Most Overrated Movie and Why

[Lewieroo0]

The only film i can think of that i reckon is overrated would have to be Inglorious Basterds. I heard it was pretty good and i raised my hopes when i heard it was a Tarantino film, but after watching it i felt so underwhelmed. Half of the time the movie paced itself so slowly (The Bar Scene In Particular was so bloody dull) and i just wanted the movie to get to the point. I wanted to see more of the Basterds as they were quite entertaining (Special Mention to Brad Pitts good performance) but i felt like they were underutilized and i wanted to see more scenes of them screwing with the Nazis. I really wanted to like it but i just felt like it fell flat on its face.

 

[Composer]

never liked Lord of the rings.

 

[theironbat46]

Okay, I like this movie but I can see how many people dislike it and this basically applies to Juno[meh] and Scott Pilgrim [one of my favorites] as well. Mallrats. It was funny, had likable characters, the whole shebang. But what alienated it from a lot of people was it's quirkiness.

Case and point, the superman baby/ food court dispute.I can understand how "nerds" would talk about superman like that, at least in jest, but I can't name anyone who would would talk about things with such intensity,vocabulary, and knowledge about something as trivial as the food court. I know some hipsters and even they don't talk like this. This alienates many viewers. That is Kevin Smith's writing style. It happens, but not often enough to alienate all audiences.

Juno will throw about references and be quirky till the point of nausea. A cheesburger phone? A Dad not even being a little angry at his daughters pregnancy. It tries to hard.

Scott Pilgrim. It was a little too much like a video game. But thats because of time constraints forcing changes from the books. For example the twins fight. In the book, it's probably the least from a video game, but they had the battle of the band storyline and the 2 robots and tons of plot development for supporting characters that was going to be to long for one movie. Still a good movie on it's own.

 

[Wintermoot]

the spoof movie series and twilight series, Twilight can,t be as good as it,s insane fanbase claims it to be and giving the spoof movies a 0 is still overrating them.

 

[blankedboy]

Harry Potter. It's awfully written, some of the acting is atrocious (especially in the earlier movies) and the whole gist of it is just cliche and kinda half-assed on Rowling's behalf.
They also tend to follow the books like a mole follows a fucking space station.

 

[Wintermute_]

Avatar. Ok, it's pretty. That, to me, is not sufficient validation for a film. And the allegory is far too heavy-handed to be taken seriously, so any merit it might get for its "message" is lost because it's delivered so obnoxiously.

thank you. Every time, every single time I say Avatar was crap EVERYONE and their mothers, cousins, and neighbors calls me a hater, says I'm being overly critical, and should just enjoy the ride. I'll concede, when first I saw it, I was geeking out. it thought it was great at first too, then I watched again, and then all the shit started seeping through the massive plot holes and shoddy narrative.

Bullshit. for the highest grossing film of all time, its a complete load of crap. For all the amazing visuals, the actual inhabitants of pandora and the little critters there are horribly unimaginative, and really, all it was was fucking space native americans! thats it! the Navi were so lame, in that when James Cameron could have made almost anything imaginable with his million in tech, he made tall, blue humans. didn't even bother to change facial features beyond bigger eyes and flat noses. and unobtainium? couldn't bother to come up with a decent name?
and story? to avoid an excessively large wall of text, I can only say it was so third rate and and the characters were just so annoying, save for Weaver and the other actress for aliens.

bottom line, I lament at all the wasted potential and the impending sequels, and how there crappieness will still make money, and perpetuate more mediocre films.
/rant

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wow... didn't see yours. Yeah, everything you said. thank you for a well explained if not slightly rage induced critic. Seriously people, go watch fucking Akira or a Miazaki movie, then talk to me about amazing visuals. weep for the lost days of the hand drawn animated movie (even though I love you Pixar)

 

[Nouw]

For those calling 2001 an over-rated film, read the book

 

[KanHanderan]

I know the Lord of The Rings films were "amazing" for 2003, but they were long, boring, and had virtually no replay value.

 

[JourneyMan88]

I'm going to get a lot of flame for this but the Dark Knight.

Not from me, I tend to agree. Thought Iron Man was the far better choice that summer. I'm also going to say Star Wars. Not a bad movie by any stretch, but if you take it at its most basic form, it's one of those movies that could have easily fallen into the "campy sci-fi" category if circumstances didn't quite fall they way they did. It also took away a lot of attention from some great sci-fi that came from the late 50's to the early 70's.

 

[HaussVonHorne]

Citizen Kane.

However, the modern retelling of essentially the same plot is my favorite film, 'There Will Be Blood.'

 

[IDTheftVictim]

Avatar was really dull, and people in my town will not shut up about how HILARIOUS Step Brothers was (it wasn't). But my most undying hate for a film "classic" belongs to Wizard of Oz, a film which was hyped to me throughout my life as a masterpiece and instead was a major dissappointment.

 

[Superior Mind]

Citizen Kane. Revolutionary for it's time, utterly meaningless and boring in current times. I still recommend that people see it, if only to be able to say that you have, but yeah, it's boring. Plus it has that gargantuan plot hole.

 

[Victory2Assault]

Over-rated movies?

Scarface. Anyone who watched this movie when the 20th anniversary came out sucked on it's dick like a lollipop. I like the movie, just because it's brutal but I watch it now and I can't wrap my head around why people love it. My friends claim this is THE gangster movie, with most of them never having seen Godfather or American Gangster.

The characters are quote machines to be honest, the plot you could see coming from pluto and the acting is stiff. Every rapper endorsed the movie, which made me really start to hate it. I know, lets glorify the drug cartel business. That'll sell some more records and DVDs.

The hype Scarface had was stupid. Guy comes from Cuba, starts selling and running coke, then gets his own empire and loses it. The plot was so simple, every idiot could relate to rise and fall stories. Al Pacino already had Godfather and it's sequel, for which he got an Oscar for, so why the hell did he make this rubbish?

 

[OpticalJunction]

All the Harry Potter films.

 

[bruunwald]

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.

It's a cliche to mention in some circles now, but The Matrix has to be amongst the very most overrated films of all time. It's not that borrowing or being derivative on their own are so terrible. It's that when you borrow from hundreds of easily recognizable sources, you ought to make something that elevates in some way other than mere spectacle. I'm not saying I don't like The Matrix or that it did not succeed as spectacle, but it falls far short of greatness and it falls far short in terms of meaning, compared to the potential it possessed.

For me, the final nail in the coffin was that after it foisted all this existential baggage onto Neo, made him into "The One," gave him these very lofty, spiritual paths to follow, and effectively lifted him up as humanity's savior, it then copped out with a free pass to kill any random passersby on the street he wanted, video game style, on the flimsy basis that because they don't know this is not reality, they will cling to it when challenged. So, the savior of mankind gets to kill victims indiscriminately because they are victims? Wow! What a message!

You know what movie The Matrix borrowed actual sets from, for its filming? Dark City: a much better film that came out the year before and also featured a lot of darkness, confused identities, guys in leather, and even a means of inserting "experience" directly into a person's consciousness (maybe The Matrix borrowed more than just the sets, yes?). In Dark City, the protagonist is also a potential savior to his people, who also can manipulate what passes for his reality. But unlike Neo, John Murdock actually has a range of emotions, cares about other people, and tries to figure out how to escape the darkness with the lowest possible body count, preferably all bad guys. And he never once utters a weed-induced "whoa."

 

[sam42ification]

Avatar... It looked great but apart from that it was uninteresting and way too long.

 

[SillyBear]

Saving Private Ryan - Beautiful cinematography, but really wasn't all that interesting to me. Maybe I'm just jaded because I'm sick and fucking tired of WW2, but it wasn't the "end all be all of war films" that people made it out to be. Also; what kind of fucking moron storms a beach with a short range weapon like a Thompson Sub-Machinegun?

Thousands of Americans carried Thompson Sub Machineguns during the D-Day landings, just so you know. Their objective wasn't to fight a long range battle, it was to storm the beach and take out the bunkers and trenches along the coast line. A sub machinegun was fantastic for this and every squad would have had a few men carrying one.

edit: "thousands" is probably an exaggeration.

 

[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.

 

[sam42ification]

Twilight.

I don't think you can say twilight is overrated because no body liked it (with the exeption of people with vampire fetishes). I haven't actually met any one who likes twilight but i guess i live in a small town so the opinion of one person is the opinion of everyone.