godfather are all great films, and if you don't like them or have to have them explained, then you probably aren't qualified to give an opinion in the first place, though you certainly have a right to your opinion in general.

Absolute pretentiousness.

"I like these films and believe they carry fantastic messages. Anyone who does not like them either has poor taste or doesn't understand them".

What rot. Some people don't like them because they simply don't like them. It doesn't mean they don't understand film.

Some people do have poor taste in films.

What you mean by that is "some people don't like what I like in films".

People watch films for different things. Some people like to watch film to gain an understanding of culture and appreciate art and technical abiltiy. Some people like to watch films to relax, escape and be entertained.

The person who watches it on in the first way I described /=/ the smarter person. Nor does it equal the person with the best taste.

I have a friend who loves every single movie that comes out, and he criticizes me and a few others for not liking some of his favorites. Most of the time I get the "You don't like it because everyone else likes it" bull every time. It's only when I start to pick the movie apart and really get into why I hate certain movies that people understand what I think. I'm not a hard guy to please, I love my action-adventure movies, sci fi, and westerns but I like movies that have great plots.

Good for you!

For me The Godfather and Part 2 are among the best movies I've seen. The casting was perfect, acting is solid and script was written very well. I will admit them being long did detract me for a while from watching them, but if you sit with an open mind and don't write off a movie you may actually enjoy it.

I love both of those films too.

I think what people need to do is sit down with your friends or peers, watch a movie and discuss it. I've done it on several occasions, more recently with the comic book movies. It's a real solid way to understand what people like/dislike about things. Regardless if you think a movie sucks or can't finish it cause it's boring, you could surprise yourself when you watch it with others.

Totally agree.

 

[Semitendon]

Kill Bill is the most "overrated".

I couldn't stand watching that movie. Evidently it is supposed to be some sort of throwback to samarai films or something.

All I saw was corny names on corny characters with corny special effects in a corny plotline.

If the movie was made with the " it's badly done, and that's supposed to be ironic" mentality, I would have tolerated it. But, as I stated before, this is supposed to be paying homage to a series or genre that is no longer in the mainstream.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

I think I might go again since I forgot one of the movies which I most despise: Forrest Gump. It's schmaltzy, contrived, platitudinous, oscar bait that panders to American self importance. It was utter bollocks.

 

[Gooseboy]

I'm glad to see so many 'Avatar' posts. When the thread was read it was the movie came to mind immediately. Story done so many times, the worst protagonist designed EVAAAA. It was pretty, but I don't go and pay ludicrous amounts of money to go see a pretty thing. I have mirrors at home.

Anyway nice to see the posts, because I don't know a single person who didn't think it was gold.

 

[Lazier Than Thou]

I don't see a whole lot of movies, but I thought Transformers 1 was absolutely horrible. I liked looking at Megan Fox, but I was terribly unimpressed every time she opened her face. The acting was mediocre at best, the dialog sucked, and the fight scenes between the robots was a cluster. It's hard to differentiate between one ball of chrome hitting another ball of chrome. It was boring, predictable, and some of the characters were just pants on head retarded. Couldn't stand it.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Is Avatar still considered overrated?

Seriously, the amount of people on this thread who consider it overrated should prove that it's actually not overrated at all.

Anyway:
- The Shawshank Redemption
- The Green Mile
- 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.
- Nolan's Batman movies: Superhero movies should not be uber-serious.
- WALL-E and Up: Great concepts ruined by horrendous padding.

 

[Accountfailed]

Scott Pilgrim, because it just wasn't as amazing as everybody said it was.

 

[repeating integers]

I see a lot of people bashing Avatar for just being pretty. It's cute how people seem to assume making visuals like Avatar's is easy, and making complex plots is hard. I look at Avatar's visuals, and see James Cameron's imagination on overdrive, coming up with concepts like the Hallelujah Mountains; I see countless millions of dollars spent innovating new technology to give life to Cameron's imagination; I see countless hours of tireless work put in by the SFX technicians; and I see the blood, sweat and tears they put into it, praying that it'll actually turn out like they want it to. In short, I see art, moreso than a lot of the best stories.

OT: Hmm. When was the last time I saw film I disliked, again...

Ah yes, the 5th Harry Potter movie, which everyone somehow seems to think is one of the best. It felt waaaaaaaay too short and compressed compared to the book, like it was trying to cram in all the hundreds of pages with no concessions and failing.

 

[electric_warrior]

And overrated? You're maybe the fourth person I've come across who knows it even exists.

Maybe not that well known, but overrated by those who do. I guess I must have seen the wrong version

Also I though GAry Oldman was way OTT. Heath Ledger would have looked at that performance and thought to himself, "Well, I can do much better than that."

I do like Gary Oldman, though, especially in Sid and Nancy

 

[CouchCommando]

An god damn musical, and yes my GF loves musicals >.<

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

Oh boy, Inception! It's so overrated. I mean, yeah, it's not bad for an action-movie but it's not that special. The visuals were painfully boring for a movie about dreams. The plot was pretty much a generic caper-movie with a dream gimmick. Don't get me wrong, i liked the subplot about DiCaprios character and his wife but the mainplot about incepting that idea into the mind of that businessman was so generic! They didn't even tell us what that idea was all about, it just seemed like a generic excuse-plot. The characterisation wasn't all that good and, most important: It's not "deep", just because it's got an open ending!

 

[Nudu]

'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?

 

[Scarim Coral]

The Italy film La vita è bella (Life is Beatiful). I don't great what is so great about it since to me it was far too long and the film is a total bore fest.

Also maybe Forrest Gump. While I used to hate it as a kid but I did start to like it when I got older. However comparing that film to other great films after it was made seen to make it feel a bit minor now (in my opinion).

 

[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?