Overrated Movies - Which One Do You Hate the Most?
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Yeah people always mistake the deepness of Evangelion. They tend to go for the 'Ooh, look religious symbols' analysis, or work on the premise of Hideki Anno going slightly nuts whilst making it.k-ossuburb said:
But the real awesomeness just lies in the fact it's Big Mecha anime. It's a parody of all those old school Getter Robo animes that came before it. All the elements are there; secret base with cool machines, secret organisation, alien attackers, fan service female characters, and even a mascot penguin, and more.
Then Gainax do what they do best, and turn the whole thing on it's head, by sticking a real 14 year old kid in the cockpit. He's not brash arrogant, and spandex just makes him look skinny. He's kind of whiny and incredibly pathetic, but that's how a normal kid would react.
It's an anime which shows people cracking under pressure, rather than girding their loins and busting out their passions.
It's the polar opposite of Gurren Lagaan. That's a celebration of what big mecha anime is all about. Fighting spirit and awesomely silly costumes. Eva is satire, showing the average fan just how detached from reality and mind breaking that situation is.
Although I have to agree, the movies after the series, and the spin off mangas in particular, miss the point entirely.
Rocky. Everyone in my family loves this movie but personally its just incomprehensible babble from Stallone and one scene that somehow has become part of american culture. Oh and the second and third Matrix movies deserve special recognition for being grade A pretentious bullshit with too much bullet time. The first Matrix movie is awesome but the others just enrage me that I spent time watching them
Avatar for reasons along the lines of it was awful, and The Shining because yes it had atmosphere, yes it had pacing, and yes the climax did freak me out a bit, but while a movie being slow can add to the effect, this one was just a bit too slow.
Well, rinky-dink scooba-roos. That's kind of the point where you're supposed to start feeling sympathy for him. It's supposed to make you feel sorry for a victim of the "horrible" Ludovico Technique, at a time when its effects are made most apparent, much like the writer who's wife he...y'know. It's actually kind of symbolic of me (or, in many cases, I'm sure, the watcher/reader). You used to hate Alex, because he did things that warranted such emotions. And then, he was neutered, made docile. The world gave him back more than he was now giving the world.toriver said:
But at the same time, when you think back to the beginning, you may feel as if Alex deserves all this, no matter his current state. Kind of similar to the writer (whatever his name was, can't remember), who finds out it was Alex who...y'know...did that to his wife. And to him, of course. Rather than seeing him for what he is now, the way he's being treated and what he receives now, the memories of Alex's horrible deeds triumph.
But he was the dude, playing the dude disguised as another dude!Juggern4ut20 said:
Seriously the rest of the movie was just a normal fun comedy, but that line cracks me up. And when he takes off his make up at the end of the movie, and he's still not Robert Downey Jr. is just hilarious!
I totally get where you're coming from though, not an Oscar winning performance, but a pretty good one nevertheless.
Didn't like Dr Strangelove, totally predictable from start to finish.
Also thought American Psycho was rubbish, WTF was that movie about anyway?
Oh and Mel Gibsons Apocolypse or apoclyptica or whateva the hell it was called. Just a guy running through the Jungle for 2 hours, so stupid,
Also thought American Psycho was rubbish, WTF was that movie about anyway?
Oh and Mel Gibsons Apocolypse or apoclyptica or whateva the hell it was called. Just a guy running through the Jungle for 2 hours, so stupid,
Rocky Horror.
Unless you're in your mid-40's, you weren't there for it. Neither was I. We aren't part of the culture that birthed it, and we can't just lay claim to the culture. When you do, you look like a pretentious little barnacle clinging to the side of a ship that's not yours.
Enjoy it, but don't act like you're part of some club. They closed sign-ups a few decades back.
Unless you're in your mid-40's, you weren't there for it. Neither was I. We aren't part of the culture that birthed it, and we can't just lay claim to the culture. When you do, you look like a pretentious little barnacle clinging to the side of a ship that's not yours.
Enjoy it, but don't act like you're part of some club. They closed sign-ups a few decades back.
avatar of course..cameron stated that he waited 10 years for technology to advance in order to make that movie..and..lets presume he worked..or at least thought of it these past 10 years..and all he could come up with is the story of poccahontas???its so deep as a children`s coloring book goes..the special effects are incredible..but there has to be more to a movie than that..in order to be good..or at least decent..and even the combat scenes..they had what they needed...robots aliens...bio vs tech..armies clashing..but it seamed to miss the epic spot...
See you know this by reading the books, I have no interest in that and they don't explain the magic thing which just makes you go "This is intolerable, do SOMETHING useful". I haven't seen the movies in a little while so I may not be remembering more scenes that bothered me.Sniper Team 4 said:
They could have flown the ring to the damn volcano, they picked up Frodo and Sam with Gryphens they could have dropped them off.
Frodo at the end gets on a boat and sails off with some others, which made no sense to me because it wasn't explained enough.
Also Frodo seemed very trusting of Golom but thought Sam, his best friend was just trying to undermine him? I get his mind was not sound from the ring but what the hell seriously.
Also for the mighty ring it sure as hell seemed useless, it can make you invisible? (Not going into the other side effects, well okay it kept that Halfling quite young) I'm guessing it had more to do with the effects and perks of actually being the mighty badguy of the film.
Frodo at the end gets on a boat and sails off with some others, which made no sense to me because it wasn't explained enough.
Also Frodo seemed very trusting of Golom but thought Sam, his best friend was just trying to undermine him? I get his mind was not sound from the ring but what the hell seriously.
Also for the mighty ring it sure as hell seemed useless, it can make you invisible? (Not going into the other side effects, well okay it kept that Halfling quite young) I'm guessing it had more to do with the effects and perks of actually being the mighty badguy of the film.
Regardless of you or anyone else explains it, the movie does not explain these events and leaves people ignorant to the subject matter in the dark UNLESS you've read the book and that isn't right.
It'd be like an unarmed Arnold (in a action movie) being caught and cornered after 4 days of running away but then pulls out a pistol from no where and shoots them all. But if you read the book you'll have found out he found the pistol in a supply closet, the scene was simply never made though!
It was an interesting film and understand I'm only crucifying it for leaving us dirty movie viewers in the dark for the bits I mentioned earlier. As I said it's been a few years since I've seen it and though I have an excellent memory for events/films I tend to block out the dumber of parts for the sake of my sanity.
Yes, I agree... Though I can't believe I forgot about this when I was posting earlier. I think he's a poor director with artistic talent. I like the visual style of his movies (mostly) however, the stories them selves are shit.shotgunbob said:
I also hate this obsession he has with Jonny Depp, I think Depp is a good actor when he wants to be but he keeps starring in Burtons films and most of them have been average to okay at the best. Okay, I like Sweeney Todd... Other than that... No. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was okay I guess, didn't like the Michael Jackson look they had for Willy Wonka. I haven't seen the new Alice and Wonderland but it seems to have gotten average ratings... Going to have to watch it eventually but I'm not all that looking forward to it... Again, Depp looks silly in it and I here one of the weaker points of the movie is that it spends way too much time with the Mad Hatter than anything else.
I have this image in my head of Burton remaking The Wizard of Oz and guess who would play the Scarecrow.
Also, Tim Burton often gets the credit of directing films that he didn't. He didn't direct Nightmare Before Christmas, he wrote it... But he wasn't the director. The film I did like by him was Batman... I didn't like it as much as the Nolan films, however I still liked them. I also liked Bettlejuice, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow and I thought Planet of the Apes was an okay film.
(Though I do imagine I'm now going to be shot for:
A. Dissing Tim Burton on the internet, which is almost a death sentence in someplaces
B. I stated I liked Nolans Batman over Burtons... Which again is just an invite to getting shot...
I imagine I'll need a flame shield up for this, I would hope the people here will respect my opinion)
Another film on my list is the first Mad Max movie. I didn't like it, it was boring, nothing much happened and the climax of the movie was disappointing (This is from a guy who likes The Proposition and No Country for Old Men.) The sequel however is brilliant. Road Warrior I think is a brilliant movie, beyond thunderdome is also a decent movie... Not as good as two but still good.
I thought The Hurt Locker was pretty bad. It had no plot to speak of, the characters don't change at all and are fairly uninteresting, and the shit they do in the movie just doesn't make sense.
Lord of the Rings. I don't hate it or think it's overrated but the're the only movies that kind of fit this category. They were a bit boring for me when I first saw it. Though that was when a lot younger so who knows how I would feel about it now.
